the river runs through my heart

sometimes a widget made in 2015 breaks earlier than one made in 1975 because the widget company wants to force you to buy more widgets.

sometimes it breaks earlier because they drove as much cost out of its manufacturing as they could, and a 2015 widget costs $30 while a 1970 widget costs $150. and hey, now widgets are accessible to many more people!

sometimes it's because you can still get a $150 quality widget in 2015 and it'll last roughly as long, but now it's possible to get a $30 widget, and most people do, so it seems like they're worse

sometimes it's survivorship bias. the 1975 widgets that broke within 10 years did their breaking and don't survive in memory. The 2015 widgets that will last 30 years have only 10 years to their name. they are unremarkable to us as well.

sometimes it's service and maintenance. is the new widget easy to maintain? is it meant to receive maintenance? is it repairable? this question drives towards both the manufacturer (did you make it possible to service? unlike my fridge, which can't even have its lightbulb replaced - thanks, landlord) and towards the consumer (are you upholding your end of the bargain? could a $10 spare part do instead of a replacement? how many times has the 1975 widget been serviced or repaired?)

sometimes it's... some project manager somewhere needs to stake their name on optimizing costs by finding some nuisance to cheapen for the producer.

The course presents an in-depth interdisciplinary perspective of electric power systems, with regulation providing the link among the engineering, economic, legal and environmental viewpoints. Generation dispatch, demand response, optimal network flows, risk allocation, reliability of service, renewable energy sources, ancillary services, tariff design, distributed generation, rural electrification, environmental impacts and strategic sustainability issues will be among the topics addressed under both traditional and competitive regulatory frameworks.

20. Perianth green-white or yellow abaxially, purple-brown adaxially; flower ill-scented ..... F. agrestis

20' Perianth dark brown, green-purple or yellow-green; flower ill-scented or not ..... F. biflora

this is such a "haha just kidding... unless?" ass keybreak. the outside of the flower can be green-white or yellow mottled with purple-brown, which SURELY distinguishes from one that can be green-purple to yellow-green. If it smells bad it's agrestis except ! sometimes biflora does too. If you have an ill-smelling yellow-purplish guy just yolo it. I guess?