The Old Farmer's Almanac, a yearly digest of upcoming weather patterns for large geographical areas, is prepared up to 18 months in advance: Its editors claim an 80 percent accuracy rate, though some meteorologists dispute the viability of assessing weather more than two weeks out.
Theft from unmanned checkouts has more than doubled over the past four years, according to a study cited by The Times newspaper, raising questions about viability of the devices in some stores in Britain.
The problem lies in the cost of bringing new deposits into production and the ability of one country with such a dominant position to flood the market and bring down prices, hitting the viability of new projects.
The viability of this economy is open to debate.
"They are seeing the viability of the product and they are understanding insect technologies are real and they are coming.
