Hypothetically yes, engine breaking might* give you a small amount of additional breaking force.

In practicality you should focus only on slamming down the breaks as far as they'll ago (assuming you're driving a vaguely modern car). Fyi the breaks on a car go a lot further than most people ever try.

*Might not because the limiting factor could be how much traction your wheels get, at which point adding additional breaking via the engine won't help.

The molecules in wood are super big organic (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, etc) molecules that can't really "flow" around each other in a liquid.

If you got them hot enough to flow like that, the molecules would rip itself apart - either burn (in the presence of oxygen) or sublimate into gas.

You can do those things in Europe?

Just not everywhere in Europe. Europe allows cities and towns to exist without being entirely built around cars.

Maybe? You can dial 911 in Australia and you'll get forwarded to the 000 emergency number.

In fact, if you're overseas and have an emergency and don't know the local number 911 is probably a pretty good try because it's so well known the local system may automatically redirect you.

Applications that are waiting for anyone to mail them (i.e. server apps) need to "bind" a port and listen for traffic.

They generally do this on a specific port, this is so applications that want to talk to them can find them.

Applications that just want to start a chat with someone (i.e. client apps) can use a random one of the temporary ports as a return address for the duration of the correspondence.

If they use a port outside that range, then potentially they might prevent one of the applications that needs to listen to a specific port from starting (only one app can use a port at once). Likewise, if you decide to use a specific port in the temporary range, you run the risk it's randomly in use by someone else

In addition to bugs that can survive the pH of your stomach, there's also toxins in the food.

E-coli and such will produce toxins that remain in the food even if it's cooked/prepared in a way that kills all the live e-coli. That's why sometimes you get very sick after eating something but it passes quickly - you're just sick while your body purges the toxins out of your gut, but there's no live bacteria/viruses that take up residence in your body.

Funnily enough the new Macs (M) run on a different chip architecture from regular AMD/Intel chips which is why they can't run certain apps or require an emulation layer.

I mean, yes, the great firewall is sophisticated. That example though is probably the most basic feature of the most trivial firewall possible, your home modem could probably do it.

More interesting examples would be some of the clever packet analysis they do on encrypted connections.

But again, even this isn't enough to prevent all undesired traffic, especially given that there's legitimate uses for VPNs, overseas file sharing sites, etc.

For instance, if they blocked external access to every server in China they'd be knee capping their entire economy, so they have to work out which ones. That's not easy or cheap to do accurately at scale.

Plenty of Chinese netizens know how.

These types of things aren't secrets that the government doesn't know about, rather it's simply the case that the government doesn't have the resources to shut all the various backdoors down without limiting the internet so much it causes other issues.

France actually did a lot of work on the early internet too and even had their own network parallel to the internet.

I suspect English was just more cemented by that point, and possibly the fact France was a fair bit poorer in the 1980s than the US slowed the uptake of consumer digital electronics (and thus content creation on the internet).