Sorry, I beg to differ. Here in Portland, Oregon I have had different luck with the lower priced theaters. The Kennedy School, Edgefield, Laurelhurst, Academy, Mission, and some others were not as you described at all. I never had problems with misbehaving kids, gum stuck on the seats, or excessive litter.

In fact, one of the so called dollar houses, the Avalon on Belmont, had a better sound system and better sound isolation between the auditoriums than the first run Lloyd on Multnomah.

Hold on! Are you sure? I just got back from seeing that last night here in Portland at the Bagdad on Hawthorne. Nine dollars.

You forgot one thing.

The musicals of the 1950's through the 1970's.

I long for another 'Sound of Music', 'Evita', 'Jesus Christ Superstar', or 'West Side Story'.

Those were movies that I long for and I often watch from DVD's (For those of you here in Portland, Oregon; Movie Madness is a very wonderful resource).

Hollywood has seems to have lost that art as well.

This friend speaks my words. I found very little worthwhile to go to, with the exception of some very specialized documentaries such as 'We Were There', which is a documentary on AIDS in San Francisco in the 1980's.

That won't work either. As I said in my earlier comment, these are quite well armored and I dont' think that the flame temperature of a burning tire will be enough to destroy the innered of the camera system.

And don't forged the security surveillence camera that will record someone doing such an act.

Good try.

Sorry, but no cookie.

These are armored quite well.

I saw one dissassembled once when they were doing maintenance on it. The casing is 1/2 in steel. The glass porthole for the lens is 1/2 inch laminated glass; ie; two panes of glass sandwitching a pane of clear acrylic; similar to your windshield. The radar port (radome) is 1/2 inch plastic. It's transparent to the radar frequencies (I believe these guys use 2.5 ghz), but it cannot be broken. Just for the fun of it, I later found a piece of the same plastic but, just 1/4 inch thick. in a scrap pile at a community workshop that I belong to. I put that piece in a vice and tried to smash it with a hammer. No go.

No, I think a bullet; shotgun pellits; or especially a bat, would do nothing to these devices.

This friend speaks my words. Thank you.

No! I have been riding the MAX for 12 years. I have never been approached by any dealers of anything just because of my jacket.

At Boeing Airplanes in Renton, Washington in 1980, there was one large room with 80 engineers.

Each engineer had a desk. No deviders or walls.

All of the desks faced the same direction.

At the front of the room was a raised platform (about 1 foot high). On that platform sat the managers.

Four engineers shared one phone. That phone was on a swing arm that would swing in a circle above the four desks.

Oh, and I forgot. Your desk had to be completely bare when you left in the afternoon. And you do not want to be caught reading a newspaper anytime after the whistle blows at 8 AM.

Brilliant as in the beauty of the sparks? :)

Did they get permission from Sony? I thought those names are copyright/trademark?

Good try.

But no cookie :(

It appears that all of Walmart's IP's are in one netblock.

Here is the link to the report:

http://ipinfo.io/AS46312

161.169.64.0/18 Wal-Mart Stores 16,384

I believe that all of their web stuff is on ackamai.

All of this 'ruining Christmas' suggests to me that Christmas itself is too fragile for our society.

Perhaps should we as a society (American, World, whatever) should put Christmas as a concept away in the attic for a few centuries?

Not only did the sun rise on Christmas morning, my gifts, which were hand-made jackets that I made for my family, were still wearable and enjoyable despite whatever hacking went on.

Also, a friend's hand made chess board (inlaid wood) that was also a gift this Christmas still worked.

The doors of a hand-made maple and cherry toy box that I made for my sister for Christmas of 1999 (15 years ago) still work fine. No hacker was able to disable that gift.

I am a computer security engineer where I work.

However, in my own personal life, I am just plain very old fashioned.

I made each family member a gortex rain jacket by hand, using a non-computerized sewing machine.

People say this is old fashioned, considering that I work with computers every day.

Well, now I can say to them that my gifts cannot be hacked or DDOS'd.