FTFY

That's the proof that environmental whackos (greenies) have invaded the corporate bureaucracy. However, I am not sure how they are going to forward their "big government" plan, if they are laying off the three or four guys that would NORMALLY take the shredded remains to the incinerator...

Maybe they'll continue their jobs emptying the bit bucket?

And there's the troll.... Knew the little fscker was lurking here somewhere.

Hey, wait... The USS Enterprise is indeed a flying craft:

Starship Enterprise

Even if you leave out the SF stuff, the shuttle OV-101 was named after the USS Enterprise of Star Trek fame... so it indeed IS a true flying object, as it passes through the atmosphere.

So close... then you tripped on this.

Wish I had mod points... Why the hell did you post this A/C?

Yeah, I see what you did there!!!

Um... Use a government-sanctioned and funded organization that has PHYSICAL ACCESS to the communication you are trying to protect???

Just curious: brain fart?

Curious if the two lost in the region were both under the control of Indonesian Air Traffic Control. 8501 was, according to the article. Do they have a fscked up controller working the scopes?

Not a totally crazy idea... I think the single-ply hat is just fine.

In this case, 25 kilofeet. If the airliner was at 250 kilofeet, they had other problems than black holes to deal with.
Just sayin'. :)

Calling an ape a monkey in POTA was an insult to the ape... Just sayin'.

Sounds pretty plausible to me.

Nice twist.

I know I shouldn't feed the AC trolls, but I am so tired of hearing this lame-ass statement. Americans DO know what to call themselves - Americans!. I have never, ever heard an American citizen refer to themselves as "USians" or "Yankees" (unless, of course, they play for the team or are talking about northerners). No other country in either North or South America (the Continents) have the word "America" in their name: only the United States of America has that word in it's complete and proper name. Therefore, it is not only logical but sane to use the word Americans to describe citizens of the US. Canadians, Mexicans, Venezuelans, Brazilians, Portugese, etc. have made no claim to the "Americans" name, as they do not associate the tag as pertinent or descriptive to their country.

Nor have I ever heard anyone from another North or South American country complain that the USA co-opted the "Americans" name and stole it's use from all of the other countries. Never.

Reading through your post, I have to guess that, when you use the word "Americans", you mean all citizens of all countries in both North and South America, since you seem to have such a problem with the citizens of the US using it as a description. Your post makes much more sense that way... There are many, many corrupt governments on these two continents; the US not being the worst. And, there are many, many corrupt governments on other continents as well. Don't take this as me defending my government: it's a fucking mess and needs a hell of a lot of housecleaning, and I am willing to bet that more than 50% of the US citizens agree with me. However, unlike most other parts of the world, the US citizen sees revolution as the absolute last resort, not the first, and will try many, many alternatives before resorting to such a destructive choice.