Never going to happen. Manned spaceflight will be over, except for a few national pride orbits by China, Japan and India, forever, in about 10 years. After the ISS burns up we're done and your grandchildren will not believe that there ever WAS manned spaceflight.

Yes of course. Virtually anyone would do more.

All motherfucking hail the motherfucking messiah

The US has its own internet. It's called: The Internet.

Is Inkscape's handling of text any better?

Obama's response to Ebola is driven by politics and media not science or health. Doing this here would of course be condemned as being racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, immigrantophobic, and anyway, we're way passed the point where it's even practical to conduct face to face visits. So much time has gone by that we're in the millions of visits needed. No I'm afraid the best approach is Obama's approach which is to do nothing and blame it on someone else until it burns itself out.

We need a good plague. Let's get on with it.

Quite a few of the 100 didn't show, so I think it was adjusted down a little. Regardless, this was central Pennsylvania, and there I had financial leverage taking my expensive Philadelphia dollars there. No, it was not gourmet food, it was family restaurant food, but from a restaurant I had been to many times since college and I sampled the dishes to make sure their quality was up to par. They charged less per plate due to volume, which doesn't happen with high end restaurants. I'm not afraid to spend $25-35 a plate at a high end restaurant, but I could not afford to and preferred to have more people there.

In related news, my wife reminded me that her sister's 5K actually didn't even cover the photographer (who failed to show and still kept the money), limo, and tux rental. She actually spent near 10K. These are people who have never made more than $20K in a year individually.

You wouldn't think that, with the people around here acting like Americans are so backward for using checks in such a manner. Many stores don't take them here anymore, either. Supermarkets and some discount stores do, but I rarely see anyone under 60 use checks. If you see that old lady pull out her checkbook, call home to let them know you'll be late.

Well, how big can a torrent be? Just wondering...

We blamed all the evil fat white Republicans. We're done. Go home and wait for Dear Leader to declare Zombie Martial Law.

In nearly every instance green liberals play the NIMBY card to ensure that only ugly fat poor people have to suffer with living near the damn things. And when that fails, just scream that they kill migratory birds.

No need to get all twisted up over quality and function. I was just on a major health insurance provider website and it's seemingly unable to produce lists of providers nor even display the right coverage that I have or even the plans I signed up for. But luckily logon was a bitch and the whole thing is clunky slow.

I think we're going with shitty is good enough, and if it's not, then fuck you anyhow.

Since you don't use cheques in most of Europe, how do you manage large transactions for things like vehicles? There are certainly electronic means here, but they are far from ubiquitous and with every other company getting hacked, no one is inspired to shuttle their money through them.

Blackjack and hookers, duh.