So if you were witnessing illegal behaviour in the DoD, you're saying you shouldn't report it or whistleblow?

Dude. That is just so wrong.

Exactly. Surely exposing criminal activity by the government is more legal than covering it up.

And doesn't the constitution trump whatever snoopers' charter they were operating under?

Although I have to say that the downside is that these are going to be just as annoying as jetskis, but in places where jetskis can't go.

The other day I had two share a beautiful, quiet, peaceful woodland with two irritating idiots on noisy little dirtbags. not nice.

Corporation tax is a small fraction of the taxes companies pay. All their employees will be paying income taxes, for starters.

Well, it certainly isn't an operating system either.

Your English is fine. Your German isn't.

Nein! Nein! Nein!

P.S. Reductio ad absurdum much.
P.P.S. If you confess to knowing Luxemburgish, just how A do you think your C is going to be?

A "roadable helicopter" makes as much sense as a product as marketing bicycles to fish.

And a "flying car" that can only land at heliports might be great as an easy to fly helicopter, but it's utterly useless as a flying car. As a hint: If you can afford a helicopter and its running costs, I'm sure that the limo from the airport is small change for you.

BTW, in the UK ( so a heli pilot friend tells me ), in general you can land your helicopter anywhere where the landowner has given you permission.

The height from which a fall kills you is significantly lower than the minimum operating height of a parachute.

Just saying.

Traffic jams are real, but putting the cars in the air isn't going to fix that problem. The key problem with driving cars into cities is that they take too much space per passenger (at rush hour, on average, 1.02). Granted, putting traffic corridors in the air gives you a bit more space, but you also need to leave a lot more safety margin.

Flying in a straight line might save fuel compared to flying detours, but that doesn't mean it saves fuel compared to driving. These flying cars don't stay in the air all by themselves, you know? And, seeing as we're all bitching about the price of gas to drive... ask your friendly helicopter pilot how many gallons his chopper burns per hour.

There are solutions to traffic jams. Telecommuting, walking, cycling, public transport.

Oh yeah, and if your hearing's still too good: Suggest to Air Traffic Control that they replace the couple of hundred planes / day over, say, LAX, with a couple of hundred thousand planes^H^H^H^H^H^H"Flying Cars" per day.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a flying car. But frankly I'd rather save up for a one off trip to space instead. At least I won't have to kid myself that that's solving any problems.

You'd seriously pass on a flying Ferrari or Lamborghini?

Pfft. Your parents were telling you lies. You're definitely NOT part Italian. Not even one tiny little bit. ;)

Always happy to oblige the young ones.

I think you'll find that's _my_ lawn ;)

Has the man never heard of FX markets? Currencies trade exactly like stocks or commodities. They don't have a fixed value either.

She didn't kill British Industry; the Unions did that.

She just put it out of its misery.

That's a feature, not a bug..

Having crossed a fair few borders in my life, the US ones are without a doubt the most unpleasant ones.Worse even than the former East German one (albeit on a West German passport... I'm sure with an eastern block passport they would have been even worse).

It's odd, given that on the whole the US is full of friendly people trying to be helpful... all the assholes seem to hang out at the border and at airports.