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Comment Re:How much is stolen? (Score 0, Flamebait) 97

What the hell are you jibbing about and what does that have to do with the UAV?

As far as I know we haven't outsourced our UAV development, so back to the topic of the article about UAV's and lets try to compare what they have copied.

One of them looks like a Tomahawk cruise missile, another lone looks totally impractical with the giant flapping wings and some other artist drawings of things like sea based ones.

Comment wahhh wahhh wahhh (Score 1) 73

Lame... no offense but there are at least a half dozen guys here in America who actually have rockets(hydrogen peroxide) and can take off from ground to landing. As in flying across Hollywood boulevard and landing on a building across there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PCEe7RH8A4

Go Fast Jet Pack vs Ford Focus RS 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmQ450ctKJs&feature=related

All that guy did was glide a little faster, too bad none of the reak 'GoFast Jimmmy Rocketman' wasn't featured here.

Comment Re:Europe (Score 1) 348

bullshit...

Blank CD's are cheap and have been forever and so are DVD-R's.
9.99 for a 50 pack of DVD-R's at the Fry's,

  so you must be paying like what .25x10,009.99= $2,502.50.

What were they made in America? ooooooohhhhh

Besides get over it, at least in your country you are not being sued for it and getting the ok by the authorities for small chickenshit trading of the music/movies.
You might want to direct your anger to all the music/movie downloaders in your country who brought on the demand for American entertainment and forced the countries hands.

I feel for those caught up in the middle of it but please, just search around before you buy blank cd/dvd's.

Comment Re:You need directions? (Score 1) 650

Not only that but I think you have to put in reservations for a spot to the crown on the Statue of Liberty many months ahead.

I was there a couple days after they reopened it around 4th of July and asked the park ranger about it, he laughed and said the waiting period is many months(8+) and growing. So you have to put in for a spot to get up there, but there is another lower platform spot below her that is accessable and I think that is the one they only give 240 tickets per day.

Mehhh thats what its like at any national park or famous monument from having to get a spot for Half Dome 8 months ahead to the Washington Monument having to get on the waiting list; the only thing that irks me is that foreigners get just as equal access as Americans.
I think Americans should get first pickings at spots and than foreign tourist can go second, that was the one thing that pissed me off when I got there with my family is the huge Chinese tour groups who have representatives who buy up all the reserved spots.

Comment Re:Hey big spender! (Score 1) 367

lowballers.... "I hate these guys"

My company put in on this project and the next lowest bid was $1 Million dollars under ours for the asphalt and concrete work. My bosses head was spinning with anger and we wanted to contest it, but there were too many people that low also you had to just laugh at any of these people making one bit of profit. Stupid asses underbid their project and material costs, not to add to it the firm who did the project management for them. I wonder who it was... Barnhart... McCoy....

Not to include they found a huge methane reserve under the site halfway through building it. HEY MORONS THATS WHAT ENVIRONMENTAL TESTERS ARE FOR BEFORE YOU EXCAVATE!!!!! DRILL DRILL DRILL!! TEST TEST TEST!!!

Fucking amateurs!! I hope they all get suspended from any LAUSD project or anything for the city of that matter to all those construction firms who bid super low. Better yet I hope they all went bankrupt and close shop.

But the material costs and oil prices kind of made us glad we didn't bid on it, about 23 days worth of work I estimated and when we revised the estimates for the material costs to this date we would have only made a couple thousand. *sweating* because you don't want to be on the line when the project starts going over in the red.
Techs thought they had tough bosses, come over to the construction industry you would be crying in no time sucking back 3 packs a day and lots of energy drinks.02

BOSS: "WTF IS GOING OVER THERE IM COMING DOWN RIGHT NOW"

Comment Re:Yosemite; People stupid before technology (Score 1) 635

Emmmm half-dome hike on sandals and high heels, I have seen more than my fair share of those people. They usually end up coming down with bloodied up feet and in terrible condition.

I used to sell $10+(sorry no change you only have a $20) bottles of water at top of Half-dome for the poor schmucks who would not bring anything, but hey thanks they payed for my gas for the trip.

Comment Re:deposit (Score 1) 635

A great documentary on PBS called 'KEN BURNS'S “THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA"', detailing the early days of the park and those who tried to move in to privatize and setup monopoly's in there. Thankfully they stepped in before a thousand hotels could be built and started getting some common sense.
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/watch-video/#642
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/about/

Lincoln, John Muir and a collection of others wanted this to be a special place for Americans that no matter how poor or rich you were you could experience it, well as long as you reserve a place 8 months in advance( i know it sucks).
As an American I kind of felt like in the last 10 years we have been getting the shaft in priority to get access to these parks, no offense to the foreign travelers but they have been making the waiting period and getting access to it much harder. The problem in the last 2 years is you will have these Chinese tourist companies who have a thousand workers standing by as the date comes up to put in reservations for the National Parks, so opening day when the phone lines and internet reservations opened they flooded them. The greatest people of them all are the Germans and Dutch, those people know how to travel and not be a nuisance.

That's the least of my worries though as the parks are being overrun by giant RV's and generators galore, that was the one thing that pissed me off waking up in the morning to a generator although they are only allowed to run it for like 30 mins at most(yeah right...).

  End of my rant but word is they are going to setup a 2 week grace period for American citizens and they eventually want to make the parks a 'no-car-zone' and bus people in on a tram.
You also have to get reservations on Fri, Sat, Sun for a lot of the trails that become overrun, but it never ceases to amaze me to see some woman 'HIKING WITH HIGH HEELS' to the top of Half Dome with little to no water. BRING EXTRA WATER!!!!

Sierra Club Forever!!!

Comment Re:They Never Would Have Made the Hike Without SPO (Score 1) 635

While you're at it get 'Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite', I read it during my stay there over the summer and it will give you chills.
Mostly about people falling off the cliffs or going over the falls trying to get that 'perfect photo'.
http://www.amazon.com/Off-Wall-Yosemite-Michael-Ghiglieri/dp/0970097360/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282587916&sr=1-1

Some of the ones that got me were when the woman was taking a picture of her boyfriend by the Nevada Falls and he slipped on the rocks falling into the river, the girlfriend not knowing any better jumps in to try to get him and they both end up going over the Nevada Falls (600ft to the bottom).

The young guys who think they can tough it out in the weather and try to go for Half Dome in a thunderstorm, only to try to seek shelter on the side rocks and than be struck and killed by lightning.

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