Frell this dren!

They didn't use a Zamboni to do the ice with, so the gods demanded the return of the Zamboni by destroying the infidel machine.

Everyone knows you always use a Zamboni, or you insult the gods of the ice by using anything else.

All known operational SLBMs are solids or solid/liquids with the upper stage being liquid. The Russians had more than a few accidents with liquid fueled ICBMS and SLBMs to convince them to invest in solid propellants. The US even had their own accidents with liquid fueled missiles, particularly the Titan II series, including one that killed an airman.

Through all the brouhaha, the doubletalk about missing blueprints and the expense of reviving older tech, it would have been far inexpensive to bring back a tried and trusted heavy lifter: The Saturn V. The Block 90 series was all set to loft the heaviest payloads to date, even the Ariane V would be hard pressed to match it.
I would have loved to see the V fly with upgraded hardware and avionics. The instrument ring would have been deleted in place for a more compact INS module. The inner structure rebuilt with improved metals and engineering. The engines... Well, hell, how can you improve on a already perfect set of man-made earthquake makers? I can see a V lofting not one, but TWO full sized ISS modules with them stuffed to the gills with parts and supplies.

Now we're stuck with a kiwi, not even classed a hangar queen.

Talk about an embarrassment.

They rested on their laurels with the iPhone along with retarding their capital expenditures to beef up their stock price when earnings season rolled around. They are paying for that dearly now with major issues with infrastructure and bandwidth issues.

Major mistake, playing to the stockholders instead of their customers.

A mono molecular carbon filament, held together by molecular attraction itself, a 1/2 LY long. Crack it, as long as it holds together, would something that light in weight, would it approach the FTL limit?

Glass - Silica.

Silica Gel - absorbent glass.

Easy, huh?

If you have yet to read into the history of Enron, then better jump into a wiki or the newsies and dig. Enron's books were cooked to the point they were past charcoal. Power corrupts, but cash corrupts all, both weak and strong. If Google turns into one such brokerage, I hope that they keep a tight reign on their cash flow.

That can easily be pointed at the increase in sim and server fees they tacked on shortly after their realization of the major loss of income when they axed the gambling industry.

This can easily be seen in their money market if you roll the scale back several years. They have yet to recover back to those levels. Trust me, when I say that this was not imposed by the Lindens on their own, the US and several countries were on SL's neck regarding RL cash being made out of the gambling parlors, and there was! SL blocked gambling outright, then tapered back the restrictions once they realized there were some forms that were not regulated, or flat out ignored. But the damage was already done to their financial structure.

These days, they tiered their sim fees, added on a couple more levels of land ownership (which costs more in the long run for less land, go figure) and started to get mean with the porn industry.

The creature biting its own hand in spite of it being full of food. SL won't last much longer with that kind of behavior, especially in this recession.

Let's make a map using the White House and fill it with zombies.

No, wait, it's already been done in real life.

Nevermind...

A couple of things wrong with this picture:

First, this undermines the motto of Google: Do No Evil. It shows that they are starting to get the Swelled Head Syndrome, thinking that they have the most power by the massive databases they have compiled. Wrong way of thinking!

Second, CEO's do NOT make such comments unless they are permitted to do so by their assistants. Same goes for any leader of any company or country. He overshot this mandate badly by making this comment.

Officially, he just walked into a minefield almost completely filled with pratfalls and booby traps concerning personal privacy.

I think Google should issue a retraction and make a personal apology, SOONEST!

Space...The final frontier to make money. These are the Voyages of the VSS Enterprise...it's 30-minute a week mission as a tourist barge, to seek out people with motion sickness, to fill up as many barf bags as possible!

Fixed it better!

Barb wire can be laced just under the top of the wall, and be observant of any narrow trails leading up to and around the inside perimeter of the wall.

I'd suggest that you open your eyes further more, look for odd things that appear out of place.

Considering the lack of attention to the details of improving rural service, I feel that they do not deserve a single nickle of gov't funding.

Fact is, they got a lot of gall for asking for more money after the stunning YTD they posted on the market, both wireless and wired.

Until they can show REAL (as in purchase orders for equipment, permits for installation of same, they really do not deserve any outside funding at all.

They've been living off the fat for this long, I think that it would be high time to put them on some lean rations for a while.

The five-finger discounter. One operation bought two of the $3,000 beasts and one walked. They got another and it walked too! The last one they got I got them a cable lock and LoJack service. I slapped LoJack stickers all over both of them. That put the kibosh on the thefts.