1) The vast, overwhelming majority of commercial pilots fly in the GA industry.

2) The FAA is under immense pressure from the major airlines to get rid of GA entirely

3) This is demonstrably commercial

Hear hear... as I stated in another post (and was promptly vilified for), I wouldn't fly with most of the pilots I know. Too many pilots think that having gone through the training makes them a good pilot, when in reality, walking away from your checkride with your signoff means you are just barely good enough to pass the government's very very low standards. It certainly does not mean you are a "good" pilot, and absolutely does not mean you are a "safe" pilot.

Point was, if you look like a charter, and act like a charter, chances are the FAA is going to look at you and see a charter.

Found this online:

http://www.faa.gov/about/offic...

... I'm a pilot, and I wouldn't fly as a pax with most of the other pilots I know, especially not under circumstances they are unfamiliar with - like loading down the plane with people and luggage close to gross weight and doing a cross country with it.

Also, this is in some pretty serious gray area. A pilot may not "hold out" for passengers to share fuel on a trip he/she is planning to take. Any kind of "if someone else is going, I'm not going" makes it a Part 121 charter. If pilots start deciding not to go if they don't get a full plane, or if they wait around for an hour for the person who is late, I think they might find themselves violated.

If you simply change everyone's temporal frame of reference by the exact same amount, you have done nothing, really. Everyone will simply account for the 500ms delay, and trades will still execute in the same order.

You will never convince local governments to give up such a lucrative revenue source.

I can't bring my Chevette to the local Ford dealer to get repaired, no more than I can bring my Pinto to the Ferrari dealer for service work.

So no, nobody should be forcing MS to do anything. Microsoft has never advertised any of their products as being "good forever," so there is no duty to hold them to.

You shouldn't have to donate to that case because cases of willful criminal violations of Law are supposed to be prosecuted at taxpayer expense by the State.

You need to read the summary again, more carefully this time.

In school my geography teacher was a believer of the hollow earth and recommended us to read some book about it.
Beat that!

I did the same thing. But, this was only the straw that broke the camel's back. The whole "I'm gonna suck down 2GB of memory caching every JS routine you've ever come across on the Interwebz even though you haven't needed it in weeks" thing was really the bulk of it.

I got used to having to reboot Windows every few days, but I draw the line at having to restart firefox once/day because it's greedy with RAM.

There have been dozens of attempts at a "set top box" like device that aggregates all of the major online streaming service. They are all abysmal failures. Did anyone expect Amazon's shot at it to be any different?

Hahah yeah, a smoke detector with a "Snooze" button.