Heh, I was at recess in third grade when they rolled the YF16 out of the General Dynamics hanger in red white and blue livery. That school was on the Carswell runway so we got to see it put through nice aerobatic displays for a couple of days. I think it was on day 2 the plane's landing gear got stuck and the pilot had to land the plane on its belly on the grass median between the two runways. But that was on the news and I didn't get to see it.

You here to talk, or you here to fish.

Well for me the boring part is the grind. I'm not interested in beating a boss for a +1 sword of twinkie spearing. For me it's not a "YESSSS!" moment to get the reward on try 5 when it can drop on try 1. I'm not a slot machine player either.

Yeah I've got no problem with auction houses. I'd hate to be grinding the same quest over and over trying to get the perfect item. Grinding isn't an achievement, it's pathetic.. Just take what you get and sell it to somebody that needs it. Take that gold and buy what you need. Done and the game doesn't become a full time job.

Somebody must have fixed it.

"While the term Scandinavia is commonly used for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the term the Nordic countries is used unambiguously for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, including their associated territories (Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Åland Islands).[18] Scandinavia can thus be considered a subset of the Nordic countries. Furthermore, the term Fennoscandia refers to Scandinavia, Finland and Karelia, excluding Denmark and overseas territories; however, the usage of this term is restricted to geology, when speaking of the Fennoscandian Shield (Baltic Shield)."

Assuming those cars have a blackboxed drive log, it should be easier to determine what specifically is at fault and where.

Just like now, you'll still have to carry insurance, just in case your car is the one that screws up or you want coverage for others' faults. You'll still want to read that contract to verify that it covers what you want so that you aren't waiting for a lawsuit to resolve.

If I'm in an accident, my insurance company writes me check if I'm covered. If it's my fault (within certain limits) I still get medical and mechanical paid, because I pay them for that coverage. I have Un/under-insured coverage, because the minimum isn't really adequate. I have road hazard insurance. Etc... Someday I'll probably have Automated Driving System Failure coverage.

But wrecks should be MUCH less common. Comprehensive insurance policies will get cheaper (right, I'm an optimist) to encourage more expensive coverages that guard against stuff that doesn't happen that often.

Or the baggage handler or TSA person opened the lock to see if the hardcase held a model to add to his collection.

This is now a Spiderman thread.

On the flip side, I prefer to watch foreign films subtitled. I feel that I connect with the story more when I hear their words and vocal inflections, connect that with their visual language and read a translation.

I perfectly OK with Hollywood just making Chinese movies. Pacific Rim would've been a passable film if they'd done in in Japanese and subtitled it in English.

Note to self: open a bar in Destin Fla named The Destin Nation.

No one is going to twist your arm and make you have a smartphone that can double as a PC. It's just something else that quadcore computer with a gig or two memory in you pocket could already be doing. In a couple of years these could be the $100 prepaid phone that you can buy at the supermarket.

I don't any downside to being "allowed" to use my pocket computer to its "god intended" potential.

I hadn't really thought about that. There's nothing that distinguishes a smartphone from a PC with a 4G Card. Still, I bet there's a patent submarining around somewhere waiting for us to dare try using a very small computer as something more than a consumption device.

The main proposed feature of Ubuntu Phone (the name of the OS under development) is to turn a fast quadcore phone with HDMI out and Bt into a Desktop PC when you plug it into a monitor/TV/projector. So you might get your wish, but it'll be for a PC that you can carry in your pocket and use as a standard Android phone the rest of the time

While I was not interested in the piece of bling that the Edge represented, I would pay for the finished OS for my next phone in maybe 6mos to a year.

Is this an example of the latest we used meteoritic iron before learning to smelt it, the earliest example of melting a rock down for something better than copper, or just something in between?