The US has the most right leaning government there is. It also has the most racially, socially, culturally, and economically diverse population there is.

We certainly do have a right-leaning gov't, but your statement just isn't true. There are lots of gov'ts that are farther right than us. Particularly in the Middle East & Aftrica.

Also, people who don't do well academically tend to not take tests like the SAT and ACT. It is a self-selecting group who do, and they tend to be fairly confident that they stand a chance of passing, at least.

And in a safer environment perhaps her glasses would not tend to get broken...

And better socio-economic status generally means you are in a safer environment... so I think you just helped the GPs point.

+1 Sad Realization

Ya, so that's an article about a prototype but what I asked for was a link to the consumer product that the other post was referring to. Great job being a dick and still not getting the point.

https://www.google.com/search?... -- nothing.
https://www.google.com/search?... -- nothing.

political-spectrum-wise, Obama sits right where Saint Reagan does

I'm surprised how many people refuse to admit this...

It is kind of strange that the headline mentions the white house adding pressure, but the summary doesn't at all...

I have a consumer cordless screwdriver with a capacitor in place of a battery. It runs for a decent time and runs down, like most such devices. Unlike a battery, it recharges to full in 90 seconds, not hours.

Link please? That sounds like something worth buying...

+1 informative if I could -- Thanks, I was trying to figure out what the GP was referring to when they said Comcast was owned by MS...

Ya, thanks. I was trying to find what altitude this flew at before I posted but couldn't find it.

Besides, I don't see how that changes the point. Did you forget to take your "don't be a dick" pills today?

It didn't have to fly over the tallest point...

According to the WSJ article that the AOL article is "borrowing" from (and sensationalizing) these limitations are only applied to "documents used for reports and presentations."

That's bad enough, but we really don't need to discredit them even more for limiting their employees ability to communicate with each other (which they haven't done). They are simply trying to keep emotion out of the official reports & presentations and stick to the facts. I actually don't blame them for trying to do this.

I'm not sure what altitude this flew, but most class B and C airspace goes no higher than 10,000ft MSL so if this was above that altitude, it would not have broken any of those airspace regulations. In order for it to get past the Rocky Mountains, it was probably at least 7,000ft so it's quite possible it was over 10,000 ft.

People want SO BADLY to believe that we're being visited by aliens, that they won't accept a very clear explanation for what they saw. It's kind of sad that we are so disillusioned with our own world that we need to convince ourselves of things like UFOs.