I could not disagree more.

It takes a long time for SAR ressources to get to your location when you are stranded somewhere, sometimes up to several hours. It's not like when you're in the city and you just dial 911, and you have an ambulance, cops or firefighters at your doorstep in minutes. So when you decide that you've been stranded long enough, that your boat fire is out of control just now, that your plane is going to dive nose first, or that you've been lost so long that you can't remember... well, guess what: you'll have to wait a bit longer, buddy ! .... and good luck btw.

I have had many cases at my SAR-related job of people calling in, not wanting to disturb, a bit shy, and hesitant, reluctant to being rescued.... where it'd be SO f* much easier for us to go save your ass, and done - and done. We get a thrill when we get this chopper - or boat - or volunteer searchers call list - going anyway.

I plead for anyone who ever needs SAR service not to hesitate a minute. Because when you decide that you REALLY REALLY need NOW a rescue... it might be too late.

Unless, you think your life, or the safety of whoever is on a trip with you - family & friend - is not worth a phone call, or that your ego is more important.

and that

Google sniffing out all this stuff by accident? ! **sneeze** bullshit !

Would it be an accident, it'd even be scarier. It'd mean that the search giant don't know what they're doing.

I don't know why I'm replying to this as you seem a bit reluctant in other's opinion, but I'll try anyway.

The Nautical Mile is recognized internationally and used primarily in navigation, ie. marine & air (ISS is air, right?) The International Civil Aviation Association uses nm as its symbol ( Wikipedia page or the initial reference )

And should it matter - which I don't think it does - I am not a US citizen. I am working in the marine field, and the nm is the de-facto unit here.

Geeky != Cool
my friend :P

To me, some words in this sentence seem to be mutually exclusive.

To my humble opinion, a good ISP needs to have good reliable equipement. Sometimes, out of the box routers are better because they don't have moving parts and their firmware could be more stable than a full-blown OS (even if it is Linux).

Disclaimer: Not that I don't like Linux, I use it all the time.

I am really worried about the fact that Facebook has access to data such as people's real name (that's the point of it, right?), IP addresses, friends' lists, and other info. It worries me enough on a personnal level, so I'll never register, but what worries me more is on the macro level. Even if such company did not want to 'do evil' with this tremendous amount of info, I feel that the power they posess is ultimately too big to be own by a for-profit company.

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That's probably why daddy sent him back up there with 80000$ worth of toys.