Yup - look at the "Green Line" in Los Angeles... Goes up to one miles from LAX... AND STOPS. THEN you have to take a taxi and/or bus. Period. (unless you wish to hike a mile with luggage/family in tow). It's all politics. (Kind of unrelated to the original post about photographing it, but related to some of the feedback). The Green Line was STOPPED from going all the way to the airports by taxi unions, primarily. The bus service kind of already existed, but only runs every hour or so. When I fly out of Fort Lauderdale, I take the "Tri-Rail" up there, which, granted, the station is over a mile from the airport, but the "Tri-Rail" used EXISTING tracks when it went into service, and the bus that takes you (for FREE) to the airport, runs about every 10-15 minutes. (btw, it's a "full sized" train, so it'd be a little more difficult to "extend" to the airport, when it continues on for another 100 miles or so, than it would be to make a NEW construction, like the Green Line in L.A., to go straight to the airport)

Actually the last bunch of rent-a-cops Miami-Dade hired (Wackinoff...er...hutt...whatever) - just got fired for overcharging the county 100's of thousands of dollars a year. County/government screws us, private industry screws them right back. Nobody can win.

Here in the states, it's actually publicly/government owned and operated, but they contract a private security company to sleep in their cars at each station (er, sorry, I mean, to make sure nobody jumps over the turnstiles).... But the SERVICE itself, is government owned...

....and again... the Metro in Miami doesn't GO anywhere even remotely interesting... IF someone were to blow it up (no, I'm not suggesting someone does, relax DHS), it wouldn't do much harm....

Living in Miami, the Metro-Fail (er, Rail), is pretty much worthless anyway. It doesn't go to the airport, or, for the matter, anywhere else useful. It's long been said, the Metro-Rail was built so the people in the Kendall area (southern point) could go up to north Miami (northern point) to buy drugs - and for the most part, I still agree (though, personally, don't do drugs). Regardless, look up WHERE the Metro in Miami goes. It's one of the worst designed rail systems in the WORLD (well, ok, L.A.'s isn't much better - another failure that somehow doesn't go to the airport).

The ultimate geek tattoo :P

Robots are known as Robots. ROV's are known as Remotely Operated Vehicles. This is a human's fault, not a machine's.

Don't install 10.1 if you have even a slightly older video card. I'm running a Core2Duo with 4gb, my video card is a nVidia 9600GSO (about a year old!). Flash 10.1 causes green artifacts with online Flash playback now (10 didn't).

Even their release notes say they "fixed green artifact on some video cards". Apparently, they didn't fix it on others. No convenient way to "roll-back" to 10, either.

Flash 10.1 is Yi Da Tuo Da Bian. (words from FIREFLY - look it up :) )

... but having been a victim of bullying in school myself (many MANY moons ago), I say give them all the chair - get them out of the gene pool NOW, before it's too late.