My favorite is the title loan one (it may even have been title loan restructuring, now that I think about it) of the guy with 2 young kids in a 2500+ sq ft house washing a car that is at most 1-2 years old. You might want to try downsizing before you enter into a predatory title loan with near userious interest rates.

I also love the radio and tv commercials advertising "low" rates of $200-350 a month on car leases, while I am driving a brand new car for $125 a month that I will have paid off less than 1.5 years after I bought it. Of course, instead of living beyond my means I actually live below my means so I am not stressed out at the end of every month waiting on a pacheck to pay bills. I just don't have to drive a Lexus/BMW/Mercedes or own my own McMansion.

I never said the panel had merit. I'm simply saying these panels are designed to be soapboxes for those on the panel, nothing more.

Why would they invite scientists to this panel? That's not what these are for. THe whole point of panels/investigations/committees is for those sitting on them to make public statements about whatever the issue is. If they even bring people in the Senators/Reps hardly ever ask questions, they use their floor time to read prepared statements or make comments. When they say "Senate Panel on X", it doesn't mean they are going to be asking experts about X. It just means you can expect soundbites about X from the politicians to be played back or reported on in their home districts.

Band of Brothers had one scene of toplessness. I think The Pacific had maybe 3-4.

I always assumed that they were just as corruptible as any other race (besides Hobbits I guess) so Gandalf didn't trust them. They also would be susceptible to being shot down with arrows/ballista/etc as well as interception from the Nazgul flying mounts. The hobbits were the only ones who could actually get into Mordor undetected. The eagles were certainly overused in the movies though and made the plot hole much more glaring.

No, but if you work for a company (and these drivers are working for Uber, as much as they try to claim otherwise) that company should be liable for any injuries that occur to their employee (workers comp) as well and any injuries and damages caused to a third party by their employee (insurance). If they want to claim the drivers are contractors, then they have a duty to ensure their contractors are fully certified and insured(that is, commercial car insurance with higher liability) before they pick up a single passenger.

Because you and he are going the same direction, and you aren't making a profit from them, just something to offset the cost of driving you were mostly going to be doing anyway. Uber drivers are sitting around until they are effectively dispatched by the app(they can pick who they want to pick up, but it's the same idea) to a person to take them to a place that the driver was not (in all likelihood) already going to, and getting paid to do it. If you can't see a clear distinction in that you are either rather dense or going through some major cognitive dissonance.

If an airline was touting the fact thay they use uncertified mechanics, pilots without commercial ratings, and insuring 737s like they were single engine Pipers and that it makes them the cheapest and most competitive people would be all over them yelling for them to be shut down. That is essentially what Uber is doing. It's a lot easier to be cheap and convenient when you are ignoring laws and regulations that are put in for very good reasons.

Because an individual can't perpetrate an act anywhere near the scale of Pearl Harbor. The best they could do is another 9/11. Now, if you said someone near DC posted threatening another 6/28 (let's see if you can figure that one out), then maybe your analogy would be a little better.

Well, what surer way to stop global warming than nuclear winter? It's the ultimate geoengineering project!

Simple fix for that would be that any time an update is submitted that date becomes the new intial filing date of the patent. The better fix would be to get patent examiners who actually do their jobs and investigate and think about whether a patent should really be granted instead of jsut spending 5 minutes on it.

The CIA would beat detainees with hardcover copies of outdated DSMs. And then make them read them.

There were also numerous cases (I believe they were first encountered starting around Tarawa) where Japanese soldiers would kill themselves almost at the first sight of an American, blowing themselves up with grenades with a loaded rifle sitting next to them, not even trying to engage them. And don't forget, especially in the early days of the war, the officers usually got the soldiers drunk before banzai attacks too.

The book Enemy at the Gates was written from a collection of first-hand interviews the author did with survivors of the Battle of Stalingrad, both German and Russian, soldiers and civilians. But my favorite is Eastern Inferno, which is the war diary of a man who served as a Panzerjager on the Eastern Front from 41-43.

Uh, cruise missiles have greater ranges than aircraft and, except for stealth aircraft, have lower radar signatures. Also, a sub would have to surface to launch aircraft but can launch missiles while submerged.