It's the amount a willing buyer and a willing seller will agree on if neither is under any external constraint (such as rent controls).

...and it's not very hard to be covert when all you have to do is count the empty seats and subtract.

Why do I run out of mod points just when somebody says something sensible?

Speaking of "Airplane!"...

They put in what they assume the audience expects to hear. Ever notice that when there's a shooting, witnesses often tell a reporter "I didn't think it was a gunshot...it didn't sound like one"? What they mean is, it didn't sound like a movie gunshot.

At least he and Riker were the only ones on the crew who knew how to climb a ladder properly...

Hey, anybody who kicks Sheldon's ass can't be all bad.

...or air crash experts:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...

Give him a break. He knows at least as much about physics as Mary Schiavo, with her black hole comment.

To echo a blogging friend:

One should always speak good of the dead.

Good.

Yeah, I hear you. Interesting story about censorship in Oklahoma: http://arstechnica.com/science...

Drop in on the IMDB.

No, but it runs...awww, I can't do it.

A junior high school classmate of mine managed to off himself that way. He did it outdoors, in some woods, and was found first by children so there was a crowd, including reporters, by the time the police got there. Nobody said anything about "suicide" -- the cops put on a show of hunting for a "crazed sex fiend" until it faded out of the papers.