They exist already - search for dead head flight sharing (no, no tie dye or Miracle Tickets needed), typically done with corporate planes.

http://www.jetcharters.com/emp...

And honestly when seconds count the police are only a few minutes away.

In your sitation my phone call wouldve been notifying the police to have them pick up 2 guys who are approaching ambient temperature due to a nasty case of lead and copper poisoning

Already exists - just charter a plane. For a single person traveling it is kinda expensive, but for a group it is no worse than first class...

There is a walmart card - it replaced lay-a-way a few years ago. And, if your credit is good enough, you can get a walmart branded visa card...

Quoth subby - I have an Associates degree in programming and systems analysis

Hey fluttering twatwad - where does it say he has an AA degree?

I have the same degree. It is an AS. Which means no, it isn't the first half of a Batchelor's degree. Some of it is, but in order for me to go to a Comp Sci BS program (which is part of the college of engineering at the local university, so same prereqs for *all* engineering majors regardless of type of engineering) I'd have to take a 3rd english, a sociology, an art, etc. and then the real prereqs for the BS degree - get thru Calc 2 w/ differential equations, 2 physics classes, 2 chemistry classes, statistics, etc.

Because I have 3 kids and they have a grandparent who can't resist buying stuff for them ....

Thing is, is that we (humans) have broken our Darwinian evolution template ... we (humans) can take and plunder and consume not just other animals, but all sorts of resources that also affect other animals in a negative fashion - straight up extinction, denial of use of breeding/nesting areas, wiping out food sources, etc. For a while, we (humans) can "get around that" by becoming better at taking the resources to consume, but eventually they will all be consumed.

On top of that, our opposable thumbs along with our brain power and creativeness have allowed us to create all sorts of nasty stuff that has a negative effect on our environment and all the other life forms that depend on it.

So... either we need to voluntarily reduce our population to about 1% of what it is today (but please make plans for the bodies first!) or we need to be stewards, 'cause if we (humans) don't then in a few hundred years it will be too late.

And at the same time, working in the trades wtih no degree or "just" a certificate (not even a complete AA or AS) can also make you some serious money. Yes, for some trades you'll end up going to specialty schools for a few weeks or a few months, and pay several thousand to do it, but just like IT these are extra certifications ontop of the base job.

ex: Yahoo, whatsapp, tumblr, Gentoo, etc etc

Except Gentoo is a species of penguin, so it is at least somewhat relative

To make up for Valentines day... it is steak & a blow job day as well.

Part of these resources are being provided by people or organizations or governments who just want to Do The Right Thing.

Some more of these resources are being provided by those who see others Doing The Right Thing and thinking to themselves that "gee, if A can do it I should do it to show I'm just as good at DTRT as them".

And the last little bit are doing it for a positive karma, so they can get away with Something Bad later on...

You were prominently featured in the documentary Revolution OS.

Do you think it is time for a similar documentary to be made, this time avoiding or minimizing the financial aspects?

But, while broadband speeds increase, broadband penetration may not (probably won't).

So, I have a feeling that Netflix, Gamefly, etc. will still ship physical disks... and console games will too.

I also think that instead of changing standards to increase data density, or using any extra density a new format brings, we'll see things that are more about control (DRM)

Sorry... it just ain't. Needs to be in a caliber that starts with a "3" (or "7" if you use metric measurements).

How about the FN-FAL or M1a instead?

Since those are gen-ed type courses they compromise most of what an AA degree is - 2 englishes (2nd is tech writing or more lit stuff), math thru at least college algebra, a few social science courses, a few humanities courses, a natural sciences course w/ lab of some sort, etc.

The calc (and possibly thru calc w/ differential equations), physics w/ calc, chemistry, and gen science comes with just about any science major for an AA (transfer to 4 year degree track) or AS.