Major Metropolis!

I would have given anything to accomplish this feat with Nissan last year. I figured out what car my wife and I could settle on (2 year process), and then tried to get one. Alas the last of the 2011's were already sold. So then I waited a few months and tried to get a 2012 vehicle. Alas those were delayed due to the flooding that also hit the nuclear plant and made much news. When I finally got a dealer to ship me one from 1200 miles away, I still didn't get all the exact options that I wanted. Most noticeable is that my wife complains about the lighter interior upholstery.

Why should I have to spend months trying to order something that should be so simple as: Middle of the road trim level, brown, with dark upholstery. Honestly I don't understand why I couldn't get those three things together in one vehicle after searching 15 some states.

I had driven several of the vehicles and knew we liked it...just couldn't get it without fancy doodads that we didn't want. I bet straight internet orders wouldn't get jacked up by the dealerships quite as bad.

Perhaps they are using a new program/script that does all their Lawyering for them. It must have 'accidentally' gotten the extra VLC link, assuming it was their content. No moderately versed PERSON would make this mistake, so it must be a machine. Therefore, we have a new threat in the wild: A never sleeping, never eating, intellectual property attorney that has no common sense or morals.

Oh wait....that isn't really all that new. Maybe the electricity part is new?

About 97% of my letter carrier delivered mail is junk mail. How about we actually consider fixing the problem in addition to the cut services?

Why does 97% of my mail, which I don't want, delivered at rates between 25-35% of what I could mail things for? Victoria's Secret clearly is making enough money to print a new catalog every single week...how about we penalize the marketing douches and force them to actually PAY for the crap they send. VS catalog could come once every 6 months instead of every 6 days, and they would pay more for every single one.

Seriously. It costs me 46 cents to mail 1 piece of paper. The guys mailing 500+ copies of a 50 page catalog or a 30 page coupon bundle pay between 14 cents and a $1.27 for the largest thing delivered to me lately.

'The People' are not getting the same kind of service that is given to 'The Business'. Considering the impact to landfills, the carbon footprint when I burn the catalog, the endless amount of fuel and man-hours necessary to deliver it...mailing catalogs and coupons really shouldn't be profitable...but it is thanks to retarded policy regarding bulk mail.

Learn something new every day I guess.

I agree completely. I believe this is proof of evolution in the rocketry business. This is an extra level of failsafe designed into the system, allowing work to still be accomplished.

Had this been any previous launch vehicle, it would have had to abort and splash down in the ocean somewhere because it wouldn't be able to compensate and continue on.

That is not a Twain quote...it is a Biblical quote...of which Twain knew many.

Do you want to date my avatar...

Perhaps this will increase the job satisfaction and reduce depression amongst TSA screeners. Seriously...who would want that job? For every 1 person they might want to see naked and put their hands on...they are required to look at and feel up a hundred more that they would rather just run away from.

I remember reading this on my own in 6th grade. I heard it was a sci fi classic, and read it. I remember it being fairly mind blowing at the time. I'm not 100% sure if it was really that eye opening, or if I was just that young and green behind the ears. I don't remember anything naughty in it. I turned out ok, as did millions of nerds after and before me.

I hate stupid people.

I would like to see the performance gain in eve. This could reduce lag significantly.

Suborned? Really? I had to look it up. freedictionary says: 1. To induce (a person) to commit an unlawful or evil act.
Was this supposed to be subordinate or simply sub machines?
I prefer minions myself.

Not bad compared to:
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/epubs/afi36-2903.pdf

Old SMS client -- System Management Console --- Is supposed to be automatically updated via sms push to the new client -- Configuration Control/Console or whatever.

I've seen computers fall off the 'good' list and onto the 'naughty' list quite frequently. They don't generally patch themselves and make it up to the 'good' list on their own...though that is specifically the idea. M$ hasn't gotten it right for the last decade...so obviously they are going to patent the process and make more money off other people that DO make it work.

Yes....I just got goaded into replying to a troll.

Either Anonymous is the most stupid soldier there is -- think went to army basic training and failed out or came from a family full of army, but never had the guts to do it himself
OR
He is just a 20 year old dork that doesn't know much about anything but nevertheless feels the need to comment and be rather offensive and claim things like brainwashing and alude to his own higher moral field.

Anonymous obviously doesn't really know what he is talking about. What I stated was absolute truth and known designations by millions of people that have served in the past, and are currently serving.

Calling an airman, seamen, or marine a soldier will usually get you an evil look during the daytime, and potentially into a fight in the nighttime. Same the other way around. No marine or soldier wants to be called airmen or air force.

All are equal, but each is most definitely separate and proud of it.

Many of the highest rank, including presidents, have refered to the joint force as warriors. The root of it I believe comes from the airmen that were paired with army units to call in close air support. They were air force, assigned to army units -- and they needed something other than soldier or airmen to jokingly refer to them since they fulfilled both roles -- warrior was a non-offensive perfect fit.

Who doesn't want to be a warrior? Everybody kind of likes that term.

"Warriors" is an Air Force term since they are not soldiers, and not all involved are airmen.
Not all are soldiers.
Not all are airmen.
Not all are marines.
Not all are seamen.
Not all are coasties.

All are Warriors.

Yes, even the powerpoint ranger.