The 50s, 60s and 70s saw huge innovations in technology. They were focused on the right people for the job and there was little to no racial prejudice. It was largely after that that race became an issue in science and technology. Now, it is not whether the person is right for the job but whether the person will help meet our diversification quotas. We won the race wars in the 50s and 60s and now the race war is conquering us again.

What do you expect? We no longer have the motivation or the desire or the technology to go back to the moon. Nor do we have the engineering expertise necessary to redevelop what we have lost. Back in the 60s we had unprecedented spending by the government on education, research and technology, which led to the space program, huge advances in engineering, computing, science and technology. Now we have unprecedented spending on self perpetuating programs designed to keep people at home in front of their TVs and remove any incentives or concerns that perhaps they ought to educate themselves or learn a skill. Go to the moon? Heck, in another 20 years, we will probably be back to most people not ever venturing further than 100 miles from their house, something unheard of in the last 2 centuries.

On the other hand, to me it looks like the spin doctors won this one. Only one of those summaries hints at the plane being shot down. All of the others are calling it a crash. Even FOX news, as conservative as they supposedly are, were not calling it shot down. They also called it a plane crash. I'm sorry, but the plane did not crash. It was shot down. There is zero doubt about that. So why are all the news agencies trying to downplay the missile strike?

FYI, military jets already have civilian transponders. When they are not in actual combat or conducting military operations, transponders are used by ATC to separate all Instrument Flight Rule flights, military or civilian, and when available and asked, to provider advisories for flights operating under Visual Flight Rules.

I don't know what airline you are on, but if you arrived at 8:43 for a 9:07 flight on most airlines, they would not let you on the plane. Policy is that you must be at the boarding area 30 minutes prior to takeoff. Many of them won't even let you check in and get your boarding pass, let alone attempt to make it through security.

Any science that is not debatable is no longer science but politics.

$200 a month? That is a heck of a deal. I've got the $99 Cox Bundle and that costs about $250 a month.

Tiles is not innovation, it is just copying.
To use a car analogy, using tiles on the desktop is like replacing the steering wheel, pedals, radio knobs, light switches, climate control knobs and shifter in a car with an Atari joystick because it worked so great for playing Pole Position.

Even in previous Windows versions, the default display in folders was to show icons. The first thing I did was change that to list view and unhide extensions. Trying to find an item in a list is an order of magnitude easier than trying to find some splotch of color among 100 different splotches of color. Microsoft should do some UX interviews sometime.

Just like when a cop gets right up on your bumper to read your license plate before pulling you over. If you had to stop quickly due to some emergency in the road ahead and the copy smacked into you, you will be charged with driving too close to the officer.

If it is military, then they would be idiots to shoot it down. They'd probably get shot down in retaliation.

The FAA says that model aircraft flights should be kept below 400 feet above ground level (AGL), should be flown a sufficient distance from populated areas and full scale aircraft, and are not for business purposes. I'm pretty sure two out of three of those rules were busted. One for certain.
The Police also violated FAA regulations by approaching within 500 feet of a person, structure or aircraft.

It's not legal. Nor is it legal to fly your helicopter in the vicinity of the other illegally operating vehicle. An illegal act does not justify another illegal act.

Yes, and where I live the paramedics are more likely to get to the scene of an accident, homicide or assault before any cops. Our paramedics wear bulletproof vests.

Wow, I can't believe the guy is only demanding that the officer be fired. If anyone else had done this, he would be in jail and PETA would be throwing blood on him.