I can assure you the kerosene was about the cheapest part of the Apollo program.

I would give you about 9,000 mod points for this post if I had them.

It is all fun and games until: A - you go someplace on another continent and THEN find out you are on the no-fly list and cannot come home. B - you can't board the plane because you are on the no-fly list. This leads to you being unemployed and the entire flight being delayed because you are the pilot! Both things have happened.

but....but....if you don't like it, just buy your own planet and make your own rules. The MARKET solves everything ;)

I bet it cuts down on the wanking though...

I got "volunteered" to make a medical device because no one else at work was good with the hardware interfaces and it was a HUGE PITA. FDA doesn't like this, they don't like that, test this 500 more times, etc. etc.....

My Toyota had this issue. The gas pedal would just stay at full throttle. I lurched my way to the dealer to get it fixed and the mechanics had a good laugh at my expense. The floor mat was ripped and catching up in the pedal. 1 new floor mat later and I was on my way. This was in about 1999.

When I was a little kid we watched a phone company employe use a dowsing rod to look for a buried wire.

Dowsers? They need THIS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

FYI people died near where I live when OnStar killed a stolen car and it was stopped in the middle of a busy highway and got hit.

If a number of unrelated people have wanted to drug you for your own good over a number of years, you must have been quite the interesting roommate. Just sayin..

I looked hard and could find NO SUCH REACTOR. Signed, looking for stuff at midnight guy

I thought it was kind of a general purpose device that could do other things. The old FermiLab accelerator could do all manner of experiments AND they served great burgers in the lunch room :)

If the reason the LHC was built was to produce and sell antimatter for a profit, then it WOULD BE a total flop.

I just got back from a 5 day vacation. I spent about ALL DAY on a ton of emails. The best ( or worst) was people being directed to me for help who sent all kinds of nastygrams because I guess my Out-Of-Offce was not enough clue that I was NOT going to be answering them last week!