I am a commercial pilot. This scheme will fail because the FAA really really does not want anything like this going on. Flying people as paying passengers falls under part 135 or part 121 of the regulations. People have been trying there "134.5" scams for decades now and getting busted for decades as well.

Bletchley Park is in the UK. No doubt he would have hung, just wondering if he would have had a public trial. My guess is not. And yes - non-state actors are a bitch because they don't have anything you can threaten. The USA attacking their "home" country is often a GOAL of theirs, not a fear.

In 1943 Mr. Snowden would have been quite lucky if he got a trial before he was executed. We were fighting for our lives back then. As to the rest, it is a matter of scale. In 1790 I could follow you around and publish your daily activities in the paper. Unless you hired 50% of the population to be reporters to follow the other 50% and then switched them off every other day, no one could possibly publish what everyone did in every country every day. In 1980 the CIA/NSA/KGB/MI5/MI6/Mossad/etc. could do a fair amount of spying, but the analog nature of much of it and the primitive computers pretty much made sure they weren't spying on YOU because no one had the time and money to waste on Joe Average. The STASI in East Germany actually did try the 50% spies on the other 50% system and buried themselves under an avalanche of data they had no time to deal with. The various agencies aren't doing anything they didn't do in 1914, it is just the scale of it is beyond the wildest dreams of any old cold war spy. We really can spy on everyone all the time forever :(

Exaclty. Kind of like saying my home-A-bomb project for the kids science fair was ruined by the DOE not letting me take the secret plans home from work.

OTOH it made instant sense to me. It looks exactly like the Metro map in DC, which I guess they copied from London. Been awhile since I rode the tube.

Just FYI, the Boers, while "African", were either from Holland or descendants of these settlers.

My mother has neck issues from several surgeries. A rear-view cam was 100% required when I got a car for her. Also dogs, cats, and kids are TOO SHORT to see in a mirror or even turning your head 180 degrees. ONLY a camera can see them in real time. I also know someone who killed their own 2-year-old backing over them. It was not a good day and they never really recovered from it.

I am going to call BS on this. My access point does both and once you get beyond about 2 walls worth of penatration the 5 GHz signal is notably down from the 2.4 GHz.

Because none of them would ever DREAM of spying on anyone, right? Jesus-On-A-Moped, every nation spies on every other nation to the extend that they can do so and have done for the last few thousand years at least and will likely always do so.

As I mentioned earlier, 3-D is awsome for when you want ONE part for some old car, machine, airplane, etc. that no longer is supported. For making thousands of parts, not so much.....

Well AOPA just had an article about 3D printing plastic interior pieces for old airplanes that cost many hundreds of dollars if you can even find one. The printed stuff is usually around $100 or so. This is a HUGE deal for old cars and planes that need one-off trim and interior pieces.

The crows were not CAUSING the Nazi behaviour, but apparently they learned the schedules or otherwise picked up a clue as to when food was about to be on the table and when it wasn't. Speaking of food on the table, crows live near where we like to eat lunch outside, When they see usm they send once crow over to watch. If we leave the food unattended the one spy crow gets the rest and they eat it and throw our stuff around.

Fsk the slow guys. Those things are like 500 years out of warranty anyway.

I vaguely recall a short story where the ships got 1 year faster every year for hundreds of years and all showed up at once generating a giant traffic jam at the other end and a huge bitch fest from the earlier crews that thought they were "getting away from it all".

So there is a risk of turning into a grate? OMFG! As a side note, I bet the zombie medicine only really works well on Haitians. I suspect the average American, far from thinking they were a reanimated corpse under the control of a voodoo priest, would be running around looking for a lawyer within minutes of zombie-reanimation.