Looks like the Jobs reality distortion effect persists after death!

Pardon my raised eyebrows; really?
That straight-winged, .50 cal bullet shaped airframe that was developed starting in 1944 before the allies had their hands on a Me-262 was ACTUALLY BASED on the Me-262? I'm not stating that the XS-1 didn't incorporate lessons learned, but if you look at the two airframes objectively you'd be hard pressed to find any similarities.

Shockwaves form differently based on airfoil (and fuselage) shape. A flying tail certainly HELPS, but you don't necessarily lose all function.

No, Yeager was climbing. A huge-er-er difference.

Much as I like WWII fighters... that's bunk. You first need to build the tools and dies to form the parts. You need skilled workers who know how to use them. Let's also not forget the main strength that gets overlooked - logistics. Your fuel comes from a refinery that probably uses a few microprocessors here and there. What are you going to do when you start having production problems with your fuels, hydraulic fluids, etc.?

No, actually most of the time it's about fear of the other. Plenty of poor people without power are racist and I doubt that they're working for white power. It's just one aspect of a poor group and what they dislike and fear. Dislike of rich bankers is very similar to dislike of people with different skin, just with a different target trait.

Actually, I think Hawaiian has it a bit easier for a number of reasons. They actually fly LONGER flights, and so their aircraft are usually only slotted to fly one round-trip each day. Compare that to a flight that might visit four or more airports in a day, there's less chance for delays to creep in. Additionally, they largely fly on the west coast, out over the ocean, where there are less weather issues than, say, the eastern US with the higher traffic and higher chances of snow and thunderstorms.

How often do you use someone else's system though? Say, your average user who either uses it at work or has one at home for e-mail and facebook? Those systems get loaded up and confusing, and the ability to "windows key + type" has been a boon in my position as an IT consultant because I don't have to CARE if they have organized or not. I don't have to figure out your genre classification system, or search on a fit-inducing desktop/menu system where the user MOVED the shortcut to the desktop, stripping it from the start menu, etc..

There are things that I wish they'd done different, but for people who actually experiment and learn, the features work. Most of the bitching is by people who don't want to adapt.

That's part of a larger issue though.

When is someone going to release a software package to handle a household's updates automatically? People aren't going to want to think about it.....

What would be needed (other than perhaps the deflector dish / Bussard Ram scoops mentioned above) would be a static discharger that would bleed off those particles as they built up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_discharger

Before we broke the sound barrier there were some calculations that showed that air loads would approach infinite as the aircraft approached the speed of sound. Obviously that proved to not be true, demonstrating that some models ought to be taken with a grain of salt.

Monty Python's Flying Circus!

Too many issues. That's why it's a ful-time gig. Even if there's a lot of bloat in that "full time," the question is how you would choose the issues and how the laws would be written, if only voted on. If you're only voting on issues, who frames the issue?

The Army UH-72 Lakota, Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin and HC-144 Ocean Sentry at least partially disprove your military statement. We can expand the list further if we include license-built airframes, such as the Harrier and Goshawk trainer.