When I read the subject line, I assumed the definition of resignation to be:

'the acceptance of something undesirable but inevitable.'

This describes the attitude many users have toward the IT department.

I think so. Research dating back a few decades has associated cetacean melons with the echolocation function, including some species ability to shape this organ. The purpose of such shaping has probably been understood, as some advanved sonars use similar techniques for beam forming and impedance coupling.

Perhaps we should require some basic STEM courses in the curriculum for liberal arts majors. Some of their thinking is quite unparsable.

Unlike the poor of many decades ago, today's poor seem to get sufficient caloric inputs. Far too much, in many cases. But they are eating the wrong stuff.

Don't start with the 'poor people can't afford healthy food'. For what they spend stuffing their faces with McDonalds, it is possible to eat very healthy. If one isn't lazy and makes an effort to select and prepare healthy food. So, poor people don't have the time to cook? Maybe, but try taking the pop and snack machines out of a high school and replacing them with healthy foods (thus eliminating the argument about preperation effort) and the fat bastards will raise hell.

Poor, fat people are going to be poor and fat. It's a part of their culture.

What's the best shot for drones? What choke gives the best pattern?

I saw the demolition robot in "I Robot".

Sorry sir. Did you say Evergreen Road or Place?

Damn! I thought we had all the bugs ironed out of that command parser.

... police will announce themselves with, "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"

Because exercising freedom of speech makes one an Enemy Of The State, right?

So putting back doors in encryption software is OK when done for national security purposes. But bad when hackers exploit these same engineered weaknesses to steal your personal information. Leave your front door unlocked so the police may more easily conduct searches. Never mind that the incidence of burglers cleaning your house out will be orders of magnitude more common. And don't forget that Snowden was an anomoly only in that he forwarded data he absconded with to the press. The NSA/FBI/CIA is full of "contractors" that slip copies of data to buddies in private enterprise for purposes of industrial and commercial espionage.

Our civil rights take a back seat to the needs of law enforcement to manage the populace for the benefit of the elite.

How about flamenwerfer

... of napalm in the morning.

But why should I expect my private business to incurr costs to make some future militarization easier?

Actually, not a bad idea (sort of). Add a door just aft of the front restroom and galley. Close and lock it and the cockpit door unlocks and remains unlocked. Flight crew have access to restroom and front galley. Crew returns to the flight deck and the outer door unlocks so passengers and cabin crew can access facilities.

Some work will have to be done to ensure no-one can hide in this area during the locking procedure.

Welcome to Slashdot. People arguing over topics for which they have no practical experience.