Right. It's better when my moral standards are compromised. That way I only feel bad about it in the morning.

This will continue until the principals in the companies are either sent to jail, castrated, or both. Fines don't seem to work, in the rare cases where any are imposed.

Isn't Maxwell that talking pig in the teevee commercials? Not the first thing I want people to think of when they hear about my new product.

You're not trying hard enough then. :-) One of the benefits of excellent karma is that you can bring out the flamethrower to crisp up some fool on occasion without too many consequences.

Right you are. I missed that. The jets were mostly used for takeoff and for added speed over target. Interesting that the radials have throttle control at both the pilot's and engineer's stations, while the jet throttles are only up front, at least as far as I can tell.

this appears to be one of the earlier ones before the addition of the four jet engines.

True, however many of the gauges are selectable for individual cylinders of each engine; head temperature and the others in the left bank of six columns. Power was six Pratt & Whitney R-4360 radials, each with 28 cylinders in four banks of seven. Having an individual cylinder drop out was not uncommon apparently.

You want analog? Check this out. This is a 360 view of the engineer's station of a Convair B36. I'm not quite sure where I'd stash my slide rule, but I'm sure there's a spot somewhere.

>the sample is now expected to go back on display at Seaborg's old office at Berkeley.

Because every self-respecting academic has the odd bit of plutonium lying about. It really helps with the mad scientist cred.

You have too much crap on your phones. If you bought a 16GB iPhone, you bought a phone with enough capacity for your contacts, calendar, email, etc. It's not for storing all your music and photos. If you want to do that, buy one of the phones with more memory. Idiots.

I was a bio major. General ed requirements were perhaps broader than they are now.

"Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God." This is not news. It was not news a hundred years ago. This is pretty standard stuff from any general education philosophy class in any decent university. Don't people go to school any more?

Actually, Rolex and a lot of others care deeply about that. In Italy, the Guardia Finanzia has units financed by Gucci, D&G, et al. that go after counterfeiters from the top on down to chasing street peddlers. It's all about how much you care about your reputation.

>That said, reprisals are a terrible idea.

Who needs reprisals? They're stuck in North Korea. What could be worse? The Dear Leader is a bat-shit crazy reincarnation of Stalin. Half the country is starving to death. Even if your are relatively well off, you could be taken out and shot any minute, and every known relative of yours hauled off to a camp for generations.

Of course they have top notch cyber techs. The Dear Leader needs access to the latest in 4K pron video.