Oh you said Vorlons. And I was about to recite some very horrid poetry.............

And the movie was tame in comparison to the book..........

In other words they were just doing the job they were hired for.........
I've seen all types from cops that were trying to do the right thing to the ones who were running protection for organised crime to ones who managed to make it through the training and psych evals yet only wanted the badge to wield power over the public. Unfortunately LAPD has quite the reputation for the latter. Had an interesting discussion over the police actions in the Dorner incident with the trainer at the local police academy. He didn't agree with the way LAPD handled that either.

Odds are the hydrogen wasn't the culprit but only a piece of the problem. There were a number of crashes of airships that were using helium for lift rather than hydrogen that ALSO went up in flames. Part of the flame spread on the Hindenberg seems to indicate the skin went up in flames and it's possible that the hydrogen may have ignited after the skin. Every eyewitness report seemed to indicate a different version of what might have transpired. All that can be said for sure is that a number of airships burned and crashed BOTH hydrogen and helium based......

I've never had much of an issue with KDE as far as stability. However it's become rather a pig in later releases and I have mostly older hardware so it's not so pleasant unless you try to tweak all the fancy shit off on those. But then I wouldn't run Windows 7 on those boxes either. Overall though I've rather liked KDE for years now (since FreeBSD 4.x - don't recall what version of KDE at the time) It pretty much did what I wanted in the way of a GUI and if I needed to do something else that's what terminal sessions were for.

Wasn't all hat - seemed to be a bit of ass too..... :)

I can only speak for one power plant that I worked a bit on a scrubber refit but they had a rail spur that came right over their coal pile where the cars dumped directly onto it. And I'd expect the truck distance involved would be minimal at the mines as well and, if the figures from CSX are anywhere near correct, rail is a LOT more fuel efficient than trucks for any significant amount of cargo anyhow. I suspect that electric power is overall more efficient..
At the moment it looks like we're interestingly close to getting dependence from foreign oil though. However not everyone would agree about what sales support terrorism..... To be honest the US policy of propping up our own worst enemies seems to imply that we do an awful lot of financial support to the very terrorism we're trying to fight.

CO2 isn't the only problem with combustion though and, for the most part, even coal power plants have more efficient scrubbers than the exhaust system on an auto so the overall pollutant level coming from a power plant is less than from an auto. Last I heard if cars had to meet the emission standards that power plants do they'd be considerably more expensive than they are now......
Overall I think that electric vehicles are rightly part of the solution. HOWEVER I also think that effective public transport is also part of the solution. Living in a state that has very little in the way of effective public transport (however that's what max the tax situation here somewhat attractive) I'd love to see somehow better public transport.

I remember the days of IPX over token ring running Doom with ops vs. dev - we kept it one of each on each team to even things up so us ops didn't stomp the devs... :)

I rather miss Banyan Vines and Streettalk...... It actually made networking simple for the time.
I actually used very little NetBEUI though as there was quite heavy Novell usage in the environments I was in. Most of the other environments I was in used 3720 or 5250 emulation........

There's quite a bit of difference between the engines of a B-52 and a F-117. Never been close to the latter but yes the B-52 engine is incredibly impressive at close distances - especially all 8 of them at full throttle. Was on the wing of one of those beasts once on a flightline while another was doing touch and go and hit full throttle quite near the stationary one and while I didn't get blown off (not THAT close) there was quite a bit of movement of the plane I was on.
With the baffles that the F-117 engine exhaust goes through I've no doubt that you could be much closer to it although at 10 feet I'd say it's unlikely the aircraft was at full throttle as it would still probably blow him off his feet and possibly burn him.
Had a small I think it was an Italian built trainer fire up the engine while I was close enough my boots started heating up before I realized that aircraft was the one starting up. If the aircraft had been positioned so the exhaust hit somewhere besides my feet it would most likely have been quite uncomfortable rather quickly. I was somewhat closer than 10 feet from it and got hot feet and moved before it had throttled up much.......

Depends on how you're using the blade. Against lightly armored or unarmored opponents a very sharp edge is great for lopping off limbs and such. Yes it will require a lot of sharpening to keep that edge but a blade of that quality would tend to be owned by someone wealthy enough to have trained personnel to do the sharpening for them after they'd been in battle. The grunt who sharpened his own weapon when he was at the point of exhaustion after a battle probably would never have the chance to wield a blade such as that.

I had an anthropology instructor state that humans have actually changed very little in the past 100,000 years or so. I believe that especially in light of so many times we discover that many discoveries in recent centuries were actually processes discovered and then forgotten thousands of years earlier. The biggest reason we THINK we've "progressed" so far is that at its core humanity is just a bunch of highly egotistical pricks..... We like to downplay our ancestors' accomplishments to make ours seem so much better.......

I can't lay hands on a link at the moment but I read some info a few months ago that the growth enhancement only applied in the CAFO situations. In an organic situation or pretty much anything else close to natural there didn't seem to be any enhancement to growth. So basically if you're raising animals in a stressful, filthy environment that reduces growth then low level antibiotics are just what you want to make them bigger, comparatively healthier (for that environment) and thus more likely to survive to slaughter time.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/drug-information/DR602405

Just be careful and watch for signs of further irritation. They can be rather harsh with frequent use.