What helmet law? Last I checked, the helmet law in Texas had been repealed, and the Austin BICYCLE helmet law repealed about a week later. Did they reinstate some BS save-one-life/temporary-emergency helmet law just for the rally?

Very informative, thanks. When you say the electrons have a definite momentum about the Z-axis, do you mean just one chosen axis (depending on your perspective and axes you assign) or does it have something to do with which way is "up" or gravity?

1. Send someone in with diving suit and CO2 or Argon tank
2. Close shuttle door and open tank, pressurizing shuttle
3. Remove knob, release pressure
4. Go home and quit robbing us of obscene amounts of cash

The hard drive was neither SCSI or SATA.. so the flash drive was the only thing that should have been mounted sd(x). It was plugged in from the beginning. I guess if you have an IDE hard drive, Grub looks there first, does its thing on hda, and Ubuntu doesn't pass the right info to Grub to make it do otherwise..

Yeah, I had the BIOS set to boot off a USB device first. That does not solve the problem.. GRUB still ignores the fact that the linux install is on /sda and puts itself on /hda. Funny you should mention Slax.. I tried that next, and it works great!

Agreed.. the Ubuntu interface and speed are great, even running off a live CD. But if you plan to install to a flash drive, do not trust it to leave your hard drive alone. When it gets to the GRUB installation, it reverts back to a hard drive install and messes with your MBR. I tried it on a Windows XP machine, and it made both XP and the flash drive unbootable.. should have yanked the hard drive first.

7. Carefully put the peripheral back in box (BIB)
8. Place SIB ad on Ebay
9. Profit again!

If the power output is constant, you'd start off like a rock out of a slingshot. Then as you reached top speed the acceleration would taper off asymtotically. Kinetic energy = 1/2 mass x velocity^2 I think.