Ive searched Ebay, and cant find the brand of camera your talking about. Are you sure that is the brand and not the seller name?

The ' obligatory ' XKCD http://xkcd.com/763/

I've taken to answering those calls in my best 'official' voice, and use a line like "Thank you for calling the FBI criminal self incarceration hotline. To schedule your surrender, press 1. por español prensa número dos."

I sort of half realized this was a thing a few years back, when I was out and about and one of those Harley Davidson edition F150's drove past me, and I realized that it actually sounded a fair bit like a Harley, while a normal F150 does not. It does not surprise me one bit to find out that engine noise now is all a matter of special pipes and custom sound engineering to make it sound 'the way we expect.'

Honestly, most modern cars these days are already so silent, the only sound you hear from them is the cooling fan and the tire noise. It is only the 'muscle' type cars, that make noise, and like the article says, its just because people expect them to. Hell, the 'Harley Davidson' edition Ford F150 magically sounds like a motorcycle, because they can make it sound any damn way they want now. I agree, the idea of mandating 'fake engine noise' is preposterous, because its pretending this is a new problem, when cars have already been nearly dead silent at parking lot speeds for years now.

Well aware. Clearly, based on your response and several others, I left the joking tone out of my post.

Sid Meier is just re-making spore as 3 games, and skipping the weird creature creation stage. Seriously, at this stage we have a 'conquer the world' game, a 'conquer nearby star system' game, and now we have a 'conquer you local galactic arm' game? sounds like spore, only without the insane promises.

I had to read the summery several times to figure out what the fuck the headline was supposed to mean. But then, there's not really much of a Yiddish population where I live.

Exactly. Physical access to the machine and all bets are off when it comes to security.

I''ve been around, used and owned guns pretty much my whole life, so I'm about as far from anti-gun as you can be, and I'm calling it now: There is zero reason for this to exist, and it is a "Bad Idea".

Wait a minute. First your post claims that a belief in higher power has helped previous generations persevere through terrible trial and adversity, thus preserving society and human kind. Furthermore, this has had an impact on our genetic pool, leaving us with a population that (theoretically) carries a gene that makes them prone to persevere through difficult times, while holding onto a belief in a higher power.
The you advocate eliminating this 'survivor gene.' simply because it allows someone to survive by applying flawed logic?
I'd like to borrow your scrying bowl and chicken blood, so I to can see this marvelous future, where the human race is never again presented with difficult times, where basic survival is never tenuous at best, and even the most flaccid of individuals may survive and prosper.

Nailed It. "If you'd just figure out how to do it right, you could do it right!"

Your pretty much spot on there. We use the hand pump 'Pallet Jacks', which I assume you know what are based on your experience, and all our pallets are the large CHEP pallets, the large iGPS, or similarly sized plastic pallets. A good portion of our Pallets are either to heavy to stack, or to fragile, so its generally a single layer, I didn't consider most other situations, where the trailer would be loaded 2 cubes high.

Like I said, it would be much quicker if we had a better floor layout, and maybe quicker with a forklift, but for our operation, we have the manpower on hand for further tasks, so we use what we got, and its unlikely to change, especially in Texas, land of the 'no unions'.

You can put about 30 Pallets of goods into a standard semi trailer. I know, because I unload at least 3 of them a week, and it takes 5 guys about 20 minutes, and thats only because our arrangement is a bit retarded, with a better floor plan, it could be done in 15 minutes or less. Like other responders have noted however, a standard boxcar is much larger.

That'd be fun also!