AMEN.. Especially the part about letting the deadbeats get foreclosed on... I love your idea of buying the shuttle and renting it back. It's PERFECT, ESPECIALLY if Obama kills Orion.. They'll need to rent it back for 20 or so more years.. Of course, dont get into any fixed-cost contracts, because with them printing new money like they are doing, inflation WILL go up... -Steve www.bothsidesarewrong.com Dont blame me - I wrote in Ron Paul...

You're "mostly" right.. but, dont forget, there's a difference between throughput and latency... Imagine your garden hose. a 200 foot hose may not slow down the water, and you're still getting the THROUGHPUT that you need (gallons per minute), but the water that comes out of the sprinkler head end may come out 20 seconds after it went into the other end of the hose (20 second latency)... For some jobs, with sequential read/write, throughput may be all you need (and may be where the 1% rating comes from on the original poster's PGP stat) but for something that needs to stop and start, and/or have quick access to random data, waiting for a decryption/encryption engine isn't a good fit, even if it is hardware. -Steve