AT&T's records are accurate. The problem is that all those computers are loaded with applications that keep checking for updates every 30 seconds. Tthat's what's chewing up all the bandwidth.

"Left-wing..." who love the "no borders" globalization, with "no worker safety protection laws, and zero environmental protection laws." Man, I must have my politics mixed up; that sounds totally Republican to me. Either that, or you simply blame the other side for everything and your beloved party for nothing.

This is from the first page of the Conservative Playbook: Invent a "clever" twist of a name to demean one's opponent, giggle while patting one's self on the back and never, never, actually debate any merits of an argument.

I commented on much the same thing immediately after you posted it, but I have to disagree with you at the conclusion. This was not a work product that will be relied upon to construct anything. It would be different story if NCDOT accepted the calculations as-is and incorporated them into their engineering study, or if they were submitted for that purpose. Instead, I believe the purpose is to demonstrate that NCDOT's study was flawed as a "correct" study would have come to a different conclusion, and an argument for that purpose - a policy argument - should not require a PE stamp, as the recipients are free to evaluate the merits of the argument separate from their value in determining the validity from an engineering purpose.

My posted argument was that Mr. Lacy suspects that someone in his department did the calculations and he wants hang that guy by his feet.

"I'm not trying to hush him up."

I believe Mr. Lacy; that his real motive is that he suspects someone in his department assisted with the calculations, and he wants to shut him up by requiring that whatever engineer did the calculations reveal themselves so they can be fired.

I remember there was a similar mindset for a while: "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM."

I wrote them off when I was choosing some small accounting software back in the mid 80s and the damned software couldn't even display decimals, all the money had to input in pennies. When we decided to go with other software, that was the salesman's last ditch plea.

Maybe they can use this to ban gawd-awful movie knock-offs...

Except that now his name can be Googled and found here. How's that for irony.

It wasn't until after I replied that I saw your post tagged as funny; I guess I'm the only one who didn't get the joke (and I do know the barometer story).

Really? I thought he understood the question. By throwing the shoe, he pushed himself ever so slightly in the other direction. Being on a frictionless surface, he would glide to the edge of the pond opposite of the direction he threw the shoe.

They're great for little hands.

Forgive me, but can you indeed copyright a recipe? I thought you couldn't copyright a fact (e.g. the mix of ingredients), but only the process (mix for 30 seconds, then rest). I mean come on, recipes are ripped off constantly.... I'd like some references please, for my own education.

Sorry, man, but you're wrong. They may make choices you don't agree with, but that does not make them anything less than you. Do you feel the same about teachers, firemen, or policemen, anyone who's not all about the last dollar?

I've had similar problems with Flash. I'm in management in Accounting, and I was kindly given a very nice laptop from the IT department to test drive ahead of the masses. It's worked fine... until I allow Flash to run, and then the laptop quickly develops a runaway heat problem. The only solution is to turn it off (a long exercise since all the processes start firing simultaneously, presumably because of the heat), flip it over, and rest a sealed soda can on it above the CPU until the beast cools down.

Flash-Block is the only thing that saves this machine, but whether it's a Flash or a Firefox-Flash issue, I'm not sure.