Dark matter is the foam noodles and other packaging material that the universe was transported in. It now lies in a skip at the back.

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If anyone who wants to go sailing read this - Sit in the back of the yacht, don't go inside, do put on a hat and shirt, do use sunscreen. Always look horizontally, try not to look down and NEVER look up. After a few days, you'll be used to it, unless you don't heed the previous, get seasick and consequently never get used to it. My guess is that space is like being inside the cramped cabin of a yacht, while suspended upside down.

It looks like your post must have been stuck in a 10 year time warp and is actually from 2004.

Military IFF also does civilian ATC. No surprise there at all actually.

Long waves on short antennas are just less efficient. It means more electrical power is needed for the transmitter on a small fighter plane.

On my web site, Windows is 60% to 75% and Macs are only 5%.

...or Skype. Yeah I know it now belongs to the Borg, but it still works.

You got to eat it with gloves, or your hands will turn green.

Wordstar!? You should use ed, because it is the standard: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdIsThe...

Exackitilly - trunking, traffic shaping and load sharing has been with us since the age of the dinosaurs. Reordering packets to assemble a stream from multiple routes is not a big deal.

Yup. Most Americans have no idea what communism really is/was. Basically, it was a power grab by a large number of apparachik (officious) people, who enjoyed micromanagement of everyone around them about everything. Nosy Parkers on steroids. In most western countries today, we have many communist institutions now: Old age pension, disability pension, health care, limited working hours, minimum wages... However, we also have the bad things associated with communism: Overflowing prisons, secret/not so secret military prisons (Guantanamo, Guam), places of torture (CIA camps in Poland), spying on everybody innocent or not (NSA, CIA), border fences with guards who shoot to kill (Arizona, California border with Mexico)...

I thought Capone died long ago on the island...

Firing employees is demotivating. A company with a revolving door policy is continuously demotivating its employees.

Someone should put a lid on the USA, so that they will leave the rest of world in peace.