Anyone out there know anything about IPDR and how the communications companies use it today?

This is the third time now someone has posted that Greenpeace called ahead and that was why they were not killed, but it does not mention this in the article and no one has posted a link to where you get your info, you mind posting a link to where you are getting your part of this story? Or you just repeating what someone else posted 50 posts ago and figure they would not make shit up?

Using Midi controllers like many people mentioned would be the easiest way, but agree that many people in the Flight Sim community could help with building something more specific to your needs. I worked for a flight simulator company many many years ago, that made a flight simulator that eventually got bought by Jeppesen Sanderson (if you do not know them then you do not fly airplanes IFR, at least not commercially) and I used to put these consoles together for them (maybe 10-15 a day) for many years, was a cool job, and learned allot about PC's and hardware back then. All I can say is that these consoles were not easy to do yourself, but might be allot easier now a days. Here is the only picture of the console I built everyday I could find online anymore, kind of sad but this was pre/early internet days before companies had websites even.

I see no reason you can not have it both ways, it comparing apples and oranges really, its like saying, hardware running Linux fails more than Mac's that might be true, but that has nothing to do with the fact than the hardware people run Linux on is crap half the time. If you want a true comparison of the value of the OS compare Mac's with PC's running Linux on nice hardware. The article tries to make peole think that all Android phones are the same, and if you bought a nice Android phone you could have more issues than on a iphone, when thats not the case really.

I agree, its good to know not everyone is going crazy out there.

Well said! I think its really sad you can not mention a union or the idea of a union anymore in the US without someone telling you how thier Dad or Grandfather says they are the devil. My grandfather worked hard in a factory his who life and told me nothing but that it was the unions that gave us a middle class and finally made companies pay a decent wage. But somehow I think the companies figured out how to fight the unions, make them look bad, they will force you to join them and make more money. After all a union is just a group of workers that join together to fight for their rights, because everyone knows a company will fire anyone that stands up for themselves in fear it will grow to the rest. So make them all look liek the Mofia runs them all, because we all know there could never be a good union made up of workers that just want to stick up for themselves, they must ALL be evil.

Sounds about like any test I have ever taken to me, but I hate written tests anyway.

To be really honest, I for one love to eat meat, but can not stomach the thought of actually killing an animal myself, not even a ulgy animal.
I really love animals, but love to eat meat allot also, so I guess am just screwed up, not really sure what to do about this, but not eating meat just seems to drastic of a food change. It also seems to me that to kill something and look it in the face and watch it die is something that is either to hard to deal with or just to real for me, not sure but I just do not want to take that step in to being able to hunt and hold up dead deers in a photo for instance.

What were the targets in the WTC attack? except to harm innocent people as revenge maybe? Honestly the idea that us going in and killing the person that was listed as enemy number 1 on our list for 10 years upsets some people, upsets me. This man killed lots of U.S. citizens, and the goverment had to react, it shows others you can not drop planes on our cities and live, period!
If that bothers you in any way you have some serious issues. I have no problem playing the other side of some issues, and I can see that Bin Laden might have in his mind been doing the right thing against us, by doing what he did, but then he also knew that by doing so he was going to hunted and killed one day, and no one said it had to be a fair fight. I just wish I could have seen what really happened that night. Do not get me wrong, I could never do what that Seal team did, and it is amazing we have men that can do this so well, you have to be thinking there is a good chance you are going to die yourself going in to something like this.

One thing I was wondering the other day, has there ever been a situation like this before, where a single person shot someone so important like this but not get any real credit for it at all in teh press? Maybe he does not want to be known for this or would have to stop doing this for a living if he was anounced, but you would also be pretty famous, all this talk and someone out there that took that shot knows exactly what happened, what went down and can say I killed Bin Laden and just can not say anything about it I guess.