That was my first thought... does work count? Personal time average is under ten minutes a day... I'm writing this while on an hour long conference call at work - my second today. :/

Thanks, this is what I came here to see.

You are currently marked 'Insightful', and I would agree with the mods, in that your comment IS Insightful. I actually agree with much if it - however in this context (as a reply to the GP) it is almost, if not completely off-topic. Which is sort of ironic, since it proves the GP comment all the more accurate! (yes, I get he or she was going for humor, but the point was still accurate).
Take all time constraints out of the picture if you must and compare an asynchronous verbal exchange of anything resembling nuanced conversation to one in text, and you can not help but notice the failings of the latter. Enter a few more variables into the mix, say one party is texting the other and is using heavy sarcasm for effect, and the other is unfamiliar with the first persons habits... you have a recipe for disaster, as I have seen in person many times. There are so many cues in verbal communication that come from tone, cadence, and other aspects I'm missing, that are nearly impossible to communicate through text, it's not even a close race. (admittedly html helps a tiny bit)

Possibly, but it's not like it was how they were caught, so does it matter?
From TFA:

I've been on Facebook too long... my first instinct was to hit 'like'.

I didn't even read the title...

This is what I came here to say. even $0.99 would be better than nothing. My bet is most of the 446 people that got it free would have been happy to pay some small sum.

If you're not trying to make a joke, then you're mixing up numbers...

Ignoring the rest of your post - there is no more government cheese... it stopped in the 90's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese

When under way, I'd have to agree with your doubts. Did a little reading, and from what I can tell maintaining 20 knots (at least for the ships I read about) would get somewhere between 15 and 24 feet per gallon. That said, these carriers don't shut their engines off, and the efficiency is obviously going to drop to zero if they are stationary... http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=593 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA231847&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf