Throw in a "jet" and "rocket" and I think we'll be all set.

The delivery charge is the cost of the infrastructure and its maintenance. Just getting the pipes and wires to your house and maintaining them so they are capable of delivering energy costs money whether you use any or not.

And what sort of observation would shake your belief that "Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming" (are we just making up terms now?) is just a bunch of crap?

Don't make me admit that greaseball did something actually useful! Argh!

They are also your photos on Flickr. You pretty much sign your rights away to the photos you upload to Facebook.

I disagree. Buy the best lens you can afford and buy the lowest end body that will fit it. Expensive bodies are overkill for a novice but give them plenty of opportunity to learn and grow into the more advanced features. Bodies change and become obsolete "quickly", lenses are "forever".

I agree completely. I'm always suspicious of people that seem like they'd rather spend time at the office than with their kids. To paraphrase a saying: Any man can be a father but only real men are Dads.

You answered your own question. War isn't a means to an end anymore. War is the end itself. Ike is rolling in his grave.

I'll get right on that and let you know when I'm done so we can move to the next phase.

And here I thought I was the only one clever enough to twist that saying into something sig-worthy. Well I guess the sig-worthy part is debatable.