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You need to read General Giap's book. He knew full well the North Vietnamese had not one hope in hell of beating the USA in a war. He said the war will be won on the streets of Washington DC, not in Vietnam. He was 100% correct. By being an ongoing large PITA that would not quit no matter how many times we kicked his ass combined with the war becoming massively unpopular back home, he knew sooner or later we would decide we had "won" enough times and go home. And we did.

If you can make it to the retirement home, women outnumber men by quite a bit. It might take 70 years, but you will finally get some.

The second new ST movie was Die Hard with space ships. IIRC, the bad guys were trying to knock building over in San Francisco with a hijacked airliner - I mean starship - and they had chases and fights around the city. NOTHING resembling the Star Trek I grew up with.

I buy old Thinkpads from FleaBay and use them for all kinds of things where I need a rugged computer, doesn't have to be real fast, great display, and low enough cost to not cry if it dies. The newer Lenovos are utter crap in every possible way but raw speed compared to the old Thinkpads.

Ford is building aluminum trucks, Corvettes have been fiberglass for longer than I have been alive, and epoxy-carbon is pretty much how high end race cars and exotic street cars are made now. We ARE doing all this stuff - just needs to scale up.

Is there some reason you DID trust Lenovo at some point?

Bought a new laptop for my son for Christmas. Thanks to a flaw in Windows 8 drivers, the wifi would go offline. Burned a Mint CD and installed it. Could not have been easier - click click click. He wanted Windows 7 for school and that was a nightmare X 100. Toshiba had NO 7 drivers since this was sold with 8, so it was about two days of Google-Fu, trial and errror, and scavenger hunts to find drivers that worked. You really should try Mint - I cannot imagine how anything could be easier.

I didn't mean anyone in 1903 could BUILD a Saturn V, just that they could look at it and understand the technology. Rockets were already flying in 1903, just not to orbit. Kind of like how a diesel-elctric high speed train would be really cool in 1903, but they already had trains and would understand the basic principles.

Mint is EASIER to install AND use than Windblows 8. My wife learned Mint in about 30 seconds - "Look, just like Windows 7 except the laptop now recovers from hard shut downs without you doing anything"

The Saturn V would not be THAT much of a mystery in 1903. "Look at this huge rocket! In the future we took your small rockets and scaled them WAY up. It works the same, just way way bigger". In 1903 British naval rockets were around 100 years old ;)

Yes - "Moot Court" is a think in law school where you pretend to have a trial. The headline makes it seem like the tunnel idea was cancelled in USAian English.

Now if you make it look like a Corvette and can use the wipes to get reentry residue off the windshield my Heavy Metal wet dream will be complete!

YES! +1000 The dog will give the wife enough warning to push the button herself usually. My friends son started having seizures and the first time the dog went for help even without being trained to do so.

Pilot here : 3000 feet is WAY too high for one thing. Somedays I never get above 1000 feet. The other thing is a "be careful what you wish for" issue. Right now the FAA can and will come after me if I fly lower than 1000 feet over your house. If you make an "FAA free zone" for me to play under, you might not like the results.

"Siri, where is the nearest gas station" is too hard half the time. The only real use for Siri was on long trips - we would give the phone to my toddler age son and let him ask Siri things and then argue with her about her nonsense answers for miles andnmiles LOL.