Frosty Piss says: "By the way, without the Shuttle Program, the Hubble Telescope would have died long ago."

The Hubble telescope sat on the ground for years due to the Shuttle (ahem) explosion. It cost 6 million a month while it while it sat at NASA. Hardly a boost to the concept the shuttle helped the Hubble. It was wholly possible the Hubble telescope was on the first failed shuttle mission. AKA, the Shuttle could have destroyed the beloved Hubble telescope that destroyed a Shuttle in 1986.

1986 was the scheduled year for the Hubble deployment (the Challenger disaster year). It cost 6 million dollars per month for the Hubble to sit on the ground. It cost more than 200 million dollars for the Hubble to sit at NASA from 1986 till 1990. The Shuttle was a boondoggle.

The Hubble, by the way, was wholly designed to be toted to space by the Shuttle. IOW, it would not exist without the Shuttle. Another aside is Sean O'Keefe nixed the final repair of the Hubble telescope, because of what? Another Shuttle was lost. It was almost not repaired for the 5th time. Thank the director following Sean O'Keefe for it. Thank the second Shuttle disaster to what? An unreliable and dangerous delivery system best know as the Space Shuttle. The same reason for the first Shuttle disaster. The Shuttle was a boondoggle.

Science fiction? Clearly you have not done your reading. The Shuttle was to have done far more than it ever delivered. The Shuttle fuel cost to launch was literally astronomical due to its sheer empty mass. It was supposed to deliver, repair, and return satellites to space. How many satellites did it bring to Earth and return? Zero. AKA, the Shuttle was a boondoggle. It was not on budget and it did not deliver what it promised, not even close on either case.

On the whole the shuttle was a boondoggle. It is best that the program is over.

Yeah it had some advantages, but overall it did not deliver what it was promised to deliver. The reasons are many, the reasons have made it to /. many times over the course of the existence of /. (the shuttle predates /. by a year or two ;-) )

If you cannot effectively control something, shut it down. Keep it shut down till you know you can control effectively.

"Stupid is as Stupid does."

"does not provide encryption keys to any government."

Means, "we provide encryption keys to the whim of any government." Guessing this is true.

He is more likable since he was president than when he was president.

Casinos -gun point?
BBQ -kill for JS BBQ? Stay the fuck in TX. Maybe the dude in front of you has some in his passenger seat.
Royals/Chiefs -Jackson County PAYS FOR ALL THE STADIUM UPKEEP. You seem to think it is cool tickets are cheap when the poor in J. County help ticket prices low.
Fountains -cost, electricity, maintenance, water is of little concern as you decided to point out. You'd be more concerned is a single flame on a WWI memorial? There are hundreds of fountains wasting resources on yearly upkeep, on many thousands of kilowatts of electricity pumping water though 208 registered fountains and perhaps a 100 more unregistered ones. Their purpose seems to be so the city of Kansas City can keep a tag line about the city of fountains or comparing it to Rome. Very few KC area fountains are worth a second look.
Boulevard -in 22 states because they have the volume, you gambling dolt. Doug M. fucking runs Boulevard, goddamn.
Drivers -sounds like you are in the right place.
WoF OoF -They drive there because they can. Maybe they also come to the Metro to shop or get an artificially cheap Royal's ticket.

Simple. They have not given enough away yet to attract GF. Read tax abatements. Read up on how KCK became the first choice, why goog was behind on the rollout of the GF service.

To each his own. Lived there for many years, we miss it not.

Music -check
Barbecue -Can get that crap anywhere
Royals / Chiefs -Joke teams for sure. Don't live in Jackson County, AKA Taxation County. They get to pay for the stadium 'improvement' costs, keeping it "fun."
WoF OoF -Are you for real?
Casino's -You must work for the IRS or some other government agency. Huge drain on local businesses, great for the coffers though. :-/
Fountains -Waste of taxpayers dollars. Right to say The only city that has more artistic fountains in it is Rome' wholly makes you sound like an idiot. 5% of them are cool and the rest are either round or square brick and mortar affairs.
Boulevard -They distribute to 22 states. BFD. Doug McDonald is a bore.
Drivers -Plenty of bad ones.

Move across town. Problem solved.

Worry not people, the KC metro area is not that great a place to be. Yeah it seems better if they were in your neighborhood.

Remember they are getting version 1.0 of the service, you will get the upgraded version.

Meh. Twenty Eight dollars a month for 6Mb/s DSL is good enough for me. I'd go faster but for not much more money. Point is a connection is valuable, but very high bit rates will not make the experience that much better.

I literally have fiber in my back yard. Thank you SureWest.
Can choose Comcast. Piss on you Comcast.
ATT uverse or DSL. Thank you for the good $/bit ratio.
GOOG fiber is coming soon. Hype and price, no thanks. Though the 300 dollar for 5mb/s service offer is tempting.

You are parched, how much for a glass of water in the desert? The second, the third. The ninety-ninth? Once satiated the price you are willing to pay decreases to the point more glasses of water have no real value to you. In this case the 1gb/s 'glass' costs a lot more than the 6mb/s one that satisfy the need.

What? Trespassing is illegal. It is apparent you do not comprehend the what the judge said.

Your question is not relevant to the topic. Go away AC.

What our fine Judge Alito said is it is ok to trespass, just don't get caught. Ok, it is a bit more complicated than that.

Example. A neighbor sneaks in to Judge Alito's unlocked home. Judge cannot prosecute the neighbor's trespass, because Judge Alito cannot prove the neighbor had trespassed because it is legal to trespass secretly. Even though the neighbor has records to each and every trespassing, the records seem to be off limits as well.

That is effed up.

-Reduce transmit power
-Move or buy a directional antenna

Have time on your hands?
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

Not true.
Signed in Bill Clinton's tenure? It basically says 'any US citizen violating a US law is guilty of breaking that law, regardless of their location at the time of the event. 'It goes on to say that any 'US citizen breaking a law of a [specific] foreign countries is then a felon in the US.'

http://www.uniset.ca/other/cs6/253F3d234.html
In 1998, Thomas Bean, an FFL, was in Laredo participating in a gun show. One evening he crossed the border into Mexico for dinner. A box of ammo was found in his vehicle by Mexican customs officers. At the time importing ammunition into Mexico was considered a felony. Bean was charged and convicted of the felony of unlawfully importing ammunition. As a convicted felon, Bean lost all rights to possess firearms when he returned to the US.

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  ( If I'm in Mexico and kill an American, I broke Mexican law, not US law, so deciding they are undesirable people, then inviting them to the US to arrest them for breaking US law when they never set foot there before is insane). </quote>