Well shit....I guess I was wrong. I assume your work for USA or NASA? We got the VIP tour, had to put on bunny suits and they took us all throughout the Orbiter Processing Facility and inside the shuttle. It freaking blew my mind that basically an entire building engulfs the orbiter for inspection. If you're on the outside of the structure, you really can't see the shuttle on the inside, just a HUGE steel structure. I think if more people had access to the VIP tour your average retard voter wouldn't think NASA is full of fail. They have no fucking clue at all what they're talking about. We also got to ride the elevator up on the launch pad. Boy is that fucking scary.

I've actually been inside the Atlantis. I was lucky enough to receive the VIP tour. I'm gonna glow your mind. The technicians there say *every inch* of wire is removed and closely examined after every launch. So yea, I would agree with OP, the shuttle basically gets gutted after launch. How much is replaced after each inspection I can't say.

Fun fact: the shuttle bay doors are only designed to be opened in space. If opened on earth their own weight would rip the hinges apart. During inspection the doors are supported by huge braces. :D
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See here's the thing. If piracy rates dropped to 0 tomorrow, DRM wouldn't vanish. Sales wouldn't sky rocket. You'd still hear execs screaming at the top of their lungs that piracy is killing the industry and harsher DRM is needed. The end state of DRM is control, not piracy. Ideally publishers want a closed platform (see consoles), where they can force micro-payments for DLC and updates. Also making you pay multiple times for the same product (see iTunes). So fuck you and your DRM. Stop fucking over the legitimate customer and focus on writing better games etc etc etc. Piracy will ALWAYS exist. Get over it and work around it. You can't control it.

Are your purposely talking out of your ass?

Hardly, sir.

http://www.strimoo.com/video/10901473/Bunker-Buster-MySpaceVideos.html

and this from 1994, 16 years ago, where our bunker buster cuts through 20 feet of reinforced concrete like butter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11vZHrsJWjU

I was trained to goto Iraq but never went. Every fucking person under the sun owns an AK-47. It's a machismo thing. It was beat into my brain that someone carrying an AK47 isn't an enemy combatant and is NOT a justification for engagement. It only escalates when they point it at you.

You just couldn't do it.

Many of the posts suggest to pullout the coax and rewire with cat5e. My question to the community is why not Cat6? When I bulit a small network in my house I concluded that ca6 is slightly better than cat5e, especially for gigabit speeds. If you're going to wire your house why not use cat6?

Yay. I'm with you on this one. At the moment Rep Alan Grayson is a champion of truth, justice, etc etc. All the qualities you'd actually LIKE to see in a congressional representative. So I was a bit surprised when I read the headline. Then I clicked the link and realized it went to foxnews.com. Fox News has been trying to paint Rep. Grayson as a nutjob for a LONG time. He gets in the way of their agenda.

First line FTFA

A bit sensionalist don't ya think. I bet halfway through the article it talks about how he wants to kill babies and eat their brains. Well I chuckled, closed the link, and moved on.

Nothing to see here folks.

I see now. I stopped reading after the first line. I didn't read the stuff about waterfalls, fusion, 50 years etc. Funny, man. :D

Aw man! I'm so dumb!!! In 10 years of reading /. I never thought I'd be on the receiving end of a woosh. "I'm not one of those ultra nerds that doesn't get humor". I guess I can be.

In hindsight I can't believe I took the time to write an entire comment, edit it, and post it without realizing the sarcasm.

Yea that sonic boom you heard was the joke going over my head. :(

I'm not trolling. I'm curious. What is your proposal. America losing manufacturing is free market at work. China has no labor laws therefore they do things cheaply. We don't. Companies move to China. What can we do to compete with that?

Cool. Sounds good for any newly constructed neighborhood. Lets goto Las Vegas and put it into practice. Oh wait. The housing market crashed like the titanic. Ok so lets dig up existing neighborhoods and put a turbine on every block. I'm sure that won't be a hassle for the local residents and it certainly won't kill every bird in the area.

Sorry man wind power just isn't sustainable. You're better off investing in a technology that has realistic power yields (nuclear).

Yea, those silly Europeans and Canadians are literally knocking down the doors to get a health care system like ours. HA! Give me a break, what planet are you on?

America is the only 1st World country where filing for bankruptcies for unpaid medical expenses exists. Think about that.

OP is not trolling. I never ever ever listen to the radio, unless it's NPR (which I LOVE). I have my ipod permanently hooked up.

My wife listens to the radio any time she's in a car. Between all of her presets (which she is swtiching between constantly) I hear maybe a pool of about 20 different songs. If I'm in the car with her for more than an hour I'll usually hear the same song two or three times. And it's ALL the same annoying poppy paper cutter shit. It's disgusting and annoying! It drives me fucking nuts. I often can't stand it and have to turn the radio off.

So yea, OP is right. Radio stations fucking suck. If you want unoriginal copy pasta music spoon fed to you over and over and over until your ears fucking barf your brains out, sure go ahead and listen to the radio.

Let me know how that worked out for racial integration in schools....oh wait.