You may be more likely to have your e-reader (iPad) on hand than your non-working phone. On the other hand, the camera on it is really just a bonus - clearly based on the accessories, software, and it's inter-connectivity with iCloud, Apple is marketing this towards amateurs who want to do light duty photoshop and share images with others. It's hardly meant to be a primary camera, though it'll fill in - in a pinch.

This. In fact, the money she took was her cut. It was an agreement she set up with the scammers. As in, she's complicit in their crimes.

"Cranberry" I'm sure refers to the way canned cranberry retains the exact shape of the can even after it is removed from the can, to the point where the rings (another reference) that provide subtle structural integrity to the can are still visible.

From the images, I'd guess that the doors are just high enough that i'd still have to duck while getting out of the car at 6'4". Therefore, I'd suggest that unless your garage has a 8' ceiling/door rails, you should have no issues. Remember: while they're calling it an SUV, it's not riding on a 10" clearance or anything of the sort.

These people are flight crews, not infantry. I think you can expect that they'll treat electronics issued to them with a modicum of respect.

I'm quite certain Apple sets the price for their wares, which is why during the holidays you see iphones/ipods 'discounted' with free gift cards.

Dodge's HEMI engines do the same thing, or at least it did in my 2007 Charger. Plenty of power when you need it, but is basically a really heavy 4-cylinder on the highway.

Aeroplane suits the melody of that song, where 3 syllables are necessary and 2 would just sound odd/not rhythmic . In fact, while many may write "aeroplane" and say "airplane" or very subtly include the third syllable, that song makes a point of enunciating the "o" because of the otherwise syllabic deficiency.

Apsis of less than 1.3 AU, that should read.

Near earth objects have an Apsis of That leaves only, I don't know, whole lot of rocks. Your citation is still pending.

It's pretty difficult to enumerate in dollars the benefits of the Apollo program, but I'd go out on a limb to say that it didn't cost tax payers a penny either (not that you were necessarily arguing this point).

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Maybe. But it'll certainly broaden our technological capabilities for one day changing that.

Sorry, but that is the job. You want the big chair? You want that captain's check? This is what it costs. It's not likely that he's going to have to perform these duties, but that doesn't negate the fact that they are his duties. There's no excuses. If you're a coward, maybe you don't take the big chair. Or maybe, just maybe, you don't play games with people's lives like steering too close to a rocky shore. Maybe know the difference between 400 yds and 4 miles (which is where he was supposed to be). Or just evacuate immediately so you can your coward ass off the boat before it's half-way submerged. But I suppose those are just suggestions.

And by the way, you may hear alot of armchair ship captains (yours truly) criticizing the guy. If you look around, it's easy enough to find actual ship captains being just as critical.

In California, the Air temperature is already pretty well linked/controlled by the water temperature. I'm not certain what could actually be accomplished there, although perhaps southern california could render some benefit.