What exactly has he done to deserve the prize? Would it not have been better to wait until he got done with his presidency first?

As someone said on TPM, this sounds more like a 'Congratulations for not picking McCain' award.

I guess that means I'm still going to need to worry about the Y2k38 problem.

" and for New Line to make other films based on Tolkien's work"

Oh dear God, NO!

1: Download the excellent sim Orbiter:
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/

2: Download the Apollo addon NASSP:
http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page

3: Download the virtual AGC/AGC software:
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/

4: ?????
(Literally, spend hours trying to figure out how to fly, how to get into orbit, reading the detailed manuals, etc etc etc)

5: Profit!

I actually know these two, used to play Call of Cthulhu with them.

Anyways, I was joking with another one of their friends about this sort of thing, and he was worried that someone may puke on Richard Garriot. I replied back if that if someone did, they should say that was for Ultima IX.

Please? OK? One or two stories is acceptable, even if they are not funny. Multiple stories each year is just annoying.

So funny. Really? Ok, not really. :)

Really, is this the best they can do? Building of 1960's tech?

And this part got me too:

Trips to the moon are scheduled for 2020, while a journey to Mars is believed possible by the mid-2030s.

GUH, wtf happened to our ability to explore space, to do cool stuff, to take damn risks?

http://cbs13.com/watercooler/Paraplegic.Man.Suffers.2.960606.html

Nice.

I would think ISS would be 3rd, behind the moon and the Sun!

My appologies for not being clear, but the SA in question was not fired, he quit to go work for a dot com startup.The email he sent out was basically bragging about how great his new company was going to be, how we all sucked and were stupid, and he listed every slight and fault everyone on his team had. About two or three years later (2001 I think) is when I was on the interview team with another ex employee. He was not a bad SA, but he was not a fantastic one either.

So he burned his bridges and paid the price for it. Do I regret it? Not one bit.

Actually, it was two or three years after he left the company to go to a dot.com startup. His email on the way out was something along the lines of 'so long suckers, I'm going to get rich while you idiots work here, you all suck.." and insults to everyone he worked with. It was like he finally got to say what he had been dying to say for years.

Technically, he was competent, but not stellar. He was about average for the role he was applying for, but his past history was a mark against him. There were better candidates.

It smells like...hollow victory

Not to mention possibly career ending. Someone about 10 years ago was leaving a company I worked at, and wrote a blistering goodbye email. A few years later at another company, a fellow ex employee of the first and I were on the interview team. And guess who walked in!

Needless to say, he got a very short interview and absolutely no consideration. When asked why, both myself and my coworker said 'Unprofessionalism'

Its bad science like this that gives various talking head pundits the ability to totally disregard and blast climate change as bogus fear mongering.

C'mon guys, you have to do better than that.

Yeah, very true. A few years ago when i was in vegas they even sold the basic strat cards in the frigging gift shop, and as long as you held it in your hand and not have it on the table, they don't care.

In fact, I'm sure they must love people using the cards, since most people don't slavishly follow the basic strategy, and when you don't do that, you break whatever advantage it gives to you.