Did you pay your Chicago Cancellation Fee? And you have your rope permit, right?

It still amazes me the amount of people that don't realize that FEMA aid has to be requested by the state government.

No, it just sounds like New Jersey.

Is that the horse from the play Daniel Radcliffe was in? Seriously, how many times with the horses?

Look at me! Mr. "I'm my own grandpa!"

Having all the branches use the same plane should have been a cost saver. Only develop one plane, same parts, same training, etc. Except the different branches need different planes for different jobs. So we're going to take one plane and then alter it into a few different models.

I used to design fire engines. I learned a lot of really good lessons about designs and specifications. You have to define the roles for your machine. If it is going to do more than one task, which task is more important? We had a lot of customers that were combining two old trucks into one new one. That was fine as long as they understood that it wouldn't do either job as well as a truck that was specifically built for one task. We usually saw this with small towns who couldn't afford to keep running two trucks because of a limited budget. The US Govt, is not a small town. They definitely had enough money to keep their fighters, ground attack and other warplanes as different models, especially since there wasn't a whole lot wrong with them.

Flawed concept aside, this program has been horribly managed, that's where the real problems come in. Lockheed didn't even finish designing and testing the planes before they started production. Then they start jacking the price up and soon we come to our current situation.

Now I work for a place that actually makes parts for the F-35. As far as the "save all the jobs" part of Lockheed's argument, we'd be just fine without it. In fact, most of the surrounding community doesn't even know what we make or care how much we get paid for it.

I have one on my helmet, it cost about $5 and it works great. There's no need to over complicate some things.

You went to public school, didn't you?

This entire discussion is about the fact that he won't get a fair trial. He would definitely get a trial if he came back and he would most certainly be convicted because as you pointed out, he's confessed to his crimes. He would be arrested and held until the trial, then held until his appeal. If he loses his appeal, then he will likely be in prison for the rest of his life. No one really wants to put themselves through all that especially since there is nothing to gain from his imprisonment.

The issue here is that the law differs from what is morally wrong. Therefore, the law should be changed. We don't need to cause suffering to people for pointing out wrongdoings solely on the argument of "the law is the law."

Also, your possible positive outcomes are extremely unlikely with our current government.

There's one on USAJobs, but it's optional.

I'll second this. The Republicans can't put up anyone decent, so the Dems really don't have to try. I live in NY and I was shocked that she was elected as a Senator since she never lived here before deciding to run for the seat. She literally just walked in and said, "I'll represent this state that I don't live in," and won. This was some weird combination of the Republicans running a moron and people saying, "Bill Clinton did such a good job, his wife will do a good job too." The same thing could happen for his daughter.

He was making a generalization, but there is a valid point in there. Most people will blindly reelect their congressman because they bring home pork for their district even if they voted for the Kill Puppies, Spy on Americans and Piss in the Drinking Water Act. Your congressman seems to be an exception because he actually cares about stuff like this.

Give the LAPD a trial run and the interlocks will mysteriously stop working.

I see what you're getting at, but they're not really the same thing, although in either case if the battery dies, you might too. The difference is that the pacemaker is on all the time and the gun isn't. When the battery dies in the pacemaker, you know right away. If the battery dies in the gun, you might not notice it until you go to use it.

And most people aren't very good about checking the condition of their batteries. There's a good story from the next town over where the Fire Dept went to a heart attack and grabbed the AED only to find out that the battery died. These events might only happen once in a lifetime, but people would prefer to avoid taking the chance by simply removing the electronics from the equation.

I'm sorry, I forgot that we were talking about guns. This is no place for logical arguments.