This should be obvious... But here goes. As a part of your overall project plan you should have built in metrics to measure your success. If you built in the metrics of "design time", "employee count", and "fleet" then adjust your metrics. "Budget" can be justified by the correct metrics. Some other department can't "own" a metric. Just use the facts you stated here to justify your existance and next time remember these lessons when creating a project plan so you can more accurately estimate your budget. I am an IT manager, so I spend buku dollars and all my business cases and project plans are based on savings in other departments.

I hear everyone nitpicking the laws, but the real law is what is enforced. SHARK is like Westboro Baptist Church, except these 'ol boys are not havin' any of it. This is the way these people have lived for two hundred years and a bunch of tree huggers will just get hurt trying to interfere. It is not like they are exterminating these birds. There are untold millions of them turning everything below them white and spreading parasites everywhere. Who knows, maybe they will be at my campsite next with a remote control car taking pictures of my bug zapper.

Uhhh, I think it is safe to say that almost everyone in the U.S., even the poverty stricken, have those appliances. We are not India, where they know REAL poverty.

Why is everything a political smear? Regardless of the political candidate you support, nobody is perfect and everyone does not hold the same values. Cuts need to be made; we are not living in our means. Cut it. Then we can worry which economic theory will restore the health of the U.S. so we can not only move forward with current plans, but expand astronomically. (I couldn’t resist the pun)

I think Mr Breton may be going overboard a bit, but the bigger message is accurate and important. Better communication is done in person. There is more to communicating than words. Society is losing inflection, sarcasm, body language, eye contact, and a number of other communication tools we have developed as human beings to text on a screen... And no, LOL and smileys cannot replace them. All the points made here are accurate and good points, but let's not lose the real message the CEO is communicating.

Whew, I thought they were going to say it was developed for the TSA.

Now I know the real reason we got Texas back from Mexico!

Faith (or better, trust) in science is not exclusive of Faith in God. Nor is faith in God exclusive of faith or trust in science. Many trust science because they have faith in the divine creator, God, that designed things to work in the way that they do. There are many things that are touted as science that are merely theories that are not demonstrably repeatable. Is it fair to group "theories" into proven, repeatable, and demonstrable science?

She must have been quite a scam artist to get someone to invest that kind of money and send it to other countries without ever seeing her. Not being mean or insensitive, but anyone that could be taken for such a ride has to be mentally handicapped in some fashion. I don't believe it is pure lonliness or the need to connect. The guy could get conversation from a $20 hooker, and she would be there in person. This is why criminals that prey on handicapped people are the worst slime. The guy is probably a great friend to anyone that will have him...

Perhaps this is really just a problem with a secure feeling and warm fuzzies. Let's face it, people in the FOSS community are computer nerds (said in a loving way, as I am one) and that is our best way of scraping out an existance in this world. It is just a distrobution. Even if they do ruin it, the code is open and available everywhere. I love Ubuntu, but if it is sacrificed to the god of corporate bytes, I will simply use immerse myself in another distro. Newbies have a lot of sites and people ready and willing to teach the ways of the Linux world and the open source community. Perhaps this is even the event that will allow me one day to come to work and boot up to a Linux terminal.

I am sure that in the virtual airport the agents can give virtual pat downs and strip searches. I wonder who cleans up the kiosks???

The old phrase, "pot calling the kettle black" comes to mind. What hasn't Microsoft infringed on?

>> It seems that if another group "wakes up" they will be included in the "same party". A large group has come to their senses and has different priorities than the Dems or Reps. "We the People" are what they are shouting. The media make them out as overly conservative republicans... The truth is if you talk to them, they just want the rights and liberties that the constitution guaranteed and have been taken away. That means the rights and liberties of everyone. Libertrians and anti-corporatists should be backing the Tea Party.

Everyone is right in from their own viewpoint. Until people in the area try to understand each others viewpoint and just agree to disagree and move forward peacefully, there will continue to be violent conflict... This post sounds extremely ignorant of the complex conditions that exist in the region, but this it really comes down to this issue. Two theocracies will never get along.

The whole art of negotiation is changing due to these leaks. You would think that a greater transparency would be a byproduct, but there is also the result of increased security and cloak and dagger type of behavior. Then you have leaks that were controlled to either provoke a response or pass on misinformation. All this leads to a level of complexity that surely will hamper any negotiation process. Until we get to a point where the politicians and diplomats can no longer hide anything, (good luck with that) I think these leaks just muddy up the process.