agreed.

the GP is being obtuse, but he's making a snarky comment that the letters in the acronym WNT are offset by one from the letters in the acronym VMS (V->W, etc). this is similar in vaguely tenuously stretch of a way to the novel (and movie) 2001 featuring the computer HAL. Wags at the time noted that HAL was a similar letter shift from IBM. That's it, nothing to see here, move along.

thanks for ruining the ending, ass hat!

what a joke snowden is. be a fighter for freedom and civil rights, then fleet to china. maybe he should talk to kim jong un? or the malasian dude? or that tajikistan guy?

you've really never heard of valet parking? like at a hotel or restaurant? that's pretty weird, dude. the appeal at the airport is you drive up to the terminal, grab your stuff, and somebody else parks it. no long term parking structure, no parking shuttle. appealing!

leave the prisoners to fend for themselves.

then why are they so fucking expensive? state finances are in the shitter, but prison and teacher perks keep going up and up. public sector unions should be illegal. can you imagine if a steelworker's union bribed the CEO to give them a soft deal? everybody would go to prison. what a joke.

before you know it, the internet is self aware. then it pirates T2, Matirx, 2001, and is inspired to choose a new path. BUT WHICH ONE WILL IT CHOOSE?

good. i hate porn and people who look at porn.

the AC's analogy fials because you could just as easily do such an act with just stopping yoru car at the airport. this whole thing is very violating because wehn you use a valet you trust that they won't mess with your stuff. if they can't do that the whole valet thing goes away. i disagree with harrier and that the problem isn't when they damage it, the damage is the breach of trust.

i would rather pay for none of it and set aside a quasi-autonomous area in mexico where we can leave the inmates to their own devices. let them buy their own air conditioned buses and make their own hospitals.

no, they're protected by the prison union which holds the state hostage, along with the teacher's union. i hope the state goes bankrupt so we can wipe their pensions off the books.

Of course the citizens are left to fend for themselves but the prisoners are evacuated in air conditioned buses.

I'll I'm saying is, I have a pretty good idea of when somebody is jerking my chain. and yes, that includes "scientists".

I think with global warming we'll find these "1 in 700" events occuring more regularly, and being more destructive. katrina, sandy, what next? the big dealio is that these are stronger than storms in the past, and overwhelm our defences that were built in a pre-global-warming world. we essentially need to go back to the drawing board and design defenses that protect us from global warming storms. face it... even if we stop CO2 emissions today (technically possible, but lacking political will), we'll feel the effects for the next 100 years. way to go industrial revolution through 1980, but suck to be us...