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I guess you don't care that "For all intensive purposes" should be "For all intents and purposes" either.

But I do care... "For all intensive purposes" should be "For all intents and purposes"

I agree. As a matter of fact, the fact that a house or building is blurred-out will likely attract more attention from someone browsing Street View. This is similar to the fuss Barbara Streisand made about aerial photos of the Malibu coast that happened to include her house. The more noise she made about it, the more people flocked to the net to find out what the fuss was about. Thousands upon thousands of more people saw pictures of her house than ever would have had she just ignored it.

I'm waiting for Godwin's Law to kick in at any moment...

Goncalves is Portuguese, which is technically not "Hispanic". Many ignorantly group it as such, but all Federal employment forms I've encountered track is as European extraction. So what's your point?

Yes, that's true, but from what I understand the HTC units can change the 3g frequency in firmware. Have not yet seen any hacks to enable 3g on AT&T though.

Puleeeese... A user then pays broadband charges to get dialup speed if he/she is found guilty? I'm sure AT&T will love that. For that you could just go to any of the $5/mo dialup providers... why continue to play with the company that dumped you?

5 or 10MB? I haven't seen anything of that capacity since the original IBM PC XT. Not even a school would take that except to put in a museum. Don't you mean 5 or 10GB?

Actually.. Juan Trippe of PanAm pushed the double-decker concept. Boeing didn't want to do it. Joe Sutter, was the lead designer on the Boeing 747. From the Seattle PI: "Juan Trippe was double-decker-happy," Sutter recalled. Until the day Sutter invited Trippe and other Pan American executives to check out a double-decker mock-up Boeing had constructed. Boeing boss Bill Allen took Trippe and his party up to the top of the mock-up. Sutter stayed below -- way below. Sutter wanted Trippe to try an emergency slide that had been set up from the upper deck. Trippe refused and quickly came back down the shaky stairs. Trippe was then taken to single-deck mock-up with the wide cabin that would become the hallmark of the 747 interior. "He walked into that wide single-deck mock-up, and he didn't say a word," Sutter recalled. "But you knew that was the way he wanted to go." There was one last visit that day, to a mock-up of the cockpit, which would be situated above the main cabin. For aerodynamic reasons, Boeing had created a large empty space just behind the cockpit. It would become the 747's signature hump. Sutter recalled that Trippe turned to John Borger, a Pan Am engineer, and asked what the space was for. Borger replied that it could be used for crew rest, Sutter recalled. "This will be for passengers," Trippe replied. Sutter was against a full double-deck 747 design for two main reasons. He was worried about slide interference with the wings from the upper deck in case of an emergency evacuation. And the two-deck design would leave little room for the 747 to carry a lot of cargo in its belly.

I can guarantee that the FAA will not let the owner 'skip' maintenance. Servicing (annuals) are mandated by the FAA and they are far more stringent than anything a car must go through. Since this vehicle is treated like an airplane, it must have follow the same service and inspection regimen as an airplane, otherwise you won't be allowed to fly it (legally). All the people who purchased the Terrefugia are pilots and/or former aircraft owners. They know this. Aircraft are maintained to a much higher standard than automobiles. Much of the private aircraft fleet is >30 years old and still airworthy... this is due to stringent inspection requirements. Engines are overhauled at mandated intervals and major parts are swapped when they hit their useful life. I have a 30 year-old Grumman Tiger that is easily in better shape than the typical 5 year-old automobile. The average yahoo will not be able to fly a Terrafugia. The true everyman aircar is still many years away.

I've now seen other articles with pictures of the certificate and it is the new "credit card" style. It's true that you can look up airman info on the FAA database, but it will not divulge the certificate number. If it has address, vitals and matches his certificate number as verified by the FAA, I would say it's genuine or a very sophisticated hoax.