I'll bet someone didn't. Military contracts are Cost+, someone probably got a bonus.

Try for a store card, like a Jared, Kay, Macy's, etc. I have never seen anyone get turned down for one. Buy a few hundred dollars worth of stuff right after opening the card, pay it all off and keep a 0 balance for a whole year (make sure to buy stuff every once in a while though, this helps to increase your score).…

I did both Space Camp and Aviation Challenge in Huntsville. As a kid nothing else compared to those two weeks of pure epic.

Remember wobble girl?

I think pollyannacowgirl meant, there are 1,000+ kids that go to that highschool every year. The spill happened in the 70s, so why did it take 30+ years to affect about 50 people? And those that were affected, why was it while they were attending the school, not years later like most other developed diseases due to…

Between the cost of shipping round trip, plus whatever he is charging for the service. I think I will just continue to buy the good stuff and just sip slowly.

Site is usually on a virtual machine that gets nightly backups using Veeam, Acronis, BackupExec, ArcServe, etc etc etc. Site goes down, admins start a full machine restore. Depending on the VM size and the backup media the site is restored in about 1 hour or less. Annoying yes, but easy to do.

The simplest way is to get your airline's frequent flyer credit card and start living on that. Also shopping with their partners online.

I never said I only fly first. When I fly for myself I fly coach because I can't afford to fly first either. However my post was more centered around the fact that if you buy the absolute cheapest fair to get from point a to point b you aren't allowed to complain. Yea things used to be better when tickets were more…

Have you taken a look at the average airline pilot salary these days? The pilots, crews, ops, and maintenance staff have all already had their pay slashed as far as it can go. The average FO with less than 5 years in the airline is lucky to make more than $26,000 a year (there are exceptions, but we are assuming some…

But they really aren't. If you can qualify for the Amex (which wasn't hard to do) you get Sky Club access, and as long as you maintain silver medallion status, or buy a first / business class ticket you get sky priority access. Flying like the 1% isn't hard to do if you show one particular airline loyalty. And the…

Its actually protection of IP, and helps to prevent poaching. These companies just having "gentlemen's agreements" regarding not stealing talent from their competitors just enforces what you agreed to when you took on the job and signed your NDA and Non-Compete agreements. Hell I am a sysadmin and have had to sign…

Meh this is fairly standard of a lot of industries, it just isn't something that is discussed. Not to mention that a lot of those employees would probably be breaching their non-compete agreements by going from say Apple to Google.

Here is the thing I don't understand. You all sit and bitch about how "This sure aint Pan Am" whenever you get on a flight due to the cutbacks and extra fees associated with flying these days. Yet you are completely unwilling to pay for anything more then about $250 for a standard coach seat on a domestic flight.…

I fly delta all the time and have no issues, why? Because I am a Delta Platinum Amex holder. I fly with sky priority meaning i get through all lines including security faster (and don't do the body scanner), I enjoy the free drinks at the Sky Club in just about every airport (and it is all mid tear and up stuff), and…

The reason they are limiting the collection to 888 pieces is because the titanic was 888.5 ft long. Kinda makes sense for a titanic themed limited edition cufflink.

Usually yes. People feel that the subject of the picture / painting should be centered because it looks more "correct."

Similar to art where things shouldn't be centered, however when non artists look at something that has amazing composition they reply with "it looks off balance"

So you want Google to sell their jets because 8 jets for 3 people is too much and they should have spent that money on feeding starving kids in Africa? Well why don't you learn a bit more about how the privet aviation ecosystem works before making statements like that.

Kodak and Xerox may be dieing, but they did do a lot of good for small business in the area. Maybe not directly, but the last two jobs I have taken were at companies who were owned by previous mid/high level Kodak management who saw that the old guys in the board room were too out of touch to do anything with a good…