"Are you not entertained?!?!"

Ugh. So many people are holding carry-on luggage. It says in the event of a crash to leave that crap behind.

Going to jump in here and suggest that the "Stuff We All Get" acronym was actually an after-the-fact construct to explain the word, and the etymology of the swag bag name actually comes from the slang word "swag" which dates bag to the 1800's meaning stolen goods. Thus promotional items that you didn't pay for were…

Looks really slick. Where did you get the wallpaper artwork?

The fact that the individuals with the stolen passports don't appear to have been involved with the plane's disappearance (other than, tragically, being aboard the plane) doesn't make the use of stolen passports a non-issue when evaluating the efficacy of an organizational structure. Anyone who doesn't watch Fox News…

I'm just going to jump into the fray here and say that maybe if the acting transportation minister had some qualifications other than just being the cousin of the prime minister, both missing the passports and coordinating the rescue/recovery efforts might have gone better.

One of (many) problems here is nepotism and…

At UC Santa Barbara I knew I guy who got a BUI while pushing himself home on his bike after a party one night. (Not even on the peddles, just kicking along.) We all laughed when he told us the story, until he mentioned they still take your license for a year.

Yes! Celebrate how you see fit!

They do the "commercial" thing in CA too, but the catch is that here all pickups are registered as commercial vehicles so they can bleed some extra taxes out of you. ("Welcome to the People's Republic of California!")

I get what your are saying, but the AHM is about maintenance resource management. It doesn't mean that they can't get the same information once the plane is on the ground and then relay it back to HQ, the AHM just allows them to pre-dispatch maintenance teams while the aircraft is still airborne.

The plane's exact…

I don't care who makes it, but it should be forced to be at or below the CAFE number. Better practice what they preach.

Personally, my problem with Mr. Morgan is that he (like his conservative counterparts) doesn't want to actually discuss the issue, they just want to spout off their talking points and then lob personal attacks or attempts to reframe the other side's arguments by claiming they take a position which they do not. Often,…

"Anybody with that kind of record is going to make a mistake. I want all carpet cleaners in the tri-state district to monitor the city, county and state police on their CB. Mr. Blues is going to mess up, and when he does, he'd better pray the police get to him before us carpet cleaners do."

You could always actually schedule them out to clean up your carpets, and when they get there say you changed your mind. Either that or send them to 1060 W Addison St, Chicago, IL, 60613. I find deliberately wasting other's time to be quite gratifying.

Yeah, I really meant for people reading your comment. After I clicked "Publish" I realized that wasn't clear, but at the time was a little drunk and too lazy to fix it.

So, for anyone else reading this thread, follow Jim's advice and go look it up. It is massively huge.

Troll Level: Expert. Well done.

I just want to be totally clear about how insanely huge this thing is.

My comment was focussed toward the "what is old" part of the comment (ie: the old="dinosaur") but it came out all wrong since I apparently can't comment well.

When I saw first saw Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip 2, my mind when straight to the X-20. Sad that its funding got cut, we could have been so far ahead on the…

There are some other people in contention for Worst Passenger Ever