They could, but since they hate you all and laugh all the way to the bank, they won't.

Heck, they even planned for a jump platform..

Sure it is.. The government has thousands upon thousands of security-clearance-required contractors, employing millions of people. These forbid radio transmitters, but doesn't forbid an internet connection. Just because /you/ don't know any doesn't mean they don't exist.

Not really. 10 years ago, I had a 250 minute package for much less than my current 450 minute package. If I count actual usage, I'm paying a lot more for voice today than I was then. Data, I'll give you, mostly cause it barely existed 10 years ago.

yeah, but the flip side is that Seattle Computer Products may have never done anything big with it, and who knows, they might have gone out of business and cost him his job. I think he probably did ok.

I think there's actually no catapult, and the plane just really wanted to GTFO of New Jersey.

somehow, that seems like a david caruso meme panel punchline.

United's card now does give you the first checked bag free.

In older versions of Windows, a very quick and almost-as-easy sequence to create a new folder is Alt-F, W, F, enter.

Yeah, the page is entitled "Need more help setting up". I'm sure the front page has a couple steps that work for 99% of people.

Except that's not Windows - it's some application. Irrelevant to this conversation. As are steps 3-5 on open McDonald's WiFi.

Had they not already passed "I", "Intrepid Imbecile" would be a great Ubuntu release name

One can hope.. This is ridiculous.

They build it on a platform which this thing lifts up. They set up the boosters first, then the tank, then the shuttle - all with big cranes in the VAB.

"Their solution?" Reuse the thing we built for the last big thing we had to move around.

Argh, pet peeve alert! "$70 billion dollars". You don't need to use both "$" and "dollars". Same thing.

one example does not quite change the facts that most apple hardware is vastly overpriced. And it's actually a lot better than it used to be; they used to gouge the everliving crap out of their customers. A computing company with a 25% margin is gouging you.. sorry.

Yeah, Bush ended the shuttles and got started on the next thing. Obama killed the next thing. The end of the shuttle program wouldn't be nearly so sad if it was to move on to newer and better projects, but instead, it's just an end.

Ah, but this has much larger volume. How many roundtrips required to equal one container ship? (yeah, it's still not very good)

They're more of a mspaint.exe regime, I think.