Agreed. They found out about it late but $70 million is a fraction of the cost of their upgrade. It should have been figured into the bid and no one would be talking about this now.

Come on, this is government... what'd ya expect, for them to ban it tomorrow?

You should check out his first major directing job from a studio, he did "Columbo, Murder by the Book" and in the commentary, the creators Levinson and Link said he was so young and had such a different style, the crew figured he didn't know squat and wasn't listening to him. It took a call from Levinson to get them…

I grew up up the coast in Ventura but when I went to college in LA in the late 80s, I remember how bad the smog was that first day of class on a hot fall day. I stepped outside of the dorms to walk to class and within minutes, my eyes stung and my allergies went crazy. Although I've lived in the Bay Area since 1999,…

Godzilla.

I've been to that Walmart and it IS horrible... one of the worst I've ever had the displeasure of going to. I even shot and posted a video a few years ago of a single register open with 50+ people in line, complaining, kids screaming and running around, stuff on the floor, and a half dozen employees standing in the…

If they did this with the Tu-160 Blackjack, that'd be more threatening.

And the world's loudest aircraft.

Yes, but it's far less fun to watch! ;-)

They're just pissed about Toyota moving their operations to Texas! ;-)

Mostly right, although the Coriolis Effect has little influence on such small scale vortices. The best documentation of this phenomena can be seen in the 1926 oil fire in San Luis Obispo, California.

I use them all the time... saves me from having to go fight the crowds at Costco or Target—which alone is worth whatever price they end up charging for the service. Right now, it's free.

I loved Kozmo.com when I lived in SF around 2000. I remember getting home from work late and not wanting to go out again, then ordering snacks and a PS2 game at 10:30pm... was very cool.

Might be the first time "perfect" and "Ford Tempo" were ever mentioned in the same sentence.

I have many fond memories of playing the 2600 but this game was a total POS. Do you remember how it seemed that every attempt to move ended up with you falling in a hole? I nearly threw the joystick at the TV after the umpteenth time that happened.

It was awful but I remember playing a few that (yes, it's hard to believe) were worse.

I suppose keeping a nation together and changing the course of history might have been just a wee bit stressful.

Easily the greatest infographic. Ever.

I'm a gun owner but have a feeling these will grievously kill more innocent people than some theoretical armed assailant breaking into my house.