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0:0:0 Next weekend. Finally.

You haven't actually given us a scenario beyond "government conspiracy." So, to answer your question, yes. Now we are off topic. If you would like to continue this side discussion, please start another thread or contact me via private messages.

I hope I wouldn't let the emotions of seeing one person die endager the rest of the passengers. Unless the Egyptians are attemping the rescue, you are very likely to walk away from a hijacking. Of course, if I heard from an operator on an air phone that terrorists had already crashed planes into buildings, I hope I would put two and two together and act. This is the last I'm saying about this, as I'm afraid that I've accidentally dragged the thread away from the original topic. Feel free to start a new thread or take this up in PMs with me.

McVeigh was arrested because an alert state trooper pulled him over for driving a car without license plates, then noticed that he had a weapon in a shoulder holster underneath his windbreaker. Evidence linking him to the Ferderal Building was found in the car. If it was some grand conspiracy, Nichols have gone to the death chamber as well. Edit: I just did some research and it was 3 days after McVeigh was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon that he was tied to the bombing. I watched a lot of TV on September 11th, and I don't recall anybody in the government citing OBL or Al-Qaida as suspects. Please find me a source on this, unless the conspiracy has covered it up already. "If we give up such-and-such-right, then the terrorists have already won," is complete bullshit. In Al-Qaida's mind, they haven't won until every single person that they percieve as an enemy of Islam is dead. They could care less if the gov't taps everybody's phones, or even puts every American citizen in jail. They want us all dead. Period.

Before September 11th, I wouldn't have attacked a hijacker with a box cutter, especially if they claimed to have explosives. Most airplane hijackings end well for the passengers, and I wouldn't risk killing a plane load of people when I knew that I would likely survive if I just waited. They wanted people to know that they did it! Terrorism doesn't work if nobody knows who was responsible for the act.

Read this article, especially the first few parts. On the subject of sinking in, I've done it a bunch of times on a Skymaster 230 (9-cell with zp topskin and F-111 bottom skin) loaded at about .8 and it worked fine, landings were as gentle as always.

1996 Dodge Stratus. Got me where I wanted to go. Three weeks ago today some drunk (as in three times the legal limit) idiot ran across the oncoming lanes of a highway, climbed the median, then ran in front of me So now I don't have a car.

Just be aware that you violated eBay's policies. Sellers who readily agree to deals like that are often rip-off artists.

My favorite part is quoted below (funny/sad stuff is highlighted): Couldn't THEY "find" a high School student to "proof read" this Monstrosity for them?

Let me add: What is a single mother who lives in the inner city and makes $6.00 an hour going to do with $50,000 in cash? How about land (1-1000 acres, your call)? Seriously.

I'm craving cottage cheese all of the sudden... Damn. I can't think of anything unique about me. I did really good on my ACTs, I guess that counts.

Ditto. I've ordered a lot of stuff off of pricewatch and I've been ripped off twice. Both times the sellers had poor feedback on ResellerRatings.com.

Pulled the same muscle on the inside of both thighs running out a downwind landing. Pounded in landing uphill, couldn't kneel down for a week. Pulled on my back, got my ankle in the lines, hung upside down from the canopy. That hurt.

I read somewhere on L-B's site that Jump Track can accept SQL commands. I'm not sure how the database is implemented beyond that, but it would be wicked-cool if you could access the data (ODBC maybe?) and do your own manipulations. Graph it yourself, generate a CSV file to put into Excel, or whatever.

30 minutes of actual work in an 8 hour shift:0:0 I love my job on days like this. I covered for one break, then did work that I actually enjoy. Fixing games, showing the new guy around, hanging out with Kelly, buying a "management lunch" (on the clock, of course) with $20 in quarters that we found in an arcade game that doesn't take quarters anymore. Great day, and they offered me a big raise to come back next summer.

I assume no such thing. I was merely explaining why I thought that IronMike chose to title his post the way that he did.

I would assume that he means that they are better because if their ancestors hadn't been enslaved they would be in Africa instead of the United States. I don't think that it's a legitimate argument against reparations. I do think that reparations are a crock, if only because there is no legitimate way to calculate the economic impact to a person as a result of being a 5th generation descendant of a slave. 40 acres and a mule can't make up for centuries of racism and discrimination.

>The pilot didn't eject before the last second because he did all he could do to steer the misbehaving > plane away from the crowd. That's heroic, and almost costed him his life. There was another instance of this more recently where a pilot of an F-117A flew his plane, minus one wing, away from an airshow crowd and a bunch of houses before ejecting way low. >It's the "Aces II" the only thing it doesn't do as well as the Russian seats is the High speed ejections. I was watching a documentary about lost nukes and they were talking to a B-52 crew that had some sort of electrical failure and dropped their bombs into the Arctic (ended up through the ice and into the ocean), then ejected. The guy that they interviewed was knocked unconcious, got two black eyes from the force of the blast, then stood up his landing, under a round, on ice.

Uh-oh. The last person to mix up Tina and Anne didn't live to tell the tale.

To quote Brian Germain (completely out of context): "Long and thin won't stay in, short and fat is where it's at."

I picked up a few stories in my two semesters as a net tech for a university. * I got sent to this one Ph.D's office because I was the only one skinny enough to fit between the aisles of crap that were stacked up to the ceiling. We had been having problems with unauthorized bandwidth usage (grad students bringing laptops and using Kazaa, and whatnot) so we were collecting the hardware address of everybodies computers, giving them a static IP address, then setting up the routers to reject traffic that wasn't coming from approved IP/MAC address pairs. Well, this doctor wanted me to give him the same address for all three of his computers, and he would just plug one into the network at a time. * I had a grad student with a laptop who needed to be set up for the network. I went to get her hardware address and giver her the cable she needed. Turns out that the only had a modem, so I sent her to buy one from the uni computer place. I ended up telling her 3 times what to buy, down to the exact part number, before she bought it. Turns out she thought that her modem was a network card, and didn't want to buy a new one. * Grad student left a plugged-up sink on in a lab. Lab flooded. Computer downstairs got soaked. I got to go see if it was working. The printer powered up with no error messages, the computer booted and I could hear windows started, but the monitor didn't work. I asked the prof about it, and she said, "Yeah, I turned it on to see if it worked and it buzzed, is that bad?" Turns out that she had done this while it was still soaking wet.

I'll be there during the week some time, maybe. It's my last week at work before I head back to college so my boss is doing me a favor and giving me tons of hours, but I should be able to sneak off for a day. Lenny, how does it look for turning loads during the week? I'll still come even if I can only get on one, but I would love to get a few in the Casa (beer).

A pendant on a leather thong. (note to self: putting "leather thong" into Google Image Search isn't smart.)

In this case, thong == strap.

I think a lesson in the proper use of apostrophes (see, no apostrophe in "apostrophes," because it isn't possessive or a contraction!) is in order. See attached.