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Oh, but Pan Am still exists! http://www.flypanam.com/ The trademark is now owned by Boston-Maine Airways. Maybe by 2017 they'll be big again!

http://www.flypanam.com/

Possibly this lot?

Forgive me if wrong, wasn't Amiga cursed by the BladeRunner curse? Are these the same thing?

No. You must mistake it with Atari. In "Blade Runner", we see many advertisings of companies really existing in the early 1980's, and indeed most of them went into dire troubles in mid and late 1980's. First of all, Coca-Cola entered the whole mess of the "new Coke", that even the company itself calls now "marketing infamy. And that's an euphemism, actually. Then there was Bell (antitrusted just after the theatrical release of Blade Runner), Pan Am and Atari. However, the curse seems now to be extinct. Atari returned now in big style, Coca-Cola is no longer in trouble, and even Pan Am returned (in a way). There was also one excemption from this curse - TDK (a huge TDK advertising is a backrop to the death of Roy Batty in the BR's finale grande).

So why does the NSA emplyee the most people of any goverment TLA? FBI,CIA

Because the CIA's dirty work is mostly done by private corporate contractors (Wackenhut, Carlyle, and The Curry Company are the big ones), some entertainment companies (remember MCA, now part ofUniversal Studios but I'm sure they're still active in the comunity) and an assortment of airlines (Pan Am got screwed for helping out), shipping companies (still working on tracking these), and import/export businesses (mostly furniture and lighting, some appliance). There are also some strange connections to Scientology, The Landmark Education Corporation, and The Moonies.

The CIA has been known to work with terrorist organisations to achieve thier desired objectives.

The FBI, CIA, and the DEA, also contract various crime organisations, individual criminals, and run of the mill citizens to do work for them. Often these folk have no idea who it is they are working for.

The NSA, for the most part, uses in house employees to analyze intelligence data, monitor foriegn communications, and ensure the security of comunications for the other departments and the military. In other words, they hire a lot of geeks, have some clue about the internet (they like it), and don't really mind if you encrypt your own data (security for all is more secure than security for some, plus breaking it will be a nice challenge.)

--qtp

Hereis their website. They're flying around a bunch of old Boeing 727s. Not nearly what they were many years ago, but they're still clinging on for dear life. ;)

Pan Am's Website

I live near the St. Pete-Clearwater Airport and one day I was driving by and I saw a Pan Am plane at one of the gates. I was shocked, since I hadn't seen one in years. Apparently, they have been making flights for 2-1/2 years.