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I'm rarely one to say good things about a big, multi-billion dollar corporation, but I really do think that Verizon has good service.

Before I go further, let me preface everything that follows with this disclaimer: the quality of a phone company's network depends on your area. I've been in places other than home where previous networks I was one worked amazingly, and there are places I go to where Verizon works poorly.

I live in Newark, NJ. Originally my family had one cell phone with Sprint. Sprint's service at the time was pretty good, but we had a unique situation. My father insulated our home so well that it acts like a Farraday cage; only the best phones and/or networks can penetrate the wall (although my wireless signal, for some reason, can make it to the house next door or across the street - good ol' WRT54G!). The Sprint phone only really worked near (or hanging out!) a window, or outside - and a lot of the time, not even outside.

After a few years with Sprint, my mom elected to get a pair of new phones - one for her, and one for dad. She went with T-Mobile because she had a friend who worked at a T-Mobile store. T-Mobile had pretty good customer service, but their network was godawful in my city.

Not too long after that we were off contract with T-Mobile. Another important example of Farraday cages in modern architecture is NJIT's cafeteria. For most people, you had to literally hold the phone against the glass - not just be near it - to get a text out the building. Voice calls were a no-go. (Ironically, this has rendered the cafeteria of a high-tech school conspicuously free of cell phones and the like). A similar situation existed in many dorms and older buildings. One time while I was waiting to visit a friend, I did an informal survey of the students who were hanging around in the dorm's lobby. Out of all of them, AT&T was considered to have the poorest service, then Sprint, then T-mobile, and then finally Verizon at the top. That plus my friends who used Verizon (compared to the signal quality of friends who did not) convinced me, and I convinced my mom to make the switch.

Ever since we've been with Verizon. Yes, Newark can be a shithole, but it's not so bad that someone would jack up a cell tower on concrete blocks and steal all the goodies out of it. I can't fathom how the largest city in New Jersey has such largely poor cell service. It's getting better, but if you live around here and use anything but Verizon you're gonna suffer.

I don't know if they're there all the time, but people (I don't know if they're SWAT teams or not) with M4 assault rifles regularly just stand around in some places in New York - I saw them in front of the NYSE on a few different occasions that I've been there on weekdays. It's a little fuzzy but I think I may have seen some in Washington as well.

Here's a photo of a cute girl posing with a police officer in SWAT gear in front of the NYSE, here's a photo from LIFE showing a patrol of police officers with M-14s literally just walking around on the street, and an image search along the lines of "police at new york stock exchange" will yield you plenty more.

The problem with classification is that we're basically trying to simplify a very complex system of a massive amount of variation even amongst individuals of a species into a finite set of groups. There isn't always this rather binary split between species in reality.

The problem is largely in cases like this, that species don't just diverge- through interbreeding they can converge back together again, then split, and converge and so on with varying ratios of each species involved each time which with each convergence or divergence may increase or decrease the percentage of genetic material of one or the other species.

The problem is also that historically -prior to DNA analysis - we've based our understanding on visual traits, but let me show you some pictures (in this case of cacti) to illustrate how utterly misleading this can be.

Take these two plants:

Cipocereus laniflorus:

http://www.arkive.org/cactus/cipocereus-laniflorus/image-G5064.html

and Pilosocereus fulvilanatus:

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2916062630075508785tgLHvf

They both come from Minas Gerais in Brazil, and appear very similar, and as such it made sense to group them together in the same genus. No one could really argue with this, the logic is sound. Yet, when DNA analysis came along, it turns out the genus Cipocereus is more closely related to Cereus, than it is Pilosocereus, so the plant Cipocereus laniflorus above is more closely related to a plant like this, Cereus repandus, which has it's origins 2500 miles away in Venezuela:

http://www.rarefruit.org/magicgallery05/ph05.htm

Those who had classified Cipocereus laniflorus as a Pilosocereus were then wildly wrong in their classification.

The problem that faces classification based on visual traits is that of evolutionary convergence- the species that live close in Brazil, despite having a much less close genetic heritage, both had to cater to the same conditions- the same temperatures, the same threats, the same pollinators, and in this case, evolution often just repeats the same solution. If the main pollinators in the area are hummingbirds attracted by bright purple day blooming flowers, then both plants are going to evolve that trait again, even if they're genetically different.

So you can probably see why classification based on visual traits and so forth can at times be horrendously misleading, but as you'll probably realise from my earlier point about convergence and divergence through interbreeding even the DNA records can be confusing. This is why, to this day, as far as I know, the inclusion of Homo neanderthalensis as a subspecies is unresolved. The reality is we never really had these two perfectly distinct species Homo sapien, and Homo neanderthalensis, probably through pretty much their entire period of evolution there were at least periods where them and their ancestors were interbreeding. So from there you can see that the real point is that they evolved in parallel, sometimes sharing genetic material through interbreeding and the real question is, are they genetically close enough to homo sapiens to be classed as a subspecies in that they evolved in parallel with humans and then diverged, or are they genetically distinct enough to be separated from homo sapiens altogether? It might even depend on the point at which you take your sample- a DNA sample taken from a member of the species at a period of interbreeding will likely lead you to the conclusion that H. neanderthalensis probably is just a subspecies of H. sapiens, but one taken from an individual in a population that's had no contact with H. sapiens for a few thousand years or more might lead you to a different conclusion.

I firmly believe classification based on visual traits is wrong, and a bad way to do things

http://elephantentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Apple-Fans-sticker-on-forehead.jpg

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1465996128078930360wUFpzL

but shouldn't 14 people in a single cab still be considered somewhat suspicious on it's own?

Not really. People training for the clown car trick typically practice in China.

I think it was a bike, and those 14 kids were probably wearing orange suits.

... he may as well have installed Webshots on each machine. Why is this wrong?

- Near-constant background data transfers not related to any business need. This costs bandwidth, and competes with legitimate business needs for bandwidth. School systems do not have infinite bandwidth.

- Excess cycles consumed during idle time, costing power, creating unnecessary heat load, etc. In Arizona, heatload is $$$ flying out the A/C system.

- Unauhorized software, risking compromise and potential data loss without any business need or benefit. If you are going to install software on a machine, in a school environment, you should be prepared to explain why every single application has a genuine business purpose. This causes two subordinate problems:

1. Installing unauthorized software risks damage for non-business-related causes, and cannot be excused.
2. Installing non-business-related software tends to give users the impression that they can also install unnecessary software, which has obvious implications.

However you feel about SETI, this administrator just made a serious error. Sadly, he deserves to be let go. If for no other reason, but his successor will now be scouring the system for other problems, real or imagined. Many hours of unnecessary effort, if his predecessor had just done the right thing in the first place.

Any bets on what the technology committee would have said if he proposed this to them?

ps - I doubt all the machines were left on 24x7, unless this ignat instructed them to do so. Wasteful. Sad.

Palestinians to do inhuman test on, it goes with the inhuman concentration camps they're in.

These "camps" you speak of look a hell of a lot like cities.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/fullsize/2892931020089791706gjXfOM

yeah... looks serene...

"http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/scenes_from_the_gaza_strip.html"

Palestinians to do inhuman test on, it goes with the inhuman concentration camps they're in.

These "camps" you speak of look a hell of a lot like cities.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/fullsize/2892931020089791706gjXfOM

Of course this never happens in western comics at all, it's a uniquely Japanese phenomenon not found in comics produced
by such reputable companies as Marvel, DC and the like.

I could go on... in fact, I could probably just make every letter a link and it'd still work.

Special bonus: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31045&d=1167172520

Of course this never happens in western comics at all, it's a uniquely Japanese phenomenon not found in comics produced
by such reputable companies as Marvel, DC and the like.

I could go on... in fact, I could probably just make every letter a link and it'd still work.

Special bonus: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31045&d=1167172520

If a 2 year old hands you a photo of themselves posing naked on a bear skin rug, should said 2 year be arrested for distribution of child porn and forced to register as a sex offender for the rest of their life?

Yes. And the bear too. We have too many bare bears in NJ already.

signed,
Wyoming [NJ] County District Attorney George Skumanick Jr.

If farming is so easy why are so many people starving? If they could farm they could grow their own food. Fact is is not everyone can garden never mind farm. After looking at my garden this past summer a number of people asked me to help them start their own gardens next year, and I now have brown if not black thumbs when it comes to growing plants. Among other things I lost my green thumb for gardening after an accident.

Most people, in the modern world, don't know what's edible in the wild either. Growing up in the "woods" I learned what was and wasn't edible around where I lived. For instance I used to eat pine cone nuts, seeds from pine trees growing in my backyard. When I shop in Asian food stores, I love cooking also, pine cone nuts are sold there as delicacies. Or palmettoes, the stalks can help a person stay hydrated. As can cacti.

Falcon

Photo
This is true, I've stayed in Ham.

http://family.webshots.com/photo/1304355685015913979ZgLjmr

I'm perfectly normal, and I fold proteins all the time.

Ha Ha! The name of the article's author is Vanessa Ho !

From the looks of the pic I'd say she could love you long time while even accommodating the Alabama Black Snake !

The most famous examples would be Jeanneke Pis in Brussels and Mieke Stroel in Zelzate. Of the top of my head: there's also one in Ellezelle and Dubrovnik.

Here's the famous one in Brussels

The most famous examples would be Jeanneke Pis in Brussels and Mieke Stroel in Zelzate. Of the top of my head: there's also one in Ellezelle and Dubrovnik.

"Refusal to be prepared for that sort of thing is the fault of US military leadership."

Troll, eh?

Sending soft-skinned light truck HMMWVs into urban combat works badly. They cannot surmount roadblocks and do not effectively protect their crews. (US forces at Mogadish had to be rescued by Pakistani M113 and M48s, because the US armor was left in CONUS!) Uparmoring HMMWVs for Iraq was reactive to tactics that had been used against soft trucks for DECADES.

http://www.specialoperations.com/Operations/Restore_Hope/97-0364.pdf

As for soft-skinned supply convoys (OK in open desert, not OK when channelized in cities) we had protective solutions in the form of the famous Viet Nam war gun trucks. We have them again, but they had to be fabbed locally (again) because of the collective post-Viet Nam brain dump. Good thing the enlisted folks and contractors had their act together.

VN "Iron Butterfly" truck w.box style body:
http://134.198.33.115/sims12.htm

OIF homebrew version:
http://news.webshots.com/photo/1124605382054144800oTBMQt

Livermore high-dollar version:
https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/news_releases/2005/NR-05-07-07.html

VN truck King Cobra (scroll down)
http://134.198.33.115/agee1.htm

Looks familiar!
http://www.cmvmag.co.uk/cgi-bin/news.cgi?article=040103

MRAP armored truck:
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/xml/news/2007/05/marine_mrap_070523/070253mrap_story.JPG

BTW, Israel has figured out how to carry troops into combat under far more armor than the US uses. The Israelis use recycled Russian tank hulls as the basis for the Achzarit. Might be time for us to do the same thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ly0fk1Pro

That doesn't mean people won't lick them.

Duuude... No... Actually they were wondering if Mars Cheese Castle had string cheese, since the munchies were hitting pretty fierce by then. (You just heard them talking about "Mars" out of context.) The real arguement is whether or not that it's not too far from the "Bong" sign on I-94 is coincidence or not.

Must be a Ford Perfect.

That's a lot of pictures, but this one is the most telling one:

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1292364026025974737Jrroac

Sometimes the scale of this planet amazes me. But maybe that's because I'm from the Netherlands, which is one of the most populated places in the world. It can be pretty hard to go somewhere and not meet someone (especially in Amsterdam, where I live :) ).

It amazes me, especially living in the area of endless urbania that is the Greater L.A. area, that there are still uninhabited areas so vast that a plane could crash and not be found after exhaustive searching with high-tech equipment.

Then again, there is an almost-intact crashed plane near the western (Highway 190) entrance to Death Valley, near Towne Pass, that's in plain view of the highway yet almost impossible to see unless you know what you are looking for. It crashed in the 50s; it was part of a CIA mission and lost power over the Amargosa Valley. The crew bailed out near Furnace Creek, if my memory serves me correctly, then the plane crashed in the Panamint Range to the west.

Some pics from someone who hiked to the site: http://rides.webshots.com/album/292358776FDMVRo

After seeing that on one of my outings, Fossett's plight isn't so incredible to me. Sucks to be him, but he certainly didn't live a hard knocks life prior to his demise.

Aside from stealth (the uuber-big-dick-mantra of many US fleets (stealth and raw, gas-guzzling horsepower and intimidating body lines...), why not go for civic-friendly color schemes and lines?

http://www.police.gov.hk/offbeat/698/014_e.htm

HK motorcycles are really cool-looking. Even their uniforms and helmets are cool. Even though they look like stormtroopers in some of the films.

After watching some HK crimers and actioners I have long felt that most US police departments have odiously, conspicuously, and uninspired, bland paint schemes.

See some of the PTU vehicles at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Police_Force

http://rides.webshots.com/album/554114263xHqZiV

http://www.policecar.net/

"...it would have been impossible to miss if that was anywhere near them."

They didn't miss.

Your argument seems to presume they didn't start lying to cover their asses. You also need to look at picture s s s s of a police helicopters. Note the clear windows in the floor.

You mean, "FATARITY".

Well, it could make some sense to use the DDG as a BASE for the jet-skis. Around 2003 I designed a DDG-type ship, with a boat bay in the after deck house to contain several boats, and some of them being jet-ski-sized.

The ship has a Flag/Tactical Operations Center, and its purpose would be many, but controlling and coordinating, deploying, and retrieving such boats or jet skis would be one operation.

See:

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2293082040099955914ERcKQp

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2703573670099955914AKoVzu

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2426317540099955914AzRiEa
http://news.webshots.com/photo/2750131350099955914pevxij

Heck, even the REAL DDG's in the USN inventory can't do what I designed into my ships. Of course, mine are for fictional purposes, but any real ship architects can address any oversights or fanciful stuff I probably have introduced. It's a matter of there being a mission, money, relative return on investment, and workforce costs over the vessel lifetime being addressed.

The DDG-65 class would have looked better had they been designed either more like mine, or more like the JMSDF DD-177 Atago class. Even the DD-173 class looks more intimidating than the DDG-51 flights, even with the hangars. But, the DD-177 just looks cooler, is taller, longer, and has better lines. There are claims (probably true) that the JMSDF ships are built to "commercial standards", but hell, even the USN for years has been using ABS standards, tho some ruggedization surely in place. Any missile or torpedo that can crack the ship in two will defeat any dewatering pumps, trim pumps, and more, rendering MOOT and pro-US stance some may have about hull steel specs.

Anyway, if you can, then enjoy the notional (not NATIONAL) drawings. My ships are for THE world, not for A country.

Well, it could make some sense to use the DDG as a BASE for the jet-skis. Around 2003 I designed a DDG-type ship, with a boat bay in the after deck house to contain several boats, and some of them being jet-ski-sized.

The ship has a Flag/Tactical Operations Center, and its purpose would be many, but controlling and coordinating, deploying, and retrieving such boats or jet skis would be one operation.

See:

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2293082040099955914ERcKQp

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2703573670099955914AKoVzu

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2426317540099955914AzRiEa
http://news.webshots.com/photo/2750131350099955914pevxij

Heck, even the REAL DDG's in the USN inventory can't do what I designed into my ships. Of course, mine are for fictional purposes, but any real ship architects can address any oversights or fanciful stuff I probably have introduced. It's a matter of there being a mission, money, relative return on investment, and workforce costs over the vessel lifetime being addressed.

The DDG-65 class would have looked better had they been designed either more like mine, or more like the JMSDF DD-177 Atago class. Even the DD-173 class looks more intimidating than the DDG-51 flights, even with the hangars. But, the DD-177 just looks cooler, is taller, longer, and has better lines. There are claims (probably true) that the JMSDF ships are built to "commercial standards", but hell, even the USN for years has been using ABS standards, tho some ruggedization surely in place. Any missile or torpedo that can crack the ship in two will defeat any dewatering pumps, trim pumps, and more, rendering MOOT and pro-US stance some may have about hull steel specs.

Anyway, if you can, then enjoy the notional (not NATIONAL) drawings. My ships are for THE world, not for A country.

Well, it could make some sense to use the DDG as a BASE for the jet-skis. Around 2003 I designed a DDG-type ship, with a boat bay in the after deck house to contain several boats, and some of them being jet-ski-sized.

The ship has a Flag/Tactical Operations Center, and its purpose would be many, but controlling and coordinating, deploying, and retrieving such boats or jet skis would be one operation.

See:

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2293082040099955914ERcKQp

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2703573670099955914AKoVzu

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2426317540099955914AzRiEa
http://news.webshots.com/photo/2750131350099955914pevxij

Heck, even the REAL DDG's in the USN inventory can't do what I designed into my ships. Of course, mine are for fictional purposes, but any real ship architects can address any oversights or fanciful stuff I probably have introduced. It's a matter of there being a mission, money, relative return on investment, and workforce costs over the vessel lifetime being addressed.

The DDG-65 class would have looked better had they been designed either more like mine, or more like the JMSDF DD-177 Atago class. Even the DD-173 class looks more intimidating than the DDG-51 flights, even with the hangars. But, the DD-177 just looks cooler, is taller, longer, and has better lines. There are claims (probably true) that the JMSDF ships are built to "commercial standards", but hell, even the USN for years has been using ABS standards, tho some ruggedization surely in place. Any missile or torpedo that can crack the ship in two will defeat any dewatering pumps, trim pumps, and more, rendering MOOT and pro-US stance some may have about hull steel specs.

Anyway, if you can, then enjoy the notional (not NATIONAL) drawings. My ships are for THE world, not for A country.

Well, it could make some sense to use the DDG as a BASE for the jet-skis. Around 2003 I designed a DDG-type ship, with a boat bay in the after deck house to contain several boats, and some of them being jet-ski-sized.

The ship has a Flag/Tactical Operations Center, and its purpose would be many, but controlling and coordinating, deploying, and retrieving such boats or jet skis would be one operation.

See:

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2293082040099955914ERcKQp

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2703573670099955914AKoVzu

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2426317540099955914AzRiEa
http://news.webshots.com/photo/2750131350099955914pevxij

Heck, even the REAL DDG's in the USN inventory can't do what I designed into my ships. Of course, mine are for fictional purposes, but any real ship architects can address any oversights or fanciful stuff I probably have introduced. It's a matter of there being a mission, money, relative return on investment, and workforce costs over the vessel lifetime being addressed.

The DDG-65 class would have looked better had they been designed either more like mine, or more like the JMSDF DD-177 Atago class. Even the DD-173 class looks more intimidating than the DDG-51 flights, even with the hangars. But, the DD-177 just looks cooler, is taller, longer, and has better lines. There are claims (probably true) that the JMSDF ships are built to "commercial standards", but hell, even the USN for years has been using ABS standards, tho some ruggedization surely in place. Any missile or torpedo that can crack the ship in two will defeat any dewatering pumps, trim pumps, and more, rendering MOOT and pro-US stance some may have about hull steel specs.

Anyway, if you can, then enjoy the notional (not NATIONAL) drawings. My ships are for THE world, not for A country.

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Instead of moaning about their pathetic adds web advertisers should have a look at the people that make it work. Take the fashion industry as an example. They have managed to get people to WANT to view their adds. I mean seriously, you have people sticking pictures of their idols onto the wall, yet these posters are essentially massive adds for the clothes or whatever series or music or whatever the model is related to. Hair dressers have used fashion magazines for ages, and you can bet that the fashion industry takes advantage of this.

Then you have car companies. They don't just stick a pretty model next to the Prius because of the environmental benefits you know...

Movies use trailers, games use demos, as do computer software, shampoo companies, parfumes...

Some magazines give you "2 free issues" with an easy way to continue with a subscription. Coca cola will give you all kinds of freebess with their logo on them.

Now have a look at on-line adds. Most of them have nothing to do with the content of the page they are at, they consume your bandwidth, slow down your browsing, they are generally just in the way, and in addition they are easy to filter. Gee, I can't possibly see why they don't work...

So, let me see if we can teach these people a lesson. This is how the experts do it, take a hint...
http://www.dexigner.com/detail/files/11620.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/113/311915512_e24cc8c78f_b.jpg
http://image24.webshots.com/24/2/29/70/101722970ctqgDn_fs.jpg
The following one is particularily nice ; )
http://www.shop.linplus.de/catalog/images/gentoo_girl.jpg

Personally, and I say this as a person who is not normally all that risk-averse, I've been interested in getting a motorcycle for a while, but I'm just not sure that I trust the drivers around me enough to want to ride one in the traffic where I live (DC Metro area).

I bought my first motorcycle 27 years ago. My current bike I bought new in 2003, and it has less than 500 miles on it because I just got tired of being tailgated by Explorers. On one occasion, I had a guy driving 10 feet behind me at 55, then passed me straddling the center line, forcing me to move toward the shoulder, then slammed on his brakes in front of me. I used to ride to relax, but I started to feel that I needed to carry a gun to ride so I haven't ridden in 2 years. Obviously I wasn't finding it very relaxing. I'll probably go look at a Cabrio when they are available. Too bad they won't be offered with a diesel.

I know several people who have 1st generation Smarts and they love them. The 1st gen are popular with RVers because they can be loaded sideways (less than 102" long) on the truck pulling their 5th wheel.

the most important missing piece is a way to acquire software that's as easy as going to Target.

And they get me home safely after a blizzard when my roomate with his Festiva was stranded.

6 people died near here in February.

Don't tell me what kind of vehicle I don't need.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYs7AP8UPic
http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/556944959vklPkJ
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20070110/storm_weather_070110/20070110?hub=Canad a (more were found dead later)

I know how you feel. Your needs are not taken care of and it drives you crazy.

I'll help you get your movie and because I'm a good chap, I'll give you the first one for free. Just follow this link.

Looks like he just worked around the time to get popular. It was found by me first :)

Proof. http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/1397999353 015649061QQtxAt

People have known about, and even explored, these caverns of Mars for over two decades.

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/10955124820501667 00BhIQko

The "actual" Dracula's castle is the Poienari stronghold (see http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Number =64563 and http://www.webshots.com/search?query=Poienari). Obviously, the later has less real estate value than the Bran castle...

Maybe VariCAD is advancing ground? I have yet to buy it (no money, no job...). I understand that VariCAD can read and maybe? save to AutoCAD files. Maybe autocad is just bellyaching and feeling sour grapes?

You seem to know a thing or two about CAD. Kewl. How does AutoCAD fair against Defcar?

http://defcar.com/

http://defcar.com/index_ing.htm

I sure wish Defcar were cheap enough to bring home. If I had any money, I'd sure love to professionally design my ships instead of using pencil and paper. Well, paper and pencil lend a sense of "artistry" but CAD would eliminate a lot of questions.

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heheh captcha: "wrought"... I'm thinking wrought iron or twisted objects...

In high school I made a hovercraft out of a leaf blower and an inflatable mattress. Worked pretty well, actually. http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/15382923 99060169935hsxPIY Recently I made a V8 coffee table. http://rides.webshots.com/photo/153828885806016993 5PREfKK

In high school I made a hovercraft out of a leaf blower and an inflatable mattress. Worked pretty well, actually. http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/15382923 99060169935hsxPIY Recently I made a V8 coffee table. http://rides.webshots.com/photo/153828885806016993 5PREfKK

It's photo 7 at http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20040817.htm (Prandtl-Glauert Condensation Clouds, 1st Collection). With big, high-resolution images at http://community.webshots.com/album/64801559Zbdmph (via http://www.wilk4.com/misc/soundbreak.htm

The same page provides a link to a B-2 video by Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems part of which shows the real quick formation of a Prandtl-Glauert cloud on the B-2, http://www.is.northropgrumman.com/videos/b2_tx.wmv

And here's an interesting discussion about the formation of the B-2's condensation cloud, http://www.galleryoffluidmechanics.com/conden/b2bg .htm

They are technically correct, but they just look out of place in business communication. Writing "u" instead of "you" is just one of those things.

Tell me about it, I got this external USB drive and I was looking at the instructions and I'm not sure what "u can whop the USBcable from the USB port" means... External USB hard disk manual.

In fact, we build our houses out of bricks, while Americans rebuild their wooden houses every year after the hurricane season!

All jokes about the Deathstar attack aside, I actually had the privilege of seeing this display firsthand this past year. I was attending the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Atlanta, and NOAA was showing this display with information about the 2005 hurricane season. It is quite a large display, but it has the capability of showing large amounts of data in an entertaining and easy to understand way.

Here are a few pictures of the actual display in operation...

http://community.webshots.com/album/551340290QQkDQ E/

"It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, ... striding half-naked up the steps of the viceregal palace ... to parley on equal terms with the representative of the king-emperor."

        - Winston Churchill, 1930