Personal Submarine Cruises SF Bay

LandSonar writes "Graham Hawkes, the guru of the submarine design business, tried out his new submersible sea plane yesterday in SF Bay. Called the 'Deep Flight Aviator'. Article and cool pictures. This craft doesn't use ballast like traditional subs. Flys more like a plane. 'It looks like something NASA might build or the Blue Angels might fly.'"

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Looks good

[Anonymous Coward]

For a first post

Re:Looks good

[Anonymous Coward]

*Nelson voice* Hah Hah! *end Nelson voice*

Re:Looks good

[Anonymous Coward]

Weiner dogs kick your ass.

Very impressive young man

[Anonymous Coward]

Still no extra Raiders tickets.

A news article from SF about this:

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=267317

Cruising the Castro, You Mean

[Anonymous Coward]

Out there is a mesh t-shirt and chaps. You go boi!

I can't be doing this!

[Anonymous Coward]

First underwater post!

What the hell is wrong with Slashdot?

[Lethyos]

Lately, Slashdot's moderation system has been horribly broken (mismatch of scores reported to me versus what's in the actual thread) and doing any kind of a submit takes several retries and usually takes minutes to complete.

What's going on here! This sucks!

Re:What the hell is wrong with Slashdot?

[Anonymous Coward]

taco and his cronies are a bunch of whores. there's more microsoft ads on /. now than any other vendor

pretty soon they'll be hosted off iis.

retards... they should write a book on taking shitting things and making them bad

Re:Damn!

[Anonymous Coward]

I believe JFK jr. was experimenting along these lines...

Re:Is it safe? bloody tampon licking pussy bitch

[Anonymous Coward]

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am writing to express my concerns about Lord Commander "Buttfucking Little Boys" Taco and, more specifically, his sermons regarding flagitious blockheads. First things first: If we are to show principle, gumption, verve, and nerve, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive ideology, not by the stolid and dangerous ideologies that Lord Taco promotes. Of perhaps even more concern is that he is the embodiment of everything petty in our lives. Every grievance, every envy, every paltry ideology finds expression in Commander "Buttfucking Little Boys" Taco. His idea of phlegmatic Comstockism is no political belief. It is a fierce and burning gospel of hatred and intolerance, of murder and destruction, and the unloosing of a lackadaisical blood-lust. It is, in every sense, an unruly and pagan religion that incites its worshippers to a repressive frenzy and then prompts them to glorify the things that everyone else execrates. No matter what else we do, our first move must be to educate everyone about how Lord Taco doesn't shower often enough. That's the first step: education. Education alone is not enough, of course. We must also drive off and disperse the malign nobodies who recruit and encourage young people to play on people's conscious and unconscious belief structures, just as older drug dealers use young kids to push drugs. What's interesting is that he wants a central organization for his international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other countries -- a haven for humorless porn stars and a university for budding horny purveyors of malice and hatred. Lord Taco vehemently denies that, of course. But he obviously would, because he likes to place frightful New Age lowbrows at the top of the social hierarchy. Such activity can flourish only in the dark, however. If you drag it into the open, Lord Taco and his buddies will run for cover, like cockroaches in a dirty kitchen when the light is turned on suddenly during the night. That's why we must punish Lord Taco for his brain-damaged slurs. In a broad-brush sense, his pronouncements are misleading and deceptive. But it goes further than that; the ethnocentrism "debate" is not a debate. It is a harangue, a politically motivated, brilliantly publicized, discourteous attack on progressive ideas. Lord Taco's fixation with snotty riffraff is voluble. Now that that's cleared up, I'll continue with what I was saying before, that his musings are as troubling as his insistence that all major world powers are controlled by a covert group of "insiders". To pretend otherwise is nothing but hypocrisy and unwillingness to face the more unpleasant realities of life. Lord Taco claims that his magic-bullet explanations epitomize wholesome family entertainment. Well, I beg to differ. He wonders why everyone hates him. Apparently, he never stopped to think that maybe it's because his announcements are a blatantly obvious and cleverly orchestrated script, carefully concocted to pilfer the national treasure. You may have detected a hint of sarcasm in the way I phrased that last statement, but I assure you that I am not exaggerating the situation. In the end, the most telling thing is that Lord Taco should work with us, not step in at the eleventh hour and hog all the glory. Next time, Lord Taco, you may want to check your facts correctly. He has never satisfactorily proved his assertion that genocide, slavery, racism, and the systematic oppression, degradation, and exploitation of most of the world's people are all thoroughly justified. He has merely justified that assertion with the phrase, "Because I said so." Irrespective of one's feelings on the subject, his "compromises" all stem from one, simple, faulty premise -- that he is a model citizen. Until we denounce those who claim that Lord Taco's wheelings and dealings are Right with a capital R, Lord Taco will continue to force women to live by restrictive standards not applicable to men, as if it made any difference. Although the moral absolutist position is well represented by social and political activists and undoubtedly influences legislators and policy makers, it has been brought to my attention that he is not known for interpreting facts rationally or objectively. While this is unequivocally true, many people who follow his writings have come to the erroneous conclusion that doing the fashionable thing is more important than life or liberty. The truth of the matter is that I, hardheaded cynic that I am, am not trying to save the world -- I gave up that pursuit a long time ago. But I am trying to carve solutions that are neither counter-productive nor soulless. One argument Lord Taco makes is that he is a martyr for freedom and a victim of revisionism. That's just plain nonsense. The truth is that he functions not as a social critic, but as an unoriginal imitator of the ruling ideologues. I mean, think about it. It's easy for armchair philosophers to theorize about him and about hypothetical solutions to our Lord Taco problem. It's an entirely more difficult matter, however, when one considers that he plans to twist the truth. He has instructed his vassals not to discuss this or even admit to his plan's existence. Obviously, Lord Taco knows he has something to hide. My usual response to his hijinks is this: I would very much like to see him crawl back under the rock he slithered out from. However, such a response is much too glib and perhaps a little ridiculous, so let me be more specific. If this letter did nothing else but serve as a beacon of truth, it would be worthy of reading by all right-thinking people. However, this letter's role is much greater than just to prescribe a course of action. Unsettling as that is, the more infuriating fact is that prudence is no vice. Cowardice -- especially Lord Taco's stentorian form of it -- is. Isn't it true that failure to analyze the hotheaded -- and what one can term only evil -- underpinnings of Lord Taco's put-downs will propound ideas that are widely perceived as representing outright antiheroism? If that's not true, tell me why not. This moral issue will eventually be rendered academic by the fact that people tell me that Lord Taco's memoranda run contrary to even the most cursory observation of the real world. And the people who tell me this are correct, of course. There are no two ways about it; in asserting that his principles are not worth getting outraged about, he demonstrates an astounding narrowness of vision. The whole premise of Lord Taco's ploys is false, and his arguments are specious at best. I want to give people more information about Lord Taco, help them digest and assimilate and understand that information, and help them draw responsible conclusions from it. Here's one conclusion I certainly hope people draw: Lord Taco thinks we want him to reduce social and cultural awareness to a dictated set of guidelines to follow. Excuse me, but maybe if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. The poisonous wine of absolutism had been distilled long before Lord Taco entered the scene. Lord Taco is merely the agent decanting the poisonous fluid from its bottle into the jug that is world humanity. Now, lest you jump to the conclusion that he acts in the public interest, I assure you that if he gets his way, I might very well run around like a chicken with its head cut off. As stated earlier, Lord Taco is addicted to the feeling of power, to the idea of controlling people. Sadly, he has no real concern for the welfare or the destiny of the people he desires to lead. He claims that everything is happy and fine and good. I feel that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that Lord Taco's older nostrums were headlong enough. His latest ones are honestly beyond the pale. Lord Taco has stated that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. One clear inference from that statement -- an inference that is never really disavowed -- is that he is a perpetual victim of injustice. Now that's just slatternly. We must stop defending the coldhearted status quo and, instead, implement a bold, new agenda for change. We must stop the Huns at the gate. And we must take steps toward creating an inclusive society free of attitudinal barriers. Please join me in incorporating these words into our living credo.