(If the link breaks, the book is Merriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage)
In summary: While impact as a verb has been around for a long time, it was not until the '80's that it began to be used in business and political contexts as a buzzword substitute for 'affect'. The above reference notes that impact (v) is often used in contexts that are already jargon-heavy, and I think that is what people object to: That a word as empty as 'actionable' or 'synergy' is being used in newspapers, book reports, and conversation. To many of us it just sounds wrong. It falls in the same category as 'irregardless', which despite the protests of millions of anal-retentive etymologists, will likely be a fully fledged OED-certified word within a decade.
People use grandiloquent language in unnecessary or inappropriate contexts. That is really at the heart of the matter.
lite homie ain't irregardless lol conversate phat wigger gaydar
My point being that m-w is a descriptive rather than prescriptive dictionary. It's a dictionary for figuring out what a word means in popular (or unpopular) use rather than figuring out whether a word is the *right* word according to scholastic tradition.
Choose your side, but impact (v) makes my teeth grind in the same way that gift (v) does.
The way I understand it, people are upset about editorial shows (like Beck's) playing a part in the shows that do purport to report on news. On slashdot it frequently gets pointed out that a story based on, for example, a blog, are actually based off a wiki article whose only reference is the blog that referenced the wiki. Circular.
I think many people see Beck's (and others') incendiary comments as a gateway for the news branches to report on topics that no reputable source would touch. So they can use the commentator as their 'sources say' instead of a journalist.
Now I don't know if NPR, CNN, et al do the same thing because I don't listen to them. If they do, that sucks. As for larry king- I've only seen his show a few times and as far as I can tell his show consists of interviews with people saying whatever it is they want to say (and with no reports of microphones being turned off). So King's show, I think, counts as a primary source. It would be news to report that so-and-so said this thing during an interview with larry king. It would not be news to report that 'some people' have been saying that this or that happened, because 'some people' might work for that network. Hey, if the 'liberal media' pull those stunts too, they should be called on them.
If I squint my eyes real hard this whole thing looks like a big game. The problem is that it isn't a game, it's a business, and it has real effects in local and global politics.
I didn't vote for Obama or Franken, for the record.
This being slashdot, I think people might assume that taking the time to *ask* who Glenn Beck is instead of spending 10 seconds on google qualified you as someone with an agenda.
Is wikipedia- but not slashdot- blocked where you work?
But you know he's getting on their nerves when they refer to his time slot (rather than him, you know, he's "he that shall not be named") as being not actual news. Which is funny, since it's not positioned as such in the first place, any more than are, say, Keith Olbermann or Diane Rehm.
Well that's funny, because I was under the impression that those people's faces are featured prominently on Fox's broadcast advertisements for their quality NEWS.
ETFE is self-cleaning like most fluoroplastics (teflon et al.)
Probably the fire dept.
The panels would likely be pillow-shaped inflated cells; I can't imagine that 'panels' would fall out but if they did it would likely resemble a large plastic bag floating to earth.
Domes don't kill people, thousands of tons of built-up snow accelerating towards the ground kills people.
You're ignoring the weight of the dome itself. I would imagine that the actual upwards load would be far less than your estimate. Also, since the pressure inside the dome would be higher than ambient (in order to keep the dome inflated), your math with the temp differential and air pressure needs revision. I'm not saying there would be no upward load at all, just that it would be far less than 16,000 lb/lin ft.
There are many examples throughout history of people starving to death in a matter of weeks; unless every one of those people were emaciated to begin with, I'd be willing to bet that they died with some fat in their bodies. You just don't burn enough calories sitting in a cell to lose 6-25% bodyfat in two weeks.
I went and looked up google.qa and it looks like there are now links to english google. Search results, although they are aligned on the right side of the page, appear to be mostly in english now. I wonder if this has anything to do with me being in minnesota right now.
That happens to me when I'm in Iraq or Qatar. The google homepage is displayed in arabic and the search results are in arabic, even when my query is in english (on an english keyboard). Changing the language settings was nearly impossible because, if I am remembering this correctly, the localization settings were in arabic without the usual flags to show which setting would be english, which was german, etc. I can discern many foreign spellings of 'english', but spell it in a different alphabet (arabic) and I'm lost.
Other little things are frustrating- for example, going to www.wunderground.com from iraq will change all your weather data to metric. I know that's not google's fault, but it's an example of ip/location assumptions gone haywire. I wish there was a setting in the browser's pref pane that could tell websites what language/default location you wanted.
So to say that the UK version is better because it has a fuse shows me a lack of understanding of practicality or safety.
I had a nice long response to this but a f$%^&ing network error ate it so here's the cliffnotes version:
My outlet and circuit breakers are rated at 20A. Most of my devices will fry above 1-5A (think wall warts and stuff). The fuse will fail gracefully while the breaker happily supplies current up to 20A.
Since I've had in-device fuses save my ass more than once without tripping a breaker, I'd say there is more to fuses than you say. The breaker doesn't know what's plugged into it.
Murderers waive their right to be treated as I wish to be treated by grossly violating the social contract.
It is right to be moral because that benefits us, i.e, causes us pleasure or prevents pain. This can be demonstrated empirically or subjectively.
The human experience is not binary. The nature of man is to have more than one facet to be judged on- one can be a murderer and still pay the bills on time and not abuse children. The inquiring murderer problem introduces a fallacy, namely that the C.I. strictly forbids lying. It does not. It forbids lying in order to hurt someone since we as individuals would find it hurtful if we were lied to in turn. A philosophy does not need to be one sentence long. I think it is perfectly acceptable to say, "Do not lie to your peers to cause harm or cause them not to achieve their goal of happiness as long as it does not hurt others. Lie to a criminal attempting to commit a crime because the gains of his work would be lost to the pain and suffering of others, that is to say his goal is the pain and suffering of others. In other words, knowingly helping someone to violate the C.I. would be the same as violating it yourself."
Like I said before, human experience can not be summed up or ruled by a series of internally consistant logical syllogisms. As long as there is disagreement about anything among humans, our best moral compass will still be flawed and imperfect. If you have a perfect guide for being good, along with a reason to be good, please share it.
I've gone through all this in college and every single unit began with reasons that the philosophy being studied was right and ended with all the reasons it was completely wrong and unworkable. I left philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, and comparative culture (which touched on cultural ethics) with the feeling that philosophy has hit a dead end. That until we admit to our jaded, post-modern selves that: we are little better than animals and we just need to find a way to live together long enough to reproduce like the rest of the world; that morality, love, beauty, hate, etc are all artifacts* of other, deeper instincts that, yes, are basically useless now; we are not programmable machines, perfect or otherwise, at least not with today's technology... all the academic posturing and arguing about what makes right right and moral moral is close to useless in a world ready to ignore it.
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*artifact in the same way that the will to live continues even in a solitairy, maimed creature that is now sterile and cannot possibly bear young; or in the way that our ideas about beauty might change if our eyes worked like a dog's eyes, or a bee's eyes- we work within our constraints and should admit to ourselves that if we could see ultraviolet, or control our serotonin, our lives would be very different.
You should read up on Kant's categorical imperative. I am an atheist and it is the closest thing to a written rationale for a universal morality that I can find. Here's a link:
There are many, many commands (programs) in the bash shell that I've never used- probably I never will. And the same goes for the programs in various (gui) linux distros.
But all that is beside the point since tfa was about oem's installing crap over the standard windows install; since apple is their own hardware supplier, it's hard to draw a line between MS shipping with IE and then Dell adding google desktop vs apple shipping with both safari and spotlight to begin with.
My definition of crapware is software that starts at boot or login, which wastes my time, and (especially) trials that pop up reminders unbidden. Antivirus is terrible for this. In that respect, apple does so-so: nothing except finder, daemons, and a 'would you like to tour os x' stuff starts on login , although in all honesty startup is slowed tremendously by the slow-ass HDD's apple uses in even their pro lineup.
One thing I would like to add here is that one time when i bough a mac mini for a friend from best buy, it came loaded with a bunch of best buy crapware loaded on it. I still don't know to this day if that is stand from BB or if I somehow ended up with a display mode. Either way, I had to reinstall os x twice to get it all off (the first time I messed up and chose upgrade or something instead of wiping the drive).
After I read your list of safe states I thought there might be a correlation between snowfall and driving safety- I didn't see MN, WI, ND, SD, MT, AK, or CO (heavy snowfall/ice states) in your list. So I looked around and found this:
It looks like there is more to this than just snow, since several of the safest states have pretty decent snowfall. I did notice a stricking lack of 'warm' states on the safe list; with the exception of GA, none of the states that are mostly or wholly in the tan "less than 8 inches" band across the southern US made it onto the list.
shows that most of the safer states have fairly low population densities (NJ being the exception). More specific maps showing population centers would be helpful. However, many of the 'less safe' states also have very low population densities as well.
Perhaps there's an actuary here on/. who could tie all this together?
Well, I wasn't in the military at that point, so I can't give you a first-hand account. And, frustratingly, a cursory google search yields conspiracy blogs and more conspiracy blogs.
The simple fact of the matter is that things happened too quickly, with too much at stake, and with too little information, for norad to first scramble jets and second shoot down civilian airliners. After the attacks, air traffic was shut down and the only planes in the sky were military. Once they knew kind of what was going on, all flights were halted in order to prevent more attacks. You have to remember that up until that point, hijacked aircraft just didn't do stuff like that; 9/11 was the day that we learned that we couldn't treat hijackers like we had for the last 30 years.
Scrambling jets is kind of a big deal; shooting is a huge deal; shooting citizens is the kind of thing that destroys a country. Now I wasn't there, but I live under the legacy of that day, and I have to say, honestly, that whether those planes hit their targets or were shot down in time- either way- this country would be in the same mess it's in now.
As for my base- we were on alert that day and every other day, and we continue to be on alert. We've been on alert since 1947 and everyone, I mean everyone, wishes they could have been there to stop things on that one day.
But like I said, I wasn't there that day. I was a cook.
We also intercepted a russian bomber near alaska last winter. We were tasked with air security over mpls during the last RNC and that resulted in some scrambles.
Most of the alert standbies and practice scrambles go unnoticed around here. The only reason this event made the news was that it involved a commercial airliner, which means that it ranked right up there with runaway brides and missing children as far as the media are concerned.
And while I don't think we've ever intercepted anything near L.A., we've stood alert in iraq, D.C., florida, panama, curacao, hawaii, and alaska (just in recent memory). It's entirely possible that we could get sent to stand in temporarily for another base's alert; it happens pretty often.
-b
(oh and this is all public knowledge; whenever I talk about my job some AC starts in with how the black helicopters are going to come get me...)
(Just for your own information) We were on alert standby throughout the event; that is to say, we knew about it and kept in contact with norad and the mpls atc, and our pilots were suited up. Had a scramble been declared, we probably would have intercepted the airliner within 20 minutes unless Madison got there first. Wouldn't be the first time this has happened.
The OP is probably talking about the iso you can buy in spray bottles; you can get plain and wintergreen scented. I see it used for cleaning gym equipment all the time. It's not expensive; I think I've seen it for around $2.50-$3.00 for 20 oz. I go through 98% iso at work by the gallon ($20-$30/ gal).
I would much rather watch a new film than one I've seen before.
Ah, but I assume you are not a child aged 2-11. Disney's movies get played over and over in households with small children. Over and over. Disney would make a fortune selling per-view subscriptions to families. Over and over. Did I mention that kids watch the same movies over and over?
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This is the best reference I could find online:
http://books.google.com/books?id=2yJusP0vrdgC&pg=PA527&lpg=PA527&dq=impact+verb&source=bl&ots=nYuWplC-18&sig=zBL49rmzJPvQ27YAYYe1HjcLyTI&hl=en&ei=K9r5SsGaB5GAMreixNgK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CBsQ6AEwCTgU#v=onepage&q=impact%20verb&f=false
(If the link breaks, the book is Merriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage)
In summary:
While impact as a verb has been around for a long time, it was not until the '80's that it began to be used in business and political contexts as a buzzword substitute for 'affect'. The above reference notes that impact (v) is often used in contexts that are already jargon-heavy, and I think that is what people object to: That a word as empty as 'actionable' or 'synergy' is being used in newspapers, book reports, and conversation. To many of us it just sounds wrong. It falls in the same category as 'irregardless', which despite the protests of millions of anal-retentive etymologists, will likely be a fully fledged OED-certified word within a decade.
People use grandiloquent language in unnecessary or inappropriate contexts. That is really at the heart of the matter.
-b
Other words in m-w:
lite
homie
ain't
irregardless
lol
conversate
phat
wigger
gaydar
My point being that m-w is a descriptive rather than prescriptive dictionary. It's a dictionary for figuring out what a word means in popular (or unpopular) use rather than figuring out whether a word is the *right* word according to scholastic tradition.
Choose your side, but impact (v) makes my teeth grind in the same way that gift (v) does.
-b
No, I wasn't trolling.
The way I understand it, people are upset about editorial shows (like Beck's) playing a part in the shows that do purport to report on news. On slashdot it frequently gets pointed out that a story based on, for example, a blog, are actually based off a wiki article whose only reference is the blog that referenced the wiki. Circular.
I think many people see Beck's (and others') incendiary comments as a gateway for the news branches to report on topics that no reputable source would touch. So they can use the commentator as their 'sources say' instead of a journalist.
Now I don't know if NPR, CNN, et al do the same thing because I don't listen to them. If they do, that sucks. As for larry king- I've only seen his show a few times and as far as I can tell his show consists of interviews with people saying whatever it is they want to say (and with no reports of microphones being turned off). So King's show, I think, counts as a primary source. It would be news to report that so-and-so said this thing during an interview with larry king. It would not be news to report that 'some people' have been saying that this or that happened, because 'some people' might work for that network. Hey, if the 'liberal media' pull those stunts too, they should be called on them.
If I squint my eyes real hard this whole thing looks like a big game. The problem is that it isn't a game, it's a business, and it has real effects in local and global politics.
I didn't vote for Obama or Franken, for the record.
-b
This being slashdot, I think people might assume that taking the time to *ask* who Glenn Beck is instead of spending 10 seconds on google qualified you as someone with an agenda.
Is wikipedia- but not slashdot- blocked where you work?
Just trying to help you out.
-b
But you know he's getting on their nerves when they refer to his time slot (rather than him, you know, he's "he that shall not be named") as being not actual news. Which is funny, since it's not positioned as such in the first place, any more than are, say, Keith Olbermann or Diane Rehm.
Well that's funny, because I was under the impression that those people's faces are featured prominently on Fox's broadcast advertisements for their quality NEWS.
-b
ETFE is self-cleaning like most fluoroplastics (teflon et al.)
Probably the fire dept.
The panels would likely be pillow-shaped inflated cells; I can't imagine that 'panels' would fall out but if they did it would likely resemble a large plastic bag floating to earth.
Domes don't kill people, thousands of tons of built-up snow accelerating towards the ground kills people.
-b
>>16,000 lb lift per peripheral foot.
You're ignoring the weight of the dome itself. I would imagine that the actual upwards load would be far less than your estimate. Also, since the pressure inside the dome would be higher than ambient (in order to keep the dome inflated), your math with the temp differential and air pressure needs revision. I'm not saying there would be no upward load at all, just that it would be far less than 16,000 lb/lin ft.
-b
There are ways of starving to death even with a full stomach. One example is so-called 'rabbit starvation':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation
There are many examples throughout history of people starving to death in a matter of weeks; unless every one of those people were emaciated to begin with, I'd be willing to bet that they died with some fat in their bodies. You just don't burn enough calories sitting in a cell to lose 6-25% bodyfat in two weeks.
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Since there's no report of flu in the Virgin Islands [...]
Dude, get with the times. Ever since Chuck Norris went there, they're just called "The Islands."
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Sorry to reply to myself-
I went and looked up google.qa and it looks like there are now links to english google. Search results, although they are aligned on the right side of the page, appear to be mostly in english now. I wonder if this has anything to do with me being in minnesota right now.
-b
That happens to me when I'm in Iraq or Qatar. The google homepage is displayed in arabic and the search results are in arabic, even when my query is in english (on an english keyboard). Changing the language settings was nearly impossible because, if I am remembering this correctly, the localization settings were in arabic without the usual flags to show which setting would be english, which was german, etc. I can discern many foreign spellings of 'english', but spell it in a different alphabet (arabic) and I'm lost.
Other little things are frustrating- for example, going to www.wunderground.com from iraq will change all your weather data to metric. I know that's not google's fault, but it's an example of ip/location assumptions gone haywire. I wish there was a setting in the browser's pref pane that could tell websites what language/default location you wanted.
-b
It would mean at most a day or two of no beam before things got started again.
No beam today. Beam tomorrow. There's always a beam tomorrow...
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So to say that the UK version is better because it has a fuse shows me a lack of understanding of practicality or safety.
I had a nice long response to this but a f$%^&ing network error ate it so here's the cliffnotes version:
My outlet and circuit breakers are rated at 20A. Most of my devices will fry above 1-5A (think wall warts and stuff). The fuse will fail gracefully while the breaker happily supplies current up to 20A.
Since I've had in-device fuses save my ass more than once without tripping a breaker, I'd say there is more to fuses than you say. The breaker doesn't know what's plugged into it.
-b
Murderers waive their right to be treated as I wish to be treated by grossly violating the social contract.
It is right to be moral because that benefits us, i.e, causes us pleasure or prevents pain. This can be demonstrated empirically or subjectively.
The human experience is not binary. The nature of man is to have more than one facet to be judged on- one can be a murderer and still pay the bills on time and not abuse children. The inquiring murderer problem introduces a fallacy, namely that the C.I. strictly forbids lying. It does not. It forbids lying in order to hurt someone since we as individuals would find it hurtful if we were lied to in turn. A philosophy does not need to be one sentence long. I think it is perfectly acceptable to say, "Do not lie to your peers to cause harm or cause them not to achieve their goal of happiness as long as it does not hurt others. Lie to a criminal attempting to commit a crime because the gains of his work would be lost to the pain and suffering of others, that is to say his goal is the pain and suffering of others. In other words, knowingly helping someone to violate the C.I. would be the same as violating it yourself."
Like I said before, human experience can not be summed up or ruled by a series of internally consistant logical syllogisms. As long as there is disagreement about anything among humans, our best moral compass will still be flawed and imperfect. If you have a perfect guide for being good, along with a reason to be good, please share it.
I've gone through all this in college and every single unit began with reasons that the philosophy being studied was right and ended with all the reasons it was completely wrong and unworkable. I left philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, and comparative culture (which touched on cultural ethics) with the feeling that philosophy has hit a dead end. That until we admit to our jaded, post-modern selves that: we are little better than animals and we just need to find a way to live together long enough to reproduce like the rest of the world; that morality, love, beauty, hate, etc are all artifacts* of other, deeper instincts that, yes, are basically useless now; we are not programmable machines, perfect or otherwise, at least not with today's technology... all the academic posturing and arguing about what makes right right and moral moral is close to useless in a world ready to ignore it.
-b
*artifact in the same way that the will to live continues even in a solitairy, maimed creature that is now sterile and cannot possibly bear young; or in the way that our ideas about beauty might change if our eyes worked like a dog's eyes, or a bee's eyes- we work within our constraints and should admit to ourselves that if we could see ultraviolet, or control our serotonin, our lives would be very different.
You should read up on Kant's categorical imperative. I am an atheist and it is the closest thing to a written rationale for a universal morality that I can find. Here's a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative
The summary, from the wiki page:
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
-b
There are many, many commands (programs) in the bash shell that I've never used- probably I never will. And the same goes for the programs in various (gui) linux distros.
But all that is beside the point since tfa was about oem's installing crap over the standard windows install; since apple is their own hardware supplier, it's hard to draw a line between MS shipping with IE and then Dell adding google desktop vs apple shipping with both safari and spotlight to begin with.
My definition of crapware is software that starts at boot or login, which wastes my time, and (especially) trials that pop up reminders unbidden. Antivirus is terrible for this. In that respect, apple does so-so: nothing except finder, daemons, and a 'would you like to tour os x' stuff starts on login , although in all honesty startup is slowed tremendously by the slow-ass HDD's apple uses in even their pro lineup.
One thing I would like to add here is that one time when i bough a mac mini for a friend from best buy, it came loaded with a bunch of best buy crapware loaded on it. I still don't know to this day if that is stand from BB or if I somehow ended up with a display mode. Either way, I had to reinstall os x twice to get it all off (the first time I messed up and chose upgrade or something instead of wiping the drive).
-b
After I read your list of safe states I thought there might be a correlation between snowfall and driving safety- I didn't see MN, WI, ND, SD, MT, AK, or CO (heavy snowfall/ice states) in your list. So I looked around and found this:
http://maps.howstuffworks.com/united-states-annual-snowfall-map.htm
It looks like there is more to this than just snow, since several of the safest states have pretty decent snowfall. I did notice a stricking lack of 'warm' states on the safe list; with the exception of GA, none of the states that are mostly or wholly in the tan "less than 8 inches" band across the southern US made it onto the list.
This map of population density:
http://www.census.gov/popest/gallery/maps/popdens-2008.html
shows that most of the safer states have fairly low population densities (NJ being the exception). More specific maps showing population centers would be helpful. However, many of the 'less safe' states also have very low population densities as well.
Perhaps there's an actuary here on /. who could tie all this together?
-b
Well, I wasn't in the military at that point, so I can't give you a first-hand account. And, frustratingly, a cursory google search yields conspiracy blogs and more conspiracy blogs.
The simple fact of the matter is that things happened too quickly, with too much at stake, and with too little information, for norad to first scramble jets and second shoot down civilian airliners. After the attacks, air traffic was shut down and the only planes in the sky were military. Once they knew kind of what was going on, all flights were halted in order to prevent more attacks. You have to remember that up until that point, hijacked aircraft just didn't do stuff like that; 9/11 was the day that we learned that we couldn't treat hijackers like we had for the last 30 years.
Scrambling jets is kind of a big deal; shooting is a huge deal; shooting citizens is the kind of thing that destroys a country. Now I wasn't there, but I live under the legacy of that day, and I have to say, honestly, that whether those planes hit their targets or were shot down in time- either way- this country would be in the same mess it's in now.
As for my base- we were on alert that day and every other day, and we continue to be on alert. We've been on alert since 1947 and everyone, I mean everyone, wishes they could have been there to stop things on that one day.
But like I said, I wasn't there that day. I was a cook.
-b
You don't need to be an employee of the game studio for it to be commerce.
If you pay blizzard for a WoW account, and then you use that account: Commerce.
You buy games using Steam: Commerce.
Hell, paying for porn on the internet counts as commerce.
Who is the gov't to decide that doing a batch upload of tps reports to india is more important than buying music on amazon on my sickday?
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The best quote I've heard about that:
"Atheism is a religion the same way *not* collecting stamps is a hobby."
-b
Per the summary:
More than half of the 22 battery fires in the cabin of passenger planes since 1999 have been in the last three years.
Why not just say, "12 fires have been started in planes in the last three years"?
Well, I've been deployed a good part of the year so I don't know about every time this has happened, but I was here for this:
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/04/06/f-16s-scrambled-stolen-canadian-plane-lands-in-missouri/
We also intercepted a russian bomber near alaska last winter. We were tasked with air security over mpls during the last RNC and that resulted in some scrambles.
Most of the alert standbies and practice scrambles go unnoticed around here. The only reason this event made the news was that it involved a commercial airliner, which means that it ranked right up there with runaway brides and missing children as far as the media are concerned.
And while I don't think we've ever intercepted anything near L.A., we've stood alert in iraq, D.C., florida, panama, curacao, hawaii, and alaska (just in recent memory). It's entirely possible that we could get sent to stand in temporarily for another base's alert; it happens pretty often.
-b
(oh and this is all public knowledge; whenever I talk about my job some AC starts in with how the black helicopters are going to come get me...)
Minnesota Air National Guard here-
(Just for your own information)
We were on alert standby throughout the event; that is to say, we knew about it and kept in contact with norad and the mpls atc, and our pilots were suited up. Had a scramble been declared, we probably would have intercepted the airliner within 20 minutes unless Madison got there first. Wouldn't be the first time this has happened.
-b
The OP is probably talking about the iso you can buy in spray bottles; you can get plain and wintergreen scented. I see it used for cleaning gym equipment all the time. It's not expensive; I think I've seen it for around $2.50-$3.00 for 20 oz. I go through 98% iso at work by the gallon ($20-$30/ gal).
Cheaper than whiskey :)
-b
I would much rather watch a new film than one I've seen before.
Ah, but I assume you are not a child aged 2-11. Disney's movies get played over and over in households with small children. Over and over. Disney would make a fortune selling per-view subscriptions to families. Over and over. Did I mention that kids watch the same movies over and over?
-b