And lets not even get into Hollywoods portrayal of skydivers and skydiving. Hollywood actually gets programmers, gun-wielding bad guys, and urban car-chase scenes more accurate than skydiving. Blech.
Who needs "The Bachelorette" or "Joe Millionaire" when we can sit back with a steamed latte and watch seven humans streak through the sky like Haley's Comet?
Still, the inevitable question for the history books is: Which Space Shuttle disaster looked cooler on television, the one in 1986 or Columbia's flameout?
The edge probably goes to the 1986 Challenger disaster because the close-ups were much crisper. You could practically imagine the horrific screams of unbridled terror from girl astronaut Dr. Sally Ride as she watched her space perm singe like a botched Martha Stewart recipe.
Today's Columbia astronauts were a bit less media savvy since they chose a location two miles above the country bumpkin state of Texas to exact their suicide. The images of their demise were barely photogenic. Instead, all we get are blurry jet trails that look like they were hastily formed by a skywriter who just downed five espressos.
How will America handle its collective Shuttle angst? Burger King will be asked to pull its "flame broiled" ads off the tube for a few days. And Cher will be instructed to cancel all her concerts since this diva's voice will remind anyone listening of the final shrieks an astronaut makes just before the after burner produces a new snack food: NASA
Crisps.
Talk about Shuttle Diplomacy blowing up in Bush's face. This bird dropping occurs on a mission that includes a Jewish scientist from Israel. The Chosen People have more to fear from U.S. aeronautical lubricity than Yassar Arafat.
Before NASA scrubs all future missions, the agency needs to find a way to "turn the frown upside down" through a masterful stroke of public relations genius.
Our solution: Hire Neil Sedaka as official NASA spokesperson.
After all, his signature song is: "Breaking Up is Hard to Do."
CBS phone people are such morons. I recognized Captain Jank's voice almost immediately. If news stations are going to be over-eager to talk to "eyewitnesses' without fact checking, it is their own fault. REPORTING101, check your facts, don't sensationalize.
With an external entity, contractual terms of delivery will twist their arms into fixing severity 1 problems with the urgency that they deserve regardless of whether the fix is the best possible coding / architectural solution for the overall Postgres project.
Ok, ok, enough already. This is the second time in an hour that I have said to myself "Fuck, why don't I have moderation points right this fucking second?" and "Why can't I have an infinite number of 'Humorous' moderation points?"
Phew...looks to me like yet another Microsoft-Slashdot contract ("conspiracy") to bring loads of traffic to Hotmail site...
You would think that slashdot users would be smart enough to realize that this is May sweeps. Slashdotting hotmail during sweeps will only increase their ratings.
You don't need foreign keys to maintain referential integrity. A proper GUI, among many other things, can enforce this anyway. It is a nice feature, but definitely not needed in a well designed system. Further they slow down performance and I have seen projects where they are not used because of this.
Anyone want to bet that this guy is a FileMaker Pro Database Developer?
The second plane was shown crashing in. From the outline of the plane in the video, it was a Boeing 737 or 727. Midsized twin-engine jet, full of fuel.
This is (was) the scary part. Have you ever seen JetA (Jet Aviation Fuel) burn? Talk about a hot, quick fuel source. This shit is scary in small amounts.
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And lets not even get into Hollywoods portrayal of skydivers and skydiving. Hollywood actually gets programmers, gun-wielding bad guys, and urban car-chase scenes more accurate than skydiving. Blech.
Thanks. I now have the same kind of nasty migrane headache that I had when I first learned about recursion.
Still, the inevitable question for the history books is: Which Space Shuttle disaster looked cooler on television, the one in 1986 or Columbia's flameout?
The edge probably goes to the 1986 Challenger disaster because the close-ups were much crisper. You could practically imagine the horrific screams of unbridled terror from girl astronaut Dr. Sally Ride as she watched her space perm singe like a botched Martha Stewart recipe.
Today's Columbia astronauts were a bit less media savvy since they chose a location two miles above the country bumpkin state of Texas to exact their suicide. The images of their demise were barely photogenic. Instead, all we get are blurry jet trails that look like they were hastily formed by a skywriter who just downed five espressos.
How will America handle its collective Shuttle angst? Burger King will be asked to pull its "flame broiled" ads off the tube for a few days. And Cher will be instructed to cancel all her concerts since this diva's voice will remind anyone listening of the final shrieks an astronaut makes just before the after burner produces a new snack food: NASA Crisps.
Talk about Shuttle Diplomacy blowing up in Bush's face. This bird dropping occurs on a mission that includes a Jewish scientist from Israel. The Chosen People have more to fear from U.S. aeronautical lubricity than Yassar Arafat.
Before NASA scrubs all future missions, the agency needs to find a way to "turn the frown upside down" through a masterful stroke of public relations genius.
Our solution: Hire Neil Sedaka as official NASA spokesperson.
After all, his signature song is: "Breaking Up is Hard to Do."
Wasn't the Washington Post the newspaper that posted online that the shuttle landed safely?
Funny, the Moderators didn't seem to agree.
On the good news side, columbiadoneblowedup.{org,com,info,tv,biz,net,org} are all available.
When in doubt, change the definition.
First post: travel == movement from point a to point b
Second post: travel == scalar miles
Umm, excuse me. The space shuttle nominally takes off from Kennedy Space Center and lands at KSC. Exactly how is this "travel" as you define it?
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And damit don't burn the french fries again.
Admit it, you only pulled up this whois record because your attempt to purchase the domain failed.
And of course NASA uses old, proven technology like the Pentium.
CBS phone people are such morons. I recognized Captain Jank's voice almost immediately. If news stations are going to be over-eager to talk to "eyewitnesses' without fact checking, it is their own fault. REPORTING101, check your facts, don't sensationalize.
And this is bad how?
F - U, everyone who is anyone knows that philips is far superior.
Isn't this LDAP?
Ok, ok, enough already. This is the second time in an hour that I have said to myself "Fuck, why don't I have moderation points right this fucking second?" and "Why can't I have an infinite number of 'Humorous' moderation points?"
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Damn, damn, damn
Forget the DropZone ride, just find a Drop Zone and go for a Skydive.
With a name like Doobie, he has to be up to no good. Go Apple!
I, also, am am posting from a comcast connection. Hopefully you are right, and comcast has been preparing for this scenario.
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I avoid the email account hassles with a @pobox.com account.
BTW, I find it interesting that my @home email account is still able to get spam from att.net
http://spamcop.net/sc?id=z26596551zc68cf4030d51
Anyone want to bet that this guy is a FileMaker Pro Database Developer?
No, no, no . . . you got it all wrong. The winner will be in C#