Deal with that, Albert Gore.

You can schedule a call to your boss and delay sending it to voicemail until early in the morning, so you don't even have to wake up early to call in sick.

I have never done that before.

I'll take "You should have chosen Natalie Portman in a choker and bikini" for $500, Alex.

As the wrist "shakes" you get the appropriate audio and haptic responses.

All you solo artists know what I'm sayin'.

And this discovery brings my plan of toilet paper TV (TPTV) to our technological horizon... (wrings hands)

excellent.

Hey! You mean no one picked up the shuttle idea and ran with it? Hmmph.

So, this is what I'm missing by working from home, huh?
Oh well.

But, overall I give this a 0.0 on the font joke scale. These were like the "who's who" of crappy fonts... except for futura (personal favorite). How can you talk about fonts without Helvetica!? At least have Helvetica at the back of the room smoking a cigarette, wearing a pair of torn fishnet pantyhose, and a wrinkled miniskirt.

If you use comic sans... stop.

Nice! Kinda like Digg Dugg.

I'll wait til the knock-off hits Targé for $20, tho'.

Where's the wheel?

This is WEAK.

At a trade show they can say: "We've teamed together to raise the bar in performance, availability, distribution, and consumer appeal to ultimately increase our profits and stock value."

OK cool, you're a business that's what you're supposed to do.

However, what they can't do is say: "We're coordinating our efforts to box out competitors and generate ficticious positive speculation. We'll do this by using artificial means that cannot normally exist in a competitive environment in order to inflate both of our stock prices... Thank You."

Somewhere, between the two statements, is a line and they MAY have crossed it.

They're saving cash and hand-delivering a GreenBeatDown™ this year.

No seriously... Carl Sagan said it best...

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. ... To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

yeah...

you're right...

i know...

that's what i'd say...

exactly...

I'm going to be in the market in 3-4 years for another vehicle (I'm keeping my current one forever though) and they have till then to give me what I want.

So, you can argue the numbers but a car isn't just about the numbers. It's about your personal choice. No matter what you drive there will ALWAYS be something faster.

@dizzle84: I already have a 300 flavored SRT8, sorry.

But, can we just have something that has a range of about 300 miles, 0-60 in about 5 seconds, a quick recharge time, and NOT look like a cheap-ass econobox for about $40K?

I'm not knocking this concept, I'm just sayin' we might need something else in the near future.

Don't even say the Chevy Volt... GM isn't in a position to be relied upon, right now.

There's nothing like the nervous anxiety of clicking a link titled "rimshot" while at work. It's like russian roulette!

Ba dum-bump!

Hi Hoooo! Thank you! Thank you!

Its main problem is that it's prone to developing a vortex ring state (VRS) in one rotor. Apparently, a huge number of accidents with this design result in the aircraft upside down with it's nose in the ground time and time again. You can train the pilots to avoid certain actions, but the design lends itself to develop VRS. Which also gives me the sneaking suspicion, that in order to avoid VRS it can't perform certain tasks as advertised.

Maybe someone can come along and provide some info or let me know if I'm wrong, but I don't see the Osprey being expanded in the military beyond it's current mission numbers at this point. It may quietly disappear from military use. The last I heard "They" pretty much put the lid on the Osprey and won't make a decision on it's expansion until 2010. When compared to the rate of development and deployment for aircraft like the Raptor, that sounds like the back burner to me. That's just my opinion, I might be wrong... but, I don't think so.

On the commercial side... well they can sell anything, I guess.

But of course, my vote doesn't count.

As far as the pilot pool, the USMC lost some really good fixed wing pilots in the early days of this... Thing. The pool for experienced people to fly this thing must be miniscule and made even smaller by insurance needs. And, Uncle Sam doesn't give up experienced aviators, on ANY platform, easily. I still get the odd call to "see how things are going."

No thanks.

I typed:

>img src="http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6259/img1412ch1.jpg"

Voila.

Sorry to everyone for the hijack.

/help

And, don't close the image. If you need to control the size, so that it's not a screen monster, just set the limits. (Unlike me). I think they like 'em to be 450pxls on the longest side or something like that.

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Why does this feel like a commercial?