Crap Throwing Monkey

Can't be VABills. Spelling's too good. Maybe it's Stuckincincy?

And where are you getting that from? Because I KNOW it's not coming from what you linked to, because that's not what it said.

You say that as though it's a bad thing...

I think it's JSP.

If he stopped, he wouldn't be JSP.

On a plane. With snakes. I was actually explaining "Snakes on a Plane" to my brother the other day. He actually asked me "What's the movie about?" Uhhhh...it's about snakes. On a plane.

Who? What? Huh? Do we even !@#$ing care?

A few years ago, there was federal grant money granted for a study on placebos that found, and I quote, "Placebos have no effect." This doesn't seem all that much stupider, really.

I thought that was kind of...well...obvious, really.

Providian used to be reknown for that crap. Paid off the card in full...they held the check until it was a day late, then charged me a $40 late fee and interest. Paid that in full the day I got the bill...they held it again and charged me another $40 late fee. Finally WIRED them the money so they couldn't argue they didn't get it on time, and cancelled the card. They did the same thing to my brother, except they tried to charge him a $120 cancellation fee. I still get checks from the class action settlements. The bottom line, though, is that while credit card companies are scum-of-the-earth, credit card debt is like most anything else: useful if used wisely, unhealthy if abused. If you're smart about money, credit cards aren't a problem. The real problem is that too many people are stupid.

If the angle's right. Not from directly above, it would have to be imaging from a pretty oblique angle...which I don't even know if they can realistically do, as I don't know the pan limitations of their cameras. Of course there's other possibilities - signals interception (how many people talk on a cordless phone?) for example. But there's a fundamental point of law here that, if you're putting something "in plain view", privacy doesn't apply. There's nothing anywhere that says a government agent right now can't look through an open window, be it with binoculars or a recon drone. As far as I know, people in cordless phone conversations have a "reasonable expectation of privacy"...but given that they broadcast so that any yahoo with a police scanner can listen in, and that law enforcement can already cruise the streets and scan for electronic signals coming from houses without a warrant (for example; looking for the radio emissions from UV lamps used to grow pot, which has been done and upheld in court), I'd expect the cordless phone exception to disappear any day now. Really, using recon drones for law enforcement isn't going to break any legal protection that hasn't already been shredded in other decisions. There's no fundamentally new surveillence capability a Predator provides that would somehow create new abuses of legal rights.

Okay, Smeagol.

I thought about it...then realized it's a bull sh-- argument until someone defines "33% fuel efficient". I can think of three completely different ways to calculate the "efficiency" of an engine, none of which are of any importance to fuel consumption.

Satellites are constrained by orbital mechanics (unless you're Newbie). Aircraft aren't. And you'll frequently find that both time and place are important in...well, life in general.

Wait...using drones to spy on people in their homes? What, your house doesn't have a roof?

Looks like JP-Era branched out from helmet design...

You know how they're detonating it? That's a great big pile of explosives, and tough to detonate usefully (I thought it was impossible, in fact). I'm assuming the Wile E. Coyote "light the fuse and hide behind a rock" method was decided against?

Not a bad idea, Johnny, but I think you should let an adult do it.

More to the point, more firetrucks in Manhattan on 9/11/01 would not have stopped 9/11. Which illustrates the difference between disaster response and national security. The fact that the Democratic Party as a whole can't seem to fathom that difference easily demonstrates how much they're NOT the party of National Security.

Too bad that dog don't hunt...but nice try. Would have worked better if you'd transliterated into the Czech alphabet and THEN explained it.

Only if you're insane. I highly doubt the creators of Lost linked it to a Connect-Four board via a Messier object in Ursa Major. By the way, the galaxy NGC 108 is in Andromeda. If you map out the Lost numbers on a parchessi board, it has absolutely sh---all to do with NGC 108 and Andromeda.

Of course, the standard you set was "...1st rounders who never saw one single play in their careers during the regular season." So your list doesn't actually apply.

Yeah, they did. And they still do. And it's not very good. But they DO have a plan. Which is part of their problem. People don't want a plan, they want a deadline. Mostly because they've been told they're the same thing, so no deadline means there's no plan. Although that's oversimplifying, really...the real problem is one of abstract goals ("Democracy in Iraq!", "War on Terrorism!") vs. concrete ones ("Pull out by the end of this year!"), and the fact that this administration is too stupid to express anything more complex than Sesame Street.

Moulds to the Texans. Right. I'll believe it when Soprano tells me otherwise.

Erroneous? I don't see any meat in that. Hell, I also don't see how that differs much from the current administration...save I actually can find something substantial from this administration.