Crap Throwing Monkey

Really? You mean...it's complex? Finknottle. you misled me!

40% stronger than what? When? Under what conditions?

I think the Antarctic laser discussion was the first domino in the chain that led to Newbie being banned...so yeah, there was a point...

I lock the doors so I don't get ejected in an accident. I also lock the steering wheel so I don't go careening out of control. But I leave the hood and trunk wide open, so that if I have to do any emergency maintenance I can get to it that much more quickly.

Flight suit! Nose pick! Cabra story!

It's all about SDI, man...SDI and Antarctic-based Chinese anti-satellite lasers...

I remember Velveeta. And the opposition, too.

In the meantime, four million Palestinians are screaming for all Americans and Jews to be killed... Collective punishment is morally wrong, counter-productive, and surprisingly common.

Build a foolproof language, and I guarantee you a fool will pop up here and find a new and different way to completely butcher it.

I'll advise you the same as I advise everyone: Give it to me.

But we don't make simple spelling mistakes here. We only make egregiously complex spelling mistakes...

Then explain to me the point of his questions. Please. I really, really want to know what the !@#$ the point was of asking. May as well post "Do you like cheese? How about swiss?", as meaningless as his questions were...

Market's been up as much as 100 from the open today. That puts it 400 off its 12-month high, and 600 over it's finknottle-bear market low. So fink...how should my portfolio be rebalanced now? For a bull or bear market? Or should I just light up a stogie, kick back, and admire the fact that my US Steel is up 10 in the past three weeks since you wondered what the all-important market was doing?

Yes, and yes. So !@#$ing what? Is there a point to asking this, or is this just some sort of verbal masturbation on your part intended to waste everyone's time considering random stupid questions again?

Actually, it's almost exactly unlike that.

Now there's something you don't always see in an obit...

Hey, there was nothing wrong with 90210 that couldn't be easily fixed by throwing a brick at the TV and picking up a good book...

Well, that would go a long way towards explaining your excretory problem then...

No. Most people don't use their brain cells anyway...may as well put them to good use somewhere else...

You people don't need me anymore. Make up your own Honda Fit joke here...

He's the anti-Sue.

Actually, "estimated" is the wrong word to use. The engineering staff calculated a failure rate of around 1 in 100. Management overrode the engineers and guessed the failure rate would be around 1 in 100000. And therein was Feynman's beef about it: the shuttle managers used absolutely no empirical evidence or methodology, they just made sh-- up as they went along. Their risk assessment was non-existent, and their risk analysis was criminal ("Well...the o-ring leaked last time, and the shuttle didn't blow up...so a leaking o-ring's not a problem!") And THAT particular symptom has gone away. For Challenger, shuttle management was wilfully ignorant - they specifically chose not to understand the technical risks, and ignored the empirical reality right in front of their eyes. Now they have a much better understanding of the technical risks - they just choose to ignore them, or prioritize them as acceptable. Which, actually, I find perfectly reasonable...as long as the people whose asses are on the line (the astronauts) have the absolute final say. If the shuttle commander says "Yeah, we recognize a risk of dying...we want to go for it anyway" that's one thing. If a project manager in an air-conditioned office in Houston says that, that's entirely different. My reliability factor is fairly accurate because it's from memory off the top of my head. I could calculate it, using the same methodology NASA engineers do, and it would be dead-on accurate regardless of management stupidity...because it's a technical measure, not a psychological one. The shuttle has about a 96% technical reliability, plus or minus two. When I get back from lunch, I'll put three decimal points on it for you...

Turns out that no one was actually injured...they were just Italians...

Hard to say (RICO's a B word-mother of a law), but it looks like section 1962 says his family can keep the money, just so they stick it in a CD or T-Bills. But I could be wrong...RICO's tough to comprehend at the best of times. Given the breadth and complexity of the statute, though, and the myriad opportunities it presents for abuse...I'm pretty sure RICO provides a legal justification for invading Micronesia over the Enron collapse... I don't like RICO. Can you tell?

Sadly, both parties choose not to...