<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/flipdewaf" class="quote" target="_blank">flipdewaf</a> (<a href="#20" class="quote">Reply 20</a>):<br/><i>How so?</i></font></td></tr></table> I...
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Jump to postHere's a link to a direct <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor International (PHX / KPHX), USA - Arizona">PHX</acronym>-<acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym> flight plan drawn in Skyvector. Note that it crosses through the restricted areas in cen...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DarkSnowyNight" class="quote" target="_blank">DarkSnowyNight</a> (<a href="#45" class="quote">Reply 45</a>):<br/><i>Alcohol consumption isn't th...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KELPkid" class="quote" target="_blank">KELPkid</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>which shows the actual bank of the aircraft<...
Jump to postStephen Colbert hit the nail on the head, as he so often does: <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Stephen+Colbert" class="quote" target="_blank">Stephen Colbert</a>:<br/><i>So con...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/geezer" class="quote" target="_blank">geezer</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>It's a coal fired plant, and I can tell you th...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mham001" class="quote" target="_blank">mham001</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i>You seem to misunderstand what that means....
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/casinterest" class="quote" target="_blank">casinterest</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>As such there are many ferverent b...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/threepoint" class="quote" target="_blank">threepoint</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i>They do not "have to retire" at any ...
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Jump to postThere's a DC-3 (or perhaps a C-47) out at Chino Airport in southern California. My instructor and I went over there to practice touch-and-goes once, and we actually received a switch to the parallel runway for wake turbulence avoidance.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/cbphoto" class="quote" target="_blank">cbphoto</a> (<a href="#57" class="quote">Reply 57</a>):<br/><i>Umm..you do realize FFDO's are not allowed...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jet-lagged" class="quote" target="_blank">jet-lagged</a> (<a href="#54" class="quote">Reply 54</a>):<br/><i>Their job is to fly the plane. You d...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rbgso" class="quote" target="_blank">rbgso</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>I believe there is a VFR flyway over the center ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/EA+CO+AS" class="quote" target="_blank">EA CO AS</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>but don't quite know if I can justify the ...
Jump to postNifty. I'm going to be starting flight training in June at a flight school (ATP) that requires one to have an iPad, so I'll be buying one soon.
Jump to postUnfortunately, since the article seems to have been taken down, I can only guess at the point they were trying to make. So I'll try to reframe the argument in a way that isn't "we should be able to kill infants." Mini-essay incoming... Goal: Develop an ethical theory concerning the acceptability of ...
Jump to postLet's see, how to put this delicately...
I'm sorry for the grief his friends and family are going through right now. But the country's better off without him.
No, I don't believe there's a god. The world looks pretty much exactly like you'd expect it to look if there were no god, and that's reason enough for me to think that there probably isn't one. I also agree with Dawkins's argument for why there almost certainly is no god, which funnily enough starts...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Pu" class="quote" target="_blank">Pu</a> (<a href="#59" class="quote">Reply 59</a>):<br/><i>I don't think its possible for some to categorize an...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/N1120A" class="quote" target="_blank">N1120A</a> (<a href="#45" class="quote">Reply 45</a>):<br/><i>Shultz is left. Sharpton is an oddball anywa...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Pu" class="quote" target="_blank">Pu</a> (<a href="#57" class="quote">Reply 57</a>):<br/><i>Are you sure it was in no way motivated and encourag...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Pu" class="quote" target="_blank">Pu</a> (<a href="#53" class="quote">Reply 53</a>):<br/><i>Do you consider the bombing of Dresden in WW2 the wo...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/SOBHI51" class="quote" target="_blank">SOBHI51</a> (<a href="#51" class="quote">Reply 51</a>):<br/><i>No Arafat never used Islam as a motive, hi...
Jump to postA point to consider for those who argue that Islamist terrorism is driven entirely by our intervention in the Middle East - how many Vietnamese terrorists have you heard of?
Jump to postRe: conference names, I liked this suggestion. For the purposes of NBC and televised hockey games, conference D will be called "the NHL," and conferences A through C will be called "those other teams."
Jump to postMSNBC <i>wishes</i> it could be as bad as FOX News. The latter figured out that there was a load of money to be made presenting folks with a version of the news that reinforced all their preconceived notions of the world (regardless of whether those notions had any connection to reality), and now MS...
Jump to postHere's another link:
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/Pla...uggs-Hit-by-Plane-Propeller-120511
The aircraft in question was an Aviat Husky.
American Treasury security rates are at near-historic lows. Clearly, the market still perceives the US as a very safe investment, whatever the ratings agencies may say.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Braniff747SP" class="quote" target="_blank">Braniff747SP</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i>What the hell does the Natural C...
Jump to postAnd his comment about still thinking that he would win if he had chosen to run? In other words, "I'll go to my room because I want to, not because you're making me! So there!"
Jump to postI've seen someone snarkily comment that it's because it's harder to confuse Usama with Obama. Saves the newscasters the embarrassment of misreading it.
Jump to postIt's kind of hard to see in this small version, but in the larger one it's clear that the document sitting on Hillary's computer has been pixellated:
"No, Hillary, we really don't want to see what you found in your husband's browser history last night..."
Sohaib Athar's first tweet after hearing that the helicopters were involved in taking out Bin Laden: <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quote:<br/><i>RT @ISuckBigTime: "Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LAXintl" class="quote" target="_blank">LAXintl</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>Life begins at conception, and the tinkering...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Geezer" class="quote" target="_blank">Geezer</a> (<a href="#39" class="quote">Reply 39</a>):<br/><i>I'm a huge fan of Ben Stein! I love his "cle...
Jump to postI'm not sure how "S&P warns that it might, in the future, lower US credit rating from AAA to <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym>, thus putting us on the same level of risk as Belgium, New Zealand, Spain, and Taiwan" turns into "OMG!!!!11one!!1eleven! The US might default on its...
Jump to postNegative 3.2 percent. I graduated college, moved out of the house, and started working a hair less than 6 months through the year. My parents could no longer claim me as a dependent due to my spending more than 6 months not in their household, so I got the full personal exemption and standard deduct...
Jump to postAnyone going to any games? I have tickets for Game Four of the Sharks-Kings series.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Dreadnought" class="quote" target="_blank">Dreadnought</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>You want to see personal opinions ba...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NAV20" class="quote" target="_blank">NAV20</a> (<a href="#175" class="quote">Reply 175</a>):<br/><i>But it's worth remembering that no-one other...
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Jump to postI am a Harvard alumnus.
Needless to say, I am not very happy at the moment.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/seb146" class="quote" target="_blank">seb146</a> (<a href="#106" class="quote">Reply 106</a>):<br/><i>11AM Pacific time, <acronym title="Crescen...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rfields5421" class="quote" target="_blank">rfields5421</a> (<a href="#38" class="quote">Reply 38</a>):<br/><i>But the United States has never do...
Jump to postSendai airport is completely flooded. Passengers are waiting for rescue on the roof of the terminal.
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