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Ugh... I remember when Pizza Put starting selling mini pizzas to go at LAX (or was it DFW?). I love pizza, but seriously, they these pizzas started smelling like vomit after 30 minutes in a confined airplane.

Anyhow, when you bring one of these onboard, to me it smells like you used the barf bag.
Now that all the ports are on one side, I wonder if Apple (or someone else), will make a docking station for it now?
I use it for development work. There are many things that run better on Windows than Mac. Example, DVD Fab Platinum. It is the only program that will rip DVDs that all my Mac rippers won't. And it is Windows.

Now that being said, I've worked on some Mac's with VM Fusion, and I find Fusion to be better. I wish Parallels would catch up.
I've never understood this song. Why is he in prison in California for a murder he committed in Nevada? If he said "I shot a man in Fresno just to watch him die" it would make a lot more sense.
Anna Jackobsen of the Women's Wallstreet Journal has the right response.
http://www.theaviationnation.com/2007/09/21/woman-walks-through-logan-airport-with-mock-bomb/
Anna mentions the case of Rigoberto Alpizar, the guy who was shot and killed at the Miami Airport in 2005 because he claimed to have a bomb. He didn't and he died for his "stunt". Lot of people were upset with the police for killing him because (a) he was off his meds, (b) there was no bomb.

The problem with stunts like his, and hers, is that is puts security personnel in the difficult position of deciding what is a real threat and was is not. The threats are very real. Look what happened in Scotland in June. There are people who truly want to cause mass murder, and their venue of choice is airports and airplanes.

Nice to see so many people who claim they know exactly what bombs look like. I hope that you are never wrong.

She is damn lucky she is not dead. She owes a lot of people a lot of apologies.

Thank God for our krazy kanuk neighbors! I love how you guys managed to drive DirectTV nuts.

(1) DirectTV is not allowed to be sold in Canada (I don't know why... but that is besides the point).
(2) Some smart Canadians started selling "blue cards" to Americans via mail. The blue cards allowed Americans to receive DirectTV without a subscription.
(3) DirectTV goes ape s**t and demands that the Canadian blue card vendors be prosecuted for theft of services.
(4) Canadian court rules that since DirectTV can not be had in Canada, owning a blue card can not be illegal.
(5) DirectTV send home to go pound sand.


Rather than have the police do their job, they burden the public with more expense. here in Western Australia, their solution to car theft was to pass a law requiring all car owners to install demobilizers. How about instead getting the police off their asses and start busting the car thieves?

Oh yea, I forgot. The are on the take with theft rings and are too busy protecting their precious speed cameras.
I can't wait until TrueCrypt gets ported to OSX (or at least Java). It has plausible denyability, is open source, is free, and in my opinion, is the most trustworthy option out there.
Compare the countries of the world where alcohol is banned to where it is enjoyed.

Alcohol is the lubricant that makes society work. It allows people to go crazy without going insane. It gives them to liquid courage to do or say what must be done or said. It allows you to blow off steam, which frees your mind up to concentrate on more productive matters.

Most airplane crashes are also the result of a chain of events, each of which on their own would not cause the complete failure or event a problem.

Unfortunately, human error and Murphy's Law seem to mesh together perfectly.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm pretty much a complete noob when it comes to camera stuff. My wife loves to take pictures, though. So much so that she literally wore out her first point and shoot camera, and the Kodak Z712 I bought for her less than two years ago is starting to act up as well. To compound the matter, we are expecting our first born sometime next year. I fear the Kodak just isn't going to cut it any longer. What would be the best starter DSLR to get? She hates missing photo opportunities due to camera 'lag' so speed would definitely be at the top of the list. Photo quality and features would be next. Price should be no more than $800. I'm not interested in video capabilities."
 

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