Recent content by rsacks

So the judge dismissed the fine due to lack of any actual regulations on the books by the FAA that prohibits drone flights. My question is can the FAA make a regulation regarding flying drones or will it just be struck down as an overreach? Would there be a difference between someone just flying...

I am SO HAPPY that someone else loves 1776 as much as I do. Most of the time when I say that 1776 is one of my favorite movies (not just musicals) of all time people look at me strangely and say "Is that even a movie?". Fun side note on 1776, since it's most likely the DVD everyone will watch...

I'll second Firefly and SG-1. I watched SG-1 growing up (hell I remember when the first movie came out) and absolutely loved it. Plus it has MacGyver, who doesn't love MacGyver? Another one I loved and felt wasn't too tech heavy was Babylon 5. It commonly gets over looked as it was on at the...

For my public library I use it mostly to get books for leisure reading. Sometimes I go there with a specific book in mind and other times I've just gone over to a section (usually Sci-Fi or Fantasy, sometimes non-fiction if I want a biography to read) and pick something that looks good. As a...

Your West Coast plan sounds pretty solid. I spent a summer in the San Fransisco area and can tell you between the city itself, Napa and Sonoma, the abundance of national forests and the picturesque areas of the sea shore you could easily spend a week or more in that area. A group of friends and...

I reserve judgement until they post the results of the engine test. Many things look good on paper and just fail to work when you try and implement them. That said if it does work it is a very exciting development because regardless of the actual plane itself those engines are groundbreaking.

This has me excited. Even though the bill technically still exists, the fact it has been delayed means that it is likely headed for major revisions before it even sees a committee hearing again. This shows that a concerted effort on the part of ordinary netizens and websites can affect the...

"Suppose that 10^10 monkeys have been seated at typewriters throughout the age of the universe, approximately 10^18 seconds. [...] We suppose that a monkey can hit 10 typewriter keys per second. A typewriter may have 44 keys; we accept lowercase letters in place of capital letters. Assuming that...

Speaking as someone who has owned both the first and the second editions of Betrayal, I can pretty much assume that you played the 1st edition (it would have been in a red box) and not the the second edition (it's in a green box). Am I right or am I wrong? The second edition fixes many of the...

I would have to go with Scotty! Come on, who doesn't love Scotty? Everyone loves an engineer! Honorable mentions have to go to: Data, The Doctor, Picard and Q.

I have to go with one from Spaceballs: Lord Helmet: "1 2 3 4 5 that's the kind of combination an idiot would have on their luggage!" (bit of joking) President Skroob: "Do we have the combination?" Colonel Sanders: "We do. The combination is 1 2 3 4 5" President Skroob: "1 2 3 4 5...

I'm not denying that laptops can be good gaming computers, but the purpose of a laptop is to be portable and that thing looks like a BEAST to carry around (it's 3.85kg which is 8.5 pounds, that's a lot of computer to be lugging around). What's the battery life like? It's not listed and that...

Well I'll start with some advice. While Starcraft has always been on both Mac and PC, if you want new games sooner, you're probably going to have to get a PC. You can defiantly game on a Mac, don't get me wrong, but the titles take a little longer to come to Mac. As for what kind of PC you...

To answer OP's question, every other hurricane is given a male name: If you look at that, you can see that there are male names on there (Bret, Don, Franklin and so on) so not ALL hurricanes are named after women. I also feel compelled to set something else straight: While true that...

I'm going to have to disagree with you. There are plenty of medical reasons to have a male circumcised: http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/malecircumcision/infopack_en_3.pdf http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/malecircumcision/infopack_en_4.pdf These are info packets from the World Health Organization...