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Only because major U.S. corporations complained, which tells you who owns congress.

It was most likely a licenced and insured pilot - looked like battery failure to me, but usually large unit (this was an X8) would have had dual batteries for redundancy. Being an X8 it would have dual motors and props, so if one failed it could still fly.

The media shouldn't blow this out of proportion - if quads are banned they will regret loosing such awesome aerial footage.

Can we get Adobe to open source the flash player plugin as well? Can anyone think of a reason Adobe continues to refuse?

Would we live longer if gravity was higher than 9.81 m/s2? I think it might be difficult to actually test this, but it is a fun question.

I would assume that registration would be free, but now that I think about it I wonder if it will be that way (or stay that way). It seems like this may be less about the "protection" of people and just another revenue source for the government.

I got hit by two of these (1/27 to Feb 4th and 6/4 to 6/22), and they were relentless. It was difficult to know where the attack originated because many proxies were involved - most inside the USA). We only managed a 62% uptime during the whole affair, many customers were upset, and it really hurt business. We ended up refunding everyone for the month and sending out a huge apology, for which many customers were understanding. Still, it hurt our business dramatically.

You get what you pay for.

I can clearly see the popular opinion (reddit/hacker news) is that marijuana is harmless. My professional opinion is different, however, and over the course of my career I have seen its affects first hand. Laugh and down vote me if you will, but the negative affects are real and damaging to youth and the research backs me up.

http://www.livescience.com/37889-marijuana-users-lack-motiva...

It is true that small amounts of pot has been legal in Alaska, but my concern is geared towards greater accessibility. Now that it is legal and will be sold commercially it will be much easier for young adults to attain. Usually the youth will steal from their guardians, just like alcohol.

I've been teaching 21 years and I can tell when a student has started smoking pot. When a young person begins smoking their grades usually drop and they do not seem to care. This may not be the case with adults, but it is VERY obvious when working with youth.

I live in Alaska as a high school teacher.

We lead the nation in welfare, alcohol abuse and fetal alcohol effects, suicide, sexually transmitted disease, credit card debt, number of women murdered, and domestic abuse.

Now we are all going to be high as a kite, too.

This does not make my job any easier.

I remember asking my father why he never drank alcohol. He said, "My dad (your grandfather) and three brothers couldn't leave it alone, so I figure I wouldn't be able to either. If you are wise you will do the same." I'm 46 and never had an alcoholic drink.

I'm a teacher and this is great practice for students learning to type. I thought a full screen mode would be helpful. I had a hard time reading the words at times.

Sounds like taxation without representation to me.

I recently at a conference and sat in on a session on 3D printing. There were several materials to choose from now, mostly plastic, but I saw rubber and a few other materials.

Sounds like the outline of a good book. I'm not being facetious, you are on to some great truths in your comments.

Perhaps iTunes 11 needs to index your library over again before the speed improves?

To be fair summer vacation is shorter in most areas than it used to be due to an extended school year. The standard used to be 180 instructional days for kids, per year but it keeps creeping up there every year teachers renegotiate their contract for a raise.

Pick two...

1. Job security

2. Job satisfaction

3. Good pay

I've never had a job that had all three, and it is really critical you avoid jobs that only give you one of these options.

This is why I hate twitter for limiting us to 140 characters. I love this quote, but the darn thing doesn't fit!

I've had luck with bulkregister.com (they have auto-renew, at least).

I registered on your site and took it for a spin - very well done.

We initially geared our site towards teachers, but later learned that wasn't the market that was willing to pay for our services. Maybe your experience will be different.

It is a slow process. About 1-2% of our customers convert to paying accounts. When we started limiting what was free it seems people stepped up to the bat and subscribed to a paying account.

Note - your prices seem very low. You could experiment with your price structure, people might value your service more than you realize.

Here is my experience:

• I took my family to see the Incredibles - cost $7.50 x $5.00 = $37.50

• I like it so much we purchased the DVD - cost $19.50

• Somehow the DVD broke, so in a fit I purchased it through iTunes - $14.95

• Lost that hard drive and had no back up - torrents save the day.

My philosophy is pixar has already made their mint on me. This one movie cost my family $71.95, and I'm not about to pay for it again.

I have a start up in the black since 2006. All three partners contribute to the code, help debug, and provide customer support. All of us work at other jobs, or independently.

Currently we use profits to pay anyone willing to work on the code and add features. It is self-sustaining, at least.

See: http://www.examprofessor.com

Comments, ideas, suggestions are welcome.

A relevant article:

http://www.newstatesman.com/200009180009

Try this: On your VCR and/or Blue-Ray hit STOP STOP PLAY. In many instances it will skip the previews and go straight to the movie.

Take a good look at the number of plugins you are already running. If you are using Chrome type in about:plugins in the URL. I think you might be surprised.

I see many people have this hate towards Flash because it is a plug-in, but what about QuickTime, Silverlight, and Java? Plug-ins exist to extend the functionality of our browsers and let's face it, HTML does not do everything.

It takes some perspective to see (gathering stats from wwikipedia.org):

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Gross Domestic Product of Top Ten Countries

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United States 13,843,825,000,000

Japan 4,383,762,000,000

Germany 3,322,147,000,000

China 3,250,827,000,000

France 2,772,570,000,000

United Kingdom 2,560,255,000,000

Italy 2,104,666,000,000

California 1,812,968,000,000

Spain 1,438,959,000,000

Canada 1,432,140,000,000

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Country External debt of Top Ten Countries

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United States 13,450,000,000,000

United Kingdom 9,088,000,000,000

Germany 5,208,000,000,000

France 5,021,000,000,000

Netherlands 3,733,000,000,000

Spain 2,410,000,000,000

Italy 2,328,000,000,000

Ireland 2,287,000,000,000

Japan 2,132,000,000,000

Luxembourg 1,994,000,000,000

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If I was to be concerned about any country it would be England. They are 6th in GDP, but #2 in external debt.

To make things simple:

• Fred has a salary of $13,843,825.00/year and buys a $13,450,000.00 house via a loan.

• Jane has a salary of $2,560,255.00/year and buys a $9,088,000.00 house via a loan.

Now, which one do you think has the potential pay off the loan early?

There are like 100 forms of asbestos with 6 types being extremely harmful. The manufactures started using the cheapest of the materials (which are extremely difficult to tell apart).

http://www.asbestos.com/asbestos/types.php

Try Alaska. I keep getting phone calls at 4 AM several times a month.

Sounds exactly like trying to launch your new startup.