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No, by definition that would have to have been the De Havilland Comet. Maybe the 787 is the first airliner you've especially paid attention to the launch of, but all have had some problems--often including catastrophic loss. There were threads like this about the A380 for a while. And as I said, in the past things were far worse. As recently as the 767 several were lost with all hands early on. I worry that the hysterical reporting of comparatively minor things like the 787's problems so far (and the F35, for that matter) will obliterate all future progress, especially in aerospace. Though people are quick to jump on relatively minor foibles of potentially revolutionary cars too, like the Tesla/Leaf. (The Fisker is a POS though, I'll admit... but then it's not revolutionary either, just a really pretty and expensive Volt...) In fact, Rimchair, I'd go so far as to say that YOU and those like you, quite possibly, are the reason we still don't have our FLYING CARS! ;o) Seriously though, the constant baiting with little to nothing (other than apparent personal animosity) behind it is getting tiresome, to me at least.

What do you call a cheap male prostitute with a big dick? $5 footlong. -------

Funny video from the drag queens that did the Chic Fil A one...

So, "recovered" Zombies are a thing now? I just saw Warm Bodies the other day, kinda liked it, very funny at first...

I don't consider Argo to be that inaccurate; the opening, where they covered the root cause, in-depth, was fantastic. It's just that the drama was punched up several times, as is typical, and that it was poorly done... (I'm sure it was tack-on notes from some idiot executive--sorry, redundant--after some mouth-breather woke up at the end of a test screening and was as confused...). Very different from Zero Dark Thirty where people are led to believe that torture was a key part of finding and killing OBL...

I too hated the false, added drama at the end of Argo. And so stupidly done... let's see, I'd clearly have the authority to call the tower and ground the plane, but instead I'm going to grab my AK and jump in a truck and drive behind a 747 *at takeoff thrust*... But so many cute Hollywood references, it may be a lock.

I suppose, when they throw themselves at me, I'd deign to have sex with all of them... but Nicholas Hoult is the only one I'm especially attracted to.

I was blessed with a rather large penis. After that my local priest was arrested.

BluRay's on sale now! Then there's this: Meet the New Hunks of Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome

Very interesting. So the cops haven't figured out to just steal the dash cams too?

I was thinking about this, it's probably a city vs rural thing. As gay as the cities of California are there's a whole lot of flyover areas too. And there at least the numbers of people *identifying* as gay are much lower. Areas gays tend to escape... *for the cities*. I'd bet most major cities are 10%+, with LA and SF being much higher, of course. DC is the closest thing to a single city on that list, and may actually be one of the lower percentage cities--as the wealthy live *around* DC for the most part and the largest part of DC's ethnic makeup has a problem *identifying* as gay too...

Churches|diocese|the Vatican itself have been shown to have known about and covered for those abusers including moving them out of range of prosecution and into a new, unaware communities which has enabled several to continue their abuse.

Unfortunately some of the LAPD apparently trained by watching Police Academy instead of going to one!

It is bizarre to me how many people in Russia (seemingly ALL of them) have dash cameras. Then again, given the footage I've seen from Russian dash cams it's pretty understandable.

If you add them together, maybe. And with the dark hair... OH MY GOD THEY'RE COMING RIGHT FOR US! ;o/

Oh no, we can't mock the single greatest force for evil in the world for the last ~2000 years! Inquisition, crusades, dark ages... blessing of Hitler and Mussolini, child abuse on a massive scale (not just sexual, I believe I heard about some really bad and systemic stuff in, what was it, Irish schools?) and telling Africans not to use condoms. You're right, we shouldn't be mocking the Catholic church, we should be tearing it apart gold brick by gold brick with pitchforks and torches!

Because it is fucking HUGE. 1.8 times the size of the US, probably well over 3x if you didn't count Alaska.

I don't understand how *all* critical services can be repeatedly knocked out on these cruise ships like this. The insurance companies (the real regulation of the industry) need to fucking step in (on all future designs) and say, "You know what, a ship that holds thousands upon thousands of passengers, you're going to cut the capacity by a couple hundred and have FULLY REDUNDANT, SEPARATE engine/generator rooms!". It's really not that hard... two fuel supplies, two engine rooms, two water creation systems, two propellers and a rudder big enough to keep the ship straight when only one is turning. Circuits from each system to power critical systems like control, medical, galley, and waste handling. There are a crapload of private yachts that do this even! I think they should lose a fuck ton of money because they chose to opt for profit over basic redundancy/safety. Then there were reports of the ship having had previous troubles and setting out on this voyage anyway. I agree on these morons giving interviews about how they almost died... though then again it may be impossible to look intelligent on these kinds of news interviews--and the worst are often chosen to air. I don't think these people necessarily deserve massive payouts, but with the bullshit system of these vessels being foreign-flagged, it's probably just about the only mechanism available to punish Carnival so I hope it and the massive media black eye make them examine and reorder their priorities.

I'm so fucking tired of these stories. The studies themselves are maybe marginally useful but then some mouthbreather with an IQ in the mid-80 (at best) sounds out some of the words and makes it into a headline (Will You Survive, Will Your Family Survive... WHAT YOU MUST READ Before Your Next Drink|Egg|Coffee|ETC|ETC...) even though it contradicts the headline they published yesterday from a different study--both of which had very mild, non-definitive "conclusions", I'm sure. The one thing I *am* sure of: RESEARCH has been proven to cause cancer in rats. Otherwise, everything in moderation but there's lot of evidence that things like red wine (and coffee) are actually good for you, as long as they don't have harmful additives.

Some of my favorite comments so far: "Too pooped to pope." "Like all good Catholics, he's pulling out early."

Sadly he's probably saying "I'm so fucking fat.".

Keep in mind it was first released as free webisodes--after it sat on the shelf for over a year. That show's distribution was fucked up from the beginning. But the BluRay will have an extended cut and other special features.

Very cool, Just watched a documentary on BBCA on the first doctor that ended with the complete Aztecs episode. Was better than I expected. Wish I'd gotten the rest of the documentary series on my PVR!