Recent content by DJTorrente

I think that neither I, nor anyone, should get to decide what is "excessive" profit. After 275 years, Adam Smith (of "Wealth of Nations" fame) is STILL right. Command economies have collapsed everywhere they've been tried -- to say nothing of 100 million people slaughtered because they were...

Or it could just be naked rent-seeking enabled by restrictive government regulation. Who's this guy Occam, and why does he need a TSO'd, PMA, STC'd razor to shave?

And the other 10,000 parts of the airframe, engine and avionics? Many if not most of which cost more than $400? If I grant you a nickel per part, per day, that's $500/day cost of ownership -- $180,000 per year. Thanks for making the point, even if unintentionally.

But... "Free shipping". WINNING! :yeahthat:

I just wanted to come back to this. As was discussed elsewhere, "If the cost of your tools is keeping you out of flying ..."

Getting back to Chicken Fried Chicken...

I believe the TI-94 (?) is the model my spouse's middle school provides her math students.

I understand the historic reasons that brewed alcoholic beverages were safer to consume -- particularly after storage -- than "fresh" water. That said, in today's age of easy, cheap and abundant filtration, sterilization, and refrigeration, I'm genuinely shocked at how prevalent drinking...

This discussion charmingly reminds me of certain former classmates -- in the paleozoic era when e-mail was a communication tool, but electronic documents were not yet ubiquitous -- who, when being forced to provide a 2-page resume to make it readable and not a block of microscopic text, would...

By that you mean "F*@&ed up"?

Would you want to face anyone who just watched you do that?

About 120 miles. [But that's not what's important now.]

But did the client know that she was waiving privilege by disclosing the communication before doing so? It may often be a waiver all the same, but better if it was an informed and knowing one.

African or European?

"Trespasser" == Someone unauthorized on the tracks; They stopped train traffic to protect the Amtrak Police while they investigate. Why not fly?