I'm not a morning person and all my kids are grown so I don't care if it's dark in the morning.
And I don't care if it inconveniences anyone else. My opinion is that it's better to have more daylight later in the day and my opinion is the only correct one.
I've even seen the text of the bill and they didn't hide any BS in it, like $17.3 billion to study the migratory habits of pygmy hunters in the Australian Outback or some dumb crap like that...
The executive director at the research center I work at was a former Army Colonel. Anytime ANYONE suggests cannibalization of any of our equipment to make something work he gives them a stare that could melt steel...
He does NOT like his logistics messed with.
I think it was Mark White that it happened under...I'm pretty sure the jump was in 1986 - my freshman year.
Still...I look back and think about how fucking cheap tuition was and shake my head.
I thought that was the case, too.
I'm a fan of the Azores. My folks met there. My Dad and I went about 7 years ago and it was an amazing trip. It's such a beautiful place.
As I posted earlier, that twitter headline is not accurate.
This is from the actual article:
I'm so shocked that a twitter headline would be inaccurate...or, maybe, misleading.
Back at my last company, I was flying out to the Singapore Airshow. I wanted to fly Emirates. Was going to be sweet in Business on the A380. I'd done it on a previous trip to Dubai and it was amazing.
But, as I was booking my $4500 ticket, I got a phone call to travel. I wasn't allowed to fly Emirates - I had to fly an American flagged flight due to the Fly America Act. I protested because it was an IR&D program I was working on but they told me no and were pissed that they hadn't stopped my earlier flight.
So...instead, I ended up booking a business class flight on AA...ticket was $11.5K...yep, $7000 more and way worse.
But, it was a marketing program so they think money grows on trees I guess.
I'd say that the APS study is probably a tad biased, but that's because I used to work in the industry and think some of their conclusions aren't 100% correct...but, I will agree that we do NOT have any system in place to even remotely handle a large scale nuclear attack by ANY country.