I still can’t believe that I just said that.

Seriously though, this “terrorist threat” is less serious and credible than my attempts to lose my virginity in high school, when I was president, and founder, of the wargaming club.

Needless to say, he’s not going to win any Republican friend, as the only issue the ‘Phants have left is screaming like a baby about terrorism.

wcbstv.com – Bloomberg On JFK Plot: ‘Stop Worrying, Get A Life’

Marcia Kramer
Reporting

(CBS) NEW YORK While questions continue to arise about the alleged plot to blow up a fuel pipeline beneath JFK Airport and surrounding neighborhoods, some are questioning why New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg hasn’t had a louder voice since the plot was foiled on Saturday.

On Monday, Bloomberg finally weighed in, but his response was not what some would have expected.

“There are lots of threats to you in the world. There’s the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can’t sit there and worry about everything. Get a life,” he said.

That “What, me worry?” attitude pretty much sums up Bloomberg’s advice to New Yorkers on the terror plot. As far as he was concerned, the professionals were on it, so New Yorkers shouldn’t let it tax their brains.

“You have a much greater danger of being hit by lightning than being struck by a terrorist,” he added.

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Specifically AT&T.

These guys are still thinking tarriff.

Save the Internet Blog » Blog Archive » Ed Whitacre: Gone But Not Forgotten

AT&T chief Ed Whitacre handed over the keys to his replacement Randall Stephenson yesterday, but not before giving a rousing pep talk to fellow executives in the company’s San Antonio board room. We just received exclusive video of the AT&T chairman’s parting speech.

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“There’s a problem. It’s called Net Neutrality,” Whitacre told the heirs to AT&T’s telecommunications empire. “Well, frankly, we say to hell with that. We’re gonna put up some toll booths and start charging admission.”

This statement echoes those made in the press by Whitacre and Stephenson over the last two years.

Despite claims of poverty whenever pressed to offer better services, these AT&T execs are privately gloating over more than $35 billion in gross profits over the last 12 months. Moreover, Whitacre (and now Stephenson) are pressuring Congress to allow them to provide privileged Web access to their customers to companies that pay them a special fee.

The phone and cable companies claim that this sort of discriminatory “double dipping” — charging both consumers and content providers — is necessary to provide the high-speed services that Americans demand. But it’s a fundamental shift in the neutral way the Internet has always worked. In essence, it takes away user choice — the most basic tenet of the Internet — and hands it to AT&T.

“Will Congress let us do it?” Whitacre asks his colleagues. “You bet they will — cuz we don’t call it cashin’ in. We call it ‘deregulation.’

Interestingly enough, Kaman has had a similar system, albeit not one with piezoelectrics, and likely with a much slower response time, on its intermeshing rotor helos for years.

Smart rotor on trial-05/06/2007-Flight International
Boeing is to test a smart helicopter rotor in a NASA windtunnel to verify the vibration, noise and performance improvements expected in forward flight with in-blade active flaps. The modified MD 900 commercial-helicopter rotor system was tested on a whirl tower in early 2004, demonstrating reduced hover vibration.

Testing of the 10.4m (34ft)-diameter rotor at NASA Ames Research Center’s 12 x 24m windtunnel in California will be conducted under a $3 million US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract. The smart-material actuated rotor was built and whirl-tested under a previous DARPA programme.

Each of the rotor’s five blades has an active trailing-edge flap

It appears that someone put one over on the BBC about possible logos for the London (2012) Olympics.

This is the image they showed. The youtube of the broadcast is below.

If you don’t know what goatse is, don’t Google it. You will never be the same.

I have seen goatse, and I’m laughing.