This is the best advice I think I've ever read on Slashdot. It's on point, it shows both intellectual and emotional understanding -- it's great.

In short, please ban this guy. He's really screwing up this site for the rest of us.

Yep, exactly -- great example. I've spent a lot of time in and around retail systems. An apparel manufacturer I worked for for a few years would routinely issue 15,000 new SKUs *every season*. It was actually only about a hundred or so different garments, but between all the different different sizes and colors the SKU count just zooms up.

A separate SKU (stock-keeping unit, a fancy term for "part number") will exist for each sellable configuration of a product. Saying that there will be "five or six" SKUs could easily mean only two separate models, say a 7" and 10" with three memory configurations each.

Exactly right. Best comment of the whole bunch. Wish I had mod points.

Grumman hasn't been in NYC since 1920, Chance-Vought was never in NYC, nor was Fairchild or Sikorsky. Lots of cities in the US "bristled" with aviation pioneers. Houston (a city I've only visited; I don't live there) contributed so much more to the concept, development, and operation of the US shuttle program than NYC it's just ridiculous.

The only argument you make that's relevant is that NYC will get a lot more visitors than Houston. That's not a reason that makes me happy that NYC got selected over Houston, but at least I understand it.

How the fuck do you decide that NYC gets a shuttle instead of Houston? That's so screwed up I don't even know where to start. What the hell has NYC contributed to the shuttle program (or anything to do with space)?

I was wondering when somebody would finally bring this up. What the OP's boss is proposing -- if he's asking them to work 10 hour days without additional compensation -- isn't just a bad idea: it's illegal.

Applause. Nicely said.

The "right" question is "how much is it worth to take the first few steps to insure the long-term survival of the human species?"

We've got to go physically into space to do that, and there is no substitute the for the experience we've gained with the entire space program from the first baby steps to the current ISS mission.

Both movies: entertaining and fun (especially Star Trek).

This discussion? A complete waste of human life.

This fellow has been a busy beaver -- besides the 'click' regulation, he's offered up a bunch of other "important" legislation. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d111&querybd=@FIELD(FLD003+@4((@1(Rep+King++Peter+T.))+00635))

This is the first imagery collected from the bird; it's no surprise at all that there is a little bit of band-to-band misregistration at first. This will be corrected over the next several weeks as calibration activities progress.

If you've ever had the chance to spend time with early imagery from a bird, you'd know that this image looks fantastic for an early collection.