appropriate for here since HAL was also running on buggy software, compounded by inappropriate hardware choices and trouble caused by lying upper management.

 

lying upper management usually get ---------------

 

madfox, you are SO 20th century... nowdays lying upper management gets a golden parachute heavy enough to pop all 4 tires on your CS. it's the stockholders that get the cardan shaft...

 

off topic I know --- but you're so right on this one... Merrill Lynch loses $9Billion in sub-prime crap so 4 months ago as it was brewing and before made public they fire the CEO but he gets $160Million severance.. my broker and his asst. are so pissed.. they're slapped around if they don't cross a t and dot an i and can only suggest conservative stuff and then their CEO goes into risky (admitedly most brokers/banks did) stuff and gets a "golden parachute". I may pull a droptop/Larry deal and start a nice lawsuit! ha?!

 

From now on I'm referring to the cardan shaft as the "Cardigan Shaft". It gives me this warm & fuzzy feeling each time I imagine a shaft sportin' a cardigan. Special thanks to droptop for that one

 

you are sooo welcome. just doin' my job ma'am