Actually, we are more like comets and volcanos, our stuff is explosive! Virus smirus!

>> ^GuyFawkes:

I'd like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realised that humans are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague...

Key phrase "hooked on our stuff".
Every success Microsoft has ever has has been about leveraging their monopoly and that's the entire business strategy. They "let" poor countries and poor people get away with piracy because otherwise people would turn to linux and that influx would likely lead linux to displace microsoft as the standard OS. It's the same reason they say they give away millions of dollars when really they just give copies of their crap to schools so kids will know MS as the standard. Evil evil evil company.

We went back to the house last night to inspect it. No fire or spark damage was apparent. I had all the doors and windows closed so no smell of smoke inside. After having the door open for the 20 mins we were there, the smell crept in but that's just the air. We will be going home today sometime around noon. The kids are excited though we are still on evac alert so we cannot unpack our stuff and get normal quite yet.

I expect to be back to sifting as early as maybe tonight before bed
I hope everyone has a great day!!!!

Can't wait till we finally scare all the Bad Guys into not scaring us anymore.

I think the warnings at the airport pretty much sum it up.

"Warning: Threat Level is Orange. Please don't leave your bags unattended."

As if someday, when the threat level is green or blue or whatever 'safe' is, we can all just leave our stuff laying around and no one will touch it. You can stop locking your doors, we got all the Bad Guys. Please feel free to leave stores unattended, people will just leave you the money for the things they take. We've murdered all the Bad Guys, just us Good Guys left...