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Comair Done In by 16-Bit Counter
Gogo Dodo writes "According to the Cincinnati Post, the Comair system crash was caused by an overflowed 16-bit counter. Perhaps Comair should have paid for the software upgrade to MaestroCrew." You heard it here first...
Great news. Now that $8/hr mouth breathers get to treat everyone like a terrorist, it's good to know that infrastructure is incredibly fragile and built like shit so that the economic effects are more or less the same. Maybe we should apply some of that you're-a-terrorist mentality to the people who run the fucking airlines...?
Nah!~ let's just fuck with the customers.
All Hail Maximus Primate Bush!
You're spreading a lot of misinformation.
95% employment is considered "full employment" laregely because on average in this country several precent of the workforce chooses to be unemployed at any given time. They quit for something better, move towns, go to school, have kids, etc. It's called "frictional unemployment". There are jobs available, but people are busy doing other things. When employement gets higher than 95%, wages take of and inflation spirals out of control, as it did in the 80s. Look up "unemployment" on Wilkipedia for more information.
Also, the prison populations have at most a 1.5% effect on unemployment numbers (less than 0.7% of total population), so you're full of shit there too.
Basically, you need to stop using Spin Magazine as your primary news source. Buy a subscription to The Economist or something.