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New Pictures of White Knight Two and SpaceshipTwo
soldeed writes "Over at the Virgin Galactic press site, there are new pictures of both White Knight Two and SpaceShip 2 during construction for media use. After seeing them, I can't help but wonder; Gee, what's in the box?"
First post!! Mod up if you like obama.
Are you also a pilot? I concede that you may well be, but if so it's a strange omission to make.
If you mod me Overrated, you are admitting that you have no penis.
Well... I *am* a pilot (well ok, student pilot, but I am about 95% of the way through the course).
My first ever flying lesson was giving to me by a women who was certainly older than 49 and quite possibly a grandmother (I didn't ask). When you are about to take to the skies for a first flying lesson, and shortly before take off, you instructor finishes the final briefing with the phrase, "Ohh.. and here is what you do if anything happens to me up there...". You tend to notice stuff like age! :)
It is a very sexist statement, it implies that grandmothers are stupid and cannot understand complex things like computers or aircraft, and they have to be "dumbed down" in order for grandmothers to use them.
If it was phrased like this "The Macintosh is a computer that is so easy to use that even a grandmother can use it." she would take offense at that as well. I've known plenty of Mac geeks that said that very thing and then didn't seem to understand why grandmothers found it so offensive. Try taking the word "grandmother" and replacing it with a certain racial group or some other group, and that group would find it offensive as well.
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