GA is a different world, they don't have 50 million dollars of avionics and computers to fly for them.
I'm in Alaska so we have GA accidents all the time and some military (the C-17 and Blackhawk near Palmer), those GA accidents are almost always weather or pilot error.
But since the black box talk isn't going to apply to GA or military, I didn't bring small planes into this.
Yes, because having a flight crew sit in silence or only talking about approved cockpit topics for hours and hours on end will really help their ability to deal with that 1 in 10,000 emergency when it pops up.
The vast majority of aircraft accidents take place under 10,000 feet, where they are recorded and can only talk about aircraft business.
Where are you going to get all the satellite bandwidth for this? Hell the agency with the biggest budget and most expensive planes, the United States Department of Defense, doesn't do this with their combat or transport aircraft.
For the 40-odd UAV orbits they are nearly tapped out for satellite bandwidth.
Do you know what commercial pilots do up there in the cockpit on jets?
I have four close relatives who are commercial pilots for major airlines and I've jump seated (before 911) three times. Once the business end of takeoff is taken care of, they set the auto-pilot keep an eye on the gauges and wait. Aircraft are so automated now there is nothing at all to do unless there is weather or a mechanical issue and mechanical issues are few and far between.
My cousin who has been flying CRJs and Airbuses for the last 10 years has never had a mechanical issue pop up. So they watch movies on shifts, one watching the plane and one watches a movie or surfs the web.
Unlike trucking where there is traffic, changing road conditions and ever pressing deadlines, in a cockpit there really is nothing to do but talk about hot pieces of stewardesses.
Do you want everything you say and do at work logged every day?
Really? Air France Flight 447 just falling apart in the sky going 537 mph at 35,000 is from a human failure? US Airways Flight 1549? Emirates Flight 407?
No, humans aren't the cause of all crashes, a chunk of them yes, but not close to "pretty much always".
Checking that out and looking up the causes of the accidents you'll see human error by the flight crew is a cause of some, but mechanical failure is a larger cause of accidents.
When I was in Middle School through High School I spent the summers in Eugene Oregon, so I got burnt out really quickly on the nudist/hippie/stoner/exhibitionist subculture.
That and the fact that I hate the heat and the sun gives me migraines have kept me from Burning Man.
But I totally get that they've become the man now and are against the same sorts of open community that embraces them.
I've never been to Burning Man, I've been to other free-love-get-high-hippy-alt-fests so I "get" the point of it, but I don't understand how the Open Source community can stomach Burning Man's copyright claims.
Really? So the work done to determine how long a human could survive in cold water done to Russian and Jewish prisoners of war in the Second World War is legitimate and shouldn't have been vilified?
How about the Tuskegee syphilis experiments? Project ARTICHOKE or MKUltra?
It is not accurate to lump him in with Jack Thompson, did you read the article linked to Ars?
In the 1940s he opened an outpatient mental health clinic in Harlem for the poor.
"Wertham was an eloquent critic of Jim Crow segregation. His research on its harmful psychological effects was cited in the 1954 Brown versus the Board of Education Supreme Court case. And he spoke out for the welfare of people behind bars, including Ethel Rosenberg, who was eventually convicted and executed for espionage, along with her husband, Julius."
He was trying to help society and try to make the world a better place, he just added 2+2 up and got 5.321 when it came to violence and comic books.
I was on Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation for 20 years, but I'm not a CRST tribal member, it was different.
I left Portland in January 2009, the mayor and council are always democrats, nothing big gets done, they get bogged down in minutiae. Anchorage has some diversity in political parties so they fight and unite to piss off the mayor who vetos stuff and then they overturn it. Way more interesting.
I googled portland city council to see what they were up to and it's glorious fun
Yea, my experience with democratic candidates and office holders in "Red States" is that they are decent, capable people.
I've met Sen Daschle, Johnson, Thune and Hatfield, all were good nice guys who answered questions and concerns I had, didn't matter if they were D or R.
I grew up on a Reservation where the people coming out of the party in power where there is no viable alternative are the jackhole corrupt politicians. Pretty much the same system kicked out the Portland City Council members.
In this case, war's legitimate object was to ensure another war didn't arise between the northern and southern factions in the United States.
Also, the threat of war can keep a war from breaking out, look at the threat of nuclear war leading to a peace in Europe from 1945 to 1991, a peace in Western Europe that continues to this day.
In the American Civil War Sherman's march to the sea and then up the Carolinas lead to the end of the war and enough material destruction that the South accepted the Union's terms and never revolted again.
The NBC nightly news is one half hour while Fox News, CNN, MSNBC do a three hour block.
For the week of August 2nd, “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” averaged 6.85 million Total Viewers and a 1.5/7 among Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. “World News” topped “NBC Nightly News” by 90,000 Total Viewers on Friday, August 6. The total viewing gap between “World News” and “NBC Nightly News” shrank to the smallest margin of the season, and the demo gap was the smallest since the week of May 31.
So the NBC Nightly News got 6.76 million viewers over a half hour.
The cable channels get in prime time on a weeknight in the summer FNC – 2,095,000 viewers CNN – 568,000 viewers MSNBC –832,000 viewers CNBC – 181,000 viewers HLN – 457,000 viewers
The mainstream TV media in the US I would say NBC/ABC(w/ESPN)/CBS/FOX/MSNBC/CNN. PBS and BBC are secondary and in the case of the BBC for American audiences very niche.
For radio media, NBC/CBS/ABC/ESPN for all things sports/NPR
For print, Time/Newsweek/US News, NYT, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal - NYT, WaPo, WSJ are your three "newspapers of record" in the US. In five years, Time/Newsweek/US News on dead tree will be gone.
If you live in the US and/or have ever seen a picture of the National Mall, reflecting pool, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument or a map of DC, you'd know where the hell the Lincoln Memorial is.
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GA is a different world, they don't have 50 million dollars of avionics and computers to fly for them.
I'm in Alaska so we have GA accidents all the time and some military (the C-17 and Blackhawk near Palmer), those GA accidents are almost always weather or pilot error.
But since the black box talk isn't going to apply to GA or military, I didn't bring small planes into this.
But I agree with you 100%.
Or ground crew.
The link I posted was for 2009, that link goes back to 2006.
Yes, because having a flight crew sit in silence or only talking about approved cockpit topics for hours and hours on end will really help their ability to deal with that 1 in 10,000 emergency when it pops up.
The vast majority of aircraft accidents take place under 10,000 feet, where they are recorded and can only talk about aircraft business.
And if the data takes longer to transmit than a millisecond?
Where are you going to get all the satellite bandwidth for this? Hell the agency with the biggest budget and most expensive planes, the United States Department of Defense, doesn't do this with their combat or transport aircraft.
For the 40-odd UAV orbits they are nearly tapped out for satellite bandwidth.
Do you know what commercial pilots do up there in the cockpit on jets?
I have four close relatives who are commercial pilots for major airlines and I've jump seated (before 911) three times. Once the business end of takeoff is taken care of, they set the auto-pilot keep an eye on the gauges and wait. Aircraft are so automated now there is nothing at all to do unless there is weather or a mechanical issue and mechanical issues are few and far between.
My cousin who has been flying CRJs and Airbuses for the last 10 years has never had a mechanical issue pop up. So they watch movies on shifts, one watching the plane and one watches a movie or surfs the web.
Unlike trucking where there is traffic, changing road conditions and ever pressing deadlines, in a cockpit there really is nothing to do but talk about hot pieces of stewardesses.
Do you want everything you say and do at work logged every day?
Really? Air France Flight 447 just falling apart in the sky going 537 mph at 35,000 is from a human failure? US Airways Flight 1549? Emirates Flight 407?
No, humans aren't the cause of all crashes, a chunk of them yes, but not close to "pretty much always".
Checking that out and looking up the causes of the accidents you'll see human error by the flight crew is a cause of some, but mechanical failure is a larger cause of accidents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_2009
And yes, I do have my pilot's license.
When I was in Middle School through High School I spent the summers in Eugene Oregon, so I got burnt out really quickly on the nudist/hippie/stoner/exhibitionist subculture.
That and the fact that I hate the heat and the sun gives me migraines have kept me from Burning Man.
But I totally get that they've become the man now and are against the same sorts of open community that embraces them.
I've never been to Burning Man, I've been to other free-love-get-high-hippy-alt-fests so I "get" the point of it, but I don't understand how the Open Source community can stomach Burning Man's copyright claims.
Theres always the Alaska Highway
You said "I refuse to allow the beliefs of anybody to get in the way of scientific research."
Anti-torture, anti-vivisection and reverence for life are beliefs, beliefs slow scientific progress.
Really? So the work done to determine how long a human could survive in cold water done to Russian and Jewish prisoners of war in the Second World War is legitimate and shouldn't have been vilified?
How about the Tuskegee syphilis experiments? Project ARTICHOKE or MKUltra?
Well, the Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, so it is the Congress of the United States opening these records.
It is not accurate to lump him in with Jack Thompson, did you read the article linked to Ars?
In the 1940s he opened an outpatient mental health clinic in Harlem for the poor.
"Wertham was an eloquent critic of Jim Crow segregation. His research on its harmful psychological effects was cited in the 1954 Brown versus the Board of Education Supreme Court case. And he spoke out for the welfare of people behind bars, including Ethel Rosenberg, who was eventually convicted and executed for espionage, along with her husband, Julius."
He was trying to help society and try to make the world a better place, he just added 2+2 up and got 5.321 when it came to violence and comic books.
I was on Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation for 20 years, but I'm not a CRST tribal member, it was different.
I left Portland in January 2009, the mayor and council are always democrats, nothing big gets done, they get bogged down in minutiae. Anchorage has some diversity in political parties so they fight and unite to piss off the mayor who vetos stuff and then they overturn it. Way more interesting.
I googled portland city council to see what they were up to and it's glorious fun
http://www.katu.com/news/101722028.html
Yea, my experience with democratic candidates and office holders in "Red States" is that they are decent, capable people.
I've met Sen Daschle, Johnson, Thune and Hatfield, all were good nice guys who answered questions and concerns I had, didn't matter if they were D or R.
I grew up on a Reservation where the people coming out of the party in power where there is no viable alternative are the jackhole corrupt politicians. Pretty much the same system kicked out the Portland City Council members.
In this case, war's legitimate object was to ensure another war didn't arise between the northern and southern factions in the United States.
Also, the threat of war can keep a war from breaking out, look at the threat of nuclear war leading to a peace in Europe from 1945 to 1991, a peace in Western Europe that continues to this day.
In the American Civil War Sherman's march to the sea and then up the Carolinas lead to the end of the war and enough material destruction that the South accepted the Union's terms and never revolted again.
I'm older and fatter.
I said Republican, not Teabagger or Ron Paulite.
You are comparing apples to oranges there.
The NBC nightly news is one half hour while Fox News, CNN, MSNBC do a three hour block.
For the week of August 2nd, “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” averaged 6.85 million Total Viewers and a 1.5/7 among Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. “World News” topped “NBC Nightly News” by 90,000 Total Viewers on Friday, August 6. The total viewing gap between “World News” and “NBC Nightly News” shrank to the smallest margin of the season, and the demo gap was the smallest since the week of May 31.
So the NBC Nightly News got 6.76 million viewers over a half hour.
The cable channels get in prime time on a weeknight in the summer
FNC – 2,095,000 viewers
CNN – 568,000 viewers
MSNBC –832,000 viewers
CNBC – 181,000 viewers
HLN – 457,000 viewers
The mainstream TV media in the US I would say NBC/ABC(w/ESPN)/CBS/FOX/MSNBC/CNN. PBS and BBC are secondary and in the case of the BBC for American audiences very niche.
For radio media, NBC/CBS/ABC/ESPN for all things sports/NPR
For print, Time/Newsweek/US News, NYT, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal - NYT, WaPo, WSJ are your three "newspapers of record" in the US. In five years, Time/Newsweek/US News on dead tree will be gone.
The Teabaggers are idiots and full of fail, but there are black teabaggers and even hispanics.
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/some-blacks-back-tea-party-despite-movements-racist-reputation.php
http://reason.com/blog/2010/04/19/black-tea-party-protesters-vs
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/GroupNew/20024d1a-72d1-404c-944a-1c132930142f/HISPANICS_FOR_FREEDOM
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/25/tea_partiers_racist_not_so_fast_105309.html
Rush Limbaugh only uses Apple products, iPhone included.
Hell, I'm a Republican and I have an iPhone, iPhones, Macbooks, iPads, Mac Pros aren't exclusive to liberals.
Between work and home I've got a Mac Pro tower, Macbook Pro, iPad, iPhone, iMac, Macbook and an Asus G71
And the President said the US had 58 states and he'd been to 57 of them when he was running for the office. So lets not get too judgmental.
If you live in the US and/or have ever seen a picture of the National Mall, reflecting pool, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument or a map of DC, you'd know where the hell the Lincoln Memorial is.