1. The entertainment and news divisions are run an operated separately, as they should be.
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2. People that believe in social and/or financial conservativism (like me) can also appreciate off color humor (I own every season of Family Guy that's available on DVD).
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3. Fox news and Fox entertainment division cater to different markets that they thought were being under served by their competitors
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4. Some combination of the above 3.
4. Unlike Fox News, entertainment must sometimes be believable.
Seems like a solid class-action against airbus, quantas, or the maintenance company.
Ah, but which one? Don't forget Northrop Grumman and the avionics integration/testing company (no way Airbus would do that job themselves-too much legal risk to the bottom line). They'll all point their fingers around the circle and say "It could have been his fault for all anyone can tell." At least in this case, the evidence didn't go up in smoke.
But nobody seriously thinks that cell phones are the cause, it's just a fringe conjecture that has to be considered and ruled out.
IANAL, but now that this has been shown to be possible, it's only a matter of time before a carrier gets sued for contributing to a death or personal injury on the theory that they failed to impose this system on a driver. The next thing you know, you'll be charged extra to connect while moving faster than walking speed. You know it's coming.
They don't build planes susceptible to interference from consumer devices. They know the frequencies quite well. Everything on an airplane is shielded.
Funny thing about deployed systems. No matter how hard you try, they drift from their nominal configuration. Vibrating cable jackets chafe, shields short out, and suddenly what used to be isolated isn't any more. A technician crimps a connection just a tad too tight and creates an RF low impedence shunt. Or a temporary cable substitution doesn't get recorded and becomes permanent. Add to that the pressure to keep assets earning revenue so that inspections are being done on 48 or 60 month cycles and you have a pretty low degree of confidence in the shield reliability (by aircraft engineering standards that is - still waaay better than your car). Do yourself a favour and leave the cell phone off. Just in case.
All that said, it seems way more likely to be an ADIRS software problem. Discontinuities in the inputs should have been detected as a systems issue - real physical bodies don't go through instantaneous change of position or velocity. There have been a number of similar incidents on Airbus and Boeing fly by wire aircraft over the last eight years. In several, there were multiple failures of the ADIRU ring laser gyros caused partly by inadequate shock and vibration isolation. ARINC's system architecture doesn't cope terribly well with simultaneous failures, but (so far) passenger aircraft still have humans available to assume control when the bots go sideways.
To get local government subsidies most places, you need to promise to spend them locally. Otherwise those pesky shareholders will want you to spend them where they get the most ROI (even if it's taxpayer's "I". No politician wants to go up for re-election explaining why a shuttered factory was built with taxpayer dollars. So the companies build a cheap building full of expensive movable equipment and call it an expensive facility. Then when it suits their purpose, they relocate the equipment to another tax administration. It's an old story.
...he could steal printer toner without getting more than 20,000 pieces? Toner bits are really small! Sounds like the JAG really didn't want to get this guy.
Quasi-ballistic spin torque magnetization reversal S. Serrano-Guisan, K. Rott, G. Reiss, J. Langer, B. Ocker, and H. W. Schumacher Physical Review Letters 33 (2008)
"The best stuff" as you call it was known as Tri-Butyl-Tin. It falls into the broad category of fat-soluble bioconcentrating persistent organo-metal toxins. Although really high concentrations are needed to kill cells, much lower levels will make whales hard of hearing or change the sex of amphibians. Each predator up the food chain gets higher concentration. Who do you think is at the top of the marine food chain these days?
Finally there's a hard piece of work that demostrates the usefulness of String Theory.... oh wait.... it doesn't. I'm pretty sure that string theory has managed to feed a number of math-geek's babies. You tell me if that's useful.
in other news, Apple rewards the BBC by suing over their use of the 'i' prefix, on which iApple has an iMonopoly Did the license that from Parker iBrothers?
Okay, then let's put sails on it - LOL
Seriously, what type of converter is needed for the hydrogen pullout in this theoretical vehicle? Close... you make the sails out of solar-H2 converter nanofabric and pray you aren't becalmed at night.
Sadly, though, it looks like the idea of biofuels is going to get discredited by the lamebrained alcohol-from-corn debacle. Why can't they see: making alcohol from rice is much better. They can subsidize^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgrow it in Texas AND Louisiana.
Lots of places still use paper and ink quite successfully. Sure, you can use computers to mark the ballots if you must, but how is that better? If polling stations are kept to a few hundred voters each, they can be counted in minutes by hand by all parties' scrutineers. Keep the ballots and they can be recounted any number of times. No software involved. Verifiable. Reusable hardware (well, sorta flexibleware) available from Rubbermaid for under a penny per ballot.
e-voting has no legitimate purpose other than remote access. Even then it's questionable.
According to AP via http://www.physorg.com/news115555494.html the "National Institute of Scientific Investigation" says the cell phone couldn't have caused the injuries.
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1. The entertainment and news divisions are run an operated separately, as they should be.
or
2. People that believe in social and/or financial conservativism (like me) can also appreciate off color humor (I own every season of Family Guy that's available on DVD).
or
3. Fox news and Fox entertainment division cater to different markets that they thought were being under served by their competitors
or
4. Some combination of the above 3.
4. Unlike Fox News, entertainment must sometimes be believable.
I call bullshit. What EMP are you going to get from a rock?
Seems like a solid class-action against airbus, quantas, or the maintenance company.
Ah, but which one? Don't forget Northrop Grumman and the avionics integration/testing company (no way Airbus would do that job themselves-too much legal risk to the bottom line). They'll all point their fingers around the circle and say "It could have been his fault for all anyone can tell." At least in this case, the evidence didn't go up in smoke.
But nobody seriously thinks that cell phones are the cause, it's just a fringe conjecture that has to be considered and ruled out.
IANAL, but now that this has been shown to be possible, it's only a matter of time before a carrier gets sued for contributing to a death or personal injury on the theory that they failed to impose this system on a driver. The next thing you know, you'll be charged extra to connect while moving faster than walking speed. You know it's coming.
They don't build planes susceptible to interference from consumer devices. They know the frequencies quite well. Everything on an airplane is shielded.
Funny thing about deployed systems. No matter how hard you try, they drift from their nominal configuration. Vibrating cable jackets chafe, shields short out, and suddenly what used to be isolated isn't any more. A technician crimps a connection just a tad too tight and creates an RF low impedence shunt. Or a temporary cable substitution doesn't get recorded and becomes permanent. Add to that the pressure to keep assets earning revenue so that inspections are being done on 48 or 60 month cycles and you have a pretty low degree of confidence in the shield reliability (by aircraft engineering standards that is - still waaay better than your car). Do yourself a favour and leave the cell phone off. Just in case. All that said, it seems way more likely to be an ADIRS software problem. Discontinuities in the inputs should have been detected as a systems issue - real physical bodies don't go through instantaneous change of position or velocity. There have been a number of similar incidents on Airbus and Boeing fly by wire aircraft over the last eight years. In several, there were multiple failures of the ADIRU ring laser gyros caused partly by inadequate shock and vibration isolation. ARINC's system architecture doesn't cope terribly well with simultaneous failures, but (so far) passenger aircraft still have humans available to assume control when the bots go sideways.
To get local government subsidies most places, you need to promise to spend them locally. Otherwise those pesky shareholders will want you to spend them where they get the most ROI (even if it's taxpayer's "I". No politician wants to go up for re-election explaining why a shuttered factory was built with taxpayer dollars. So the companies build a cheap building full of expensive movable equipment and call it an expensive facility. Then when it suits their purpose, they relocate the equipment to another tax administration. It's an old story.
...he could steal printer toner without getting more than 20,000 pieces? Toner bits are really small! Sounds like the JAG really didn't want to get this guy.
Clearly this is all a vast Redmond-based conspiracy to sell thin clients.
Of course, all recent evidence points to warming having ended, and having been due to natural climate variability and/or solar cycles.
...recent 1. adj. some time this evening
Can anyone reach the Trademark database at http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/app/cipo/trademarks/search/tmSearch.do?language=eng or is it /.'d?
Apparently it's half of one precession time....
Quasi-ballistic spin torque magnetization reversal S. Serrano-Guisan, K. Rott, G. Reiss, J. Langer, B. Ocker, and H. W. Schumacher Physical Review Letters 33 (2008)
Then a trip to scholar finds:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0804.4840
Biased quasi ballistic spin torque magnetization reversal S. Serrano-Guisan, K. Rott, G. Reiss, J. Langer, B. Ocker and H. W. Schumacher
"The best stuff" as you call it was known as Tri-Butyl-Tin. It falls into the broad category of fat-soluble bioconcentrating persistent organo-metal toxins. Although really high concentrations are needed to kill cells, much lower levels will make whales hard of hearing or change the sex of amphibians. Each predator up the food chain gets higher concentration. Who do you think is at the top of the marine food chain these days?
We've been busy evolving chlorine tolerant bacteria in our drinking water systems for a long time now (it goes back to Robert Koch). See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7149722 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=238566 or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3896142 for a good scare.
"Yeah, but it's the only game in town." - Canada Bill Jones
Ok, I'll be the one to ask. How many geeks does it take to change a light bulb?
Now, put that Ipod nano inside an old sneaker and try again. The Ipod might fail, but the chip inside will survive and be readable.~~~~
There are lots of ways to get a EULA dialog box on which to click "Decline" Is there some other Flash or Silverlight functionality that matters?
Is a nation's memory worth a penny per citizen? Perhaps not.
Lots of places still use paper and ink quite successfully. Sure, you can use computers to mark the ballots if you must, but how is that better? If polling stations are kept to a few hundred voters each, they can be counted in minutes by hand by all parties' scrutineers. Keep the ballots and they can be recounted any number of times. No software involved. Verifiable. Reusable hardware (well, sorta flexibleware) available from Rubbermaid for under a penny per ballot. e-voting has no legitimate purpose other than remote access. Even then it's questionable.
According to AP via http://www.physorg.com/news115555494.html the "National Institute of Scientific Investigation" says the cell phone couldn't have caused the injuries.