and while we are at it, who needs a federal government anyway, why bother with a united states when all the states could do much better on their own.
Agreed. I'm tired of being the 'New Rome.' I'd like to see us paid back for the past 70 years of getting Europe out of its own messes, and keeping the Red Bear from swallowing Europe whole, but hey, lets let by-gones be by-gones, ok?
I believe you were paid back. Germany finished paying its repatriation debts only last year in fact. And lets not forget that the 'red bear' did most of the dying repelling the germans and you americans only came in at the end when the pickings were easy, and germany had already declared war on you. meanwhile granpappy bush was still busy funding the holocaust and rummy's parents were fighting on the german team. the USA has well documented debts owing to the UN and it is an outrage that they have never settled up.
My reference to the US govt being afraid of the Dutch relates to the bloody great big wall made of shipping crates they just put up around their embassy in Amsterdam, presumably to stop stoned Dutch kids from haranguing them.
We have emarked full tilt into the arena of socialism.
Do you know what socialism actually means? for example do you have guaranteed housing and heath-care for all? you are confusing socialism with totalitarianism, or fascism i think.
Its sickening. Looks like the terrorists won, their goal was to elimate the way of life we had here here, and they sure as hell did.
Now I can agree with you there, but then they were always going to win - they won when Bu$h was appointed to his office. Hell, they put him there. They won when someone put that scumbag Rummy in charge of foreign policy. They won the war on Iraq.
I don't want to rain on your parade or anything but what's so damn special about your way of life anyway? Are you free? No: You can't even go to Cuba without your government getting nasty. Do you have free and fair elections - Nope: look at the hash you made of the last one. Are you safer now? Nope: look at the disproportionately high murder-rate in the USA, or look at the way the rest of the world thinks you are a bunch of gangsters, and it just itching to take you on. Ask yourself why do I see previously moderate middle-class people cheer openly in pubs now when they see stories of US troops shot dead in the streets they try to occupy? Why do tales of weaponised MonkeyPox on the loose in your country make people laugh out loud? is it because the rest of the world is evil and resents your freedoms? Ha. Get real. You have less freedom now than much of the rest of the world.
Do you have genuine consumer-choice? Nope: You have the sort of centralised, consolidated agricultural system that Lenin could only have dreamed of. You have 10 brands of toothpaste all made by one company and containing the same ingredients. You have non-dairy creamer instead of milk. Your leaders are war profiteers, gangsters, liars, cowards and criminals. They are sponsors of global terrorism on a massive scale and have been for decades.
No, sorry, the UN is an irrelevent has-been and the US should just throw up its hands and get out.
So what would you replace the UN with - I suppose we all just should do whatever the US says? Bow down before Caesar? Pax Americana indeed. The US has been trying to undermine the UN since the UN was founded. It has withheld money, bugged delegations, bribed weaker nations, bullied stronger ones. The UN should be fixed - not abandoned. The USA needs to recognise that it is just one country out of hundreds and each country has certain soverign rights. Until you do even the Dutch can scare the pants off your chicken-shit gangster government.
Statements constructed in the manner is categorized as sarcasm or being sardonic. Its a rhetorical device designed to elicit outrage where a pedestrian statement of fact would fail do so.
Haha and you bitch to me about my spelling. Mate this is slashdot. I'll overlook the numerous spelling and gramatical mistakes in your reply. But I do have one piece of advice. Try using fewer words in future; you'll have a greater chance of spelling them all correctly, avoiding obvious tautologies and you'll certainly get your point across better.
If I misinterpreted your weak attempt at sarcasm it's because you didn't express yourself clearly enough. As a l literary device, sarcasm* is a sharpened tool. Wield that tool skillfully and people will hail your elevated wit. Wield it clumsily and you may cut your own foot off en-route to your mouth.
I figured you to be opposed to the war, but even a casual deconstruction of your post reveals the kind of cultural myopia that has long been the hallmark of the US national character. My issue was not with what you wrote, it's about the underlying assumptions you made.
* Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. - Feodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground, ch. 2, sct. 4 (1864)
It's all part of the great leap forward - when workers in developing coutries won't work for beans anymore there will be gaols full of techies to code and handle tech support for free. see my other/. comment on this topic. It's all about selective enforcement of laws that lots of people break.
Don't think the US suffers no consequences from this action. We lost roughly a hundred servicemen, and more patriotic soldiers lives every week.
If that's the only cost to the USA from its criminal devestation of Iraq that you've noticed then you are alseep. A vast majority of the world is now convinced that the USA is a power-mad pack of culturally-illiterate techno-barbarians, intent on nothing less that global domination. The US has made the world a much more hostile place, to youselves and to the rest of us - even those of us who opposed this stupid, illegal, morally bankrupt war. The UN has been castrated, the doctorine of 'pre-emptive attack' is now being adopted by every thug state that wants to abuse it, the 'freedoms' you US citizens enjoyed are being stripped away, the economy is fucked, AIDS will kill 25 million people by the end of the Naughties. That is the just a fraction of the total cost.
Apparently, their lives are cheaper than the quality of life of the Iraqi citizen
Setting aside the fact that I was taught that all human lives are equal, the quality of life of the average Iraqi is now much much worse than it was under the CIA's stooge Saddam. Bush and Blair's war has killed many thousands of people, Iraqis, Americans, British and more, and may kill untold millions more from disease, radioactive contamination and famine. So far all the war on Iraq has done is stir up the terrorism horents' nest, destroy a country that was already teetering on the brink of calamity, and reinforce the rest of the world's suspicions that the USA is run by a bunch of gansters who would stop at nothing to make a few extra bucks by looting Iraq's battered carcass in the name of world peace.
What is worse? That 'our' leaders lied to us to get us into the war, or that Iraq has finally been gang-raped after a decade of abuse?
Try using Fire then, it has built in support for GPG to provide end to end encryption - works a treat, supports all the major IM protocols, and is developed under the GPL for those of you that care about such things.
Gift Certificates are a pretty weak kind of gift, compared to a gift of actual Music. Part of the reason you buy someone a CD is to widen their musical exposure.
An extension of this issue is how would you bequeath the music you bought through the iTunes store to anyone? When you die does the music you have bought effecticvely die with you? You can't transfer the ownership of the music after all. This seems like a huge flaw in the whole DRM thing - and let's face it, everyone's gotta die sometime.
This is fascinating stuff but does not address one of the major reasons people buy Cds, that is as gifts. You can't buy an album from apple and then give it to someone for their birthday. I suppose you could buy the album, rip it to a cd and give them what looks to all and sundry like a dodgey pirated cd.
Eventually you run out of people who will work for rice and you have to step up to paying a slightly higher amount, and the big cycle begins again.
An alternative is to artificially inflate your prison population and force people to work for their daily bread. The USA is the world leader in that game. I note with interest the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution reads:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
So the solution is simple: Crack down on the sorts of crimes techies revel in such as pot smoking, copyright infringement, terrorism; and bingo you have a well educated pool of slaves all primed to go. Of course that will lead to other techies comitting property crimes to buy food as they can't compete with free slave labour - thus adding to the stock of the 21st centuary slave pens you call prisons. It's happening now, you just need to look.
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PRoblem is most home computers AREN'T run by a competent admin.
all the more reason to use a Mac:-)
Seriously, as a Mac user since 1984 I have *never* had one of my macs infected with a software virus. I've seen other macs infected with the WDEF virus circa 1989, but that's about it. Even though Virex on OSX is total crap (why does it need to rescan all files - even ones that have not changed? takes hours and thus no-one bothers), I am yet to hear on anyone running OSX cop a virus. I get virus-spam that's annoying but I have not yet been infected. Not in almost 20 years.
Mac's are easy to admin, easy to keep up to date and apple are damn good at releasing security patches in a timely manner.
No is the short answer to my own question. Havingnow installed qt6.3 I gave it a go and nope - no luck. I simply can npt understand why not either. I mean the damn movies play okay but quicktime won't export the audio. How can it play the audio but claim there is no audio? Bad wicked naughty apple.
does the new quicktimee fix the bug with muxed audio tracks in the movies that sony cybershot cameras make, whereby the movies play fine but if you try to save them as any other format they lose their audio and you have to mess about with a bunch of 3rd party hacks to get the audio out okay?
would love to re-write this argument into a better-arranged, more thoughtful essay... if I weren't so damn lazy.
See Godel's Theorem. In summary: All logical systems of any complexity are, by definition, incomplete; each of them contains, at any given time, more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules. This theory has been taken to imply that you'll never entirely understand yourself, since your mind, like any other closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself.
Arent there laws which prevent companies from hiring immediately from a mass layoff ?
why should there be? perhaps they were flushing out some unproductive deadweight and need to hire some skilled 'go-getters'. A corporation is like a body and needs to replenish it's dead cells regularly. Underperform and you can't take your job for granted - there are hungry people out there who would just love your job. It's a dog eat god world out there.
Check your calendar mate. I just looked in iCal and 2000 was most definitely a leap year. To double check I looked through my email out-tray for 29 Feb 2000 and on that day I made the decision to leave boo.com. So your numerology is for naught - it's 3562.
Just to be extra sure, I just looked it up, a year ending in 00 is not a leap year unless it is divisible by 400.
I meet a lot of strange people in my travels but one of the strangest was a guy who had just graduated with the Russian FSB and who specialised in code breaking. The department he worked for was making clusters specifically dedicated to real time cracking of the 56 bit keys used by the voice channel of GSM phones - note the data channels are not encrypted. His department got privatised in 1999 with venture capital from the US, and now they crack GSM phones for the higest bidder. Also interestingly enough they run SSH (and thus TCP/IP) over the the power grid to link their clusters together cheaply while keeping the data off the public internet. Or so he said over a few sturdy vodkas.
No agreed-upon standards, no consistent format, no market. That's why North America is just barely getting into HDTV now, when Japan and Germany have had it for a decade
so how come it took you 'merkins so long to get GSM phones, and how come I can send an sms text message to friends in the usa, but they can't text me back here? GSM is a standard for 90% of the world, but the USA still havn't got it sussed. You have to buy special 'tri-band' phones if you want to take your phone to the USA, and visiting 'merkins need to buy whole new phones when they leave their cuntry. still i guess so few 'merkins travel (only 7% of US citizens have passports supposedly) it's not such a big deal for you.
despite what you think, the USA is way behind the rest of the world in much of the technology that most people in europe really use. still the USA makes apple macs and ipods so there's hope for y'all yet.
1996 and 2000 are the only two leap years in the last 10 years, so yes it should be 3652 days of saving our arses,
Now if BBEdit could only add langauge sensitive auto completion and contextual menu based x-reffing of java docs (you know crtl click on a method to open the java source it is defined in at that method) and add parsing of ant scripts such that the targets appear in the function list I'd be even happier and it would stop bastard eclipse users from taunting me.
real mac java programmers use bbedit and the terminal after all.
I am a little confused by this case, and have not really followed the details, but what could be the effect, if any, on BSD and therefore OSX? Are SCO saying they own unix? Isn't BSD a form of Unix, and also both free and Open Source? Will they come after Apple too?
Ever been to Amsterdam recently. The US Embassy there is so scared of pot fumes and hoards of stoners bumbling about the coffee shops that they had to put in place a massive steel wall made of shipping containers. See the photos and be astounded. If the the US government is that afraid of the Dutch, how scared must they be of the rest of Europe? I've seen their emabssies in other, far less chilled, cities than Amsterdam and they have a few concrete bollards - but nothing like the 'wall of shame'. It must be the pot that forces them to cower so.
I'm just speaking from my own experience here but the seats in the EJ planes are really uncomfortable. It's not a question of legroom, there is some metal bar or something that runs across the thin cusion that puts insane pressure on my ass, such that by the time I get off the plane I am in considerable discomfort. It's this reason - and it's happened every time I've flown EJ, that I won't fly them again.
Getting out to LHR or Gatwick from central london is like a £3.50 tube ride, or if you want you can check in at paddington, leave your luggage there and get the admittadly expensive heathrow express. Depending on how much luggage I have and the time of my flight its worth it though just for the extra hour's sleep you can get in the morning.
i do want allocated seating. i fly at least twice per month and know damn well which seats in which planes will give me the best leg-room/laptop tray space. cool that a 15" tibook fits perfectly into the slots of an airbus seat btw.
BA's prices are often the same or less than EJ for trips between amsterdam and london. especially if you book early. And BA let you check in online and choose your seats etc 12 hrs before your flight. I can't speak for EJ's other destinations but I know for the amsterdam to london run BA can't be beat.
I have been delayed by an hour almost every time I have tried to fly easyjet. All airlines cancel flights - i've had it happen - occasionally and suffer delays due to weather and whatnot, but this has happened very rarely with BA in my experience. I have known of friends whose EJs flights have been cancelled for no reason they can work out other than insufficient bookings.
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and while we are at it, who needs a federal government anyway, why bother with a united states when all the states could do much better on their own.
Agreed. I'm tired of being the 'New Rome.' I'd like to see us paid back for the past 70 years of getting Europe out of its own messes, and keeping the Red Bear from swallowing Europe whole, but hey, lets let by-gones be by-gones, ok?
I believe you were paid back. Germany finished paying its repatriation debts only last year in fact. And lets not forget that the 'red bear' did most of the dying repelling the germans and you americans only came in at the end when the pickings were easy, and germany had already declared war on you. meanwhile granpappy bush was still busy funding the holocaust and rummy's parents were fighting on the german team. the USA has well documented debts owing to the UN and it is an outrage that they have never settled up.
My reference to the US govt being afraid of the Dutch relates to the bloody great big wall made of shipping crates they just put up around their embassy in Amsterdam, presumably to stop stoned Dutch kids from haranguing them.
Do you know what socialism actually means? for example do you have guaranteed housing and heath-care for all? you are confusing socialism with totalitarianism, or fascism i think.
Its sickening. Looks like the terrorists won, their goal was to elimate the way of life we had here here, and they sure as hell did.
Now I can agree with you there, but then they were always going to win - they won when Bu$h was appointed to his office. Hell, they put him there. They won when someone put that scumbag Rummy in charge of foreign policy. They won the war on Iraq.
I don't want to rain on your parade or anything but what's so damn special about your way of life anyway? Are you free? No: You can't even go to Cuba without your government getting nasty. Do you have free and fair elections - Nope: look at the hash you made of the last one. Are you safer now? Nope: look at the disproportionately high murder-rate in the USA, or look at the way the rest of the world thinks you are a bunch of gangsters, and it just itching to take you on. Ask yourself why do I see previously moderate middle-class people cheer openly in pubs now when they see stories of US troops shot dead in the streets they try to occupy? Why do tales of weaponised MonkeyPox on the loose in your country make people laugh out loud? is it because the rest of the world is evil and resents your freedoms? Ha. Get real. You have less freedom now than much of the rest of the world.
Do you have genuine consumer-choice? Nope: You have the sort of centralised, consolidated agricultural system that Lenin could only have dreamed of. You have 10 brands of toothpaste all made by one company and containing the same ingredients. You have non-dairy creamer instead of milk. Your leaders are war profiteers, gangsters, liars, cowards and criminals. They are sponsors of global terrorism on a massive scale and have been for decades.
But they are not socialists.
So what would you replace the UN with - I suppose we all just should do whatever the US says? Bow down before Caesar? Pax Americana indeed. The US has been trying to undermine the UN since the UN was founded. It has withheld money, bugged delegations, bribed weaker nations, bullied stronger ones. The UN should be fixed - not abandoned. The USA needs to recognise that it is just one country out of hundreds and each country has certain soverign rights. Until you do even the Dutch can scare the pants off your chicken-shit gangster government.
Statements constructed in the manner is categorized as sarcasm or being sardonic. Its a rhetorical device designed to elicit outrage where a pedestrian statement of fact would fail do so.
Haha and you bitch to me about my spelling. Mate this is slashdot. I'll overlook the numerous spelling and gramatical mistakes in your reply. But I do have one piece of advice. Try using fewer words in future; you'll have a greater chance of spelling them all correctly, avoiding obvious tautologies and you'll certainly get your point across better.
If I misinterpreted your weak attempt at sarcasm it's because you didn't express yourself clearly enough. As a l literary device, sarcasm* is a sharpened tool. Wield that tool skillfully and people will hail your elevated wit. Wield it clumsily and you may cut your own foot off en-route to your mouth.
I figured you to be opposed to the war, but even a casual deconstruction of your post reveals the kind of cultural myopia that has long been the hallmark of the US national character. My issue was not with what you wrote, it's about the underlying assumptions you made.
* Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. - Feodor Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground, ch. 2, sct. 4 (1864)
It's all part of the great leap forward - when workers in developing coutries won't work for beans anymore there will be gaols full of techies to code and handle tech support for free. see my other /. comment on this topic. It's all about selective enforcement of laws that lots of people break.
If that's the only cost to the USA from its criminal devestation of Iraq that you've noticed then you are alseep. A vast majority of the world is now convinced that the USA is a power-mad pack of culturally-illiterate techno-barbarians, intent on nothing less that global domination. The US has made the world a much more hostile place, to youselves and to the rest of us - even those of us who opposed this stupid, illegal, morally bankrupt war. The UN has been castrated, the doctorine of 'pre-emptive attack' is now being adopted by every thug state that wants to abuse it, the 'freedoms' you US citizens enjoyed are being stripped away, the economy is fucked, AIDS will kill 25 million people by the end of the Naughties. That is the just a fraction of the total cost.
Apparently, their lives are cheaper than the quality of life of the Iraqi citizen
Setting aside the fact that I was taught that all human lives are equal, the quality of life of the average Iraqi is now much much worse than it was under the CIA's stooge Saddam. Bush and Blair's war has killed many thousands of people, Iraqis, Americans, British and more, and may kill untold millions more from disease, radioactive contamination and famine. So far all the war on Iraq has done is stir up the terrorism horents' nest, destroy a country that was already teetering on the brink of calamity, and reinforce the rest of the world's suspicions that the USA is run by a bunch of gansters who would stop at nothing to make a few extra bucks by looting Iraq's battered carcass in the name of world peace.
What is worse? That 'our' leaders lied to us to get us into the war, or that Iraq has finally been gang-raped after a decade of abuse?
I find it pretty reliable. there are a few small glitches but it's not crashed on me in months.
Try using Fire then, it has built in support for GPG to provide end to end encryption - works a treat, supports all the major IM protocols, and is developed under the GPL for those of you that care about such things.
An extension of this issue is how would you bequeath the music you bought through the iTunes store to anyone? When you die does the music you have bought effecticvely die with you? You can't transfer the ownership of the music after all. This seems like a huge flaw in the whole DRM thing - and let's face it, everyone's gotta die sometime.
This is fascinating stuff but does not address one of the major reasons people buy Cds, that is as gifts. You can't buy an album from apple and then give it to someone for their birthday. I suppose you could buy the album, rip it to a cd and give them what looks to all and sundry like a dodgey pirated cd.
An alternative is to artificially inflate your prison population and force people to work for their daily bread. The USA is the world leader in that game. I note with interest the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution reads:
So the solution is simple: Crack down on the sorts of crimes techies revel in such as pot smoking, copyright infringement, terrorism; and bingo you have a well educated pool of slaves all primed to go. Of course that will lead to other techies comitting property crimes to buy food as they can't compete with free slave labour - thus adding to the stock of the 21st centuary slave pens you call prisons. It's happening now, you just need to look.
all the more reason to use a Mac :-)
Seriously, as a Mac user since 1984 I have *never* had one of my macs infected with a software virus. I've seen other macs infected with the WDEF virus circa 1989, but that's about it. Even though Virex on OSX is total crap (why does it need to rescan all files - even ones that have not changed? takes hours and thus no-one bothers), I am yet to hear on anyone running OSX cop a virus. I get virus-spam that's annoying but I have not yet been infected. Not in almost 20 years.
Mac's are easy to admin, easy to keep up to date and apple are damn good at releasing security patches in a timely manner.
No is the short answer to my own question. Havingnow installed qt6.3 I gave it a go and nope - no luck. I simply can npt understand why not either. I mean the damn movies play okay but quicktime won't export the audio. How can it play the audio but claim there is no audio? Bad wicked naughty apple.
does the new quicktimee fix the bug with muxed audio tracks in the movies that sony cybershot cameras make, whereby the movies play fine but if you try to save them as any other format they lose their audio and you have to mess about with a bunch of 3rd party hacks to get the audio out okay?
wrong. godel's theorem merely says that there would be more to know. - and waddayaknow... there is. no life force needed, just maths.
See Godel's Theorem. In summary: All logical systems of any complexity are, by definition, incomplete; each of them contains, at any given time, more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules. This theory has been taken to imply that you'll never entirely understand yourself, since your mind, like any other closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself.
why should there be? perhaps they were flushing out some unproductive deadweight and need to hire some skilled 'go-getters'. A corporation is like a body and needs to replenish it's dead cells regularly. Underperform and you can't take your job for granted - there are hungry people out there who would just love your job. It's a dog eat god world out there.
Just to be extra sure, I just looked it up, a year ending in 00 is not a leap year unless it is divisible by 400.
I meet a lot of strange people in my travels but one of the strangest was a guy who had just graduated with the Russian FSB and who specialised in code breaking. The department he worked for was making clusters specifically dedicated to real time cracking of the 56 bit keys used by the voice channel of GSM phones - note the data channels are not encrypted. His department got privatised in 1999 with venture capital from the US, and now they crack GSM phones for the higest bidder. Also interestingly enough they run SSH (and thus TCP/IP) over the the power grid to link their clusters together cheaply while keeping the data off the public internet. Or so he said over a few sturdy vodkas.
so how come it took you 'merkins so long to get GSM phones, and how come I can send an sms text message to friends in the usa, but they can't text me back here? GSM is a standard for 90% of the world, but the USA still havn't got it sussed. You have to buy special 'tri-band' phones if you want to take your phone to the USA, and visiting 'merkins need to buy whole new phones when they leave their cuntry. still i guess so few 'merkins travel (only 7% of US citizens have passports supposedly) it's not such a big deal for you.
despite what you think, the USA is way behind the rest of the world in much of the technology that most people in europe really use. still the USA makes apple macs and ipods so there's hope for y'all yet.
Now if BBEdit could only add langauge sensitive auto completion and contextual menu based x-reffing of java docs (you know crtl click on a method to open the java source it is defined in at that method) and add parsing of ant scripts such that the targets appear in the function list I'd be even happier and it would stop bastard eclipse users from taunting me.
real mac java programmers use bbedit and the terminal after all.
I am a little confused by this case, and have not really followed the details, but what could be the effect, if any, on BSD and therefore OSX? Are SCO saying they own unix? Isn't BSD a form of Unix, and also both free and Open Source? Will they come after Apple too?
Ever been to Amsterdam recently. The US Embassy there is so scared of pot fumes and hoards of stoners bumbling about the coffee shops that they had to put in place a massive steel wall made of shipping containers. See the photos and be astounded. If the the US government is that afraid of the Dutch, how scared must they be of the rest of Europe? I've seen their emabssies in other, far less chilled, cities than Amsterdam and they have a few concrete bollards - but nothing like the 'wall of shame'. It must be the pot that forces them to cower so.
Coincidences like this are just a copy and paste error in the matrix.
Getting out to LHR or Gatwick from central london is like a £3.50 tube ride, or if you want you can check in at paddington, leave your luggage there and get the admittadly expensive heathrow express. Depending on how much luggage I have and the time of my flight its worth it though just for the extra hour's sleep you can get in the morning.
i do want allocated seating. i fly at least twice per month and know damn well which seats in which planes will give me the best leg-room/laptop tray space. cool that a 15" tibook fits perfectly into the slots of an airbus seat btw.
BA's prices are often the same or less than EJ for trips between amsterdam and london. especially if you book early. And BA let you check in online and choose your seats etc 12 hrs before your flight. I can't speak for EJ's other destinations but I know for the amsterdam to london run BA can't be beat.
I have been delayed by an hour almost every time I have tried to fly easyjet. All airlines cancel flights - i've had it happen - occasionally and suffer delays due to weather and whatnot, but this has happened very rarely with BA in my experience. I have known of friends whose EJs flights have been cancelled for no reason they can work out other than insufficient bookings.