Try reading it all the way through.
The captain did not adjust the rudder to counteract the lack of thrust on the right, and kept the autopilot engaged, even though the standard procedure for handling an engine outage is to apply compensating rudder, then to disengage the autopilot and put the aircraft in good balance. The autopilot should never have been engaged at that point. The cited accident report from the NTSB clearly indicates that the incident was due to operator error.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows: FLIGHT/NAVIGATION INSTRUMENT(S)..INATTENTIVE..PILOT IN COMMAND... Hmm. 1985, gross pilot error, flight from China to Los Angeles... was this Michael Crichton's inspiration for Airframe?
You were fingerprinted the first time you applied for your gaijin card which would have been within a few weeks of entering Japan on your (first) visa. They stopped displaying the fingerprint on the card in 2001, I think.
Maybe a slightly higher standard would be appreciated in emergency flights like this. I'm not sure what you mean. No one died, there were only two injuries. It seems to me like the safety standards worked.
If anything that incident seems to indicate that more emergency training of the flight crew is required. The pilot and engineer screwed up big time and the Boeing 747 still got everyone down alive.
Another angle: The friend, through the wife, may have started running errands for the Russian mafia. (Yes Virginia, there really is a strong, nasty Russian mob presence in parts of the US today.) The kids now in Russia, HR fears for their lives if he implicates his friend. The involvement of the Russian mafia must be considered. The odds are overwhelmingly in favor of the Russian mail order bride people being involved in organized crime. Hans may fear for his own life as well as the lives of his kids.
I agree with you in principle, but to me it seems more the norm than the exception. The United States requires (or at least used to require) fingerprinting as part of a DOD security clearance application.
In Japan if you have a visa you are required to be fingerprinted and carry an alien card (the gaijin card). When I lived there, one fingerprint was displayed on the card, though they have since phased out the picture, but not the fingerprinting requirement.
In the Philippines an alien (or any citizen) is required to be fingerprinted to get an NBI clearance (required for any work, identification and for long-term visas). Also, if you are required to get an exit clearance to leave the country, you will be fingerprinted for that.
No matter how many times I've been fingerprinted and never by the police for a suspected crime, I still feel soiled.
Obviously less foreigners are going to fly into the United States, therefore less revenue. Yes, I'm sure of it. I know it's popular to gripe about airport security inside the US, but it's nothing compared to what you have to go through on a flight going to the United States. To board a US-bound plane from Ninoy Aquino airport in Manila you have to go through 3 checkpoints. Once at the door (everywhere in the Philippines you will find armed guards at the entrances to public buildings and you can always expect to be searched - they have a real terrorist problem), once at customs, and once deep inside the terminal to actually enter the final boarding area. The final boarding area conveniently does not include toilets for security reasons. I suppose it's a blessing that you do not have to take off your shoes at the door. The airlines, of course, advertise the fact that they are complying with US security laws.
Procedures once you have landed seem to be about the same. Strangely or not strangely, Singapore has by far the friendliest airport and procedures, but of course, Singapore depends heavily on tourism.
I strongly resent being treated like an animal and then have the voice on the speaker at the end of the flight say, "I hope you enjoyed your flight, have a pleasant stay in the United States". Grrr.
No, she should go for everything. Yes, she should and she is, from my reading of her (formerly counter)suit. What price is one's health worth (and hers was demonstrably damaged by a proved-in-court frivolous lawsuit)?
(RIAA Fanboi) From what I understand here the RIAA didnt really want to bankrupt this woman. You haven't read her suit. She claims that they told it to her face that this was what they were trying to do.
(Kythe) Not to put too fine a point on it, but like hell they didn't. It's pretty clear these guys see the "threaten 'em all into paying" strategy as a moneymaker and a way to set an example. Both interests are served by bankrupting average Joes and Janes.
They knew, exactly what they were doing. That's exactly what her suit claims. It's ridiculous for the poster you responded to to claim that a woman with a child on disability would not be bankrupted by paying >$100,000 for copyright violations that she proved she did not commit.
She not only proved she was innocent, she located the person the RIAA claimed they were trying to sue and they ignored her. Moreover, even if they had the proof they claimed to have, it was a criminal act to obtain it in the fashion that they claimed to get it. They also ignored her offer to allow her computer to be inspected, which was inspected by a neutral third party and found to be completely clean of any p2p programs.
The text of her (formerly counter)suit is amazing reading. She may not get everything she's claiming, but it looks like she has hard proof of most of it. Proving that her health was damaged by the continued lawsuit should be trivial - ie. she's eligible for damages. Atlantic et. al. deserve to go down big time on this one, IMO.
Yes, to both of those comments. I should have added DO have a thick skin, quite often an innocent comment can be interpreted as something other than what was intended (this is especially true between various English speaking countries - American English != British English != Australian English, etc.).
If you're bilingual and want to start contributing immediately to the Linux kernel, they're starting a translation project of some of the developer documentation. I've seen Japanese and Chinese (Mandarin? I can't read any Chinese) translations of the HOWTO and stable-api-nonsense documents go by in the last few days.
It's unfortunate you're in your last year. College students are typically the most valuable contributors to a project because they have fewer hard demands on their time like work, spouses, young children, etc. Also, upon graduation, you will often find that the leaders in the project are more than happy to write you references after you graduate - I did on a number of occasions.
(In no particular order)
DO pick a project that interests you. DO lurk for awhile on the relevant mailing lists so that you get an idea of who the leaders are, what the pressing issues are. You'll also be able to learn that way how contributions are expected to be made. It is also a good idea to read archives of older postings, understanding history is very important and often ignored. DO be aware of how the project is licensed. Some projects require copyright assignment and will not touch any work you do until you perform copyright assignment. DO consider doing documentation patches first. Bug fixes are cool, but it is only the very rare person who tackles documentation. There never tends to be an oversupply of people of doing documentation. DO get involved doing build testing especially if you have access to non-standard or rare hardware. DO learn what a.signature is before you start sending mail out. Be sure that you turn it off. DO read any relevant FAQs before offering any suggestions. DO NOT repeat a suggestion that has been turned down repeatedly (ex. why can't we replace the lisp engine with Perl?, why can't we have a stable Linux 3.0, etc.) DO NOT get angry at someone in public. DO NOT contribute to off-topic threads, you should know what these are, you've read the FAQ, right? DO practice your English writing skills, this will help you in your career too. DO NOT be disappointed when your patches get rejected, learn from your mistakes and keep trying. DO try to answer questions more than you ask them, when your answers are correct you will earn a lot of reputation. DO be sure that you're having fun.
Anyone who has lived or traveled outside the modern western world (or heck, even thought about economic history for a few minutes) knows that there are plenty of forms of "persuasion" that don't involve the use of firearms, but can be sufficiently coercive and threatening to survival. That would be me (I've lived a lot more in Asia than I have in the US of late), but the person who first brought up the gun-point argument to me was an ultra-liberal college professor (ultra-liberal == someone who says the LA Times is a conservative newspaper). Government is all about the organized and authorized use of violence, by definition.
From what I can tell from WoW experience, is that every time they change it, you have to re-accept it before you can enter the game. Mine too and they do not offer change bars or any other indication about what is different from the previous version.
How can a company that has never used a patent offensively be considered a patent troll? They're shaking down all the Linux using companies they can for licensing unspecified patents for Linux -- LGE just a couple of days ago. Seems pretty obvious to me.
Most early microcomputers were problematic in many ways. After all, it was built by young inexperienced people with new technology. True, true and that's certainly true of Woz. Brilliant in some ways (the Sweet16 interpreter is the most amazing piece of code I've ever read) and inexperienced in others (the Apple ][ floppy drives sucked). Personally, I do not consider that a problem and the Apple ][ will always have a special place in my heart as being the machine where I learned to love programming computers.
For the retard who moderated my comment down - Woz wrote an emulator for a 16-bit CPU for the 6502 in a little over one page (about 280 bytes) of memory. Compare that to the brain-damaged code in Applesoft Basic (written by Microsoft and licensed to Apple). Go ahead punk, do you feel lucky?
Thus, it is reasonable to believe that a laptop can, and should, survive running without a fan. Anything else is bad engineering Advances in clock speeds have meant that CPUs run a lot hotter than they used to. Obviously your mileage varies, personally I've lost more computers to heat problems than anything else.
I'm not surprised. The Apple ][ was very much a mixed bag. The floppy disks were horribly engineered, putting all the implementation into software and never mind the buggy, horrible Applesoft Basic (not surprising considering who wrote it). I take my hat off for the Sweet16 interpreter in the oldest Integer Basic ROMs. That fit into just over one page of RAM (about 280 bytes) and is still the most amazing piece of code I've ever had the pleasure of reading.
Perhaps they should ban advertising for game hacks. Yeah, that's extremely annoying. I hate seeing ads in google from the same jerks who are relentlessly spamming me in the game.
I was going to post something like this on an internal company mailing list as an April Fools joke - I didn't know it already existed. Guess I must be new here.
It won't solve all of the problems, but it should reduce the number that you need to address. That makes it a nuclear arms race. The more sophisticated of an analysis you can make, the easier it will make it to bypass things like Captcha.
I am over 40 and do not keep a landline. It does not fit my lifestyle, no advertising involved at all. I require a phone that works no matter what part of the world I'm in and whether or not landlines exist there at all - I lived three years in a place where there were no landlines. I can definitely live without them. RIP landlines, but I will not miss you.
Japan, Inc. has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft for a long time now. The first day I went to work in NEC's Unix division in Kobe, my boss pointed to a computer running Microsoft Windows on my desk and said that's yours. I had told them in the interview that I didn't do Microsoft Windows, but I guess something got lost in the translation. They relented though and gave me a desktop Linux box for development and I used the MS Windows box as a foot rest.
I'm very glad to see this kind of move. The Japanese government and all of the major computer companies have thrown a lot of money at Linux and free software. It's about time they started taking full advantage of it.
That would fix some of it. All of the in-game whisper spam I get is from level 1 characters. But it won't ever go away, because there is apparently plenty of demand for cheat gold (or so a Blizzard GM told me last week).
Any war on %s (drugs, spam, etc.) is doomed to fail if there is demand for the product involved.
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You were fingerprinted the first time you applied for your gaijin card which would have been within a few weeks of entering Japan on your (first) visa. They stopped displaying the fingerprint on the card in 2001, I think.
If anything that incident seems to indicate that more emergency training of the flight crew is required. The pilot and engineer screwed up big time and the Boeing 747 still got everyone down alive.
Yeah, especially since you're going to have to pay income taxes on the $6000 so what you keep is even less. Ugh.
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I agree with you in principle, but to me it seems more the norm than the exception. The United States requires (or at least used to require) fingerprinting as part of a DOD security clearance application.
In Japan if you have a visa you are required to be fingerprinted and carry an alien card (the gaijin card). When I lived there, one fingerprint was displayed on the card, though they have since phased out the picture, but not the fingerprinting requirement.
In the Philippines an alien (or any citizen) is required to be fingerprinted to get an NBI clearance (required for any work, identification and for long-term visas). Also, if you are required to get an exit clearance to leave the country, you will be fingerprinted for that.
No matter how many times I've been fingerprinted and never by the police for a suspected crime, I still feel soiled.
Procedures once you have landed seem to be about the same. Strangely or not strangely, Singapore has by far the friendliest airport and procedures, but of course, Singapore depends heavily on tourism.
I strongly resent being treated like an animal and then have the voice on the speaker at the end of the flight say, "I hope you enjoyed your flight, have a pleasant stay in the United States". Grrr.
They knew, exactly what they were doing. That's exactly what her suit claims. It's ridiculous for the poster you responded to to claim that a woman with a child on disability would not be bankrupted by paying >$100,000 for copyright violations that she proved she did not commit.
She not only proved she was innocent, she located the person the RIAA claimed they were trying to sue and they ignored her. Moreover, even if they had the proof they claimed to have, it was a criminal act to obtain it in the fashion that they claimed to get it. They also ignored her offer to allow her computer to be inspected, which was inspected by a neutral third party and found to be completely clean of any p2p programs.
The text of her (formerly counter)suit is amazing reading. She may not get everything she's claiming, but it looks like she has hard proof of most of it. Proving that her health was damaged by the continued lawsuit should be trivial - ie. she's eligible for damages. Atlantic et. al. deserve to go down big time on this one, IMO.
Yes, to both of those comments. I should have added DO have a thick skin, quite often an innocent comment can be interpreted as something other than what was intended (this is especially true between various English speaking countries - American English != British English != Australian English, etc.).
If you're bilingual and want to start contributing immediately to the Linux kernel, they're starting a translation project of some of the developer documentation. I've seen Japanese and Chinese (Mandarin? I can't read any Chinese) translations of the HOWTO and stable-api-nonsense documents go by in the last few days.
It's unfortunate you're in your last year. College students are typically the most valuable contributors to a project because they have fewer hard demands on their time like work, spouses, young children, etc. Also, upon graduation, you will often find that the leaders in the project are more than happy to write you references after you graduate - I did on a number of occasions.
.signature is before you start sending mail out. Be sure that you turn it off.
(In no particular order)
DO pick a project that interests you.
DO lurk for awhile on the relevant mailing lists so that you get an idea of who the leaders are, what the pressing issues are. You'll also be able to learn that way how contributions are expected to be made. It is also a good idea to read archives of older postings, understanding history is very important and often ignored.
DO be aware of how the project is licensed. Some projects require copyright assignment and will not touch any work you do until you perform copyright assignment.
DO consider doing documentation patches first. Bug fixes are cool, but it is only the very rare person who tackles documentation. There never tends to be an oversupply of people of doing documentation.
DO get involved doing build testing especially if you have access to non-standard or rare hardware.
DO learn what a
DO read any relevant FAQs before offering any suggestions.
DO NOT repeat a suggestion that has been turned down repeatedly (ex. why can't we replace the lisp engine with Perl?, why can't we have a stable Linux 3.0, etc.)
DO NOT get angry at someone in public.
DO NOT contribute to off-topic threads, you should know what these are, you've read the FAQ, right?
DO practice your English writing skills, this will help you in your career too.
DO NOT be disappointed when your patches get rejected, learn from your mistakes and keep trying.
DO try to answer questions more than you ask them, when your answers are correct you will earn a lot of reputation.
DO be sure that you're having fun.
That's not true. Last week a Korean company distributing embedded Linux thingies caved in.
For the retard who moderated my comment down - Woz wrote an emulator for a 16-bit CPU for the 6502 in a little over one page (about 280 bytes) of memory. Compare that to the brain-damaged code in Applesoft Basic (written by Microsoft and licensed to Apple). Go ahead punk, do you feel lucky?
I'm not surprised. The Apple ][ was very much a mixed bag. The floppy disks were horribly engineered, putting all the implementation into software and never mind the buggy, horrible Applesoft Basic (not surprising considering who wrote it). I take my hat off for the Sweet16 interpreter in the oldest Integer Basic ROMs. That fit into just over one page of RAM (about 280 bytes) and is still the most amazing piece of code I've ever had the pleasure of reading.
I was going to post something like this on an internal company mailing list as an April Fools joke - I didn't know it already existed. Guess I must be new here.
I am over 40 and do not keep a landline. It does not fit my lifestyle, no advertising involved at all. I require a phone that works no matter what part of the world I'm in and whether or not landlines exist there at all - I lived three years in a place where there were no landlines. I can definitely live without them. RIP landlines, but I will not miss you.
Japan, Inc. has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft for a long time now. The first day I went to work in NEC's Unix division in Kobe, my boss pointed to a computer running Microsoft Windows on my desk and said that's yours. I had told them in the interview that I didn't do Microsoft Windows, but I guess something got lost in the translation. They relented though and gave me a desktop Linux box for development and I used the MS Windows box as a foot rest.
I'm very glad to see this kind of move. The Japanese government and all of the major computer companies have thrown a lot of money at Linux and free software. It's about time they started taking full advantage of it.
That would fix some of it. All of the in-game whisper spam I get is from level 1 characters. But it won't ever go away, because there is apparently plenty of demand for cheat gold (or so a Blizzard GM told me last week).
Any war on %s (drugs, spam, etc.) is doomed to fail if there is demand for the product involved.