Re-read for comprehension this time... Here's a direct quote from my post: Yes it's possible, but it would have to occur during takeoff or landing to be something done without causing undo notice prior to accomplishing the actual "violent maneuver".
Yes, the copilot is primarily there as a "backup" pilot, but security concerns are, in fact, one of the justifications. Not the primary justification, but one of several.
Michael Vick qualifies as "the real world" now? Wow, we (US centric folks) really are snobs aren't we. Most of the world doesn't live in the US and I'd be very surprised if people outside of the US ever knew who he was before the whole fiasco... hell, I'd say at least half the US (non-slashdotters even) wouldn't know who he is. If knowing who some moderately decent athlete is is your idea of "clued in" I'd say you are the one who needs to get out a bit more.
We obviously travel to different airports. Every security line I've ever gotten in required some form of government photo ID to actually get into the security checkpoint. When traveling internationally, that is ALWAYS a passport.
Does it actually do anything for security? I don't think so... but they do check ID.
No, the GP is correct, all flight crew should be screened (and they are). They shouldn't go through the ridiculous nonsense that the rest of us go through (and don't they have a more realistic screening process), but they definitely need checking. There are 2 pilots for a number of reasons and one of those reasons is exactly as SmoothTom suggests- security.
It would take a very strange course of actions for a pilot to render a plane "unflyable in an instant" since doing so would mean going against several standard operating procedures. Again, that's why there are multiple safeguards onboard including another pilot. Yes it's possible, but it would have to occur during takeoff or landing to be something done without causing undo notice prior to accomplishing the actual "violent maneuver".
The only thing between me and the controls? A petite stewardess. I guess you haven't flown in a while since this doesn't happen any more either... In the last 10 flights I've taken there is always at least one flight attendant (usually two) and they use the food carts to block the aisle between the forward galley area (used for first class service) and the passengers such that there is a physical barrier and at least one person between you and the door to the controls. Then someone knocks on the door to let the flight crew know they are "safe" to open the door and come out.
The problem is that we classify the bombings done by the Axis powers as war too, not terrorism. It's not just about who gets to write the history books. It's about the constant changing of language and acceptance of new things. We never heard "collateral damage" until the early 90s (as civilians). We certainly never heard words like Jihad, or WMD, or rendition, or any other of a number of words that have "evolved" from the last couple of wars the US has been involved with fighting. And let's not forget how "patriot" has changed in the last couple of generations. Our fathers and grandfathers fought in a war that was "just" (WWII) and were true patriots. They fought to protect life all over the world. Now a "patriot" is someone who doesn't argue with the government... it's pretty scary. We are changing the meaning of words and the use of words to further instill the fear that we are supposedly fighting against. It's would be interesting to watch if it weren't so damned creepy.
So the bombing of Pearl Harbor was an act of terrorism, not war? You basically just defined what used to be called an act of war (though you did ad the "intense emotional reaction"). Now we call it terrorism.
This is exactly why military planes aren't pressurized (at least not to the same altitude--when there is any pressurization). It's a lot easier to withstand holes if there isn't a significant pressure difference. Maybe airlines should consider changing the pressure levels of the cabins.
You live in the basement don't you? Emotional intelligence is only less valuable if you don't want to interact with other real people, face to face. If you value human interaction, it holds value. Monetary value isn't the only type of value.
And yet, it's been done since long before HIV was even an issue. Let's not try and make it like this is the reason for circumcision... especially since the health issues have been proven to be questionable, at best, if not outright wrong.
So between 20 and 30 % of all "illegal immigrants" are "truly undesirables"? Based on what education do you make this guess? Seriously, that's a ridiculous statement to make without some support.
You're aware rape isn't about sex right? And men do get raped (by women, not just by other men.)
Evolutionary pressure affects women the same way it affects men. It's your social upbringing in a "male dominated" society that makes you believe there is actually a difference. If you go out and actually talk to women, you'll find they have the same desires (sexually speaking) men do in almost all cases. The belief that there is some biological need for males to spread their seed while women don't have this urge is complete and utter nonsense.
All the time... new meanings doesn't imply a complete loss of the old ones. Obviously someone asking the question about homosexuality implies the word clearly still means that.
Gay has been the default term for homosexual for at least 20 years and that hasn't changed in the last 5 just because douchebags trying to insult people have used the term for a homosexual as an insult.
3.5GHz translates to a ~8cm wavelength (maybe a bit less with the speed of light being slower in air). Resolving features that vary in amplitude of say less than 2cm (breathing and swaying) requires VERY accurate phase detection and time measurement equipment. Which translates to some very fast hardware doing phase correlation etc.
That doesn't require particularly fast hardware for phase correlation at all. It's all relatively easily done in a small FPGA. Not cheap (if you consider a few thousand dollars per chip expensive--- L-3 does not, I guarantee that) but it doesn't require a lot of work to design. L-3 has very good FPGA design teams and has been doing phase correlation and time measurement for decades for use in radar systems. The only thing new about this is the frequency hopping that they're using to do it, and that's not too far out of normal for them either...
The problem is medicine isn't made with simple ingredients like hydrogen and oxygen... it's made with complex ingredients that are often "purified" using chemicals that do leave residues. Cleaning something with chlorine or hydrochloric acid or something similar to break out the active ingredient from other ingredients, for example. That does have an effect.
Your statement is exactly the kind of "natural chemicals are magically better" type of argument that I was complaiing about! I didn't say natural chemicals are magically better... I said they seem to have less side effects. My statement didn't have any support so I retract it and instead say the side effects are perhaps lesser known and often overlooked.
You are right. Alternative medicine has a place as the collected mix of superstition and knowledge that eventually grew into real medicine. Herbs are primitive, natural drugs just as caves are primitive, natural houses. People used caves successfully for thousands of years but I've never heard anyone argue that a cave is a better place to live than a house just because it is natural.
I didn't mean to imply it was better because it was more natural, and I wasn't specifically referring to herbal medicine over acupuncture, massage, "healing-hands" or whatever. My point was that some people, rightfully or wrongfully, get a sense of "peace" that then allows them to focus their energy on other things, which is a benefit. People who believe herbal medicine will cure their cancer are riding a very short bus to death, in my opinion. Other people, however, who believe that herbal medicine might make them feel better while they find a better solution are just taking advantage of all the options to them, and as far as I'm concerned, they should. It's not better, it's just an alternative... as the name "alternative medicine" implies.
You're correct. Perhaps they are only better documented side effects... Either way, the point still stands that modern medicine has other "ingredients" than the "active ingredient" that do have affects just the same as any "natural" medicine would.
Which is why I mentioned the fact that schools always waiver twins except in developmental cases where one has delayed development or accelerated development.
The American Red Cross seems to have taken a cue from them then. I can't give blood because I slept with someone born in Africa after 1980, and because I have tattoos, and because I have traveled overseas within the last 10 years to countries that "aren't safe". Despite the fact that I'm a universal donor and have had health screenings every year for the last 20 years that always include blood screening. Stupid, really.
No, being produced by nature doesn't make it magically better, but it does often (most times) produce significantly less negative side effects than the man made versions. You may not know the dose, but it doesn't really matter, if it works. I don't know the other shit that goes into making medicine either, but I know the many of them have side effects comparable to the thing they're supposedly fixing.
Medicine has a place. "Alternative" medicine has a place. Sometimes they overlap, sometimes they shouldn't. Denying the benefit to the user of alternative medicines and the fact that people have been "successfully" using them for thousands of years is just as foolhardy as saying they work exclusively. Different people respond differently to medicines/herbs. Some people gain no benefit but peace of mind, but I'll tell you as someone who's been on the rough end of some ugly medical situations, peace of mind goes a long way. When you think you feel better, you feel better and are more capable of dealing with things rationally... whether the medicine/herb actually makes any physical difference or not.
It IS harmless. People who believe this stuff aren't harming anyone (except possibly themselves) and if it does bring in those people as donors, who gives a shit? It's not like their blood is going to make the recipient stupider.
How would one twin be the "oldest in his age group" and the other be the youngest? Unless they were born in September or October (where the school age cut-offs are for most places I know) they'd be in the same age group and be treated the same. In either case, schools always waiver twins unless there is a true developmental reason to separate them.
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So pilots aren't allowed to pee? Or get sick for any reason? Let's at least try to be realistic.
Re-read for comprehension this time... Here's a direct quote from my post:
Yes it's possible, but it would have to occur during takeoff or landing to be something done without causing undo notice prior to accomplishing the actual "violent maneuver".
Yes, the copilot is primarily there as a "backup" pilot, but security concerns are, in fact, one of the justifications. Not the primary justification, but one of several.
Michael Vick qualifies as "the real world" now? Wow, we (US centric folks) really are snobs aren't we. Most of the world doesn't live in the US and I'd be very surprised if people outside of the US ever knew who he was before the whole fiasco... hell, I'd say at least half the US (non-slashdotters even) wouldn't know who he is. If knowing who some moderately decent athlete is is your idea of "clued in" I'd say you are the one who needs to get out a bit more.
We obviously travel to different airports. Every security line I've ever gotten in required some form of government photo ID to actually get into the security checkpoint. When traveling internationally, that is ALWAYS a passport.
Does it actually do anything for security? I don't think so... but they do check ID.
No, the GP is correct, all flight crew should be screened (and they are). They shouldn't go through the ridiculous nonsense that the rest of us go through (and don't they have a more realistic screening process), but they definitely need checking. There are 2 pilots for a number of reasons and one of those reasons is exactly as SmoothTom suggests- security.
It would take a very strange course of actions for a pilot to render a plane "unflyable in an instant" since doing so would mean going against several standard operating procedures. Again, that's why there are multiple safeguards onboard including another pilot. Yes it's possible, but it would have to occur during takeoff or landing to be something done without causing undo notice prior to accomplishing the actual "violent maneuver".
The only thing between me and the controls? A petite stewardess.
I guess you haven't flown in a while since this doesn't happen any more either... In the last 10 flights I've taken there is always at least one flight attendant (usually two) and they use the food carts to block the aisle between the forward galley area (used for first class service) and the passengers such that there is a physical barrier and at least one person between you and the door to the controls. Then someone knocks on the door to let the flight crew know they are "safe" to open the door and come out.
Cigarette lighters aren't allowed on flights. I've had several confiscated.
The problem is that we classify the bombings done by the Axis powers as war too, not terrorism. It's not just about who gets to write the history books. It's about the constant changing of language and acceptance of new things. We never heard "collateral damage" until the early 90s (as civilians). We certainly never heard words like Jihad, or WMD, or rendition, or any other of a number of words that have "evolved" from the last couple of wars the US has been involved with fighting. And let's not forget how "patriot" has changed in the last couple of generations. Our fathers and grandfathers fought in a war that was "just" (WWII) and were true patriots. They fought to protect life all over the world. Now a "patriot" is someone who doesn't argue with the government... it's pretty scary. We are changing the meaning of words and the use of words to further instill the fear that we are supposedly fighting against. It's would be interesting to watch if it weren't so damned creepy.
So the bombing of Pearl Harbor was an act of terrorism, not war? You basically just defined what used to be called an act of war (though you did ad the "intense emotional reaction"). Now we call it terrorism.
This is exactly why military planes aren't pressurized (at least not to the same altitude--when there is any pressurization). It's a lot easier to withstand holes if there isn't a significant pressure difference. Maybe airlines should consider changing the pressure levels of the cabins.
You live in the basement don't you? Emotional intelligence is only less valuable if you don't want to interact with other real people, face to face. If you value human interaction, it holds value. Monetary value isn't the only type of value.
And yet, it's been done since long before HIV was even an issue. Let's not try and make it like this is the reason for circumcision... especially since the health issues have been proven to be questionable, at best, if not outright wrong.
So between 20 and 30 % of all "illegal immigrants" are "truly undesirables"? Based on what education do you make this guess? Seriously, that's a ridiculous statement to make without some support.
You're aware rape isn't about sex right? And men do get raped (by women, not just by other men.)
Evolutionary pressure affects women the same way it affects men. It's your social upbringing in a "male dominated" society that makes you believe there is actually a difference. If you go out and actually talk to women, you'll find they have the same desires (sexually speaking) men do in almost all cases. The belief that there is some biological need for males to spread their seed while women don't have this urge is complete and utter nonsense.
Seriously? You thought that wasn't a joke?
All the time... new meanings doesn't imply a complete loss of the old ones. Obviously someone asking the question about homosexuality implies the word clearly still means that.
Gay has been the default term for homosexual for at least 20 years and that hasn't changed in the last 5 just because douchebags trying to insult people have used the term for a homosexual as an insult.
3.5GHz translates to a ~8cm wavelength (maybe a bit less with the speed of light being slower in air). Resolving features that vary in amplitude of say less than 2cm (breathing and swaying) requires VERY accurate phase detection and time measurement equipment. Which translates to some very fast hardware doing phase correlation etc.
That doesn't require particularly fast hardware for phase correlation at all. It's all relatively easily done in a small FPGA. Not cheap (if you consider a few thousand dollars per chip expensive--- L-3 does not, I guarantee that) but it doesn't require a lot of work to design. L-3 has very good FPGA design teams and has been doing phase correlation and time measurement for decades for use in radar systems. The only thing new about this is the frequency hopping that they're using to do it, and that's not too far out of normal for them either...
Also getting robbed on aluminum foil... We pay about $2 for a 12 inch by 100 foot roll all the time.
The problem is medicine isn't made with simple ingredients like hydrogen and oxygen... it's made with complex ingredients that are often "purified" using chemicals that do leave residues. Cleaning something with chlorine or hydrochloric acid or something similar to break out the active ingredient from other ingredients, for example. That does have an effect.
Your statement is exactly the kind of "natural chemicals are magically better" type of argument that I was complaiing about!
I didn't say natural chemicals are magically better... I said they seem to have less side effects. My statement didn't have any support so I retract it and instead say the side effects are perhaps lesser known and often overlooked.
You are right. Alternative medicine has a place as the collected mix of superstition and knowledge that eventually grew into real medicine. Herbs are primitive, natural drugs just as caves are primitive, natural houses. People used caves successfully for thousands of years but I've never heard anyone argue that a cave is a better place to live than a house just because it is natural.
I didn't mean to imply it was better because it was more natural, and I wasn't specifically referring to herbal medicine over acupuncture, massage, "healing-hands" or whatever. My point was that some people, rightfully or wrongfully, get a sense of "peace" that then allows them to focus their energy on other things, which is a benefit. People who believe herbal medicine will cure their cancer are riding a very short bus to death, in my opinion. Other people, however, who believe that herbal medicine might make them feel better while they find a better solution are just taking advantage of all the options to them, and as far as I'm concerned, they should. It's not better, it's just an alternative... as the name "alternative medicine" implies.
You're correct. Perhaps they are only better documented side effects... Either way, the point still stands that modern medicine has other "ingredients" than the "active ingredient" that do have affects just the same as any "natural" medicine would.
Which is why I mentioned the fact that schools always waiver twins except in developmental cases where one has delayed development or accelerated development.
The American Red Cross seems to have taken a cue from them then. I can't give blood because I slept with someone born in Africa after 1980, and because I have tattoos, and because I have traveled overseas within the last 10 years to countries that "aren't safe". Despite the fact that I'm a universal donor and have had health screenings every year for the last 20 years that always include blood screening. Stupid, really.
No, being produced by nature doesn't make it magically better, but it does often (most times) produce significantly less negative side effects than the man made versions. You may not know the dose, but it doesn't really matter, if it works. I don't know the other shit that goes into making medicine either, but I know the many of them have side effects comparable to the thing they're supposedly fixing.
Medicine has a place. "Alternative" medicine has a place. Sometimes they overlap, sometimes they shouldn't. Denying the benefit to the user of alternative medicines and the fact that people have been "successfully" using them for thousands of years is just as foolhardy as saying they work exclusively. Different people respond differently to medicines/herbs. Some people gain no benefit but peace of mind, but I'll tell you as someone who's been on the rough end of some ugly medical situations, peace of mind goes a long way. When you think you feel better, you feel better and are more capable of dealing with things rationally... whether the medicine/herb actually makes any physical difference or not.
"One ring to rule them all" very rarely works...
It IS harmless. People who believe this stuff aren't harming anyone (except possibly themselves) and if it does bring in those people as donors, who gives a shit? It's not like their blood is going to make the recipient stupider.
How would one twin be the "oldest in his age group" and the other be the youngest? Unless they were born in September or October (where the school age cut-offs are for most places I know) they'd be in the same age group and be treated the same. In either case, schools always waiver twins unless there is a true developmental reason to separate them.