Um, if this post was intended as sarcasm ignore the following...
If not, all I can say is, wow, where to begin? I'm surprised you haven't been flamed for this, as it reeks of both self-importance and naivete.
If this were true, I'm also betting you often hear the HR person cheerfully tell you in response, "As you've declined I'll say good day" and show you the door.
Companies are free to set conditions of employment as long as they don't violate laws. Background checks and drug tests are common as conditions for employment. Decline and you're not getting hired.
Thereby I doubt you'd ever get work for a major company.
If you were considered as valuable an employee as say, a CEO, it's possible they may waive those requirements. But I'm betting you're not...
In other words, best of luck with your self-employment.
I've also perused the Namecheap TOS regarding domains, and I don't see anything in there about passing the domain on 12 days prior to expiration as this guy claims...
This is one of the great myths the FAA has done nothing to correct, since they love the idea that people think we're going to start using a space-based system to replace radar - it's cool and modern.
ADS-B, the position reporting system that you're referring to that will supplement and eventually replace radar, does use GPS satellites to determine the aircraft's position. However, in the Continental US, that position information is sent via old-fashioned radios to land-based receivers.
Those terrestrial receivers have the same distance and line of sight limitations that radar does. If you look at FAA ADS-B coverage maps for the U.S., although they're better than radar coverage, they have similar limitations (i.e. dead spots) at lower altitudes where terrain blocks the radio signals.
So although ADS-B uses GPS satellites, it still requires land-based receivers to get position information from the aircraft. ADS-B will only have global coverage if the radio receivers that pick up the aircraft ADS-B signals have widespread global coverage. And installing and maintaining all those receivers costs someone money...
The real reason the FAA likes ADS-B is because they get to save the cost of running and maintaining their aging radar sites; not because ADS-B is so much better. ADS-B really just transfers much of the cost of getting aircraft positional information to the aircraft owners.
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Um, if this post was intended as sarcasm ignore the following...
If not, all I can say is, wow, where to begin? I'm surprised you haven't been flamed for this, as it reeks of both self-importance and naivete.
If this were true, I'm also betting you often hear the HR person cheerfully tell you in response, "As you've declined I'll say good day" and show you the door.
Companies are free to set conditions of employment as long as they don't violate laws. Background checks and drug tests are common as conditions for employment. Decline and you're not getting hired.
Thereby I doubt you'd ever get work for a major company.
If you were considered as valuable an employee as say, a CEO, it's possible they may waive those requirements. But I'm betting you're not...
In other words, best of luck with your self-employment.
I've also perused the Namecheap TOS regarding domains, and I don't see anything in there about passing the domain on 12 days prior to expiration as this guy claims...
This is one of the great myths the FAA has done nothing to correct, since they love the idea that people think we're going to start using a space-based system to replace radar - it's cool and modern.
ADS-B, the position reporting system that you're referring to that will supplement and eventually replace radar, does use GPS satellites to determine the aircraft's position. However, in the Continental US, that position information is sent via old-fashioned radios to land-based receivers.
Those terrestrial receivers have the same distance and line of sight limitations that radar does. If you look at FAA ADS-B coverage maps for the U.S., although they're better than radar coverage, they have similar limitations (i.e. dead spots) at lower altitudes where terrain blocks the radio signals.
http://ipadpilotnews.com/2012/08/understanding-ads-b-traffic/
So although ADS-B uses GPS satellites, it still requires land-based receivers to get position information from the aircraft. ADS-B will only have global coverage if the radio receivers that pick up the aircraft ADS-B signals have widespread global coverage. And installing and maintaining all those receivers costs someone money...
The real reason the FAA likes ADS-B is because they get to save the cost of running and maintaining their aging radar sites; not because ADS-B is so much better. ADS-B really just transfers much of the cost of getting aircraft positional information to the aircraft owners.