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  1. Re:Is this a bad thing? on Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue · · Score: 1

    They make as much off the cargo as they do the passengers, so it really wasn't half-full, and once you have 95 people scheduled what are you going to do? Say, "Sucks to be you. We ain't flying that plane tonight."?

  2. Re:The captain pulled up sharply to AVOID a collis on Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue · · Score: 1

    Why?

    GPS lays out the most direct route. That route is processed through very expensive software that predicts the most optimum flightpath accounting for winds, temperatures and the optimum speeds for the airframe and engines. Airframes and engines tending to be very similar, and the winds being the same for everyone, and everyone wants to depart at 6pm (right after their last meeting), and arrive ASAP, planes tend to get bunched up.

  3. Re:Is this a bad thing? on Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue · · Score: 1

    I was on a long trip years ago. At about 3am, I saw some guys working on the side of the rode. Slowed down and got in the other lane to give them room. When I got right next to it, the road crew was actually a safety barrier with reflectors on it. I pulled over immediately and woke up my co-driver to take over. SHEESH!

  4. Re:Thankfully Not... on Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue · · Score: 2

    Dude, back the hell up! Don't you realize that once we send troops in and some die, that we'll HAVE to keep sending more until we win, because otherwise the first to go will have died in vain?

  5. Re:Thankfully Not... on Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue · · Score: 1

    The bird could carry it all the way to the crash site if launched from the correct height and on the correct trajectory.

    The US Navy did actually experiment with training chickens to guide air delivered bombs to enemy destroyers in WWII.

  6. Re:New safety message on Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue · · Score: 1

    Already a replacement for the Discovery.

  7. Re:Shame they don't have cabin video on Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue · · Score: 1

    So, your goal is to see just how sick you can make them. Pass the shake-up test, and you get to move on to airplane food test?

  8. Re:You only had to listen on CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere 'Turbulence' · · Score: 1

    Without the government eating up 25% of my paycheck before I see it, maybe I'll be able to pay for those services myself?

  9. Re:You only had to listen on CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere 'Turbulence' · · Score: 1

    What complete and utter drivel. You Democrats really need to stop spreading this nonsense, as it really undermines what little credibility you have left. The US saw an extremely sharp rise in the standard of living after WWII, because the rest of the first world was a bombed out shambles. For years, the US was the only major power with the infrastructure and manufacturing capability to supply the needs of rebuilding Europe and Asia. This was a historical anomaly, not likely to be repeated, and totally outside the sphere of political control.

  10. Re:ANOTHER FREE MARKET TRIUMPH! on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    Yes. That is the only way things can go. Because trade unions will never arise, and people will never try to shift away from the low paying to a better job.

    You're out-of-context visions from the industrial revolution aside, your understanding of history, anthropology and economies is hollow and vapid. Work-life was difficult and demeaning during various stages of the industrial revolution. The only way of life more difficult was living in the country as a dirt farmer. There is a reason people moved to the cities to work in factories....and it isn't because the wanted to drink the "waster" in the local water supply.

  11. Re:This is out of control on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    How many white or hispanic kids did he see walking around looking suspicious? Without something to compare it to, your "tendency" doesn't mean much.

  12. Re:This is out of control on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Even if the 911 operator said, "You must get back in your car and go home, right now!!" it would not be a lawful order. It would be a command from someone on the other end of a phone line with all the authority of both jack and squat.

  13. Re:Zimmerman vs Martin on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    It was Zimmerman's neighborhood, and anyone is allowed to walk the streets. He saw someone he didn't recognize. They had already had a significant amount of crime in the neighborhood. He wasn't told not to follow by police. It was a 911 operator who has as much authority to tell you what to do as I do. You're claiming murder, when you have nothing to support it.

  14. Re:drug dealer excuses on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    In NC, the law doesn't even help you if your the one that started the fight. And you can't use the law to stop someone else from being injured/killed, ie. you're not allowed to "save" someone.

  15. Re:drug dealer excuses on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    You will be able to use acting in self defense as a defense against the injury of a non-participant, but only in the same way that you can use swerving to avoid a head-on collision as a defense against the wrongful death of the child you ran over in the process. The jury will see it completely different if your were speeding (or shooting) next to a playground vs on a country road. In either case, there will/should be a trial to decide the circumstances and culpability.

  16. Re:"the neighborhood watch volunteer" on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    I've got a Concealed Carry Permit. The State of North Carolina says that I can legally carry a firearm on my person in a concealed manner on any public street. Why would I not be allowed to carry it when walking a dog at night?

    I'm on a public street when I see someone that doesn't seem to belong to the neighborhood, and appears to be hiding their identity, very much like the previous perpetrators that I helped catch. What law forbids me from walking up to them and asking them questions?

    Being a member of a voluntary organization does not remove my rights or responsibilities.

  17. Re:Talk about media bias on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Once they start slamming my head into the concrete? Yes.

    I heard about black parents whining that they had to have a conversation with their children on how to act in certain situations. My white father had a similar conversation with me. He said, "Son, you go sneaking around people's houses at night, and you'll get your ass shot."

    Let's review:
    You're in a strange neighborhood. A gated community, that has had problems with break-ins and home invasions.
    You're walking around in the middle of the night with your head and face concealed.
    Someone is watching you.

    Do you:

    A) try to sneak away and hide in a dark corner?

    B) yell, "Hello? Could I help you?"

    My dad would say that option A will get your ass shot.

  18. Re:Talk about media bias on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    The First does not cover communicating threats or inciting riots.

  19. Re:Talk about media bias on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    The only thing the OJ case proved was that you can get away with murder if you can afford the lawyers.

  20. Re:Racism on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Bullshit!

    White people just riot for different reasons. Like the local college team winning a basketball tournament.

  21. Re:Racism on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    You watch to many TV cop shows.

  22. Re:Self defense? on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    So I can only use deadly force if my brains are about to spill out, not if they just plan to crack my skull open. Got ya'. Do they have to sign an affidavit of their intentions before or after they start bouncing the back of my head against the concrete sidewalk?

  23. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    And I'm still wondering how someone didn't end up in jail for communicating a threat or inciting a riot for that one.

  24. Re:There is a huge positive bias on Assessing Media Bias: Microsoft Vs. Everyone Else · · Score: 0

    Java.
    PDAs.

    Some others that they were only mildly successful with:
    WWW.

  25. Re:Seems inferior to the current solution. on Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes · · Score: 1

    Dude, don't give those Democrats any more ideas. Obama will be running on the "broken needle in every pot" platform.