2) (Someone already pointed at this) How could pilot see behind the plane?
Obviously all distance estimates are ESTIMATES. But perhaps the debris was headed FOR him, and some of it passed overhead - which the pilot would see. Therefore he estimated it as 5 nm aft.
btw.... don't get me wrong Cmdrtaco.... but can't you spell my country's name properly? 'Chili'.... what were u thinking?
Don't worry - you should see what the Americans do to MY country - Costa Rica. They confuse us with Puerto Rico! To the extent that I have even had my luggage sent to San Juan (Puerto Rico) instead of San José (Costa Rica). Sigh.
lobbying in such countries is still way cheaper than lobbying in the US.
I live in one of those poor countries. And I agree with you. But remember: you get what you pay for. Yes, lobbying is cheaper. But then again, law enforcement is much weaker. They have trouble putting murderers in jail. A copyright infringement case is way way down on the priority list. Personally I have never heard of one.
Also add in the fact that plagiarism is pretty much the norm here, from school-age up. Those "draconian" laws just make people laugh - first you have to prove that the law was broken (unlike other "free" countries where you apparently have to prove your innocence). That takes resources the government doesn't have, and organization on the part of ISP's - no way. And after all that, I suppose one could simply bribe the judge...
You can't accurately diagnose a problem if you have multiple things that have changed.
Yes you can. If I take a sledgehammer to your laptop I assure you that multiple things will change. I also assure you that the diagnosis will be fairly easy. "Look, someone beat the crap out of my laptop!"
a possibility that Linux or whatever software you're using has screwed up hardware drivers.
What hardware drivers? It's a keyboard for Pete's sake - you know? It's a physical contact that sends current (or not) to a chip depending on if a key has been pressed. The chip translates this depending on which key was pressed, and puts the appropriate data and flags on the bus. There is no "driver", it's all done in hardware. The "driver" part in software merely determines how/when the keyboard is serviced. The keyboard itself will work regarless, however. With DOS, with linux, with Windows, or whatever other OS you choose to run. If it DOESN'T work that means the keyboard is broken.
You would have known this if you had read the fine print when you bought the damn thing.
For all the fine print in the world, you can't get around consumer protection laws. We are talking about a manufaturing defect in the HARDWARE (the keyboard) which has nothing to do whatsoever with the OS running on the machine.
Here we go with the bad car analogies:
It's like Ford refusing to replace a defective electric window under warranty on a new car because the driver used Texaco gasoline instead of Shell. One has nothing to do with the other. Personally I hope HP get a lot of flak from this.
You know, suicide bombers do it for a reason. A lot of the times it's money - for their family. So follow the money, and go after the family. Make sure they don't get ANY of it. Eventually when people realize they're blowing themselves up for nothing, well, not everyone wants to be vaporised for Allah. A few, but not the majority I'm sure.
So, uh, you don't care if kids get raped or terrorists kill people?
I care just as much as you do - in that vague, detached sort of way we care about stuff happening to other people. Aww isn't that tragic - hey look, the Simpsons are on!
However I don't pretend to be some altruistic image of perfect love and caring. I admit that I'm human, and I care a hell of a lot MORE if it happens to me or someone I love than if it happens to someone I hear about in the news. I don't DO hypocrisy.
Bullshitters (on BOTH sides of the lines) are the people that get us into trouble. You take care of yourself, I'll take care of myself.
And if we run into one of these nutjobs on a plane or elsewhere, we can both take him out together - that's something worth taking a bullet for. But spare me the paternalism, please.
but we DO care if you die in a terrorist bombing or if your kids get raped and photographed by some perv.
No, you care if YOU or a loved one dies in a terrorist bombing, and you care if YOUR kid gets raped and photographed by some perv. Spare me the bleeding heart. And please, if you're so concerned, then make damned sure we make those people we PROVE to have commited those crimes as miserable as possible, so that other idiots might think twice about doing something like that.
Its so good to know that they're really working themselves over to keep the public happy.
What makes you think that wealthy people owe "the public" anything? With the exception of crooks, lottery winners and (probably) rap stars, those who are wealthy became so by working their asses off, or being smart enough to multiply what their parents gave them instead of blowing the family fortune. Why does "the public" feel it is owed something?
I'd never buy a $1M laptop, just like I'd never buy a Rolls or a Ferrari. A Toyota is fine for me. But what someone else wants to do with their money is their own business, not mine./rant
there is a reason for the United States' lack of participation in international agreements of this sort, and the reason is not (usually) a casual indifference to human rights. It has to do with the autonomous legal systems of the individual states, which are protected under the U.S. Constitution. So even if the U.S. were to sign a (perfectly reasonable) treaty restricting how its courts could operate, one could argue that the federal government lacks the authority to tell the state courts how to operate.
BS. If this were true then the US wouldn't be able to sign any international treaty at all. However I guess it's better to not sign a treaty than sign a treaty and ignore it... oh wait, nevermind...
have personally witnessed the sorry end to a scene where a seven year old boy was pounding a kitten to death with a wrench.
Surely that kitten deserved to die!
So, how did you stop the boy? Did you beat the crap out of him? Or did you ask him how he thought the kitten must feel as the wrench penetrated its skull?
Look, the RIAA's stance is that this lady's child broke the law. People break the law independent of their social or financial standing.
However it is curious that, of the hundreds (and probably thousands) of cases of copyright infringement the RIAA is probably aware of, this is one of the cases they choose to pursue.
And that is there is no such thing as a "natural right".
People who think like you are the reason for this whole mess.
Please understand that every human being has the natural right to EVERYTHING IMAGINABLE. Laws take rights away from the people and establish certain limits. Laws do not and should not confer rights to the people.
The exact opposite is true for government. Government has no inherent right except that which is specifically granted by the law which (presumably) is written by the people.
Nonetheless I can forsee a great future for you as a district attorney.
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Good to see someone else from Costa Rica here in /.
:P
Pura Vida Mae!
2) (Someone already pointed at this) How could pilot see behind the plane?
Obviously all distance estimates are ESTIMATES. But perhaps the debris was headed FOR him, and some of it passed overhead - which the pilot would see. Therefore he estimated it as 5 nm aft.
btw.... don't get me wrong Cmdrtaco.... but can't you spell my country's name properly? 'Chili'.... what were u thinking?
Don't worry - you should see what the Americans do to MY country - Costa Rica. They confuse us with Puerto Rico! To the extent that I have even had my luggage sent to San Juan (Puerto Rico) instead of San José (Costa Rica). Sigh.
lobbying in such countries is still way cheaper than lobbying in the US.
I live in one of those poor countries. And I agree with you. But remember: you get what you pay for. Yes, lobbying is cheaper. But then again, law enforcement is much weaker. They have trouble putting murderers in jail. A copyright infringement case is way way down on the priority list. Personally I have never heard of one.
Also add in the fact that plagiarism is pretty much the norm here, from school-age up. Those "draconian" laws just make people laugh - first you have to prove that the law was broken (unlike other "free" countries where you apparently have to prove your innocence). That takes resources the government doesn't have, and organization on the part of ISP's - no way. And after all that, I suppose one could simply bribe the judge...
You can't accurately diagnose a problem if you have multiple things that have changed.
Yes you can. If I take a sledgehammer to your laptop I assure you that multiple things will change. I also assure you that the diagnosis will be fairly easy. "Look, someone beat the crap out of my laptop!"
a possibility that Linux or whatever software you're using has screwed up hardware drivers.
What hardware drivers? It's a keyboard for Pete's sake - you know? It's a physical contact that sends current (or not) to a chip depending on if a key has been pressed. The chip translates this depending on which key was pressed, and puts the appropriate data and flags on the bus. There is no "driver", it's all done in hardware. The "driver" part in software merely determines how/when the keyboard is serviced. The keyboard itself will work regarless, however. With DOS, with linux, with Windows, or whatever other OS you choose to run. If it DOESN'T work that means the keyboard is broken.
Sony treated me quite kindly when my video card was having problems.
Man they rooted your video card, too? Damn!
You would have known this if you had read the fine print when you bought the damn thing.
For all the fine print in the world, you can't get around consumer protection laws. We are talking about a manufaturing defect in the HARDWARE (the keyboard) which has nothing to do whatsoever with the OS running on the machine.
Here we go with the bad car analogies:
It's like Ford refusing to replace a defective electric window under warranty on a new car because the driver used Texaco gasoline instead of Shell. One has nothing to do with the other. Personally I hope HP get a lot of flak from this.
I never did track down the cause of it, but disabling volume shadow copy and indexing did mitigate the problem a little.
But, but, you're disabling the very features you paid (another) $100-odd dollars to Microsoft for! After all, why else did you "migrate" to Vista?
So he's effectively paid 3 grand for a silent hi-def DVD player.
:P
And when they invalidate the keys because of the hacked HD-DVD/Blue Ray, it won't even do that!
Wait a tic....
You know, suicide bombers do it for a reason. A lot of the times it's money - for their family. So follow the money, and go after the family. Make sure they don't get ANY of it. Eventually when people realize they're blowing themselves up for nothing, well, not everyone wants to be vaporised for Allah. A few, but not the majority I'm sure.
So, uh, you don't care if kids get raped or terrorists kill people?
I care just as much as you do - in that vague, detached sort of way we care about stuff happening to other people. Aww isn't that tragic - hey look, the Simpsons are on!
However I don't pretend to be some altruistic image of perfect love and caring. I admit that I'm human, and I care a hell of a lot MORE if it happens to me or someone I love than if it happens to someone I hear about in the news. I don't DO hypocrisy.
Bullshitters (on BOTH sides of the lines) are the people that get us into trouble. You take care of yourself, I'll take care of myself.
And if we run into one of these nutjobs on a plane or elsewhere, we can both take him out together - that's something worth taking a bullet for. But spare me the paternalism, please.
but we DO care if you die in a terrorist bombing or if your kids get raped and photographed by some perv.
No, you care if YOU or a loved one dies in a terrorist bombing, and you care if YOUR kid gets raped and photographed by some perv. Spare me the bleeding heart. And please, if you're so concerned, then make damned sure we make those people we PROVE to have commited those crimes as miserable as possible, so that other idiots might think twice about doing something like that.
But leave ME the fuck alone. Thank you.
The government is not allowed to read my mail without a warrant.
The government is not allowed to listen in on my phone without a warrant.
Why the hell should they be allowed to read my internet packets without a warrant?
Its so good to know that they're really working themselves over to keep the public happy.
/rant
What makes you think that wealthy people owe "the public" anything? With the exception of crooks, lottery winners and (probably) rap stars, those who are wealthy became so by working their asses off, or being smart enough to multiply what their parents gave them instead of blowing the family fortune. Why does "the public" feel it is owed something?
I'd never buy a $1M laptop, just like I'd never buy a Rolls or a Ferrari. A Toyota is fine for me. But what someone else wants to do with their money is their own business, not mine.
It is a pity that the rich could afford these toys and the people that really know how to use these device can't afford them.
You're generalizing of course. Let me add: Sometimes rich people know how to use their toys, and boy is it fun!
You really think it made more of a difference than voting?
You really think voting makes a difference?
Imagine any business trying to explain why phones stop working when inside the building...
For certain businesses (restaurants, cinemas, hospitals) that might actually be a GOOD thing...
the quiet revolution.
Well, if you call a bomb in your letterbox and martial law quiet, so be it.
there is a reason for the United States' lack of participation in international agreements of this sort, and the reason is not (usually) a casual indifference to human rights. It has to do with the autonomous legal systems of the individual states, which are protected under the U.S. Constitution. So even if the U.S. were to sign a (perfectly reasonable) treaty restricting how its courts could operate, one could argue that the federal government lacks the authority to tell the state courts how to operate.
BS. If this were true then the US wouldn't be able to sign any international treaty at all. However I guess it's better to not sign a treaty than sign a treaty and ignore it... oh wait, nevermind...
Here we have a little girl facing the electric chair, and all you can do is talk about how wonderful things are where you live.
So what are YOU doing about it?
Here we have a little girl facing the electic chair and all you can do is criticize other people's posts? Piss off.
have personally witnessed the sorry end to a scene where a seven year old boy was pounding a kitten to death with a wrench.
Surely that kitten deserved to die!
So, how did you stop the boy? Did you beat the crap out of him? Or did you ask him how he thought the kitten must feel as the wrench penetrated its skull?
Look, the RIAA's stance is that this lady's child broke the law. People break the law independent of their social or financial standing.
However it is curious that, of the hundreds (and probably thousands) of cases of copyright infringement the RIAA is probably aware of, this is one of the cases they choose to pursue.
Canada, along with most other stable democracies, changes gradually and peacefully.
You obvioulsy weren't in Quebec 40 odd years ago.
Hence why I'm glad I live in Canada
I hear your constitution is due for another re-write. Ohh, are you too young to remember THAT? Canada is not much better.
And that is there is no such thing as a "natural right".
People who think like you are the reason for this whole mess.
Please understand that every human being has the natural right to EVERYTHING IMAGINABLE. Laws take rights away from the people and establish certain limits. Laws do not and should not confer rights to the people.
The exact opposite is true for government. Government has no inherent right except that which is specifically granted by the law which (presumably) is written by the people.
Nonetheless I can forsee a great future for you as a district attorney.