I would love for you to back that up - after privatisation, British Airways increased the ticket price, still filled the aircraft (until post 9/11) and made a profit doing so.
"It was a tough decision to make emotionally but the right decision from a business perspective," said Rod Eddington, chief executive of British Airways.
British Airways has never given figures on Concorde's profitability, but Mr. Eddington said it had been profitable until last year. During the past year, corporate travel on Concorde has declined "massively" as investment banks and other once-heavy users "have been writing Concorde out of their travel plans," he said.
I have never seen any evidence of subsidisation of Concorde post-privatisation.
When I read stuff like this, I really wonder if there is an alternative internet out there that some Slashdotters are on which is going to hell, because Im still seeing a healthy, useful Twitter - and the last time I read something directly from Twitter that matters was about 3 minutes ago.
So what if CloudFlare is carrying out surveillance, isnt Tor supposed to be immune to that? No one granted Tor users the unmitigated right to browse the internet and be treated the same as everyone else, especially if they can be picked out from the crowd...
No, I don't think this will end with a single phone being unlocked, and I damn well don't give a damn that it won't - if Apple complies with this request, then there is a legal basis for other requests as well. That's how the legal system works.
And no, I don't have a problem with that - if there is a warrant or a court agreement, then I don't see why a phone shouldn't be unlocked on demand. In the US or in other countries.
A good indication of how public feeling was fading was that Apollo 13 wasn't going to be televised during the lunar approach, and doubts were being had about the landing itself.
Apple has a choice: keep the source code around, in which case it is at risk of being stolen by various hackers and state agencies, or delete it and start from scratch for the next request.
Well, we haven't seem Apples master signing keys leaked yet, so just store the source code with them, with a similar process chain to access it. They already store something which would be devastating to iPhone security if released, so that's not really all that much of a good argument imho.
When I visited Uganda in 2012, there was a state visit from the Rwandan President, which was a big event - there was a ceremony that was televised where the Ugandan President and the Rwandan President gave each other medals to celebrate the end of the Rwandan civil war, and both men were in full military dress uniform with a chest full of medals.
It struck me then that you only ever see that from governments which are, for want of a better word, somewhat "suspect". Even my Ugandan friends admit that there is utterly no chance of change in the country - even though its a "democracy", the current presidents son is already being groomed as a replacement, and is already largely accepted by the populace as the true successor to the current president, which basically says it all about democracy in Uganda.
Microsoft already ships a codebase that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2, MinnowBoard Max et al, so how are they going to get spanked by a company that is yet to bring out hardware at all?
Especially when Expressif has a website that I cannot use in Chrome!
Thats pretty much what happened with Hubble - its an adapted KH-11 design using much of the infrastructure the NSA set up for that program, with NASA having to supply the optics and support systems.
The NSA has also offered NASA redundant mirrors and systems that are pretty much identical to the Hubble layout but with better capabilities.
You misunderstand my original post - the X-15 and the SR-71 fulfilled needs and requirements at the time, and thus were not ego projects.
However, the poster I replied to asked "Is there anything in the air today that can compare to the X-15 or the Blackbird?"
Both the X-15 and the SR-71 were retired because they outlived their needs and requirements - we moved on from the rocket propelled hypersonic X-15 because we learned everything we needed to from it, the next step for the project was to actually launch it into space but that was cancelled in favour of Gemini.
The X-15 did have a modern comparison, it was custom built for a specific job and was retired once it had completed that job - SpaceShipOne.
The SR-71 was massively expensive per flight hour, in the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was a very very costly aircraft to operate, and as such it was surpassed by developments in satellites and other capabilities. The U-2 was kept on in order to fulfil the capability that satellites could not cover, so it outlasted its successor.
Both platforms are no longer flying today because their need ended - and thats why we don't have anything that can compare to them today, because our current goal is not to have something comparable but have something that beats the socks off of both aircraft. We want air breathing hypersonic aircraft, which are several orders of magnitude harder to get right than sticking a big rocket on the back of some wings (not to diminish their accomplishments, but the teams working on air breathing hypersonics have a much harder job to do).
To simply create something that compares to the X-15 and the SR-71 today just to have something that compares, that would be the ego projects I am talking about - they are not needed, they are costly, they achieve little over the current platforms, so building them when there is no clear and present need would make them little more than ego boosting and prestige projects.
So today we have programs such as the unmanned X-51 Wave Rider, which is firmly based in scientific need - you won't see people thinking its as cool as either the X-15 or the SR-71, but its on the path to solving problems much harder than either of those two aircraft faced during its development.
For as long as I can remember there has been a camp for illegal immigrants (who want to get into the UK) in Calais, and France doesnt give a toss because if they did something then they would have to either accept those immigrants or deport them. While they are undeclared in those camps, they arent Frances problem.
NASA is how the US government funnels a lot of money to Boeing at al that would otherwise be declared as an outright subsidy under WTO rules - NASA basically funded Boeings entire composite fuselage barrel development that they used in the 787.
Well, the X-15 was an experimental aircraft, the capabilities of which we understand enough today to not need to repeat - our current technological limit that is being tested is air breathing hypersonic aircraft, not rocket propelled hypersonic aircraft. Rocket propelled hypersonics are a "solved problem", so why do we need to keep spending money there?
The SR-71 can be equaled or exceeded by several countries today, but the reality is that it was a costly aircraft that was superseded by satellites and the aircraft it was intended to replace (the U-2). If a mission requirement for the SR-71 was ever to come around again, a new aircraft will be built - and as it stands, feasability studies are being undertaken into a hypersonic SR-72... The SR-71 simply outlived its usefulness, and the world moved on.
Unless you are suggesting the US government should be spending money on useless, ego boosting, prestige projects rather than actually advancing technology across a broader range of areas, what do you suggest should be being done?
Yeah, the Olympic Stadium from the London 2012 olympics is being converted to a football stadium at a cost if around £300million and rented out to a top flight football club on a 99 year lease that pays less in rent than the conversion costs, let alone the original construction costs.
Pathetic.
Add to that the bullshit about specifically taxing businesses around the area (with the rationale being "they will benefit from the olympics in a few years, so they should pay more in tax now") and then banning those businesses from referring to the olympics in any way at all in advertising etc. Yes, these taxes included businesses whose revenue was not based on footfall traffic, so businesses such as design agencies or web agencies got hit as well for utterly no benefit.
"Europe" covers 50 or so countries, and none of them share telecoms regulations, so no, Europe hasnt adopted a principle of net neutrality. The EU, which is a subset of European coubtries, doesnt even have shared telecoms regulations, and none of the EU member countries have yet created legislation to enact the 2015 "net neutrality" laws passed by the EU parliament, so again, your assertion is false.
As to court orders, whether US ISPs have to follow US court orders isnt a matter of discussion - the fact remains that UK ISPs have to make decisions on content and content delivery, so that precedent has long passed.
Common carrier in the US has a legal meaning, it does not in the UK. You won't find Ofcom talking about common carrier status in its regulations regarding telecoms companies in the UK.
Your questions are very US-centric, while this is a European network carrying out activities in Europe - for a start, Three is already obliged to make content decisions for currently standing court orders blocking The Pirate Bay et al, Ofcom doesn't enforce any style of network neutrality in the UK, and the same goes for many European countries, and there is no flat "common carrier" status that Three currently enjoys anyway.
Karma's "unlimited" users weren't pleased the first time the plan changed, and now they're practically through the roof.
If a company can't afford to deliver the product as sold, and they aren't bound to a contract to deliver that product as sold for more than one billing period, then what do these users think is going to happen - Karma Wireless is going to continue to provide a loss making service until the company goes under with massive debts?
Karma Wireless tried something, it failed (mainly because they screwed up forecasting costs) and now they are moving on.
Why shouldn't it be considered a general salary? The salary is paid regardless of whether the nurse is delivering the drug or not.
Anyway, so lets take a salaried nurse at £23,000 a year (neither the lowest nor the highest wage for a nurse in the NHS), and lets assume it takes 5 minutes for the nurse to prescribe, fetch and hand the drug to the patient.
The figure you are asking for is... £0.97p for two aspirin.
Most of that is in the nurses salary. And that's ignoring the fact that my previous figures were using an off-the-shelf cost for a packet of 28 aspirin at a supermarket - the NHS will be buying in much larger quantities and getting them much cheaper. Aspirin is a generic drug, and as such the NHS will always be buying them at the lowest rate.
Thats also ignoring the fact that it doesn't take a nurse to prescribe and issue an aspirin to most patients, as certain lower paid clinical employees can do so.
The problem with the Armenian genocide is that most modern accounts of it ascribe blame to Turkey, which didn't exist at the time of the genocide - Turkey as we know it fought a war of independence against the former Ottoman Empire, which ruled what we today call Turkey up until its defeat at the end of WW1, upon which it was partitioned and occupied by the Allies.
The war of independence ended the sultanate which had ruled the Ottoman Empire and the partitioned states for hundreds of years - it was replaced with a completely different governmental structure.
That is why Turkey is so against the current stance of people around the Armenian genocide - its somewhat akin to blaming the current US state for actions carried out by the British state before the war of independence...
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I would love for you to back that up - after privatisation, British Airways increased the ticket price, still filled the aircraft (until post 9/11) and made a profit doing so.
From a WSJ article in 2003:
I have never seen any evidence of subsidisation of Concorde post-privatisation.
The Navy don't want a Harrier, thats the Marine Corp - the Navy want the F-35C. The Army don't want anything, because they can't operate it.
And Googles Android platform isnt an ... Android.
So please, do fuck off.
When I read stuff like this, I really wonder if there is an alternative internet out there that some Slashdotters are on which is going to hell, because Im still seeing a healthy, useful Twitter - and the last time I read something directly from Twitter that matters was about 3 minutes ago.
So what if CloudFlare is carrying out surveillance, isnt Tor supposed to be immune to that? No one granted Tor users the unmitigated right to browse the internet and be treated the same as everyone else, especially if they can be picked out from the crowd...
No, I don't think this will end with a single phone being unlocked, and I damn well don't give a damn that it won't - if Apple complies with this request, then there is a legal basis for other requests as well. That's how the legal system works.
And no, I don't have a problem with that - if there is a warrant or a court agreement, then I don't see why a phone shouldn't be unlocked on demand. In the US or in other countries.
A good indication of how public feeling was fading was that Apollo 13 wasn't going to be televised during the lunar approach, and doubts were being had about the landing itself.
Apple has a choice: keep the source code around, in which case it is at risk of being stolen by various hackers and state agencies, or delete it and start from scratch for the next request.
Well, we haven't seem Apples master signing keys leaked yet, so just store the source code with them, with a similar process chain to access it. They already store something which would be devastating to iPhone security if released, so that's not really all that much of a good argument imho.
When I visited Uganda in 2012, there was a state visit from the Rwandan President, which was a big event - there was a ceremony that was televised where the Ugandan President and the Rwandan President gave each other medals to celebrate the end of the Rwandan civil war, and both men were in full military dress uniform with a chest full of medals.
It struck me then that you only ever see that from governments which are, for want of a better word, somewhat "suspect". Even my Ugandan friends admit that there is utterly no chance of change in the country - even though its a "democracy", the current presidents son is already being groomed as a replacement, and is already largely accepted by the populace as the true successor to the current president, which basically says it all about democracy in Uganda.
This is all over Twitter, why the fuck would they need to pay to advertise it?
Microsoft already ships a codebase that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2, MinnowBoard Max et al, so how are they going to get spanked by a company that is yet to bring out hardware at all?
Especially when Expressif has a website that I cannot use in Chrome!
Thats pretty much what happened with Hubble - its an adapted KH-11 design using much of the infrastructure the NSA set up for that program, with NASA having to supply the optics and support systems.
The NSA has also offered NASA redundant mirrors and systems that are pretty much identical to the Hubble layout but with better capabilities.
No idea about your maths, but your reading comprehension sucks.
He said "Starting wages for her position at Yelp are nearly $10/hour over minimum wage.".
Thats not "$10/hr", thats "minimum wage + $~10/hr".
You misunderstand my original post - the X-15 and the SR-71 fulfilled needs and requirements at the time, and thus were not ego projects.
However, the poster I replied to asked "Is there anything in the air today that can compare to the X-15 or the Blackbird?"
Both the X-15 and the SR-71 were retired because they outlived their needs and requirements - we moved on from the rocket propelled hypersonic X-15 because we learned everything we needed to from it, the next step for the project was to actually launch it into space but that was cancelled in favour of Gemini.
The X-15 did have a modern comparison, it was custom built for a specific job and was retired once it had completed that job - SpaceShipOne.
The SR-71 was massively expensive per flight hour, in the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was a very very costly aircraft to operate, and as such it was surpassed by developments in satellites and other capabilities. The U-2 was kept on in order to fulfil the capability that satellites could not cover, so it outlasted its successor.
Both platforms are no longer flying today because their need ended - and thats why we don't have anything that can compare to them today, because our current goal is not to have something comparable but have something that beats the socks off of both aircraft. We want air breathing hypersonic aircraft, which are several orders of magnitude harder to get right than sticking a big rocket on the back of some wings (not to diminish their accomplishments, but the teams working on air breathing hypersonics have a much harder job to do).
To simply create something that compares to the X-15 and the SR-71 today just to have something that compares, that would be the ego projects I am talking about - they are not needed, they are costly, they achieve little over the current platforms, so building them when there is no clear and present need would make them little more than ego boosting and prestige projects.
So today we have programs such as the unmanned X-51 Wave Rider, which is firmly based in scientific need - you won't see people thinking its as cool as either the X-15 or the SR-71, but its on the path to solving problems much harder than either of those two aircraft faced during its development.
Windows 10 updates have been doing this since it was released to the general public in July 2015, why is it only just making headlines now?
For as long as I can remember there has been a camp for illegal immigrants (who want to get into the UK) in Calais, and France doesnt give a toss because if they did something then they would have to either accept those immigrants or deport them. While they are undeclared in those camps, they arent Frances problem.
NASA is how the US government funnels a lot of money to Boeing at al that would otherwise be declared as an outright subsidy under WTO rules - NASA basically funded Boeings entire composite fuselage barrel development that they used in the 787.
Well, the X-15 was an experimental aircraft, the capabilities of which we understand enough today to not need to repeat - our current technological limit that is being tested is air breathing hypersonic aircraft, not rocket propelled hypersonic aircraft. Rocket propelled hypersonics are a "solved problem", so why do we need to keep spending money there?
The SR-71 can be equaled or exceeded by several countries today, but the reality is that it was a costly aircraft that was superseded by satellites and the aircraft it was intended to replace (the U-2). If a mission requirement for the SR-71 was ever to come around again, a new aircraft will be built - and as it stands, feasability studies are being undertaken into a hypersonic SR-72... The SR-71 simply outlived its usefulness, and the world moved on.
Unless you are suggesting the US government should be spending money on useless, ego boosting, prestige projects rather than actually advancing technology across a broader range of areas, what do you suggest should be being done?
Yeah, the Olympic Stadium from the London 2012 olympics is being converted to a football stadium at a cost if around £300million and rented out to a top flight football club on a 99 year lease that pays less in rent than the conversion costs, let alone the original construction costs.
Pathetic.
Add to that the bullshit about specifically taxing businesses around the area (with the rationale being "they will benefit from the olympics in a few years, so they should pay more in tax now") and then banning those businesses from referring to the olympics in any way at all in advertising etc. Yes, these taxes included businesses whose revenue was not based on footfall traffic, so businesses such as design agencies or web agencies got hit as well for utterly no benefit.
"Europe" covers 50 or so countries, and none of them share telecoms regulations, so no, Europe hasnt adopted a principle of net neutrality. The EU, which is a subset of European coubtries, doesnt even have shared telecoms regulations, and none of the EU member countries have yet created legislation to enact the 2015 "net neutrality" laws passed by the EU parliament, so again, your assertion is false.
As to court orders, whether US ISPs have to follow US court orders isnt a matter of discussion - the fact remains that UK ISPs have to make decisions on content and content delivery, so that precedent has long passed.
Common carrier in the US has a legal meaning, it does not in the UK. You won't find Ofcom talking about common carrier status in its regulations regarding telecoms companies in the UK.
Your questions are very US-centric, while this is a European network carrying out activities in Europe - for a start, Three is already obliged to make content decisions for currently standing court orders blocking The Pirate Bay et al, Ofcom doesn't enforce any style of network neutrality in the UK, and the same goes for many European countries, and there is no flat "common carrier" status that Three currently enjoys anyway.
If a company can't afford to deliver the product as sold, and they aren't bound to a contract to deliver that product as sold for more than one billing period, then what do these users think is going to happen - Karma Wireless is going to continue to provide a loss making service until the company goes under with massive debts?
Karma Wireless tried something, it failed (mainly because they screwed up forecasting costs) and now they are moving on.
Why shouldn't it be considered a general salary? The salary is paid regardless of whether the nurse is delivering the drug or not.
Anyway, so lets take a salaried nurse at £23,000 a year (neither the lowest nor the highest wage for a nurse in the NHS), and lets assume it takes 5 minutes for the nurse to prescribe, fetch and hand the drug to the patient.
The figure you are asking for is ... £0.97p for two aspirin.
Most of that is in the nurses salary. And that's ignoring the fact that my previous figures were using an off-the-shelf cost for a packet of 28 aspirin at a supermarket - the NHS will be buying in much larger quantities and getting them much cheaper. Aspirin is a generic drug, and as such the NHS will always be buying them at the lowest rate.
Thats also ignoring the fact that it doesn't take a nurse to prescribe and issue an aspirin to most patients, as certain lower paid clinical employees can do so.
The problem with the Armenian genocide is that most modern accounts of it ascribe blame to Turkey, which didn't exist at the time of the genocide - Turkey as we know it fought a war of independence against the former Ottoman Empire, which ruled what we today call Turkey up until its defeat at the end of WW1, upon which it was partitioned and occupied by the Allies.
The war of independence ended the sultanate which had ruled the Ottoman Empire and the partitioned states for hundreds of years - it was replaced with a completely different governmental structure.
That is why Turkey is so against the current stance of people around the Armenian genocide - its somewhat akin to blaming the current US state for actions carried out by the British state before the war of independence...
Or in the UK, assuming $17K USD is £11,873.30 (xe.com conversion) - that's 400,545 tablets at retail prices in our local supermarket.