Who really don't want to get rid of DST, they want to make it year round. Because they live on the eastern edge of their time zone and hate seeing the sun come up before eight o'clock.
Replacing black boxes is unlikely for several reasons (according to Jack Cox, of "Ask the Captain":
"Vanishing" commercial airliners are quite rare. If they don't land successfully, they usually just crash and the debris (and black box) is found.
Replacing all the info in a modern black box entails a significant bandwidth requirement (currently expensive)
Black boxes are known to be pretty reliable. There would have to be a lot of expensive testing to convince the industry that a alternative was at least as reliable
Just the legal questions about who owns the data, who can use it, and who can hack it, are probably enough to kill the idea
Bottom line: too expensive for now. Maybe in the future.
Would airline passengers not pay an extra 10 bucks each to travel in a "always connected" airplane that doesn't "vanish" in some far-flung ocean somewhere?
As opposed to spending that ten dollars on seat selection/overhead storage/etc? I doubt it.
I went to the first few DerbyCons, and there was a lot of drinking. At the last one I attended, so many people (including the presenters) were drunk after lunch that I left.
I don't know if David is primarily referring to the markerboard incident, but if you throw a drunken party, you're going to get drunken behavior.
So watching Fox News (or MSNBC, etc) is going to answer this perennial college sophomore question?
Couldn't we just watch Three Days of The Condor instead?
I suspect that the salespeople had been shopping these to the airport officials for sometime now. This week they were able to charge "full retail" and them some.
Dollar stores causes economic distress? They don't provide union jobs, true, but in our town they exist alongside Kroger and Walmart. Whole Foods certainly would never survive in their neighborhoods (I live in one). These ILSR people are pissed at dollar stores for a reason, but I can't figure out what it is.
If more bugs were called out like this, the programmers would spend more time testing their software instead of taking the "we'll fix it if we get caught" attitude.
Before my doctors were required to enter all my info in the computer, each visit was like I had never seen them before. Since the computers have been installed, the visits are much more productive and we get to the important follow up issues. I don't think they like them, but it has dramatically improved my experience as a patient.
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Who really don't want to get rid of DST, they want to make it year round. Because they live on the eastern edge of their time zone and hate seeing the sun come up before eight o'clock.
How can some lawmaker there tell Americans what to do?
It's "So long, and thanks for all the pollen"
I've had jobs that seemed like that every day.
Would airline passengers not pay an extra 10 bucks each to travel in a "always connected" airplane that doesn't "vanish" in some far-flung ocean somewhere?
As opposed to spending that ten dollars on seat selection/overhead storage/etc? I doubt it.
I went to the first few DerbyCons, and there was a lot of drinking. At the last one I attended, so many people (including the presenters) were drunk after lunch that I left. I don't know if David is primarily referring to the markerboard incident, but if you throw a drunken party, you're going to get drunken behavior.
Don't give up too soon, Netflix!
So watching Fox News (or MSNBC, etc) is going to answer this perennial college sophomore question? Couldn't we just watch Three Days of The Condor instead?
Says the person who has never driven a train at 350 km/h
So sue me. I'm a romantic.
I suspect that the salespeople had been shopping these to the airport officials for sometime now. This week they were able to charge "full retail" and them some.
Dollar stores causes economic distress? They don't provide union jobs, true, but in our town they exist alongside Kroger and Walmart. Whole Foods certainly would never survive in their neighborhoods (I live in one). These ILSR people are pissed at dollar stores for a reason, but I can't figure out what it is.
If more bugs were called out like this, the programmers would spend more time testing their software instead of taking the "we'll fix it if we get caught" attitude.
Before my doctors were required to enter all my info in the computer, each visit was like I had never seen them before. Since the computers have been installed, the visits are much more productive and we get to the important follow up issues. I don't think they like them, but it has dramatically improved my experience as a patient.
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