I once saw a red light camera on Aero Drive off the 15 north with its head beaten off, hanging by a threat. I'd like to shake the hand of that good samaritan who beat the shit out of that fucking camera.
If you can't or won't control your kids, please keep them at home until they can maintain themselves in public.
There is another side to that story. I've been a business traveler for a lot of years, earning Platinum status with Skyteam year after year. I was always annoyed by parents traveling with kids... Until I became a father myself. Unfortunately, it is not always an option to "just keep them home". Family living abroad, a death in the family, there are many reasons why infants and toddlers need to travel.
Having that said, your frustration should be aimed at the parents who are unprepared. When my (now 2 year old) daughter travels, 90% of our carry-on is toys and food to keep her silent. And usually there are two 10-minute moments that every kid cries: take-off and landing, for obvious reasons. And even the landing noise can be mitigated by feeding the child, especially if it is still an infant. However, I have seen parents doing nothing when their kid screams so loud that the vibration becomes a hazard for the engines. That, my friend, is the person you should vent your frustration at. These parents should be banned from airplanes, and parenthood altogether. The kid is not the nightmare, the parent is.
On her latest trip, last week from AMS to SFO, my wife was actually complimented about our daughter's behavior by passengers around them. The trick? A fully charged Ipad Mini fully loaded with Dora the Explorer movies.
His name implies he is a national from South Korea. South Korean nationals are part of the visa waiver program and can stay in the US for up to 90 days without a visa. Why waste this visa on him?
According to this information from the Social Security Office, holders of a P-visa are eligible to receive an SSN. This means that he can actually pay taxes on his US income, should he win any major prizes.
Another reason could be that a previous visa request (such as J or F) was denied, making him ineligible for the VWP.
Perhaps doctors don't prescribe them because:
- they don't work very well in the short term and not at all in the long term
- they are expensive
- they have lots of bad side effects
I'm an overweight fat networking guy who sits all day. My PCP prescribed me Qsymia. In the first month, I lost about 10 pounds.
The stuff made me feel full, I just did not have an appetite and I would forget to eat. Or drink for that matter. After the first week I had no energy, did not sleep very well and my blood pressure was slightly increased. I did have one refill, but never actually took those and my PCP and I decided that this was not the best drug on the market.
Granted, this is "anecdotal evidence", but I went back to weight watchers.
the moment the government has a say, any say under what circumstances you can ask to be killed is a big, and enormous no no. Once this door is breached we as a society can never go back. And frankly its not the kind of future I want to live in.
Isn't this exactly what's the problem here? If I ask my doctor to end my misery, that is between me and my doctor, the government should have nothing to do with that. You are preaching exactly the opposite.
Perhaps some network guru can explain: Why wasn't this exploited long ago?
This was exploited a decade ago already. The only difference with today is that it was done by one anti-spammer (MAPS) versus another anti-spammer (ORBS) to fight out a war.
Let me guess, you are still a VFR pilot only. Being able to fly with no visual ques (ie 0 visibility) is a basic requirement for flying anything beyond a hobby.
While I don't intend to make flying more than a hobby, I am training for my IFR rating and I've spent quite some time under the hood. Including recovering from unusual attitudes and instument approaches/go-arounds.
I know that does not, by far, make me a profi, but my argument is that basic flying stays the same. IFR or VFR, in a stall condition you point the nose down, not up.
Well, I can only advise you to read more carefully the investigation report (which was made by the BEA, not the FAA).
Did you actually read it yourself? The captain, who came back from his rest, did realize that they were in a stall. The co-pilot in the right seat kept the nose up, increasing the stall. He kept the nose up when they were dropping, and dropping fast. He kept the nose up even when they were below 10000ft. That has nothing to do with a high-speed stall at the upper end of the coffin corner, that is simply a pilot forgetting what to do in case of a stall, which is nose down.
Whoever moderated this as troll needs to read the moderation guidelines again. You don't have to agree with the content, but it is definitely not trolling.
Get some time under the hood, and come back and tell us the same. Been there, done that.
Been there, too. I've flown on instruments only, and when you're IFR then yes, the statement made can be true in some cases. However, it is way to blunt to just say "a pilot can't look out the window to see what's wrong". Are your instrument readings of your number one engine weird? Go send the co-co into the cabin to have a look!
When sensors on a plane malfunction, you can't just look out the window and know what's wrong.
I grossly disagree. I fly planes. In the aviation food-chain, I'm on the bottom with my private pilot license, allowing me to fly single engine lawmower-like airplanes.
I look out of the window for most of my flying. The only things I care about are engine, airspeed and altititude. I could not care less about the attitude indicator, vsi, compass or any other instruments. If all my instruments die, I can hear by the sound of my engine with its approximate rpm is. I know that with an RPM of 2300, I'll be cruising at 100mph. Lower it to 2100 and I'll descent at approx 500ft/min. I can look out the window and see the earth closing, meaning I'm about to land. If needed, I can land an aircraft without any instruments at all (all tho granted, I would declare an emergency).
Why can I do that? Because I'm not trained to look at a computer screen in the cockpit. And don't give me crap about how jetliners are different. They are not. They fly based on rudder, aileron and elevators.
My point is that, contrary to popular belief, US laws do not apply everywhere in the world. So whatever the law defines as rape in your flyover state, can have a whole different meaning in another country.
Let me give another example: most states consider consensual intercourse between an adult and a sixteen year old "statutory rape". In many countries around the world, it is legal or just a "lower" criminal offense which usually does not carry a long prison sentence.
Morals differ everywhere and are codified as such in law. Look at the differences in age of consent. One does not have to agree with this, but before you travel it is wise to understand. Sex on the beach in Dubai has landed people in prison as well.
but it's not like the Swedish Justice system is widely considered to be corrupt. Hell, they have statements from Swedish women saying he did it
I'm not an Assange supporter, but:
The ladies both consented to engage in adult activities. They decided afterwards that Assange allegedly did not agree to their terms and conditions, so they filed charges. It's kind of like a dad borrowing his car to his son saying "you can't go faster than 65mph" and then filing theft charges if he finds out that the kid drove 80mph on the freeway. The Swedish systems allows for this, so while it may not be corrupt, its laws are not the same as in the U.S.
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Paediatricians don't recommend the use of these devices. They haven't been shown to decrease the risk of anything. They tend to produce false alarms, causing a hell of a lot of parent anxiety, and which may contribute to post-natal depression (which has got a well established link to infant death).
We've discussed the use with our pediatrician, and she was fairly neutral about it. They do indeed produce false alarms now and then and I have found myself from deep asleep to wide awake in my daughter's room a couple of times, after my beloved misses forgot to turn the damn thing off when nursing.
That said, the alarm did also go off on a few occassions where my daughter was somewhat unresponsive and blue/grey-ish. Did it save my daughter from certain death? Most likely not. Did it alert us to an unhealthy state of our little princess? Most definitely yes. We know for a fact that she was not breathing for at least 20 seconds, and that she was deep, deep asleep.
I'm not saying that everyone should go out and buy it. But we've turned our device off only a few weeks ago when my daughter turned 2 and I we've slept a lot better knowing that there was some kind of monitoring going on.
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That last line accurately sums up every infant I've ever had in my charge. Not sure what pattern you could discern from graphing all of this data, if my experiences are any guide it would make for one hell of a random number generator. I doubt one can find a better entropy source than a newborns sleeping "schedule".;)
Newborns are the most fragile thing on earth, and every parent knows it. If a device helps showing a pattern, good!
I have a two-year old daughter. From the first night, we monitored her breathing using one of those boards you put under the mattress. While this will never prevent a baby from dying, it will alert a parent when a baby has stopped breathing, so CPR can be applied and 911 called. It might just save the life of a baby. We have had a few actual alarms*, which were later attributed by the pediatrician to the low timeout on the device: it screams after 20 seconds without movement. Apparently, my little girl would sometime just stop breathing for a short while if she was in a very deep sleep. She hated the thing, and as soon as she was physically able, she would just shut the thing down on her own (quite funny to see on the cam, those little fingers slowing finding the button).
When my daughter was 6 months old, friends became parent of a baby girl. During the first night in the hospital, that girl actually stopped breathing, turned blue and was subsequently resuscitated. After a week in NICU she was released. Needless to say, our friends immediately purchased the same device that I used.
One can argue that these devices have little use other than helping parents sleep, knowing they'd be alarmed if something happens. Even if that's the case, trust me, it is money well spent. As a new parent, there are a ton of things that you'll be concerned about and this just helps easy your mind.
* The amount of alarms we've had because my wife took her out of the crib for nursing and forgot to turn the damn thing off.. Well... That's a bit higher.
Exactly, that's the part these self-professed "patriots" don't get. Ideology and nationalism doesn't put food on the table.
Actually, it would.
If everyone in the US would stop buying foreign goods or sending money oversees, the US can sustain itself. There is more than enough farmland, more than enough industrial capacity to produce everything needed and the world's most innovative area (silicon valley) is in the US.
So while I'm not at all one of those "the US is the best" folks, it is certainly true that the US will survive should the world decide to hate it.
Ever heard of Exede? Viasat has its own satellite in orbit and offers consumer internet. Pricing starts at $50 for 12 down, 3 up. Yes, latency may ruin your Skype session, but you know that will happen with any satellite link.
Right... because compared to China, Russia, the UK, France, Mexico, Syria, etc, the USA clearly stands out as a bastion of evil.
Let's not forget that the Dutch are masters in spying: over 25000 wiretaps on land-lines, and over 150.000 (yes, 150k) taps on internet traffic. Keep in mind that this little state, about twice the size of the SF Bay Area, only has about 15 million citizens. That's nearly 1 in 10 being monitored. (source)
And then a Dutch MEP wants to criticize the US? ROFL.
Your right to use a distracting device ends as soon as you step into that ICE-propelled kinetic weapon.
You don't get the point.
I'm not saying that I should be using the device. I'm saying that I should be able to hold it, or move it within my car.
The only reason why it is illegal to hold it, is because lawmakers are too lazy to come up with a better way to outlaw the use without infringing on my liberties. If I can hold a bottle of water while driving, I can hold a phone while driving (again, I'm not saying that I should be able to *talk* on the phone).
Right now they're outlawing holding a phone because someone could potentially be able to use it. That means they are reversing the burden of evidence: I would have to prove I'm not using it, rather than a prosecutor proving that I was.
And you're definitely not looking smarter by saying "ICE-propelled kinetic weapon". It will only make you look like a smartass.
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I once saw a red light camera on Aero Drive off the 15 north with its head beaten off, hanging by a threat. I'd like to shake the hand of that good samaritan who beat the shit out of that fucking camera.
My kingdom for modpoints....
If they really want to live in a place with no infrastructure then exile to a barren island would be a suggestion..
We've tried that before... That island now has its own Fiber Network... :)
If you can't or won't control your kids, please keep them at home until they can maintain themselves in public.
There is another side to that story. I've been a business traveler for a lot of years, earning Platinum status with Skyteam year after year. I was always annoyed by parents traveling with kids... Until I became a father myself. Unfortunately, it is not always an option to "just keep them home". Family living abroad, a death in the family, there are many reasons why infants and toddlers need to travel.
Having that said, your frustration should be aimed at the parents who are unprepared. When my (now 2 year old) daughter travels, 90% of our carry-on is toys and food to keep her silent. And usually there are two 10-minute moments that every kid cries: take-off and landing, for obvious reasons. And even the landing noise can be mitigated by feeding the child, especially if it is still an infant. However, I have seen parents doing nothing when their kid screams so loud that the vibration becomes a hazard for the engines. That, my friend, is the person you should vent your frustration at. These parents should be banned from airplanes, and parenthood altogether. The kid is not the nightmare, the parent is.
On her latest trip, last week from AMS to SFO, my wife was actually complimented about our daughter's behavior by passengers around them. The trick? A fully charged Ipad Mini fully loaded with Dora the Explorer movies.
His name implies he is a national from South Korea. South Korean nationals are part of the visa waiver program and can stay in the US for up to 90 days without a visa. Why waste this visa on him?
According to this information from the Social Security Office, holders of a P-visa are eligible to receive an SSN. This means that he can actually pay taxes on his US income, should he win any major prizes.
Another reason could be that a previous visa request (such as J or F) was denied, making him ineligible for the VWP.
Perhaps doctors don't prescribe them because: - they don't work very well in the short term and not at all in the long term - they are expensive - they have lots of bad side effects
I'm an overweight fat networking guy who sits all day. My PCP prescribed me Qsymia. In the first month, I lost about 10 pounds.
The stuff made me feel full, I just did not have an appetite and I would forget to eat. Or drink for that matter. After the first week I had no energy, did not sleep very well and my blood pressure was slightly increased. I did have one refill, but never actually took those and my PCP and I decided that this was not the best drug on the market.
Granted, this is "anecdotal evidence", but I went back to weight watchers.
then why would she be able to say no?
I think you missed the part where he said "since we don't have to deal with baby carriers anymore".
he who makes the gold, gets to make the rules.
He who knows the meaning of the word "alimony" will listen to his wife.
the moment the government has a say, any say under what circumstances you can ask to be killed is a big, and enormous no no. Once this door is breached we as a society can never go back. And frankly its not the kind of future I want to live in.
Isn't this exactly what's the problem here? If I ask my doctor to end my misery, that is between me and my doctor, the government should have nothing to do with that. You are preaching exactly the opposite.
Perhaps some network guru can explain: Why wasn't this exploited long ago?
This was exploited a decade ago already. The only difference with today is that it was done by one anti-spammer (MAPS) versus another anti-spammer (ORBS) to fight out a war.
Let me guess, you are still a VFR pilot only. Being able to fly with no visual ques (ie 0 visibility) is a basic requirement for flying anything beyond a hobby.
While I don't intend to make flying more than a hobby, I am training for my IFR rating and I've spent quite some time under the hood. Including recovering from unusual attitudes and instument approaches/go-arounds.
I know that does not, by far, make me a profi, but my argument is that basic flying stays the same. IFR or VFR, in a stall condition you point the nose down, not up.
Well, I can only advise you to read more carefully the investigation report (which was made by the BEA, not the FAA).
Did you actually read it yourself? The captain, who came back from his rest, did realize that they were in a stall. The co-pilot in the right seat kept the nose up, increasing the stall. He kept the nose up when they were dropping, and dropping fast. He kept the nose up even when they were below 10000ft. That has nothing to do with a high-speed stall at the upper end of the coffin corner, that is simply a pilot forgetting what to do in case of a stall, which is nose down.
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Whoever moderated this as troll needs to read the moderation guidelines again. You don't have to agree with the content, but it is definitely not trolling.
Get some time under the hood, and come back and tell us the same. Been there, done that.
Been there, too. I've flown on instruments only, and when you're IFR then yes, the statement made can be true in some cases. However, it is way to blunt to just say "a pilot can't look out the window to see what's wrong". Are your instrument readings of your number one engine weird? Go send the co-co into the cabin to have a look!
When sensors on a plane malfunction, you can't just look out the window and know what's wrong.
I grossly disagree. I fly planes. In the aviation food-chain, I'm on the bottom with my private pilot license, allowing me to fly single engine lawmower-like airplanes.
I look out of the window for most of my flying. The only things I care about are engine, airspeed and altititude. I could not care less about the attitude indicator, vsi, compass or any other instruments. If all my instruments die, I can hear by the sound of my engine with its approximate rpm is. I know that with an RPM of 2300, I'll be cruising at 100mph. Lower it to 2100 and I'll descent at approx 500ft/min. I can look out the window and see the earth closing, meaning I'm about to land. If needed, I can land an aircraft without any instruments at all (all tho granted, I would declare an emergency).
Why can I do that? Because I'm not trained to look at a computer screen in the cockpit. And don't give me crap about how jetliners are different. They are not. They fly based on rudder, aileron and elevators.
And your point would be... what?
My point is that, contrary to popular belief, US laws do not apply everywhere in the world. So whatever the law defines as rape in your flyover state, can have a whole different meaning in another country.
Let me give another example: most states consider consensual intercourse between an adult and a sixteen year old "statutory rape". In many countries around the world, it is legal or just a "lower" criminal offense which usually does not carry a long prison sentence.
Morals differ everywhere and are codified as such in law. Look at the differences in age of consent. One does not have to agree with this, but before you travel it is wise to understand. Sex on the beach in Dubai has landed people in prison as well.
but it's not like the Swedish Justice system is widely considered to be corrupt. Hell, they have statements from Swedish women saying he did it
I'm not an Assange supporter, but:
The ladies both consented to engage in adult activities. They decided afterwards that Assange allegedly did not agree to their terms and conditions, so they filed charges. It's kind of like a dad borrowing his car to his son saying "you can't go faster than 65mph" and then filing theft charges if he finds out that the kid drove 80mph on the freeway. The Swedish systems allows for this, so while it may not be corrupt, its laws are not the same as in the U.S.
Paediatricians don't recommend the use of these devices. They haven't been shown to decrease the risk of anything. They tend to produce false alarms, causing a hell of a lot of parent anxiety, and which may contribute to post-natal depression (which has got a well established link to infant death).
We've discussed the use with our pediatrician, and she was fairly neutral about it. They do indeed produce false alarms now and then and I have found myself from deep asleep to wide awake in my daughter's room a couple of times, after my beloved misses forgot to turn the damn thing off when nursing.
That said, the alarm did also go off on a few occassions where my daughter was somewhat unresponsive and blue/grey-ish. Did it save my daughter from certain death? Most likely not. Did it alert us to an unhealthy state of our little princess? Most definitely yes. We know for a fact that she was not breathing for at least 20 seconds, and that she was deep, deep asleep.
I'm not saying that everyone should go out and buy it. But we've turned our device off only a few weeks ago when my daughter turned 2 and I we've slept a lot better knowing that there was some kind of monitoring going on.
That last line accurately sums up every infant I've ever had in my charge. Not sure what pattern you could discern from graphing all of this data, if my experiences are any guide it would make for one hell of a random number generator. I doubt one can find a better entropy source than a newborns sleeping "schedule". ;)
Newborns are the most fragile thing on earth, and every parent knows it. If a device helps showing a pattern, good!
I have a two-year old daughter. From the first night, we monitored her breathing using one of those boards you put under the mattress. While this will never prevent a baby from dying, it will alert a parent when a baby has stopped breathing, so CPR can be applied and 911 called. It might just save the life of a baby. We have had a few actual alarms*, which were later attributed by the pediatrician to the low timeout on the device: it screams after 20 seconds without movement. Apparently, my little girl would sometime just stop breathing for a short while if she was in a very deep sleep. She hated the thing, and as soon as she was physically able, she would just shut the thing down on her own (quite funny to see on the cam, those little fingers slowing finding the button).
When my daughter was 6 months old, friends became parent of a baby girl. During the first night in the hospital, that girl actually stopped breathing, turned blue and was subsequently resuscitated. After a week in NICU she was released. Needless to say, our friends immediately purchased the same device that I used.
One can argue that these devices have little use other than helping parents sleep, knowing they'd be alarmed if something happens. Even if that's the case, trust me, it is money well spent. As a new parent, there are a ton of things that you'll be concerned about and this just helps easy your mind.
* The amount of alarms we've had because my wife took her out of the crib for nursing and forgot to turn the damn thing off.. Well... That's a bit higher.
FreeBSD provided some of the key underpinnings to Mac OS X and iOS.
Not to mention JUNOS, the operating system running on Juniper Networks routers. The JUNOS kernel is based on FreeBSD.
Anyone using Facebook, Twitter, AT&T, Verizon (I can go on for about an hour) will have their packets routed through a box runing JUNOS.
Come on Kevin, I'm sure you can donate a bit...
Idiot. Without export there will be no import. Who is going to sell you petrol
The US produces more oil than Iran
Or iPad
Can easily be manufactured in the US. It will just be a bit more expensive
Or precious metals?
Discovery channel has at least 5 different series of "Gold Rush Alaska" etc...
Or steel?
You're kidding, right?
Or lithium for you convertible's batteries?
http://www.mining.com/web/new-wyoming-lithium-deposit-could-meet-all-u-s-demand/
Exactly, that's the part these self-professed "patriots" don't get. Ideology and nationalism doesn't put food on the table.
Actually, it would.
If everyone in the US would stop buying foreign goods or sending money oversees, the US can sustain itself. There is more than enough farmland, more than enough industrial capacity to produce everything needed and the world's most innovative area (silicon valley) is in the US.
So while I'm not at all one of those "the US is the best" folks, it is certainly true that the US will survive should the world decide to hate it.
At least it didn't bluescreen and lock him in the car.
I'm waiting for a Tesla owner to name their car Christine :)
Good thing they don't do aircraft that way. You can't get out of the damn thing if it catches on fire, at least not and live to tell about it.
These guys disagree... A plane full of skydivers got hit by another plane and caught fire. No fatalities.
Simple answer is you won't.
Ever heard of Exede? Viasat has its own satellite in orbit and offers consumer internet. Pricing starts at $50 for 12 down, 3 up. Yes, latency may ruin your Skype session, but you know that will happen with any satellite link.
Right... because compared to China, Russia, the UK, France, Mexico, Syria, etc, the USA clearly stands out as a bastion of evil.
Let's not forget that the Dutch are masters in spying: over 25000 wiretaps on land-lines, and over 150.000 (yes, 150k) taps on internet traffic. Keep in mind that this little state, about twice the size of the SF Bay Area, only has about 15 million citizens. That's nearly 1 in 10 being monitored. (source)
And then a Dutch MEP wants to criticize the US? ROFL.
Your right to use a distracting device ends as soon as you step into that ICE-propelled kinetic weapon.
You don't get the point.
I'm not saying that I should be using the device. I'm saying that I should be able to hold it, or move it within my car.
The only reason why it is illegal to hold it, is because lawmakers are too lazy to come up with a better way to outlaw the use without infringing on my liberties. If I can hold a bottle of water while driving, I can hold a phone while driving (again, I'm not saying that I should be able to *talk* on the phone).
Right now they're outlawing holding a phone because someone could potentially be able to use it. That means they are reversing the burden of evidence: I would have to prove I'm not using it, rather than a prosecutor proving that I was.
And you're definitely not looking smarter by saying "ICE-propelled kinetic weapon". It will only make you look like a smartass.