One idea to take the passengers out of the equation is to shut off the emergency oxygen supply, depressurize the cabin to a level so that everyone passes out, then land. Inspect closely to make sure no one brings on secondary oxygen.
The pilots can stay in the reinforced cockpit with full pressure.
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Don't confuse ideology with history.
Don't confuse history with theology.
Just because some people "Christianized at swordpoint" does not mean that they were correct, or that they were following the Bible correctly. People can abuse Christian teachings or do things in the name of Christianity that have nothing to do with it.
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Most Xtians (the ones that actually read and believe
the NT, which is the minority anymore, in my experience) will tell you that their Deity is made up of three individual components of the same
entity, and is not just a single "thing."
Actually, true Christians say that there *is* one thing, one God, three persons. Not three Gods, because the Bible says that there is one God. We don't totally understand it, but we know the Bible says there is one God, but there is the Holy Spirit who God, Jesus who is God, and Yahweh who is God. (Note in Genesis that God says "let *us* make man in *our* image). The Trinity is the name we have come up with describe this.
The fundamental difference in the religions is how they view Jesus. Christianity is the only one that recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Messiah, and God.
This isn't necessarily a picture of a sonic boom. If the aircraft is traveling close to the speed of sound, the acceleration of the air over the wing and around the fuselage will start forming a shock wave (but you won't hear a sonic boom yet). If the atmospheric conditions are right, the rapid decrease in pressure behind the shock wave which causes the air temperature to drop will cause the moisture in the air to condense into fog.
I've seen this happen to an F-18 at an air show on a high speed pass by the crowd and it was pretty cool. You saw the cloud of fog flash like a strobe light a couple of times, but it wasn't stable.
Methinks you're confusing science with religion. Science knew thousands of years ago the world was round, and scholars quickly
accepted the copernican solar system. It was religion that tortured people for believing the truth.
Methinks you're confusing religious leaders with religion. Did anyone actually get tortured for believing the world was round?
Religious leaders can get on a power trip just like anyone else. In the case of the flat earth, it was probably a case of the leadership said the world was flat, and it anyone disagreed, their leadership was in trouble (and they acted to protect their position). This doesn't mean that the religion they claimed to represent had anything to say about the world being flat/round/square.
Try to put a little thought into it:
A religious leader actions are his own, not necessarily endorsed by the "religion" or the religious principles he claims to represent.
Someone can claim to be a good religious person and be lying. (intentionally wrong)
Someone can think they are following their religious principles and act in a certain way when they are actually wrong. (uniintentionally wrong)
So if very little money was being made, then the family shouldn't be compensated, but if a lot of money is being made, then the family should be compensated? I guess your philosophy is all about the money. If the pot gets big enough, you want a cut.
I don't think the family has to be compensated. You may be able to make an argument that the original woman could be compensated if she didn't agree to donate the cells to science. But, she is dead so there is no one left to compensate.
Compensating the family goes against what I think compensation really means. I get compensated from my employer because I do work for them. My family doesn't get paid for the work *I* do. My family can get compensated after I die because the employer offered a benefits package that has life insurance in it. In that case, it is still compensation given to me, but I chose to have it paid after my death to my family.
My cousin, aunt, uncle, sister, or anyone else has no right to my salary based on family relations. You have just advocated that they do have a right to my salary if I make enough and they want a cut of it.
It is a nice emotional argument to claim that the family should get money because they are poor, but I see no philisophical or logical reason to give them any money. However, it would be good public relations to do so.
I have heard of the same pricing in TV markets in general. For example, for a station to carry the Oprah show, they will have to carry other lame shows by contract to increase their exposure.
I'm sure the Direct TV people are just continuing the tradition.
It is also very difficult to make castings with titanium. You have to cast it inside an inert atmosphere (no O2) to prevent it's very rapid oxidation at the elevated casting temperatures.
These requirements make it very expensive to cast.
Compound [the Net blackout] with the fact that there's no live TV, and it's
the same as if the network that had the rights to the Super Bowl said, 'The Super
Bowl won't be available on live TV or the Internet this year.' Then you sit there
and say, 'Wait a minute. Aren't I entitled to this?'"
Are we entitled to watch sports? I don't think so. We can demand to see it in the medium we prefer, and the only real weapon we have is the potential loss of revenue (real or percieved) if not provided in the way we want it.
Plus the modern gas engine is very efficient, it produces a good amount of power for the fuel that you feed it. Ok some people buy SUV's that have much more engine than they need, but thats another point.</blockquote></i>
Actually, they are not that efficient. I think on the order of 30% of the energy in the fuel gets used for useful work. Much of it is wasted as heat (hence the need for the radiator; if it was more efficient, less energy would end up as heat).
However, gasoline has such a high energy density that there is still a useful fuel. Your statement about the "power for the fuel that you feed it" is really about energy density.
My weight loss is 1.14lb/week over the past 6 months. I use the Palm software to record my weight every day and that is the key for me. I started at the end of October and am down 30lbs so far. I figure I've got about 20 to go.
I try to eat a 1500 cal/day diet, but I do go out to eat on the weekends with no significant effects. I don't exercise at all and the weight is just coming off each week. I've lost about 4 inches in my waist.
He can't knock it off. His writing style is to find something "new" whether it is a sub-culture, a technology, or an organizational technique, talk about it, then proceed to tell us how it will "change the world" and make everything obsolete. This is how he thinks.
So, as far as safety and ability in a statistical sense, computers always outperform humans in such critical tasks. The higher the time sensitivity and complexity, the larger their advantage.
Computers would be more reliable in routine performance, but I think a human pilot will be much better at handling unforseen situations and unexpected occurances. I'd rather see computers help a pilot, not eliminate him.
I have no sympathy for the media syndicates. There is simply NO way that they could NOT have realized that the internet would introduce an entirely new paradigm. If they didn't realize it, well they deserve what they're getting for being so stupid and unadaptable.
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I'm sure the original creators of the internet, of TCP/IP, the guy who started the Gutenburg project, were aware of the enormous potential and paradigm shift the internet would introduce.
I think you overestimate people's ability to see into the future. Computer and networking technology is moving very fast compared to traditional industries.
It is also probably more accurate to say the creators of the Internet were thinking of connecting military computers and keeping the network alive in the event of war. I'm sure they were not envisioning your grandmother trading stocks over the network that they were creating.
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One idea to take the passengers out of the equation is to shut off the emergency oxygen supply, depressurize the cabin to a level so that everyone passes out, then land. Inspect closely to make sure no one brings on secondary oxygen.
The pilots can stay in the reinforced cockpit with full pressure.
Don't confuse history with theology.
Just because some people "Christianized at swordpoint" does not mean that they were correct, or that they were following the Bible correctly. People can abuse Christian teachings or do things in the name of Christianity that have nothing to do with it.
Actually, true Christians say that there *is* one thing, one God, three persons. Not three Gods, because the Bible says that there is one God. We don't totally understand it, but we know the Bible says there is one God, but there is the Holy Spirit who God, Jesus who is God, and Yahweh who is God. (Note in Genesis that God says "let *us* make man in *our* image). The Trinity is the name we have come up with describe this.
The fundamental difference in the religions is how they view Jesus. Christianity is the only one that recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Messiah, and God.
Janes has made info from their All the World's Aircraft data available online for the 767 and 757.
This isn't necessarily a picture of a sonic boom. If the aircraft is traveling close to the speed of sound, the acceleration of the air over the wing and around the fuselage will start forming a shock wave (but you won't hear a sonic boom yet). If the atmospheric conditions are right, the rapid decrease in pressure behind the shock wave which causes the air temperature to drop will cause the moisture in the air to condense into fog.
I've seen this happen to an F-18 at an air show on a high speed pass by the crowd and it was pretty cool. You saw the cloud of fog flash like a strobe light a couple of times, but it wasn't stable.
Methinks you're confusing religious leaders with religion. Did anyone actually get tortured for believing the world was round?
Religious leaders can get on a power trip just like anyone else. In the case of the flat earth, it was probably a case of the leadership said the world was flat, and it anyone disagreed, their leadership was in trouble (and they acted to protect their position). This doesn't mean that the religion they claimed to represent had anything to say about the world being flat/round/square.
Try to put a little thought into it:
So if very little money was being made, then the family shouldn't be compensated, but if a lot of money is being made, then the family should be compensated? I guess your philosophy is all about the money. If the pot gets big enough, you want a cut.
I don't think the family has to be compensated. You may be able to make an argument that the original woman could be compensated if she didn't agree to donate the cells to science. But, she is dead so there is no one left to compensate.
Compensating the family goes against what I think compensation really means. I get compensated from my employer because I do work for them. My family doesn't get paid for the work *I* do. My family can get compensated after I die because the employer offered a benefits package that has life insurance in it. In that case, it is still compensation given to me, but I chose to have it paid after my death to my family.
My cousin, aunt, uncle, sister, or anyone else has no right to my salary based on family relations. You have just advocated that they do have a right to my salary if I make enough and they want a cut of it.
It is a nice emotional argument to claim that the family should get money because they are poor, but I see no philisophical or logical reason to give them any money. However, it would be good public relations to do so.
I have heard of the same pricing in TV markets in general. For example, for a station to carry the Oprah show, they will have to carry other lame shows by contract to increase their exposure.
I'm sure the Direct TV people are just continuing the tradition.
Who says turkeys can't fly? I've seen them take flight in the woods before.
(I don't know how far they can fly though...)
You can make a brick fly with the right angle of attack and enough thrust...
Subject says it all.
AMEN to that brother! Why do people think the
First Amendment is some magic thing that lets you do anything you want?
I am a fan of RJ, and after reading Otherland, he is not as good as RJ IMHO. I haven't read any of his other work so my opinion may be skewed.
It is also very difficult to make castings with titanium. You have to cast it inside an inert atmosphere (no O2) to prevent it's very rapid oxidation at the elevated casting temperatures.
These requirements make it very expensive to cast.
Are we entitled to watch sports? I don't think so. We can demand to see it in the medium we prefer, and the only real weapon we have is the potential loss of revenue (real or percieved) if not provided in the way we want it.
He should just get access to a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and do it right. Any decent manufacturing plant will have one.
My weight loss is 1.14lb/week over the past 6 months. I use the Palm software to record my weight every day and that is the key for me. I started at the end of October and am down 30lbs so far. I figure I've got about 20 to go.
I try to eat a 1500 cal/day diet, but I do go out to eat on the weekends with no significant effects. I don't exercise at all and the weight is just coming off each week. I've lost about 4 inches in my waist.
Overall, it's working great!
If the lawyers can get away with it and win big money...
Yes
He can't knock it off. His writing style is to find something "new" whether it is a sub-culture, a technology, or an organizational technique, talk about it, then proceed to tell us how it will "change the world" and make everything obsolete. This is how he thinks.
Computers would be more reliable in routine performance, but I think a human pilot will be much better at handling unforseen situations and unexpected occurances. I'd rather see computers help a pilot, not eliminate him.
It is also probably more accurate to say the creators of the Internet were thinking of connecting military computers and keeping the network alive in the event of war. I'm sure they were not envisioning your grandmother trading stocks over the network that they were creating.
Hindsight is always 20/20...