It implies that manual overide would be usefull in a crash where the cause is still unknown. As I said elsewhere the airbus is known to have belly flopped, what would a pilot do with a crippled plane over the ocean? - other than belly flop it.
However I have to give you points for turning it into a car analogy, even though Ford have had their arses sued for dodgy brakes, dodgy tyres, and cars that burst into flames.
Right, lets stop the irony and blame the greenies, lets ignore the fact the dams are 80yrs old, poorly designed and commercial fishermen want them altered/removed to allow salmon to spawn. Seems to me it's simply a failure to invest in modern infrastructure (fish ladders), failure to reinvest seems to be a bad habit power companies have picked up these days.
"It implies that the cheaper product line won because they'll make more money, not because they're intent on keeping the customer base happy."
I don't defend that attitude but it's a fact of life that in bussiness the bottom line is almost always the final arbitor. In my experience cheap=happy customer, but not necassarily a happy user.
There are some interviews with Flynt on youtube, I got the info from a doco I watched on Australian TV. I had a "seniors moment" on the Afghan thing and was corrected by another poster below, the supreme court refused to hear his appeal and he lost.
I stand corrected, the supreme court declined to hear the case. The information was from memory, I watched an excellent documentry on TV a few weeks ago. Here in Australia we have soft porn and full frontal nudity on broadcast TV (mainly on the state sponsered channels!).
Coincidently when I posted the comment I had just finished watching last night's doco about the US porn industry that also included an interesting interview with Gore Vidal as well as Jenna Jameson strutting her stuff.
It wasn't from the investigation, that's how the airbus is built. As I said in another post the cause is unknown but it is known the plane belly flopped in one piece. Assuming it was not the flight controls themselves that went haywire (a reasonable assumption since it belly flopped), a pilot with manual override of a crippled plane would be forced to glide down to a belly flop.
"I think we can see which philosophy would have saved hundreds of lives in that case"
How can you claim this with a straight face? The cause of the crash is unknown, what is known is that the plane belly flopped into the ocean which if it was crippled is the BEST a pilot could do.
"I have nothing totally against MS; its just that I wish management would make informed decisions not based on bottom-line profits but rather based on the needs/wants of their customer base. There's more to business than just the almighty dollar you must remember.'
I have not met a customer in the last 20yrs who did not use windows as the OS for all or part of their system(s).
Funny you mention apples, I discovered as a kid that a juicy granny smith seemed to cure mild headaches and was amazed to find out later in life they contain aspirin.
I'm not an American but I can recognise a genuine American patriot when I see one. Larry Flynt famously admits to being guilty of bad taste but in my book the man is a hero and has the wounds to prove it. Before his landmark case against Falwell there was no protection of parody and you could be sued for "hurting someones feelings".
He was appalled by the hypocricy of the Clinton blow job thing and took out a full page ad in the Washington Post offering a million dollars for anyone who could prove they had an affair with a congressman or senator. The ad produced sex tapes and a scandal that embarased the FBI and forced the speaker of the house to quit. When sentenced to three months for refusing to name his sources he threw an orange at the judge and shouted "You fucking pussy, is that the best you can do".
When facing 25yrs for "organised crime" ( ie: publishing Hustler ), he was asked by the judge if he had anything to say before sentencing, he replied "You haven't made one intelligent decison in this case, I don't expect you to start now".
He also took on the Bush administration for the right to report from the battlefield after they went against 200yrs of journalistic tradition and made it illeagal at the start of the Afghan war, he set another important precedent by winning that one too.
I'm assuming the wind blows in N. Dakota but even if it doesn't N. Dakota would appear to be around the same lattitude as Germany who are a world leader in the adoption of solar power with rooftop units pushing over a GW of excess power back on to their grid last year. Alaska has the ocean and an active volcano not far from it's capital. Plus there is always nuclear for those rare places that really do lack any type of renewables.
"clean states tend to benefit ALOT"
Again this is the point, it's called "market forces", what you seem to be advocating is a form of socialisim (ie: socializing the cost of pollution to support those communities who won't help themselves).
If a new colony appears that is sufficently different then the super-colony will overwhelm it. It would seem for a colony to speciate it would need to be geographically isolated from it's parent super-colony and diverge before it becomes a super-colony itself.
"Don't bother explaining to the converted, they're already committed regardless of facts. It's the new religion."
Which religion busting facts are you referring to? It stikes me that someone who can't/won't explain their position is the one who's acting from blind faith.
Yes their energy is being "taxed" in an effort to get them to switch to cleaner sources, I thought that was the whole point? If the price of the credits comes out roughly the same as the EU then you can expect to pay a dollar or so per week, if they put the squeeze on the credits so the price rises to say $200/ton, that's about $10/week for the average joe and certainly enough to make wind/solar a sound investment.
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Well said, if only I had mod points.
Sorry, I replied to the wrong post, *hic*
It implies that manual overide would be usefull in a crash where the cause is still unknown. As I said elsewhere the airbus is known to have belly flopped, what would a pilot do with a crippled plane over the ocean? - other than belly flop it.
However I have to give you points for turning it into a car analogy, even though Ford have had their arses sued for dodgy brakes, dodgy tyres, and cars that burst into flames.
Right, lets stop the irony and blame the greenies, lets ignore the fact the dams are 80yrs old, poorly designed and commercial fishermen want them altered/removed to allow salmon to spawn. Seems to me it's simply a failure to invest in modern infrastructure (fish ladders), failure to reinvest seems to be a bad habit power companies have picked up these days.
+1 ironic.
"It implies that the cheaper product line won because they'll make more money, not because they're intent on keeping the customer base happy."
I don't defend that attitude but it's a fact of life that in bussiness the bottom line is almost always the final arbitor. In my experience cheap=happy customer, but not necassarily a happy user.
There are some interviews with Flynt on youtube, I got the info from a doco I watched on Australian TV. I had a "seniors moment" on the Afghan thing and was corrected by another poster below, the supreme court refused to hear his appeal and he lost.
I stand corrected, the supreme court declined to hear the case. The information was from memory, I watched an excellent documentry on TV a few weeks ago. Here in Australia we have soft porn and full frontal nudity on broadcast TV (mainly on the state sponsered channels!).
Coincidently when I posted the comment I had just finished watching last night's doco about the US porn industry that also included an interesting interview with Gore Vidal as well as Jenna Jameson strutting her stuff.
It wasn't from the investigation, that's how the airbus is built. As I said in another post the cause is unknown but it is known the plane belly flopped in one piece. Assuming it was not the flight controls themselves that went haywire (a reasonable assumption since it belly flopped), a pilot with manual override of a crippled plane would be forced to glide down to a belly flop.
Switzerland scenario != Airbus scenario
"I think we can see which philosophy would have saved hundreds of lives in that case"
How can you claim this with a straight face? The cause of the crash is unknown, what is known is that the plane belly flopped into the ocean which if it was crippled is the BEST a pilot could do.
"I have nothing totally against MS; its just that I wish management would make informed decisions not based on bottom-line profits but rather based on the needs/wants of their customer base. There's more to business than just the almighty dollar you must remember.'
I have not met a customer in the last 20yrs who did not use windows as the OS for all or part of their system(s).
Funny you mention apples, I discovered as a kid that a juicy granny smith seemed to cure mild headaches and was amazed to find out later in life they contain aspirin.
I'm not an American but I can recognise a genuine American patriot when I see one. Larry Flynt famously admits to being guilty of bad taste but in my book the man is a hero and has the wounds to prove it. Before his landmark case against Falwell there was no protection of parody and you could be sued for "hurting someones feelings".
He was appalled by the hypocricy of the Clinton blow job thing and took out a full page ad in the Washington Post offering a million dollars for anyone who could prove they had an affair with a congressman or senator. The ad produced sex tapes and a scandal that embarased the FBI and forced the speaker of the house to quit. When sentenced to three months for refusing to name his sources he threw an orange at the judge and shouted "You fucking pussy, is that the best you can do".
When facing 25yrs for "organised crime" ( ie: publishing Hustler ), he was asked by the judge if he had anything to say before sentencing, he replied "You haven't made one intelligent decison in this case, I don't expect you to start now".
He also took on the Bush administration for the right to report from the battlefield after they went against 200yrs of journalistic tradition and made it illeagal at the start of the Afghan war, he set another important precedent by winning that one too.
Well you have now and at least one astronomer thinks he has a point.
"Global Warming theory is based on computer climate models"
Forgive me for my obvious bias but I take the work of Fourier and Farady over the opinion of a random slashdotter.
I'm assuming the wind blows in N. Dakota but even if it doesn't N. Dakota would appear to be around the same lattitude as Germany who are a world leader in the adoption of solar power with rooftop units pushing over a GW of excess power back on to their grid last year. Alaska has the ocean and an active volcano not far from it's capital. Plus there is always nuclear for those rare places that really do lack any type of renewables.
"clean states tend to benefit ALOT"
Again this is the point, it's called "market forces", what you seem to be advocating is a form of socialisim (ie: socializing the cost of pollution to support those communities who won't help themselves).
If a new colony appears that is sufficently different then the super-colony will overwhelm it. It would seem for a colony to speciate it would need to be geographically isolated from it's parent super-colony and diverge before it becomes a super-colony itself.
"Hard core scientists aren't out making the pitch for carbon credits, my friend."
How do you define hard core scientists?
Explosion in the irony factory, news at 11:00.
"The zealots have proclaimed the cause and effect that you just referred to. Scientist on the other hand, have not made such a proclamation."
Bzzzt, the rest of your claims indicate a similar lack of research on your part.
Three citations, please.
Please stop deliberatly conflating ludites and environmentalists to justify your fringe politics.
"Don't bother explaining to the converted, they're already committed regardless of facts. It's the new religion."
Which religion busting facts are you referring to? It stikes me that someone who can't/won't explain their position is the one who's acting from blind faith.
Yes their energy is being "taxed" in an effort to get them to switch to cleaner sources, I thought that was the whole point? If the price of the credits comes out roughly the same as the EU then you can expect to pay a dollar or so per week, if they put the squeeze on the credits so the price rises to say $200/ton, that's about $10/week for the average joe and certainly enough to make wind/solar a sound investment.