This is false. A pilot with a private (non-commercial) license may fly a passenger who reimburses them for the expenses of the flight, including plane rental and fuel. It doesn't become commercial until they make a profit.
No, this is false.
The costs can be shared equally, but if you exceed an equal share, it becomes commercial. There have even been some cases around people publicly advertising that they were going to place X and willing to share costs. The FAA considered that offering services publicly and declared it commercial.
Being profitable is not the condition for commercial use. Plenty of for-profit businesses don't make a profit. That doesn't mean they don't have to be licensed.
Sure it does. If you give him $20, he is now a commercial carrier. Though it is very unlikely anybody would ever bust someone for helping you move once. The real issue here is the guys on craigslist who are offering commercial to the public moving services, or the Burro corporation which is doing the same thing via an app.
What about if you show them the fuel gauge and tell them to replenish only the amount of the fuel they used for the move. Are you still a commercial carrier? Technically, you'd be losing out on the move anyway, since fuel cost doesn't take into account the wear and tear on the vehicle, the insurance, or any other miscellaneous costs.
And also, assuming that you wouldn't make a habit of helping your friends move, and that this is only a one time thing, and only a one-time reimbursement of the fuel used, would you still be considered a commercial carrier then?
I am not familiar with the USDOT rules and regulations, but if this were an airplane, and you accepted money to reimburse fuel, it would definitely be considered commercial. I would guess that USDOT rules are in line with the FAA rules.
The summary is wrong. You would have to bump up the flights out of JFK and Newark by 50% to take the volume from LGA. That is no possible due to aircraft separation safety standards. The article states that if the FAA raises the cap on the number of flights at JFK and larger planes were used, then everything would be great. However, they CAN'T raise the cap because it is based on minimum separation for parallel runways that are closer together than 3600 feet. Also, you can't just dictate larger aircraft. The size of the aircraft is based on the wants and needs of the consumer. If you have multiple flights per day to a location, then you could consolidate flights on a larger aircraft, but that removes choice from the consumers. Also, if you have only a single flight to a destination on a day, then there is no point in flying a larger half empty airplane to it. You either stop flying to that destination altogether or keep flying the same equipment.
From the article, I can't see any compelling argument for shutting down the airport.
I have a couch, you have a pickup. Does it matter if I've known you for 20 years or if I give you $20?
Sure it does. If you give him $20, he is now a commercial carrier. Though it is very unlikely anybody would ever bust someone for helping you move once. The real issue here is the guys on craigslist who are offering commercial to the public moving services, or the Burro corporation which is doing the same thing via an app.
alot of the apps ones have insurance gaps that lead to the drivers being not covered at all at times / they must use there own insurance as primary that likely will not cover them at all for that kind of work.
Or even if they have insurance, if the driver does not have a CDL, then the insurance won't pay.
Of course most people are idiots when it comes to packing a truck - every time I've been called to 'help move' I've showed up to a 16' U-Haul loaded with bicycles, exercise machines, etc, the thing is full of random crap... and then I go inside and there's still the dresser, bed, other furniture, boxes of books/dishes, etc - all the nice 'boxy' stuff that *should* have gone in first so the bikes and the like could go on top or around it all. Then I'm 'taking charge' and telling them to get everything *out* of the truck, and packing stuff into it so that it'll all actually fit.
You go to help your friends move and there is stuff in boxes? Luxury!
No other species other than humans is even remotely concerned about the continuation of the species.
It should be transparently apparent that any species that does not place first emphasis on its own survival is going to perish quickly.
I disagree. It is apparent to me that no other species has any thought towards the continuation of their species. A dog will happily hump your leg, never thinking that it might be better to save up that sperm for an animal of the same species that might have a snowball's chance in hell of catching pregnant from his efforts. A colony of ants will happily devour everything in the forest with not thought of the next generation, let alone the continuation of the species. Animals have an innate desire to reproduce and they do so without thinking of overpopulation, lack of population or anything else other than they are excited by the pheromones of a receptive female.
the human species is fundamentally doomed unless it can figure out that its own survival is the most important thing,
every other species thinks this way, but not humans
No other species other than humans is even remotely concerned about the continuation of the species.
Well, it kind of depends on why he was disgruntled. If he was fired for cause, he may have done something wrong and deserved to be fired. However, if the company laid him off because they had made him promises and didn't want to follow through, then the company deserves everything they got and more.
If Amazon drones can communicate with each other and hopefully perform collision avoidance, how will they do the same with drones from the random Drones'R'Us startup companies that will be popping up all over the place in the next X years?
They will have to be coordinated by Air Traffic Control and piloted by a certificated commercial pilot.
Looks like in addition to tracking your location for the "Bring it to me" function, they plan to use your smartphone as the "landing beacon" for the final part of approach and landing. Didn't see that mentioned in either article. Looks very interesting.
Good point. They can sell insurance to Uber and whenever there is an accident, they can just say" Oops! No commercial license. Sorry, no payout. Oh, by the way, your premium is due for renewal."
Uber would like you to believe that they have created an app, but what they have really done is created a taxi service that declares itself unregulated. Any taxi service could write an app for dispatching, and some of them have. Nothing Uber has done is unique other than the idea of running an unregulated taxi service. None of the others have thought of that. Or they have and got shot down quickly.
Well, I guess it is preferable that in third world countries they will go ahead and admit you without insurance, but not know how to do anything about it. This is assuming you live in a large city that has a hospital, as most of the rural areas have nothing, or might have a nurse or a midwife, but no medicine or tools.
If malpractice lawsuits are less than 1% of the cost of healthcare, then how come my Doctor friend has to pay over $150,000 a year for malpractice insurance? That is over half of his income. Of course, he is an Obgyn, and apparently they have he highest rates of any practice. In Florida, the cost of malpractice insurance is over $200k.
Not sure what this has to do with this at all, the wife would not be legally allowed to open the husband's mail, nor would the parents of the teenager.
None of this has anything to do with putting proper codes on bills that allow the individual to know what the test is for.
The bill is addressed to the person paying the bills. Parents get the bill for their daughters abortion, and it is trivial to look up the icd9 codes and figure out that she got an abortion.
FWIW, I disagree with the law that says a teenage girl does not have to disclose to her parents that she got an abortion and that they still have to pay for it. That is just so stupid that it is amazing that anyone could have suggested it, let alone gone along with it. If they are all grown up and don't need to share information with their parents, they can go do that in their own house at their own expense.
Dude, we are the only first-world country with a third world healthcare system. Wake up
Anybody who thinks that our healthcare system is third world has obviously never been to the third world. I have been to several third world countries and I can tell you that our system is hundreds of times more functional then theirs.
The biggest problem with our system is that the costs are spiraling out of control. This is due mainly to the spiraling malpractice insurance due to the litigious nature of Americans, and due to Obama's handing tens of billions of dollars of our money to the insurance companies, who already make record profits every year.
Why is a Martian day called a sol? Shouldn't that be the length of Sol's (the suns) day? Now what are we going to call the lengths of days on the other planets?
There is enough similarity between programming languages that there really is no point in learning any more than what you need.
Well, there is a point, but it is a stupid one. If you are trying to get a job and the new company needs people who know $new_unproven_language and you only know 100 other languages, then HR won't let you through the gate, even though someone who has learned 100 other languages obviously could learn a new language in a few days or weeks.
I've been in the same position countless times. They can't promote you because it would leave an unfillable void. Yet, they can't pay you more because HR has read Harrison Bergeron or Communist Manifesto or some such thing that says that everybody should be paid within a few percent of each other. Also, corporate policy doesn't allow hiring somebody to train up to replace you because they can only hire somebody if you can prove that there is too much work for the team to do now or if somebody recently quit or got fired.
Given the strength of the 'brilliant asshole' myth, it is one of the major images one can adopt to help convince people that they are brilliant, and they will often get reenforcement out of it since people buy into it.
Our head IT guy at my previous company was the "Brilliant asshole" type. He knew a lot and he was a jerk and condescending to others. Then he left for a better job and brought in his protege. Unfortunately, he had only taught his protege the asshole part and not the brilliant part. Basically, he would get facts wrong but say them with plenty of confidence so that people (and management) believed him. Whenever I needed something fixed, I discovered I was able to google the answer just as quickly or more quickly than the IT "genius".
It sucks being the best at something in your company because then you can't learn anything. I would prefer to be the second worst person there, so I can still have somebody else who sucks worse than me. That being said, most companies hire lots of sucky people, so I end up being the top dog and have to do my learning at local developer groups.
I've lost count of the number of startups I've turned down because their salary offerings have been laughable and their benefits non-existent coupled with the high risk of outright company failure.
Yeah, I learned my lesson with startups as well. I was getting underpaid by about 33% according to industry average. They considered me to be overpaid because they could get brand new people fresh out of college for about half what I was getting paid who were able to do about 1/4 as much work with lots of handholding and rewriting. But I digress. They kept going on about how I was going to get shares in the company and get a big payoff when we sold. However, after years of coding, when I finally got everything done, they let me go.
So from now on, I am no longer going to be a source of credit dollars for employers. Cash up front only. If you want to give me shares, that is fine. But I also want industry standard wages.
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This is false. A pilot with a private (non-commercial) license may fly a passenger who reimburses them for the expenses of the flight, including plane rental and fuel. It doesn't become commercial until they make a profit.
No, this is false.
The costs can be shared equally, but if you exceed an equal share, it becomes commercial. There have even been some cases around people publicly advertising that they were going to place X and willing to share costs. The FAA considered that offering services publicly and declared it commercial.
Being profitable is not the condition for commercial use. Plenty of for-profit businesses don't make a profit. That doesn't mean they don't have to be licensed.
Sure it does. If you give him $20, he is now a commercial carrier. Though it is very unlikely anybody would ever bust someone for helping you move once. The real issue here is the guys on craigslist who are offering commercial to the public moving services, or the Burro corporation which is doing the same thing via an app.
What about if you show them the fuel gauge and tell them to replenish only the amount of the fuel they used for the move. Are you still a commercial carrier? Technically, you'd be losing out on the move anyway, since fuel cost doesn't take into account the wear and tear on the vehicle, the insurance, or any other miscellaneous costs.
And also, assuming that you wouldn't make a habit of helping your friends move, and that this is only a one time thing, and only a one-time reimbursement of the fuel used, would you still be considered a commercial carrier then?
I am not familiar with the USDOT rules and regulations, but if this were an airplane, and you accepted money to reimburse fuel, it would definitely be considered commercial. I would guess that USDOT rules are in line with the FAA rules.
The summary is wrong. You would have to bump up the flights out of JFK and Newark by 50% to take the volume from LGA. That is no possible due to aircraft separation safety standards. The article states that if the FAA raises the cap on the number of flights at JFK and larger planes were used, then everything would be great. However, they CAN'T raise the cap because it is based on minimum separation for parallel runways that are closer together than 3600 feet. Also, you can't just dictate larger aircraft. The size of the aircraft is based on the wants and needs of the consumer. If you have multiple flights per day to a location, then you could consolidate flights on a larger aircraft, but that removes choice from the consumers. Also, if you have only a single flight to a destination on a day, then there is no point in flying a larger half empty airplane to it. You either stop flying to that destination altogether or keep flying the same equipment.
From the article, I can't see any compelling argument for shutting down the airport.
I have a couch, you have a pickup. Does it matter if I've known you for 20 years or if I give you $20?
Sure it does. If you give him $20, he is now a commercial carrier. Though it is very unlikely anybody would ever bust someone for helping you move once. The real issue here is the guys on craigslist who are offering commercial to the public moving services, or the Burro corporation which is doing the same thing via an app.
alot of the apps ones have insurance gaps that lead to the drivers being not covered at all at times / they must use there own insurance as primary that likely will not cover them at all for that kind of work.
Or even if they have insurance, if the driver does not have a CDL, then the insurance won't pay.
Of course most people are idiots when it comes to packing a truck - every time I've been called to 'help move' I've showed up to a 16' U-Haul loaded with bicycles, exercise machines, etc, the thing is full of random crap... and then I go inside and there's still the dresser, bed, other furniture, boxes of books/dishes, etc - all the nice 'boxy' stuff that *should* have gone in first so the bikes and the like could go on top or around it all. Then I'm 'taking charge' and telling them to get everything *out* of the truck, and packing stuff into it so that it'll all actually fit.
You go to help your friends move and there is stuff in boxes? Luxury!
No other species other than humans is even remotely concerned about the continuation of the species.
It should be transparently apparent that any species that does not place first emphasis on its own survival is going to perish quickly.
I disagree. It is apparent to me that no other species has any thought towards the continuation of their species. A dog will happily hump your leg, never thinking that it might be better to save up that sperm for an animal of the same species that might have a snowball's chance in hell of catching pregnant from his efforts. A colony of ants will happily devour everything in the forest with not thought of the next generation, let alone the continuation of the species. Animals have an innate desire to reproduce and they do so without thinking of overpopulation, lack of population or anything else other than they are excited by the pheromones of a receptive female.
the human species is fundamentally doomed unless it can figure out that its own survival is the most important thing, every other species thinks this way, but not humans
No other species other than humans is even remotely concerned about the continuation of the species.
I still buy ASUS motherboards. I have never and would never consider a full ASUS computer though.
Nothing happened to the ex-employee.
Well, it kind of depends on why he was disgruntled. If he was fired for cause, he may have done something wrong and deserved to be fired. However, if the company laid him off because they had made him promises and didn't want to follow through, then the company deserves everything they got and more.
If Amazon drones can communicate with each other and hopefully perform collision avoidance, how will they do the same with drones from the random Drones'R'Us startup companies that will be popping up all over the place in the next X years?
They will have to be coordinated by Air Traffic Control and piloted by a certificated commercial pilot.
Looks like in addition to tracking your location for the "Bring it to me" function, they plan to use your smartphone as the "landing beacon" for the final part of approach and landing. Didn't see that mentioned in either article. Looks very interesting.
Sounds painful.
Good point. They can sell insurance to Uber and whenever there is an accident, they can just say" Oops! No commercial license. Sorry, no payout. Oh, by the way, your premium is due for renewal."
Uber would like you to believe that they have created an app, but what they have really done is created a taxi service that declares itself unregulated. Any taxi service could write an app for dispatching, and some of them have. Nothing Uber has done is unique other than the idea of running an unregulated taxi service. None of the others have thought of that. Or they have and got shot down quickly.
If it were me, well I'm black, so I'd stop filming and pray the fucker doesn't shoot me and take my camera.
At least if you're black and you get shot, people will raise an uproar. If you're white and get shot, nobody cares.
Well, I guess it is preferable that in third world countries they will go ahead and admit you without insurance, but not know how to do anything about it. This is assuming you live in a large city that has a hospital, as most of the rural areas have nothing, or might have a nurse or a midwife, but no medicine or tools.
If malpractice lawsuits are less than 1% of the cost of healthcare, then how come my Doctor friend has to pay over $150,000 a year for malpractice insurance? That is over half of his income. Of course, he is an Obgyn, and apparently they have he highest rates of any practice. In Florida, the cost of malpractice insurance is over $200k.
Not sure what this has to do with this at all, the wife would not be legally allowed to open the husband's mail, nor would the parents of the teenager.
None of this has anything to do with putting proper codes on bills that allow the individual to know what the test is for.
The bill is addressed to the person paying the bills. Parents get the bill for their daughters abortion, and it is trivial to look up the icd9 codes and figure out that she got an abortion.
FWIW, I disagree with the law that says a teenage girl does not have to disclose to her parents that she got an abortion and that they still have to pay for it. That is just so stupid that it is amazing that anyone could have suggested it, let alone gone along with it. If they are all grown up and don't need to share information with their parents, they can go do that in their own house at their own expense.
Dude, we are the only first-world country with a third world healthcare system. Wake up
Anybody who thinks that our healthcare system is third world has obviously never been to the third world. I have been to several third world countries and I can tell you that our system is hundreds of times more functional then theirs.
The biggest problem with our system is that the costs are spiraling out of control. This is due mainly to the spiraling malpractice insurance due to the litigious nature of Americans, and due to Obama's handing tens of billions of dollars of our money to the insurance companies, who already make record profits every year.
Why is a Martian day called a sol? Shouldn't that be the length of Sol's (the suns) day? Now what are we going to call the lengths of days on the other planets?
There is enough similarity between programming languages that there really is no point in learning any more than what you need.
Well, there is a point, but it is a stupid one. If you are trying to get a job and the new company needs people who know $new_unproven_language and you only know 100 other languages, then HR won't let you through the gate, even though someone who has learned 100 other languages obviously could learn a new language in a few days or weeks.
I've been in the same position countless times. They can't promote you because it would leave an unfillable void. Yet, they can't pay you more because HR has read Harrison Bergeron or Communist Manifesto or some such thing that says that everybody should be paid within a few percent of each other. Also, corporate policy doesn't allow hiring somebody to train up to replace you because they can only hire somebody if you can prove that there is too much work for the team to do now or if somebody recently quit or got fired.
Given the strength of the 'brilliant asshole' myth, it is one of the major images one can adopt to help convince people that they are brilliant, and they will often get reenforcement out of it since people buy into it.
Our head IT guy at my previous company was the "Brilliant asshole" type. He knew a lot and he was a jerk and condescending to others. Then he left for a better job and brought in his protege. Unfortunately, he had only taught his protege the asshole part and not the brilliant part. Basically, he would get facts wrong but say them with plenty of confidence so that people (and management) believed him. Whenever I needed something fixed, I discovered I was able to google the answer just as quickly or more quickly than the IT "genius".
It sucks being the best at something in your company because then you can't learn anything. I would prefer to be the second worst person there, so I can still have somebody else who sucks worse than me. That being said, most companies hire lots of sucky people, so I end up being the top dog and have to do my learning at local developer groups.
I've lost count of the number of startups I've turned down because their salary offerings have been laughable and their benefits non-existent coupled with the high risk of outright company failure.
Yeah, I learned my lesson with startups as well. I was getting underpaid by about 33% according to industry average. They considered me to be overpaid because they could get brand new people fresh out of college for about half what I was getting paid who were able to do about 1/4 as much work with lots of handholding and rewriting. But I digress. They kept going on about how I was going to get shares in the company and get a big payoff when we sold. However, after years of coding, when I finally got everything done, they let me go.
So from now on, I am no longer going to be a source of credit dollars for employers. Cash up front only. If you want to give me shares, that is fine. But I also want industry standard wages.