The vast majority of landings is not automated - they are flown manually so that pilots have some experience actually flying aircraft instead of pressing buttons and turning knobs.
The pilots have to manually land most long-haul flights or they won't do enough landings to remain certified. I think a lot more short-haul flights are automated.
I am just waiting for the NSA (and their apologists in the media and the Administration) to say that, now we know the NSA is snooping on our email, we have no expectation of privacy, hence, no 4th amendment protection.
Since the NSA is logging (supposedly) metadata, and NOT the content of the messages, encrypting your email would have no effect at all.
They have also stated that they are collecting the subjects of emails, which IMHO, is not metadata. Look at the SMTP standard, any Subject header is sent as part of the "DATA".
Because acceleration is tied to the electrical motors, you can gear engine size towards average load, not maximum peak of acceleration. Smaller engines = automatic fuel savings.
Not only smaller, but if it is run only at a single speed/load point (the most efficient for the engine) and the engine is optimized for that speed/load point, the engine can be much more efficient than a traditional car engine.
Fundamentally the ICE engine is limited by physics. It will never get more than 25-30% efficient. Whereas the electric car can achieve 70-80% easily, and is only limited right now by technology.
Perhaps you should RTFA, which points out that, in the UK, power stations are only about 36% efficient at delivering energy to end users. Add in the 80% efficiency of an electric car and now you have something similar to that of a gas (petrol)-powered car.
In the statscounter data, where is Android in the "Operating System" chart? IOS is there at 3.18% and if you select the "Mobile OS" chart, Android is higher than IOS. So where is Android in the Operating System chart?
Under questioning, Joyce said the NSA was able to identify an extremist in Yemen who was in touch with an individual in Kansas City, Mo. They were able to identify co-conspirators and thwart a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange.
Furthermore, this story has already been discredited. There was no plan. The "extremist" asked for a document about the NYSE, got a one-page brief that he discarded and dropped any further plans. The intelligence that the NSA got had no impact on the outcome.
Yea well, if the NSA doesn't have a positive ID on you (and they don't try very hard) you get the foreigner rules applied to you.
Plus, even if they do later find out that you are a US citizen, they still get to keep the data that they hold about you.
It's completely backwards. Any purely domestic phone call should be presumed to be between US people (citizens, legal residents). The bill of rights does not make a distinction between citizens and other people living in the USA, probably because, at the time of writing, many immigrants did not bother to become citizens. Email may be a little more difficult, but the ISPs could be asked to provide only communications that originate from, are delivered to, or are accessed (webmail, imap, pop) from a non-US IP address.
This tends to re-inforce my idea that politicians are generally objectively stupid -- they probably have a high social intelligence, but very poor analytic skills.
In this case, this is probably the worst time to introduce such a bill. Wait until the furor about the NSA has died down (the US population has a short span of attention for such issues) and then introduce it. But right now? Pure, unbridled stupidity.
Only terrorists, criminals and spies should fear secret activities of the British and US intelligence agencies.
That statement might have more credibility if it were not for the well documented use of RIPA powers for things unconnected to terrorism and serious crime.
That's strange, I don't recall reading any limit on freedom of speech in the first amendment.
That's ok because it's not YOUR reading of the Constitution that determines how it is to be interpreted. The only people whose reading of The Constitution has legal merit are the SCOTUS.
And your reading of the constitution has as much merit as mine.
But really, congratulations on supporting a the conversion of the USA into a Police State!
All elected officials take an oath of office to protect The Constitution. Attempting to elect someone who would knowingly disregard that oath and who would disregard The Constitution (which really means disregarding all rule of law because all legal authority stems from The Constitution -- not from elections) is tantamount to attempting a coup d'etat.
Were the people in Hollywood that were tagetted by McCarthy elected officials that had taken such an oath? No. So your comment is irrelevent.
This is pretty much the limit of the free speech. You can't advocate overthrow of The Constitution as the source of legal authority any more than you can advocate murder.
That's strange, I don't recall reading any limit on freedom of speech in the first amendment. Advocating murder is different to advocating a peaceful change of government. The constitution includes provisions for change and doesn't specify any limits on those possible changes, so one can infer that advocationg for dramatic change to the constitution is definitely legal speech.
McCarthy was validated after Soviet Union fell apart, you fool. Released Soviet archives showed that his accusations were accurate..
The accuracy (or otherwise) of the accusations of people being communist sympathizers is irrelevent. In a free country, people should be free to hold opinions, irrespective of the nature of those opinions without fear of being persecuted for them.
Obviously, just put the device behind a firewall. If the firewall operates in bridge mode, it won't use NAT, so the people who insist that their equipment is directly connected to the Internet won't know that it isn't.
They have a list of every address in the UK. This is compared to every address that has paid a license fee.
They send people who look through windows for TVs or knock on the door and ask about TVs if there is no license fee payment associated with that address.
Funny how there's such a huge passionate uproar about supposed loss of second amendement rights, but comparitively little concern about actual loss of fourth amendment rights...
That's because the "uproar" is, in reality a tool of (and funded by) people like the Koch brothers. Its intent is to distract large number of voters (tea party, etc.) from the real issues (who controls the government) into distractions like the 2nd amendment.
About 4 or 5 years ago, definitely after 9/11. I think that the last time I flew in domestic first class on American, they gave me plastic knives, but I dont remember clearly.
And none of the 9/11 Terrorists flew first class because why spend the extra money if you're going to crash or blow up the plane?
They would fly first if it were essential to their plans.
The SCOTUS appears to have premised the decision on the idea that the CODIS loci only provide identification, but in fact they provide more: identification of familial relationships.
The existance of an unacknowleged child for example, could be revealed by this testing. From this, a secret sexual relationship could be discovered.
It might allow for identification of biological parents where a warrant would be required to access such record.
And who knows what information may be extracted from the CODIS loci in another decade.
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The pilots have to manually land most long-haul flights or they won't do enough landings to remain certified. I think a lot more short-haul flights are automated.
I am just waiting for the NSA (and their apologists in the media and the Administration) to say that, now we know the NSA is snooping on our email, we have no expectation of privacy, hence, no 4th amendment protection.
Circular arguments -- can't be beaten!
They have also stated that they are collecting the subjects of emails, which IMHO, is not metadata. Look at the SMTP standard, any Subject header is sent as part of the "DATA".
And then there are Senators who are lauding the program. Perhaps in a misguided attempt to support Obama.
Are they so dumb to believe that the system could not be abused to provide information that could be used against those same Senators?
Not only smaller, but if it is run only at a single speed/load point (the most efficient for the engine) and the engine is optimized for that speed/load point, the engine can be much more efficient than a traditional car engine.
Perhaps you should RTFA, which points out that, in the UK, power stations are only about 36% efficient at delivering energy to end users. Add in the 80% efficiency of an electric car and now you have something similar to that of a gas (petrol)-powered car.
And the scary part of this? That he is more liberal than the mainstream opposition.
In the statscounter data, where is Android in the "Operating System" chart? IOS is there at 3.18% and if you select the "Mobile OS" chart, Android is higher than IOS. So where is Android in the Operating System chart?
Furthermore, this story has already been discredited. There was no plan. The "extremist" asked for a document about the NYSE, got a one-page brief that he discarded and dropped any further plans. The intelligence that the NSA got had no impact on the outcome.
Plus, even if they do later find out that you are a US citizen, they still get to keep the data that they hold about you.
It's completely backwards. Any purely domestic phone call should be presumed to be between US people (citizens, legal residents). The bill of rights does not make a distinction between citizens and other people living in the USA, probably because, at the time of writing, many immigrants did not bother to become citizens. Email may be a little more difficult, but the ISPs could be asked to provide only communications that originate from, are delivered to, or are accessed (webmail, imap, pop) from a non-US IP address.
Watch when someone complains that he is not receiving emails at his personal Yahoo account from an unrelated company.
Apparently our firewall is causing Yahoo to reject emails from another company! And none of this has anything to with our employer's business.
This tends to re-inforce my idea that politicians are generally objectively stupid -- they probably have a high social intelligence, but very poor analytic skills.
In this case, this is probably the worst time to introduce such a bill. Wait until the furor about the NSA has died down (the US population has a short span of attention for such issues) and then introduce it. But right now? Pure, unbridled stupidity.
That statement might have more credibility if it were not for the well documented use of RIPA powers for things unconnected to terrorism and serious crime.
And your reading of the constitution has as much merit as mine.
But really, congratulations on supporting a the conversion of the USA into a Police State!
Were the people in Hollywood that were tagetted by McCarthy elected officials that had taken such an oath? No. So your comment is irrelevent.
That's strange, I don't recall reading any limit on freedom of speech in the first amendment. Advocating murder is different to advocating a peaceful change of government. The constitution includes provisions for change and doesn't specify any limits on those possible changes, so one can infer that advocationg for dramatic change to the constitution is definitely legal speech.
The accuracy (or otherwise) of the accusations of people being communist sympathizers is irrelevent. In a free country, people should be free to hold opinions, irrespective of the nature of those opinions without fear of being persecuted for them.
Obviously, just put the device behind a firewall. If the firewall operates in bridge mode, it won't use NAT, so the people who insist that their equipment is directly connected to the Internet won't know that it isn't.
They have a list of every address in the UK. This is compared to every address that has paid a license fee.
They send people who look through windows for TVs or knock on the door and ask about TVs if there is no license fee payment associated with that address.
That's because the "uproar" is, in reality a tool of (and funded by) people like the Koch brothers. Its intent is to distract large number of voters (tea party, etc.) from the real issues (who controls the government) into distractions like the 2nd amendment.
About 4 or 5 years ago, definitely after 9/11. I think that the last time I flew in domestic first class on American, they gave me plastic knives, but I dont remember clearly.
They would fly first if it were essential to their plans.
why do restaurants after security at Chicago O'Hare give customers metal knives, while restaurants at DFW do not?
And in the past, I have been given a metal knife when flying in first class (obviously, first class passengers cannot be terrorists!)
Do TSA rules ban equipment to sharpen metal dinner knives? I doubt it.
Why bother with a brick? You can buy a keyring tool to break car windows for a few dollars.
On an unmarked street, you only have 2 directions in which to explore. Under water, with no streets, you have a 360 degree choice.
It can be illegal to just carry a hammer. If it is considered a tool for housebreaking, walking around with it is illegal.
The SCOTUS appears to have premised the decision on the idea that the CODIS loci only provide identification, but in fact they provide more: identification of familial relationships.
The existance of an unacknowleged child for example, could be revealed by this testing. From this, a secret sexual relationship could be discovered.
It might allow for identification of biological parents where a warrant would be required to access such record.
And who knows what information may be extracted from the CODIS loci in another decade.