You have no idea of what a.50 sniper round does. It is a tool to attack men and materiel - it can and does disable and destroy aircraft.
Don't take my word for it - do some research and come back and admit that you know nothing about the.50 and.338 sniper rounds/rifles and their uses.
As for bombing by passengers - the point I made was that the screening process is flawed. Sealing the flight deck off from the passengers is a simple, and effective, method of stopping hijacking.
As far as making a missile functional - it isn't rocket science.
I'm an attorney. Making maritime law analogies to aircraft is a fool's errand. Causes of action lie anywhere that recognizes civil or criminal wrongs against their citizens. The aircraft's registry is dispositive as to the controlling civil law.
As for criminal acts: would you argue that a hijacking of Chinese carrier over San Francisco and diverting the craft to Vancouver , BC would convey US Jurisdiction over the bad actors?
Your simplistic conclusions about the Doctor who murdered the troops at Ft. Hood clearly shows that the facts (still being determined by the experts) mean nothing to you - you would rather emote blindly and without any scientific basis for your emotional conclusions.
Now, whining-conservative little terror-bunny, crawl back under your failed political rock and pray to your "C" street Gods for guidance. I'm amazed that you can even post - the Bushies lost millions of emails....incompetent twits.
I've noted their effectiveness against Yasir Arafat, Osama bin Laden, the members of the House of Saud, the insurgents of Gaza and Palestine, General Hafez al-Assad and keeping Jonathan Pollard quiet.
No, the bulkhead is more effective than the Mossad.
Well, we may finally have an empirical model to study the incidence of homosexuality (and, a whole litany of paraphilias) in the general air travel population.
In keeping with the season, and - meeting the/. technology requirement - let's set up nail-gun stations with lots of 4x4x12' stock and have mass crucifixions of these morons....
Walmart PARKING LOTS FULL OF THE DEAD AND DYING: That's the USA!
(1) the aircraft had not landed so this was not an attack "on American soil;" and, (2) the nutjob at Ft. Hood had been open and clear that he did not want to be deployed - to the extent of trying to buy his way out of the service. This is not terrorism - it is a mass murder by a man who should have been identified and stopped well before the Ft.Hood shooting. (3) Your thinly veiled indictment of the changed political culture of the USA now requires that you be outed as the Glen Beck puppet that you are.
Of course there are ways to beat the security system. The instant case proves it.
US Airline security is a joke. A sick and twisted joke designed by the Bushies to keep US citizens afraid as they go about their travels.
The Israelis installed a bulkhead between the flight deck and the passenger compartment - surprise, there have been no successful hijackings since Entebbe. That's 30 years of proven technology.
As for passengers and baggage - well, the current boarding procedure needs a massive update.
Once the aircraft are secure, however, what's to keep the "terrorists" from attacking the aircraft on approach or takeoff? The USA allows pretty free trade in.50 Cal. Sniper Rifles and the.338 is damn near as effective.
Or, thanks to Rep. Charlie Wilson, perhaps some of those tens of thousands of Stinger missiles will come back home from Afghanistan?
That's not a sentence. I have no idea what you want to convey.
A "protection racket" is a form of extortion that has existed for thousands of years, if you include feudal states as large-scale "protection rackets."
It may seem self-defeating to acquiesce to the extortion, but the costs are minimal compared to serious disruption of the business that a DDoS attack from a botnet.
One reason for DDoS attacks is to prove that you can shutdown a site.
The site will pay for protection from future attacks. The offshore gambling sites have been "victims" of these attacks according to Steve Gibson.
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Fine - we're both wrong.
Now, after years of "friending you" and upgrading your comments in moderation - I'll change your status to "sick-puppy" for the "stones" remark (wholly uncalled for) and adopt the standard "Troll" rating for you from this point on.
You never did cite your facts.....
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Cite the errors, wizard. My facts are out there for everybody to review...
Attack the argument when the facts don't support your argument. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
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Well, you learned about how to control the machine, or decided not to drive it past your range of safe control.
They are powerful, well engineered machines. You just don't plop down behind the wheel of a vehicle that can double the lawful speed limit with ease and fail to educate yourself about the machine's performance characteristics at speed...
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Google agrees with me, and I've driven 911's with ferocious understeer. Bob Bondurant's driving school has a skidpad turn just for understeer.
Mid-engine vehicles can easily have either under or over steer issues. RTFM
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If running off the road with a light touch on the wheel scares you....
Hell, I once represented an old client that had a Celica GT-Four , twin cam turbo that was radar clocked at 200 + mph - he had to pay $500.00 and attend driving school to avoid points - but the bust was so outrageous that the driving class degenerated into what super car could come close to the performance/price ratio of a stock Toyota...
Understeer / Oversteer - if you like to drive, you will get the hang of it pretty quickly....
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I own both Macs and SAABs....
And had an Apple II and an XT back in the early '80s
Oh, and I still have an original, non-modded LISA from the same era.
I also learned to program (in a manner of speaking) on VAX PDP-11s.
I'm older and have had "the automobile driving experience" with Oldsmobiles, Catalinas, the '67 Fastback Mustang, the VW Rabbit (the year it came out), a Porsche 928 (what an odd animal that was), A Judge, three SAAB 900 Turbos, several Volvos and still prefer the original SAABS are great touring cars and last a looong time.
Maybe a Tesla will change my mind.... I'm moving to SOCAL and am on the waiting list.... and LAX has FREE charging stations in both short and long-term parking. Sweet.
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5 bolts - a tool to compress the pressure plate fingers and a tool to hold them compressed (just a 30-40 CM diameter band of flat spring in a "C" shape) and off comes the whole clutch - replace, check throwout bearing, retighten 5 12mm bolts, use the tool to recompress the fingers of the Pressure plate, remove the spring - JOB DONE.
OK, the hood had to come off - loosen 2 12 mm bolts and remove hood. Stand nearby until job is done. 7 Bolts two "special tools" and an HOUR to replace a clutch. Well designed and the beast required replacement about every 80k miles.
The brake wrench is no big deal and took only a few moments to build.
BTW, there was a huge amount of free space in those early '80s engine compartments to work in.. Any idiot could do almost anything....
The real cost issue was scrubbing off tires in 20k mi - if you didn't keep your foot out of that turbine, you could burn rubber in any gear.
BTW, my '82 had the manual roof. All I ever did to open it was to hold the release latch and hit the accelerator and inertia did the rest.
Also, the original SAAB window design had the pillars so narrow that you had no forward or left and right blind spots. You could "see" right through the pillars.
Great cars - and tougher than hell.
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Oh, come on....
The reverse-mounted engine made replacing a clutch in my '82 900 T something a neophyte could do. Yes, the Haynes manual suggested using a belt to hold the clutch pressure plate compressed, but that doesn't work - yes, you do need the two special tools SAAB made to compress the pressure plate fingers and then a spring-steel c-shaped ring expands to hold the fingers compressed... But, having borrowed the tools from the dealership for an hour - at no cost - I was able to complete the job with just a small set of metric sockets.
The brakes did need a "special tool" because the brake activator had a hydraulic cylinder with back-facing notches - it ratcheted forward as the pad wore down and had to be screwed back up to the new pad position. The face of the cylinder had two depressions in it and a flat wrench with two prongs was called for to screw in the cylinder. I made one with a flat, metal ruler and two pop-rivets. It took only a few minutes to create and worked until a jerk in a 3/4 tom pickup ran a redlight and hit me in the left-front quarter-panel - spinning my SAAB more than 360 degrees... the truck's bed came up and over and the truck that hit me wound up landing on its cab roof and skidding 45 yards upside down down a city street.
My 6 year-old son and I, both belted in, were completely unharmed.
I have one of the last SAAB 900 Turbos manufactured out of Trollhatten - with mostly SAAB parts - albeit that GM changed the window / cab profile. It is at 160k and doing very, very well today - averaging 32 mi/gal and just passed the CA emissions test (not too bad for a 14 year-old car that never seems to age). Compared to my twin-turbo Volvo S-80 '01 vintage (also with 160k) I've put far more money into repairing the Volvo than I ever did that SAAB.
Understeer can happen in any vehicle with even weight distribution (mid-engine) or front-heavy design. The famous Porsche 911 has massive understeer - big deal.
All that you do to deal with understeer is to accelerate and brake as you enter a curve forcing the front tires (drive & steering on the 900) down to greater road contact, then accelerate out of the turn. Easy and solid turning control with the tight and well crafted SAAB steering & brakes. Yes, you do need good tires - Pirelli, Yokohama & Michelin have been my go-to brands - with the Michelins winning the wear/performance battle.
The FCC doesn't have the power to nullify the corporate charter of AT&T and its affiliates.
The DOJ does.
In the past we have rarely used the Corporate Death Penalty - and your argument is AT&T is too big to fail - or be killed off?
I'm for thousands of managers out of work - and out of the industry as a criminal sanction. The rest of the workers will find jobs with the competition.
We are the people who control our government. Time to make a stand. Burn AT&T - twice is twice too often.
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You have no idea of what a .50 sniper round does. It is a tool to attack men and materiel - it can and does disable and destroy aircraft.
Don't take my word for it - do some research and come back and admit that you know nothing about the .50 and .338 sniper rounds/rifles and their uses.
As for bombing by passengers - the point I made was that the screening process is flawed. Sealing the flight deck off from the passengers is a simple, and effective, method of stopping hijacking.
As far as making a missile functional - it isn't rocket science.
I'm an attorney. Making maritime law analogies to aircraft is a fool's errand. Causes of action lie anywhere that recognizes civil or criminal wrongs against their citizens. The aircraft's registry is dispositive as to the controlling civil law.
As for criminal acts: would you argue that a hijacking of Chinese carrier over San Francisco and diverting the craft to Vancouver , BC would convey US Jurisdiction over the bad actors?
Your simplistic conclusions about the Doctor who murdered the troops at Ft. Hood clearly shows that the facts (still being determined by the experts) mean nothing to you - you would rather emote blindly and without any scientific basis for your emotional conclusions.
As for your personal love affair with the whining buffoon that is Glen Beck - your choice of emotion "feeling" over "fact" is the most direct connection that one could have with Mr. Beck's philosophy (short of actual buggery). Read this article about your spiritual fellow-traveler: http://www.playboy.com/articles/triumph-of-the-conservative-underground-review-of-glenn-beck/index.html
Now, whining-conservative little terror-bunny, crawl back under your failed political rock and pray to your "C" street Gods for guidance. I'm amazed that you can even post - the Bushies lost millions of emails....incompetent twits.
I thought that was the standard /. uniform...
I've noted their effectiveness against Yasir Arafat, Osama bin Laden, the members of the House of Saud, the insurgents of Gaza and Palestine, General Hafez al-Assad and keeping Jonathan Pollard quiet.
No, the bulkhead is more effective than the Mossad.
So, the 9/11 hijackers were all dull & depressed?
Well, we may finally have an empirical model to study the incidence of homosexuality (and, a whole litany of paraphilias) in the general air travel population.
Coffee, tea or me, indeed!
That "weapon" has never brought down an airliner. A few general aviation craft with crew joining the mile high club, perhaps....
QQQQ U
In keeping with the season, and - meeting the /. technology requirement - let's set up nail-gun stations with lots of 4x4x12' stock and have mass crucifixions of these morons....
Walmart PARKING LOTS FULL OF THE DEAD AND DYING: That's the USA!
The volume of RDX or C4 necessary to breach an airframe is too large for any aspect of the colon to accommodate.
Moreover, how is the "terrorist" going to explain the wires leading out of his/her body to the detonator?
Now, surgical implants of a kilo of C4/RDX would be perfect, save that they would show on body scans and detonators would fire metal detectors....
(1) the aircraft had not landed so this was not an attack "on American soil;" and,
(2) the nutjob at Ft. Hood had been open and clear that he did not want to be deployed - to the extent of trying to buy his way out of the service. This is not terrorism - it is a mass murder by a man who should have been identified and stopped well before the Ft.Hood shooting.
(3) Your thinly veiled indictment of the changed political culture of the USA now requires that you be outed as the Glen Beck puppet that you are.
Of course there are ways to beat the security system. The instant case proves it.
US Airline security is a joke. A sick and twisted joke designed by the Bushies to keep US citizens afraid as they go about their travels.
The Israelis installed a bulkhead between the flight deck and the passenger compartment - surprise, there have been no successful hijackings since Entebbe. That's 30 years of proven technology.
As for passengers and baggage - well, the current boarding procedure needs a massive update.
Once the aircraft are secure, however, what's to keep the "terrorists" from attacking the aircraft on approach or takeoff? The USA allows pretty free trade in .50 Cal. Sniper Rifles and the .338 is damn near as effective.
Or, thanks to Rep. Charlie Wilson, perhaps some of those tens of thousands of Stinger missiles will come back home from Afghanistan?
The easy solution is g-strings, flip-flops, pasties, bath towels for every seat and lots and lots of deodorant spray.
You show me a naked terrorist on an airliner and I'll show you an unarmed terrorist on an airliner.
That's not a sentence. I have no idea what you want to convey.
A "protection racket" is a form of extortion that has existed for thousands of years, if you include feudal states as large-scale "protection rackets."
It may seem self-defeating to acquiesce to the extortion, but the costs are minimal compared to serious disruption of the business that a DDoS attack from a botnet.
Just what do you think a "protection racket" is?
One reason for DDoS attacks is to prove that you can shutdown a site.
The site will pay for protection from future attacks. The offshore gambling sites have been "victims" of these attacks according to Steve Gibson.
Fine - we're both wrong.
Now, after years of "friending you" and upgrading your comments in moderation - I'll change your status to "sick-puppy" for the "stones" remark (wholly uncalled for) and adopt the standard "Troll" rating for you from this point on.
You never did cite your facts.....
Cite the errors, wizard. My facts are out there for everybody to review...
Attack the argument when the facts don't support your argument. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
Well, you learned about how to control the machine, or decided not to drive it past your range of safe control.
They are powerful, well engineered machines. You just don't plop down behind the wheel of a vehicle that can double the lawful speed limit with ease and fail to educate yourself about the machine's performance characteristics at speed...
http://www.google.com/search?q=porsche%20understeer&sourceid=mozilla2&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Google agrees with me, and I've driven 911's with ferocious understeer. Bob Bondurant's driving school has a skidpad turn just for understeer.
Mid-engine vehicles can easily have either under or over steer issues. RTFM
If running off the road with a light touch on the wheel scares you....
Hell, I once represented an old client that had a Celica GT-Four , twin cam turbo that was radar clocked at 200 + mph - he had to pay $500.00 and attend driving school to avoid points - but the bust was so outrageous that the driving class degenerated into what super car could come close to the performance/price ratio of a stock Toyota...
Understeer / Oversteer - if you like to drive, you will get the hang of it pretty quickly....
I own both Macs and SAABs....
And had an Apple II and an XT back in the early '80s
Oh, and I still have an original, non-modded LISA from the same era.
I also learned to program (in a manner of speaking) on VAX PDP-11s.
I'm older and have had "the automobile driving experience" with Oldsmobiles, Catalinas, the '67 Fastback Mustang, the VW Rabbit (the year it came out), a Porsche 928 (what an odd animal that was), A Judge, three SAAB 900 Turbos, several Volvos and still prefer the original SAABS are great touring cars and last a looong time.
Maybe a Tesla will change my mind.... I'm moving to SOCAL and am on the waiting list.... and LAX has FREE charging stations in both short and long-term parking. Sweet.
5 bolts - a tool to compress the pressure plate fingers and a tool to hold them compressed (just a 30-40 CM diameter band of flat spring in a "C" shape) and off comes the whole clutch - replace, check throwout bearing, retighten 5 12mm bolts, use the tool to recompress the fingers of the Pressure plate, remove the spring - JOB DONE.
OK, the hood had to come off - loosen 2 12 mm bolts and remove hood. Stand nearby until job is done. 7 Bolts two "special tools" and an HOUR to replace a clutch. Well designed and the beast required replacement about every 80k miles.
The brake wrench is no big deal and took only a few moments to build.
BTW, there was a huge amount of free space in those early '80s engine compartments to work in.. Any idiot could do almost anything....
The real cost issue was scrubbing off tires in 20k mi - if you didn't keep your foot out of that turbine, you could burn rubber in any gear.
BTW, my '82 had the manual roof. All I ever did to open it was to hold the release latch and hit the accelerator and inertia did the rest.
Also, the original SAAB window design had the pillars so narrow that you had no forward or left and right blind spots. You could "see" right through the pillars.
Great cars - and tougher than hell.
Oh, come on....
The reverse-mounted engine made replacing a clutch in my '82 900 T something a neophyte could do. Yes, the Haynes manual suggested using a belt to hold the clutch pressure plate compressed, but that doesn't work - yes, you do need the two special tools SAAB made to compress the pressure plate fingers and then a spring-steel c-shaped ring expands to hold the fingers compressed... But, having borrowed the tools from the dealership for an hour - at no cost - I was able to complete the job with just a small set of metric sockets.
The brakes did need a "special tool" because the brake activator had a hydraulic cylinder with back-facing notches - it ratcheted forward as the pad wore down and had to be screwed back up to the new pad position. The face of the cylinder had two depressions in it and a flat wrench with two prongs was called for to screw in the cylinder. I made one with a flat, metal ruler and two pop-rivets. It took only a few minutes to create and worked until a jerk in a 3/4 tom pickup ran a redlight and hit me in the left-front quarter-panel - spinning my SAAB more than 360 degrees... the truck's bed came up and over and the truck that hit me wound up landing on its cab roof and skidding 45 yards upside down down a city street.
My 6 year-old son and I, both belted in, were completely unharmed.
I have one of the last SAAB 900 Turbos manufactured out of Trollhatten - with mostly SAAB parts - albeit that GM changed the window / cab profile. It is at 160k and doing very, very well today - averaging 32 mi/gal and just passed the CA emissions test (not too bad for a 14 year-old car that never seems to age). Compared to my twin-turbo Volvo S-80 '01 vintage (also with 160k) I've put far more money into repairing the Volvo than I ever did that SAAB.
Understeer can happen in any vehicle with even weight distribution (mid-engine) or front-heavy design. The famous Porsche 911 has massive understeer - big deal.
All that you do to deal with understeer is to accelerate and brake as you enter a curve forcing the front tires (drive & steering on the 900) down to greater road contact, then accelerate out of the turn. Easy and solid turning control with the tight and well crafted SAAB steering & brakes. Yes, you do need good tires - Pirelli, Yokohama & Michelin have been my go-to brands - with the Michelins winning the wear/performance battle.
Oh, status quo.
The FCC doesn't have the power to nullify the corporate charter of AT&T and its affiliates.
The DOJ does.
In the past we have rarely used the Corporate Death Penalty - and your argument is AT&T is too big to fail - or be killed off?
I'm for thousands of managers out of work - and out of the industry as a criminal sanction. The rest of the workers will find jobs with the competition.
We are the people who control our government. Time to make a stand. Burn AT&T - twice is twice too often.