We did the cut. Tons of fun with a current running about 8 knots. We also found a plane shot down by an OPBAT helo off of Great Harbor Cay and dove on that.
I once layed out a series of strobe lights off the north end of Eleuthera before dinner and followed them out to a reef after dark to do some night diving. Sure enough the helos showed up thinking it was a drug op and lit up the reef for us real well with their searchlights:)
So...pages about shotgunning bad drivers and pages about why videos are annoying. Maybe about 2 about the actual subject. BTW - I am really liking Mint and thought all LinSuckage was removed until I went to add a printer.
Prison is not suppoed to be torture. Why not let them kick back and watch a movie? If you give them nothing to do, they will think up their own entertainment and it might not be good.
My experience long ago in the UK was like this: "Traditional" UK criminals had a distinct place in society. Different ones did different types of crimes and the police dealt with them in ways that were almost a tradition maybe centuries old. Anyone running around with a gun would be an outlier to say the least and attract a LOT of unwanted attention. It was kind of like an arms treaty - no one is going to be killed playing cops and robbers. Sadly I expect this to where off to an extent. Certain groups in the UK seem to be wanting to imitate American gang-bangers.
Relavant info from the WIKI Gods:
Airline safety revolution[edit]With these superior, safer aircraft matched to greatly increased and more public government inspection and regulation of aviation, crash rates plummeted to a tiny fraction of those of the wooden airliner years.[12]
Today, the legacy of the Flight 599 crash is simply that the most dangerous way to travel in 1931â"airlinesâ"radically transformed into what has now become the safest way to travel.[2]
This is easy to demonstrate. Just look at the health statistics from the rest of the 1st world where government more or less runs it and see how much better off we are then they are. Oh wait.....
One of the reasons the FAA (then CAA) was INVENTED was because planes crashed so often that the industry was never going to become viable. One thing they did pretty early on was prohibit making wing spars out of wood for commercial airliners after some people died because of either rot or termites.
Absent that rule there would always be one airline not ticking off the "make spar out of metal" option box and saving a few dollars.
Commercial pilot here:
If you think "profit" is why airplanes are safe - I am ROFLMAO x 1000. OMFG you could not be more wrong!
I once worked for a place that wanted us to call in on the radio with our registration number insteald of XX airlines Flight XXX so the FAA wouldn't even realize we had paying passengers in our ancient shit-heaps. They were ALL ABOUT profit!
We shot down a cloud vendor in exactly this way.
"Hey Mr. Cloud - say another user of your cloud service turns out to be a front for Al Queda or maybe runs a kiddy-porn ring. How exactly do you keep the CIA/NSA/FBI off our part of the shared resources?"
The blank look was priceless LOL
You may want to look into WW I. Apparently in constant-dollar terms the world has NEVER regained pre-WW I prosperity and all the warring countries were as linked as could be.
You can be weightless for about $150/hr for plane and pilot. Granted it won't be in more than about 20 second incriments, but my kid and his friends love it: "Daddy make the plane do the weightless thing again" alternates with 'are we there yet".
I am a commercial pilot. I can't even begin to imagine the nightmare of 50 FAAs regulating 50 chunks of airspace. Oh look! Virginia has a 238 knot speed limit and we're doing 245 because we missed the 10,000 foot tall sign at the border.
And then it rains-snows-floods-truck turn over - suicide jumper on bridge - tunnel closed - or whatever and you sit with the heat or AC draining your battery down down down and there is no stopping for a quick refill of elecrtons on the way home. Unless you have fuel cell car - that you COULD top back off:)
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We did the cut. Tons of fun with a current running about 8 knots. We also found a plane shot down by an OPBAT helo off of Great Harbor Cay and dove on that.
I once layed out a series of strobe lights off the north end of Eleuthera before dinner and followed them out to a reef after dark to do some night diving. Sure enough the helos showed up thinking it was a drug op and lit up the reef for us real well with their searchlights :)
So...pages about shotgunning bad drivers and pages about why videos are annoying. Maybe about 2 about the actual subject. BTW - I am really liking Mint and thought all LinSuckage was removed until I went to add a printer.
Maybe the OWNER of said contracting company is, but the worker bees on site surely are not.
My memories of the UK was that "when it has been raining for days" is any day of the week ending in Y.
Normally I would not even look at AC comments, but WTF? I know plenty of NASA people and no one is getting rich over there.
Prison is not suppoed to be torture. Why not let them kick back and watch a movie? If you give them nothing to do, they will think up their own entertainment and it might not be good.
My experience long ago in the UK was like this: "Traditional" UK criminals had a distinct place in society. Different ones did different types of crimes and the police dealt with them in ways that were almost a tradition maybe centuries old. Anyone running around with a gun would be an outlier to say the least and attract a LOT of unwanted attention. It was kind of like an arms treaty - no one is going to be killed playing cops and robbers. Sadly I expect this to where off to an extent. Certain groups in the UK seem to be wanting to imitate American gang-bangers.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/healt... TL;DR We suck and the suckage is increasing.
Relavant info from the WIKI Gods: Airline safety revolution[edit]With these superior, safer aircraft matched to greatly increased and more public government inspection and regulation of aviation, crash rates plummeted to a tiny fraction of those of the wooden airliner years.[12] Today, the legacy of the Flight 599 crash is simply that the most dangerous way to travel in 1931â"airlinesâ"radically transformed into what has now become the safest way to travel.[2]
Moron - not everything in the world exists on google. Look up the history of the Air Commerce Act, Air Mail Act the CAA, etc. in the 1920s and 30s.
This is easy to demonstrate. Just look at the health statistics from the rest of the 1st world where government more or less runs it and see how much better off we are then they are. Oh wait.....
One of the reasons the FAA (then CAA) was INVENTED was because planes crashed so often that the industry was never going to become viable. One thing they did pretty early on was prohibit making wing spars out of wood for commercial airliners after some people died because of either rot or termites. Absent that rule there would always be one airline not ticking off the "make spar out of metal" option box and saving a few dollars.
Commercial pilot here: If you think "profit" is why airplanes are safe - I am ROFLMAO x 1000. OMFG you could not be more wrong! I once worked for a place that wanted us to call in on the radio with our registration number insteald of XX airlines Flight XXX so the FAA wouldn't even realize we had paying passengers in our ancient shit-heaps. They were ALL ABOUT profit!
We shot down a cloud vendor in exactly this way. "Hey Mr. Cloud - say another user of your cloud service turns out to be a front for Al Queda or maybe runs a kiddy-porn ring. How exactly do you keep the CIA/NSA/FBI off our part of the shared resources?" The blank look was priceless LOL
A lot of people couldn't care less about the health of the workers that made their cheap consumer goods.
FYI only some types of aluminum alloy can withstand salt water. Your bike rim is apparently in the "NOT" category. A fresh water rinse will help.
Virgin Galactic is not going to be much different. You are not eating meals or floating around that thing either.
First thing I did on my solo flights. It is actually quite easy.
You may want to look into WW I. Apparently in constant-dollar terms the world has NEVER regained pre-WW I prosperity and all the warring countries were as linked as could be.
You can be weightless for about $150/hr for plane and pilot. Granted it won't be in more than about 20 second incriments, but my kid and his friends love it: "Daddy make the plane do the weightless thing again" alternates with 'are we there yet".
Exactly. In one case he has no job at all and in the other case the H1B worker might hire him to mow his lawn.
I am a commercial pilot. I can't even begin to imagine the nightmare of 50 FAAs regulating 50 chunks of airspace. Oh look! Virginia has a 238 knot speed limit and we're doing 245 because we missed the 10,000 foot tall sign at the border.
And then it rains-snows-floods-truck turn over - suicide jumper on bridge - tunnel closed - or whatever and you sit with the heat or AC draining your battery down down down and there is no stopping for a quick refill of elecrtons on the way home. Unless you have fuel cell car - that you COULD top back off :)
AFAIK diesel engine exhaust has enough "nano particles" of carbon to be dangerous, so we already do know the stuff is not good to breath.