"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!"
-- Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979
Just sayin'
Anyone living in the Americas that is NOT an Indian of some type would be wise to STFU about "My 300th great grandfather lived here to get out" and even most original American tribes had numerous wars stealing territory from each other. I think only Polynesians get to make the "first in and never left" claim;)
True, but that did not alter our writen language.
To make it a good comment, we would be writing about Behaviour in the Theatre and Harbours and so on. The French saved us from all those extra letters and national health care too if you assume we would be one giant Canada absent victory in the war.
I actually do know someone who bought a computer loaded with kiddie porn. It was - thankfully - blamed on the original owner.
Went like so:
Neighbor 1 - my computer got stolen:(
Neighbor 2 - That sucks, did you call the cops?
1 - No
2 - ????
Neighbor 3 - Hey, I bought this computer from Crackhead Bill (known thief) and it has all kiddie porn! Ugh! I'm calling the cops!
So while the managers clean toilets, who is managing?
Some small 20 person office might get by with everyone chipping in to vacuum or something, but building maintenance in a multi-thousand employee building is not getting done on an ad-hoc basis by random people. Meanwhile that contract we signed with the retarded citizens folks.......................hmmm....
I am a pilot and I *do pay tax* every time I buy gas. We are ALREADY DOING THIS. Every time the "charge per flight, charge to take off, charge to land, charge to get a weather briefing, charge per mile, etc etc" crowd gets worked up, we (collectively through our GA lobby) point out just raising the gas tax is vastly more efficient and won't require an entirely new bunch of employees that will ALSO need to be paid out of these fees. Also keep in mind the entire reason ATC exists is airplanes cannot see each other in bad weather. Pilots do NOT need ATC to get from point A to point B, they need ATC to keep from hitting other airplanes. So make it cost money to talk to ATC and pilots in marginal weather will think twice about it. Kind of like the government charging you $1 every time you look at a traffic light. Some people will be cheap and just not look. Much better to pay for traffic lights with a gas tax;)
I do fly small private planes. Gas - *just gas* - from Baltimore to Miami and back is about $1000. AirTran discount to Fort Lauderdale was $38 each way last time I went down there.
Do you have ANY IDEA how much an airline ticket from one little town to another would cost?
Giving poor people free money is no subsitute for not ruining what remains of general aviation in the USA.
So........we have a signed contract with the local "train handicapped people to do jobs" organization for janitors. I decide that $100K/yr engineers are going to be vacuuming and cleaning. Not only is this a massive waste of resources, the people we have a fucking CONTRACT FOR THE YEAR with are going to be in court with media-friendly victims talking about being thrown out of their jobs That would work SO well...
I love my Kindle. As a way to read books and watch Amazon video content it is superb and all the other stuff it does is a bonus. I never ever thought I was buying a general purpose computer and neither should anyone else.
I pay $1.99 to watch shows on Amazon. I have a good memory, so I never need to go back and watch them twice. If it was something I wanted to watch over and over I would buy the damn DVD.
Having been around some of this planet a few times, I have *no clue* why you think the USA is some bad example of bad sewer pipes. There are PLENTY of places that are worse!
That actually could be done. The test box DOES have a knob that moves the glideslope (and localizer too) from full up to full down and anywhere in between. You could start with needles centered and slowly add a little down needle as the plane descended to force the pilot gradually lower. Of course this plot requires to see exactly where the airplane is AND relies on a clueless pilot who does not go missed at DH. Also the dastardly radar altimeter will help defeat this evil plan.....
So as a realistic way to wreck airplanes - not so much. But it technically can be done.
Sure - there are some diffiuculties to pulling this off. Say you do nothing until the plane is about 400' AGL and then send 90hz and the plane is flying a coupled approach. At 90 knots in a 3000 pound airplane the pilot would recover if he was paying attention, but at 100,000 pounds and 120-140 knots you might just have a hard time with it. In real life messing with a localizer or glideslope is a low return idea - you have to be there on or near the runway and the pilots will just call it in as defective equipment 9 times out of 10 and end up with the thing turned off and a repair crew sent out. But - once again - a lot of people seem to think the airplane uses some kind of DF gear to aim itself at the antenna. NOT SO - all the glideslope does is sense the 90 and 150 Hz tones. It is EASY EASY EASY to fake and any good avionics shop would have the gear to do it.
BTW - ever get a false glide slope? Sometimes you get a 6, 9, 12, 15, etc. degree reflections that result in an incredible descent rate if you try and follow them.
A smart phone would be a good ternminal to attach to an ACARS *RADIO TRANSMITTER*. You could drive the airlines nuts with YR CREW MEALS ROTTEN or WIFESAYSCMHMNOW. Note that AFAIK the crew is not going to do something like FLYINTOBLDNG just because they see it on the ACARS display.
See my previous post. That is NOT how it works. The "high" signal is modulated at 90 Hz and "low" signal at 150 Hz. You could grab the antenna and point it higher or lower to change the slope or you could just send a strong 90 Hz modulated signal and the cockpit indication will always be "descend - you are high" even at ground level. I used to "fly" a 737 with the autopilot coupled to the ILS with a test ILS transmitter sitting in first class just for fun. (sitting parked, not actually flying)
I think you can. I had a test box when I worked for an airline that did just that. You send the 90HZ signal when the plane is a couple miles out and the pilot or autopilot will think you are high and descend. Depending on terrain and visibility, you just might send them into the ground. IIRC in WW II the Germans did successfully wreck a plane or two by doing something like this.
+1
I would buy that boat if I didn't already have one. Also I have no money, see my previous sentence.
This boat is 9,000X better than some butt-ugly floating disco-bachelor-party-limo POS that will sink in the first storm it sees. I used to work on those crap-tastic "yachts" and I always thought "beer taste on champagne budget".
To be totally technically correct, the actual registration costs somewhere between free and maybe $40-$50. But they will not give you a registration without the sales tax being paid. Also their is import duty for a foreign-built boat. Maryland would let me slide if I could prove I bought the boat in another state and paid tax there, but if they see a boat that has never had a USA registration, import duty, or sales tax paid then I am on the hook for *a lot* of cash.
and the brochure says "NOT FOR SALE OR CHARTER TO U.S. RESIDENTS WHILE IN U.S. WATERS."
That has been standard in boat ads for decades and yes, it has to do with taxes paid to register the boat.
BTW, the secandary market for these boats can be rough. Once you pass a few million, you can afford your own new custom design.
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"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!" -- Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979 Just sayin'
Anyone living in the Americas that is NOT an Indian of some type would be wise to STFU about "My 300th great grandfather lived here to get out" and even most original American tribes had numerous wars stealing territory from each other. I think only Polynesians get to make the "first in and never left" claim ;)
Bullshit. That is a PERFECT solution, unless you somehow think non-Israelis have a vote on their laws. I'll vote with my cash and avoid them ;)
True, but that did not alter our writen language. To make it a good comment, we would be writing about Behaviour in the Theatre and Harbours and so on. The French saved us from all those extra letters and national health care too if you assume we would be one giant Canada absent victory in the war.
I actually do know someone who bought a computer loaded with kiddie porn. It was - thankfully - blamed on the original owner. Went like so: Neighbor 1 - my computer got stolen :(
Neighbor 2 - That sucks, did you call the cops?
1 - No
2 - ????
Neighbor 3 - Hey, I bought this computer from Crackhead Bill (known thief) and it has all kiddie porn! Ugh! I'm calling the cops!
So while the managers clean toilets, who is managing? Some small 20 person office might get by with everyone chipping in to vacuum or something, but building maintenance in a multi-thousand employee building is not getting done on an ad-hoc basis by random people. Meanwhile that contract we signed with the retarded citizens folks.......................hmmm....
I am a pilot and I *do pay tax* every time I buy gas. We are ALREADY DOING THIS. Every time the "charge per flight, charge to take off, charge to land, charge to get a weather briefing, charge per mile, etc etc" crowd gets worked up, we (collectively through our GA lobby) point out just raising the gas tax is vastly more efficient and won't require an entirely new bunch of employees that will ALSO need to be paid out of these fees. Also keep in mind the entire reason ATC exists is airplanes cannot see each other in bad weather. Pilots do NOT need ATC to get from point A to point B, they need ATC to keep from hitting other airplanes. So make it cost money to talk to ATC and pilots in marginal weather will think twice about it. Kind of like the government charging you $1 every time you look at a traffic light. Some people will be cheap and just not look. Much better to pay for traffic lights with a gas tax ;)
Government wrecks everything. Somali-Air has been the biggest and best airline in the world for 20 years now. Oh wait.............
I do fly small private planes. Gas - *just gas* - from Baltimore to Miami and back is about $1000. AirTran discount to Fort Lauderdale was $38 each way last time I went down there.
Do you have ANY IDEA how much an airline ticket from one little town to another would cost? Giving poor people free money is no subsitute for not ruining what remains of general aviation in the USA.
I know "bureaucratic management" types that are looking at furlough notices RIGHT NOW.
So........we have a signed contract with the local "train handicapped people to do jobs" organization for janitors. I decide that $100K/yr engineers are going to be vacuuming and cleaning. Not only is this a massive waste of resources, the people we have a fucking CONTRACT FOR THE YEAR with are going to be in court with media-friendly victims talking about being thrown out of their jobs That would work SO well...
I love my Kindle. As a way to read books and watch Amazon video content it is superb and all the other stuff it does is a bonus. I never ever thought I was buying a general purpose computer and neither should anyone else.
I pay $1.99 to watch shows on Amazon. I have a good memory, so I never need to go back and watch them twice. If it was something I wanted to watch over and over I would buy the damn DVD.
Having been around some of this planet a few times, I have *no clue* why you think the USA is some bad example of bad sewer pipes. There are PLENTY of places that are worse!
Yes - that is why you need to watch the airplane in real time for the trick to work. Otherwise it will just look like the equipment is broken.
I guess that explains all the "Lenin was here" and "All your moonbase are belong to us" signs the Soviets left on the moon to annoy Neil Armstrong.
That actually could be done. The test box DOES have a knob that moves the glideslope (and localizer too) from full up to full down and anywhere in between. You could start with needles centered and slowly add a little down needle as the plane descended to force the pilot gradually lower. Of course this plot requires to see exactly where the airplane is AND relies on a clueless pilot who does not go missed at DH. Also the dastardly radar altimeter will help defeat this evil plan..... So as a realistic way to wreck airplanes - not so much. But it technically can be done.
Sure - there are some diffiuculties to pulling this off. Say you do nothing until the plane is about 400' AGL and then send 90hz and the plane is flying a coupled approach. At 90 knots in a 3000 pound airplane the pilot would recover if he was paying attention, but at 100,000 pounds and 120-140 knots you might just have a hard time with it. In real life messing with a localizer or glideslope is a low return idea - you have to be there on or near the runway and the pilots will just call it in as defective equipment 9 times out of 10 and end up with the thing turned off and a repair crew sent out. But - once again - a lot of people seem to think the airplane uses some kind of DF gear to aim itself at the antenna. NOT SO - all the glideslope does is sense the 90 and 150 Hz tones. It is EASY EASY EASY to fake and any good avionics shop would have the gear to do it. BTW - ever get a false glide slope? Sometimes you get a 6, 9, 12, 15, etc. degree reflections that result in an incredible descent rate if you try and follow them.
A smart phone would be a good ternminal to attach to an ACARS *RADIO TRANSMITTER*. You could drive the airlines nuts with YR CREW MEALS ROTTEN or WIFESAYSCMHMNOW. Note that AFAIK the crew is not going to do something like FLYINTOBLDNG just because they see it on the ACARS display.
See my previous post. That is NOT how it works. The "high" signal is modulated at 90 Hz and "low" signal at 150 Hz. You could grab the antenna and point it higher or lower to change the slope or you could just send a strong 90 Hz modulated signal and the cockpit indication will always be "descend - you are high" even at ground level. I used to "fly" a 737 with the autopilot coupled to the ILS with a test ILS transmitter sitting in first class just for fun. (sitting parked, not actually flying)
I think you can. I had a test box when I worked for an airline that did just that. You send the 90HZ signal when the plane is a couple miles out and the pilot or autopilot will think you are high and descend. Depending on terrain and visibility, you just might send them into the ground. IIRC in WW II the Germans did successfully wreck a plane or two by doing something like this.
+1 I would buy that boat if I didn't already have one. Also I have no money, see my previous sentence. This boat is 9,000X better than some butt-ugly floating disco-bachelor-party-limo POS that will sink in the first storm it sees. I used to work on those crap-tastic "yachts" and I always thought "beer taste on champagne budget".
To be totally technically correct, the actual registration costs somewhere between free and maybe $40-$50. But they will not give you a registration without the sales tax being paid. Also their is import duty for a foreign-built boat. Maryland would let me slide if I could prove I bought the boat in another state and paid tax there, but if they see a boat that has never had a USA registration, import duty, or sales tax paid then I am on the hook for *a lot* of cash.
and the brochure says "NOT FOR SALE OR CHARTER TO U.S. RESIDENTS WHILE IN U.S. WATERS." That has been standard in boat ads for decades and yes, it has to do with taxes paid to register the boat. BTW, the secandary market for these boats can be rough. Once you pass a few million, you can afford your own new custom design.