I think I would like to see cars that drive cross country with no fuel too!
Why not make computers that require no electricity while we are at it.
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WTF!
He BOUGHT the gas (well keroseene to be precise) for his airplane. He can do what he wants with his gas in his airplane. Guess what - I am flying my airplane this weekend just to go eat breakfast at an airport 30 miles away. I will likely use about 4 gallons of gas roundtrip. I am doing this for no other reason than I like to fly in the morning and I don't give a flying fuck if anyone thinks there are better uses for gasoline or not.
OK - I'll give you one. The entire universe as we know it was created 100 hours ago by a Supreme Being. Any memories you have prior to 100 hours were created then too. Anything that seems old, like a fossil, was created to look that way. Likewise for carbon dated objects. I see no way to test this one way or another.
How the fuck do you KNOW who they were wiretapping?
With no warrants, not even from FISA, they could very well be wiretapping your grandmother.
"Only guilty people need to worry, I have nothing to hide" is an age old excuse for every kind of totalitarian government.
"You raid a cell in Pakistan, find a U.S. phone number on a computer there. In criminal justice terms, that's not probable cause to tap a phone line."
In what alternative universe would the FISA Court NOT grant a wiretap based on this information?
I remember, even as a little kid, thinking the manually aimed guns that seemed to stick out of open windows like a B-17 machine gun from WW II would be pretty hard to aim at space ships closing in at several thousand MPH as well as one hell of an air leak.
Meant to add - these same airplanes, when flown by some 3rd world carriers, can be about as safe as being in a shopping cart towed by a drunk driver down a busy freeway:(
Private single engine piston aircraft have about the same accident rate as motorcycles. Unlike motercycles which are usually hit by inattentive drivers in cars, a large percentage of aircraft crashes are caused by factors within the control of the pilot. For example, Angel Flight transports sick people throughout the country for FREE. They are not subject to commerical regulations, but never the less have a PERFECT safety record while carrying their passengers. On their empty legs they have lost a few airplanes over the years. The pilots seem to be willing to take more chances with their own lives than they do with passengers aboard. Human nature I guess. The airplanes you see at SFO fly under what is called Part 121 of the FAA rules. As of now, 1st world part 121 airlines are the safest form of transportation ever devised.
Piston engine powered aircraft can be "commerical" or "non-comemrcial". There are plenty of airlines that own all piston engine fleets and plenty of jets that are owned by private individuals.
What is really true is that ANY airplane flown under the rules for commercial carriers are safer overall then ANY airplane flown under the rules for aircraft that do not fly people for hire. This is entirely logical and as it should be. When you buy a ticket you expect the highest safety standards on your bus/airplane/cruise ship/rocket/whatever. The FAA assumes that you don't have the time or expertise to examine the aircraft yourself before a flight. If you buy the airplane itself you are given more leeway on just how you want to use your own private property. There is nothing stopping any person from operating an aircraft to commercial standards if they have the time and money to devote to it and some people do just that. Actually scratch the reference to rockets - as of now I think the FAA is going to allow some to fly passengers at much lower than commercial aircraft safety standards as long as it is made clear this is "an extreme adventure" and not normal commericial transport.
BTW - yes I am a pilot
WTF?
Hams LIKE experiments with spacecraft and satellites. There are quite a few ham satellites and a ham station aboard the ISS. We have frequencies set asside for just this kind of thing.
I have been aboard boats pwered by their motors. The pure battery idea is a little impractical, but using tow of these in multihulls powered by one diesel generator that also runs the ships other loads is a very good idea and also a small version of any modern cruiseship.
WTF?
Battery only vehicles have been in use for about 100 years! Any patewnt on them expired before anyone reading this was born.
Fsking patent office should be moved to Mars.
Retrain and switch to !WHAT?
We are approaching a "replicator" economy where the inventors and designers can become very rich, but once any product or service gets developed it can be endlessly reproduced by cheap 3rd world labor.
I doubt I am the only pilot on here, but just in case I am, we not only look at clouds, but we spend some time IN THEM. I can safely say, with complete confidence, your story has the same relation to reality as Bush trying to explain why his latest fuckup is really a good thing.
This is a nice theory. I wish it would actually work. In practice you get 17th century pirates, 1980s Lebanon or present day Somalia. Great wealth can only be built when there is a structure of government and laws. Otherwise you can only accumulate as much wealth as you have physical force to hold and defend. An anarchic society of armed bands fighting for plunder is NOT any kind of paradise. Iraq suffered under the heavy hand of a brutal despot for decades. Guess what they did the second they could when we showed up? Killing each other and us!
Selling ad space on a web page might have been original in 1995. Why would ANYONE be interested in this?
Reminds me of the "patent" on email via radio that BLackberry is fighting. I have sent emails by radio in the fsking 1980s!!!!!
Pay for Galileo or use GPS for free?
I can't really see a huge market for Galileo here. I like the "GPS not good for applications like aircraft navigation becuase the USA could turn it off" quote. I am sure the 10s of thousands of people who have bought GPS units for their aircraft would be suprised to hear that!
They could have. The USA could demand that the UN hand over Airbus, Paris, and Monte Carlo to the USA. I could demand that Euro-Trash chicks blow me daily. In all cases, the result would be much laughter and then NO.
Not only is this a dupe, but I think it is one several times over and also several years old. BTW, if the EU wants to spend billions on a duplicate navigation system, all for the good. I will have a more accurate and more redundant nav system paid for by SOMEONE ELSE for once. Thanks!
I used to play with one. It was fun to put quarters and pennies in it and zoom WAY in on them. The "owners" of it needed me to fix the attached computer and were happy to let me screw around with it if I could keep it running. I do remember that you had to put liquid nitrogen in it every so often. I found out why they let me "play" with it everyday - I was keeping it full for them and when the liquind nitrogen spilled it landed on me and I was the one hoping around going OH F#CK and they were the ones laughing. Speaking of which, if some roaches come out put the nitrogen on them and YOU will laugh and the roaches won't!!!!
Mandatory safety warning - If you spill enough nitrogen on the wrong part of you it won't be funny. That sh!t is cold.
Where are flying cars: There have been a few. Their owners quickly realized it was pointless to risk damage and put wear and tear on an expensive airplane driving it on the road when a relatively cheap car can be had for overland travel. Also Hertz and some other companies have stepped up to provide cars at airports other than your home base.
Crown Vics ARE 30 year old technology. The basic platform is ANCIENT. Police and taxi operators buy them because rear-wheel-drive body-on-frame cars are indestructable. See the Ford 500, based on a Volvo, for what Ford expects individuals to buy for a sedan.
I spend a lot of time in Western Europe. Please either go there and see for yourself or quit smoking crack. What can someone in Germany do today that I can't? I get all pissed off at the Homeland Insecurity rules for flying in the DC area because it REMINDS ME OF THE BULLSHIT IN EUROPE. I am part of a small minority in the USA (about 500,000 of us) that are pilots and contend with all kinnds of stupid crap since 9-11, but for the average person not much has changed. No government agent is going to track me down for making fun of DHS. Before you get all excited, please don't post about socialist medical systems. Paying huge taxes for a no choice medical system may or may not be a good idea, but freedom it is not.
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I think I would like to see cars that drive cross country with no fuel too! Why not make computers that require no electricity while we are at it.
WTF! He BOUGHT the gas (well keroseene to be precise) for his airplane. He can do what he wants with his gas in his airplane. Guess what - I am flying my airplane this weekend just to go eat breakfast at an airport 30 miles away. I will likely use about 4 gallons of gas roundtrip. I am doing this for no other reason than I like to fly in the morning and I don't give a flying fuck if anyone thinks there are better uses for gasoline or not.
OK - I'll give you one. The entire universe as we know it was created 100 hours ago by a Supreme Being. Any memories you have prior to 100 hours were created then too. Anything that seems old, like a fossil, was created to look that way. Likewise for carbon dated objects. I see no way to test this one way or another.
How the fuck do you KNOW who they were wiretapping? With no warrants, not even from FISA, they could very well be wiretapping your grandmother. "Only guilty people need to worry, I have nothing to hide" is an age old excuse for every kind of totalitarian government.
"You raid a cell in Pakistan, find a U.S. phone number on a computer there. In criminal justice terms, that's not probable cause to tap a phone line." In what alternative universe would the FISA Court NOT grant a wiretap based on this information?
I remember, even as a little kid, thinking the manually aimed guns that seemed to stick out of open windows like a B-17 machine gun from WW II would be pretty hard to aim at space ships closing in at several thousand MPH as well as one hell of an air leak.
Meant to add - these same airplanes, when flown by some 3rd world carriers, can be about as safe as being in a shopping cart towed by a drunk driver down a busy freeway :(
Private single engine piston aircraft have about the same accident rate as motorcycles. Unlike motercycles which are usually hit by inattentive drivers in cars, a large percentage of aircraft crashes are caused by factors within the control of the pilot. For example, Angel Flight transports sick people throughout the country for FREE. They are not subject to commerical regulations, but never the less have a PERFECT safety record while carrying their passengers. On their empty legs they have lost a few airplanes over the years. The pilots seem to be willing to take more chances with their own lives than they do with passengers aboard. Human nature I guess. The airplanes you see at SFO fly under what is called Part 121 of the FAA rules. As of now, 1st world part 121 airlines are the safest form of transportation ever devised.
Piston engine powered aircraft can be "commerical" or "non-comemrcial". There are plenty of airlines that own all piston engine fleets and plenty of jets that are owned by private individuals. What is really true is that ANY airplane flown under the rules for commercial carriers are safer overall then ANY airplane flown under the rules for aircraft that do not fly people for hire. This is entirely logical and as it should be. When you buy a ticket you expect the highest safety standards on your bus/airplane/cruise ship/rocket/whatever. The FAA assumes that you don't have the time or expertise to examine the aircraft yourself before a flight. If you buy the airplane itself you are given more leeway on just how you want to use your own private property. There is nothing stopping any person from operating an aircraft to commercial standards if they have the time and money to devote to it and some people do just that. Actually scratch the reference to rockets - as of now I think the FAA is going to allow some to fly passengers at much lower than commercial aircraft safety standards as long as it is made clear this is "an extreme adventure" and not normal commericial transport. BTW - yes I am a pilot
WTF? Hams LIKE experiments with spacecraft and satellites. There are quite a few ham satellites and a ham station aboard the ISS. We have frequencies set asside for just this kind of thing.
I have been aboard boats pwered by their motors. The pure battery idea is a little impractical, but using tow of these in multihulls powered by one diesel generator that also runs the ships other loads is a very good idea and also a small version of any modern cruiseship.
WTF? Battery only vehicles have been in use for about 100 years! Any patewnt on them expired before anyone reading this was born. Fsking patent office should be moved to Mars.
Retrain and switch to !WHAT? We are approaching a "replicator" economy where the inventors and designers can become very rich, but once any product or service gets developed it can be endlessly reproduced by cheap 3rd world labor.
I doubt I am the only pilot on here, but just in case I am, we not only look at clouds, but we spend some time IN THEM. I can safely say, with complete confidence, your story has the same relation to reality as Bush trying to explain why his latest fuckup is really a good thing.
This is a nice theory. I wish it would actually work. In practice you get 17th century pirates, 1980s Lebanon or present day Somalia. Great wealth can only be built when there is a structure of government and laws. Otherwise you can only accumulate as much wealth as you have physical force to hold and defend. An anarchic society of armed bands fighting for plunder is NOT any kind of paradise. Iraq suffered under the heavy hand of a brutal despot for decades. Guess what they did the second they could when we showed up? Killing each other and us!
Selling ad space on a web page might have been original in 1995. Why would ANYONE be interested in this? Reminds me of the "patent" on email via radio that BLackberry is fighting. I have sent emails by radio in the fsking 1980s!!!!!
Pay for Galileo or use GPS for free? I can't really see a huge market for Galileo here. I like the "GPS not good for applications like aircraft navigation becuase the USA could turn it off" quote. I am sure the 10s of thousands of people who have bought GPS units for their aircraft would be suprised to hear that!
They could have. The USA could demand that the UN hand over Airbus, Paris, and Monte Carlo to the USA. I could demand that Euro-Trash chicks blow me daily. In all cases, the result would be much laughter and then NO.
Not only is this a dupe, but I think it is one several times over and also several years old. BTW, if the EU wants to spend billions on a duplicate navigation system, all for the good. I will have a more accurate and more redundant nav system paid for by SOMEONE ELSE for once. Thanks!
I used to play with one. It was fun to put quarters and pennies in it and zoom WAY in on them. The "owners" of it needed me to fix the attached computer and were happy to let me screw around with it if I could keep it running. I do remember that you had to put liquid nitrogen in it every so often. I found out why they let me "play" with it everyday - I was keeping it full for them and when the liquind nitrogen spilled it landed on me and I was the one hoping around going OH F#CK and they were the ones laughing. Speaking of which, if some roaches come out put the nitrogen on them and YOU will laugh and the roaches won't!!!! Mandatory safety warning - If you spill enough nitrogen on the wrong part of you it won't be funny. That sh!t is cold.
Where are flying cars: There have been a few. Their owners quickly realized it was pointless to risk damage and put wear and tear on an expensive airplane driving it on the road when a relatively cheap car can be had for overland travel. Also Hertz and some other companies have stepped up to provide cars at airports other than your home base.
I got on their "free for a year" intro plan. 2 years later, it is still free! But no tech support to speak of for us freeloaders :(
Two words: Virgin Galactic
Crown Vics ARE 30 year old technology. The basic platform is ANCIENT. Police and taxi operators buy them because rear-wheel-drive body-on-frame cars are indestructable. See the Ford 500, based on a Volvo, for what Ford expects individuals to buy for a sedan.
I spend a lot of time in Western Europe. Please either go there and see for yourself or quit smoking crack. What can someone in Germany do today that I can't? I get all pissed off at the Homeland Insecurity rules for flying in the DC area because it REMINDS ME OF THE BULLSHIT IN EUROPE. I am part of a small minority in the USA (about 500,000 of us) that are pilots and contend with all kinnds of stupid crap since 9-11, but for the average person not much has changed. No government agent is going to track me down for making fun of DHS. Before you get all excited, please don't post about socialist medical systems. Paying huge taxes for a no choice medical system may or may not be a good idea, but freedom it is not.