So you think it's ok for people to be allowed to bring weapons onto planes?
First of all its a loaded question. You can't stop or allow people to bring weapons onto planes merely by making a rule. All you can do is punish the tiny subset of people whom get caught, most of whom are not evil, because most people are not evil. So, mostly, its a completely ineffective waste of time and effort.
Which weapons are you referring to? Cut off Chuck Norris's hands, or let a baby have "too many" ounces of baby formula?
An adult would have realized the rules are there for public safety
Only if they are a stupid adult, one dumb enough to fall for "good security is occasionally obnoxious, therefore anything obnoxious must be good security"
The ISS orbits around 190 nm aka 220 or so statute (regular) miles. So, if you're willing to count the ISS while its over the lower 48, I think it has this record beat even if it passes directly over my local McD.
Even with 800 AMD processor cores at its disposal the university is still hitting the limits of what is possible..
Meaningless uninformed journalist bs filler puff. What is possible, is simulating every subatomic particle in the universe at planck time intervals for the total age of the universe, repeatedly for an infinite combination of different cosmological constants to see what you get. That will never be done, of course.
I was going to say "But Finland has much higher taxes!" Then I checked... the highest tax bracket there is 30%.
You've been misinformed. Not a quantitative error but a process error.
True, their income tax is only about 1/3. But....
In the us, we (mostly?) have low sales tax, no VAT, and high income taxes.
In finland, their "sales tax" aka V.A.T. is roughly 1/4, although lower for some things. I specifically remember books had a relatively low VAT, only like 10%.
So, if you're a wage slave, spending about what you earn, your total tax burden in finland is well over 60% by the time you add sin taxes and such. I suppose if you don't own a car or drink or smoke or earn much money it might only be 40% or so.
Similar amusements happen in the USA, where some places use income tax, some use sales tax, and some use property tax to fund their operations.
The point is: at least in the US (which is where Jobs does most of his flying, I would imagine) having any type of airport security *at all* is not normal for private flights.
I'm told by pilot friends that customs will harass private pilots making local flights in coastie-land (as far as they know, the "local flight" is actually from a cross border grow op).
Not being a coastie, all I have is hearsay. Can a genuine coastie with a pilots license chime in?
I would imagine that on one hand, a learjet can carry a heck of a lot of product from very far away, yet on the other hand, the owners of most learjets are exactly the type of "first amongst equals" citizen you'd not want to harass.
Personally, I'm not sure the whole 'WooHoo, I can now vote in the US' is worth it - which seems to be the only other *practical* difference between a GC-holder, and a citizen.
As a GC holder if you commit a crime you can be deported. Once you're a citizen, no problemo.
No idea how crimes committed before the citizenship is granted are handled. I don't know if a citizenship can be retroactively revoked.
Maybe he knows that MS or some MS financed corporation is planning/paying to get him charged with some totally bogus criminal copyright violation (criminal patent violation?), and he wants to stay in the USA instead of getting deported?
"Rules to resolve issues" doesn't sound anything like anyone implying magical physics-breaking measures, it sounds like regulations on exact frequency and signal-strength, which there would obviously be anyway.
Cool, we can send those regs back in time, so the installed base of equipment will not be interfered with. Obvious and simple.
When Micosoft does something that isn't evil, it's considered news?
MS, Adobe, and a new virus walk into a bar... and the punchline is the word 'scary' isn't applied to using MS products. Although it scares the hell out of me, being a strictly Linux/Mac guy.
FWIW, it's pretty easy to block all messages from a single app (or user) forever.
I tried that, and by the time I deleted or blocked all the games, psuedo-spammers (I'm going to the bar tonight, look at me world!) I really had nothing valuable left vs the immense time investment required to keep up. Zap, account deleted.
Most people use facebook like they (used to?) use TV, as a way to fill empty time. If you do a cost-benefit analysis, you rapidly get rid of both.
The stumbling blocks have included concerns about interference with TV signals and wireless microphones, but the FCC plans to vote next week on rules meant to resolve those issues.
Why can't those politicians vote on something more useful, like repealing the law of gravity, or laws of thermodynamics? I'm sure its likely to be equally successful.
This has nothing to do with Google. This is because some people are stupid. Removing Google from the equation won't make them less stupid.
Original poster actually got it so wrong, that the argument made no sense.
Some agents will fight you tooth and nail that part A might still be the problem even after swapping out three fully functional part As, yet are unable to explain you why they believe so when pressed to back up their argument.
Corrected version:
Some agents will fight you tooth and nail that part A might still be the problem even after swapping out three fully functional part As, because part A was the first result of a google search.
You tend to encounter this from follower-type personalities. The type that lives in a beige mcmansion and finds nothing humorous at all in sayings like "eat (something disgusting), because ten trillion houseflies can't all be wrong"
The reason people don't eat algae is that it tastes bad.... Now, if he could splice in some genes to make his spirulina taste like beef or chicken, he'd have a lot more success.
Wouldn't be an unholy hell of a lot simpler to just feed the algae to chickens and then eat the chickens, instead of trying a whole bunch of patented genetic engineering foolishness to make algae taste like chicken?
I'm sure that the operators of all of those coastal nuclear power plants (such as San Onofre, the nearest one to me that I know of) will be quite disturbed to learn of your disapproval of their use of sea water as a heat sink.
Not to mention the submarine and aircraft carrier reactor operators. However, a freshwater nuclear navy might be helpful in the planned invasion of Canada via the great lakes...
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the devil you know (and have experience with that might save you from a layoff) is better than the devil you don't. Either way, your solution is correct - a risk premium in salary or benefits are in order.
Or, if they're coasties, their house is (financially) underwater and to switch jobs they'd have to move and declare bankruptcy. I've heard this is an issue, folks whom rent can move, and are making bank, folks with houses can't move and are stuck. Even worse for security clearance type jobs where bankruptcy equals no clearance.
My employer is hiring, both full-time and contractor. My previous employer was hiring as well. In neither case could we get qualified candidates.
Thats because HR is requiring 10 years of experience with winders 2008 server, so by definition the only resumes that make it thru the HR filtration plant are liars / con men / inside-referrals.
a family making $75k is barely making it and in most peoples definition thats on the lower end of middle class
Wow man. According to wikipedia a family at $75K is making more than 75% of the population, so I guess only a quarter the population is doing better than "barely making it"
I frankly live a very luxurious lifestyle in the low six digits, and we could still "get by" around half that.
Couldn't common events be standardized, and perhaps integrated into the avionics? Why do you even need to understand English to interpret it?
NOTAMs handle the uncommon stuff. Complicated stuff is best distributed in human languages.
Also you need to really "think" about some of them and how they'd interact with your flight. Do I realistically need to be concerned about the balloon launch at all if I'm flying at 43kft? And, in comparison, what are my legal FAA obligations as regards balloon launches? FAA regs are pretty much in legal English so you need to interpret that as it affects you. If it only happens during a certain timeframe, how does that interact with everything else related to my flight, is it even relevant? If I request a different altitude and airspeed (with an associated different wind speed and ground speed) to save a bit of fuel, that'll affect when I overfly the area downwind of the balloon launch, so what saves more money, flying at the "economic" flight level for awhile at the cost of diverting around the balloon areas, or burn a wee bit more gas to overfly before the launch? Aside from $$$ would it be horrible PR to have to cancel the state fair balloon launch because of my jet being in the wrong place? Combine the meterologists opinion of predicted wind changes in that area with my experience... And I need to remember to call ahead while inflight to make sure they didn't cancel, which will also affect my planned flight plan. How does the balloon operations area impact possibly needing to use the local airport as an emergency field? Hmm. And I've probably dramatically simplified a relatively normal NOTAM. I've heard of totally bizarre NOTAMs.
Its a pretty complicated AI problem to solve correctly.
I think you are confusing the Captain/first officer with the PF/PNF.
I think you are correct. I have friends and relatives with ATP certs and flying big jets, but I never got further than memorizing all the ground school books in high school, and a lot of computer simulator time. One thing for certain about pilots, they have interesting stories to tell.
Actually no, because the fatality rate for bus passengers in bus crashes in urban environments (aka not on the interstate) approaches zero, where fatality rate for aircraft crashes is just a wee hair under 100%. Sometimes a real hero does save the plane and passengers.
Usually, bus accident = no bus passenger deaths, but plane accident = no survivors.
So you can operate a bus with pretty much a "no harm, no foul" attitude that... wouldn't fly with a plane operator.
Out of curiosity: Could some of these tasks and procedures be simplified, perhaps with the help of technology? For instance, exactly what information does the pilot need from/provide to the approach, tower and ground? Couldn't any of this be sent automatically by computers?
Pilots that I've talked to explain you'd pretty much need Nobel prize quality strong AI. Look at that squall line. Is it going to develop or get weaker? And how does that interact with my judgment of the quality of the plane and the quality of my flying? Meanwhile I see a fresh NOTAM shutting down the escape route to my backup airport... or is it? And trust me, even native English speakers misinterpret NOTAMs (with sometimes very bad consequences). Meanwhile fuel filter #5 is clogged but not enough to replace, while transfer pump 2 is running slow but not bad enough to replace, and the peculiar loading of cargo today means strange weight and balance issues... should I top up tank 3 and risk running out of gas due to transfer failure or top up tank 2 and burn so much extra fuel due to being out of balance that we might run out of gas... Or could I try a strange reconfiguration never tried before and pump tank 3 into tank 1 and then tank 1 into tank 2 bypassing all the questionable gear? And how does that interact with the development of the squall line storm meaning higher turbulence at least or maybe needing to divert.
Non-pilots think the work required is simple control system theory, just need a fancier autopilot. Can't you replace that whole paragraph about with a simple linear equation or something?
In this day in age planes should be drones by now with a "pilot" only being called to duty in an emergency. Otherwise he could be helping out with the flight crew as more of an "engineer" making sure everything is working smoothly.
Little do you know, that from conversations with my lifelong pilot grandfather and my buddy the commercial jet pilot, that is pretty much the job description of a modern pilot, with the addition that the pilot gets to make all kinds of exciting judgment calls and invent on the fly some pretty interesting workarounds, although I suppose that is a subset of being declared an "engineer".
And pilot is to copilot as master is to apprentice.
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So you think it's ok for people to be allowed to bring weapons onto planes?
First of all its a loaded question. You can't stop or allow people to bring weapons onto planes merely by making a rule. All you can do is punish the tiny subset of people whom get caught, most of whom are not evil, because most people are not evil. So, mostly, its a completely ineffective waste of time and effort.
Which weapons are you referring to? Cut off Chuck Norris's hands, or let a baby have "too many" ounces of baby formula?
An adult would have realized the rules are there for public safety
Only if they are a stupid adult, one dumb enough to fall for "good security is occasionally obnoxious, therefore anything obnoxious must be good security"
The ISS orbits around 190 nm aka 220 or so statute (regular) miles. So, if you're willing to count the ISS while its over the lower 48, I think it has this record beat even if it passes directly over my local McD.
Even with 800 AMD processor cores at its disposal the university is still hitting the limits of what is possible..
Meaningless uninformed journalist bs filler puff. What is possible, is simulating every subatomic particle in the universe at planck time intervals for the total age of the universe, repeatedly for an infinite combination of different cosmological constants to see what you get. That will never be done, of course.
I was going to say "But Finland has much higher taxes!" Then I checked... the highest tax bracket there is 30%.
You've been misinformed. Not a quantitative error but a process error.
True, their income tax is only about 1/3. But....
In the us, we (mostly?) have low sales tax, no VAT, and high income taxes.
In finland, their "sales tax" aka V.A.T. is roughly 1/4, although lower for some things. I specifically remember books had a relatively low VAT, only like 10%.
So, if you're a wage slave, spending about what you earn, your total tax burden in finland is well over 60% by the time you add sin taxes and such. I suppose if you don't own a car or drink or smoke or earn much money it might only be 40% or so.
Similar amusements happen in the USA, where some places use income tax, some use sales tax, and some use property tax to fund their operations.
The point is: at least in the US (which is where Jobs does most of his flying, I would imagine) having any type of airport security *at all* is not normal for private flights.
I'm told by pilot friends that customs will harass private pilots making local flights in coastie-land (as far as they know, the "local flight" is actually from a cross border grow op).
Not being a coastie, all I have is hearsay. Can a genuine coastie with a pilots license chime in?
I would imagine that on one hand, a learjet can carry a heck of a lot of product from very far away, yet on the other hand, the owners of most learjets are exactly the type of "first amongst equals" citizen you'd not want to harass.
Personally, I'm not sure the whole 'WooHoo, I can now vote in the US' is worth it - which seems to be the only other *practical* difference between a GC-holder, and a citizen.
As a GC holder if you commit a crime you can be deported. Once you're a citizen, no problemo.
No idea how crimes committed before the citizenship is granted are handled. I don't know if a citizenship can be retroactively revoked.
Maybe he knows that MS or some MS financed corporation is planning/paying to get him charged with some totally bogus criminal copyright violation (criminal patent violation?), and he wants to stay in the USA instead of getting deported?
"Rules to resolve issues" doesn't sound anything like anyone implying magical physics-breaking measures, it sounds like regulations on exact frequency and signal-strength, which there would obviously be anyway.
Cool, we can send those regs back in time, so the installed base of equipment will not be interfered with. Obvious and simple.
When Micosoft does something that isn't evil, it's considered news?
MS, Adobe, and a new virus walk into a bar ... and the punchline is the word 'scary' isn't applied to using MS products. Although it scares the hell out of me, being a strictly Linux/Mac guy.
FWIW, it's pretty easy to block all messages from a single app (or user) forever.
I tried that, and by the time I deleted or blocked all the games, psuedo-spammers (I'm going to the bar tonight, look at me world!) I really had nothing valuable left vs the immense time investment required to keep up. Zap, account deleted.
Most people use facebook like they (used to?) use TV, as a way to fill empty time. If you do a cost-benefit analysis, you rapidly get rid of both.
The stumbling blocks have included concerns about interference with TV signals and wireless microphones, but the FCC plans to vote next week on rules meant to resolve those issues.
Why can't those politicians vote on something more useful, like repealing the law of gravity, or laws of thermodynamics? I'm sure its likely to be equally successful.
This has nothing to do with Google. This is because some people are stupid. Removing Google from the equation won't make them less stupid.
Original poster actually got it so wrong, that the argument made no sense.
Some agents will fight you tooth and nail that part A might still be the problem even after swapping out three fully functional part As, yet are unable to explain you why they believe so when pressed to back up their argument.
Corrected version:
Some agents will fight you tooth and nail that part A might still be the problem even after swapping out three fully functional part As, because part A was the first result of a google search.
You tend to encounter this from follower-type personalities. The type that lives in a beige mcmansion and finds nothing humorous at all in sayings like "eat (something disgusting), because ten trillion houseflies can't all be wrong"
but with software which offered little to make the task easier.
If the psychological testing gig doesn't work out, sounds like they'll fit right into the Corporate Business software field.
The reason people don't eat algae is that it tastes bad .... Now, if he could splice in some genes to make his spirulina taste like beef or chicken, he'd have a lot more success.
Wouldn't be an unholy hell of a lot simpler to just feed the algae to chickens and then eat the chickens, instead of trying a whole bunch of patented genetic engineering foolishness to make algae taste like chicken?
I'm sure that the operators of all of those coastal nuclear power plants (such as San Onofre, the nearest one to me that I know of) will be quite disturbed to learn of your disapproval of their use of sea water as a heat sink.
Not to mention the submarine and aircraft carrier reactor operators. However, a freshwater nuclear navy might be helpful in the planned invasion of Canada via the great lakes...
the devil you know (and have experience with that might save you from a layoff) is better than the devil you don't. Either way, your solution is correct - a risk premium in salary or benefits are in order.
Or, if they're coasties, their house is (financially) underwater and to switch jobs they'd have to move and declare bankruptcy. I've heard this is an issue, folks whom rent can move, and are making bank, folks with houses can't move and are stuck. Even worse for security clearance type jobs where bankruptcy equals no clearance.
but if the economy is so bad, where are the people hammering on our door?
Whats your (approximate) pay and location? That might be the problem.
The other problem is what does the HR resume filtration system look like? Too specific, perhaps?
My employer is hiring, both full-time and contractor. My previous employer was hiring as well. In neither case could we get qualified candidates.
Thats because HR is requiring 10 years of experience with winders 2008 server, so by definition the only resumes that make it thru the HR filtration plant are liars / con men / inside-referrals.
a family making $75k is barely making it and in most peoples definition thats on the lower end of middle class
Wow man. According to wikipedia a family at $75K is making more than 75% of the population, so I guess only a quarter the population is doing better than "barely making it"
I frankly live a very luxurious lifestyle in the low six digits, and we could still "get by" around half that.
Couldn't common events be standardized, and perhaps integrated into the avionics? Why do you even need to understand English to interpret it?
NOTAMs handle the uncommon stuff. Complicated stuff is best distributed in human languages.
Also you need to really "think" about some of them and how they'd interact with your flight. Do I realistically need to be concerned about the balloon launch at all if I'm flying at 43kft? And, in comparison, what are my legal FAA obligations as regards balloon launches? FAA regs are pretty much in legal English so you need to interpret that as it affects you. If it only happens during a certain timeframe, how does that interact with everything else related to my flight, is it even relevant? If I request a different altitude and airspeed (with an associated different wind speed and ground speed) to save a bit of fuel, that'll affect when I overfly the area downwind of the balloon launch, so what saves more money, flying at the "economic" flight level for awhile at the cost of diverting around the balloon areas, or burn a wee bit more gas to overfly before the launch? Aside from $$$ would it be horrible PR to have to cancel the state fair balloon launch because of my jet being in the wrong place? Combine the meterologists opinion of predicted wind changes in that area with my experience... And I need to remember to call ahead while inflight to make sure they didn't cancel, which will also affect my planned flight plan. How does the balloon operations area impact possibly needing to use the local airport as an emergency field? Hmm. And I've probably dramatically simplified a relatively normal NOTAM. I've heard of totally bizarre NOTAMs.
Its a pretty complicated AI problem to solve correctly.
I think you are confusing the Captain/first officer with the PF/PNF.
I think you are correct. I have friends and relatives with ATP certs and flying big jets, but I never got further than memorizing all the ground school books in high school, and a lot of computer simulator time. One thing for certain about pilots, they have interesting stories to tell.
Actually no, because the fatality rate for bus passengers in bus crashes in urban environments (aka not on the interstate) approaches zero, where fatality rate for aircraft crashes is just a wee hair under 100%. Sometimes a real hero does save the plane and passengers.
Usually, bus accident = no bus passenger deaths, but plane accident = no survivors.
So you can operate a bus with pretty much a "no harm, no foul" attitude that ... wouldn't fly with a plane operator.
Out of curiosity: Could some of these tasks and procedures be simplified, perhaps with the help of technology? For instance, exactly what information does the pilot need from/provide to the approach, tower and ground? Couldn't any of this be sent automatically by computers?
Pilots that I've talked to explain you'd pretty much need Nobel prize quality strong AI. Look at that squall line. Is it going to develop or get weaker? And how does that interact with my judgment of the quality of the plane and the quality of my flying? Meanwhile I see a fresh NOTAM shutting down the escape route to my backup airport... or is it? And trust me, even native English speakers misinterpret NOTAMs (with sometimes very bad consequences). Meanwhile fuel filter #5 is clogged but not enough to replace, while transfer pump 2 is running slow but not bad enough to replace, and the peculiar loading of cargo today means strange weight and balance issues ... should I top up tank 3 and risk running out of gas due to transfer failure or top up tank 2 and burn so much extra fuel due to being out of balance that we might run out of gas ... Or could I try a strange reconfiguration never tried before and pump tank 3 into tank 1 and then tank 1 into tank 2 bypassing all the questionable gear? And how does that interact with the development of the squall line storm meaning higher turbulence at least or maybe needing to divert.
Non-pilots think the work required is simple control system theory, just need a fancier autopilot. Can't you replace that whole paragraph about with a simple linear equation or something?
In this day in age planes should be drones by now with a "pilot" only being called to duty in an emergency. Otherwise he could be helping out with the flight crew as more of an "engineer" making sure everything is working smoothly.
Little do you know, that from conversations with my lifelong pilot grandfather and my buddy the commercial jet pilot, that is pretty much the job description of a modern pilot, with the addition that the pilot gets to make all kinds of exciting judgment calls and invent on the fly some pretty interesting workarounds, although I suppose that is a subset of being declared an "engineer".
And pilot is to copilot as master is to apprentice.
They aren't there to serve drinks; they are there to keep the passengers in line.
Correction: They are there to keep the passengers in line, and when they have nothing better to do, they SELL drinks.