Not that I doubt you experienced something unusual, but there is a strict prohibition against executing a go-around after already touching down in the SOPs for all commercial jets. The moment the gear hit the ground, all sorts of things happen systems wise in the plane that make it very dangerous to got back up in the air again. Most likely you didn't actually touch down before the go-around was initiated.
Absolutely - as despicable as it is, those people should have the right to say whatever they want. No thought or speech should be a crime IMO. I thought the situation was being handled quite well without this law - a huge group of biker dudes started surrounding the funerals with a ring and barring the morons from entering.
Constitutional law is rarely about the individual facts of a case. ie, Marbury v. Madison wasn't actually about whether Marbury was entitled to his commission as a federal judge, it was about whether the Court had the power of judicial review.
A more recent example - the opinion in the Newdow v. US case about the Pledge of Allegience had absolutely nothing at all to do with whether the pledge violates the establishment clause by using the phrase "under God." The court found that Newdow did not have standing to bring a case on behalf of someone else (his daughter) who was not herself alleging any sort of legal injury or wrong. There was a similar case where some animal rights activists got shot down bringing a case alleging future violations of their rights that hadn't even happened yet.
I don't think Constitutional law is very well understood by most Americans. The two classes I took on it on the way to my polisci degree were probably my favorite ones in all of college - it's a fascinating discipline.
The US is more capitalistc than ever (capitalism is the opposite of communism).
Except real capitalism has nothing to do with government and business getting together to fix the market, which we have in abundance here. That is corporatism - in a truly capitalist system the government would have little to no role in the economy. Look at Hong Kong for probably the best example of it today. (at least before the Chinese takeover) Capitalism's original theorists (and the American founders) preached self-regulating market competition, not government+business cabals.
Just so no one gets the wrong idea here, the term "fly-by-wire" does NOT necessarily refer to a computer overriding the pilots. In a lot of the Airbus discussion I see online, it gets used in this way. FBW is, very simply put, a flight control system that uses electrical impulses over wires to send commands to the servos that move the control surfaces on the wings, tail and stabilizer as opposed to hydraulic lines or manual cable linkages. Nothing about computers overriding pilots is directly implied by the term. The Boeing 777 is a FBW aircraft and has no such system for overriding pilot inputs.
Airbus basically places something called an FCC (Flight Control Computer) as a middle man between the pilot's sidestick and the control surfaces. This computer accepts the pilots commands as input, modifies then according to what Airbus calls "flight law regimes" and then sends a modified signal on to the computers - this is where all the unique "Airbus stuff" comes from such as the pitch and roll limiters where the pilot can't exceed 33 degrees nose up or down or 66 degrees of bank. The FCC also eliminates any concept of elevator trimming for cosntant pitch, such as what you'd find on virtually any other airplane. The FCC simply continues to command the elevator to maintain whatever pitch (it's technically G-load, but that's beside the point) and bank angles that were present when the pilot lets go of the stick. Most aircraft do not hold their attitude like this, if you release the yoke, the plane will have a tendency to return to wings level and to climb or descend depending on the trim setting.
The Air China incident had more to do with the pilots not understanding what autopilot mode they were in than anything to do with the aircraft itself. The first officer accidentally engaged TO/GA (take off/go around) mode on approach and from that point on the pilots got really confused as to what the plane was doing. They shouldn't have been, those modes are part of training and are used quite often to abandon an approach and start over due to aircraft on the runway, wind changes etc. They pulled the throttles back despite the steep climb, which is a recipe for an aerodynamic stall, which happened and caused the crash.
There was a very similar error at play in an Aeroflot A310 crash in Siberia in 1994 - the captain's son was in the cockpit messing with the yoke and he indavertently engaged something called CWS - control wheel steering, and it disengaged the normal autopilot roll mode. The pilots couldn't figure out why it was rolling and it ended up banking so far that the plane was unable to maintain level flight and fell into a steep dive. They pulled it back up too steeply and the "alpha floor" stall protection mode engaged and attempted to force the nose back down to regain airspeed and get the wing flying again. They didn't understand the automatic manuever and fought it and spun the plane... They finally managed to pull out of the spin and regain control, but at this point made another grave error and didn't realize they were now below the MSA (minimum safe altitude) - they crashed into a hillside at full speed in the dark.
Aircraft accidents are seldom soley the result of "the computer" - it's almost always a chain of errors, the lack of any one of which could have stopped the accident from happening. You have to understand that a lot of older more senior pilots end up flying these advanced planes after decades of flying on steam gauges and their nerves in 727's, 747-200's, DC-10's etc... It's quite easy in a crisis for someone like this to lose awareness of what all the advanced automation and "glass" in the cockpit is doing, even though technically speaking it should be far safer and efficient than the instrumentation of the old days.
Check out the crash of American 965 in Cali, Columbia for probably the textbook example of this...
Consoles and gaming PCs used to be separate markets with a wide price gulf between them. MS and Sony have essentially taken what should be $2000 gaming PC's, crammed them into small boxes and then sold them at a huge loss to maintain anything resembling reasonable prices. They can't afford to do this anymore now and that's being reflected in these prices coming out for the 360 and PS3. This is really basic economics, there's no free lunch - if you want a quad core CPU and a GF7900, you need to market them as such and not make people think they can get that type of technology for $199.
My prediction - Nintendo massively undercuts both of them with the Wii and wins this round. It won't give you uber transparency AA at HD res with 6 million gigaflops per second of power, but I'll bet you anything it's affordable and will have fun and innovative games.
gg MS and Sony!
Except for the fact that Stealth isn't original either... Let's see here, advanced computer becomes sentient and tries to kill people... never been done!
I prefer my planes with snakes on them...
I had the opposite happen - had an iPod's headphone jack bust on me, took it in and they wouldn't replace/fix even though I was seriously like a week past the end of the warranty period...
It might interest people to know that the biggest perpetrator of suicide attacks in modern history is in fact the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, a secular nationalist/separatist group, not Muslim Arabs. There's a really great new book on the history and causes of suicide terrorism called "Dying to Win" by Robert Pape - I highly suggest checking it out before making generalizations about who commits these types of attacks and why.
Saying that getting a good recorded sound requires hundreds of thousands of dollars in a huge studio and a team of engineers is completely false. I have heard full albums produced in a bedroom using Pro Tools on a normal PC or Mac that easily rival major studio quality. The way that home recording technology is progressing, the major studio is going to be made almost completely obsolete. Check out someone like BT (he makes a kind of progressive electronic style of music) - his albums are 100% recorded, engineered, mixed, and mastered at his home studio using Logic 6. Tell me his music doesn't sound professional. Another great example - A Perfect Circle - their guitarist Billy Howerdel is a Pro Tools master and recorded their first CD at their own studio and probably the upcoming second one as well. Sure, people from an older generation like The Rolling Stones or other bands like that aren't going to understand how to use Pro Tools and the like, but current up and coming artists who've grown up with computers their whole life sure as hell are going to be capable.
Industry executives have very good reason to be concerned - the only barrier remaining to a band that wants to be completely self-sufficient with their music is distribution. As soon as a system arrives that allows artists to securely sell their own music online and make a profit, it's going to mean the death of the old-fashioned recording industry.
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Not that I doubt you experienced something unusual, but there is a strict prohibition against executing a go-around after already touching down in the SOPs for all commercial jets. The moment the gear hit the ground, all sorts of things happen systems wise in the plane that make it very dangerous to got back up in the air again. Most likely you didn't actually touch down before the go-around was initiated.
Absolutely - as despicable as it is, those people should have the right to say whatever they want. No thought or speech should be a crime IMO. I thought the situation was being handled quite well without this law - a huge group of biker dudes started surrounding the funerals with a ring and barring the morons from entering.
Constitutional law is rarely about the individual facts of a case. ie, Marbury v. Madison wasn't actually about whether Marbury was entitled to his commission as a federal judge, it was about whether the Court had the power of judicial review.
A more recent example - the opinion in the Newdow v. US case about the Pledge of Allegience had absolutely nothing at all to do with whether the pledge violates the establishment clause by using the phrase "under God." The court found that Newdow did not have standing to bring a case on behalf of someone else (his daughter) who was not herself alleging any sort of legal injury or wrong. There was a similar case where some animal rights activists got shot down bringing a case alleging future violations of their rights that hadn't even happened yet.
I don't think Constitutional law is very well understood by most Americans. The two classes I took on it on the way to my polisci degree were probably my favorite ones in all of college - it's a fascinating discipline.
Except real capitalism has nothing to do with government and business getting together to fix the market, which we have in abundance here. That is corporatism - in a truly capitalist system the government would have little to no role in the economy. Look at Hong Kong for probably the best example of it today. (at least before the Chinese takeover) Capitalism's original theorists (and the American founders) preached self-regulating market competition, not government+business cabals.
Just so no one gets the wrong idea here, the term "fly-by-wire" does NOT necessarily refer to a computer overriding the pilots. In a lot of the Airbus discussion I see online, it gets used in this way. FBW is, very simply put, a flight control system that uses electrical impulses over wires to send commands to the servos that move the control surfaces on the wings, tail and stabilizer as opposed to hydraulic lines or manual cable linkages. Nothing about computers overriding pilots is directly implied by the term. The Boeing 777 is a FBW aircraft and has no such system for overriding pilot inputs.
Airbus basically places something called an FCC (Flight Control Computer) as a middle man between the pilot's sidestick and the control surfaces. This computer accepts the pilots commands as input, modifies then according to what Airbus calls "flight law regimes" and then sends a modified signal on to the computers - this is where all the unique "Airbus stuff" comes from such as the pitch and roll limiters where the pilot can't exceed 33 degrees nose up or down or 66 degrees of bank. The FCC also eliminates any concept of elevator trimming for cosntant pitch, such as what you'd find on virtually any other airplane. The FCC simply continues to command the elevator to maintain whatever pitch (it's technically G-load, but that's beside the point) and bank angles that were present when the pilot lets go of the stick. Most aircraft do not hold their attitude like this, if you release the yoke, the plane will have a tendency to return to wings level and to climb or descend depending on the trim setting.
The Air China incident had more to do with the pilots not understanding what autopilot mode they were in than anything to do with the aircraft itself. The first officer accidentally engaged TO/GA (take off/go around) mode on approach and from that point on the pilots got really confused as to what the plane was doing. They shouldn't have been, those modes are part of training and are used quite often to abandon an approach and start over due to aircraft on the runway, wind changes etc. They pulled the throttles back despite the steep climb, which is a recipe for an aerodynamic stall, which happened and caused the crash.
There was a very similar error at play in an Aeroflot A310 crash in Siberia in 1994 - the captain's son was in the cockpit messing with the yoke and he indavertently engaged something called CWS - control wheel steering, and it disengaged the normal autopilot roll mode. The pilots couldn't figure out why it was rolling and it ended up banking so far that the plane was unable to maintain level flight and fell into a steep dive. They pulled it back up too steeply and the "alpha floor" stall protection mode engaged and attempted to force the nose back down to regain airspeed and get the wing flying again. They didn't understand the automatic manuever and fought it and spun the plane... They finally managed to pull out of the spin and regain control, but at this point made another grave error and didn't realize they were now below the MSA (minimum safe altitude) - they crashed into a hillside at full speed in the dark.
Aircraft accidents are seldom soley the result of "the computer" - it's almost always a chain of errors, the lack of any one of which could have stopped the accident from happening. You have to understand that a lot of older more senior pilots end up flying these advanced planes after decades of flying on steam gauges and their nerves in 727's, 747-200's, DC-10's etc... It's quite easy in a crisis for someone like this to lose awareness of what all the advanced automation and "glass" in the cockpit is doing, even though technically speaking it should be far safer and efficient than the instrumentation of the old days.
Check out the crash of American 965 in Cali, Columbia for probably the textbook example of this...
Consoles and gaming PCs used to be separate markets with a wide price gulf between them. MS and Sony have essentially taken what should be $2000 gaming PC's, crammed them into small boxes and then sold them at a huge loss to maintain anything resembling reasonable prices. They can't afford to do this anymore now and that's being reflected in these prices coming out for the 360 and PS3. This is really basic economics, there's no free lunch - if you want a quad core CPU and a GF7900, you need to market them as such and not make people think they can get that type of technology for $199. My prediction - Nintendo massively undercuts both of them with the Wii and wins this round. It won't give you uber transparency AA at HD res with 6 million gigaflops per second of power, but I'll bet you anything it's affordable and will have fun and innovative games. gg MS and Sony!
Except for the fact that Stealth isn't original either... Let's see here, advanced computer becomes sentient and tries to kill people... never been done! I prefer my planes with snakes on them...
I had the opposite happen - had an iPod's headphone jack bust on me, took it in and they wouldn't replace/fix even though I was seriously like a week past the end of the warranty period...
Yeah this is basically a perfect example of how capitalism is supposed to work really.
Unfortunately it's both of them...
It might interest people to know that the biggest perpetrator of suicide attacks in modern history is in fact the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, a secular nationalist/separatist group, not Muslim Arabs. There's a really great new book on the history and causes of suicide terrorism called "Dying to Win" by Robert Pape - I highly suggest checking it out before making generalizations about who commits these types of attacks and why.
I own two Ernie Ball/Music Man guitars - very cool to see this! Ryan
Saying that getting a good recorded sound requires hundreds of thousands of dollars in a huge studio and a team of engineers is completely false. I have heard full albums produced in a bedroom using Pro Tools on a normal PC or Mac that easily rival major studio quality. The way that home recording technology is progressing, the major studio is going to be made almost completely obsolete. Check out someone like BT (he makes a kind of progressive electronic style of music) - his albums are 100% recorded, engineered, mixed, and mastered at his home studio using Logic 6. Tell me his music doesn't sound professional. Another great example - A Perfect Circle - their guitarist Billy Howerdel is a Pro Tools master and recorded their first CD at their own studio and probably the upcoming second one as well. Sure, people from an older generation like The Rolling Stones or other bands like that aren't going to understand how to use Pro Tools and the like, but current up and coming artists who've grown up with computers their whole life sure as hell are going to be capable. Industry executives have very good reason to be concerned - the only barrier remaining to a band that wants to be completely self-sufficient with their music is distribution. As soon as a system arrives that allows artists to securely sell their own music online and make a profit, it's going to mean the death of the old-fashioned recording industry.