Are you thinking of that belly landing by Polish Airlines Flight 16 (November 1, 2011)? The landing gear failed to lower and the pilot did a text book belly landing. This was compared to the Captain Sully landing on the Hudson. It is a very good example of why pilots are still in the cockpit. Maybe sometime when AI is much, much better, computers can take over entirely. But then they'll take over the earth too (it's a joke). Here's a video of a C17 landing at the wrong, way too small airport in Florida; just so people don't miss it in the rush to talk about the 747 that did the same thing last night in Kansas.
You are trying to say the U.S. government did something bad when the U.S. government has nothing to do with what the cartels do. I'd say that was deflecting the argument.
My impression is that the IR light is directed at the patient. It is probably mostly absorbed and converted to heat when it hits the skin, but the haemoglobin in veins close to the surface absorb differently from the surrounding tissue and makes the veins stand out. Whatever small amount of whatever wavelength it has transformed to after it has hit patients arm or other body part to be stuck, is reflected, recorded by cameras, and is projected on the lenses of the glasses. The way I read it, it is the projected images (like on a monitor or tv) that are viewed, likely as false colour or grey scale; not a full shot of IR pointed back at the wearer. So I would guess the answer is, not likely.
Straw man. Just because the U.S. did bad in Iraq doesn't make criminals in other countries innocent. Or even make them less bad. Afghanistan was necessary. I agree that lax fire control on mostly the American military's part was often in the realm of criminal negligence. From bombing civilians to friendly fire on allies. Right at the beginning a retard American pilot killed a bunch of Canadian soldiers who were shooting on a known rifle range. The pilot was never punished. Another time an A-10 came in without asking and took out a platoon of Canadian infantry during one of the biggest conventional battles of the war. The majority of the platoon was killed or wounded. Other than that, not really a valid argument.
Yet another moron who thinks anti drug laws are adequate justification for criminals to murder people. I'd like to hear you at parties.
I can just hear you, "oh yeah, it was great that those guys cut the heads off of a dozen innocent people. If it wasn't for laws in another country these guys would be regular church going guys planting flowers and singing kumbaya! Those evil American law makers are causing these guys to go out and murder people... those criminals have no free will of their own and only murder in reaction to anti drug laws." Bullshit.
You and everyone who thinks anti drug laws are the root cause of these guys murdering people are idiots. If it wasn't drugs they could smuggle it would be something else and they would still murder.
I don't think marijuana laws make sense either. But I don't think anyone who believes that bad guys in countries with corruption and lax law enforcement are bad because of drug laws make sense either. They're just bad. Maybe if you and your ilk stopped smoking so much dope you wouldn't be one and could figure this out.
You're an idiot. Just because drugs are illegal doesn't make it imperative that people hack of the heads of dozens of people. Or murder university students who were never involved in any illegal activity but pissed off a cartel member who can kill with seeming impunity. Bodies hanging from overpasses are not the result of drug laws, they are the result of people who have no regard for human life. Just because making something legal might reduce this activity does not in any way what-so-fucking-ever mean that the drug laws force people to commit mass murders and dispose of the bodies in drums filled with sulfuric acid. Yours has to be one of the dumbest comments ever. Nice way to apologize for murdering thugs just because you want to smoke a joint. You would be better to argue that people who break the law thus creating the demand are the ones who are the cause of the murders. But even that is disingenuous.
There are two types of helicopters. Those that have crashed and those that are going to. I have flown in a bunch of helicopters, often with the doors open. I like it.:)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe in many countries in Europe (France, Austria, and Germany is where I'm thinking specifically), health insurance goes by a means test. If you have the means (the income) you must buy private insurance. If you can't afford it, you get public insurance. And the kicker is that you should receive the same level of treatment, including wait times regardless of whether you have public or private insurance. Or something like that. Yes? No?
Why do they have to move. Train them. Problem solved. You frame this like most private firms who don't want to spend money training people. One reason people stay at some companies is that the companies train them on new stuff so that the people don't feel stagnant and not worth anything to the company or themselves. Some people think you have to move people to specific project locations. This isn't true. If the majority of the development for an organization is being done in one place, it doesn't matter where the place is (aside from relatively small integration teams when the system is being implemented at a different location). This is what can help provide cohesiveness to all government projects, so that all systems can work together. Too bad no-one thought to do this with law enforcement or the FBI systems would have been able to borrow from other systems and find the 9/11 bombers before they flew, since it is well known that the data was there to catch them, it just wasn't kept in a way to coordinate it to provide useful information (note the use of 'data' and 'information').
Even if there is more than one project. It just matters that they are close to the end user site in terms of time zones, and have the same worth ethics and social and cultural sensibilities as the client. The continental U.S. in this respect is not too big. Since it is the federal government we are talking about, working from Virginia or Maryland are good enough. Sure, a small group of integration specialists on site in other areas of the country could be used, but they are not core and those could be contractors or local hires. There is no reason to make people move in the U.S. to do software projects. It's why Microsoft, or Apple, or Google, or whoever can have their main development shop in one city or region and sell to many clients all over the U.S. and the world for that matter.
when the contract is over the workers are not still on the government payroll
Until the next government project comes along (usually already starting or running) and they get hired as contractors again because they have experience in government contracting jobs. It's not like there will never be another government software project for them... they are happening all the freaking time. They could just hire the people and contract supplemental workers to work under the full time project managers. The benefit there is that with the same people working on all government projects the more likelihood that out of it will come a more cohesive architecture and even possible interoperability of services.
I guess you'd be the first to take up arms against the goverment.
Only if he's assigned to pick up the pieces and put them in the body bags. But seriously, I don't think they're allowed to be armed when used in America except maybe for live fire exercises over a practice range.
It also serves to remind people of the idea that the U.S.A. is a group of united states. The Guard units really answer to the Governors and are each states' mini-armed forces, even if they are occasionally assigned to work with the federal armed forces.
Never mind the other one across the lake just east of Toronto that used to be the worlds largest nuclear powered generating station. But that one is a CANDU reactor, far less likely to melt down. BTW, the largest nuclear generating station in the world also uses CANDU reactors and is located a little northwest of Toronto.
This comes down to the very well made point made earlier, watch what your end users do, determine their needs by observation and interview, and avoid or ignore most of what the administrators and managers say. That the use of the software generates data, is obvious. What the administrators want to track comes from that data. Just make sure that when the users use the system, the data the admins and managers want is also captured. It isn't that hard to make a usable system that also tracks statistics.
I live in Canada too. I would love a law like that here so I wouldn't have to keep breathing the smoke from furnaces owned by assholes like you. My brother has a neighbor who heats his place with a wood burning stove. He has to always keep the windows closed when the wind blows from that jerks direction (which is almost always given the prevailing winds). The municipality is too lame to enforce whatever lax laws there are. B.C. has pretty damn lame laws with respect to wood burning stoves. I hate going to the suburbs in winter because of the stink of all those stoves the yuppies like to use now. It's ridiculous. So fuck you very much and your family for your wood stove. I don't care about how much you would have to spend. I shouldn't have to suffer health effects because of your inconsiderate stupidity.
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Interesting. Just found a preliminary accident report posted online (PDF).
Are you thinking of that belly landing by Polish Airlines Flight 16 (November 1, 2011)? The landing gear failed to lower and the pilot did a text book belly landing. This was compared to the Captain Sully landing on the Hudson. It is a very good example of why pilots are still in the cockpit. Maybe sometime when AI is much, much better, computers can take over entirely. But then they'll take over the earth too (it's a joke). Here's a video of a C17 landing at the wrong, way too small airport in Florida; just so people don't miss it in the rush to talk about the 747 that did the same thing last night in Kansas.
You are trying to say the U.S. government did something bad when the U.S. government has nothing to do with what the cartels do. I'd say that was deflecting the argument.
My impression is that the IR light is directed at the patient. It is probably mostly absorbed and converted to heat when it hits the skin, but the haemoglobin in veins close to the surface absorb differently from the surrounding tissue and makes the veins stand out. Whatever small amount of whatever wavelength it has transformed to after it has hit patients arm or other body part to be stuck, is reflected, recorded by cameras, and is projected on the lenses of the glasses. The way I read it, it is the projected images (like on a monitor or tv) that are viewed, likely as false colour or grey scale; not a full shot of IR pointed back at the wearer. So I would guess the answer is, not likely.
Straw man. Just because the U.S. did bad in Iraq doesn't make criminals in other countries innocent. Or even make them less bad. Afghanistan was necessary. I agree that lax fire control on mostly the American military's part was often in the realm of criminal negligence. From bombing civilians to friendly fire on allies. Right at the beginning a retard American pilot killed a bunch of Canadian soldiers who were shooting on a known rifle range. The pilot was never punished. Another time an A-10 came in without asking and took out a platoon of Canadian infantry during one of the biggest conventional battles of the war. The majority of the platoon was killed or wounded. Other than that, not really a valid argument.
Yet another moron who thinks anti drug laws are adequate justification for criminals to murder people. I'd like to hear you at parties.
I can just hear you, "oh yeah, it was great that those guys cut the heads off of a dozen innocent people. If it wasn't for laws in another country these guys would be regular church going guys planting flowers and singing kumbaya! Those evil American law makers are causing these guys to go out and murder people... those criminals have no free will of their own and only murder in reaction to anti drug laws." Bullshit.
You and everyone who thinks anti drug laws are the root cause of these guys murdering people are idiots. If it wasn't drugs they could smuggle it would be something else and they would still murder.
I don't think marijuana laws make sense either. But I don't think anyone who believes that bad guys in countries with corruption and lax law enforcement are bad because of drug laws make sense either. They're just bad. Maybe if you and your ilk stopped smoking so much dope you wouldn't be one and could figure this out.
You're an idiot. Just because drugs are illegal doesn't make it imperative that people hack of the heads of dozens of people. Or murder university students who were never involved in any illegal activity but pissed off a cartel member who can kill with seeming impunity. Bodies hanging from overpasses are not the result of drug laws, they are the result of people who have no regard for human life. Just because making something legal might reduce this activity does not in any way what-so-fucking-ever mean that the drug laws force people to commit mass murders and dispose of the bodies in drums filled with sulfuric acid. Yours has to be one of the dumbest comments ever. Nice way to apologize for murdering thugs just because you want to smoke a joint. You would be better to argue that people who break the law thus creating the demand are the ones who are the cause of the murders. But even that is disingenuous.
We found the missing part of the '???' belonging to this meme.
There are two types of helicopters. Those that have crashed and those that are going to. I have flown in a bunch of helicopters, often with the doors open. I like it. :)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe in many countries in Europe (France, Austria, and Germany is where I'm thinking specifically), health insurance goes by a means test. If you have the means (the income) you must buy private insurance. If you can't afford it, you get public insurance. And the kicker is that you should receive the same level of treatment, including wait times regardless of whether you have public or private insurance. Or something like that. Yes? No?
Why do they have to move. Train them. Problem solved. You frame this like most private firms who don't want to spend money training people. One reason people stay at some companies is that the companies train them on new stuff so that the people don't feel stagnant and not worth anything to the company or themselves. Some people think you have to move people to specific project locations. This isn't true. If the majority of the development for an organization is being done in one place, it doesn't matter where the place is (aside from relatively small integration teams when the system is being implemented at a different location). This is what can help provide cohesiveness to all government projects, so that all systems can work together. Too bad no-one thought to do this with law enforcement or the FBI systems would have been able to borrow from other systems and find the 9/11 bombers before they flew, since it is well known that the data was there to catch them, it just wasn't kept in a way to coordinate it to provide useful information (note the use of 'data' and 'information').
Even if there is more than one project. It just matters that they are close to the end user site in terms of time zones, and have the same worth ethics and social and cultural sensibilities as the client. The continental U.S. in this respect is not too big. Since it is the federal government we are talking about, working from Virginia or Maryland are good enough. Sure, a small group of integration specialists on site in other areas of the country could be used, but they are not core and those could be contractors or local hires. There is no reason to make people move in the U.S. to do software projects. It's why Microsoft, or Apple, or Google, or whoever can have their main development shop in one city or region and sell to many clients all over the U.S. and the world for that matter.
Until the next government project comes along (usually already starting or running) and they get hired as contractors again because they have experience in government contracting jobs. It's not like there will never be another government software project for them... they are happening all the freaking time. They could just hire the people and contract supplemental workers to work under the full time project managers. The benefit there is that with the same people working on all government projects the more likelihood that out of it will come a more cohesive architecture and even possible interoperability of services.
IIRC the guy Chaney shot wasn't a minority.
It's not just women who do that doofus.
errr... Schrodinger's clam .... so much for cut and paste.
It's SchrÃdinger's clam.
Only if he's assigned to pick up the pieces and put them in the body bags. But seriously, I don't think they're allowed to be armed when used in America except maybe for live fire exercises over a practice range.
It also serves to remind people of the idea that the U.S.A. is a group of united states. The Guard units really answer to the Governors and are each states' mini-armed forces, even if they are occasionally assigned to work with the federal armed forces.
Never mind the other one across the lake just east of Toronto that used to be the worlds largest nuclear powered generating station. But that one is a CANDU reactor, far less likely to melt down. BTW, the largest nuclear generating station in the world also uses CANDU reactors and is located a little northwest of Toronto.
No, they just executed 80 people for watching the news at 11.
You're an idiot.
This comes down to the very well made point made earlier, watch what your end users do, determine their needs by observation and interview, and avoid or ignore most of what the administrators and managers say. That the use of the software generates data, is obvious. What the administrators want to track comes from that data. Just make sure that when the users use the system, the data the admins and managers want is also captured. It isn't that hard to make a usable system that also tracks statistics.
particulates are known to stay low to ground level
I live in Canada too. I would love a law like that here so I wouldn't have to keep breathing the smoke from furnaces owned by assholes like you. My brother has a neighbor who heats his place with a wood burning stove. He has to always keep the windows closed when the wind blows from that jerks direction (which is almost always given the prevailing winds). The municipality is too lame to enforce whatever lax laws there are. B.C. has pretty damn lame laws with respect to wood burning stoves. I hate going to the suburbs in winter because of the stink of all those stoves the yuppies like to use now. It's ridiculous. So fuck you very much and your family for your wood stove. I don't care about how much you would have to spend. I shouldn't have to suffer health effects because of your inconsiderate stupidity.