This is slightly off what the intent of the post (but I think not the article) is, but I question the parents of the kids in Romania... how many of them thought the laptop would focus their child, or really could understand what their kid was doing.
Most children are going to use anything you give them as a toy first, and a lot of American parents lament the loss of free time to "just be kids" these days... it's very possible that the lost productivity they mentioned was the digital equivalent of kids being kids.
Given a wooded backyard, kids will play with that; given a laptop, what do you expect them to do with it?
You're probably referring to the July 2002 collision between a DHL cargo plane and a russian passenger aircraft. In that case both aircraft were doing what they were told and it was not pilot error.
There used to be a saying, "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going," and the term "scarebus" is becoming less humorous and more descriptive to me; I can't see this as a good idea without some serious checks and balances.
Consider yourself lucky that they haven't reclassified (slasdot.org) it yet. Some of my research materials have been (Pearl Harbor related Japanese message decrypts).
Amen to the second to last paragraph. I'm an amateur historian in a couple of groups of mixed pro/pro-am collaborators. We all have a passion for a subject (in my case the attack on Pearl Harbor) but it's not a subject that one can really make a steady living off of. A friend of mine, who's probably the most knowledgable person alive concerning the japanese aircraft used in the attack and the events that happened, has been interviewing US and Japanese vets and collecting data for over thirty years. He's had some magazine articles published and has consulted for some bigger books and the Disney Pearl Harbor movie, but his motivation is a passion for the subject, not money (although making money off of it would be so nice!). The same with many of us; and we're the ones that the TV show producers and magazine editors call when they want something. Passion is our fuel.
THE ENVIRONMENT (the single most important thing that ANYONE should care about) and creation of jobs (of almost equal important)
Sez you. We got MILLIONS of people who're more concerned with their NEXT MEAL than what the environment is going to be like in a couple of years.
Life on earth evolved with a strong sense of self-preservation and self-interest. You can't perpetuate the species if you don't survive yourself, and then take care of your own. This is not a behavior that is limited to specific cultures. Name one culture where the leaders consistantly hobble their children in the name of equality.
We have advanced to where we are now because of competition. Early pride in space flight was as much about CONQUEST as anything. So, we've conquered space and it's boring... no one cares until we start conquering it again (X-prize and civilian spacecraft).
Sometimes it is advantageous for us to work with others, but at our core we're selfish. So the ISS is amazing in what we've done, even if you poo-poo it as a failure.
Putting it up on Freenet does NOT solve the problem the same way shooting a malnourished kid doesn't solve starvation. You don't solve the underlying issue.
Where is the wrong in that?"
Ask the dead and injured.
Which ones, the dead and injured Iraqis Saddam killed during his rule that you seem quite happy to try and return, or the dead and injured Americans and Iraqis who are there right now fighting for a better Iraqi future?
The airplane will not put itself in a situation where it would stop flying.
But it will put itself into trees. Let's not forget that even with this system American Airlines lost an Airbus because the pilot was able to overstress the airframe.
These limits do have uses, but there are times when it's better to let the pilots have total control. And as we've seen in the two examples I cited above, even a "perfect" system has flaws that will creap in. Unhackable my ass. Let''s not forget human error too, what happens if there's a false soft wall and the only way for the plane to avoid it is six feet under?
Last point; this will kill "general aviation" which is all the small planes and corporate jets you see flying around. Who pays for retrofitting them? Most of the flight schools are already near bankruptcy due to 9-11. And how do you retrofit a 50-year old cable & pully driven airplane to resist a pilot?
It's just not worth the cost. Sometimes life's dangerous. Accept it and move on.
Guns only work if you're physically present at the time. Hard to argue for their use if you get back a week later to find they were taken while you were gone.
Something as esoteric as property rights has less to do with it than the human drive to procreate.
My dad has private property out in Idaho. Got a gate and fence, but it didn't stop someone from coming over his property line and cutting down a couple of his trees to sell to the local lumber yard. I'm sure the Eastern Islanders would have felt better knowing that the owner of the last tree was able to take the guy who cut his tree down to court after the fact.
Ask yourself this, is it the lifestyle that's causing the problems or the NUMBER of people living it? Does your car pollute the environment or is it the millions of them collectively that are harming air quality?
Until we can figure out a way to get humans to keep their populations in check any society is going to grow past its ability to sustain peak power.
I help a friend out at his plastic model store on weekends and there's somewhat of a similar problem. A mail order/internet based store can operate much cheaper and offer lower prices, but who gets the call when nephew bobby has a question about painting?
Some companies are refusing to sell their product to distributors now because they feel it allows the internet shops to undercut the brick & mortars and hurt them to the point of not carrying their product. It annoys the shops because instead of one distributor they can order from they have 20-30 separate companies, so they may drop the product anyway.
We adapt; we carry a lot of paints and items that when people need them the don't want to wait a week for the mail to come through. We provide technical expertise to people who come in (what shade of gray did a Me-110 night fighter have on XX surface?)
If they're trying to help save their brick & mortar shops I can sympathize to an extent. This doesn't come across that way though, and I think we're bound to see more of it.
IANAAE (I am not an aerospace engineer), but I am a licensed Airframe and powerplant mechanic. One possible cause not mentioned is the rupture of tires.
Caveat, I don't know if they had any plugs in the wheels to blow out at a certain temperature like they do on airliners.
But the main tires on the shuttles are pressurized to 300PSI and the last data they received was the temp and pressure in the left mains was rising. That much air explosively ripping out into an unpresurized wheel bay could have blown the doors off. The tires blowing would have thrown heavy chunks of rubber out that could have caused structural damage that would cause the wing to fail quickly under those flight loads. Just remember what happened to the Concorde when it's tired blew.
Tires are dangerous. There's a reason they're filled in cages.
Most airline or repair-station tire shops are equipped with inflation cages. An inflation cage consists of a strong steel structure that surrounds the wheel/tire assembly during tire inflation. Accordingly, when wheel/tire assemblies are initially inflated with bottled nitrogen in the tire shop, the wheel/tire assembly is enclosed in a cage to protect against injury and damage in case of an explosion. However, it is not always practical to use inflation cages if the wheel/tire assembly is installed on the airplane.
Darwanism sure as hell applies to the human race, you just don't know where to look. When Hubbert's peak hits you are going to see Darwinism in effect like you wouldn't believe!
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And if they release MORE water, does that mean they increase the dependency on reservoirs and the environmental impacts of dams and water shortages?
Should make it easier to block during an attack....
I see it a lot in businesses with unions, but that might not be the parallel you're looking for.
This is slightly off what the intent of the post (but I think not the article) is, but I question the parents of the kids in Romania... how many of them thought the laptop would focus their child, or really could understand what their kid was doing.
Most children are going to use anything you give them as a toy first, and a lot of American parents lament the loss of free time to "just be kids" these days... it's very possible that the lost productivity they mentioned was the digital equivalent of kids being kids.
Given a wooded backyard, kids will play with that; given a laptop, what do you expect them to do with it?
He wasn't "stealing" video streams per se; he was stealing bandwidth and server resources, which are items you do have to pay for in most situations.
You're probably referring to the July 2002 collision between a DHL cargo plane and a russian passenger aircraft. In that case both aircraft were doing what they were told and it was not pilot error.
There used to be a saying, "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going," and the term "scarebus" is becoming less humorous and more descriptive to me; I can't see this as a good idea without some serious checks and balances.
Consider yourself lucky that they haven't reclassified (slasdot.org) it yet. Some of my research materials have been (Pearl Harbor related Japanese message decrypts).
Maybe not for one machine, but how about for 500, 1,000, or 10,000?
Amen to the second to last paragraph. I'm an amateur historian in a couple of groups of mixed pro/pro-am collaborators. We all have a passion for a subject (in my case the attack on Pearl Harbor) but it's not a subject that one can really make a steady living off of. A friend of mine, who's probably the most knowledgable person alive concerning the japanese aircraft used in the attack and the events that happened, has been interviewing US and Japanese vets and collecting data for over thirty years. He's had some magazine articles published and has consulted for some bigger books and the Disney Pearl Harbor movie, but his motivation is a passion for the subject, not money (although making money off of it would be so nice!). The same with many of us; and we're the ones that the TV show producers and magazine editors call when they want something. Passion is our fuel.
THE ENVIRONMENT (the single most important thing that ANYONE should care about) and creation of jobs (of almost equal important)
Sez you. We got MILLIONS of people who're more concerned with their NEXT MEAL than what the environment is going to be like in a couple of years.
Life on earth evolved with a strong sense of self-preservation and self-interest. You can't perpetuate the species if you don't survive yourself, and then take care of your own. This is not a behavior that is limited to specific cultures. Name one culture where the leaders consistantly hobble their children in the name of equality.
We have advanced to where we are now because of competition. Early pride in space flight was as much about CONQUEST as anything. So, we've conquered space and it's boring... no one cares until we start conquering it again (X-prize and civilian spacecraft).
Sometimes it is advantageous for us to work with others, but at our core we're selfish. So the ISS is amazing in what we've done, even if you poo-poo it as a failure.
Putting it up on Freenet does NOT solve the problem the same way shooting a malnourished kid doesn't solve starvation. You don't solve the underlying issue.
The point is, we shouldn't *HAVE* to use freenet!
Will patching my Zeppelin NT cause a crash?
It's just that I'm leery of backing up a volume that large!
Once they catch up with him they should give him the appropriately tagged T-shirt to wear
Where is the wrong in that?"
Ask the dead and injured.
Which ones, the dead and injured Iraqis Saddam killed during his rule that you seem quite happy to try and return, or the dead and injured Americans and Iraqis who are there right now fighting for a better Iraqi future?
Where was I?
I tell you, those North Coreans are something, but they've got nothing on irack!
Is this even farther out than India?
But it will put itself into trees. Let's not forget that even with this system American Airlines lost an Airbus because the pilot was able to overstress the airframe.
These limits do have uses, but there are times when it's better to let the pilots have total control. And as we've seen in the two examples I cited above, even a "perfect" system has flaws that will creap in. Unhackable my ass. Let''s not forget human error too, what happens if there's a false soft wall and the only way for the plane to avoid it is six feet under?
Last point; this will kill "general aviation" which is all the small planes and corporate jets you see flying around. Who pays for retrofitting them? Most of the flight schools are already near bankruptcy due to 9-11. And how do you retrofit a 50-year old cable & pully driven airplane to resist a pilot?
It's just not worth the cost. Sometimes life's dangerous. Accept it and move on.
Guns only work if you're physically present at the time. Hard to argue for their use if you get back a week later to find they were taken while you were gone.
Something as esoteric as property rights has less to do with it than the human drive to procreate.
My dad has private property out in Idaho. Got a gate and fence, but it didn't stop someone from coming over his property line and cutting down a couple of his trees to sell to the local lumber yard. I'm sure the Eastern Islanders would have felt better knowing that the owner of the last tree was able to take the guy who cut his tree down to court after the fact.
Ask yourself this, is it the lifestyle that's causing the problems or the NUMBER of people living it? Does your car pollute the environment or is it the millions of them collectively that are harming air quality?
Until we can figure out a way to get humans to keep their populations in check any society is going to grow past its ability to sustain peak power.
I help a friend out at his plastic model store on weekends and there's somewhat of a similar problem. A mail order/internet based store can operate much cheaper and offer lower prices, but who gets the call when nephew bobby has a question about painting?
Some companies are refusing to sell their product to distributors now because they feel it allows the internet shops to undercut the brick & mortars and hurt them to the point of not carrying their product. It annoys the shops because instead of one distributor they can order from they have 20-30 separate companies, so they may drop the product anyway.
We adapt; we carry a lot of paints and items that when people need them the don't want to wait a week for the mail to come through. We provide technical expertise to people who come in (what shade of gray did a Me-110 night fighter have on XX surface?)
If they're trying to help save their brick & mortar shops I can sympathize to an extent. This doesn't come across that way though, and I think we're bound to see more of it.
If you don't find Dave funny then why did you bother reading and posting?
Stop bitching. If you don't like it, don't read it!
IANAAE (I am not an aerospace engineer), but I am a licensed Airframe and powerplant mechanic. One possible cause not mentioned is the rupture of tires.
Caveat, I don't know if they had any plugs in the wheels to blow out at a certain temperature like they do on airliners.
But the main tires on the shuttles are pressurized to 300PSI and the last data they received was the temp and pressure in the left mains was rising. That much air explosively ripping out into an unpresurized wheel bay could have blown the doors off. The tires blowing would have thrown heavy chunks of rubber out that could have caused structural damage that would cause the wing to fail quickly under those flight loads. Just remember what happened to the Concorde when it's tired blew.
Tires are dangerous. There's a reason they're filled in cages.
From Boeing's Web Site:
Using inflation cages.
Most airline or repair-station tire shops are equipped with inflation cages. An inflation cage consists of a strong steel structure that surrounds the wheel/tire assembly during tire inflation. Accordingly, when wheel/tire assemblies are initially inflated with bottled nitrogen in the tire shop, the wheel/tire assembly is enclosed in a cage to protect against injury and damage in case of an explosion. However, it is not always practical to use inflation cages if the wheel/tire assembly is installed on the airplane.
Darwanism sure as hell applies to the human race, you just don't know where to look. When Hubbert's peak hits you are going to see Darwinism in effect like you wouldn't believe!
Is that in US or Canadian Dollars?