Further, taxing beefy cars would encourage more to take public transportation.
Study your history. That's how SUVs became popular.
legitimate business use.
Elect me the first Minister of Approved Vehicle Use. I'll only need a staff of a few hundred to do inspection and enforcement in my city. Needless to say, all of my agents will be driving large SUVs.
On a business flight? When you fly on a companies dime, quite often they take the points. And our IRS has backed them up on this. A company I used to work for used their own travel agency to arrange flights and hotel rooms. You could have the bank account of Bill gates and offer to upgrade yourself out of your own pocket. But that was against company policy.
On most airlines size and pitch of seats is well defined and listed when you purchase tickets.
Nope. They don't even guarantee what model aircraft they'll fly you on. I've even had flights cancelled (on a 737 for example) that was too empty and been given a seat on a competitor's airline (a little turboprob job).
Tht's not the way laws and regulations work. Laws apply to everyone unless a specific exceptino is granted. The FAA is empowered to regulate the public airspace. So unless modelers can cite an exception in some legislation, the FAA can hold them to the same standards as other classes of aircraft. That they don't is (as some people claim) purely a priveledge granted by the kindness of the FAA. If a voluntary exemption turns out to be unworkable, because non hobbyists attemt to skirt the law, then they might just pull the whole hobby exception.
You'll need an airframe certificate, registration and pilot's license to fly anything in any public airspace.
No, Congress passed a law forbidding the FAA from messing with hobbyists.
Citation needed.
Because this is exactly the information that will shut all the whiners down. If this is the case, then the FAA can say that they have no choice but to issue cease and desist orders to non hobbyists.
There is law and precedent for the FAA's regulation of aircraft. The 'model', 'drone' or 'unpiloted' distinction is something that hobbyists and the FAA informally agreed upon in order to facilitate the hobby. Tread carefully here, because the decision might be to remove the "remote control" distinction and regulate model aircraft with the same regs that apply to piloted ones.
Yes. But the alternative is that everyone will operate under regulatory restrictions that only commercial operators can afford. The FAA has granted modelers a loophole. Be careful or the courts might make them take it away.
Meanwhile, keep after the FAA to produce a certification process suitable for commercial drone use. To date, they are dragging their feet and allowing the big players in the aviation field (like Boeing) to define the terms and timetable of such a program.
taking steps to prevent noise on your property to ensure your enjoyment of it seems a reasonable use...
Perhaps. As long as those steps are taken uniformly. You probably can't complain about drones that make less noise then your neighbor's leaf blower if you don't complain about that as well.
IANAL, but perhaps one could jump in here and point out what other regulations permit the certification, licensing and operation of unpiloted aircraft in the airspace they regulate. Compliance with this advisory might be voluntary. But the alternative might be operation under one of the FAA's type certificate processes for piloted aircraft. And that would include such things as certification, inspections, airframe registration, etc. Or don't fly at all.
They're buying a service. They can afford it because the parents apparently feel guilt over not spending enough time with their kid.
Right. But daddy is a moron. How he came to be wealthy is a question I'd like to see answered. He could probably have gotten a better ROI from ongoing tutoring and remedial classes starting earlier in his kid's life. So now he has to dump half a million into rescuing a basket case. And the question remains: How much of this goes into actual value added for the student and how much is just greasing the skids at a top level university? TFA said that his father didn't want his son's self esteem to be harmed by the amount he spent. So what happens if he finds out that his entrance was based upon a tuned-up resume?
A score related to their probability of admission? And tutoring plus some help in filling out the paperwork? Is that worth $10-$20K? How about doing it the old fashioned way and submitting applications to half a dozen top schools plus some second tier institutions as a fall back.
TFA described the plight of a fuck-up who's parents have loads of money. For him, $700K to $1.1 Million. Do they really provide 100 times the tutoring of the top ranked student customers? Or will part of this find its way into some universities general fund?
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Further, taxing beefy cars would encourage more to take public transportation.
Study your history. That's how SUVs became popular.
legitimate business use.
Elect me the first Minister of Approved Vehicle Use. I'll only need a staff of a few hundred to do inspection and enforcement in my city. Needless to say, all of my agents will be driving large SUVs.
Except now, the next jackass-bike-messenger-as-a-hero-movie will be a lot less interesting to watch.
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Feels kind of dank and muggy, with a slight fetid odor. Yep. We're in The Cloud.
Thought it was about projector focus.
Never mind.
As soon as I heard that mercury was dangerous, I threw all my thermometers and thermostats in the garbage.
I though Microsoft was an Irish corporation.
take advantage of Clubcard points
On a business flight? When you fly on a companies dime, quite often they take the points. And our IRS has backed them up on this. A company I used to work for used their own travel agency to arrange flights and hotel rooms. You could have the bank account of Bill gates and offer to upgrade yourself out of your own pocket. But that was against company policy.
You've never heard "Assume the crash position"?
On most airlines size and pitch of seats is well defined and listed when you purchase tickets.
Nope. They don't even guarantee what model aircraft they'll fly you on. I've even had flights cancelled (on a 737 for example) that was too empty and been given a seat on a competitor's airline (a little turboprob job).
Particularly the person in the front, left hand seat.
Tht's not the way laws and regulations work. Laws apply to everyone unless a specific exceptino is granted. The FAA is empowered to regulate the public airspace. So unless modelers can cite an exception in some legislation, the FAA can hold them to the same standards as other classes of aircraft. That they don't is (as some people claim) purely a priveledge granted by the kindness of the FAA. If a voluntary exemption turns out to be unworkable, because non hobbyists attemt to skirt the law, then they might just pull the whole hobby exception.
You'll need an airframe certificate, registration and pilot's license to fly anything in any public airspace.
No, Congress passed a law forbidding the FAA from messing with hobbyists.
Citation needed.
Because this is exactly the information that will shut all the whiners down. If this is the case, then the FAA can say that they have no choice but to issue cease and desist orders to non hobbyists.
A DIY knee defender.
Or this.
There is law and precedent for the FAA's regulation of aircraft. The 'model', 'drone' or 'unpiloted' distinction is something that hobbyists and the FAA informally agreed upon in order to facilitate the hobby. Tread carefully here, because the decision might be to remove the "remote control" distinction and regulate model aircraft with the same regs that apply to piloted ones.
Yes. But the alternative is that everyone will operate under regulatory restrictions that only commercial operators can afford. The FAA has granted modelers a loophole. Be careful or the courts might make them take it away.
Meanwhile, keep after the FAA to produce a certification process suitable for commercial drone use. To date, they are dragging their feet and allowing the big players in the aviation field (like Boeing) to define the terms and timetable of such a program.
taking steps to prevent noise on your property to ensure your enjoyment of it seems a reasonable use...
Perhaps. As long as those steps are taken uniformly. You probably can't complain about drones that make less noise then your neighbor's leaf blower if you don't complain about that as well.
IANAL, but perhaps one could jump in here and point out what other regulations permit the certification, licensing and operation of unpiloted aircraft in the airspace they regulate. Compliance with this advisory might be voluntary. But the alternative might be operation under one of the FAA's type certificate processes for piloted aircraft. And that would include such things as certification, inspections, airframe registration, etc. Or don't fly at all.
They're buying a service. They can afford it because the parents apparently feel guilt over not spending enough time with their kid.
Right. But daddy is a moron. How he came to be wealthy is a question I'd like to see answered. He could probably have gotten a better ROI from ongoing tutoring and remedial classes starting earlier in his kid's life. So now he has to dump half a million into rescuing a basket case. And the question remains: How much of this goes into actual value added for the student and how much is just greasing the skids at a top level university? TFA said that his father didn't want his son's self esteem to be harmed by the amount he spent. So what happens if he finds out that his entrance was based upon a tuned-up resume?
A score related to their probability of admission? And tutoring plus some help in filling out the paperwork? Is that worth $10-$20K? How about doing it the old fashioned way and submitting applications to half a dozen top schools plus some second tier institutions as a fall back.
TFA described the plight of a fuck-up who's parents have loads of money. For him, $700K to $1.1 Million. Do they really provide 100 times the tutoring of the top ranked student customers? Or will part of this find its way into some universities general fund?
But I bet you're a hell of a good banjo player.
then there should be a thorough investigation as to how they have been turned,
Initiated by whom? If the salesman has the mayor in his pocket (or the CEO of a private company), who investigates?