Um, no. This is an interesting fallacy that I see all of the time - 'go back to paper'. Let's face it - the ONLY way you can run a modern airline, hospital, utility or whatnot is with a computerized system. When it goes tits up, you go tits up until you can get backups on line. Just finding the requisite paper products (and manual credit card imprinters - I'm going to bet that half the BA employees have never even seen one) could take days.
Can you imagine trying to hire and train 5000 temps to fill out complicated forms while the rest of the staff has complete meltdowns?
Fat chance.
Now, BA should have been able to handle anything short of force majour with backups and redundant systems. The power supply theory is laughable. But paper isn't going to solve the problems on any sort of reasonable time scale.
And the college fund may be the most useful thing you could give (give a man a fish....). My folks didn't 'bequeath' me anything (except having to deal with the paperwork of being dead - that is a trial in and of itself). They did pay for a substantial amount of money for my BA degree. That allowed me to get a stipend as a grad student. Twice. And then I was able to bootstrap that into making enough to more or less afford medical school.
But had I been saddled with $100K of student loans as an undergraduate, I doubt I could have moved up the ladder very easily.
Some of Trump's broad based 'philosophies' are fine - limited government, closing loopholes on immigration, balancing the budget, personal freedoms, etc.
Virtually all of the Trump Administrations attempts at actually creating functional legislation, OTOH have been pitiful disasters. And then there is the little issue of 360 degree changes in viewpoint depending on who last rubbed his ego. So yeah, some sort of coherent legislation concerning rogue UAVs is fine. I rather suspect, however, that the actual rules will be an incomprehensible, reprehensible mess.
Don't go pushing bad analogies - you'll be talking about cars next.
The fun thing about nucleic acids is that they can hold data (genetic information) and act as catalysts by folding into specific shapes. RNA in particular can fold into complex 3D structures by itself or paired with some simple molecules like ligands. The "RNA Hypothesis" generally holds that an RNA - like molecule both encoded information to repeat itself
All a primitive 'living' structure had to do was make more of it's primitive self and in the process make enough errors to allow for evolutionary change. You don't really need an 'interpreter' - it is a function of the molecule itself. Yes, evolutionary drive pushed the creation of all sorts of ancillary functions, but in the beginning it may well have just been a nucleic acid string trying to make a nucleic acid string.
The process that made the individual nucleic acids is presumed to be abiotic - just a series of chemical reaction that managed to take place with some frequency on primordial earth (or wherever). TFA is the first (according to them, don't really follow this line of research) proposed reaction to make both types of RNA precursor bases. While not strictly necessary - billions of years allows for several distinct unlikely processes to happen simultaneously (think bowels of petunias, or rather, don't) it seems 'cleaner' to have a single, tweak able pathway to create the pool of chemicals that will turn into RNA, then the underlying precursor to all like, then slime molds, then politicians.
No, you can't. The Fine Regulation states that you can only fly according to AMA (Academy of Model Aircraft) rules. Anything else is subject to fines, jail time and the Spanish Inquisition.
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It is scary that some of us here have not made it past the 16h Century intellectually.
Paracelsus - 'Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison'
Kinda surprised we don't see more about the 'four humors' and the benefits of bleeding.
Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
The term AI is getting stretched very far these days.
Could be worse. We could go back to 'cyber'.
Um, no. This is an interesting fallacy that I see all of the time - 'go back to paper'. Let's face it - the ONLY way you can run a modern airline, hospital, utility or whatnot is with a computerized system. When it goes tits up, you go tits up until you can get backups on line. Just finding the requisite paper products (and manual credit card imprinters - I'm going to bet that half the BA employees have never even seen one) could take days.
Can you imagine trying to hire and train 5000 temps to fill out complicated forms while the rest of the staff has complete meltdowns?
Fat chance.
Now, BA should have been able to handle anything short of force majour with backups and redundant systems. The power supply theory is laughable. But paper isn't going to solve the problems on any sort of reasonable time scale.
Lots and lots of helium available as a by product of lots and lots of natural gas.
It will, however, cost more than just pumping it out of helium wells that have a relatively high concentration of the gas.
Not to worry,
Puts a new take on the phrase 'fast food'.
Sucks to be you, I suppose.
And the college fund may be the most useful thing you could give (give a man a fish....). My folks didn't 'bequeath' me anything (except having to deal with the paperwork of being dead - that is a trial in and of itself). They did pay for a substantial amount of money for my BA degree. That allowed me to get a stipend as a grad student. Twice. And then I was able to bootstrap that into making enough to more or less afford medical school.
But had I been saddled with $100K of student loans as an undergraduate, I doubt I could have moved up the ladder very easily.
Some of Trump's broad based 'philosophies' are fine - limited government, closing loopholes on immigration, balancing the budget, personal freedoms, etc.
Virtually all of the Trump Administrations attempts at actually creating functional legislation, OTOH have been pitiful disasters. And then there is the little issue of 360 degree changes in viewpoint depending on who last rubbed his ego. So yeah, some sort of coherent legislation concerning rogue UAVs is fine. I rather suspect, however, that the actual rules will be an incomprehensible, reprehensible mess.
Sure, works for alcohol, tobacco and firearms, right?
This is governing? News to me. It's not exactly ruling in the traditional sense, but it hardly rises to the level of governing.
So it sounds like you are likely to need a third party sub file.
Thought we were talking about Facebook not 4chan.
Having to 'take some time to recharge my batteries" might have to be taken literally now.
The baggage check-in is the least time-consuming part of flying.
Won't be after the nifty hi tech machine breaks.
Dunno about that. Running out of gas 100 miles off the Atlantic coast seems kinda exciting to me.
Switzerland is smaller and has less economic clout than some counties in the US. This sort of thing doesn't scale.
Success is often just a bunch of the right kind of failures strung together.
Don't go pushing bad analogies - you'll be talking about cars next.
The fun thing about nucleic acids is that they can hold data (genetic information) and act as catalysts by folding into specific shapes. RNA in particular can fold into complex 3D structures by itself or paired with some simple molecules like ligands. The "RNA Hypothesis" generally holds that an RNA - like molecule both encoded information to repeat itself
All a primitive 'living' structure had to do was make more of it's primitive self and in the process make enough errors to allow for evolutionary change. You don't really need an 'interpreter' - it is a function of the molecule itself. Yes, evolutionary drive pushed the creation of all sorts of ancillary functions, but in the beginning it may well have just been a nucleic acid string trying to make a nucleic acid string.
The process that made the individual nucleic acids is presumed to be abiotic - just a series of chemical reaction that managed to take place with some frequency on primordial earth (or wherever). TFA is the first (according to them, don't really follow this line of research) proposed reaction to make both types of RNA precursor bases. While not strictly necessary - billions of years allows for several distinct unlikely processes to happen simultaneously (think bowels of petunias, or rather, don't) it seems 'cleaner' to have a single, tweak able pathway to create the pool of chemicals that will turn into RNA, then the underlying precursor to all like, then slime molds, then politicians.
Those cameras are really there to prevent an apocalyptic event from occurring.
They're really there for your protection. Really.
But pretty much everyone here expects that phrase as the next comment.
One of your famous writers wrote an instruction manual a while back.
No, you can't. The Fine Regulation states that you can only fly according to AMA (Academy of Model Aircraft) rules. Anything else is subject to fines, jail time and the Spanish Inquisition.
Well, my Phantom class UAVs look like a pair of Flying Bananas glued together.
Sort of a demented model aircraft, if you will.
That's it! You're brilliant!
We need to register soccer balls and skis!
(And bathtubs and toasters while we're at it. No problemo, they're all going to be connected to the Internet anyway.)