...Don't the majority of crashes occur on takeoff or landing?...
In such cases as Air France and Eyptair it happened during flight at high altitude. When aircraft stalls it just falls from the sky.
A Passenger Pod could be made even lighter by removing inbuilt displays. Almost anyone has got a display on a smartphone or on a tablet. Passengers could download free inflight movies via WiFi on board. Instead of hundreds of heavy displays it would be just one light WiFi router on board.
Parachutes' fabric could be used as a thermal insulation of the Pod, i.e. a passenger cabin. Without a parachute the free fall speed of such an object is about 150 - 180 km/h due to the air resistance. So medium size parachutes could handle it. There are people who survived a free fall in a passenger seat without serious injuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . So we need just to slow down this fall.
A stall of an aircraft, which happens regularly for difference reasons, shall not be the reason of unavoidable deaths. Air travel is not that safe. Air travel safety statistics could be calculated and presented in a different way. It could be calculated by a distance traveled, by number of vehicles, etc.
In my opinion aircraft design should be also kind of an Open Source Project, so that different ideas and insights could be tested and used.
but more about who is out,- who is not in, or not in yet, or almost in, or practically in except currency, etc.
There is the UN United Nations Organization. It is a comprehensive universal framework. However it seems that for some countries it is beneath dignity to work in an universal organization together with all others, and that is why this drive create small elitist unions, to show off that they better than others. But it will not work in a globalized world.
What I heard from E.Snowden makes me believe that all messengers have got a backdoor as a part of some project with a name something like Flying Eagle.
If it was possible to monitor communications of Bundeskanzler and Président, then run-of-the-mill messengers and smartphones should not be a challenge.
The question is not about backdoors, but who would hold keys.
Sharapova was disqualified, the same about the football team. Fans were beaten up in Marseilles. Russian Olympic team was banned from Rio Olympic games. Now this... Anton Elchin was also from Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I heard that practically all women in the USA make "nose reshaping" surgery, and that a successful man must have the thick hair even after 60 or 70, what means one or another artificial approach.
We hear critique of the outdated ethnic customs of a burqa & circumcision, but isn't it in the same league?
We heard a lot recently as the US gives lessons from high tribunes to other lands about homosexuality. Was it a good idea politicizing this issue? Attracting unwanted attention to people who are vulnerable even without this? Gaining doubtful political benefits on backs of others?
It is true that governments (and international criminal structures) use surveillance. This is the reality. And there's no way around it.
However, good people are to learn using these tools too. We see already some examples how digital technologies allowed to demonstrate what had been hush-hush doubtful schemes for decades.
Forget about ending it, but learn to use it smartly (and legally) too.
It would be a punishment of sin to be obliged to watch on TV for the next eight years either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. I bow down on my knees, and I repent.
I tried everything. Reinstalled driver, searched via Google, and so on and so forth. Nothing helps. Ethernet card keeps disconnecting about four - five times per day. I did not have this problem with Windows 8.
Settings windows on W10 are kind of touch-screen, but it is a notebook where I cannot touch screen at all. Besides W10 is slow. I stopped indexing but it is still slow.
The only good thing is the return of Start button, but again for some reason Search&Run is not in the Start, but nearby, and it does not memorize previous entries.
In my opinion, Bill Gates has to return back to Microsoft and put Windows back on the right track.
They have to ban talking loudly and endlessly over a cellphone on public transportation then. It is sometimes unbearable and may even constitute a moral torture.
It could be unintentional. For example, something like what happened at the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. Or a rocket could be released during training and went amiss. I mean there is nothing what can happen to such an aircraft as A320 at this altitude by itself.
It is like, I do not know, for example, cycling on an empty even path in good weather and suddenly crashing on the ground without an apparent reason.
People do not shred papers or shred with outdated machines. This is how passwords, account numbers, photos, handwriting samples, etc. gets into the underworld.
All this systematically collected and added to large databases. Modern hard disks allow to keep data on the whole population, especially of the first world. Obviously it is an international underworld.
Flying cameras are drones designed for use by consumers that don’t want to learn how to fly a drone; they just want to take pictures....In a few weeks, I’ll be attending my son’s high school graduation in Silicon Valley, with, I’m sure, my view obscured by parents using pads and phones and selfie-sticks to record the moment. By next spring, I’m betting at least a few of the selfie-sticks and tripods are going to be replaced by camera drones.
Flying so near large groups of people is against the law.
Besides, a quadcopter will most probably crash, as the WiFi signal from the numerous smartphones of a large group will interfere with the radio command signal.
One must learn to fly anyway, otherwise it is just a recipe for a disaster.
Add to this that there are a lot of rivers, wetland, and forests in Europe. And there are also floods. Australia has got a lot of dry territories, and Singapore is on the sea shore, where there could be a sea-breezes.
The firearms became much more reliable with the computer design and advances in chemistry. For example, cartridges are waxed what makes jamming extinct. Besides, guns look cute as never before, are more portable and affordable.
Physical movement outdoors engineered out from life. A person gets to the garage by an elevator, sits in traffic while driving to the office, again uses elevator, sits in the office chair, etc. Walking, running, swimming, working outdoors is what we were created for by the evolution. The vitamins of the air, sights of monuments of nature seem to be much more important for the mental health than it was thought before.
No. I am not a native English speaker and did not realize at first that "Curse you Red Baron!" is a line from popular comics.
It was a misunderstanding. Actually you made a joke, and I did not understand it. It's embarrassing. Unfortunately, such things happen when one learns a foreign language. I am sorry for that. But I could not edit my comment.
...We are not drowning in "millions of...migrants. Germany is doing just fine....are educated workers, doctors, engineers, entrepeneurs. A short term investment in this people will bring long-term gains for a country...
In the reality people are nowadays sent back after a extremely perilous journey over the sea on non-seaworthy boats. Many perish in the sea. If Germany wants qualified people, it could select people by a profession via a meaningful procedure, issue temporal work visas, rent proper passenger ships, and bring people in a human way.
So that people could work in Germany normally and support relatives in the refugee camps. Not let them walk over the Europe, sleeping in filthy rough camps, which is an insult to our common human dignity.
German government is sending confusing signals: "Yes, it is OK, come here, Wir schaffen es (we can do it), and then people are left alone in cold water or outdoors just to be sent later back.
There is such a thing as the truth. And the prowerb: a bitter truth is still better than a sweet lie.
... IT IS A BAD IDEA TO FLY... DRONES CLOSE TO CIVILIAN AIRLINES...
This is exactly my point. It is against regulations to fly an UAS near an airport. Everybody knows it. Besides it is not allowed to fly it higher than 150 meters (120 m in the USA).
The popular DJI Phantom 3 & 4 quad-copters will not even take-off near an airport (also a stadium and public buildings) due to the no-fly zone internal GPS/GLONASS mechanism: http://www.dji.com/flysafe/no-...
So I would like to see an evidence, a photo or a video, etc. not just words. There are so many web-cameras at airports.
...another idiot that dropped his drone onto a kid at a movie theater....
No argument about being vigilant and careful. As any human endeavor flying involves a certain risk.
But we should not forget that say toy-related emergency treated injuries of children in the USA are in hundreds of thousands each year http://www.cpsc.gov/Global/Res...
But no one speaks about introducing the 30 miles no-Toy Musical Instruments zone around a city, or a registration of all the Inflatable Toys.
Let alone the 2D traffic accidents, tap hot water and barbecue burns, etc. which are massive, and where something could be done to reduce the tragic numbers.
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...Don't the majority of crashes occur on takeoff or landing?...
In such cases as Air France and Eyptair it happened during flight at high altitude. When aircraft stalls it just falls from the sky.
A Passenger Pod could be made even lighter by removing inbuilt displays. Almost anyone has got a display on a smartphone or on a tablet. Passengers could download free inflight movies via WiFi on board. Instead of hundreds of heavy displays it would be just one light WiFi router on board.
Parachutes' fabric could be used as a thermal insulation of the Pod, i.e. a passenger cabin. Without a parachute the free fall speed of such an object is about 150 - 180 km/h due to the air resistance. So medium size parachutes could handle it. There are people who survived a free fall in a passenger seat without serious injuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . So we need just to slow down this fall.
A stall of an aircraft, which happens regularly for difference reasons, shall not be the reason of unavoidable deaths. Air travel is not that safe. Air travel safety statistics could be calculated and presented in a different way. It could be calculated by a distance traveled, by number of vehicles, etc.
In my opinion aircraft design should be also kind of an Open Source Project, so that different ideas and insights could be tested and used.
but more about who is out,- who is not in, or not in yet, or almost in, or practically in except currency, etc.
There is the UN United Nations Organization. It is a comprehensive universal framework. However it seems that for some countries it is beneath dignity to work in an universal organization together with all others, and that is why this drive create small elitist unions, to show off that they better than others. But it will not work in a globalized world.
No need to be unpleasant.
What I heard from E.Snowden makes me believe that all messengers have got a backdoor as a part of some project with a name something like Flying Eagle.
If it was possible to monitor communications of Bundeskanzler and Président, then run-of-the-mill messengers and smartphones should not be a challenge.
The question is not about backdoors, but who would hold keys.
Sharapova was disqualified, the same about the football team. Fans were beaten up in Marseilles. Russian Olympic team was banned from Rio Olympic games. Now this... Anton Elchin was also from Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
OpenSreetMap.org on desktop, and Maps.me on smartphone, as it does not require internet connection.
For viewing locations of Wikipedia articles on the map I use http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wik... . It works for different Wikipedia language versions.
I heard that practically all women in the USA make "nose reshaping" surgery, and that a successful man must have the thick hair even after 60 or 70, what means one or another artificial approach.
We hear critique of the outdated ethnic customs of a burqa & circumcision, but isn't it in the same league?
We heard a lot recently as the US gives lessons from high tribunes to other lands about homosexuality. Was it a good idea politicizing this issue? Attracting unwanted attention to people who are vulnerable even without this? Gaining doubtful political benefits on backs of others?
It is true that governments (and international criminal structures) use surveillance. This is the reality. And there's no way around it.
However, good people are to learn using these tools too. We see already some examples how digital technologies allowed to demonstrate what had been hush-hush doubtful schemes for decades.
Forget about ending it, but learn to use it smartly (and legally) too.
It would be a punishment of sin to be obliged to watch on TV for the next eight years either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. I bow down on my knees, and I repent.
I tried everything. Reinstalled driver, searched via Google, and so on and so forth. Nothing helps. Ethernet card keeps disconnecting about four - five times per day. I did not have this problem with Windows 8.
Settings windows on W10 are kind of touch-screen, but it is a notebook where I cannot touch screen at all. Besides W10 is slow. I stopped indexing but it is still slow.
The only good thing is the return of Start button, but again for some reason Search&Run is not in the Start, but nearby, and it does not memorize previous entries.
In my opinion, Bill Gates has to return back to Microsoft and put Windows back on the right track.
They have to ban talking loudly and endlessly over a cellphone on public transportation then. It is sometimes unbearable and may even constitute a moral torture.
What is a statue of limitation in Germany on intentionally mass poisoning (irradiating) people?
It could be unintentional. For example, something like what happened at the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. Or a rocket could be released during training and went amiss. I mean there is nothing what can happen to such an aircraft as A320 at this altitude by itself.
It is like, I do not know, for example, cycling on an empty even path in good weather and suddenly crashing on the ground without an apparent reason.
the plane vanished while cruising -- the safest part of the journey
Unless a stray air-to-air rocket got it into his infrared sensor.
I hope Charley Hebdo will not start to publish cynical caricatures about an air accident again.
welcome our new Chinese overlords! [couldn't resist]
I heard that dumpster diving is the main source of private information nowadays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
People do not shred papers or shred with outdated machines. This is how passwords, account numbers, photos, handwriting samples, etc. gets into the underworld.
All this systematically collected and added to large databases. Modern hard disks allow to keep data on the whole population, especially of the first world. Obviously it is an international underworld.
Flying cameras are drones designed for use by consumers that don’t want to learn how to fly a drone; they just want to take pictures....In a few weeks, I’ll be attending my son’s high school graduation in Silicon Valley, with, I’m sure, my view obscured by parents using pads and phones and selfie-sticks to record the moment. By next spring, I’m betting at least a few of the selfie-sticks and tripods are going to be replaced by camera drones.
Flying so near large groups of people is against the law.
Besides, a quadcopter will most probably crash, as the WiFi signal from the numerous smartphones of a large group will interfere with the radio command signal.
One must learn to fly anyway, otherwise it is just a recipe for a disaster.
Add to this that there are a lot of rivers, wetland, and forests in Europe. And there are also floods. Australia has got a lot of dry territories, and Singapore is on the sea shore, where there could be a sea-breezes.
that with global warming the malaria mosquito areal will move further to the north.
The firearms became much more reliable with the computer design and advances in chemistry. For example, cartridges are waxed what makes jamming extinct. Besides, guns look cute as never before, are more portable and affordable.
Physical movement outdoors engineered out from life. A person gets to the garage by an elevator, sits in traffic while driving to the office, again uses elevator, sits in the office chair, etc. Walking, running, swimming, working outdoors is what we were created for by the evolution. The vitamins of the air, sights of monuments of nature seem to be much more important for the mental health than it was thought before.
No. I am not a native English speaker and did not realize at first that "Curse you Red Baron!" is a line from popular comics.
It was a misunderstanding. Actually you made a joke, and I did not understand it. It's embarrassing. Unfortunately, such things happen when one learns a foreign language. I am sorry for that. But I could not edit my comment.
...We are not drowning in "millions of ...migrants. Germany is doing just fine. ...are educated workers, doctors, engineers, entrepeneurs. A short term investment in this people will bring long-term gains for a country ...
In the reality people are nowadays sent back after a extremely perilous journey over the sea on non-seaworthy boats. Many perish in the sea. If Germany wants qualified people, it could select people by a profession via a meaningful procedure, issue temporal work visas, rent proper passenger ships, and bring people in a human way.
So that people could work in Germany normally and support relatives in the refugee camps. Not let them walk over the Europe, sleeping in filthy rough camps, which is an insult to our common human dignity.
German government is sending confusing signals: "Yes, it is OK, come here, Wir schaffen es (we can do it), and then people are left alone in cold water or outdoors just to be sent later back.
There is such a thing as the truth. And the prowerb: a bitter truth is still better than a sweet lie.
... IT IS A BAD IDEA TO FLY ... DRONES CLOSE TO CIVILIAN AIRLINES...
This is exactly my point. It is against regulations to fly an UAS near an airport. Everybody knows it. Besides it is not allowed to fly it higher than 150 meters (120 m in the USA).
The popular DJI Phantom 3 & 4 quad-copters will not even take-off near an airport (also a stadium and public buildings) due to the no-fly zone internal GPS/GLONASS mechanism: http://www.dji.com/flysafe/no-...
So I would like to see an evidence, a photo or a video, etc. not just words. There are so many web-cameras at airports.
...another idiot that dropped his drone onto a kid at a movie theater. ...
No argument about being vigilant and careful. As any human endeavor flying involves a certain risk.
But we should not forget that say toy-related emergency treated injuries of children in the USA are in hundreds of thousands each year http://www.cpsc.gov/Global/Res...
But no one speaks about introducing the 30 miles no-Toy Musical Instruments zone around a city, or a registration of all the Inflatable Toys.
Let alone the 2D traffic accidents, tap hot water and barbecue burns, etc. which are massive, and where something could be done to reduce the tragic numbers.