What really twists my noodle is the knowledge that a new pilot, after completing sim training, fly's a real airliner for the first time on a normal commercial flight with a full load of passengers.
Yeah, but that *new* pilot has several hundred hours of flight time (ie: Commercial pilots license by FAA, PLUS an instrument rating, certifying he's able to fly safely in the soup) in other aircraft before an airline will even talk to him.. He trains for MANY in that full-motion simulator for the type aircraft he will fly for the airline before he ever sits in the right seat (First Officer)....
Damn.. the ONE good player for Windows that 1) plays Shoutcast streams withOUT any drama, and 2) doesnt try to force you to catagorize your music into that artist-album bullshit.. My several thousand mp3s are simply catagorized in folders by genre, and every other player seems to want to force me to throw that catagorization away and play *their* way.. Thats my main gripe with most all of the Linux music players, EXCEPT for XMMS/Audacious, which I exclusively use on Linux.. Winamp is more than happy to let me leave my music library the way *I* want it.. Gonna miss Winamp, wish AOL would Opensource it so the community could continue with it.. Oh well, a nice dream but *that* will never happen.. it *is* AOL we're talking about, after all.. Gonna download one last copy of Winamp and keep using it till the wheels fall off..
We are to the point where I wonder why everybody keeps falling back on things like "constitutional right to quit".. Its now to the point where this government has spit on the constitution for so many years, and are now to the point of actively setting it on fire, bringing on its total and complete disregard by this government.. I love this country, served in its military in the 70s, but am embarrased and sickened by its government.. We are WELL beyond "the ballot box" being able to fix the MANY problems, and the government is well on its way to be SURE that no corrections in it can be made by "the ammo box"... May God Bless and keep this wonderful country, as we certainly don't seem to be able to...
THIS!! The company I worked for a few years ago had a compute cluster for engineering/modeling with over 100 nodes. They were originally running RHEL3, which of course was coming up to EOL in a few months. The suits wanted to buy licenses for RHEL to upgrade the nodes, the IT staff wanted to use CentOS. Research was done on pricing for over 100 RHEL licenses, and after a while, the suits decided to go with IT's choice of CentOS for the compute nodes and use *one* RHEL install for the master node. I wasn't involved with the pricing discussions, but I heard that RH sales were stuck on nearly full pricing for all 100+ licenses.
Yup.. and I think somebody just threw a barrel of oil down that "slippery slope"... I got a strong feeling the reason some of the "rising stars" of the teaparty/quasi-republican party (Scott Walker-Wisc Governor AND Marco Rubio) suddenly came out for the Senate Immigration bill is because *somebody* *somewhere* found some kind of dirt on them and are blackmailing them with it.. Go ahead and tell me my tinfoil hat is too tight.. We're so far down the toilet toward tyranny that NOTHING would surprise me.. Not even Mr Obama-Soetero arranging 15000 Russian troops for "support" in America.. I gather he's afraid that OUR military might refuse to fire on American civilians.. I can be pretty sure Russians would NOT....
I don't doubt they did it on a more limited basis as far back as Bush #1.. He was the first of the RINO/NewWorldOrder-types to manage to get into our Whitehouse... It's been downhill since then...
AND Clinton AND Bush#1... This country has been slowly going down the shithole since Reagan left office.. Its just gotten seriously more pronounced with the current sewage in power... I'm not a republican (used to be, gave THAT up during BushJr's second term) and I'm DAMN straight NOT a democrat, now better referred to as the "New American Communist Party"... I'm a GODDAMN AMERICAN and I'm FED UP with the shit we're forced to put up with by BOTH corrupt political parties..
Thats the same kinda shit eBay has been doing with their DSR b.s. since the inmates took over the assylum, after Meg Whitman left. its a 1-5 scale and if you as a seller drop below about 4.5 you get hassled by eBay and can be prevented from selling. I started selling on eBay back in 1998 but when the current management started screwing it up, I quit.. Looks this outfit has the same grade of moron in *its* management.
Yup.. They retroactively make this factoid a secret, and send the black SUVs to Timothy's house and send him off to Guano-tanamo.. Oh wait.. No more timothy stories on/.???? hmm.. an out-of-control government or no more timothy stories... ahh.. gotta go with the out-of-control governent.. Timothy only annoys me when I read/. and the government annoys me (and a LOT of others) only ALL the time
...ignoring the fact that the programs where OKed by congress...
...Ignoring the fact that Congress IGNORED the Constitution??? The 4th Amendment flatly prohibits this kind of activity. Try READING it sometime, its a good read... Here, I'll even help you.. I realize the schools today don't bother teaching the Constitution, as its sooooo inconvient to their aims, that being indocrination camps for good little obiedient consumers...
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
You'll notice the "shall not be violated"... Kinda puts a BIG damper on the current Congress and its three-letter-agencies activities, or at least its supposed to... when the government works as the founding fathers intended...
Just for shits and grins, I downloaded the Windows 8.1 Blue preview ISO and slapped it into a VM on my system (Debian Linux, thank you very much..).. The first damn thing it INSISTED on doing was either having me login to whatever BS backend they have for it, OR create a backend account.. I recall on the Win 8 preview there was a link there to merely create a local system account, which was what I wanted to do, but it seems like the fuckwads at MS took even THAT away.. Don't know what I did, but eventually I managed to find a screen to create a local account.. Once I got into Win8.1, I do see they've done some improvements over the steaming turd that is Windows 8.. The only reason I took the time to check Win8.1 out is because, since i'm the defacto neighborhood support "slave", I guarantee I'll be asked to help figure MS's latest pile of shit out.. Personally, its Linux for me.... (yes, I AM a Linux fanboy.. thank you very much...)
The states are doing this shit with unemployment benefits.. They send you a debit card and they put your weekly stipend on it. The last time I had to do the "unemployment shuffle", I got one of the cards, and found out all the flippin' fees they put on it.. The only way to avoid the fees, and what I used, was to take the card weekly to my credit union and pull the weekly stipend off it in one transaction, for which there was no charge. Watch for THAT loophole to change too...
Yup.. My only experience with a union was back in the 80s.. I worked for a defense contractor as an electronics tech, despite that job title, I had to be a member of the machinists union.. $20/mo, worked there for nearly 5 years, so $1200 I paid to that union in dues. When I asked for a little help, when the department manager, who didn't like me a bit, despite getting along great with, and great reviews from, my immediate boss, decided he was gonna can me for doing something I'd been TOLD to do by my boss, that HE didn't approve of.. Instead of canning my boss, he cans me. I expect due to the fact I put in a grievance to the union steward everytime this fat pig violated the collective bargaining agreement, such as overtime selection, etc.. All his "pets" got the overtime, others got none. Anyway, I came into work the next day, and was told I was canned. Explained to the union steward the background, and the words out of his worthless mouth was "sorry for you, we can't help you"... The fat fuck department head was so vindictive he pulled strings to get my unemployment denied. I tried appealing but apparently he had too much clout. I went and spoke to an attorney who specialized in labor relations, and after telling him the story, he said "you have a good case.. gimme $5K retainer and I'll see what I can do"... yeah, right... Anyway, FUCK UNIONS!!!
*IF* I were to go a movie theater, I'd do the same thing I do with the smartphone at Church.. put it on vibrate. Yeah.. I know, why take your phone to Church? I volunteer with the local Redcross chapter's Disaster Action Team (DAT Team) and am often oncall over the weekend and have to respond quicky.. We're the guys/gals who provide food/clothing/lodging from the Redcross for people whose house/apartment burns down. Normally we have two volunteers oncall from Friday night to Monday morning for the weekend shift, but Las Vegas had a very large apartment fire (70 people displaced) several weekends ago, and we had to call out additional volunteers to get everybody taken care of, and since I was the primary oncall person, and I was in Church at the time, I had to leave kinda suddenly...
Is San Diego just a nice town, or are other places like this too?
Yes, Yes, it is.. Lived there till 1996, then wife and I moved to Las Vegas.. Wish I was back there.. (117F here today...)... The last time I went to a theater here in Vegas, I swore I'd NEVER go back... High ticket prices/snack prices/squalling kids/sticky floors/texting... All the famous reasons to stay the F out of theaters.. This last time was when the last Starwars installment was released.. Haven't been back since.. Not all that hard, since 95% of the crap out of Hollyweird is just that... CRAP... When a new installment of the Bond or Starwars franchise comes out, I wait patiently till it hits Redbox and watch it on the home tv... perfect..
Just the fact that this is a problem, AND the fact of the astronomical prices of movies (and the crap they sell in the snack bar), I wait till the movie comes out at Redbox, and then rent it and watch it on my tv.. The last movie I actually went to a theater to see was the last Starwars installment, and THEN I was so pissed off at the admission price, snack price AND noisy damn kids, I swore I'd never set foot in a theater again... Its been however many years since the last Starwars installment.. Forgot just when that was.. Even though I love the Bond and Startrek franchises, I wait for Redbox on them... Just aint gonna waste my hard earned money on theaters...
Amendment X to the Constitution.. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
A bit of perusing of that website ought to give you a better feel for what the states are doing to blunt the power-grab out of DC...
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Just require the pilot to demonstrate glider Silver badge proficiency once a year.
http://www.ssa.org/BadgesAndRecords#Silver
Sounds like the AirCanada 767 pilot who landed the "Gimli Glider" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider back in 1983 might have those credentials...
What really twists my noodle is the knowledge that a new pilot, after completing sim training, fly's a real airliner for the first time on a normal commercial flight with a full load of passengers.
Yeah, but that *new* pilot has several hundred hours of flight time (ie: Commercial pilots license by FAA, PLUS an instrument rating, certifying he's able to fly safely in the soup) in other aircraft before an airline will even talk to him.. He trains for MANY in that full-motion simulator for the type aircraft he will fly for the airline before he ever sits in the right seat (First Officer)....
Let's face it, automated cars is a fundamentally easier to solve problem, due to far fewer variables and complications, and weaker forces involved.
Cars=moving in X and Y axis... Aircraft=moving in X, Y AND Z axis...
Damn.. the ONE good player for Windows that 1) plays Shoutcast streams withOUT any drama, and 2) doesnt try to force you to catagorize your music into that artist-album bullshit.. My several thousand mp3s are simply catagorized in folders by genre, and every other player seems to want to force me to throw that catagorization away and play *their* way.. Thats my main gripe with most all of the Linux music players, EXCEPT for XMMS/Audacious, which I exclusively use on Linux.. Winamp is more than happy to let me leave my music library the way *I* want it.. Gonna miss Winamp, wish AOL would Opensource it so the community could continue with it.. Oh well, a nice dream but *that* will never happen.. it *is* AOL we're talking about, after all.. Gonna download one last copy of Winamp and keep using it till the wheels fall off..
Foobar2000 is great!
IN YOUR OPINION... It's a pile of crap in mine..
We are to the point where I wonder why everybody keeps falling back on things like "constitutional right to quit".. Its now to the point where this government has spit on the constitution for so many years, and are now to the point of actively setting it on fire, bringing on its total and complete disregard by this government.. I love this country, served in its military in the 70s, but am embarrased and sickened by its government.. We are WELL beyond "the ballot box" being able to fix the MANY problems, and the government is well on its way to be SURE that no corrections in it can be made by "the ammo box"... May God Bless and keep this wonderful country, as we certainly don't seem to be able to...
THIS!!
The company I worked for a few years ago had a compute cluster for engineering/modeling with over 100 nodes. They were originally running RHEL3, which of course was coming up to EOL in a few months. The suits wanted to buy licenses for RHEL to upgrade the nodes, the IT staff wanted to use CentOS. Research was done on pricing for over 100 RHEL licenses, and after a while, the suits decided to go with IT's choice of CentOS for the compute nodes and use *one* RHEL install for the master node. I wasn't involved with the pricing discussions, but I heard that RH sales were stuck on nearly full pricing for all 100+ licenses.
Yup.. and I think somebody just threw a barrel of oil down that "slippery slope"... I got a strong feeling the reason some of the "rising stars" of the teaparty/quasi-republican party (Scott Walker-Wisc Governor AND Marco Rubio) suddenly came out for the Senate Immigration bill is because *somebody* *somewhere* found some kind of dirt on them and are blackmailing them with it.. Go ahead and tell me my tinfoil hat is too tight.. We're so far down the toilet toward tyranny that NOTHING would surprise me.. Not even Mr Obama-Soetero arranging 15000 Russian troops for "support" in America.. I gather he's afraid that OUR military might refuse to fire on American civilians.. I can be pretty sure Russians would NOT....
Anybody who actually *believed* Comrade Obama prior to being elected, I got a very nice bridge in NYC I'll sell you for $24.....
I don't doubt they did it on a more limited basis as far back as Bush #1.. He was the first of the RINO/NewWorldOrder-types to manage to get into our Whitehouse... It's been downhill since then...
I'll agree with them on the Snowden = Hero part.. But using Obama's logo for the "O" is just icky...
AND Clinton AND Bush#1... This country has been slowly going down the shithole since Reagan left office.. Its just gotten seriously more pronounced with the current sewage in power... I'm not a republican (used to be, gave THAT up during BushJr's second term) and I'm DAMN straight NOT a democrat, now better referred to as the "New American Communist Party"... I'm a GODDAMN AMERICAN and I'm FED UP with the shit we're forced to put up with by BOTH corrupt political parties..
Geez that felt good to get that off my chest!!!
Thats the same kinda shit eBay has been doing with their DSR b.s. since the inmates took over the assylum, after Meg Whitman left. its a 1-5 scale and if you as a seller drop below about 4.5 you get hassled by eBay and can be prevented from selling. I started selling on eBay back in 1998 but when the current management started screwing it up, I quit.. Looks this outfit has the same grade of moron in *its* management.
Yup.. They retroactively make this factoid a secret, and send the black SUVs to Timothy's house and send him off to Guano-tanamo.. Oh wait.. No more timothy stories on /.???? hmm.. an out-of-control government or no more timothy stories... ahh.. gotta go with the out-of-control governent.. Timothy only annoys me when I read /. and the government annoys me (and a LOT of others) only ALL the time
...ignoring the fact that the programs where OKed by congress...
...Ignoring the fact that Congress IGNORED the Constitution??? The 4th Amendment flatly prohibits
this kind of activity. Try READING it sometime, its a good read... Here, I'll even help you.. I realize
the schools today don't bother teaching the Constitution, as its sooooo inconvient to their aims, that
being indocrination camps for good little obiedient consumers...
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
You'll notice the "shall not be violated"... Kinda puts a BIG damper on the current Congress and its three-letter-agencies activities, or at least its supposed to... when the government works as the founding fathers intended...
See? you learned something today...
Just for shits and grins, I downloaded the Windows 8.1 Blue preview ISO and slapped it into a VM on my system (Debian Linux, thank you very much..).. The first damn thing it INSISTED on doing was either having me login to whatever BS backend they have for it, OR create a backend account.. I recall on the Win 8 preview there was a link there to merely create a local system account, which was what I wanted to do, but it seems like the fuckwads at MS took even THAT away.. Don't know what I did, but eventually I managed to find a screen to create a local account.. Once I got into Win8.1, I do see they've done some improvements over the steaming turd that is Windows 8.. The only reason I took the time to check Win8.1 out is because, since i'm the defacto neighborhood support "slave", I guarantee I'll be asked to help figure MS's latest pile of shit out.. Personally, its Linux for me.... (yes, I AM a Linux fanboy.. thank you very much...)
The states are doing this shit with unemployment benefits.. They send you a debit card and they put your weekly stipend on it. The last time I had to do the "unemployment shuffle", I got one of the cards, and found out all the flippin' fees they put on it.. The only way to avoid the fees, and what I used, was to take the card weekly to my credit union and pull the weekly stipend off it in one transaction, for which there was no charge. Watch for THAT loophole to change too...
Yup.. My only experience with a union was back in the 80s.. I worked for a defense contractor as an electronics tech, despite that job title, I had to be a member of the machinists union.. $20/mo, worked there for nearly 5 years, so $1200 I paid to that union in dues. When I asked for a little help, when the department manager, who didn't like me a bit, despite getting along great with, and great reviews from, my immediate boss, decided he was gonna can me for doing something I'd been TOLD to do by my boss, that HE didn't approve of.. Instead of canning my boss, he cans me. I expect due to the fact I put in a grievance to the union steward everytime this fat pig violated the collective bargaining agreement, such as overtime selection, etc.. All his "pets" got the overtime, others got none. Anyway, I came into work the next day, and was told I was canned. Explained to the union steward the background, and the words out of his worthless mouth was "sorry for you, we can't help you"... The fat fuck department head was so vindictive he pulled strings to get my unemployment denied. I tried appealing but apparently he had too much clout. I went and spoke to an attorney who specialized in labor relations, and after telling him the story, he said "you have a good case.. gimme $5K retainer and I'll see what I can do"... yeah, right... Anyway, FUCK UNIONS!!!
Umm... I don't turn my phone off, except to change batteries.. If putting it on vibrate isn't enough for anybody, well you can kiss my butt...
*IF* I were to go a movie theater, I'd do the same thing I do with the smartphone at Church.. put it on vibrate. Yeah.. I know, why take your phone to Church? I volunteer with the local Redcross chapter's Disaster Action Team (DAT Team) and am often oncall over the weekend and have to respond quicky.. We're the guys/gals who provide food/clothing/lodging from the Redcross for people whose house/apartment burns down. Normally we have two volunteers oncall from Friday night to Monday morning for the weekend shift, but Las Vegas had a very large apartment fire (70 people displaced) several weekends ago, and we had to call out additional volunteers to get everybody taken care of, and since I was the primary oncall person, and I was in Church at the time, I had to leave kinda suddenly...
Is San Diego just a nice town, or are other places like this too?
Yes, Yes, it is.. Lived there till 1996, then wife and I moved to Las Vegas.. Wish I was back there.. (117F here today...)...
The last time I went to a theater here in Vegas, I swore I'd NEVER go back... High ticket prices/snack prices/squalling kids/sticky floors/texting... All the famous
reasons to stay the F out of theaters.. This last time was when the last Starwars installment was released.. Haven't been back since.. Not all that hard, since 95% of the crap out of Hollyweird is just that... CRAP... When a new installment of the Bond or Starwars franchise comes out, I wait patiently till it hits Redbox and watch it on the home tv... perfect..
Yup... LOVE that "pause" control via Redbox/DVD player...
Just the fact that this is a problem, AND the fact of the astronomical prices of movies (and the crap they sell in the snack bar), I wait till the movie comes out at Redbox, and then rent it and watch it on my tv.. The last movie I actually went to a theater to see was the last Starwars installment, and THEN I was so pissed off at the admission price, snack price AND noisy damn kids, I swore I'd never set foot in a theater again... Its been however many years since the last Starwars installment.. Forgot just when that was.. Even though I love the Bond and Startrek franchises, I wait for Redbox on them... Just aint gonna waste my hard earned money on theaters...
Seems like equal before the law resides in the toilet.
Heh.. you're just *now* figuring *that* out???? Some of us have known *that* fact for a LONG time....
I will wish the states would revolt against crap like this from the Feds.
Your wish is granted... http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/
Amendment X to the Constitution..
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
A bit of perusing of that website ought to give you a better feel for what the states are doing
to blunt the power-grab out of DC...