... except for the pilots of AF447, who watched their plane fall out of the sky for several minutes due to a stall, not realizing that the flight computer switches to alternate law if it doesn't receive valid airspeed input and therefore could not provide stall protection.
Airplane depressurization: "Put your own mask on before aiding others", including children.
In putting your own mask on first, you are thinking of the children. It takes more than one minute for permanent brain damage to occur due to hypoxia, but without a mask, you only have about 15-20 seconds of useful consciousness left in a worst case case scenario.
So, put your own mask on first, then you'll have plenty of time to put the masks on everyone around you, including children and people who didn't know the basics of respiratory physiology.
Good Lord. That would work out just great. Solution to any problem of unrest of any form - Guns!
Even better: If you're suicidal and have a gun, you can just get it over with and shoot yourself. No need to drag 149 people with you in a suicide-by-airplane.
That's why you lock the door first. Also, are pilots being scanned, searched and groped for anything usable as a weapon even half as thoroughly as the passengers?
I wouldn't say "nothing". It's hard to concentrate on suicide if you're busy trying to murder someone.
Right. Being a pilot requires excellent executive functions. Someone who can't get the tasks "lock door", "incapacitate other person in cockpit" and "fly plane into ground" in the correct order has no business at the controls of a plane! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
According to a CBS article, the US has a policy that no one single person can be in the cockpit alone during a flight.
Right. A pilot trying to kill himself and everyone else on the plane by flying it into the ground will absolutely not kill the other person in the cockpit that may be trying to stop him.
Sorry, but having two people in the cockpit is a safety measure, not a security measure. It helps if one pilot has a heart attack, but it does pretty much nothing if one pilot is a suicidal, murderous maniac.
A black or Jewish printer can have a "no racist posters" policy, and deny racist posters.
The black or Jewish printer should make every attempt to out-bid anyone else for this job. The resulting... discussion... at the next KKK meeting would be highly interesting, since the dividing line between fundamentalists and pragmatists would become glaringly obvious.
So the KKK can force a black or Jewish printer to print posters for their next rally, then?
Yes. The KKK would be shooting itself in the foot if they pulled something like this, so it's not going to happen. It would be quite funny to see what the consequences would be, though.
"Nobody is sure"... yeah, right. How about coming up with some kind of scale first? There's scales to classify everything from nuclear accidents to signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
What would the company do if you didn't report in?
Sue due to your violating your contract.
Hire a private eye to track you down?
Not necessary if you fail to report despite agreeing to do so in the contract. This would only be necessary if the former employer suspects that your reports are not true.
How likely is it going to be even worth their time to pursue you
That depends on how many lawyers they have on their payroll that aren't busy doing other things.
If it went to court, no sane judge should allow it to stand and the person should be
able to claim they signed it under duress as there is no other logical reason someone
would sign something like that.
Why, if you don't intend to break the contract, you'll never have to pay the $537M. So a sane person with no intention to break the contract could sign it without voiding their sanity certificate.
Heck, if an employer agrees to pay me $1M/month, I'll gladly live with a two-year noncompete clause and a $537M fine for breaking it. Where do I sign?
But it deprives the parties of the freedom to meaningfully enter into such contracts,
Just word it differently. "For up to x months after the end of the employment contract, employer will pay employee x% of their last salary if they are not working in field Y".
Basically, a "carrot" noncompete instead of a "stick" noncompete.
But of course employers wouldn't want to pay for having their business model protected.
A non-compete contract is more akin to a contract that says if you quit, you have to give us back your bonus or a prenumpt agreement.
So how about an obligation to commit suicide after the employment contract ends? That would be the ultimate form of non-compete.
I would be curious what the penalty is for a non-compete.
It's usually a ridiculous amount of money. Of course, if the skills of the employee in question are in really high demand, the new employer might just consider to fork over defined penalty to the new employee so he can pay off his former employer.
Basically, I would be in favor of specific penalties for non-compete
Great. "The penalty for violating the non-compete clause is $537 million payable in small bills."
In a truly free market your only loss if you violated a contract would be loss of trust, making it more costly for you to bargain with others.
Without the major government intervention called "penal law", your loss for violating a contract would amount to whatever the other party of the contract tells their hired thugs to do to you.
If you use a Stingray to catch a criminal, then can't the criminal simply request how the device works and once that is denied, the evidence used to catch the criminal is simply thrown out.
That's why law enforcement uses parallel construction to conceal how they actually got the evidence.
If you think you are an atheist and not scared of death
Why should you be scared of nonexistence? You already know what it feels like. Just try to remember the time before you were conceived. That's what it feels like to not exist.
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This number sounds awfully low.
That's because it started out large enough to have quite a bit of momentum.
In putting your own mask on first, you are thinking of the children. It takes more than one minute for permanent brain damage to occur due to hypoxia, but without a mask, you only have about 15-20 seconds of useful consciousness left in a worst case case scenario.
So, put your own mask on first, then you'll have plenty of time to put the masks on everyone around you, including children and people who didn't know the basics of respiratory physiology.
Even better: If you're suicidal and have a gun, you can just get it over with and shoot yourself. No need to drag 149 people with you in a suicide-by-airplane.
Managing lots of things competing for their attention is what pilots need to be excellent at.
That's why you lock the door first. Also, are pilots being scanned, searched and groped for anything usable as a weapon even half as thoroughly as the passengers?
Right. Being a pilot requires excellent executive functions.
Someone who can't get the tasks "lock door", "incapacitate other person in cockpit" and "fly plane into ground" in the correct order has no business at the controls of a plane!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
Right. A pilot trying to kill himself and everyone else on the plane by flying it into the ground will absolutely not kill the other person in the cockpit that may be trying to stop him.
Sorry, but having two people in the cockpit is a safety measure, not a security measure. It helps if one pilot has a heart attack, but it does pretty much nothing if one pilot is a suicidal, murderous maniac.
The black or Jewish printer should make every attempt to out-bid anyone else for this job. The resulting ... discussion ... at the next KKK meeting would be highly interesting, since the dividing line between fundamentalists and pragmatists would become glaringly obvious.
Yes. The KKK would be shooting itself in the foot if they pulled something like this, so it's not going to happen. It would be quite funny to see what the consequences would be, though.
Now all those viruses can finally give your computer proper disease symptoms.
"Nobody is sure" ... yeah, right. How about coming up with some kind of scale first? There's scales to classify everything from nuclear accidents to signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Sue due to your violating your contract.
Hire a private eye to track you down?
Not necessary if you fail to report despite agreeing to do so in the contract. This would only be necessary if the former employer suspects that your reports are not true.
How likely is it going to be even worth their time to pursue you
That depends on how many lawyers they have on their payroll that aren't busy doing other things.
Why, if you don't intend to break the contract, you'll never have to pay the $537M. So a sane person with no intention to break the contract could sign it without voiding their sanity certificate.
Heck, if an employer agrees to pay me $1M/month, I'll gladly live with a two-year noncompete clause and a $537M fine for breaking it. Where do I sign?
Which constitution explicitly bans misleading the people?
You suddenly show up in a customer-facing role at another company.
Your name pops up in patent applications filed by another company.
Your job is high-profile enough that your name can be found on the other companys website.
Your old employment contract also contains clauses about you having to report your employment status for the duration of the non-compete.
There are lots of ways.
Just word it differently. "For up to x months after the end of the employment contract, employer will pay employee x% of their last salary if they are not working in field Y".
Basically, a "carrot" noncompete instead of a "stick" noncompete.
But of course employers wouldn't want to pay for having their business model protected.
So how about an obligation to commit suicide after the employment contract ends? That would be the ultimate form of non-compete.
I would be curious what the penalty is for a non-compete.
It's usually a ridiculous amount of money. Of course, if the skills of the employee in question are in really high demand, the new employer might just consider to fork over defined penalty to the new employee so he can pay off his former employer.
Basically, I would be in favor of specific penalties for non-compete
Great. "The penalty for violating the non-compete clause is $537 million payable in small bills."
Specific enough?
Without the major government intervention called "penal law", your loss for violating a contract would amount to whatever the other party of the contract tells their hired thugs to do to you.
That's why law enforcement uses parallel construction to conceal how they actually got the evidence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Hydrogen peroxide, sodium hypochlorite, etc ...
... should be great if your heat sink temperature is well below zero degrees (you can pick Celsius or Fahrenheit here).
Why should you be scared of nonexistence? You already know what it feels like. Just try to remember the time before you were conceived. That's what it feels like to not exist.
Not very scary, is it?
If you take all proteins out of your food, it's not the remaining nutritents that kills you, but the lack of protein.