An aircraft aborted a transatlantic flight because the copilot suffered sufficiently extensive temporary blindness that the crew deemed it unsafe to continue.
As a former pilot, I can tell you that it is only an annoyance and NEVER likely to result in a crash, except through the incompetence of the pilot. More about "outrage" from police pilots and the egos of commercial ones.
Go argue with the commercial pilots that put their passengers' safety ahead of their employer's commercial interests.
Go argue with the FAA, the British police, whoever the fuck it is that does US federal prosecutions, because they all deem this a serious risk and a public danger.
Don't go and prove yourself wrong by shining a laser at an aircraft overhead. Don't be that fucking stupid.
Yeah, it's a rather curious law - and not explicitly written either as far as I know.
I have a Leatherman Charge TTI in my work bag and that locks all its tools in place, including multiple blades. I checked with a magistrate and she was very relaxed about it.
If it was a black anodised tactical flick knife with a skull motif then her guidance may have been different.
Wont stop the police trying to fuck me over if they feel like it though, but I've also carried a 7" blade in a sheath on my belt before while chatting to policemen; it's always down to context.
Given the number of repeats shown on BBC1 and BBC2 there was always plenty of space in the schedule for new, innovative and interesting material.
There still is.
Forget putting BBC3 online, shut it down entirely. Anything that's good enough can be shown on BBC2 - it's got to be better than endless repeats of Coast, daily doses of Flog It and whatever the fuck they call that atrocity that's on at 7pm.
The laws can be a little anal at times - when a British Gas engineer tells you he has to condemn your fire but it's perfectly safe, for instance - but it's very hard to write an all-encompassing safety law that's pragmatic and easily applied, so it's understandable that they make it easy to understand how to comply.
My fire was fine, the room just lacked the legally mandated level of ventilation. The house is open plan so there was more ventilation than required, it just wasn't in the same room. Meant I was perfectly safe, but would've made it illegal to let the house.
Easy enough to resolve - fit a vent, or remove the fire. I removed the fire a few years later for other reasons. Never used it anyway..
I think you'll find Stephen Fry is fully aware of the stereotypical homeless woman described as a bag lady.
Using the term to be rude about someone's description could be nasty, or it could be a joke. It could be both.
In context it was clearly a joke, especially given its reference to her profession.
Turnabout is not fair play. If they'd mocked Fry for his clothing it would have been misplaced (given what he wears when presenting QI, quite apart from anything else) but fair game. Harassing him for making a funny joke? Fuck that.
8 taxi drivers were accused of sexual assault in 2014 in Austin. The data does not show that fingerprinting is effective
Do you work for Uber, or is it Lyft?
How many taxi drivers were found guilty of sexual assault? What's rate of conviction for sexual assault for taxi drivers in Austin relative to the population as a whole? Now adjust for age, sex and income level, what's the relative rate?
Then come back and talk about the effectiveness of fingerprinting, because right now you're parroting spurious irrelevant and misleading statistics.
You don't need permission. You just need to prove that you're providing a safe secure service.
Problem is that there are cunts out there that are willing to put other people at serious risk to make money. So the Government stepped in to assure basic minimums - heaters that don't spew out carbon monoxide, for instance.
Maybe you disagree that this is the role of Government but it's commonplace across multiple jurisdictions and generally accepted as a useful contribution.
It doesn't put you at competitive disadvantage, as everybody has to demonstrate compliance. It just prevents you acting like a cunt.
Do I look like I give a shit what form the wages taken?
40 hours of labour in 1900 paid for a home, food, raising a family. There was entertainment. 40 hours of labour now pay for the same things. Except now the home includes clean running water, central heating, electricity and an internet connection. The food is flown in from across the globe. The children are significantly more likely to reach adulthood, let alone the mother's chance of being around to raise them.
Who gives a shit whether those 40 hours are paid in nominal wages, real wages, gold bars or fucking kisses from a fairy. It's what you get in return that counts.
Why are you so blinkered and refusing to acknowledge this? Why are you so fucking hung on on basic wage? Why do you seem to think I really give a shit about wages, given that's not what I've been talking about throughout this entire exchange?
As it happens, I do need to give a shit. Excuse me, I'm going to take advantage of the warm, secure, insect-free, private and well plumbed facilities in my own home, bought for my not-grown-at-all-in-decades wage to shit out the pizza someone delivered to me earlier. Yeah, it really fucking sucks living in the 21st century.
No. I'm arguing that focusing on wages is utterly fucking irrelevant, as living standards are improving.
Give me $10 a year and if it lets me year-on-year improve my standard of living, quality of life, health and happiness then I really don't give a shit that it's less than my current hourly pay.
I'm not dishonestly arguing anything, let alone a straw man. You're having the wrong fucking argument.
Yeah. Imagine having to actually convince people on something, hearing a number of arguments on the matter and making an informed collaborative decision.
Thank you for linking to an unreliable source that nonetheless still fails to provide evidence that the standard of living has not risen in the past few decades.
My clan is an ancient Scottish one from the border regions. I'm not aware of any trolls in our history, although we've fought at a few bridges.
Perhaps your misunderstanding is why you don't realise that I'm perfectly comfortable with facts. I'm just not seeing any that back up your arguments.
Oh, and I've never watched Fox. But please, do continue to attack me to try and distract from your pitiful lack of evidence.
(And is demonstrably false anyway. Wages for the average person have gone nowhere in decades.)
Other than those areas directly engaging in armed conflict, where exactly have living standards failed to rise in the past few decades?
I see a lot of improved health, improved access to education, improved access to communications and reduced levels of absolute poverty across much of the glbobe. Including the US and Europe.
Wages may not be going anywhere but what you get for those wages sure as fuck is.
Do you work in the tech industry you racist fuckwit? Trust me, even in a country with a majority white population there are not shortage of Indians working in the industry.
Take your reactionary racist bullshit elsewhere you racist cunt.
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An aircraft aborted a transatlantic flight because the copilot suffered sufficiently extensive temporary blindness that the crew deemed it unsafe to continue.
As a former pilot, I can tell you that it is only an annoyance and NEVER likely to result in a crash, except through the incompetence of the pilot. More about "outrage" from police pilots and the egos of commercial ones.
Go argue with the commercial pilots that put their passengers' safety ahead of their employer's commercial interests.
Go argue with the FAA, the British police, whoever the fuck it is that does US federal prosecutions, because they all deem this a serious risk and a public danger.
Don't go and prove yourself wrong by shining a laser at an aircraft overhead. Don't be that fucking stupid.
2. Local police drives to the location. The plane report may at worst be "several square miles", but only some is populated land.
Oh, good call. Several square miles near Heathrow narrows you down to just 720,000 people.
http://heathrowflightpaths.co....
3. Police arrest everyone on location and interrogate.
You're going to need a bigger holding cell.
Sure.
http://www.leicestermercury.co...
Don't worry, I'm sure it was a fluke.
Yeah, it's a rather curious law - and not explicitly written either as far as I know.
I have a Leatherman Charge TTI in my work bag and that locks all its tools in place, including multiple blades. I checked with a magistrate and she was very relaxed about it.
If it was a black anodised tactical flick knife with a skull motif then her guidance may have been different.
Wont stop the police trying to fuck me over if they feel like it though, but I've also carried a 7" blade in a sheath on my belt before while chatting to policemen; it's always down to context.
Given the number of repeats shown on BBC1 and BBC2 there was always plenty of space in the schedule for new, innovative and interesting material.
There still is.
Forget putting BBC3 online, shut it down entirely. Anything that's good enough can be shown on BBC2 - it's got to be better than endless repeats of Coast, daily doses of Flog It and whatever the fuck they call that atrocity that's on at 7pm.
Sadly not, no.
The laws can be a little anal at times - when a British Gas engineer tells you he has to condemn your fire but it's perfectly safe, for instance - but it's very hard to write an all-encompassing safety law that's pragmatic and easily applied, so it's understandable that they make it easy to understand how to comply.
My fire was fine, the room just lacked the legally mandated level of ventilation. The house is open plan so there was more ventilation than required, it just wasn't in the same room. Meant I was perfectly safe, but would've made it illegal to let the house.
Easy enough to resolve - fit a vent, or remove the fire. I removed the fire a few years later for other reasons. Never used it anyway..
I think you'll find Stephen Fry is fully aware of the stereotypical homeless woman described as a bag lady.
Using the term to be rude about someone's description could be nasty, or it could be a joke. It could be both.
In context it was clearly a joke, especially given its reference to her profession.
Turnabout is not fair play. If they'd mocked Fry for his clothing it would have been misplaced (given what he wears when presenting QI, quite apart from anything else) but fair game. Harassing him for making a funny joke? Fuck that.
I thought it was a good joke. It made me laugh.
I didn't even know that he was friends with the lady in question; she really did just turn up at an award ceremony looking dressed for the streets.
8 taxi drivers were accused of sexual assault in 2014 in Austin. The data does not show that fingerprinting is effective
Do you work for Uber, or is it Lyft?
How many taxi drivers were found guilty of sexual assault? What's rate of conviction for sexual assault for taxi drivers in Austin relative to the population as a whole? Now adjust for age, sex and income level, what's the relative rate?
Then come back and talk about the effectiveness of fingerprinting, because right now you're parroting spurious irrelevant and misleading statistics.
What the fuck does that have to do with fingerprints?
You're having the wrong fucking argument. Start a new fucking thread if you want to bitch about medallions, monopolies and other off-topic bullshit.
That's an argument against fingerprinting, not against having no fingerprinting restriction on Uber/Lyft.
What should Austin City Council do? Be consistent: all providers of personal transport services should be fingerprinted, or not.
Fingerprinting taxi drivers but not Uber/Lyft drivers would be asinine.
You don't need permission. You just need to prove that you're providing a safe secure service.
Problem is that there are cunts out there that are willing to put other people at serious risk to make money. So the Government stepped in to assure basic minimums - heaters that don't spew out carbon monoxide, for instance.
Maybe you disagree that this is the role of Government but it's commonplace across multiple jurisdictions and generally accepted as a useful contribution.
It doesn't put you at competitive disadvantage, as everybody has to demonstrate compliance. It just prevents you acting like a cunt.
Willful ignorance is far worse than simple ignorance.
Do I look like I give a shit what form the wages taken?
40 hours of labour in 1900 paid for a home, food, raising a family. There was entertainment.
40 hours of labour now pay for the same things. Except now the home includes clean running water, central heating, electricity and an internet connection. The food is flown in from across the globe. The children are significantly more likely to reach adulthood, let alone the mother's chance of being around to raise them.
Who gives a shit whether those 40 hours are paid in nominal wages, real wages, gold bars or fucking kisses from a fairy. It's what you get in return that counts.
Why are you so blinkered and refusing to acknowledge this? Why are you so fucking hung on on basic wage? Why do you seem to think I really give a shit about wages, given that's not what I've been talking about throughout this entire exchange?
As it happens, I do need to give a shit. Excuse me, I'm going to take advantage of the warm, secure, insect-free, private and well plumbed facilities in my own home, bought for my not-grown-at-all-in-decades wage to shit out the pizza someone delivered to me earlier. Yeah, it really fucking sucks living in the 21st century.
No. I'm arguing that focusing on wages is utterly fucking irrelevant, as living standards are improving.
Give me $10 a year and if it lets me year-on-year improve my standard of living, quality of life, health and happiness then I really don't give a shit that it's less than my current hourly pay.
I'm not dishonestly arguing anything, let alone a straw man. You're having the wrong fucking argument.
I find that people who apply a label and argue on the grounds of identity lack credibility and aren't worth my time.
I'm drunk, which is the only reason I'm even bothering to tell you this.
A funny farm isn't actually a farm, and can be in a city.
Do you ever get out of that cesspit of stupidity you inhabit?
Yeah. Imagine having to actually convince people on something, hearing a number of arguments on the matter and making an informed collaborative decision.
Fucking imagine that.
Given how closely the population votes it's close to 50%, which is a massive 50% more chance than they've got before November.
Thank you for linking to an unreliable source that nonetheless still fails to provide evidence that the standard of living has not risen in the past few decades.
My clan is an ancient Scottish one from the border regions. I'm not aware of any trolls in our history, although we've fought at a few bridges.
Perhaps your misunderstanding is why you don't realise that I'm perfectly comfortable with facts. I'm just not seeing any that back up your arguments.
Oh, and I've never watched Fox. But please, do continue to attack me to try and distract from your pitiful lack of evidence.
Sorry, you lost me at 'the cancer of neoliberalism'.
Come back when you can talk credibly.
To be fair, the other 90% of women already have sex with sex bots.
Duracell built an entire fucking business meeting resultant demands.
Because of the prisons. And healthcare.
(And is demonstrably false anyway. Wages for the average person have gone nowhere in decades.)
Other than those areas directly engaging in armed conflict, where exactly have living standards failed to rise in the past few decades?
I see a lot of improved health, improved access to education, improved access to communications and reduced levels of absolute poverty across much of the glbobe. Including the US and Europe.
Wages may not be going anywhere but what you get for those wages sure as fuck is.
Do you work in the tech industry you racist fuckwit? Trust me, even in a country with a majority white population there are not shortage of Indians working in the industry.
Take your reactionary racist bullshit elsewhere you racist cunt.