No, they are not going to take your toilet away. Yes, unions had/have a place. Stop with the hyperbole, you will get some on you and your mother will have to change your clothing again - the third time this month.
They will not take the toilets away. We are geeks. We'd just shit on the floor. Hell, we might do that anyhow.
I spent a wee bit of time on a ship and guarded a detention facility for a while. I was in the Marines at the time (obviously) and was impressed. "They run a tight ship." They are, hands down, the model for a blue water navy and safety is paramount. Look at their firefighting as well. US Navy, taking shit seriously since the start. They also have a very strict culture about adhering to rules (and have good rules in place for a reason).
But they still consume the ads and media. They still buy the products. The ad ecosystem is not going away. There was no utopia on the 'net where ads did not exist - we called them webrings back then. Everyone was always advertising something else. People were always listening. It is more prevalent and easier now than ever but this has not changed and people will always opt to consume the media and will opt to buy the advertised products. Citation? Ads still exist. They can (and do) track them and track their effectiveness. If they did not work we would not have ads.
Nah, carts and boxes are not placed intentionally - at least not typically. A store manager may do so but that is because they only understand the most basics of pedestrian traffic habits. My business modeled, and consulted on, vehicular traffic but we expanded to human traffic analytics, modeling, optimization, patterning, and consulted as well as designed throughput metrics. You may well have been in a product of our design or driven on a road that we helped optimize. (Do not blame us, they fail to listen much of the time and half-assed implementation is sometimes worse than no change at all,)
I feel a novella coming on. You have been warned. Skip or read it, it is up to you. I think you may be surprised.
Anyhow, clutter is never good. Specifically look at end caps and in-aisle displays. Those are actually supposed to be in rather specific places. They create bottlenecks at places with colorful items in large boxes or in places where things smell nice. They are usually expensive items or, more accurately, items with a good ROI.
The reason things are grouped together is because it avoids confusion. Trust me - they'd love to scatter stuff randomly around the store and would doubly love so if they were the only game in town. However, base ingredients will be as far away from each other (while still intuitive - usually) as possible while still being as far away from the stuff that you will use it for. Eggs are, for instance, nowhere near the cake mixes.
You will, almost invariably, travel to your right. To your right is, almost invariably, something that you can smell and see. We built, and staffed, a grocery store in the real world and in a laboratory environment. (The lab was able to be configured for a variety of simulations.) You *will* go right given the choice. You will smell stuff and look at large pretty things. It will make you hungry and in the mood to buy more. (Now that you know this, or thought you did before, you are not immune - you will do it.) Very little sells at the bakery and it operates almost at a loss - and in some instances at a loss. However, next on the list, is often a deli. The deli is lovely and there is a metric fuckton (professional vernacular) of profit there.
Then you have stuff in your way - usually after another attempt to assail you with colors and scents known as the produce section. This slows you down for the fish, prepackaged or custom meat cuts, and a frozen goods section just ahead. Wait - no - you can't go there... You have to figure out how to go to the aisle now. Or, best case, you walk down and walk back. There you view the "end caps" which are things on sale. Great, you saved money, now you can spend more in the next aisle.
No, you say! I decry such manipulation and I am immune! I only buy stuff on my list! Ever! Great - that is cool because you spend less time. While you spend less time you do two important things. You buy nothing on sale or no loss leaders. You use an alternative route which serves to slow people down. You are in and out quicker but have done more for us than we could have done on our own - we appreciate that and we plan accordingly. We count on your behavior. We price the markup at such that you pay more. Thank me later.
The milk, eggs, and dairy? Yeah - we all need that stuff. So we are going to put that in the back left. We are going to make it tough to go left to get to the items. If you do then you're going to be faced with traffic and end caps directly facing you. We do put the pharmacy close, usually, because we do not want sick people in the store. Frozen and chilled goods? Yeah - let's put those in the middle. Why? People often go there last. We want you to go back and see all those end caps (things on sale that are not really on sale or are a loss leader).
Printed an ad in the newspaper with coupons? Yup... It just so happens that those items are around other big colorful or smelly items - and often have been moved and that just happens to coincide with when the sale began. Thought you knew wher
That is *their* money - it belongs to the company. Once you give something away it no longer belongs to you. If I pay you for services rendered it is your money - it no longer belongs to me in a legal, abstract, or philosophical way. Once you pay a company you have given up that money. It then belongs to the company.
I suspect you are daft, ignorant, or trying to troll.
I once spent $100 to purchase targeted ads from Google. I used a special URL that was made with a handy tracking script so that I could also monitor what was done. These were on-click ads and not ads based on impressions. Three days went by and my ads were never shown. I raised my bid price. Less than an hour later the ads were gone. The site showed not one lick of increased traffic. The URL (working - I had tested it) had not been clicked on one single time.
Rather than waste time gathering evidence and presenting the problem to Google I simply just considered it a failed experiment and never tried them again. This was in 2006 to 2008 (I can only narrow it down, I can not be exact - it was more likely to have been in the latter half of 2006) and things may have changed since then.
I think that part of the problem is that we assume people hate what we hate. I abhor ads and do not actually see any. Honestly, I can not recall the last time I saw an ad except for when I opened up Internet Explorer on a Windows system a few weeks ago. Prior to that? I do not even recall the last time.
Advertising works - or they would not do it. Things are not going to change. We do not get to decide the business model used by advertisers or by site owners. What we do get to decide is what we consume. If enough people think like us, and they obviously do not, then things will change as a whole. Until that happens we have to control our consumption. We have no right to say what a company should or should not do in this matter. They will do what they lawfully can to make profits. Right now the advertisement business is profitable. We will have ads.
Well, no. Someone will have ads. I will not have ads. I am currently building a site. It too will have ads. I can easily afford to run it as a loss just because but no, I want it to actually make money. I have plans for that money (not for me, I have plenty of money) so my goal is to make it profitable. (In this case it is to have the community decide where the profits go as well as openly sharing the finances. The community will get to decide which group gets the donated profits.)
You will rue the day you touch my Pokedots pregnancy complications page! I *will* track you down and kill you for I am never wrong when it comes to Pokedot pregnancy. I authored the articles linked so I have citations for all of my work. I *am* the expert and you are *not* and have no business touching my Pokedot pregnancy complications page.
I fixed the spelling of Leadbelly on a page, all of them. Somebody came along (with amazing quickness too, I am not sure how they managed to be so hawkish) and reverted the changes. I did not bother to argue... I figured I would just let them have it. I did not lose any respect for the site because that was impossible.
I dare say we use the barter system all the time. I use it more frequently than most. Just because we have a bit of paper to indicate a value does not mean we are not bartering. Paper is just one item of value. You can even barter at big box stores (I understand - I have never tried it) and ask for a different price or ask them to match a sales price. You need to ask a manager but you can and, I understand, they may listen.
They need to make that available on Chrome. Well, I use Opera but I can steal Chrome extensions and install them just fine. In fact, I have an extension that lets me install Chrome extensions which is a bit recursive seeming. Anyhow, I am stuck using ScriptLite if I want to have anything that functions close to NoScript with my preferred browser. ScriptLite works but does not allow much in the way of specifics. You either whitelist a domain or you do not. So, I dumped it and installed the uMatrix extension which is fantastic, by the way, but is rather complicated and takes some time to dial in.
I would have a hard time suggesting anyone use uMatix even though it is fantastic. It, in a way, reminds me of the earlier editions of Outpost Firewall, from Agnitum, which is a fantastic piece of software but needs configuration and knowledge to really make use of it effectively. It gives great experience right out of the box but if you want to customize that experience or to unblock or block certain things then it becomes quite a bit more difficult. Outpost is much better now, and is a whole suite, but uMatrix is not for the faint of heart.
I do have Firefox installed and configured. I do use it once in a while. It is not my preferred browser though the add-on ecosystem is glorious. I once donated a bunch to the Mozilla Foundation (I guess they put my name in a newspaper ad, I forget which paper or when and I am not sure if I put my real name on it as I am wont to do) and the money was well spent. I used the browser a bit then and liked it but, today, it really has changed in many ways. I have reverted to simply using Opera almost exclusively though I have other browsers with different configurations for different use scenarios.
20 to 30' over what? The ground or the road surface? This is an important distinction to make - see the Skyway in Buffalo, NY for a good reason to make this distinction.
Do you think that matters a great deal to those who authored the proposed regulations? Amazon is going to reserve the right to sue the parties involved, or their estates, for damages. I happily pay more for things I can get locally for a variety of reasons. Antics of the large businesses is one of those reasons. Another is I see no reason to lower society as a whole because I am unwilling to pay more. Being greedy is going to be our ruination and that applies to the consumers as well as the suppliers.
I define drone as an autonomous craft with subsets of partial and total autonomy. I define the rest as remote control aircraft with subsets of hobbyist's and professional and that is defined by use. I define model rockets as, simply, model rockets but I expect there to be guided and unguided in the future if not already being done. There may be additional subsets or clarification needed for legal definitions. One important thing to keep in mind is that recreational devices always get a back seat to business or common use priorities. Airspace, above a certain height, is communal property and recreational use is going to have a lower use priority than any other use. It will end up being regulated with severe penalties for violations.
Before someone chimes in with stupidity like, "They can't stop us!" The reality is that no, they can not. Just like they can not stop someone from murdering someone or from buying, selling, and doing drugs. That does not mean that they can not or should not prohibit such activities and penalize those who violate the regulations. I am perfectly free to build a nuclear device in my garage, I am not at liberty to do so. If someone wishes to presume that regulation is useless (as some can be) then, again, I point out that there are already prohibited activities that are trivial to violate if you want but that such regulation has never been intended to stop the activities but to punish the people who do those sorts of things. Laws against murder are not designed to stop murderers. They are designed to clearly show the morals that society expects to be upheld and provide punishment for those that violate those guidelines.
However, it will require more vigilance as one does not know where or when they will be showing up in your field of vision. Anywhere that they are popular will also be an area which has made it illegal to discharge a firearm. I suppose that one could hope the distribution center is in a rural area (seems like a potential outcome) and then move to that area to increase your odds. Grinding for rares has a whole new meaning.
I agree with you, I think, but I think there will be an argument from those not concerned with recreational RC aircraft usage.
So, if I may, please accept that this is not my implicitly my view but is how I think you may need to face this:
Where, in the scale of things, does the importance of recreational use come in? Cars, for example, are quite highly regulated on roads. The air is different in that all of it can, pretty much, be considered a viable transportation route. With an automobile you are limited, quite restricted really, with regards to recreation. The reasoning for this is to ensure that the roads are safe and usable by those performing more necessary tasks such as conducting business or traveling. RC aircraft are toys and unimportant. Those used for business should be permitted and follow regulations concerning their use space and need to be considered as less important so as to not interfere with existing traffic.
So, yeah... It might have gone different but that is where I see this heading. I would expect draconian restrictions, licensing, and very limited use space. I expect this to get support because some of the people using these toys are behaving poorly and giving the hobby a black eye. I am not a fan of regulation and I do not participate in your hobby but I see this as a sad/bad result that is quite likely at this point. I'd say that the fault is partially your own, as a group, for failing to find the malevolent actors and punch them in the nuts before you got the bad associations in the media.
As a person with multiple hobbies, some of which require use of public space, this is a sad thing and I am unhappy that this is likely to be the result. Your hobby is going to get eviscerated and, sure you can make your own devices, they will just confiscate them when they can, fine users, and place them in jail. I have no solutions for you but I'd suggest seeking ways to get good media out there, educating users, and punching idiots in the nuts.
Nobody, except you and the last guy, are blaming the pilot. Well, you two are specifically not blaming the pilot. If you read then you should be able to pick this up. They are blaming poor pilot training. That is not the pilots fault and nobody is saying that it is. Perhaps, in your zeal to seek a reason to be displeased, you failed to either read the article (or summary) or failed to comprehend it? The pilot did what they did because they were improperly trained. That is hardly the fault of the pilot and nobody is saying that it is their fault. NTSB works really damned hard to help in these situations and they work really damned hard at not assigning blame so much as they work to make things better in the future.
My only suggestion, if you wish to understand, is to stop taking regular media at face value and to actually spend some time learning about the NTSB and actually checking into their reports when they come out. They usually have an abstract which is easy enough for me to understand and I am purely a layman. The NTSB is not about blame, they are about preventing future disasters. They are one of the few US government agencies that actually still has value. They are so good that they are called in to help on things that they have absolutely no remand to do so. They help other countries with craft that have never even landed in our country or even flown over our territories. There is a reason for this - they are that good. They are like the Navy - so good that they are a leading model across the globe and highly sought after because of this.
Except this is, you know, "poor pilot training" (as well as other things listed). Perhaps you misunderstood (or I do)? Poor pilot training is, you know, not the pilot's fault but the fault of the trainer and not the trainee. It is as if I teach you how to solder components into a PCB and you follow my instructions and still do it wrong then it is not your fault but my own fault for having improperly trained you.
Your rant is nice, I will give credit where it is due, but does not have much to do with reality. Especially where the NTSB is concerned. The NTSB tries hard to not "blame" anyone. Instead they do not worry about blame at all and have a whole culture designed around this. What they look for is what went wrong and make recommendations as to how to avoid it in the future. They are actually very good at not blaming anyone but you probably get your information from news blurbs.
Your Darwin Award gleefully awaits your coming to receive it. I hope you do the right thing and hold it up in the air proudly as winner. Assuming such is possible in the after life, of course.
Too soon! No, not really. He seems to have gotten the lyrics wrong though, he should have stuck with the original. "Rocky Mountain high..." He went with the opposite as I recall.
Spoken like someone who has never made stuff for users. If you put a big read button on it and it has a label that says, "Do not push!" The first thing I am going to do, after you leave the room, is push that. Imma pushing it hard too. General Principle (and his army of ants) has told me to do so, I am not one to disobey orders lawfully given.
I think that is just drunk/dumb admins doing what they are told and that they probably do not have a UX team. (They might, if they do they suck.) Those responsible will be sacked where possible and prevented from touching UX code in the future.
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No, they are not going to take your toilet away. Yes, unions had/have a place. Stop with the hyperbole, you will get some on you and your mother will have to change your clothing again - the third time this month.
They will not take the toilets away. We are geeks. We'd just shit on the floor. Hell, we might do that anyhow.
I spent a wee bit of time on a ship and guarded a detention facility for a while. I was in the Marines at the time (obviously) and was impressed. "They run a tight ship." They are, hands down, the model for a blue water navy and safety is paramount. Look at their firefighting as well. US Navy, taking shit seriously since the start. They also have a very strict culture about adhering to rules (and have good rules in place for a reason).
But they still consume the ads and media. They still buy the products. The ad ecosystem is not going away. There was no utopia on the 'net where ads did not exist - we called them webrings back then. Everyone was always advertising something else. People were always listening. It is more prevalent and easier now than ever but this has not changed and people will always opt to consume the media and will opt to buy the advertised products. Citation? Ads still exist. They can (and do) track them and track their effectiveness. If they did not work we would not have ads.
Nah, carts and boxes are not placed intentionally - at least not typically. A store manager may do so but that is because they only understand the most basics of pedestrian traffic habits. My business modeled, and consulted on, vehicular traffic but we expanded to human traffic analytics, modeling, optimization, patterning, and consulted as well as designed throughput metrics. You may well have been in a product of our design or driven on a road that we helped optimize. (Do not blame us, they fail to listen much of the time and half-assed implementation is sometimes worse than no change at all,)
I feel a novella coming on. You have been warned. Skip or read it, it is up to you. I think you may be surprised.
Anyhow, clutter is never good. Specifically look at end caps and in-aisle displays. Those are actually supposed to be in rather specific places. They create bottlenecks at places with colorful items in large boxes or in places where things smell nice. They are usually expensive items or, more accurately, items with a good ROI.
The reason things are grouped together is because it avoids confusion. Trust me - they'd love to scatter stuff randomly around the store and would doubly love so if they were the only game in town. However, base ingredients will be as far away from each other (while still intuitive - usually) as possible while still being as far away from the stuff that you will use it for. Eggs are, for instance, nowhere near the cake mixes.
You will, almost invariably, travel to your right. To your right is, almost invariably, something that you can smell and see. We built, and staffed, a grocery store in the real world and in a laboratory environment. (The lab was able to be configured for a variety of simulations.) You *will* go right given the choice. You will smell stuff and look at large pretty things. It will make you hungry and in the mood to buy more. (Now that you know this, or thought you did before, you are not immune - you will do it.) Very little sells at the bakery and it operates almost at a loss - and in some instances at a loss. However, next on the list, is often a deli. The deli is lovely and there is a metric fuckton (professional vernacular) of profit there.
Then you have stuff in your way - usually after another attempt to assail you with colors and scents known as the produce section. This slows you down for the fish, prepackaged or custom meat cuts, and a frozen goods section just ahead. Wait - no - you can't go there... You have to figure out how to go to the aisle now. Or, best case, you walk down and walk back. There you view the "end caps" which are things on sale. Great, you saved money, now you can spend more in the next aisle.
No, you say! I decry such manipulation and I am immune! I only buy stuff on my list! Ever! Great - that is cool because you spend less time. While you spend less time you do two important things. You buy nothing on sale or no loss leaders. You use an alternative route which serves to slow people down. You are in and out quicker but have done more for us than we could have done on our own - we appreciate that and we plan accordingly. We count on your behavior. We price the markup at such that you pay more. Thank me later.
The milk, eggs, and dairy? Yeah - we all need that stuff. So we are going to put that in the back left. We are going to make it tough to go left to get to the items. If you do then you're going to be faced with traffic and end caps directly facing you. We do put the pharmacy close, usually, because we do not want sick people in the store. Frozen and chilled goods? Yeah - let's put those in the middle. Why? People often go there last. We want you to go back and see all those end caps (things on sale that are not really on sale or are a loss leader).
Printed an ad in the newspaper with coupons? Yup... It just so happens that those items are around other big colorful or smelly items - and often have been moved and that just happens to coincide with when the sale began. Thought you knew wher
That is *their* money - it belongs to the company. Once you give something away it no longer belongs to you. If I pay you for services rendered it is your money - it no longer belongs to me in a legal, abstract, or philosophical way. Once you pay a company you have given up that money. It then belongs to the company.
I suspect you are daft, ignorant, or trying to troll.
I once spent $100 to purchase targeted ads from Google. I used a special URL that was made with a handy tracking script so that I could also monitor what was done. These were on-click ads and not ads based on impressions. Three days went by and my ads were never shown. I raised my bid price. Less than an hour later the ads were gone. The site showed not one lick of increased traffic. The URL (working - I had tested it) had not been clicked on one single time.
Rather than waste time gathering evidence and presenting the problem to Google I simply just considered it a failed experiment and never tried them again. This was in 2006 to 2008 (I can only narrow it down, I can not be exact - it was more likely to have been in the latter half of 2006) and things may have changed since then.
I think that part of the problem is that we assume people hate what we hate. I abhor ads and do not actually see any. Honestly, I can not recall the last time I saw an ad except for when I opened up Internet Explorer on a Windows system a few weeks ago. Prior to that? I do not even recall the last time.
Advertising works - or they would not do it. Things are not going to change. We do not get to decide the business model used by advertisers or by site owners. What we do get to decide is what we consume. If enough people think like us, and they obviously do not, then things will change as a whole. Until that happens we have to control our consumption. We have no right to say what a company should or should not do in this matter. They will do what they lawfully can to make profits. Right now the advertisement business is profitable. We will have ads.
Well, no. Someone will have ads. I will not have ads. I am currently building a site. It too will have ads. I can easily afford to run it as a loss just because but no, I want it to actually make money. I have plans for that money (not for me, I have plenty of money) so my goal is to make it profitable. (In this case it is to have the community decide where the profits go as well as openly sharing the finances. The community will get to decide which group gets the donated profits.)
You will rue the day you touch my Pokedots pregnancy complications page! I *will* track you down and kill you for I am never wrong when it comes to Pokedot pregnancy. I authored the articles linked so I have citations for all of my work. I *am* the expert and you are *not* and have no business touching my Pokedot pregnancy complications page.
I fixed the spelling of Leadbelly on a page, all of them. Somebody came along (with amazing quickness too, I am not sure how they managed to be so hawkish) and reverted the changes. I did not bother to argue... I figured I would just let them have it. I did not lose any respect for the site because that was impossible.
They do accept it. If they did not accept it they would not be watching it.
Give me stuff for free because I am special!!!
I dare say we use the barter system all the time. I use it more frequently than most. Just because we have a bit of paper to indicate a value does not mean we are not bartering. Paper is just one item of value. You can even barter at big box stores (I understand - I have never tried it) and ask for a different price or ask them to match a sales price. You need to ask a manager but you can and, I understand, they may listen.
They need to make that available on Chrome. Well, I use Opera but I can steal Chrome extensions and install them just fine. In fact, I have an extension that lets me install Chrome extensions which is a bit recursive seeming. Anyhow, I am stuck using ScriptLite if I want to have anything that functions close to NoScript with my preferred browser. ScriptLite works but does not allow much in the way of specifics. You either whitelist a domain or you do not. So, I dumped it and installed the uMatrix extension which is fantastic, by the way, but is rather complicated and takes some time to dial in.
I would have a hard time suggesting anyone use uMatix even though it is fantastic. It, in a way, reminds me of the earlier editions of Outpost Firewall, from Agnitum, which is a fantastic piece of software but needs configuration and knowledge to really make use of it effectively. It gives great experience right out of the box but if you want to customize that experience or to unblock or block certain things then it becomes quite a bit more difficult. Outpost is much better now, and is a whole suite, but uMatrix is not for the faint of heart.
I do have Firefox installed and configured. I do use it once in a while. It is not my preferred browser though the add-on ecosystem is glorious. I once donated a bunch to the Mozilla Foundation (I guess they put my name in a newspaper ad, I forget which paper or when and I am not sure if I put my real name on it as I am wont to do) and the money was well spent. I used the browser a bit then and liked it but, today, it really has changed in many ways. I have reverted to simply using Opera almost exclusively though I have other browsers with different configurations for different use scenarios.
20 to 30' over what? The ground or the road surface? This is an important distinction to make - see the Skyway in Buffalo, NY for a good reason to make this distinction.
Do you think that matters a great deal to those who authored the proposed regulations? Amazon is going to reserve the right to sue the parties involved, or their estates, for damages. I happily pay more for things I can get locally for a variety of reasons. Antics of the large businesses is one of those reasons. Another is I see no reason to lower society as a whole because I am unwilling to pay more. Being greedy is going to be our ruination and that applies to the consumers as well as the suppliers.
I define drone as an autonomous craft with subsets of partial and total autonomy. I define the rest as remote control aircraft with subsets of hobbyist's and professional and that is defined by use. I define model rockets as, simply, model rockets but I expect there to be guided and unguided in the future if not already being done. There may be additional subsets or clarification needed for legal definitions. One important thing to keep in mind is that recreational devices always get a back seat to business or common use priorities. Airspace, above a certain height, is communal property and recreational use is going to have a lower use priority than any other use. It will end up being regulated with severe penalties for violations.
Before someone chimes in with stupidity like, "They can't stop us!" The reality is that no, they can not. Just like they can not stop someone from murdering someone or from buying, selling, and doing drugs. That does not mean that they can not or should not prohibit such activities and penalize those who violate the regulations. I am perfectly free to build a nuclear device in my garage, I am not at liberty to do so. If someone wishes to presume that regulation is useless (as some can be) then, again, I point out that there are already prohibited activities that are trivial to violate if you want but that such regulation has never been intended to stop the activities but to punish the people who do those sorts of things. Laws against murder are not designed to stop murderers. They are designed to clearly show the morals that society expects to be upheld and provide punishment for those that violate those guidelines.
However, it will require more vigilance as one does not know where or when they will be showing up in your field of vision. Anywhere that they are popular will also be an area which has made it illegal to discharge a firearm. I suppose that one could hope the distribution center is in a rural area (seems like a potential outcome) and then move to that area to increase your odds. Grinding for rares has a whole new meaning.
I agree with you, I think, but I think there will be an argument from those not concerned with recreational RC aircraft usage.
So, if I may, please accept that this is not my implicitly my view but is how I think you may need to face this:
Where, in the scale of things, does the importance of recreational use come in? Cars, for example, are quite highly regulated on roads. The air is different in that all of it can, pretty much, be considered a viable transportation route. With an automobile you are limited, quite restricted really, with regards to recreation. The reasoning for this is to ensure that the roads are safe and usable by those performing more necessary tasks such as conducting business or traveling. RC aircraft are toys and unimportant. Those used for business should be permitted and follow regulations concerning their use space and need to be considered as less important so as to not interfere with existing traffic.
So, yeah... It might have gone different but that is where I see this heading. I would expect draconian restrictions, licensing, and very limited use space. I expect this to get support because some of the people using these toys are behaving poorly and giving the hobby a black eye. I am not a fan of regulation and I do not participate in your hobby but I see this as a sad/bad result that is quite likely at this point. I'd say that the fault is partially your own, as a group, for failing to find the malevolent actors and punch them in the nuts before you got the bad associations in the media.
As a person with multiple hobbies, some of which require use of public space, this is a sad thing and I am unhappy that this is likely to be the result. Your hobby is going to get eviscerated and, sure you can make your own devices, they will just confiscate them when they can, fine users, and place them in jail. I have no solutions for you but I'd suggest seeking ways to get good media out there, educating users, and punching idiots in the nuts.
Wow... Two in a row?!?
Nobody, except you and the last guy, are blaming the pilot. Well, you two are specifically not blaming the pilot. If you read then you should be able to pick this up. They are blaming poor pilot training. That is not the pilots fault and nobody is saying that it is. Perhaps, in your zeal to seek a reason to be displeased, you failed to either read the article (or summary) or failed to comprehend it? The pilot did what they did because they were improperly trained. That is hardly the fault of the pilot and nobody is saying that it is their fault. NTSB works really damned hard to help in these situations and they work really damned hard at not assigning blame so much as they work to make things better in the future.
My only suggestion, if you wish to understand, is to stop taking regular media at face value and to actually spend some time learning about the NTSB and actually checking into their reports when they come out. They usually have an abstract which is easy enough for me to understand and I am purely a layman. The NTSB is not about blame, they are about preventing future disasters. They are one of the few US government agencies that actually still has value. They are so good that they are called in to help on things that they have absolutely no remand to do so. They help other countries with craft that have never even landed in our country or even flown over our territories. There is a reason for this - they are that good. They are like the Navy - so good that they are a leading model across the globe and highly sought after because of this.
Except this is, you know, "poor pilot training" (as well as other things listed). Perhaps you misunderstood (or I do)? Poor pilot training is, you know, not the pilot's fault but the fault of the trainer and not the trainee. It is as if I teach you how to solder components into a PCB and you follow my instructions and still do it wrong then it is not your fault but my own fault for having improperly trained you.
Your rant is nice, I will give credit where it is due, but does not have much to do with reality. Especially where the NTSB is concerned. The NTSB tries hard to not "blame" anyone. Instead they do not worry about blame at all and have a whole culture designed around this. What they look for is what went wrong and make recommendations as to how to avoid it in the future. They are actually very good at not blaming anyone but you probably get your information from news blurbs.
Imma pushin' that button too.
Your Darwin Award gleefully awaits your coming to receive it. I hope you do the right thing and hold it up in the air proudly as winner. Assuming such is possible in the after life, of course.
Too soon! No, not really. He seems to have gotten the lyrics wrong though, he should have stuck with the original. "Rocky Mountain high..." He went with the opposite as I recall.
Spoken like someone who has never made stuff for users. If you put a big read button on it and it has a label that says, "Do not push!" The first thing I am going to do, after you leave the room, is push that. Imma pushing it hard too. General Principle (and his army of ants) has told me to do so, I am not one to disobey orders lawfully given.
I think that is just drunk/dumb admins doing what they are told and that they probably do not have a UX team. (They might, if they do they suck.) Those responsible will be sacked where possible and prevented from touching UX code in the future.
I will look there too, thanks. It looks kind of interesting actually. I am not sure that I like the syntax but, well, I can adjust I suppose.