Hmm... the vast majority of the pro-powdered-alcohol comments in the article come from the inventor himself -- who stands to make a lot of money if this is legal everywhere. And the sole, somewhat-pro, comment by an M.D. was pretty lukewarm about the stuff. IMHO, it's a solution looking for a problem. Celebrations in the woods? Pretty lame argument in favor.

If the difference in list price of the expensive to the super-expensive Tesla is only $10,000; I would expect that at least 30% of that price would be extra profit for Tesla. Kind of like the gold Apple Watch. So their cost is probably less than $250/kWh.

The problem with license plate readers is that there are only so many cameras out there. How can they know where everybody was all the time?

The answer is the Vehicles Miles Traveled tax. Many states and the federal gov't have proposed over and over that all cars have GPS trackers in them that tax them on how many miles they drive. They say "the problem is cars are more efficient, so we don't make as much money." (Can't you just raise the rate then? wtf?) or that this is "more fair", everybody is charged the same amount for how far they drive; as opposed to how much gas they use and how much carbon they emit.

But, come on, the real reason is almost certainly to track where everybody went, all the time. If there is anything the Snowden revelations have demonstrated, it's that if there is any possible way to capture data on people, the government is going to do it. Anything you can imagine, and many things that you could never have imagined, are being done. If you want to believe that a GPS tracker that hooks up to a gas pump only sends one bit of information, well, I suppose you deserve what you get.

And I don't answer my phone in the toilet.

Leave a fucking message — I'll get back to you when my download completes.

PS: That's not my chair that's squeaking.

I've found that you generally need massive amounts of power to paralyze a turkey.

At least a few hundred Watts.

More if you want the center at an edible 160F by dinnertime.

Yanno, it's been years since I've coded (beyond looking thru code to tweak a definition here or there anyway). Decades, even.

But I was taught on the job that range checking of inputs and boundary conditions was essential to reliable code.

Obligatory XKCD reference.

I agree with that. I suspect that if there had been another pilot in the cockpit at all times, Lubitz would have reconsidered his decision rather than engage in a brawl.

Punching a fatal command into a FMS s a different kind of act entirely than physically incapacitating another human, especially a colleague.

It's entirely possible that his decision was spur of the moment (2nd degree) rather than something he had been planning, or else he had been waiting for an opportunity as you describe. But without a letter or other statement intent from Lubitz, all we can do is speculate.

Regular doses of Imodium combined with a "low residue diet" will take care of that. You won't have to go for days.

But when you do go, you're in for a heck of a ride!

Hell, ask any long-haul trucker: a gallon milk jug does the trick.

Wear a "Texas Catheter" if you're modest.

Unfortunately, if one of the pilots wants to take the aircraft somewhere (be it into the side of a mountain, or to Cuba, or wherever) there's little the engineers, airlines or ATC can do about it. Any security measure will have a gap.

And also, the pilots must have control of the aircraft. It's far more likely that an exception to protocol or security will be required to save lives than to endanger them.

Well just for you, then, and only for you, the answer is she should remove her clothes and give him a world class beej while distracting him from the switch she's flipping to unlock the door. And then the pilot comes in and makes it a three-way. Because in your world all flight attendants are hot, slutty females.

Ignorant ass.

Sometimes a cigar[-shaped tube full of people hurtling into a mountainside at 400kts] is just a cigar.

Especially the Western Imperialist Infidel faction.