Whoever moderated this as troll needs to read the moderation guidelines again. You don't have to agree with the content, but it is definitely not trolling.

Been there, too. I've flown on instruments only, and when you're IFR then yes, the statement made can be true in some cases. However, it is way to blunt to just say "a pilot can't look out the window to see what's wrong". Are your instrument readings of your number one engine weird? Go send the co-co into the cabin to have a look!

I grossly disagree. I fly planes. In the aviation food-chain, I'm on the bottom with my private pilot license, allowing me to fly single engine lawmower-like airplanes.

I look out of the window for most of my flying. The only things I care about are engine, airspeed and altititude. I could not care less about the attitude indicator, vsi, compass or any other instruments. If all my instruments die, I can hear by the sound of my engine with its approximate rpm is. I know that with an RPM of 2300, I'll be cruising at 100mph. Lower it to 2100 and I'll descent at approx 500ft/min. I can look out the window and see the earth closing, meaning I'm about to land. If needed, I can land an aircraft without any instruments at all (all tho granted, I would declare an emergency).

Why can I do that? Because I'm not trained to look at a computer screen in the cockpit. And don't give me crap about how jetliners are different. They are not. They fly based on rudder, aileron and elevators.

My point is that, contrary to popular belief, US laws do not apply everywhere in the world. So whatever the law defines as rape in your flyover state, can have a whole different meaning in another country.

Let me give another example: most states consider consensual intercourse between an adult and a sixteen year old "statutory rape". In many countries around the world, it is legal or just a "lower" criminal offense which usually does not carry a long prison sentence.

Morals differ everywhere and are codified as such in law. Look at the differences in age of consent. One does not have to agree with this, but before you travel it is wise to understand. Sex on the beach in Dubai has landed people in prison as well.

I'm not an Assange supporter, but:

The ladies both consented to engage in adult activities. They decided afterwards that Assange allegedly did not agree to their terms and conditions, so they filed charges. It's kind of like a dad borrowing his car to his son saying "you can't go faster than 65mph" and then filing theft charges if he finds out that the kid drove 80mph on the freeway. The Swedish systems allows for this, so while it may not be corrupt, its laws are not the same as in the U.S.

We've discussed the use with our pediatrician, and she was fairly neutral about it. They do indeed produce false alarms now and then and I have found myself from deep asleep to wide awake in my daughter's room a couple of times, after my beloved misses forgot to turn the damn thing off when nursing.

That said, the alarm did also go off on a few occassions where my daughter was somewhat unresponsive and blue/grey-ish. Did it save my daughter from certain death? Most likely not. Did it alert us to an unhealthy state of our little princess? Most definitely yes. We know for a fact that she was not breathing for at least 20 seconds, and that she was deep, deep asleep.

I'm not saying that everyone should go out and buy it. But we've turned our device off only a few weeks ago when my daughter turned 2 and I we've slept a lot better knowing that there was some kind of monitoring going on.

Newborns are the most fragile thing on earth, and every parent knows it. If a device helps showing a pattern, good!

I have a two-year old daughter. From the first night, we monitored her breathing using one of those boards you put under the mattress. While this will never prevent a baby from dying, it will alert a parent when a baby has stopped breathing, so CPR can be applied and 911 called. It might just save the life of a baby. We have had a few actual alarms*, which were later attributed by the pediatrician to the low timeout on the device: it screams after 20 seconds without movement. Apparently, my little girl would sometime just stop breathing for a short while if she was in a very deep sleep. She hated the thing, and as soon as she was physically able, she would just shut the thing down on her own (quite funny to see on the cam, those little fingers slowing finding the button).

When my daughter was 6 months old, friends became parent of a baby girl. During the first night in the hospital, that girl actually stopped breathing, turned blue and was subsequently resuscitated. After a week in NICU she was released. Needless to say, our friends immediately purchased the same device that I used.

One can argue that these devices have little use other than helping parents sleep, knowing they'd be alarmed if something happens. Even if that's the case, trust me, it is money well spent. As a new parent, there are a ton of things that you'll be concerned about and this just helps easy your mind.


* The amount of alarms we've had because my wife took her out of the crib for nursing and forgot to turn the damn thing off.. Well... That's a bit higher.

Not to mention JUNOS, the operating system running on Juniper Networks routers. The JUNOS kernel is based on FreeBSD.

Anyone using Facebook, Twitter, AT&T, Verizon (I can go on for about an hour) will have their packets routed through a box runing JUNOS.

Come on Kevin, I'm sure you can donate a bit...

The US produces more oil than Iran

Can easily be manufactured in the US. It will just be a bit more expensive

Discovery channel has at least 5 different series of "Gold Rush Alaska" etc...

You're kidding, right?

http://www.mining.com/web/new-wyoming-lithium-deposit-could-meet-all-u-s-demand/

Actually, it would.

If everyone in the US would stop buying foreign goods or sending money oversees, the US can sustain itself. There is more than enough farmland, more than enough industrial capacity to produce everything needed and the world's most innovative area (silicon valley) is in the US.

So while I'm not at all one of those "the US is the best" folks, it is certainly true that the US will survive should the world decide to hate it.

I'm waiting for a Tesla owner to name their car Christine :)

These guys disagree... A plane full of skydivers got hit by another plane and caught fire. No fatalities.

Ever heard of Exede? Viasat has its own satellite in orbit and offers consumer internet. Pricing starts at $50 for 12 down, 3 up. Yes, latency may ruin your Skype session, but you know that will happen with any satellite link.

Right... because compared to China, Russia, the UK, France, Mexico, Syria, etc, the USA clearly stands out as a bastion of evil.

Let's not forget that the Dutch are masters in spying: over 25000 wiretaps on land-lines, and over 150.000 (yes, 150k) taps on internet traffic. Keep in mind that this little state, about twice the size of the SF Bay Area, only has about 15 million citizens. That's nearly 1 in 10 being monitored. (source)

And then a Dutch MEP wants to criticize the US? ROFL.