Given how automated flying is these days, I don't think it's necessary for the pilot to see at all.
P.S. I say that only half in jest. Aren't you supposed to be able to land blind under IFR?
The crash of Asiana flight 214, where the pilots got so flummoxed that they couldn't safely land on a clear and sunny day when the runway's ILS was offline for upgrades, suggests that this line of thinking may have gone too far.
Do you guys hear that? That is the sound of Canadians not flipping out and loosing their shit and calling for the end of times due to reduced service.
It's quite a pleasant sound up here in Canada, unlike the noise Americans made a short while back.
Yeah, not to mention other earth-shattering changes like getting rid of the penny, changing from paper to plastic bills, going mostly chip-and-pin for credit cards... all in the last 5 years.
Sure there've been hiccups along the way, but it's unbelievable how resistant Americans are to changes in "the way things are" when it's suggested by government, as if it's some socialist/communist plot or something. There was even bitching about adding colour (barely) to paper currency.
I see a whole lot of mail returned to sender for being abandoned, or being discarded for being abandoned, in those communal mailboxes. I also see a lot of people only visiting their mailboxes weekly, like how they take out their trash cans for the truck to pick up, so mailboxes will be even bigger targets for thieves as there'll be more payoff for the effort than before.
The once-weekly visits will be a very small minority. I lived with communal boxes for years (since the community was built in the late 80s). Almost every household visits daily, it's never more than half a block away. Oftentimes people coming from work stop their cars nearby, get the mail, then drive the rest of the short distance home. It really isn't that big a deal.
I don't know how long it takes to be considered abandoned, but I've left stuff in mine for a week while I was away, it was all there when I got back (I had the same junkmail on top that a neighbour who checks daily had).
* 'There's not that much known about Canadian intelligence.'*
As A Canadian, I kinda resent that
It kind of works with the joke that every time a Canadian immigrates to the US, they increase the average IQ of both countries
I notice you didn't include seat belts in that list. Cars lacking those, I'd definitely put in the category of "too dangerous."
Mind you, I know what you're getting at--a lot of modern conveniences are making people overconfident about their driving ability, so they're doing even riskier things thinking the safety features will protect them.
Serious question: what exactly are the consequences of expressing gun control sentiment on a bumper sticker "unsafely"? Does it stop at harassment, bullying, slashing your tires and keying the car? Or will some go so far as to take actual shots at your car?
At least they are banned from Central Park - that place would become uninhabitable very quickly if the dogs were allowed in.
If dogs are banned in Central Park, they're doing a poor job of enforcement. I visited in July and at least two families had dogs with them. One of the dogs was even stalking a pigeon on a grassed area.
There fore I think that "alot" actually is a good word.
No, it's not. Unlike "breakfast" and "therefore", what you think is a good word is too close in spelling to an existing word with a completely different meaning, "allot".
To be fair, it *is* slower when paying individually at restaurants, since the server can't take all the bills and cards and run it through a magstripe terminal, then bring them all back for signing. Now, a single wireless POS machine (very rarely two) has to make its way to every person at the table.
Contactless or tap payments, while convenient, ironically seems to contradict the entire point of having chip & PIN by skipping both authentication methods. Though as long as tap payments are limited to a per-transaction amount ($25? $50?), thieves will get get less POS mileage out of stolen cards.
OK, it's more of an inconvenience than a necessity. It's ridiculous that the US has barely started to use the system though -- it's almost 10 years old.
The US hasn't switched to metric system or dollar coins yet. Partly due to cost, partly due to "things works fine the way they are," and I suspect partly because they must be "leaders" in everything and can't be seen as "following the rest of the world."
I predict that the US still won't have fully (or at least 99%) converted to chip&pin credit card terminals (even with magstripe fallback) by 2020.
That is why it is getting increasingly tough to find a phone with a replaceable battery.
Or, you could buy something other than an iPhone.
Or a Nexus 4. Or a Nexus 5. Or an HTC One / One X+. Or a Sony Xperia Z1. Or an LG G2. Or a Nokia Lumia 1020.
The AC is correct. A surprising number of high-end smartphones, including Google's own flagship units, have followed Apple by using non-replaceable batteries.
Canada's health care system is in some trouble and costs are rising due to various issues, but it is not in danger of "collapsing" into the mess that the US had, or is currently working towards. The wealthy often do go to the US and elsewhere for more timely treatment of critical illness, but if anything that relieves pressure on the domestic health care providers (and they still have to pay taxes and subsidies into the healthcare system regardless).
And don't use our wealthy going elsewhere for treatment as proof that our system is flawed and incapable of supporting itself, because many US citizens have been dependent on the cheaper prescription drug orders to the US being filled by Canadian pharmacies, legal or otherwise.
Lack of housing bubble: As much as our current Conservative government loves to trot out our more regulated banking system as the beacon of hope to the world, they actually were trying to follow the US in deregulating banks. The only thing that stopped them was that they had a minority government at the time, so the opposition parties prevented that from happening, saving us from the 2008 housing bubble burst.
The Canadians remind me of Wilson, the next door neighbor you never saw and only heard him talk behind the fence.
If memory serves, Wilson was far more intelligent and savvy to the ways of the world, and solved most of his neighbour's problems.
I'm not sure that was the metaphor you were going for
I'd dispute that. Though they're no doubt capable of inflicting massive damage, the Chinese military does not have the overconfidence borne of defeating a major power in war, like the Japanese had against Russia.
I don't agree. For all that I've no use for people who don't realize that, unlike many recent ventures, the US fought WWII for very good reasons, and probably saved millions of lives by doing so
Since you seem a bit confused about the reason the United States of America joined the war effort let me educate you. The USA practised an isolationist policy and refused to join World War II to defeat Germany and its allies until Japan carried out an attack on Pearl Harbor. The entire attack would not have happened except for a delay by some US political figure whose name I forget at the moment to see the Japanese Ambassador. When the Japanese Ambassador and his aid heard of the attack from the person they were meeting they were gravely disappointed. There is a fact-based movie about the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor; not the crap movie made of recent vintage.
(Bold emphasis mine.)
Not the poster you're responding to, but if this fact-based movie you speak of is Tora! Tora! Tora!, you're forgetting key details.
In that movie it's made quite clear that the entire attack would happen whether or not the Japanese ambassador saw the US official. That delay was also secondary to another delay caused by a Japanese security directive that meant the regular typist(s) couldn't type up the last of the 14-part message, and a much slower hunt-and-peck non-typist with enough security clearance had to be used instead.
Whether that part of the movie is accurate is also largely irrelevant, since in reality the 14-part message was neither a declaration of war nor severed diplomatic relations (though combined with intercepted Japanese instruction to their embassy to destroy their decoding gear, it was taken as a strong indicator that either would've happened shortly afterward). Documents revealed in 1999 also strongly suggest the Japanese military convinced the government not to do so before their surprise attack happened.
One small step for man, one giant stumble for mankind.
