Not according to FAA Regulations.
According to the FAA a pilot cannot receive any compensation for flying without a Commercial license. They are very strict on their definition of compensation, including the accumulation of flight hours as compensation. They do allow cost sharing, up to even shares, as long as the pilot was going to make the flight anyway.

So, according to the FAA, his "intent" to earn anything is evidence of commercial flight, there is no requirement that he expect to make a profit. It wouldn't surprise me if the FAA declared that the kudos of internet commentators was enough compensation to make it a commercial flight.
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JimFive

Not as far as FAA regulations are concerned. Without a Commercial license you cannot receive any compensation for flying with, possibly, two exceptions.

1. A passenger can pay up to 50% of the flight costs as long as the pilot was flying there anyway. (That is, the pilot cannot fly his friend somewhere and hang around the airport to bring his friend back, the pilot has to have his own reason for making the trip. The FAA has ruled that even if you aren't paid at all getting "flying time" can be considered compensation)

2. Flight costs can be paid for by an organization as part of a benefit fund raising event.
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JimFive

I think you are misinterpreting the summary. They aren't saying that increasing greenhouse emissions cause economic growth. They are saying that usually economic growth leads to more buying which leads to more production which leads to more energy use which leads to increased emissions. BUT WAIT...That didn't happen this time. So, in effect, you are agreeing with the summary.
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JimFive

Another possibility is that the measured growth is a result of selling inventory and new production hasn't actually ramped up as much as the number indicates.
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JimFive

Well, it's good that economic growth is measured by production per GDP not stock value, isn't it?
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JimFive

I'm honestly shocked that it is anything close to that low. If I had been asked to guess a number I would have thought closer to 75%.
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JimFive

Um, pretty much all of them. Life insurance policies only exclude suicide for the first year or so, then they pay out as normal.
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JimFive

I don't know, but I suspect that long term studies use birth date as the participants age changes during the study.
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JimFive

That's not what the study shows, though. What the study shows is that a broad measure of fitness is more significant than any single narrow measure of fitness. This isn't surprising because the broad measure basically includes the narrow measures. That is, the results of the stress test are affected by obesity, smoking status, heart condition, etc.
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JimFive

The issue with the SSN is that with the number, a name, and a birth date you can get a credit card mailed to you. This happens because the credit card issuers make the mistake that if you know those 3 things then you must be that person (and, they have successfully pushed the pain onto the real person by coining the phrase identity theft, instead of what it really is, fraud).

In your country in Europe, what do you need to do to get a credit card?
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JimFive

No one is saying that they can't collect evidence at the crime scene. What they are saying is the police can't invite a witness to the station, give him a cup of coffee, and then compare the prints on the coffee cup to the prints at the crime scene. If they want to collect the prints they have to get a warrant. Likewise, if they want a DNA sample they can't just follow someone around until they leave some behind, they have to get a court order.
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JimFive

Because Electrons also display wave-particle duality.

i agree with the stories. Not just good and funny stories, though. Tell her every story you can think of about yourself and your life. She's going to be missing a connection with you. Tell her memories about what you did as a kid with your parents, your friends. Tell her about things that you regret and things that you're proud of.

My recollection is that the card issuers were trying to use withholding chip and pin as leverage to move the liability for fraudulent transactions to the customer. However with the high profile exploits at Target (et al?) they agreed to switch to chip and signature with the liability staying between the merchant, the bank, and the card issuer.
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JimFive

Because when you say SCM I'm supposed to know you're not talking about Security Configuration Management, Supply Chain Management or Standard Compliance Management, or Signal Conditioning Modulation, etc.
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JimFive