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Comment Re:I believe all police activity should be filmed (Score 1) 161

Factcheck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ian_Tomlinson

Manslaughter, at best. If you want to "murder someone for fun" I would suggest striking them in the leg with a baton and then pushing them to the ground is a great way to do that.

PC Simon Harwood was tried for manslaughter. And not found guilty.

And then he was sacked for gross misconduct. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19620627

Doesn't sound like the police are above the law. At least not in this instance.

Comment Re:Reality of this... (Score 1) 233

A "roadable helicopter" makes as much sense as a product as marketing bicycles to fish.

And a "flying car" that can only land at heliports might be great as an easy to fly helicopter, but it's utterly useless as a flying car. As a hint: If you can afford a helicopter and its running costs, I'm sure that the limo from the airport is small change for you.

BTW, in the UK ( so a heli pilot friend tells me ), in general you can land your helicopter anywhere where the landowner has given you permission.

Comment Re:A solution to a problem that doesn't exist (Score 4, Insightful) 233

Traffic jams are real, but putting the cars in the air isn't going to fix that problem. The key problem with driving cars into cities is that they take too much space per passenger (at rush hour, on average, 1.02). Granted, putting traffic corridors in the air gives you a bit more space, but you also need to leave a lot more safety margin.

Flying in a straight line might save fuel compared to flying detours, but that doesn't mean it saves fuel compared to driving. These flying cars don't stay in the air all by themselves, you know? And, seeing as we're all bitching about the price of gas to drive... ask your friendly helicopter pilot how many gallons his chopper burns per hour.

There are solutions to traffic jams. Telecommuting, walking, cycling, public transport.

Oh yeah, and if your hearing's still too good: Suggest to Air Traffic Control that they replace the couple of hundred planes / day over, say, LAX, with a couple of hundred thousand planes^H^H^H^H^H^H"Flying Cars" per day.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a flying car. But frankly I'd rather save up for a one off trip to space instead. At least I won't have to kid myself that that's solving any problems.

Comment FX? (Score 1) 692

The basic reason: it has no fixed value. It trades like a stock or commodity. In recent days it has been crashing after a spectacular rise in terms of dollars.

Has the man never heard of FX markets? Currencies trade exactly like stocks or commodities. They don't have a fixed value either.

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