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Comment No, they don't ! (Score 2) 233

The flight deck crew have keys to open the door

After the 9/11 incident in NYC the cockpit of most commercial aircrafts have had their doors upgraded.

No one but the people inside the cockpit can open the door, and the door is thick enough to withstand normal bang and kick and whatnot.

Cabin crews won't have the keys, or else terrorists (they are on board) could have gotten the keys from the crews and open the security door to the cockpit.

Comment Even Houdini can't pull this off ! (Score 2, Interesting) 233

There are way too many fishy things that happened to flight MH370

1. There was an "airspace territory gap" of 3 to 4 minutes in between the airspace of Malaysia and that of Vietnam, over South China Sea.

The last communication from that plane was from the co-pilot, not the pilot. And his message was "Goodbye Malaysia, Goodbye MH370" and that message was uttered just before the transponder and all comm channels were shut.

Once the transponder and all the comm channels were severed the aircraft remained silent for another 7 to 8 hours

2. After the transponder been switched off and all the comm channels cut, the plane took a turn to the West, purposely flying just south of the border of Southern Thailand the Northern Malaysia.

And during that trip from the South China Sea to the northern tip of the Malaccan Strait the aircraft was flown up to 45,000 feet, way over the limit of the safety limit for Boeing 777, and the aircraft flew at that altitude for a full 23 minutes.

At that height, passengers in the fuselage will experience a lack of oxygen.

Even if the emergency oxygen respiration devices dropped down and the passengers put them on, that oxygen supply would only last for 10 minutes - Which meant, all people inside the fuselage would have extreme difficulties getting oxygen for 13 long minutes

Many of them would die. Those didn't would have passed out.

3. When the plane reached the northern tip of the Malaccan Strait it dropped down to 25,000 feet, and then turned north to the Andaman Sea.

At that place, the plane "hug" the Northern Sumatran coastline and flew from the North East side of the Sumatran Island to the North West.

And from that juncture, the plane could have go Northward, or South.

4. Now they are saying the plane went South, based on the "Ping" signals that they received.

Since that "Ping" signal is not a complicated signal, it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to "clone" that signal - and if there was someone behind the hijacking of that plane, they could have done so.

5. Why ? Well ... to lead the investigators into a false trail, a wild goose chase.

There was a comment embedded in the following link allude to such a plot - http://www.themalaysianinsider...

Let me quote part of that comment:

... the possibilities that the aircraft had safely landed in an undisclosed location, and the people (individual or teams of people) who were responsible for the hijacking of that plane either ripped that "ping device" out and then carried that "ping device" (which was still "pinging") on another aircraft and then flown it to the middle of nowhere in the southern Indian Ocean, and then, either drop that "ping device" down into the ocean, or simply shut that "ping device" down, so i couldn't ping no more.

One more possibility is that those people might have "cloned" the "ping signals" using another device that broadcast that "ping signal", and then, when that Boeing 777 had landed safely on that undisclosed location, they immediately flew that "clone ping device" and, did what I have outlined above.

They did that to divert attention, and to create a false lead to the world which will come looking for that plane.

What happened to this Boeing 777 has so many gaping holes yet to be answered - like

* Why it flew for 7 to 8 hours without anyone actively looking for it ?

* Why they purposely switched off the transponder and the comm channels but left that "ping device" kept on broadcasting the "ping signals" ? Is it part of the plan to mislead the investigator ?

* Where is that plane right now ? Where could it possibly had landed ? Thailand ? Laos ? The Philippines ? Malaysia ? Indonesia ? Myanmar ? Bangladesh ? Cambodia ? Vietnam ? ... and most importantly ...

* What happened to those 239 people on board ? Have they all been killed ? If so, how ? If not, where and who are keeping them locked up ? For what purpose ?

Comment How do you gauge censorship ? (Score -1, Flamebait) 56

The "tube map" attempts to mark countries where "censorship" happens, but I feel that the effort is still a little bit wanting.

For example, how does one account for the "grassroot censorship" ?

What I mean by "grassroot censorship" is akin to what happened to the ex-honcho of Mozilla. Just because his personal donation to a political fund he had been hounded by thousands of fanatics who organized a netwide witch hunt, to the tune of asking people to remove Mozilla browsers from their devices.

How do you account for that kind of censorship ??

Comment Just when the American trees are under attack ... (Score 1, Insightful) 112

Trees in America and Europe are dying in large number due to infestation from foreign bugs / diseases / viruses

Examples of the diseases / bugs / viruses are Chestnut Bright, Emerald Ash Borer, Asian long-horned beetle, Spruce Needle Cast Disease, and so on.

And those boffins are tinkering with even more American trees so that they become self-destructive more easily??

Comment Do you know what CAPITALISM is ? (Score 4, Informative) 100

Communist economies are fake economies.

And just as often, Capitalist economies are as well.

Because Asset Backed Paper Commodities were basically a giant Ponzi scheme where garbage debt was laundered and passed off to other suckers by the very banks who gave out credit like it was candy.

Your example does NOT fit the "Capitalism" moniker.

True Capiltalism abhors ponzi schemes.

True Capitalism does not create money out of thin air.

True Capitalism does not engage in Quantitative Easing.

What America practices is very far from True Capitalism.

Comment From one who came from a communist country ... (Score 2) 1746

Here in the real world, communism just means means that the state controls your life

You guys have no idea what the communist beast can become unless you were born into one.

Communism in essence means that the state has the ultimate right to decide who to live, who to die, without having to provide any explanation, period.

Comment ... doesn't mean they can't join a start-up (Score 1) 257

Not everyone is fit to handle a start-up...

True, but that does not mean they can't play the role the second-fiddle, or the third.

Not everyone can handle pressure - for some, pressure is a mean to become even better while for others they snapped.

But still - there are many roles in any start-ups.

Now that I do not handle start-ups anymore, I invest in some, and the first criterium for me is to gauge whether the lead person (dude or dudette) can handle sudden, and tremendous pressure.

If the person can't deal with it, I'll suggest to the team (as the one who gonna provide them with seed money) to get someone who can keep the vision going without snapped out of shape.

Comment Good times are more important (Score 1) 257

I had had many start-ups - some failed but others I cashed out for handsome profits.

When I ran a start-up, I remember the pressure being crazy

From my own experience, everything comes with pressure, but at the same time also provide exhilarating pleasure, and I prefer to keep the good parts in my mind.

I remember the room filled with stimulating enthusiasm, with people contributing everything they got towards the common goal, selflessly sharing all the know, and the lessons learned.

Even for the projects that I had cashed out from, I keep in touch with all the past comrades, and at times when we have a gathering or two, we get to reminisce about we had had to go through and all the other bullshits over a pint, or two.

Comment A talent with an entire *CLAN* tagging on ... (Score 2) 325

... is no talent at all.

We *MUST* look at this matter at the level of *WHAT AMERICA NEEDS* and not what kind of talents that we might lose if we do not allow them to import the entire clan with him/her...

Even a primary school child can tell you that if you have to sacrifice so much for ONE thing that ONE thing must be more valuable than all the sacrifice you have put forth.

By importing an entire of his clan into America - that "talent" better be 100 times more smarter than Einstein, and if he/she is not, then, we can do with that that individual.

That is all to it.

Comment How can this be "RACIST" ? (Score 1) 325

I see how this is insightful, but rather racist

I just do not understand you guys anymore.

Why are you guys looking at things at the *RACE* level instead of the level of what the American society REALLY NEEDS ?

As I have told you guys I am a Chinese, I used the experiences of the Chinese community in America as an example.

Is that "racist" to you ?

Furthermore, when I talk about the danger American society will face in the future because of the infiltration of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of those who subscribe to the "Infidel must convert or die" ideology - I am *NOT* talking about any *ONE RACE*.

Geeesh, guys/gals ! Please gimme a very BIG fucking break !!

Comment We are the geeks, we are not tools for non-geeks (Score 5, Interesting) 465

We geeks are the doers.

We make things.

We create new stuffs.

We come up with new and exciting ideas.

But we are *NOT* tools for anyone.

That "pepsi consultant" can go eat shit and die - if he or she thinks he/she can push geeks to do whatever he/she likes.

Comment Apple without Steve Jobs (Score 1) 180

Before the death of Mr. Steve Jobs, Apple Inc had, for some time, running without Mr. Jobs.

And their product ? Apple Newton.

Remember the "newtons" ?

What I am looking forward to - the new offerings from Apple Inc. sans Steve Jobs - are Apple Newtons, version 2.0

And I am not being sarcastic nor joking.

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