I don't really know how to break this to you, but...

I guess the Illuminati really don't want us to know what meteors are made of.

>People tend to be quite attached to their arms.

Well, at least until the accident...

In reality though, most rides these days seem to go out of their way to make sure that there's nothing actually dangerous within reach of anyone in the cars. Even if you slip out of your seat and stand up, etc. Sure, you'd have to be a grade-A dumbass to do such a thing, but even grade-A dumbasses getting themselves dismembered on your ride tends to make or bad publicity.

Dibs!

Probably also a generation or two of "we're here to help" medical programs not being hideously abused, as was done in various population-control endeavours and other programs. Involuntary sterilization under the guise of vaccinations? Really? That's the sort of horror story that can take generations to fade, and it seems like every time we start building back some trust among the population, someone decides to abuse it yet again.

Maybe the Russians should launch a "Not a single cosmonaut lost since 1971!" marketing campaign.

Just a few months ago, Musk cultists here on Slashdot were virtually cheering when an Orbital Sciences launch failed. Everyone was piling on them for using Russian engines and singing the praises of the infallible SpaceX. I guess payback's a bitch.

It still landed, just in more pieces than expected.

See, *everyone* fails sometimes, even your hero Elon Musk.

Software failures will scale up similarly. If you propose for example that, on any single PC, a Linux crash is 10x more likely than a hardware failure, then they're be dealing with dozens of crashes per day - and that would have to be some pretty stable software. What's your crash to hardware-failure ratio?

Perhaps we should ask why the average employment length is so short? I really doubt it's because the employee's skills are no longer needed, and it's probably not because the employee thinks a different work environment will be substantially more pleasant.

I suspect the usual culprit is an industry culture that doesn't give regular raises to employees to ensure that they remain appropriately compensated. If the only way I can get paid what I'm worth is to get a job at a different company, then what do realistically expect me to do?

2) News flash, most industries have competition "across the street", yet they still manage to train their employees. The trick is to ALSO pay them a decent wage. If it's worth it for the competition to hire them out from under you, then you're under-paying them. Training isn't a form of compensation, it's a capital investment that also incurs maintenance expenses.

The job market is a big place, and there's probably only a handful of jobs that demand all the skills you require. Why should I spend MY precious time training for your job, when that job will filled long before my training is complete?

How about reasonable maximum data retention laws that apply to *everyone*, government, industry, and private individuals alike?

Probably with a "loophole" that data may be retained about individuals who explicitly consent to it, but opt-in cannot be mandatory for public institutions, nor can refusal to opt in be grounds for denial of services or introduction of bureaucratic runaround. That should let gMail continue to store your old emails.

The plane crashed ... but his heart went on.