Comment Re:180,000 more pax a day? (Score 1) 134
I'm guessing x is around 200. So it's 900 flights a day. Another way to look at it is 180k passengers x $300avg/ticket = $54M lost per day.
Comment Re:180,000 more pax a day? (Score 1) 134
Perhaps the airlines simply can't schedule the 180k/x flights where x is the average people per plane. It's a lot of lost revenue, not to mention the wasted tax dollars, civil liberties etc. It's shame that it takes lost revenue to get their attention. Wasted tax dollars and shattered liberties didn't move the needle.
Comment Re:There's nothing Darwin about it. (Score 1) 992
I live a few blocks from this 85mph road. I can tell you all that I have yet to see or hear of one fatal accident on this highway. However, I've seen about 5-10 fatal crashes at the intersection for this hwy near my house. I have driven in Germany and Italy where there are no speed limits. Hwy driving is not the problem. When you leave the hwy, this is where your life is in serious danger. Drive safely my friends.
Comment Re:Shackles (Score 1) 549
I haven't done it for blue-ray, but for DVD, there are readily available programs where you can strip out all of the BS and just rip the movie only. Does anyone know if these tools exist for Blue-ray? I haven't got around to looking yet. Not that you should have to do this just to watch a damn movie, but I'm curious if the option exists.
Comment Re:A right way and a wrong way (Score 1) 184
BINGO!!! Mod this one up pls! Whatever happened to separation of church and state?
Comment Re:Not so sure (Score 1) 242
Absolutely, please mod the parent up! Before we would get 5-10% of the population ready to die in revolutionary gun battles, it would be much easier and more likely to get a majority of people ready to take some serious actions at the voting booth and clean house of these crooks from top to bottom. Vote in some true representatives of the people.
People don't care because they feel powerless. If they only would realize the power of big groups acting together.
Comment Stupid design (Score 1) 1226
Neil deGrasse Tyson sums up the debate nicely. He points out how with all the life and beauty of the world it seems magical, but when you step back a bit, you can see how completely fucked up the design really is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEl9kVl6KPc
Comment The Supremely Stupid Court (Score 5, Insightful) 420
They have failed us more so than the other branches of government. They should protect us from unreasonable laws, judgements and crimes. But they are now a rubber stamp for abuse. Sure, they throw us a bone every now an then (cops can't throw a GPS on your car anytime the feel like it), but for the most part, they confirm the abuse of the constitution and the ongoing pillaging of this country by the special interests with deep pockets.
Submission + - Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Surveillance (nytimes.com)
TheGift73 writes: "WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to address one of the biggest controversies surrounding the response to the Sept. 11 attacks – the government’s aggressive use of electronic surveillance. The justices will decide whether a challenge to a 2008 federal law that broadened the government’s power to monitor international communications may proceed.
The challenge was brought by lawyers, journalists and human rights groups who say the law allows the government to intercept their international telephone calls and e-mails. Some of the plaintiffs say they now meet clients or sources only in person.
The government contends that the plaintiffs have not suffered an injury direct enough to give them standing to sue. Last year, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Unites States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, ruled for the plaintiffs on that threshold question.
Judge Gerard E. Lynch, writing for the court, said the plaintiffs had shown that they had a reasonable fear that their sensitive communications would be monitored and had taken “costly measures to avoid being monitored.” That was enough, he wrote, to establish standing to challenge the law as a violation of the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. The panel did not rule on the constitutionality of the law.
The full Second Circuit declined to rehear the ruling by a 6-to-6 vote."
The challenge was brought by lawyers, journalists and human rights groups who say the law allows the government to intercept their international telephone calls and e-mails. Some of the plaintiffs say they now meet clients or sources only in person.
The government contends that the plaintiffs have not suffered an injury direct enough to give them standing to sue. Last year, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Unites States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, ruled for the plaintiffs on that threshold question.
Judge Gerard E. Lynch, writing for the court, said the plaintiffs had shown that they had a reasonable fear that their sensitive communications would be monitored and had taken “costly measures to avoid being monitored.” That was enough, he wrote, to establish standing to challenge the law as a violation of the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. The panel did not rule on the constitutionality of the law.
The full Second Circuit declined to rehear the ruling by a 6-to-6 vote."
Comment Re:Which "NDAA"? (Score 1) 102
So if the govt violated the constitution in other ways like started searching houses for "contraband" anytime it felt like it, and then later codified that into law, you'd be ok with that too??? I agree with the rest of your post, but line 2 is very bad argument.
Comment Re:Haven't had bad luck lately... (Score 1) 513
I see HDMI cables at the dollar stores and ROSS these days...
Comment Re:yawn (Score 1) 618
That's a pretty thorough analysis, but you left out an important possibility. What if the shutdown valves don't work????!!!! That is what happened to deep water horizon! There already a recent pipeline spill where 800k-1.1M barrels of oil has leaked out...
2010 On July 26, Enbridge Energy Partners LLP (Enbridge), reported that a 30-inch (760 mm) pipeline belonging to Enbridge burst in Marshall, Michigan. The company estimates over 800,000 US gallons (3,000,000 L) of crude oil leaked into Talmadge Creek, a waterway that feeds the Kalamazoo River,[653][654][655] whereas EPA reports over 1,139,569 gallons of oil have been recovered as of November 2011.[656] On July 27, 2010, an Administrative Order was issued by U.S. EPA requiring the performance of removal actions in connection with the facility. The Order requires Enbridge to immediately conduct removal of a discharge or to mitigate or prevent a substantial threat of a discharge of oil and to submit a Work Plan for the cleanup activities that was to include a Health and Safety Plan,[657] as required by 29 CFR 1910.120 (HAZWOPER). An oil spill cleanup contractor from Texas, Hallmark, bussed numerous undocumented workers to Battle Creek to work on the cleanup of oil spill and had them work in unsafe conditions.[658]
Comment Re:There's Your Problem Right There (Score 1) 1108
The word theory has many definitions (six in the merriam webster online). The most relevant definition in the context of "theory of evolution" is: the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another. Theory does not always mean "something we think is true, but still have a few doubts". The evidence for evolution is overwhelming.
Comment All you need to know about "Intelligent Design" (Score 1) 1108
Neil Tyson can explain it to even the most dense creationists.... IF they would only listen... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weu7Rh6dYrM
Comment Re:The West can fight this very, very easily... (Score 1) 342
Here is an easier plan to deal with these stupid cameras. Just don't pay the "tickets". They are not real tickets even if they look like one. These amount to an "offer for you to pay". They can't do anything if you don't pay.
