... a nice salmon pate.

Russia has gained less than 5,000 square kilometers since January 2024. If we are generous and assume 5,000 square kilometers gained in 18 months, this equates to Russia capturing roughly 0.6% of Ukraine per year. That's not enough to matter in terms of determining the outcome of the war, since Russia's economy can't sustain this long enough to accumulate meaningful territorial gains at that pace. The war will end, however it ends, based on other factors.

You've got that backwards. Offering information services should not qualify you for an exemption from regulation as a telecommunications service if that's a part of your business. Even a tiny part. Don't like it? Divest yourself of the telecommunications part. Or place it into a holding company/subsidiary.

WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong

This is what I'm going by:

The report said that in December 2018, the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a special airworthiness information bulletin based on reports from operators of model 737 planes that the fuel control switches were installed with the locking feature disengaged.

The airworthiness concern was not considered an unsafe condition that would warrant an airworthiness directive – a legally enforceable regulation to correct unsafe conditions.

The same switch design is used in Boeing 787-8 aircraft, including Air India’s VT-ANB, which crashed. The report added: “As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory.”

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

It just needs an email client.

- Jamie Zawinksi

I never claimed to be a medical doctor. But possibly an advanced degree in reading comprehension ... perhaps.

That's a pretty big assumption at this point. What if it wasn't a mistake? It's interesting to note that the event timing published in the preliminary report fails to note the timing for the 'switch off' events and subsequent CVR comment. While other events are timed to the second (the EAFR time resolution is actually better than this).

Both switches failed? That's a highly improbable dual failure without some external influence. Two influences, actually. About a second apart. And the cited MCAS failure was control surface movements (not cockpit controls) initiated as designed by the system following a _single_ failure.

Post yours. I have a degree in reading (third paragraph).

The proper containment response appears to be: administer antibiotics when a case is found. Since there is no vaccine and prophylactic treatment with antibiotics is an absolute no-no (breeds resistant strains of bacteria).

In other words, the proper response is to do nothing different. Having hissy fits about Kennedy and Noem is also counter-indicated.

1. Were the safety guards, which were optional, installed?

2. We know investigators are looking into the computer system, does this mean the computer can also set the switch settings?

If the answers are "no" and "no" respectively, it was likely an accidental bump.

If the answers are "yes" and "no", then one of the pilots lied.

If the answer to the second one is yes, then regardless of the answer to the first, I'd hope the investigation thoroughly checks whether the software can be triggered into doing so through faulty data or the existence of software defects.

San Marino would still exist as the worlds oldest republic with a written constitution dating back to 1600 (an update to the constitution of about 1300) giving people "government of the people, by the people, for the people" and actual limited government. Though to be honest, it was 1974 before something like a bill of rights was added.
For rights, there's the Magna Carta from 1215 and the English Bill of Rights of 1689, which turned the British King into a figurehead.
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Because, assuming that returning the switches to 'run' was sucessful, an incident report would have been filed, the guilty party fired and his name disgraced for all time.

Think about how one would "accidentally" bump two switches, approximately one second apart. Even if the "accident" occured as a result of one of the crew guarding the throttle position (see the video in a previous post) and then bumping the switches to off, that would occur nearly simultaneously. The approximate one second delay suggests that one switch was lifted over its detent followed by the other.

... an idiot. Still back in the era of 'the Internet is a series of tubes.' My ISP supplies me with _no_ information on their own. Only that which is provided by actuall information services, like Wikipedia, Amazon and Slashdot for subsequent transportation to customers. Actually the 'series of tubes' description comes a lot closer than what these judges cooked up.