What?! Third-party sellers charging more because their actual costs are higher!? SCANDAL! How can this be?
Idiots and lawyers, but I repeat myself...
I did leave out the best part:
"Kim Stephens, attorney for one of the plaintiffs, adding that he was “shocked” by Amazon’s alleged pricing practices"
it's been claimed it did a 90 turn to the left and towards the Indian Ocean,
The degree sign didn't make it, so a 90 degree turn to the left.
As a coward, I will weigh in here. The US just mentioned they are sending a destroyer to the Indian Ocean. One reason is because that Russia flew some jets near Turkey (nothing new) and the other because they have have referential information that the missing jet flew off course into the Indian Ocean.
When contact with the jet was lost it's been claimed it did a 90 turn to the left and towards the Indian Ocean, or is that what they want you to think...
Just a random though: has anyone checked how long, and over what distance, the plane could fly from its cruise altitude once its engines stop ?
Would depend upon the pilot. " The Airbus A330-243 suffered a complete power loss due to a fuel leak caused by improper maintenance. Captain Robert Piché, 48, an experienced glider pilot, and First Officer Dirk de Jager, 28, flew the plane to a successful emergency landing in the Azores, saving all 306 people (293 passengers and 13 crew) on board... Captain Piché had to execute one 360 degree turn, and then a series of "S" turns, to dissipate excess altitude. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Bottom line if your flights engines quit, hope an experienced glider pilot is in control.
-To answer your question 30,000 feet and a good wind, about 100 miles.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
Google is there anything it doesn't know
Something I don't understand is how the plane disappeared from radar yet kept flying.
I've read elsewhere (which doesn't really mean much here) that the last heard from the jet was them saying good-bye to one controller, and were to be switching to a different air controllers. It happened during a transition in air control. So one group dropped them, fully expecting the other to pick them up.
I'm not sure if they actually dropped off the radar or just never signed onto the other.
"a result of the inadvertent inactivation of the transponder on board N600XL. Further contributing to the accident was inadequate communication between ATC and the N600XL flightcrew."
Figures that the N600XL suffered no casualties.
(From TFA):
Corrections & Amplifications
I read that part of the contract with the Rolls-Royce PLC engines required them to be monitored, yet any data sent was as mentioned just the engines looking for a reply.
I went back to reread what I read as the Corrections & Amplifications came across as non-sense and it was gone. It had updated before I reached the end.
Speaking of which, Malaysia simply needs to request #NSA for the black box backup.
Lot of truth there (in a way), one of the Governments should know what happened to it; more so because it was a jet.
That nothing is being said could be it would reveal too much about their abilities. This being a civilian jet, expendable for the for that very reason.
Speculation runs rampant...
I had to knock off "Accused" or the subject line was too large.
Makes sense they would be raising their membership charges; they are going to have to start eating the shipping cost.
Below is a copy and paste of selected sections of an article on a potential class action lawsuit over it's annual membership for Amazon Prime.
"Amazon claims that a $79 annual membership for Amazon Prime provides free two-day shipping on "millions" of items, but for some products, the company is accused of encouraging sellers to inflate shipping prices, according to two recent lawsuits."
"For example, if the price of an item is advertised for $10 with $3.99 shipping and the [vendor] wishes to match or top their price, the [vendor] would charge $13.99 or higher," Burke alleges in the suit.
These sellers raise their prices to match or top their competitor’s total price, as items are sorted by price on Amazon's site, Burke alleges in the lawsuit.
"“The bottom line is the free shipping that Amazon offered to its Prime members wasn’t free,”"
"The police department is putting it into writing so their officers fully understand. You can record them and they can’t do anything about it. First Amendment advocates call it a major victory."
Would be prudent.
Apparently quite a few birds can also see UV. Knowing that, would it be possible to use a UV light system to steer birds away from windmills? It appears that bird deaths is a major problem point for the renewable energy source, so any passive way of warding birds away from them would be a good thing.
Where I live is fairly windy all the freaking time, the South horizon is just an endless line of wind turbines. UV at the end of each blade might not be a bad idea.
Sometimes the animal adaptation proves to be a problem for us (and the animals). For example, not everyone is terribly happy that coyotes have adapted to suburban living. A lot of people aren't that happy that bears have adapted to food locked in small cars.
While building the Alyeska Pipeline workers were taken out to the job site in buses; where they would leave their lunches. I've heard a few stories where a bear(s) had taken over the bus for the food.
Each story had the workers waiting until the bear was through until they could get back in.
Most of the time things like that don't work out well for the Bears. If the sites weren't so remote a group might of shown up, knocked the Bear out and flown it 200 miles away "so they couldn't find their way back".
The thing is a worker might of fed a bear at one time, or left their garbage in the open; after that the bear expects food, or knows where to find it.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
