Comment Re:le sigh (Score 1) 432
Give the man a cigar. Which is something IBM would have done back when they actually all wore blue suits.
Give the man a cigar. Which is something IBM would have done back when they actually all wore blue suits.
Sorry, I mean, if you want to save weight with a chute. It takes plenty of chute to land on land.
The term "cartwheel" has different meanings to different people.
I don't know about you, but I've just never seen a cart rolling along on a wall. They function optimally in the upright orientation, perpendicular to the ground. Let's not unnecessarily add meanings to words. The guy can be excused for being excited, or for misusing a word for that matter, but that's still what happened.
It also turns out that an aircraft in flight is one of the most predictable engineering systems - it's a single self-contained structure where there are only two unknowns: weather and human factors.
I presume you are counting avians as weather.
But this is a conspiracy theory, so let's see if we can falsify it by testing specific consequences we might expect, if it were true. We would predict that there should not be events admitted to design fault that could not be pilot rectified, because then the manufacturers would be liable - the FAA/EASA/CASA/etc should bury any such case.
So, you're assuming an incompetent conspiracy of idiots. Now, I'm not asserting that this conspiracy exists, I've never even thought about it and I'm still not, but obviously you'd have trouble covering up some flaws, so you'd admit to them, and you might admit to some minor flaws that won't get you in very much trouble as well, just to hide the fact that you're also hiding facts.
Obligatory car analogy: ask yourself how often cars crash because the driver messes up, and how often cars crash because of a design flaw.
Most cars really suck. They don't fail well; even low-speed collisions can impair their operation. And they don't handle idiots well, either, because they don't handle. Last-second maneuvers are ill-advised. So while the direct cause of most car accidents is some form of driver failure, perhaps more of them could be avoided if more care went into the design of more cars. Or at least, if the care were applied to making a better car, rather than a more profitable one.
If I ever have to do an emergency evacuation and the guy in front of me has his cabin baggage with him (like we see in some of those pictures) I'm gonna throw it into the fire.
If I'm with you, and his baggage isn't holding anything up, you're going in on top of it.
Within the last year or so I told my Postmaster that all mail was scanned and the data saved. He tried to tell me that they just threw it away after it's used for routing, and wasn't interested in why that was a stupid idea. If I ever see him peek over the counter again, I will get to roll my eyes at him.
Union proponents will tell you that they are part of a national effort for __________. For example, the minimum wage. Many unions have some kind of position statement saying that it should be raised. But they're not actually doing anything about it, because none of their members are paid that little.
Austin has the Blue Suit influence. Also, Austin still has many tech jobs.
And featuring prominently in the credits is 50 cent.
This documentary just lost all credibility with me.
I bet he'd feel the same way about your slashdot comments, if he had any idea who you were, or what slashdot was.
Even if they're CDMA phones, perhaps they have parts in common with real phones? Displays, case parts...
If you land with chutes, you pretty much have to splash down. That's fine for returning humans, or ore, and not so fine for most anything else.
You can use FireGPG to integrate it into webmail as simple as "clicky clicky"
The reason I gave up on encryption is because I had no one to send encrypted messages to.
PC games
Complete sentence?
Whatever you meant, it was lame, because I've bought used PC games on eBay, although I was just talking about console games.
The Ikea thing looked much more durable than the hexayurt I helped set up, but it wasn't designed to be permanent.
The Ikea thing is specifically designed for semi-permanent use...
Why don't you start with something less detrimental to society than drugs, say polygamy?
Now that would be an interesting study... in any case, not all drugs are created equal. And perhaps not all polygamy is created equal, but frankly that's even harder to have a discussion about than drugs. That makes sense, since there's a lot more drug users than practicing polygamists.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequilla. -- Mitch Ratcliffe
