Fun fact: CNN actually pays the airports to show their content.

This exactly. ISPs need to be federally regulated, specifically, their pricing models need to be a flat $10/month fee and then a fixed $0.04/GB with a mandatory sustained 50MB/s. This creates market incentive for them to improve their networks, because the faster and higher capacity they are, the more data they can sell. It also encourages users not to be overly wasteful with their data.

Right now high speed internet plans are the exact opposite. They took billions from the government to create high speed internet, built the least capable network they could, pocketed the difference and then massively oversold it to consumers. Most ISPs rely on customers to only use about 3% of the bandwidth which they are supposedly "buying" each month. Streaming services and gaming downloads are taxing these oversold networks, and thus the ISPs are squealing as their network loading spikes up, since they will have to build out more infrastructure which costs them money.

These engines are jacketed in a kevlar or fiberglass honeycomb composite designed to absorb the energy of a blade-off event and protect the aircraft as well as the passengers inside from fragments. Over time kevlar degrades and I would assume that there is a maintenance change out for the ballistic jacket of these engines.

See here for video of the damaged engine. Note that the front of the ballistic honeycomb (two green layers with a metal layer in between) has been shattered. (NTSB video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you want to see what it should look like during and after a blade off event, check out this video: (A380 blade off test) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The airlines have been pushed for decades towards lower and lower prices, but sometimes it is better to spend some extra money on safety inspections and maintenance overhauls.

In my opinion, unless violation of rules or gross negligence by a specific employee or employees can be shown, C level executives and the board of directors for all corporations should be personally and if appropriate criminally liable for the actions, accidents and/or criminal actions of the companies that they run.

If this turns out to be a maintenance shortage or an improperly stored replacement cowling or a blade with a known problem that wasn't pulled due to either short spares or flight schedule, someone should go to prison for negligent homicide.

OK, lets assume you wasted 1 minute on average per person robocalled, so you get to go to prison for every minute you illegally stole from some innocent victim. What does that add up to? 184.5 years... enjoy your stay.

But hasn't M$ (and others) been telling us for years that the license is irrevocably tied to the hardware? Doesn't Windows 7 and above explicitly say it is tied to identifiers in the CPU, MOBO etc?

The dirty truth is they just want as much money as they can possibly get, any way they can get it. They have made the saying "digital no rights" a defacto truth. And nothing will change as long as we keep electing politicians more interested in lobbyist dollars than representing their constituent's interests. The Democrats held super-majorities in both houses and the presidency from 2008 for two years and did nothing. Sad.

Your statement is predicated on the false dichotomy that the airport can only exist if the government subsidizes it. There is another option, that is it is run for profit by a private company, just like everything else, and the state still collects all those taxes from the hotel, restaurant and sales taxes created by having an airport.

Your personal attacks reveal your weak position, nothing more or less.

companies will run infrastructure way, way beyond it's intended life and to devil with the consequences *if the corrupt government allows them to.*

FTFY

Anyone who thinks that government has no say on public safety maters and any infrastructure involved is either a fool or a shill.

He said he would unleash the economy, cut taxes, and enforce the laws on the books. Those have already happened.

Time will tell, but when the president is trying to do good (like rebuilding neglected infrastructure) while not sinking us further into debt by leveraging the private sector investment, every citizen should give him the benefit of the doubt. History will be the judge, but based on the last year of history, Obama was a dirty Chicago politician buffoon with no clue how economics worked who racked up 8 trillion in debt and tanked the economy for 8 years. That is just reality. Obama tried to blame Bush for all his failures, but I doubt history will be so kind.

Trump so far has revitalized the economy, and is rapidly adding jobs. We will see where we are after 7 more years, but I suspect that it will be a stark contrast, with Trump being revealed as a conservative populist who loves his country and is trying to do right by it's citizens and the Dim politicians being criminals and bold face liars. You know, Democrats, the party of slavery, Jim Crow, massive corruption, and now putting illegal aliens "rights" ahead of US citizens safety and wages towards Democrat political future power.

It still exists, but you have to pay for it. If you fly bargain basement economy, then you get what you pay for, which is as low a price as the airline can manage. Try flying first class if you want customer service.

It is almost comical how our society now takes for granted being able to buy a round trip ticket for under $100, jump on a plane and be hurtled to your destination at 400mph, arrive safely, do business and then take the return flight that evening. Our grandparents spent 3 months salary to take a flight and this kind of travel was unimaginable by our great grandparents.

https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...

You are overlooking that ever square inch of soil within the borders of the US is still subject to Federal and state laws. Thus, the Fed has no reason to own airports to "have a say" in how they are run. All they have to do is pass a law and the airport operators must comply or go to jail, no financial strings required, just like every other citizen and business run in the US.

We have yet to see the implementation, but I fully expect that since the goal is revitalization and rebuilding, that within the contract to sell the airports will be maintenance and expansion requirements, so the new owners will not be able to "turn a quick profit and cash out."

You are automatically ascribing incompetence and ill intent where neither has yet been evidenced.

As you clearly indicate, no solution in this imperfect world is perfect, and politics can certainly jump in to screw things up. Do you have a better solution to the massive spending needed after 16 years plus of neglect? Bush at least had the excuse of inheriting a recession from Clinton (just like Obama did from Bush) and then he had to deal with a $3 trillion loss from 9-11 and fight two wars.

Obama inherited a recession from Bush too, but with a silver bullet to counteract it (Federal purchase and renting back of defaulted sub prime homes that would have netted the Federal government a net profit in 8 years and would have stabilized the sub prime collapse which is what was causing the recession to begin with). However, Obama shit canned the solution and instead ineffectually dropped around a trillion dollars for infrastructure "shovel ready" jobs that amounted to a payoff of his political supporters, just like a good Chicago politician.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion...
https://www.ocregister.com/201...

Here, we have Trump trying to be responsible with our tax dollars and actually looking to revitalize our infrastructure. That revitalization is not going to be free, but having the actual users pay for it is a damn sight better than having the US taxpayer foot the bill, considering we are another 8 TRILLION dollars in the hole thanks to the Obama administration.

Citations please, specifically that the monuments torn down by the alt left fascists: http://nymag.com/daily/intelli... were all erected as remembrances to protest equality in law.

Virtually everything run by business not only runs at a profit but is a net benefit for tax coffers and the public at large (from smart phone companies to your local gym). Why should the government be involved in any of those activities when private business gives us a more economical system with more choices and better quality/customer service?

The airports and airline system along with the federal freeway system were jump started after the end of WW2 for a number of reasons, but there is no justification for not privatizing most or all of it (still with the proper regulation to ensure competition, quality and low prices for the consumer).

Look up the meaning of the word subsidize. You literally just admitted that US tax payers do subsidize the airports...

Buying or receiving goods that arrive by roadway does not mean you are benefiting. The business who sold you those goods is benefiting, and they should be paying for that benefit and charging you an increase that reflects fair payment for the use of those roads in your delivery. If they are using EVs or alternative fuel vehicles (like Propane) to make deliveries, they are not paying at all for maintenance and upkeep of the roads they are using...

If you think that the federal government is more efficient at spending money than private business (or better at customer service) I would like to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn...

The California blackouts were 100% Enron manipulating the market to make billions (that was the federal findings result). Deregulation does not mean no-regulation, and the idiots in California let Enron write the deregulation terms which is why the electorate took Gray Davis head in a historic recall.

There was still regulation, it was just asinine because the bureaucrats were 100% incompetent fools. Many other states (including Texas) have a deregulated grid with no shortages and low prices (that don't gouge users as they buy more, like California and most Democrat states do today). https://www.electricchoice.com... and Texas pays 30% less for baseline electricity than California, even after re-regulation and about 65% less if you consider actual average bills based on usage: https://www.npr.org/sections/m...

The key is to require all providers to maintain a reasonable % of excess capacity over what they sell into the grid, and when it drops below a threshold, they have to build more capacity and require long term contracts (something like 12 months at a time) so that energy is sold on a long term contract basis, instead of a premium spot demand price.