Private aircraft are much more dangerous than commercial aircraft because of

* Multiple engines.
* De-icing equipment.
* Crew experience (probably the biggest factor).
* Support system and rules (commercial planes usually fly IFR, etc).

It is also a lot of work to study weather and plan your route rather than to sit in a lounge and wait for your boarding group. Commercial aircraft get you there much faster too since they fly higher and have bigger engines. The danger, amount of work, cost, and slowness of private aircraft is why I stopped flying. Leave it up to the professionals.

Yes. I'd believe it a lot more if they had some documentation but with the web site so incredibly broken, the veracity of their claims is in doubt.

The MOST important reason for using Postgres is that it has object ids (OIDs). This allows true referential integrity. You can have a row point at another row and this reference stays the same REGARDLESS of whether you change the primary key of the referenced row. This allows true object orientation.

Offshoring does shift jobs. Yes, computer science jobs ARE lost by offshoring when jobs move to lower wage countries. This has happened to many industries in the past and is currently happening to computer science. However, what usually happens is that new jobs crop up in the country that lost them. Unfortunately this is often in a field different than the people that lost the jobs so they must retrain.

Consider the alternative. If you didn't offshore, you would be more inefficient than competitors that did. And in this global economy, you would lose in the long run since the most competitive position would win. In Eastern Europe they had to shut down factories that couldn't build items as good or as efficiently as the West. Also, American car manufacturers have been forced to put out better built cars.

You also have to realize that this isn't a zero sum game. You don't win if the other country does poorly. You win if you and the other country both do good. If they do good, they can buy stuff from you. We are all in this together.

Structural shifts like this aren't pleasant, but unfortunately necessary. It doesn't feel any better though if you are on the receiving end (like I am).