Even the slightest hint of non-wokeness gets zero (0) karma. And conservatives pointing pout that  obvious fact, get zero (0) karma. What malevolent insectivorus infestation does Slash-Dot support ?

Actually, no. The framers gave Congress a lot of power. Unfortunately, Congress has, over the centuries, delegated that power to the President.

If it was simple, they'd do it. Even repairing it when there was a failure was already too expensive, they are just gambling on it being transient now.

Doing maintenance at the frequency needed is clearly almost impossible ... people need to die before it happens.

Not maintenance, repair.

Operators : Take away the legal culpability for dangerously ignoring the need for prohibitively expensive frequent repairs from us, or no more sales. Airbus : Okey dokey.

If this goes wrong and a plane crashes (not unrealistic when a pilot had to leave the cockpit and then couldn't stand any more), the changes to the repair recommendations are going to hang them. Hell, if there are too many long term health problems a class action could destroy them too.

The occurrences exploded after they stopped revisions every time it happened, because the operators found it too expensive/unreliable. So even at that point, it was not a maintenance issue, but a repair issue.

For it to be preventative/maintenance the revisions would have to be performed even more often than that, which would be even more expensive. A plane too expensive to maintain in a state where it doesn't routinely poison the crew and passengers has a design flaw.

They'd better fix it, before they kill a cockpit crew and by extension a plane full of passengers. Given what has already happened, this is not an unlikely failure mode.

It's not even a question of maintenance, it's treating the failure as transient instead of requiring repair.

It's allows neigh deadly air contamination, starting at the cockpit for extra fun, and they don't even repair it when it occurs.

The way Airbus is downplaying this and refusing to reinstate the old maintenance regime tells me this is a near bankruptcy level design flaw, a ground the fleet level fuck up.

While your hypothesis looks nice at first glance, it has a glaring hole: Experiments with turbine powered cars had ended before the first NOx legislation. The Chrysler Turbine Car dates from 1963. At the same time in the UK, Rover debuted the P6, which was engineered to host the Rover gas turbine, which was tested in a Rover P4 as the T2, T3 and T4 prototypes, but it never came to pass. Then you have some experiments with gas turbine powered race cars until 1968. The Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act was enacted in 1965.

The experiments to put gas turbines into cars for sale ended two years before NOx mandates were enacted. They were continued for race cars, which aren't affected by the mandates, but fizzled out a few years later.

Starlink could do some trivial traffic analysis and be 99% certain what's scam traffic.

There are diplomatic and economic costs to becoming more blatantly evil.

They aren't quite ready to stop squeezing industry out of the west, they want to continue neo-mercantilism for a while yet.

Also not a great idea, but that's inorganic.

The inability to meaningfully pressure China because of the self inflicted wound of complete economic dependence (thanks to Kissinger&Clinton) does not necessarily apply to Myanmar.

China might covertly aid them, but if the west imposes secondary sanctions on companies providing them internet and phone services, China would have to get into the open to continue doing that. They are just as likely to cut them loose instead. Even if they don't, there is value in driving it into the open. Wakes up some people who refuse to see the acts of war coming out of China.

They need internet and phone services ... quite easily traced to their service providers because of the sheer volume of scams each day. There's a handful of those providers, completely dependent on foreign interconnect. With the possible exception of China, the companies involved will instantly fold to secondary sanctions. Even China might decide that just because of the slavers are Chinese they are not worth protecting.

No, I blame western politicians for not using the power they have, even when they should.

They need to be a little neo-colonial and free 100k slaves. This isn't like smuggling, there's only a handful of companies providing these slaveholders their network services and they are easily pressured.