It just needs an email client.

- Jamie Zawinksi

I never claimed to be a medical doctor. But possibly an advanced degree in reading comprehension ... perhaps.

That's a pretty big assumption at this point. What if it wasn't a mistake? It's interesting to note that the event timing published in the preliminary report fails to note the timing for the 'switch off' events and subsequent CVR comment. While other events are timed to the second (the EAFR time resolution is actually better than this).

Both switches failed? That's a highly improbable dual failure without some external influence. Two influences, actually. About a second apart. And the cited MCAS failure was control surface movements (not cockpit controls) initiated as designed by the system following a _single_ failure.

Post yours. I have a degree in reading (third paragraph).

The proper containment response appears to be: administer antibiotics when a case is found. Since there is no vaccine and prophylactic treatment with antibiotics is an absolute no-no (breeds resistant strains of bacteria).

In other words, the proper response is to do nothing different. Having hissy fits about Kennedy and Noem is also counter-indicated.

Because, assuming that returning the switches to 'run' was sucessful, an incident report would have been filed, the guilty party fired and his name disgraced for all time.

Think about how one would "accidentally" bump two switches, approximately one second apart. Even if the "accident" occured as a result of one of the crew guarding the throttle position (see the video in a previous post) and then bumping the switches to off, that would occur nearly simultaneously. The approximate one second delay suggests that one switch was lifted over its detent followed by the other.

... an idiot. Still back in the era of 'the Internet is a series of tubes.' My ISP supplies me with _no_ information on their own. Only that which is provided by actuall information services, like Wikipedia, Amazon and Slashdot for subsequent transportation to customers. Actually the 'series of tubes' description comes a lot closer than what these judges cooked up.

The credit cards that banks (like JPMorgan) offer their customers. "Alternative payment platforms" can coexist within the same clearing and settlement system as physical cards. And with the same data requirements. Transactions only need a yes/no verification for the amount entered at the point of sale. They don't need my banking and financial history.

The sooner the culturally inevitable decline of the US is accepted the better rest-of-world can succeed it. Needing the US for anything is a long hangover from WWII destroying real and potential competition.

The world should be doing its own research to keep the fruits thereof from Wall Street's grubby tentacles. I grew up through the space race but now see no reason the US deserves to hog research it can only use to benefit our owning kleptarchs.

Where I live we also have a three-bag limit on general waste, but no limit on recycling. So if you have more garbage than they'll take, you have to either save it for two weeks, or cart it to the transfer station and pay to get rid of it.

Also, recycle waste has to be in open containers or see-through recycling bags; if it isn't, then it counts toward your limit for general waste.

Your post has a Carlinesque quality, in that it rings true, and it pisses me off, but I'm still laughing.

You did a great job, but I wish there hadn't been the need for you to do it.

What? You care about quality of life? You care about community? You believe that having the choice to simply "work to live" is better than being forced to "live to work"? What the fuck is wrong with you? /sarc

Yeah, we did. Write out a pseudo-code (English language) description of what you want done. A _complete_ description. Hand it to a machine which generates and compiles the code. Done. Back in the 1990s.

But what we had in the 1990s was a group of middle managers that realized that their status and income depended on the number of warm bodies they had reporting to them. So they fought the move to technologies that would reduce their headcount from 500 to 5. Those people are retired and, increasingly dead. And we have Wall Street investors asking where all that expense money is going when you could just buy a beige box to do the work.

Not once the investment community realizes that they are being taken for a ride. Current AI is garbage because it's envisioned as a general purpose tool. We have great AI that can model protein folding or do many specific tasks. But the GPAI push is just designed to part suckers from their money.

Maybe Europe has seen America starting to get tired of all the winning it's been doing lately, and decided to pass on the opportunity.

BTW, Dimon is a vicious fuck-witted opportunistic asshole.