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Comment Re:In-office work is a necessity for some (Score 1) 73

You don't have time to sit around without anyone noticing in retail unless there's not a business case, in which case there's no customers. That business has (at least) two problems.

If there's work to be done, it's immediately noticeable when you aren't doing it, to anyone who understands the job. No one else is qualified to manage people doing it.

Comment Re:The article is missing some info (Score 1) 38

During demonstrations, the landing has been described as "rough, but passable" so it's not going to win any awards for smoothness, but you'll be on the ground.

There are other videos showing the system being tested.

So about like every other autoland — right on the runway marker, hard enough to break teeth.

Comment Re:Ignore the order. (Score 1) 130

the real story is way more complex than that, because the legality of the permit was in question and had been under scrutiny by the courts for the entire period in question

It's really not. The vast majority of lawsuit were bourne by environmentalists challenging with laws that were effectively EPA fiat (which change with a favorable administration, or by spending additional time addressing deficiencies). None of them were insurmountable (which is why the project continued on, even in light of the lawsuits). The permit rescinding by a hostile administration, however, was insurmountable.

Any one of those cases could potentially have been insurmountable if a judge had found in their favor. Like I said, there were fundamental questions of law regarding whether that permit was lawfully issued in the first place.

There's a reason that the oil companies did not bother to fight the Biden administration's decision to rescind the permit, and simply shut down the project.

The project was never shut down; it was suspended: https://www.theguardian.com/en...

They took apart the portions that were already built. It was shut down. Spin it however you want; the project was dead at that point.

And I don't understand why you think they would fight it. The President clearly wasn't going to let the permit through. His words had nothing to do with legality and everything to do with ideology ("Obama said his decision was in agreement with the State Departmentâ(TM)s assessment that the pipeline âoewould not serve the national interests of the United Statesâ): https://www.theguardian.com/en...

They would fight it if they thought that him rescinding the permit was unlawful, because the only alternative was losing the money they had already spent building parts of it. They did not, because they believed that given the circumstances, rescinding the permit was lawful. They were potentially correct because of the way that the permit was issued.

The construction companies correctly surmised this project was going to be shelved until they got a more favorable administration.

Again, they did not. They stopped construction and started tearing it down. There are no plans to try again.

So it's not really the same thing. It's not even close.

I mean, it's not far off

It actually is far off.

A legally issued permit is binding on the government. An illegally issued permit is not. The offshore wind farm permits were legally issued. The Keystone XL permits likely were not.

The legal difference between a permit issued through the usual decades-long approval process and a permit issued in an expedited fashion under executive orders to rush the environmental review to make the project happen is substantial. The legality of that executive order was in question, and the expedited environmental review created serious questions about whether the review met the standards required by federal law. At that point, it became the states' right to challenge the permitting, and they did.

Had they won, the permits would have been rolled back by the courts.

Comment Re: Why they are more expensive (Score 1) 76

It's been a while so I can't really direct you. When licensing became very uncertain I backed away and haven't done one in a while.

My best advice is to get a good flight controller kit up front so everything works together without a lot of screwing around. Also to read lots of build logs before you do one. And maybe start with a cheap type to build familiarity.

Also any design where you just have arms connected to a central board tends to be flimsy. I started with a SK450 and it's kind of floppy

Comment Re: These people are ghouls (Score 4, Interesting) 73

"The C-Suite that you rail against is entirely profit motivated."

You're not wrong, you're just thinking small. That is, not like a member of that clan of jackals.

They are worried about THEIR personal profits, they don't give two fucks about any given corporation. And if you do, you're stupid, because corporations don't have hearts or souls and are literally not capable of caring about you.

As long as they come out looking competent, they will be able to get a job at the next corporation, and secure THEIR profits.

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