AceyMan

The book you want is IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black. Well-researched, well-regarded & a bestseller. 597 pages.

You're effectively saying non-permanent residents should be prohibited from using commercial flight to move around the giant country that is the US. I'm not sure if that's your intention.

Legendary variation from pro tennis between to HoF players, https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/andre-agassi-bori...

I suspect the OP meant their semi-presidential/dual-executive system w/ parliament (although at this point, storming the Bastille is starting to look pretty good...).

I'm pretty sure the widespread adoption of Crocs heralded this tipping point. [viz., 'Idiocracy']

See my comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45541096 [I am expert in CFR 14 Part 121, so I made reference to the regulations I'm qualified to directly speak on.]

Why? I saw no upside to reading a layman's media source and teasing out the sequence, which is all I wanted to know. I read NTSB reports for pleasure and my favorite YT creator is Blancolirio. There's an infintesimal chance that the story had any juicy details I cared about. Also, it was work hours and I really didn't have any more time to devote to topic. I was in a rush to get my take out there, since I am a legitimate SME.

I realize this is a UK carrier and was operating in the EU/UK, but for the most part, the rest of the world uses the US legal framework for aviation as a boilerplate for their own civil code. Yes, there are some differences, but these are usually minor and more of "differences in quantity" rather than "differences in kind". [Since the airplane was invented here the US had a head start on regulating civil aviation.]

Unless they are in an emergency and are busy with aviating, they will coordinate with their dispatcher on diverting, even if only to verify that the weather at the intended alternate is still favorable. Per the FAA regulations, the PIC and the dispatcher have joint operational control over the flight. Of course, at the end of the day, only the pilots have their hands on the controls, so they can make the plane do what they want—but from a legal standpoint, the dispatcher and pilot-in-command have equal & shared responsibility for the safe operation of the flight.

Update: OK, if *Edinburgh* was their alternate and they missed there and were then forced to bugout for Manchester, that's then an example of when reserve is OK to be burned. (The 'slight simplification' I omitted was unpacking how the alternate fuel plays into the process, but here, that was a key part of the series of events.) That's what I get for not reading TFA first :-/

Under FAA rules this was a screwup. [edit: see my own reply] (However, the rules are subtle, so they can be partially forgiven.) However, I'm not only a dispatcher but also a philosophy BA, so I've found a good way to explain it.

Your reserve fuel (the "extra" fuel over what the actual flight burn) can of course be used (hello, that's what it's there for) but—and here's the rub—you can never plan on using it.

That is to say, in this case, when they missed their first or second approach, they CANNOT say, "We'll use our reserve fuel and make another go at it" because that would be intentionally planning to burn your reserve.

You may only dip into your reserve when you have no other choice. In this case, when the only fuel they had left was reserve, they are obligated by law to proceed to the alternate airport, which clearly they did not do [correction: they did do the proper thing; see my 2nd reply below]. No bueno.

[this is a slight simplification (minor details omitted for brevity) but the kernel of the issue is properly described]

The word 'available' inserted at the right spot would make all the difference in clarity here.

Umm, I'm hugely afraid to mosquitos: the biggest killer of people among all the world's fauna.

Airlines operate under completely different optimization (game) theory, which makes for an absolutely horrible choice in your analogy.

I suspect (hope?) this lights a fuze to the inevitable realization by the Billionaire Bros that sucking up to the current administration cannot make up for its sheer ineptitude. (to cite a meme I saw: "He bankrupted a casino!! That's like a license to print money!"). And, since we know the billionaires actually run America, maybe this is the harbinger of some changes to the present dynamic that's needed to arrest the ongoing demolition of the The American Way.

Mudd is to MIT what Swarthmore is to Chicago.

>>Go to the back door (most salesmen go to the front door, a manoeuvre always resented by maid and mistress alike).

To most of us Yankees, this makes no sense. Many of not most of our single-family homes are built in areas that don't implement an alleyway, so the back door is really only for the residents to get to the back yard or carport, etc.

If a salesman knocked on the back door it's likely they'd have the police called on them / or worse.

I took three 45m sessions of user training from OpenAI prior to the GPT-5 switcheroo. I know when to switch models. I know know to invoke Deep Research mode. I want my GPT-4 stuff back.

This seemed black bar worthy, but it's Day 2 and not yet .

Obligatory, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamethrower?wprov=sfla1

More seriously, Hornets vs Spray Glue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCLCewL5NVg

(note: he's still wearing a full bee suit—so hornets are probably best left to pros—unless you're properly equipped & very brave!)

When I carried regularly I was always *extremely conscious" of having a sidearm(s) at the ready. And, knowing the the civil laws of engagement (=> I read all of Massad Ayoob's stuff) the result—for me at least—it makes you the most meek, chill person ever (if you actually understand the power that you have on tap which I surely did).

This just in: you don't get to pick the category of the emergency when SHTF.

That's like saying "I only wear seat belts on the freeway" or something equivalently vapid.

So, basically the ancient precursor to the skills of a good rapper.

op said

> professionally retired people over 70

> The aircraft we fly today is the same design as the Wright Brothers. They solved the control problem. They did wind tunnel studies. And yet you claim they're "not engineers."

As the joke goes, 'I want some of what he's smoking.' Just. Wow.

>for me its the praise you recieve as children, from significant adults, teachers, parents etc, that set you up to follow through with your dreams.

And this is why modern child psychology de-emphasizes praise.

As it was put to me in one of the attachment parenting classes, "If your children rely on your praise to know if they're doing well, what will they do when you're not around?"

My son is fifteen now, top of his class, loves to study and read, and in his entire life I've never once said, "Good job" to him.

The way you handle it is ask them to reflect on their accomplishment: What do you think about that? How did it make you feel? Etc.

And if you feel like you must use an exclamation, just a "Wow!" is perfect.

As was also shown to us in the classes, children don't seek your praise; they seek your attention (big difference).

I love how 252 became the standard after using 256 first.

"I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow." — Abraham Lincoln

> Personally, I think we've started on a path to self-destruction that can't be reversed.

Do you mean, 'we' as in the US, or 'we,' as in humanity?

[either way, I'm not saying you're wrong :( ]