tom_morrow

I tried to understand your paper, but could not.

Then I understood why not. Your paper proves that I am unable to understand your paper. It also proves that you are unable to understand your paper.

What’s the contradiction you see?

"The Telegraph finally admits left-wing economist had it right all along."

my theory: tom bombadil is the author.

traditionally there have been exactly two options available: employment and unemployment, the former being considered preferable.

so you are saying there is a correlation between guns-per-capita and gun-deaths-per-capita?

money has to come from somewhere, and it has to go somewhere.

just like water, money disappears forever once used.

water flows from the mountain into the sea, and one day the river will run dry.

the government is like Niagara falls, a huge waste of money/water.

Universal Basic Income would accelerate this flow of moneywater, and is so obviously a bad idea that its opposite, Universal Basic Outgo is a good idea.

UBO would reverse the flow of moneywater by taking the same monthly sum of money from every citizen and pumping it uphill.

this would motivate everybody to work harder, resulting in a happier society with enormous moneywater reserves in the mountains.

an effective mandatory helmet law, from a national health perspective, would be to force those who drive a car to work to wear a bicycle helmet ...all day long.

has the ping data been published?

to my knowledge, we've seen one arc (from the last ping) that has been split into two parts based on assumptions of maximum and minimum ranges of straight flight at even speed.

that's a lot of assumptions.

for something to remain floating after 12 days?

maybe a wing with an empty fuel tank.

RAAF has gotten radar reflections off the objects in this area.

the inmarsat satellites are on geostationary orbits.

the "4 or 5 undisclosed-to-the-public satcom ping data" might remain undisclosed due to a) already having been used to provide the resulting location estimate of the "last ping" or b) the data being deemed uninteresting or c) the usual combination of bureaucracy, secrecy, perceived nefarious aims and observed incompetent means.

maybe.

adjectives used of the radar data: "inaccurate", "undisclosed".

adjectives used of the flight path: "erratic", "uneven", "zigzagging".

waypoints are thick as thieves, the odds of a flock of birds not hitting three of them are small.

...plus hitting exactly those waypoints makes no sense: the middle zig should have been skipped as superfluous.

one theory is that the aircraft was still climbing towards cruise altitude when all control was lost.

a stall, a recovery, and a randomly meandering flight followed.

apparently the co-pilot was fresh off his 777 training which occurred on Langkawi.

the last ACARS message was received before the ATC goodbye.

the next ACARS message was scheduled to be sent after the goodbye, but it was never received.

the time when the ACARS was disabled would be within this window.