Orange jesus faces a bit more potentially. He is out on pre-trial release on 4 different cases. In every single case the single most important condition of that release is to not commit a crime, local, state or federal, while waiting trial. He has just been convicted of 9 such crimes. 99.99% of citizens would already be wearing an orange jump suit. Why is orange jesus being given special preferential treatment?

I can't assess that, but would jail time eventually help him spread his legend of the Deep State which a 2nd time tries to steal his presidency.... portraying him as an upright resistance fighter. Or is it even for him more important to prevent jail at all means to preserve his reputation? How many of his supporters would still vote for a jailbird in presidential elections? What a crazy question... Does he bet on a further, this time successful January 6th, idependent of election outcome?

After all, who would buy a front door without an adequate door lock?

I had internet access back in 1979. I used it for several research projects. Yes, I was in college or grad school but it was available before the official "released" to the public date.

Here's hoping that all the significant projects have been using MFA to stay safe from that attack...

Just more police violence on full display. :-(
US police move to clear pro-Palestinian student protest encampment at UCLA in Los Angeles.

Note that there are 'Palestinians' who are Israeli, along with people of various other religions other than Jewish.

Just when and where?

Donny gets fined and told what could be next.

Trump fined for breaching gag orders, warned jail time a possibility.

Donald Trump has complied with a court order to take down nine social media and website posts which a New York judge deemed had broken a gag order in his hush money [election interference] trial.

The former US President was reprimanded Judge Juan Merchan, fined for [criminal] contempt of court and warned he could face jail for repeatedly breaking a “gag order”.

He was told that he had to remove seven post from his Truth Social social media account and two from a website by 2.15pm, Tuesday (4.15am AEST Wednesday). When the deadline came the posts were gone.

But Mr Trump was not happy, adding a new post online railing at the Judge....

But the aggressive, violent practice on the streets and campuses harassing Jewish Americans and Jewish students is antisemitism.

Woah.. a really dangerous software issue. But it's outside Boeing's responsibility.

In my opinion: Deadly unscrupulous deadly nasty...
Nestlé baby foods loaded with unhealthy sugars—but only in poorer countries

South Vietnam collapsed because its totally corrupt ruling elites had no credibility among the people, a fact that the U.S. was never able to change.

A January poll by Israel’s Channel 13 found that 55% of Israelis say Netanyahu’s decisions are driven primarily by personal interests

Only 15% of Israelis want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay in office after the war on Hamas in Gaza ends

But now, the state and its grid operator are grappling with a strange reality: There is so much solar on the grid that, on sunny spring days when there’s not as much demand, electricity prices go negative. Gigawatts of solar are “curtailed” — essentially, thrown away.

I thought Electric Cars Were the Future. I Changed My Mind

Ah, you presuppose there will be a next time. Perhaps you should look at yourself and see why you are such a strong magnet.

Let's assume the opposite: There won't be a next time. That would mean Iron Dome, David's Sling and Arrow are a pretty stupid waste of money. I doubt it was a stupid investment, but rather one that enabled Israel to procrastinate. Of what? To fix the cause. Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad are only symptoms, but no longer contributory causes. Decades in this conflict, one of the last remaining root causes is a bunch of old, senile men in Tehran; who fear every day they will be thrown into the Orcus of history by the younger, more enlighted generations.

The "strong magnet" will persist as long as there is even one Jew remaining in the Middle East. Only freed of Jews, this magnet would disappear. It's written in the Hamas Charta or the PLO's Charta, taught by theological "authorities" of Palestinians as well as Iran. Alternatively, they could try not to throw bombs, grenades, and missiles in the direction of the "magnet". There could be peace, despite this strong magnet.

Keep training your reflexes so that you can successfully dodge even more incoming bullets next time?

I'm not a business economist. But I assume 'revenues' aren't profits.

It's only 'Global services' which is profitable; presumably maintenance, parts, repairs.

Meanwhile, will any of the previous and existing 'leadership' pick up their responsibilities and be brought to book and imprisoned for their actions or lack of care and lack of concern for life?...

Are you daft? They raked in the money for Wall Street, legally that is their only concern.

Someone should explain to Wall Street that Boeing could sell a lot more airplanes and make a lot more profit if they hadn't screwed up their manufacturing process. Are shareholders daft?

Meanwhile, will any of the previous and existing 'leadership' pick up their responsibilities and be brought to book and imprisoned for their actions or lack of care and lack of concern for life?...

This shouldn't still be happening:

It's 2024 and Intel silicon is still haunted by data-spilling Spectre
Intel CPU cores remain vulnerable to Spectre data-leaking attacks...

How did we let that loose...?

... Or is this attack vector something that is a design fault in the model of FOSS and Github?

Nothing amiss with GitHub other than the users using it...

In addition, the incident also started a discussion regarding the viability of having critical pieces of cyberinfrastructure depend on unpaid volunteers.

However... There is no requirement made for financial contribution to keep things working. Hence 'industry' takes a free-of-cost ride?...

https://www.speedtest.net/result/16114144332

You bought the Porsche even though you know there are no roads to drive really fast... still... half a gigabit... is nice to have.

The first question would be: Why was secure remote login (SSH) somehow intertwined with data compression (xz, ... liblzma).

What details have you seen?
The reports I'm following show this attempted exploit to be very determinedly to have taken YEARS to incrementally place the pieces together, for some fantastic obfuscation, to then be undone by the keen eye of a tester who happens to work for Microsoft.

XZ, a suite of file compression tools packaged into distributions of the Linux operating system, was long maintained by a single author, Lasse Collin.
In recent years, he appeared to be under strain.
In a message posted to a public mailing list in June 2022, Collin said he was dealing with "longterm mental health issues" and hinted that he working privately with a new developer named Jia Tan and that "perhaps he will have a bigger role in the future."

In the open-source community, the discovery has been sobering. The volunteers who maintain the software that underpins the internet aren't strangers to the idea of little pay or recognition, but the realization that they were now being hunted by well-resourced spies pretending to be Good Samaritans was "incredibly intimidating," said Arasaratnam, of the Open Source Security Foundation.
Government officials are also weighing the implications of the near-miss, which has underlined concerns about how to protect open-source software. Assistant national cyber director Anajana Rajan told Politico that "there's a lot of conversations that we need to have about what we do next "to protect open source code."

It's NOT the first time that ship has been involved in an accident:

An investigation determined a mistake made by the ship’s master and pilot was to blame.

What next?...

Thor, thunder, overcast and rain. Happy for the wet weather.

Apple very deliberately breaks a significant part of the internet:

Apple Criticized For Changing the macOS version of cURL


That little bit of techno-obscurity has badly big implications...


IT is what we allow it to be...
Martin

The difference in behavior is due to differences in the SSL library curl is linked to. That behavior is not even formally specified, the man page even makes it clear that flag is platform specific right out the gate before even getting to the platform's SSL implementation.

And then... why is anyone using curl to do very specific SSL validation tests when tools like the openssl cli are available. Curl is just an http client, unless they rolled their own, they're at the whims of whatever SSL impl was linked in. Go talk to a senior Linux sysadmin and ask for help you sad little web developer children. This is not a Mac problem, this is an every unix is different and welcome to the party problem.

There's something very karmic about Linux tossing aside decades of Unix standards and some kids getting upset that an http client doesn't do what Linux does, made me laugh.

The second concern involved hundreds of feet of protective tape used to cover the wiring harnesses inside the Starliner vehicle, which was discovered to be flammable.
We’ve removed nearly a mile of tape from the vehicle, and mitigated about 85 to 90 percent of the areas that the tape is installed on the vehicle.

Are there any rules in the U.S. to investigate who invests in financing schemes

*moral.... because there will only be losers, losses and suffering for both sides.

That's why I have to disagree again. It was solely Hamas' decision to declare war on Israel on Oct 7th

Same in Korea. If Kim tomorrow decides to invade the South and 1,000 dead lie on the streets, then Kim would have been started a war exactly at this date

Bread: A simple staple?


Britain’s bitter bread battle: what a £5 sourdough loaf tells us about health, wealth and class
wrote:

... Others lambast cheap sliced white as unhealthy and unsustainable. How did our most basic foodstuff become a source of conflict and division?

The cheapest loaf in my nearest supermarket costs 45p. The cheapest loaf in my local artisanal bakery costs £5. Which of these facts winds you up?...

... ultra-processing enables supermarkets to sell bread so cheaply...

... how can something that requires only four ingredients – flour, water, yeast and salt – diverge so wildly on price?...

... Technology has since relegated white sliced to the cheapest option ... “After being told for centuries that white bread was too good for the likes of them, it isn’t surprising that easy-to-eat, comforting white bread is what people wanted,”...

... What went so wrong? Let’s start with the flour...

... The manufacturer is not required legally to list the various “processing aids”, usually enzymes, used mainly to increase volume and prolong softness. “Industrial bread is the poster child of ultra-processed food,” says the Real Bread Campaign’s Young. “It’s made using a whole cocktail of additives.” The world’s largest review into ultra-processed food found last month that it is “directly linked to 32 harmful effects to health, including a higher risk of heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, adverse mental health and early death”...

... “the ultra-processing is just one aspect of it. Even if you don’t care about that, according to UK dietary guidance, this bread is high in salt and sugar … At 278 calories per 100g, it has a higher calorie density than a Big Mac. It is also incredibly soft.”

Softness gives bread the illusion of freshness and makes us eat more of it...

... Maybe we can all agree that 45p is no bargain for an ultra-processed product and that £5 for a sourdough loaf prices out most people. “We need a grassroots revolution,”...

All too slimy soft?...

Eat well and healthy!

Enjoy!!
Martin

This war started at Oct 7th.

low altitude when the pilot has to fear anti-aircraft fire.

[back to topic:]The IDF accidently shot some of the Israeli hostages who freed themselves and walked out to the IDF. So, there's something wrong with IDF's orders or the rules of engagement.

And there's clearly something wrong with Hamas ignoring all a century old rules and customs of war. That is: combatants have to wear clearly identifiably[sic] uniforms.

Hamas say over 6,000 of its men have dies and over 70% of the total are women and children, this would mean there are no civilian men casualties.

Isrrial has a lomg history of attacking the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

This post is misleading. Intentional?

Yet another design/maintenance/operating 'incident' waiting to happen...

In all seriousness: Scary.

Well that answers that, sort of.

Fifty injured after pilot ‘lost instrumentation’ on LATAM flight from Sydney to Auckland.

The pilot of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that plunged suddenly en route from Sydney to Auckland on Monday, injuring 50 people, reportedly told passengers after the terrifying incident that his “gauges just blanked out” and he “lost all ability to fly the plane”......

So just who was joining the mile high club in the cockpit and flipped the breaker while they were swinging from the chandelier?

Someone has made up CYA story.

Boeing may have hit some turbulence.
”Boeing whistleblower found dead.”

Points more towards a maintenance problem at United ATM.

Well that answers that, sort of.

Fifty injured after pilot ‘lost instrumentation’ on LATAM flight from Sydney to Auckland.

The pilot of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that plunged suddenly en route from Sydney to Auckland on Monday, injuring 50 people, reportedly told passengers after the terrifying incident that his “gauges just blanked out” and he “lost all ability to fly the plane”......

Yet another Boeing safety issue to follow...

National Transportation Safety board says the pilots of the Boeing 737 Max 8 “experienced ‘stuck’ rudder pedals during the landing rollout.”
United maintenance crews were able to “duplicate the reported rudder system malfunction” during a test flight three days later.
but cold temperature tests by the company that makes an autopilot servo that is connected to the 737 Max 8 rudder controls, Collins Aerospace, as part of the investigation revealed the servo’s “output crank arm would prevent the rudder pedals from moving.”
United said the faulty parts are not part of the typical configuration used on its aircraft. The plane was originally built for another airline but went to United instead.

Why do authorities approve such tech?

What could go wrong with such cost cutting?...

How can Trump win?...

How did Hitler win?

Actually, Hitler never won a majority in elections only a large proportion (44%) of votes.

But Communist and Nazi lunatics together had the majority preventing any moderate government.

Very strange in comparison for how Airbus stays out of the disaster news?...

No self proclaimed jackass is posting clickbait scare youtube videos? They aren't a leader so it isn't fun to kick them?

I'm sure it is psychology and nothing else.

I wouldn't call these Mentour guy's videos "clickbait scare". He has a talent to explain things in detail and with good visualizations for any layman. You could read hours of NTSB reports and still not understand a thing. He deserves the money for his 'clickbait'.

The Maximus guy is tiring for non-natives; a strange pronunciation he has... or an accent, a dialect... laziness to move lips... hmmm..

How can Trump win?...

Where's the red line representing a severe risk, demanding the immediate grounding of the fleet?

“The vessel was listed as operated by the Israeli company ZIM Integrated Shipping Services,” Ambrey said but added that [b][i]“this may have been an out-of-date affiliation.”

Dashcam videos on YouTube. The good, the bad and the ugly.
It was his fault officer and dashcam says differently.

that a cyber threat actor may be able to gain root-level persistence despite issuing factory resets
Based upon the authoring organizations’ observations during incident response activities and available industry reporting, as supplemented by CISA’s research findings, the authoring organizations recommend that the safest course of action for network defenders is to assume a sophisticated threat actor may deploy rootkit level persistence on a device that has been reset and lay dormant for an arbitrary amount of time. For example, as outlined in PRC State-Sponsored Actors Compromise and Maintain Persistent Access to U.S. Critical Infrastructure), sophisticated actors may remain silent on compromised networks for long periods.

I think there's much to recognize today that George Orwell foresaw back then.

Reports I have read say that the Houthis don't have the technology to cut cables that deep. It is also said that Iran also doesn't, which leads to the speculation it might be the Russians.

One of two things - either the court got the figures wrong and it should have been $900Million, or he's stony broke.
(No guessing which one my money is on.)

... As counted by Hamas.

And a dead Hamas gunman becomes Palestinian and a "martyr" upon death...

Isn't that murder with intent?

Materiel strength was the subject of a whistleblower lawsuit that Boeing settled with the Justice Department in September for $8.1 million. Two former Boeing V-22 composites fabricators had come forward with allegations that Boeing was falsifying records certifying that it had performed the testing necessary to ensure it maintained uniform temperatures required to ensure the Osprey’s composite parts were strengthened according to DOD specifications.

A certain temperature was needed for uniform molecular bonding of the composite surface. Without that bond, “the components will contain resin voids, linear porosity, and other defects that are not visible to the eye; which compromise the strength and other characteristics of the material, and which can cause catastrophic structural failures,” the lawsuit alleged.

In its settlement, the Justice Department contended Boeing did not meet the Pentagon’s manufacturing standards from 2007 to 2018; the whistleblowers contended in their lawsuit that this affected more than 80 Ospreys that were delivered in that time frame.

And if he wants to appeal that then he's doing to have to front up at least $400+M.

ROFLMFOA!!!!!

Unfortunately not. But he has to find an insurance company willing to sign a bond for that.

Can you name 1 stupid enough too take him on?

And if he wants to appeal that then he's doing to have to front up at least $400+M.

ROFLMFOA!!!!!

Figure 14 of the NTSB preliminary report shows the plug to be sitting correctly on the pads, and the four bolts missing.
I think you are talking about figure 9 in the report which is a post incident "reassembly" of one of the pads against its opposite number on the door, this photo is there to show how the damage on the pad and the plug line up, this is clearly not how it was in service as the pad has been removed from the airframe.

You can easily imagine small, semi-submersible drones which are even harder to detect.

And that the emergency slide ripped off

Note how Egypt refuses to accept entry of a single Palestinian...


All in our deadly political world?
Martin

Can you name a country willing to accept Palestinian refugees?

Unreinforced masonry?! A big no no here in the land of shakes.

Actually, what i noticed was the lack of cement between the bricks.
I'm sure there must be some in there (as there are a couple of sections of wall of half dozen or so bricks stuck together, and only a couple) but it's not particularly visible in either the side or front on view.

I bet that his insurance company won't be too pleased about it as that house is a write off.

Cheers.

As I read in the NTSB report, the bolts were present after the initial build. They were removed to facilitate the repair of the rivets.

The question is: why didn't the repair process include the creation of a checklist of all the consequential sub-processes required during the repair, and a check / signoff that they had all been reversed during re-assembly?

Corrected:

two massive civil judgments that could wipe out all the cash in his blind followers pocket.

- He's already run out of his own cash so now has to rely on the charity of fools.

I used to enjoy doing the drop-in inspections.
How to hide?
Travel by taxi, phone from taxi in the car park.
Get out of taxi and walk into reception and watch the panic. Then head to the seat of the biggest panic (all too often it was the coffee machine that chose my arrival to prompt its failure).

Last two posts are paywall.

They shouldn't be... Those are merely YouTube links.

I was under the impression that Airbus A320 had a full computer controlled anti-lock breaking system.

Yeah, but i'm wondering just how effective that would be in this situation- 250km/h, tricycle wheel arrangement, ice/ compacted snow instead of water causing the loss of grip.
Right hand wheel is still providing significant braking, while the left is providing little if any. At that speed & with that sort of torque, the front landing gear wheels wouldn't be providing a whole lot of lateral grip IMHO.

It was a very abrupt change in direction. From the cloud of snow/water/mud it appeared that both thrust reversers were active. Partial spoiler deployment i would have thought to cause a more gradual change in direction.

Weathervaning (from a cross wind), certainly a possibility, although the reported conditions at the time make it unlikely IMHO.
EYVI 031120Z 28013KT 4600 -DZ BR OVC003 04/04 Q0996 NOSIG
EYVI 031220Z 28013KT 5000 -DZ BR OVC003 05/04 Q0996 NOSIG
EYVI 031320Z 27012KT 5000 -DZ BR OVC003 04/04 Q0997 NOSIG
Although there was a crash at take-off in Colorado years ago due to weathervaning where the reported windspeed was within limits (from the take-off end of the runway, not the area where they started their take-off roll), but the actual windspeed where the aircraft was, was estimated to be almost double the maximum safe limit.

A very lucky landing.

ADS-B data show the aircraft drifting to the right during rollout. It entered the grass, crossed taxiway D before returning to the runway after about 450 meters.

I'll be interesed in the result of that investigation- my initial Wild Arse Guess is that the centre/right of the runway was clear, but the left hand side was covered in snow/ice.
Under full braking, the right-hand landing gear wheels grabbed, the left hand lading gear wheels lost all grip, causing the plane to swerve sharply to the right across the runway and off on to the grass.

The pilots did a good job to recover & get back on to the runway.

Popular Chinese outlets have been suggesting that events in Texas have led to deep divisions in the US widening to a point where unrest has become a stark reality.
Trending social media posts in China allege Mr Abbott was preparing to go to war with US federal authorities.
Posts with the hashtag #TexasDeclaresAStateOfWar have been viewed and shared thousands of times on the popular social network Sina Weibo. Some posts have been from a user with millions of followers.
Users are circulating pictures of the Texas Military Department flying a picture of a flag above its headquarters with the words "Come and Take It", which have led to domestic perceptions the state is stoking independence.
Old videos from Fox News are also circulating of vigilante groups dressed in camouflage to "defend the border".
There are also multiple videos being circulated from Chile of military tanks that are being misattributed to Texas.
Media messaging has made the idea of civil war more believable, as Chinese state media have regularly suggested that political divisions in the US are now so polarised that the country has reached the brink of internal conflict.
Some have suggested that Texas could see a similar situation to Ukraine - which is at war with Russia - noting the two regions have a similar land mass.
The phrase "civil war" has been used repeatedly in Chinese newspapers since the January 2021 Capitol Hill riot.
Social media users in China on Friday, for example, were able to read reports that Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis is sending up to 1,000 members of the National Guard to Texas.

The fatal mistake that caused this misery was made more than a decade ago.

Nearly 30 years ago, with the Boeing MD merger and Boeing using the MD accountancy model for company policy, instead of the proven engineering led model. Where if you design the correct models, profit will follow.

You mean the Military cost plus contractor model, where the bid is far below cost just to start the project.

And that's what you get with a company that's run by bean counters that can't even count beans to start with. The only beans that they can count correctly are those going into their own pockets.

This is one mentally ill person :(

The fatal mistake that caused this misery was made more than a decade ago.

Nearly 30 years ago, with the Boeing MD merger and Boeing using the MD accountancy model for company policy, instead of the proven engineering led model. Where if you design the correct models, profit will follow.

... but that was from the Airbus bible.

In that case, those instructions are displayed on the centre console display.

This is where I feel strongly that ALL passenger aircraft must be fitted, and those in service retrofitted, to include EICAS - ECAM to alert and guide the pilots without the need for fumbling the unwieldy encyclopaedias of paper checklists...

EICAS message: Cabin Depress -> Upon completion of Memory items as shown on emergency card at 4-7 ...

Those emergency cards aren't huge, they are usually just a recitation of the memory items...
1) Don oxygen mask
[...]
6) Pick up with step 5-102-AP on page 382 in abnormal procedures

It is the last item, the page number, for the rest of the checklist that is the one forgotten.

... And none of that "the way of Boeing" works when the paperwork has flown out the door during the hurricane force whoosh of depressurization, and the pilots are too stressed to be able to recite random parts of the Boeing Bible...

Pineapple Express is coming my way.
Comfortable temps but it's wet. Ground is soaked already. We expect over an inch where I live today. Much more in the foothills.

Explanation harvested from the sister café “The Seti is Slumbering Cafe”.

Just heard from Eric
"MySQL crashed probably because of some library updates. We're working on getting it back up."

20 odd years of being run by bean counters instead of engineers.

This is where I feel strongly that ALL passenger aircraft must be fitted, and those in service retrofitted, to include EICAS - ECAM to alert and guide the pilots without the need for fumbling the unwieldy encyclopaedias of paper checklists...

The real problem there is that of disconnected procedures and no "catch-all" checking.

This all suggests that Boeing production must be shut down immediately until they get their working safely in order.

Boeing, not Spirit, mis-installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet

Seattle Times, Jan 24 - The fuselage panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet earlier this month was removed for repair then reinstalled improperly by Boeing mechanics on the Renton final assembly line, a person familiar with the details of the work told The Seattle Times.

If verified by the National Transportation Safety Board investigation, this would leave Boeing primarily at fault for the accident, rather than its supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which originally installed the panel into the 737 MAX 9 fuselage in Wichita, Kan.

At last 'Social Media' gets the recognition it deserves?

Can anyone explain in a sentence or two what the significance of the "Chevron cases" before the SCOTUS is in relation to FAA's authority to regulate aviation? Or a helpful URL? For continental Europeans the American/British legal system (case law) is an inscrutable tangle of old judgments which are endlessly linked, intertwined, scrambled..., compared to our (in theory) "crystal-clear" legal texts based on Roman or French traditions.

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Delta mechanic fails to tighten nut holding tire rim onto axle. But in the press Boeing is responsible.

... Well... It is Boeing that writes the maintenance manuals and describe the checks that are required...

ps: Nope, this is not Boeing!

I'm also wondering what sort of motor & drive arrangement would turn in the correct direction for all modes other than flat out forward or reverse?

Congress must force Boeing to be better
It is unlikely yet another change in Boeing leadership could reform practices, rebuild corporate culture and restore confidence. The invisible hand of the free market pushed Boeing to seek ever-greater profit margins, quality be damned. That terrible dynamic won’t change with another C-suite restructuring.
Is this latest Boeing 'incident', the latest of too many 'incidents', now raising a question of the very existence of Boeing and the FAA?

How stupid could 1 possibly get?

Except...

At the present extremes seen in the USA and Canada: Diesel freezes and petrol (gasoline) goes 'waxy'...

So... What does it take to change that?...

But what gets me most is that my private pension is taxed AGAIN as it was funded by money I had already paid tax on.

Now you know why 1776

And probably wouldn't have happened today, as instant communications would have shown how well the colonies were treated.
The tax in New England was about 1 shilling per annum, in the UK it was 26 shillings.

But what gets me most is that my private pension is taxed AGAIN as it was funded by money I had already paid tax on.

He was actually Canadian...

The actor was.
Not the character.

What was the whisky, Canadian or Scotch?

Wow at 300 posts already.

These people certainly need to pay more taxes (that's if they're paying any at all).

(even subsidies) by governments

We will not lie, steal, or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does.

“Even if you vote and then pass away, it’s worth it,”

If there are Aussies funding them then they should be in jail.

The good news for Boeing is: The aircraft market is a duopoly. So, Boeing's very existence and success is important for each airline on this planet. They will order hundreds... thousands of new 737 Max in the future. If they wouldn't do so, Airbus would impose unjustifiably high prices for their A320 series.

YES. Or perhaps put the shareholder's wallet at risk if they don't choose safety first.

Ah wasn't that my favourite mantra in the past?
Make the fine so steep that it would be financially safer to fix the problem at the outset.
Hmm, pigs will fly 1st.

That speaks volumes of what they think of us "peasants".

The fiduciary duty to the shareholder comes before the peasant, BY LAW.

So you have to get rid of shareholders and the greedy stock market to get a cure to this system of profits above safety. ;-)

That speaks volumes of what they think of us "peasants".

I heard a brief snatch of a live BBC interview with an industry specialist - unfortunately it doesn't seem to be on the repeat list or available in text yet.

His suggestion was that in previous generations of aircraft the plug would be designed as a frustum - a truncated cone, like a bathplug - fitted from the inside. That would mean that during flight the air pressure differential would simply bed the plug even more firmly into its seating. It sounds obvious, really, but he suggested that the 737 Max was a design outlier in this respect. Anybody here able to confirm that?

What is it with all these leaky or stuck or corroded propellant/oxidizer valves?

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten breaks down new polling that shows a majority of Republican voters believe Trump's debunked election lie and a plurality believe FBI operatives were behind the riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Epoch Times saying they're "#1 trusted news."

Well I managed to take 50L out of my main IBC water tank and spread that around the veggies, but I'm going to have to find some dry bits of yard to drain more out of both until I can work out overflows for them.

White Settlement (Texas)

The cause has been found.

Newly-released transcripts of the fiery Japan air crash have contradicted the remarks made by one of the pilots.

....The transcripts cover a time period of approximately four minutes prior to the crash on Tuesday evening.

It confirms that at 5.44pm the JAL plane was cleared to land on runway 34R at Tokyo’s Haneda airport.

A few seconds later controllers contacted the Coast Guard plane and told it to “taxi to holding point C5”.

At 5.45pm, the Dash 8 crew member said “taxi to holding point C5, thank you”.

Those seven words means the smaller plane should have stopped short of the runway and waited for further instructions.

However, it appears that plane then entered the runway just as the A350 landed on top of it.

The only surviving crew member of the smaller plane had said he had been given permission to enter the runway. The transcripts appear to contradict this....

IT is what we allow it to be...

And exactly what greedy Marketing abhors in their never ending quest to sell you everything all over again, ad nauseam...

Elon is really turning into a tight ass.

Will the Republicans accept ANY vote other

Really? Is this the description of merely a bomb shelter?...

Is it tunnel network or bomb shelter?

Really??...

What "bomb shelters" are many kilometers long and branch off like a spider's web?...

... And are the exact size to drive small vehicles through?...

Really?...


‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown
wrote:

The sardines and mackerel were found floating on the surface of the sea near the fishing port of Hakodate in Hokkaido...

... an estimated 1,200 tonnes of sardines and mackerel were found floating on the surface of the sea off the fishing port of Hakodate in Hokkaido, forming a silver blanket stretching for more than a kilometre...

... hundreds of miles south of Hokkaido, were confronted with 30 to 40 tonnes of Japanese scaled sardines, or sappa...

... “There have been no abnormalities found in the results of water-monitoring surveys,” the fisheries agency said, referring to the water that has been pumped out of the Fukushima plant so far...

Mmmm...

Pure unsubstantiated personal random uneducated speculation upon my part: Trawler dumping of a low value catch to make space to grab a more profitable catch?...

Where did their surprising array of weapons come from?...

After a number of "mysterious" crashes action is being taken:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67693935

My choice of out takes is:

But Tesla said the system's controls "may not be sufficient to prevent driver misuse".

These people have decided what "auto-pilot" means ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/tesla-fsd-autopilot-wheel-weights/

An example of people that are too stupid to be allowed to hold a driver's licence.

It also an example of a Diet Coked fueled moron that calls adaptive cruise control "auto-pilot" when it's nothing like the real thing and then even the pilots running the real thing have to be vigilant just in case.

Call it for what it really is and stupid people may stop doing stupid things with it. ;-)

Hezbollah is a nation state? Since you insist. I guess that would be ISIL, Hamas, PLO too. So give them a seat at the UN!

No, I didn't say that. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and a major political party in Lebanon. Lebanon is the formal UN member state and obliged to adhere to UN resolution 1701. But you can ask who rules this state: its president? Uuuh a vacant position ... since 2022. It's government? Hezbollah's military power far exceeds that of the state's Army. How should Lebanese government disarm and remove Hezbollah?

In 1949 the UN had 51 founding member states (before de-colonization). Today there are 192.

After a number of "mysterious" crashes action is being taken:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67693935

My choice of out takes is:

But Tesla said the system's controls "may not be sufficient to prevent driver misuse".

The abundance of money leads to an unfree, dependent, completely degenerate society, pampered by a zoo of international nannies. A habitat for Hamas.

Qatar sent millions to Gaza for years – with Israel’s backing.
In 2018, Qatar began making monthly payments to the Gaza Strip. Some $15 million were sent into Gaza in cash-filled suitcases – delivered by the Qataris through Israeli territory after months of negotiation with Israel.

The payments started after the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Palestinian government in the Israeli occupied West Bank that is a rival of Hamas, decided to cut salaries of government employees in Gaza in 2017, an Israeli government source with knowledge of the matter told CNN at the time.

Israel approved the deal in a security cabinet meeting in August 2018, when Netanyahu was serving his previous tenure as premier.

The prime minister defended the initiative at the time, saying the deal was made “in coordination with security experts to return calm to (Israeli) villages of the south, but also to prevent a humanitarian disaster (in Gaza).”

Israeli and international media have reported that Netanyahu’s plan to continue allowing aid to reach Gaza through Qatar was in the hope that it might make Hamas an effective counterweight to the PA and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Someone should remind the historically-ignorant bozos in the GOP Congress of this, but I'm sure they'd just ignore it.

Hacked police files show US law enforcement agencies for decades received analysis of incidents in the Israel-Palestine conflict directly from the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli thinktanks, training on domestic “Muslim extremists” from pro-Israel non-profits, and surveilled social media accounts of pro-Palestine activists in the US.

There are intelligence folks to handle POWs.

But I think it's because of PLO's widespread corruption, lazyness and ineffective administration as long as they "ruled" the civil government of Gaza. They also never gained the power to stop the other terrorist groups' aggression against Israel.

Looks like the IDF has been told are all Hamas.

There's a war going on. Israel declares small-scale sectors as combat zones (a map of a hundred enumerated sectors in Gaza was published) and informs Gazans in advance of the sectors. Hamas fighters wear civilian clothes when attacking the IDF (a war crime btw.). So it is a reasonable assumption that men of military age who are found in declared combat zones are indeed: combatants. They are arrested, transported into custody; their background is checked.

Benji's opinion is based on his personal, decades long experience with such Palestinian terror. His opinion is wrong.

The PLO has (unfortunately?) lost its reputation there.

Asked about the video, a spokesman for the Israeli government told the BBC the men detained were all of military age and had been "discovered in areas that civilians were supposed to have evacuated weeks ago".

How sick is it when?

Israel's intention is not to massacre all Palestinians, but to destroy Hamas as an organization.

Gaza is nothing more than a modern concentration camp being used to eliminate innocent Palestinians.

Thankfully the truck was unloaded at the time or it could've been much worse.

If a politician wants to push religious (or racist) crap then you should run as fast as you can away from them!

I wonder how he'll pull this off when most of the population is starving.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un rallies nation to address falling birth rates.

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2: All political statements must be legally required to be accurate;

Good luck with that. Doubt it will ever happen. That's like letting the fox watch the henhouse.

Meanwhile in the deadly world of reality, the rocket fire continues, right from in amongst their very own Women, Children, Babies... All their very own people

How do we persuade the gods of the situation on all sides

Cannot happen because they all worship the same god.

But in self-righteously incompatibly different ways

We really need to include meaningful competency tests for our politicians!

These 1/2 plane, 1/2 flying fan Osprey "aircraft" have a bad history of crashing and falling out of the sky for no reason. IMHO I would not fly in it for that reason.

Dec 2 (Reuters) - An earthquake of at least magnitude 7.5 struck Mindanao in the southern Philippines late on Saturday, triggering evacuation orders for some areas and southwestern Japanese coasts because of warnings of tsunami waves of a metre (3 feet) or more.

The Philippine Seismology Agency Phivolcs said the waves could hit the Philippines by midnight (1600 GMT) and continue for hours.

The U.S. Tsunami Warning System said there could be waves of up to 3 metres above the tide level along some Philippine coasts.

Aspartame acts as a chemical stressor by elevating plasma cortisol levels and causing the production of excess free radicals. High cortisol levels and excess free radicals may increase the brains vulnerability to oxidative stress which may have adverse effects on neurobehavioral health.

Actually, I can't believe that any Russian doesn't rate this nonsense on Russian TV as such.

a senior officer who reviewed the intelligence considered the danger of a massive surprise attack by Hamas across the Gaza border to be “an imaginary scenario”

The atmospheric river did its thing. We have rain. Light at the moment but there have been some heavy bands. Currently 46f but the rain should let up and it will get up to about 62f.

Hah.. ROFL... I'm still laughing. Nevertheless, I think you're exaggerating when it comes to Texans. But I've never been there. I can't judge their mentality...

The dangers and costs of living next to avowed terrorists?...

Or is it that Hamas are three times more greedy ruthless in their bartering?...

If no explosives found, what made it explode?

However...?

The world would be so much nicer without religion and far right wing politicians continually spouting out their hate and calls for violence amongst their followers.

More religious Americans support the use of political violence.