Re: Always open
If they are properly apologetic the plane will land before they are kicked out.
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Plate Tectonics and weathering move places on the Earth by more than 1mm a year relative to each other.
Presumably they have their grid's origin defined as one particular point and measure movement relative to that?
Does anyone know what that point will be?
Back in the 80s we had to install a bridge to isolate the consultancy section of the office. They all used the then new Amstrad PC compatibles, which would randomly stop forwarding the tokens on the Token Ring Network and bring down the network for the entire building. We separated them with the bridge and let them get on with it.
"It's been said countless times before, but people like that don't really want or support "freedom" or "freedom of speech" (*2), and never did. They want freedom from consequences, and only for themselves."
Conservatism: the idea that the law should serve but not bind the wealthy, and should bind but not serve the poor.
Reminds me of a post on LiveJournal some years back. The IT staff came back to the computer room after a long weekend (Easter?) to find two things:
1> An angry note from a non-IT higher up pointing out that they had gone off and left the air-conditioning running when nobody was in, and he had had to harass Security into letting him in to the computer room to switch it off so as not to waste all that power.
2> Lots of very unhappy servers which were no longer serving anything.
Flight two of the Starship Super Heavy improved on its predecessor, but only if you imagine that your self-driving electric car did not crash into a tree and catch fire. Instead, it made it a bit farther down the road, and then caught fire. Who knows, maybe it'll get all the way to the shops before catching fire on your third go?
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up.
"because additional checks and balances are in place to confirm identification following system alerts."
Which is very reassuring to the person they reluctantly release after hours of interrogation.
And to the person who gets stopped on a daily basis because they resemble someone the police are looking for (e.g. they are both black).
"There is also a huge concern that photographs of police on undercover units, surveillance or in sensitive areas like counter-terrorism could fall into the wrong hands,"
The terrifying possibility that women in entirely legal protest groups might find out that their 'boyfriend' is an undercover Met officer spying on them and all their friends and using them as a useful tool.
I'm having some work done on my house. Just simple updates. This has required several different tradesmen with different skills learnt over an apprenticeship, and kept up to date by having continuous work in that speciality. Just to do simple updates to a standard house.
How many people would be needed to support those tradesmen? How long would a Martian colony last if unable to do that kind of simple job to maintain the colony?
Now look at the industry needed to produce high technology. Hundreds of small firms doing specialised jobs, each with their own skills. How is a Martian colony going to reproduce all those?
Now look at computer chips, which are now utterly essential to run our tech. These are cheap because they are sold in vast numbers, but they are produced in factories that cost multiple billions. How is a small colony going to economically produce the very large number of different chips needed to keep its tech going?
Or just the people and resources needed to mine and refine the materials needed.
I very much doubt that a colony without those resources could survive on Mars.
at least some of them are hoping to find a loophole in it...
They are desperate to find a loophole in it.
We have two astoundingly successful theories, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, but they give completely incompatible descriptions of how the Universe works.
At least one of them must be flawed somehow, but physicists have been trying for nearly a century to find such a flaw.
It hasn't happened. Neither of them have ever produced incorrect results in an experiment.
"looking beyond that and finding out WHY that pilot error happened."
The pilot misheard a message about waiting for takeoff and thought it was clearance for takeoff.
Fix: Aircraft now wait for 'departure'. The word 'takeoff' is used ONLY when giving or cancelling clearance for immediate takeoff.
Result: No more Teneriffe.
There might not be another side. Just hook it out.
Take an old wire coathanger, use pliers to roughly straighten out all but the hook. You now have a few feet of stiff wire with a hook on the end. Perfect for ferreting round in narrow gaps and hoiking out whatever rolled/fell there, or grabbing things which are just out of reach.