chedlin

On 6/25/2019 at 1:07 PM, DJL said:

Seems like that's a problem worth solving since you can't have an aircraft sitting on the tarmac not making money and rapid charging is bad for batteries.  If you can secure cargo adequately for flight I have to imagine that you can do the same for a design built element of the aircraft.

Edit:  And when you're talking about a comparison to the complexity of fueling, holding fuel and pumping fuel to the engines I have to imagine a purposed build module is quite an improvement.

I think you'll find that the industry effort is directed at fixing the "rapid charging is bad for batteries" problem instead of the swapping problem.  

Just watching that video is more uncomfortable than my first AFF exit.

This completely triggers my fear of heights, they are nuts.

If it's Trump vs Clinton I'm voting https://garyjohnson2016.com/.

I figure that's a better choice than not voting and I can still vote for fiscal conservatives in the other races.

Coverage varies regionally. In Texas AT&T has much better rural coverage than Verizon (The coverage maps seem pretty accurate for both). Verizon has better coverage nationally, but I would spend a few days a year in dead spots with them, and my AT&T service always works.

I lost one 10 year old nephew a few years ago. My Sister in law didn't need space, she needed as much love and support as the family could offer.

I cannot imagine the pain your family is going through. My deepest condolences.

Now to go check my smoke detectors again... My house has 9 ionic that are interconnected to alert us, 3 more photoelectric and 2 thermal sensors connected to a monitored alarm. I usually think it's excessive, but now, not so much.

My North Dakota relatives would say the cold keeps the riff raff out... Think that could be a factor?

I got my rig repacked after it sat a while. I mentioned to my rigger/instructor that was about to do my recurrency jump that I was going to do my 3 ring maintenance and was told she had just completed it as part of the repack. Perhaps I should have thought to have the discussion, but at least I was on the side of caution.

The poll didn't offer enough choices. I' probably do it every 45-60 days, so more than once or twice a season, but not every 30 days.

Good point. It's also important to stress that local and regional elections are very important. It's sad that turnout for city elections is usually less than 15%.

I will probably end up with an R vote, but Jim Webb would likely be my first choice at the moment. Kasich is my 2nd choice. Any of the current front runners will cause me to toss my vote to a 3rd party. But thanks to the electoral college, my presidential votes doesn't really count from a solid red state.

champu

In California the parents would be facing felony charges (see P.C. 25100 et seq) and I wouldn't have a problem if that law were more widely adopted in the country.

Class A misdemeanor (up to 1 year in jail) here in Texas, Sec. 46.13.http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/PE/htm/PE.46.htm.

My understanding would also be that mileage to and from would never be deductible unless it was to someplace other than your home DZ.

I am not an accountant or lawyer, so their advice should be considered.

I have read that one is correct, but I learned two and am making no effort to change. It's just reflex now. At least when I have a real keyboard and I'm not on my phone.

The person filming was an idiot. I don't care if he's not an adult. A 16 year old is probably more dangerous than most adults.

Now how it got from jaywalking to that... Not surprised given the way youth tend to react to authority these days.

billvon

I wouldn't recommend a battery based system for anyone unless they have unreliable power (as in a blackout a month or something.) They don't contribute anything to energy production and thus don't help you reduce any electrical usage.

The batteries will help if you don't have net metering (such as in the deregulated areas of Texas). I don't have solar now, but typical setups in my neighborhood allow you to sell your power for $0.04 and buy it for $0.08~0.10.

If you do have net metering (such as in Austin) than you have zero incentive, but other rate payers are subsidizing your solar.

I bruised mine on a bad landing (A wind gust knocked me over on top of a late flare), it took about 6 weeks to stop hurting, so I know it was bruised and not broken (takes a year or more!)

I didn't seek medical attention, but seriously considered it. Everything I read said that they don't do much to treat it if it's fractured.

Andy is the lawyer, not me, but I think you would have to go after them for the ENTIRE damages, not just the uninsured losses. Your insurance company probably has dibs on any partial settlement.

JohnMitchell

Not too long ago, one of my daughters had her car totaled and minor injuries when a teenage driver turned left in front of her. My daughter, of course, had a green light to go straight ahead and the teenage girl had a flashing yellow arrow. But the girl's mom showed up and coached her to lie and say she had a green arrow. To the cop that came, there was enough doubt he didn't issue a ticket.

Our daughter's insurance paid what the car was "worth", not what was owed, and didn't compensate our daughter for injuries, medical bills and time lost from work.

The cop isn't a judge, and the criminal standards for a ticket are higher than civil. The lack of a ticket shouldn't prevent you and your insurance company from pursuing further relief from the offending party. But it might be that the legal costs and uncertainty are too high without any proof.

Your addictinginfo link is interesting but also deceptive. BCBS of Florida was certainly ripping her off with the junk plan (I can't call that garbage insurance), but consumer reports didn't find her a $165/mo plan either.

They found her a $485 a month plan that the taxpayers pay 2/3 of.

Nobody is being honest in this debate. Our healthcare system has been terribly broken, and will still be. The free market doesn't work smoothly when demand is inflexible.

Nobody can ask how much their helicopter ride from the DZ to the trauma center is going to cost or wait until they can negotiate the best price. Then they get billed for the cost to keep the system on standby, something EVERYONE benefits from.

It's all in the Houston news. He was 21. No news on criminal record or CHL, but I will try to avoid bringing all of my assumptions into this. It pretty much speaks for itself.

In an interview with the birthday girl she said they had bouncers patting everyone down, and that these two refused and snuck in the back. One of the assailants was 17 years old, who cannot legally own a handgun or have CHL.

The sheriff said it pretty well. Once you feel the need to have pat downs you should probably reconsider the event.

It was a party for teens and they advertised it as BYOB. They had over 100 people there, and the houses in that neighborhood are not big, so the crowding must have been significant. I seriously doubt the shooters had any chance to miss hitting someone with each shot.

There is a very clear point that many will miss. Wage earners. That excludes most business owners, investment income, etc.

So what puts you in the top 15-20% overall puts you in the top 7%.

Our society has become too risk adverse. It used to be that the police themselves would run in risking their lives. Now they are too busy stopping adults from making their own decisions.

While this happened in a part of Texas with some well deserved stereotypes don't confuse our desire for freedom with a desire for this recklessness.

And the article plainly states she went to the child's grandparents' house because... That was the closest phone!

19 year olds can't buy or carry handguns. Texas law states that leaving a gun where a child can get to it is a felony if a child is harmed, class A misdemeanor if not. Texas gun stores post notice of this law.

There was a case in Austin where a truck thief killed someone while fleeing and he was charged with 1st degree murder. But the fact is a family was torn apart and you can't reassemble the dead person.

And when you consider the costs of air support and 20 police cars to chase someone I expect that is more than the value of most stolen vehicles.

It's a terrible calculus. If criminals think they will get away when the police won't chase them, they won't stop. But we really don't want people dying over cars and trucks.

I think the departments that leave it to officer discretion are on the right path, as they can judge the conditions. But the death I mentioned at the start of the post was after a 45 second chase. Frankly it probably would have happened even with no chase.

Lurch, I think you are failing to consider potential breakthroughs in sensor and diagnostic capability on robotic repair of cars.

How does a good mechanic diagnose a ball joint? Sound. Picture, pressure. We can now decode speech with 90+% accuracy using only the processor on a phone. How far are we from decoding these other sounds? Computer vision is coming a long ways.. Certainly this wouldn't work built into every car, but we are talking about robots to fix robots, they don't have to be built into the device they are fixing.

I'm not saying we are there, but industries that have been the same for decades can be changed quite suddenly and dramatically with the right innovation.