NCD is leaking again.

In particular, I expect that the final report will contain a lot more analysis of FADEC telemetry from the FDR. That simply wasn’t analyzed in time for the preliminary report.

1. Wait for the final report on Air India before taking any regulatory decisions.
2. There’s no real technical limitation today on doing this to the safety-critical engineering standards that are demanded on the flight deck. The first CVRs were based on the old half inch tape technology, and they only recorded something like 20 minutes on a circular tape.
3. Wait for the final report first; but exactly what additional information do you hope to get off the video feed that won’t be on the CVR + FDR? I am skeptical that this accident will not be “solvable” from the information that is available.
4. If the regulators want to fight the pilot unions on this, they can. And they can probably win. Pilots don’t necessarily have a ton of leverage on this kind of issue.

Okay. These are getting better and better.

Are the kids still printing things on paper for class these days?

As a country, we made a law that the ER has to treat you no matter what regardless of your financial status. That is an ultimate backstop: if people are about to die, as a society we decided that they should not if there is a means to prevent it.

Medicaid is there to allow some people to go to regular doctors to save a couple of bucks vs. the ER. And it also pays for a lot of nursing homes.

I guess what I’m saying here, is the headline is kinda misleading. ICE wants the data, true, so they can find deportation targets. But it’s probably more about inflicting additional cruelty, forcing people to ERs instead of clinics; or cutting funding to health care providers and forcing rural hospitals to close.

He probably wants to read your mail.

Bove is the guy who told his underling lawyers to tell the courts to “fuck you”* on the AEA planes and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He made Drew Ensign and a couple of others lie to a federal judge, which is a serious problem for a lawyer and officer of the court. I suspect that Joseph Mazzara perjured himself over this stuff, which means that Bove likely suborned perjury.

Bove has absolutely no business getting a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, where he will enjoy judicial immunity.

*Those words are a direct quote from Bove.

At least they didn’t make you do it the original way, with the Bellamy salute:

Doesn’t a Google Pixel device come with its own OS image by default, independent of Graphene OS? Is there some kind of step that we’re missing here?

Clearly not, because $country did all this shit, and capitalism did not collapse, somehow…this time.

Fun fact: the Big Three US American credit unions have a time horizon of seven years. This is set by law. This fucks me, because all my credit accounts are older than that. But the seven year horizon is good for this guy and folks who have declared bankruptcy.

Meanwhile, Nintendo positioned this method to compete with Aladdin, which simply hired Walt Disney animators to do the sprites.

When this country was founded, tariff revenue was enough to fund the entire federal government. Those days are long gone, and they’re not coming back.

Nowadays, there are basically two reasons to play the tariff game. 1. Extract tariff concessions from your trading partners, and 2. Encourage domestic production. The problem is, if you’re going for #1, you have to be willing to drop your tariffs at the drop off a hat to make a deal. If you’re playing #2, the people that build factories and whatnot want assurances that the tariff supports will be in place for years and years.

So you can see that there’s an inherent trade-off between #1 and #2. To some extent, you cannot serve both masters. But Trump has been playing both strategies at the same time without a care in the world. There are… consequences… to doing that, which I am sure we will all get to experience.

Edit: okay, okay. This Bolsonaro thing is a brand new strategy #3 which I’m calling… Oh geez… I gotta go buy some more beer.

In the previous opinion, SCOTUS didn’t say that nationwide class actions or APA suits are legal. They just declined to rule on those, and I believe a justice said class actions might be viable substitutes in a concurring opinion.

My guess is we’re going to find out what they think about this class action pretty fast.

Exactly. This is completely insane. The DoD has the negotiating leverage to write these right to repair requirements into their RFPs, specifications, and contracts. The idea that their procurement offices simply failed to do this boggles my mind.

Back in the war, if you had a winning design, you were required to license it, full drawings included, to many different manufacturers at fair prices. The Defense Production Act is still on the books, and it contains a lot of power to control the economy. Why is DoD handcuffing themselves?

Richard Reid is serving three consecutive life sentences, plus 110 years on top, for the original shoe bombing plot. The shoes contained 10 ounces of C4. He resides at ADX Florence.

A while back, people in Florida built an absolutely massive airport in the middle of the Everglades. They wanted to build the next big regional hub covering all of South Florida, but that never happened. So there’s a massive gigantic 12,000 ft runway, huge amounts of concrete apron, and space for a big passenger terminal that was never built. The runway remains open as a general aviation airport, and was until now mostly visited by students to practice touch and go landings.

My points:

1. The article summary saying it’s an airport used for training is true, but slightly misleading.
2. There’s a lot of things about this place that make logistical sense for the type of operation they want to do: cheap rent or land, lots of available concrete, not actually new build (easier environmental impact statement), easy on site access to a massive airport that can support jets of any size, low amounts of air traffic, and secluded from public view.
3. It’s not actually in Everglades National Park, and they aren’t filling in wetlands, like I’ve seen some say.

Non-Euclidean geometry was developed by pure mathematicians who were trying to prove the parallel line postulate as a theorem. They realized that all of the classic geometry theorems are all different if you start changing that postulate.

This led to Riemannian geometry in 1854, which back then was a pure math exercise.

Some 60 years later, in 1915, Albert Einstein published the theory of general relativity, of which the core mathematics is all Riemannian geometry.