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Asithappens

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  1. In a quest to cut costs (and, it seems, to see how far idiocy can become a strategic objective) Boeing cut off the input from their own test pilots. Boeing Co. BA 0.18% limited the role of its own pilots in the final stages of developing the 737 MAX flight-control system implicated in two fatal crashes, departing from a longstanding practice of seeking their detailed input, people familiar with the matter said. As a result, Boeing test pilots and senior pilots involved in the MAX’s development didn’t receive detailed briefings about how fast or steeply the automated system known as MCAS could push down a plane’s nose, these people said. Nor were they informed that the system relied on a single sensor—rather than two—to verify the accuracy of incoming data about the angle of a plane’s nose, they added. Investigators have linked faulty sensor data to the flight-control system’s misfire, which led to crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that took 346 lives. https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeings-own-test-pilots-lacked-key-details-of-737-max-flight-control-system-11556877600?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=4
  2. Well, if Laura says it then it must be true.
  3. Probably right, but I can see the "loyalty" being to the party and not to the person (or so the argument would go). I can see some (countless???) members of Congress supporting Trump b/c they would be supporting the party.
  4. Let me respond to that statement by running it through the GOP/Conservative Automated Response Bot: "The guy who was shot by the cop was black. What part of that don't you understand? Murica."
  5. Maybe, except that there's a good argument that Semenya is a man. Undescended testicles and all that. The doctor at the time of delivery (from what I've read) told the family that the child was more boy that girl (hermaphrodite; now called intersex) but for some reason the family with the female route. Strange case, that's for sure.
  6. That Mueller conducted a thorough investigation and found sufficient evidence of wrongs to pursue an indictment, whether that would break precedent or not. Mueller bailed. He left the hard work to a Congress that he (Mueller) knows won't act.
  7. Don't know what that has to do with any of this. It certainly wasn't Maher's take on the matter, imo.
  8. Bill Maher was pretty critical of Mueller on his last show. Maher was mostly correct, imo.
  9. That ship is reportedly owned by the Scientologists. Oh, the irony. It burns. It would burn more if they were Christian Scientists, but the burn is there nonetheless.
  10. You just answered your own question.
  11. Caster Semenya just an athletic arbitration case. The highest court in sports has ruled that the regulations adopted by track and field's international governing body regarding women with high levels of testosterone are discriminatory but necessary to ensure fair competition in female athletics. Bottom line seems to be that she was born more a boy than a girl.
  12. Yes, they are not exactly the same but there are some commonalities. A lot of things in common.
  13. I was wondering where Aaron Persky landed his next judging gig after he was thrown out of office in the Peninsula.
  14. Hey Pete, you know that this whole "maintaining the herd immunity" thing really comes about by having robust immunization standards, right? Pete? Do go stupid on us, Pete.
  15. That's just some weird shit. I think Boeing has some Russia-type bots posting here.
  16. Boeing Co. on Monday said certain safety alerts on its 737 MAX jets didn’t operate as airlines would have anticipated because of a previously undisclosed error on its part. https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-signals-additional-software-problem-affecting-737-max-airliners-11556592646?mod=hp_lead_pos1
  17. I agree. I mean, being a Christian still requires some kind of adherence to the teachings of Christ.
  18. 1. Franklin is Billy's son. Franklin is no Billy, that's for sure. 2. I guess a Christian can be anything they want, but to me, a Christian sure as hell isn't going to be libertarian. Unless their religion has completely removed the teachings of this dude called Jesus. Jesus called on us to help others, not to go on some kind of Ayn Rand blitzkrieg. But I could be wrong.
  19. Yep. We're getting back to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory days, in that the worker is nothing and profits (and the consequences of pursing them over all else) are everything. Employees get killed. Customers get killed. The company still makes its profit.
  20. Siap, but I read that the pilots on one (maybe both) of the downed planes followed the Boeing flight manual to the letter. The manual said nothing about this "glitch". This is on Boeing.
  21. What kind of organization do you have to have where Ollie North has the moral high ground? Ladies and Gentlemen: The NRA!
  22. This is the same mentality exhibited by liberals on college campuses who don't like the message (or messenger) from conservative speakers. They label the issue as "hate speech" and get their panties in a twist. Applying reasonable (yes, reasonable) restrictions on guns isn't "fucking" with the 2nd A. But then, that's the same logic used by labeling the discussion as "hate speech". You're never going to change the minds of people like this.
  23. An America where reasonable gun control laws are called for is now described as "hate speech".
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