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  1. From the Seattle Times article, this in inexcusable by Boeing and the FAA  

    The limit of MCAS’s command was 2.5 degrees.

    That number was new to FAA engineers who had seen 0.6 degrees in the safety assessment.

    “The FAA believed the airplane was designed to the 0.6 limit, and that’s what the foreign regulatory authorities thought, too,” said an FAA engineer. “It makes a difference in your assessment of the hazard involved.”

    The higher limit meant that each time MCAS was triggered, it caused a much greater movement of the tail than was specified in that original safety analysis document.

    The discrepancy over this number is magnified by another element in the System Safety Analysis: The limit of the system’s authority to move the tail applies each time MCAS is triggered. And it can be triggered multiple times, as it was on the Lion Air flight.

    One current FAA safety engineer said that every time the pilots on the Lion Air flight reset the switches on their control columns to pull the nose back up, MCAS would have kicked in again and “allowed new increments of 2.5 degrees.”

    “So once they pushed a couple of times, they were at full stop,” meaning at the full extent of the tail swivel, he said.

  2. Smashed ritz crackers and Louisiana fish fry (natural, no seasoning) is how I fry my trout. Pan fried, meunière style, canola and butter, sometimes a little squeeze of lemon. Everybody says it’s the best fish they’ve had. Sometimes I fry it al dente, boat it and hit it with some Herdez and a dash of pics on top, and finish on the grill or in the oven.

  3. 3 hours ago, DaysOff said:

    We have maybe 10 airframes thus far of 165 ordered give or take. I've flown the thing maybe 5 times, but haven't seen it in 6 weeks. Currently on vacation, but my first trip after is with a MAX. Thoughts and prayers.

    The thought of getting on a plane the captain has flown “maybe 5 times” is comforting.

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  4. I first noticed Rami in The Pacific, where I thought he was an amazing actor.

    I haven't seen Bohemian Rhapsody yet but in watching that video above I was like:

    Fucking A I recognize that guy! 

    Joseph Mazello, who played Eugene Sledge in HBO's The Pacific, alongside Rami Malek, who portrayed Merriell "Snafu" Shelton, also played the part of John Deacon in Bohemian Rhapsody.

    If you haven't seen HBO's The Pacific I highly recommend it. Snafu is hilarious.

    (I see this has been posted previously but I didn't read it until now)

     

  5. 44 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    DAs covering for lying shitbag cops?  Never heard of it happening before...

    Same shit happened to me yesterday when I exposed a cop committing perjury and tampering with a governmental record on an essential allegation in a search warrant affidavit.....and then I got him to admit he had done it a few more times!

    Prosecutor: “Yes, he misstated what took place. But we felt it was nothing intentional.”

     

  6. On 6/16/2018 at 10:31 AM, 4th and 5 said:

    According to a press release from the Sheriff’s Office:

     “A search warrant served on Mr. Winslow’s residence yielded a computer that indicated he had recently Googled the directions to Betty White’s home.”

    She better watch out 

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  7. On 2/15/2019 at 8:00 AM, Eggo said:

    You may be right, but in the process of doing some instagram investigating, I stumbled upon this UT alum turned Mavericks dancer. The internet is wonderful.

     

    Side note: Girl on right is Andrew Beck's lady.

     

    Side note: girl on left is my friend’s daughter 

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  8. This is a great thread. I need to see this and A Star is Born. Who are the best front man in rock and roll history?

    i think it is in no particular order 

    Plant

    Mick

    Morrison

    Freddie

    Daltrey

    call me crazy but:

    Tyler

    Axl, on a good day

    Sammy

    And maybe checking in at the bottom of the list, Diamond Dave

     

     

     

     

  9. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yeah.  HPD would never do anything like that.  Except, you know, it's a documented fact (from an actual court case) that it was a widespread department practice (read the below, and understand that "throwdowns" often came via seizing a gun from an earlier suspect):

    The risk is too high?  It can't happen here?

    It literally has happened -- hundreds/thousands of times.  You think that STOPPED after the Webster case?

    I'm sure it happens. Do I think a 1977 event in Houston represents the current state of affairs? No. I've been doing this 22 years and have never been told by a client they had a gun seized but not accounted for.

  10. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

     

     

    Now, I'm just spitballin' here....but the deal is that 96% of his no knock warrants REPORTED no guns recovered.  My hypothesis is....maybe these cops were lying.  Maybe sometimes they DID recover some firearms, and instead of listing them on the report, they either kept them for their own use, kept them as potential throw-downs for future use, or sold them.  I know, WACKY hypothesis. Surely honest police officers like these would never do such a thing.

    I doubt this is the case. Defense lawyers would be told this and make a stink unless the firearm was stolen, in which case the defendant would have probably been charged anyway. And theft of a firearm is a Texas felony and federal felony, and with firearms having serial numbers, it is much unlike pocketing some drug dealers cash or drugs. Not worth the exposure.

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