Re: Should Ireland invest in a ACF?

More the question is why the Russians fly long range bomber aircraft in Irish controlled EEZ airspace with its transponders off, then one asks about ability of the Irish to defend its own national sovereign airspace without asking others to do it and still wanting to remain neutral. Ask yourself th...

Re: Should Ireland invest in a ACF?

No, as discussed a lot before, for the same reasons. If they want to help out as regards their own security, North Atlantic cables etc and the Russian threat to it, Thales have developed a modular sonar system that they could fit to their OPV's. After they find and money and manpower to crew the ve...

Re: Can pilots/flight attendants refuse flying to certain destinations?

Canada considers DUI a felony and does not let persons with a DUI on their record to enter. There is a process to clear it but involves considerable waiting time post-conviction. At one time, 10 years since the offense with no other offenses was considered "rehabilitated". Yet, it was at ...

Re: Westjet Issues Notice For Pilot Strike Threat - Lockout Begins at 3AM MST on Fri May 19th

airtran737 wrote:

I stand with the pilots of WestJet and Swoop. Hold the line and fight for the contract that you deserve.

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

*) Although it must be said that this estimate has indeed panned out: Russia had to be crazy to embark on a mad scheme like the Ukraine invasion – the mistake was just underestimating the readiness of Putin to engage in such a self-defeating endeavour even so! I thought it was a tenet of military p...

Re: Mass Shooting in Farmington, New Mexico

Yet the Fatalities for Vehicle Miles traveled is still lower than when I got my Driver's license. Yet Murders and Fatalities are skyrocketing under all these new Guns. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/ And yet according to that link, ...

Re: The future of the A330neo

Honestly, the A339 needs some more range. Even the A333 is a bit disappointing in that regard. Notice that none of the ME3 ordered the NEO. Even European carriers may struggle to send it far east. If the -900 could fly from the gulf to the Americas, or Europe to far East Asia, maybe airlines would ...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

This week’s Perun video is about France, not Ukraine, its military posture, how it got there, how it’s foreign policy, including nuclear and deployments influence in particular the ground forces hardware, (with donations to Ukraine coming in here, with the CAESAR and AMX-10RC), as well as how they ...

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

This week’s Perun video is about France, not Ukraine, its military posture, how it got there, how it’s foreign policy, including nuclear and deployments influence in particular the ground forces hardware, (with donations to Ukraine coming in here, with the CAESAR and AMX-10RC), as well as how they ...

Vancouver for an Afternoon

My wife and I are taking an Alaskan cruise that ends in Vancouver in a week. Due to flight schedules and arrival times, we're spending the night in Vancouver the day that we disembark. We'll be staying at the Westin at YVR. Is there a light rail line into downtown? What is there to do for an afterno...

Re: Nevada decriminalized traffic tickets

Because it is not regarded as a crime any more. People will now think it is less serious. Because in much of the civilized world, it isn't considered a crime. Didn't you tell us once that you don't even own a car? That could color your thinking. Actually I think jumping a red light is serious. Doin...

Re: Nevada decriminalized traffic tickets

Not clear how reducing the penalties for motoring offences is a good idea. How are the penalties being reduced? You still have to pay the appropriate fine or other penalty for a minor traffic offence, but you don't end up being branded a criminal. Not seeing the issue here. Because it is not regard...

Re: Martinigue not popular where the UK?

davidjohnson6 wrote:

I think it is more likely that people choose an island for a holiday based on language spoken rather than "they used to be part of our Empire".

Re: Martinigue not popular where the UK?

It's considered part of France. I think the British would rather go to ex-British colonies.

Re: Subway rider charged in choke hold death

scbriml wrote:

johns624 wrote:

N1120A wrote:

I am correct.

How was he "asking for food and water"? Some homeless people can get quite aggressive.

So a deadly choke-hold was fully justified?

Re: Subway rider charged in choke hold death

He was asking for food and water. There were several individuals restraining the perp. He had threatened to kill people. There is a big difference in your stories. Which one of you is correct? I am correct. How was he "asking for food and water"? Some homeless people can get quite aggress...

Re: Patient portals

It seems like the problem isn't patient portals themselves, but the specific portals some of you have to deal with. They sound like a pain. Mine is easy to use.

Re: Patient portals

bunumuring wrote:

Ummmm,
What are patient portals?
Never encountered them here in Australia…
Thanks
Bunumuring

Re: Patient portals

The good thing about getting the test results back is that you can think of the questions that you want to ask the doctor ahead of time, at the follow-up appointment.

Re: Tesla stuck in underground car park.

Update: Tesla engineer arrived on site with no luck. he tried the bluetooth, tested the battery, no joy, his laptop was unable to communicate with the car, he is passing the problem back to HQ with a proposal the car is put onto remote tracks and then guided out of the underground car park like a d...

Re: Patient portals

They're great for getting test results.

Re: Multi City Airports - that are usually referred to by just one city…..

BWI-Baltimore Although the code is SEA, it's Seattle-Tacoma or SeaTac but nobody goes to Tacoma. The airport is in the city of SeaTac, Washington… which makes it interesting because I’m sure very few passengers have the city of SeaTac as their final destination. So I’d say that not as many go to Ta...

Re: Stopping the constant animation of ads?

I don't get any ads.

Re: King Charles coronation visitors

I don't know the details around the acquisition, but a 764 seems like such an oddball a/c to have in a royal flight operation. I'm assuming they got it for a good deal used and then spent millions on the interior. Those 77Ls of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea sure are pretty, as is Kuwait's A345. It...

Re: Aloha State Plans to Relocate Homeless to Mainland

Having said that, when I worked on the West Coast, there were still a lot of people who had underlying issues that just landed there and got stuck at the end of the line. Call vestiges of America’s “go west young men” settlement attitude, call it the end of the line, or whatever, but it’s real. The...

Re: Multi City Airports - that are usually referred to by just one city…..

BWI-Baltimore
Although the code is SEA, it's Seattle-Tacoma or SeaTac but nobody goes to Tacoma.

Re: Can pilots/flight attendants refuse flying to certain destinations?

Because I can’t take my firearm on international so I have to check my firearm into the airport when I leave the US and retrieve it when I get back. But if I get back in a different city and the pairing doesn’t go back thru the city. Then I have to go back on my time off to retrieve my firearm…. Ag...

Re: Las Vegas to LA rail project

As long as you have long passing sidings with high speed turnouts, it would take quite a bit of traffic to need full double track.

Re: NHL Playoffs - Florida Panthers restrict/ban Toronto fans

That's really petty. If you have that many unsold tickets that you're worried about that many Toronto fans, that says more about your fan base than anything else.

Re: R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot

He was a great songwriter and a wonderful performer. Sundown, you better take care/If I catch you creepin' 'round my back stairs." I was stationed in the Upper Peninsula in Michigan when the storm stuck that November day in 1975. Due to the weather our rescue teams couldn't launch.. I tell peo...

Re: California passes 1st-in-nation emission rules for trains

Dang, I don't want to have to go out of state to see old 567 and 645 powered dinosaurs. Other than me, I wonder how many here know what you're talking about without Googling it? :D Having grown up close to a locomotive yard, I think our DI3 had them. I can replay that sound in my head and smell the...

Re: California passes 1st-in-nation emission rules for trains

Nowhere near enough tractive effort. Our trains are 1.5-2 miles long and 20,000 tons with 200 cars. Think of Pilbara type trains and locomotives with big, long grades--Cajon, Donner and Tehachapi Passes. Most diesel locomotives in the US are already diesel-electric, i.e. the diesel engine only prov...

Re: New York State Bans Natural Gas in New Construction

The 'stone age' approach is to continue using Victorian era energy sources and technology as we watch them destroy the environment we live in. I'd be happy to go nuclear. The people who are against oil and gas are also against nuclear. Westinghouse came out with a production scalable reactor over a...

Re: New York State Bans Natural Gas in New Construction

The problem with Nuclear is the waste. Few people give much thought to the very long term, or simply assume that a quick, easy and above all cheap solution will materialise. While that is true, there are solutions to mitigate that issue. Newer generation of reactors can minimize the amount of long ...

Re: California passes 1st-in-nation emission rules for trains

Somebody either in this thread or the NY NG thread made a very good point. These states that are trying to prove how "green" they are, get stuff from states next door that aren't. Much of California's electricity comes from Arizona and Nevada, last I heard. So they really aren't green, the...

Re: New York State Bans Natural Gas in New Construction

The 'stone age' approach is to continue using Victorian era energy sources and technology as we watch them destroy the environment we live in. I'd be happy to go nuclear. The people who are against oil and gas are also against nuclear. Westinghouse came out with a production scalable reactor over a...

Re: Dominion v Fox Lawsuit

Remember the old "Reading is fun-damental" ad campaign? I guess that some don't...

Re: New York State Bans Natural Gas in New Construction

I remember a few years ago, coal was "bad" and gas was "good". Now, all of a sudden, gas is now "bad". Soon, wind turbines will be "bad" and so will solar panels. Back to the Stone Age we go. The lemmings keep chanting the newest refrain.

Re: What kind of vehicle do you drive?

Just starting up an engine is a visceral experience, whether it’s a V-12 or Car inline diesel. One great memory was flying formation with a P-51, the sound of pure power came thru despite sitting in an A-10 with a helmet on. Unlike any formation I’d flown before. I love engines, a whirling armature...

Re: Some observations about Bank of America

My observation about Bank of America is that their savings accounts pay lousy interest... The lousiest in the nation, 0.01%. I really do wonder what their reasoning is for keeping their rates that low when Citizens and BMO Harris are both offering 4.3% right now. (I don't think they're the only one...

Re: Global Entry/TTP taking forever?

n92r03 wrote:

Both my wife and I just renewed our Global Entry. Did it online, paid the $100 each and received the new cards about 2 weeks later in the mail.

Re: New York State Bans Natural Gas in New Construction

Being pragmatic. Another word for no change. Pragmatic means something that works, as opposed to problematic. In this case it is more a case of kicking the can down the road. You just can't change things if you don't have a viable alternative. EVs, electric heating and cooking...that's a lot of ext...

Re: New York State Bans Natural Gas in New Construction

Serious question. Back when Hurricane Sandy hit and the power had gone out for an extended period of time (more than a week), with a gas stove, you could at least still light it up and cook something. What are you going to do if the same should happen again and you're running on electric. Same with...

Re: New York State Bans Natural Gas in New Construction

Serious question. Back when Hurricane Sandy hit and the power had gone out for an extended period of time (more than a week), with a gas stove, you could at least still light it up and cook something. What are you going to do if the same should happen again and you're running on electric. Same with...

Re: What kind of vehicle do you drive?

Mk7 GTI daily driver. First non-manual transmission car I've ever owned. Fun cars are a 1975 Porsche 911 and a 1988 BMW M3. 1988 M3! Wow, a proper M3 and not a modern turbocharged pretender! The current M3 does not have a turbo. It does however have a wonderful, wonderful electric engine and is mad...

Re: Greatest living composer

M564038 wrote:

at the same time you claimed the real lift comes from the window vipers and farting guy in seat 8B!

Re: Greatest living composer

-judged by every bassist worth their salt as being one of the foremost, best, most innovative and distinctly groovy and melodic bassists of all time. Okay, so you really like him. I am an amateur bass player and I have to tell you that I have respect for him but I don’t like the sound of his bass a...

Re: Maybe not so „1-China“ policy by China Eastern?

This sounds like the same thing that brings so much confusion when landing in USA from another country. When coming from another country, you ALWAYS have to pick up your checked luggage in your FIRST point of arrival, regardless of your final destination. This is because you and your belongings hav...