For $199 a year you can have your $25,000 Chevrolet tracked mile by mile and automatically signal a control center when it wrecks, but a $300,000,000 plane can only send a 'ping' to a satalite that gives its position withing 1,000s of miles and can't tell anyone "I'm down".
Maybe ironic isn't a strong enough word.
Isn't it ironic
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BackInTex
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Isn't it ironic
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
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~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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Bob Juch
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Re: Isn't it ironic
It could have done more if it hadn't been disabled. It remains to be seen if that was intentional or due to a fire or electrical problem.BackInTex wrote:For $199 a year you can have your $25,000 Chevrolet tracked mile by mile and automatically signal a control center when it wrecks, but a $300,000,000 plane can only send a 'ping' to a satellite that gives its position withing 1,000s of miles and can't tell anyone "I'm down".
Maybe ironic isn't a strong enough word.
If a Chevrolet crashes so the battery is destroyed it probably won't be able to signal a control center either.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
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ghostjmf
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Re: Isn't it ironic
People are starting to make noises about the cargo of lithium batteries on board. Known to catch fire. Not known to cause planes to turn off course by themselves, though.
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Bob Juch
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The course change is consistent with them turning to fly to the closest airport if there was an emergency. However, the lithium batteries were supposedly few enough that they posed no danger.ghostjmf wrote:People are starting to make noises about the cargo of lithium batteries on board. Known to catch fire. Not known to cause planes to turn off course by themselves, though.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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lilclyde54
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Re: Isn't it ironic
Well yeah, that is definitely odd. To me, we have too many ways to be tracked in our lives.
I felt the change
Time meant nothing and never would again
Time meant nothing and never would again
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Bob Juch
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Does Houston have red light cameras?lilclyde54 wrote:Well yeah, that is definitely odd. To me, we have too many ways to be tracked in our lives.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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BackInTex
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Re: Isn't it ironic
I doubt Clyde would know, but, no, they all got pulled after 2 years. The company and the city are in a legal battle over the lost revenue.Bob Juch wrote:Does Houston have red light cameras?lilclyde54 wrote:Well yeah, that is definitely odd. To me, we have too many ways to be tracked in our lives.
Jersey Village, a suburb near where I live, still has them. But JV cops will give you a ticket for just thinking about speeding.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)