7) Your able to think for yourself, ... .... *You're :roll: You're right! I guess we'll never solve the mystery to how so many people thinking for themselves were able to nevertheless transmit COVID-19 to so many other people who were also thinking for themselves. It will stand as one of history's ...

I'm kind of a latecomer to this discussion, so bear with me. So there's a respiratory disease making the rounds, which is pretty reliably reported to be quite serious, and which is transmitted mostly through contact with droplets that emerge from an infected person's mouth and nose. It's been satisf...

It wouldn't be the end of the world if certain "high net worth" people became "high viral load" people. As long as they stay in their executive mailing-tubes and stay away from the rest of us.

Hey guys, I was thinking of getting one of those "big green egg" charcoal grill/smoker things. My neighbour loves his. But I see now there's this "Kamado Joe" brand which looks very much the same. Does anyone have any experience with these? Are they just a knockoff?

In a pilotless airplane the autopilot will likely be the last working system in an airplane with dual engine failures and total power loss. It bloody well better be!! The thing that pisses me off about automation is the expectations vs the realities of its true benefits. I do believe that there isn...

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That is definitely a challenge. ..Who trained the first pilot? Well, having trained many very experienced pilots in these airplanes ......, making the completely uninformed assumption these aircraft or the job are anything like boring holes in the circuit with your Cessna 172. redacted to eliminate...

Sometimes I amuse myself (during those long automated cruise segments) by imagining an alternate universe in which technology rolled out differently than it did in this one. I like to imagine a world where aeroplanes have always been automated, ever since they were invented. Like for some reason, el...

My prediction is that there will continue to be human pilots in the front of airliners as well as increasingly capable auto pilots, until such time as they invent a system that is sufficiently advanced to function as an auto-SCAPEGOAT.

Lol... anything less than shooting the poor for sport is Marxism from the batshit crazy fringes of the far right. Ha ha you said it. Having ones' constant oozing of right-wing opinions interrupted briefly with a different one, and then claiming "this isn't the place". Certain people don't seem self...

tsgas wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:41 pm You sound like a Trudeau voter.

Look, everyone! I've Identified *that* post, you know the one where a conversation in "AvCanada" looks like it's going to go OK until someone decides he's had enough and shits in the punch-bowl.

tsgas, you're to be congratulated on your perspicacity.

Helping your shareholders, the majority of whom are not wealthy, doesn’t count? Companies are owned by collections of individuals. No. This is what I do, BTW, and it's gone too far. Way, way too far, shareholders at the expense of labour. Your communism always fails in the end. Learn from history w...

The motivation is robbing people of their livelihoods. The motivation is saving money. The steam engine, the jacquard loom, and the computer have all been accused of the same. In all cases, the complaints have been futile. If you're familiar with English history you'll know how the term Luddite cam...

The skytrain uses a "moving block" system- that's different from the traditional block signalling system. It requires computers and real-time communications between trains and a central computer. Anyway whether you're talking about a modern, computerized centrally-controlled moving-block system or a...

As for automation for flying, CN rail still has operators. Have you ever rode the Skytrain in Vancouver ? There's a very large difference between a 4 car people mover and a 100+ car 14000 ton freight train with air brakes and 150 feet of slack moving over uneven terrain. "Finesse" seems like a stra...

I agree. While I don't consider myself to be left or right-leaning, maybe a political scientist could help me work that out. I am more interested in what is true and what is not true. I suppose when it comes down to what is "fair" and "not fair" is the subjective part that divides people into polari...

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The time has come to fully tax robots, the same level of tax as the human they are replacing. Automation must be taxed. I read this and gave it a good long think. Before commenting on some issues, I try to understand why I feel the way I do about them. Like why do I have such disdain for automation...

The paint legally has to be a proper antifouling paint registered with health canada as such. There are big fines for non compliance. Antifouling paints contain copper or zinc to prevent attachment of organisms including vegetation. Used on sailboats and other big ships Well there's two distinct ki...

Rockie asked “Does it think?” No. It was designed to replace you in the cockpit. :smt040 Maybe intended as a humorous comment, but not without a grain of truth. There are airlines in Canada right now flying with first officers in the right seat of large turbojet aircraft who have 250 hours of singl...