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Of course it does. There are thousands of documented examples of this precise process working and producing good results.

Government _is_ the people. It's inappropriate to use it as a tool to bully the people.

Other than a nearly identical uniform that says CAS in place of TSA there is no apparent difference. Which is why I probably didn't even realize. In any case my return leg was delayed so I rented a car to drive back and have never returned to commercial flights since.

> a commercial airfield

Your "commercial airfield" may actually be two airfields in one. This is not uncommon. There is a "commercial" side which is where public carriers usually work and there is a "private" side which is where individuals and often cargo works.

Aside from this there are plenty of private airfields in Germany.

> ultralight aircraft because these are about as dangerous as a car

The cool things about vehicles is you can put things in them. Things like explosives. The incredibly low tech version of this is currently in use in some parts of the world, and that is where you attach a mortar to a drone, then go drop it on a target.

The last I was in San Francisco International the TSA staff came barreling out of their door and the first agent out yelled into the terminal, "MAN! I really hope someone opts out today! I can't wait to give that guy a serious patdown."

They're trained to operate in an unethical way.

You write a letter and hopefully that solves it.

You then hold a committee meeting and hopefully that solves it.

You finally change federal law and usually that solves it.

If it doesn't you have to start arresting people to foment change.

This is not a gentle tool.

You've precisely described the reason I will not fly commercial anymore. All of this surveillance has a chilling effect. On citizens, on business, on international trade.

Flying privately requires none of this. Which is how you know they're not serious about security but about control of the masses.

Also, the thing you're ignoring, and perhaps why you fail to understand the problem, is you haven't bothered to ask what the false positive rate is. Would you enjoy being stopped and arrested by very cocksure police simply because a computer made a mistake and they refuse to believe that?

> Well Iran sponsors Hamas terrorism in Israel

So two wrongs make a right?

> how is "Syria bombing Syria" suddenly justified

It's not. Nowhere in my statement did I attempt to justify it. I explained the context so that people wouldn't walk away confused as to what that short sentence actually means.

Apparently that context being added irritates you. That is interesting in it's own right.

> Can you tell me

Anthony Fauci, the entire CDC, and even the White House presented that as an initial timeline. When "the lockdowns" started that was the official position. After they were in place it quickly slipped to three weeks, then we don't know, then "long enough to flatten the curve" or maybe "until everyone gets a booster."

> specifically which experts

Let's not devolve to senseless parsimony over this topic again. All of this is well documented and if you actually wanted to know you could have easily found it yourself.

I doubt people are willing to be bullied into shutting down their businesses and fully putting their lives and children's educations on hold because white coat wearing talking heads on TV told them it would only take two weeks.

The USA sponsors ISIS terrorism inside Syria. I wonder if that's why they are in the position to "bomb themselves."

It's worth mentioning that this is an externally state sponsored "civil war" on both sides. The most appropriate description is "proxy war."

X11 is fine. It's mostly just Video Games that need an alternative. It'd be nice if there was a "pause X11 video card control and give exclusive access to a single application." Then there's no need to care.

> Why can't I await in a normal function?

You can. promise.then(callback). If you want the rest of your logic to be "blocking" then the rest of it goes in the callback. the 'then' method itself returns a promise, so you can return that from a non async function, if you like.

> why can't I launch multiple async functions, then await on each of them, in a non-async function that does not return a promise?

Typically? Exception handling semantics. See the difference between Promise.race, Promise.all and Promise.allSettled.

Well, until it is, I'm not wasting a minute of my time on it.

> Native apps are better

Native operating systems are garbage at maintaining user privacy and become maintenance burdens when too many applications have been installed and even uninstalled on the machine.

While not perfect, a browser tab is a stronger sandbox than you can easily get in any other context.

The vapor burns at a different temperature from the liquid. That's fun.

Just add a USB 10 key keyboard. Actually, it'd be neat if they made a keyboard with a detachable 10 key portion. Add a USB port so it can plug into the larger keyboard as an accessory.

Redundancy is not error checking. The "error correction" mechanisms are actually just "proofreading" mechanisms and are almost entirely local and centered around transcription. Common mode errors are harder to induce due to the plain redundancy of DNA pairs but also not impossible, and once induced, are impossible to locally notice or correct. In some cases the "error correction" machinery is the cause of these induced errors. The result is genetic disease and/or cancer and is a case of missing error _checking_. Perhaps my definition was exceptionally parsimonious.

> with no medical care [...] something no computer or man made complex machine comes close to.

That's because we get far more units of "work" out of our machines than the person living for 70 years with "no medical care." Some people live just 30 years with no medical care too. And the machine does not need to sleep. We eat food they eat lubrication oil. I don't think this was a good analogy.

> it's still mostly a total mystery why we aren't immortal

While we haven't pinpointed the mechanism, we have a pretty good idea of why, and where in the system we should be looking for the answers.

> but for some reason get worse and worse at doing so over time.

You are a living Ship of Theseus and these "error correction" mechanisms are not perfect. Aside from this there are known genetic disorders which alter the rate at which people age. This is not nearly as mysterious as you're making it out to be.

> there are many animals that live ~4x human lifespans

And what are their resting respiration rates?

> and at least one species of jellyfish that is biologically immortal.

In theory. We haven't found an immortal one yet. They all die. They're also nowhere near our level of biological complexity or capability.

Yea, except without error checking, and fully analog technology.

Although, "single cosmic ray upset events," are just as devastating.

The marketing is astounding.

"Weight-loss drug."

Oh, would that be Semaglutide?

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Hey, would you look at that!

You are unwilling to adhere to your own standard? Interesting. What happened? Was it that someone else used this technique against you in the past to make you feel small? And now you've stored in some kind of quiver of ready to use insulting behavior to avoid any sort of confrontation or perceived failure? Then because of this you're made awkward and uncomfortable when it doesn't play out the same way as before?

> so you can greatly simplify your sentence

You didn't need to use "greatly" here because the suggestion you're offering without being asked is not particularly great or meaningful.

> I think that would greatly aid in your online communications.

I communicate online just fine, thank you, I'm also happy to be an individual and to allow that individuality to be expressed through my communications.

Thanks again for the unwelcome and unnecessary advice. Please don't use your time to police other peoples writing. It's rude.

> in case people have not noticed nations are becoming less coordinated and more insular.

And what is your yardstick for measuring this? As far as I can tell this is the opposite of true. It's a popular national news meme but I don't believe it's been measured in any reliable way.

> and safety considerations when retrofitting in to existing ships.

So, we're keeping the fire hazard, but adding a stored energy hazard in the form of compressed gas? All in a retrofit? This doesn't sound like a good idea for international ships.

> and most ports will have a significant supply available.

Are you sure about that?

The reason those generators run is because the cargo requires them, or ships would not be able to take anything refrigerated or frozen, removing a large part of very profitable cargo from them. If the power to those boxes fails for a long enough period of time the load is completely destroyed.

Ships use power for all sorts of things. Steering, ventilation fans, and water pumps just to name a few. Motor power is only a fraction of what a boat can do, and most boats connect a generator to the main shaft, because the power is more important than the motive force.

An entire department was just rendered useless. I genuinely don't feel bad.

> expert in ‘clandestine dumping’

Do bears clandestinely dump in the woods?

> This is because, back in the bad old days, most computer terminals could only display 25 rows of 80 columns of text on screen at once.

And this is because, back in the super old days, most computers used punched cards. Which had 80 columns.

Maybe skateboards are just instinctual. Anyways, here's a tiny turtle on a skateboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVbtAYPSapw

> obscuring this flight's waypoint problem have resulted in a potentially conflicting flight not being tracked among other flights?

Flights are tracked by radar and by transponder. The appropriate thing to do is just flag the flight with a discontinuity error but otherwise operate normally. This happens with other statuses like "radio failure" or "emergency aircraft."

It's not something you'd see on a commercial flight, but a private IFR flight (one with a flight plan), you can actually cancel your IFR plan mid flight and revert to VFR (visual flight rules) instead.

Some flights take off without an IFR clearance as a VFR flight, but once airborne, they call up ATC and request an IFR clearance already en route.

The system is vouchsafing where it does not need to.

Internet Explorer was an attempt to monopolize and control the early internet. They intentionally left standards unimplemented or just implemented their own insane version of them in order to trap people into the platform.

It's no wonder the product saw them taken to court over antitrust violations.