Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:46 pm
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Good thinking. Why pay for a life saving helicopter ride if you can just do it yourself? I should sign up too.
The helicopter pays for itself. You just go into the air ambulance business -- the more competition you have, the higher the price everyone pays. It's a guaranteed money-maker.Archinerd wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:00 pmGood thinking. Why pay for a life saving helicopter ride if you can just do it yourself? I should sign up too.
But on second though, seems a bit impractical. Where will I keep the helicopter when I don't need it? Will I need some sort of government permission to use it? Where do I buy helicopter gas and how much does it cost? For that matter, how am I even going to afford a helicopter?
HAPPY STANISLAV PETROV DAY!!Max Peck wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2017 2:05 pm A belated R.I.P. to that Russian guy who once upon a time decided not to kill all of us.When alarms began to ring and a control panel flashed in front of Stanislav Petrov, a 44-year-old lieutenant colonel seated in a secret bunker south of Moscow, it appeared that the world was less than 30 minutes from nuclear war.
“The siren howled,” he later said, “but I just sat there for a few seconds, staring at the big, back-lit, red screen with the word ‘launch’ on it.” His chair, he said, began to feel like “a hot frying pan.”
Col. Petrov, an official with Russia’s early-warning missile system, was charged with determining whether the United States had opened intercontinental fire on the Soviet Union. Just after midnight on Sept. 26, 1983, all signs seemed to point to yes.
The satellite signal Col. Petrov received in his bunker indicated that a single Minuteman missile had been launched and was headed toward the East. Four more missiles appeared to follow, according to satellite signals, and the protocol was clear: notify Soviet Air Defense headquarters in time for the military’s general staff to consult with Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. A retaliatory attack, and nuclear holocaust, would likely ensue.
Yet Col. Petrov, juggling a phone in one hand and an intercom in the other, judged that the red alert was a false alarm. Soviet missiles, armed and ready, remained in their silos. And American missiles, apparently minutes from impact, seemed to vanish into the air.
“I had a funny feeling in my gut,” Col. Petrov told The Washington Post in 1999. “I didn’t want to make a mistake. I made a decision, and that was it.” He celebrated with half a liter of vodka, fell into a sleep that lasted 28 hours and went back to work.
While the “50-50” decision may have averted catastrophe, it ultimately destroyed the career of Col. Petrov, who died May 19 at his home in Fryazino, a center for scientific research near Moscow. He was 77.
His death — much like the defining moment of his life — was largely unreported. It was announced by Karl Schumacher, a friend and political activist who said he heard the news from Col. Petrov’s son, Dmitri, and that Col. Petrov had been sick for the past six months with “an internal disease.”
Not sure how you think I'm going to afford air ambulance school after immediately graduating from helicopter school and buying a helicopter. I'll be in debt forever.Max Peck wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 3:54 pmThe helicopter pays for itself. You just go into the air ambulance business -- the more competition you have, the higher the price everyone pays. It's a guaranteed money-maker.Archinerd wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:00 pmGood thinking. Why pay for a life saving helicopter ride if you can just do it yourself? I should sign up too.
But on second though, seems a bit impractical. Where will I keep the helicopter when I don't need it? Will I need some sort of government permission to use it? Where do I buy helicopter gas and how much does it cost? For that matter, how am I even going to afford a helicopter?
See you just have to fly more in order to pay for the school and helicopter and training and fly more for gas ans repairs and maybe injure people to get more customers and them fly more to get the extra.Archinerd wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:51 pmNot sure how you think I'm going to afford air ambulance school after immediately graduating from helicopter school and buying a helicopter. I'll be in debt forever.Max Peck wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 3:54 pmThe helicopter pays for itself. You just go into the air ambulance business -- the more competition you have, the higher the price everyone pays. It's a guaranteed money-maker.Archinerd wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:00 pmGood thinking. Why pay for a life saving helicopter ride if you can just do it yourself? I should sign up too.
But on second though, seems a bit impractical. Where will I keep the helicopter when I don't need it? Will I need some sort of government permission to use it? Where do I buy helicopter gas and how much does it cost? For that matter, how am I even going to afford a helicopter?
Nah. Pilots take up valuable space better used for guns, dogs, and prescription drugs.
Again?!Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 4:15 pm Aggressive Goats Addicted to Human Urine Airlifted Out of Olympic National Park, WA
That article makes reference to a tragic story where a 67 year old hiker was gored to death by a goat that followed him, within 6 feet, for almost a mile.Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 4:15 pm Aggressive Goats Addicted to Human Urine Airlifted Out of Olympic National Park, WA
I needed to restock.wonderpug wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 5:08 pmAgain?!Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 4:15 pm Aggressive Goats Addicted to Human Urine Airlifted Out of Olympic National Park, WA
We're on the eastern edge of our time zone. Around the winter solstice it's fully dark at 4:30. Can we please abolish Daylight Wasting Time?
They're not bypassing anything, The providers are selling you out.dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:16 pm Damn but everybody is putting in more commercials. TV of course but I've noticed more on the web now. They've found out how to bypass Firefox and Youtube is putting in commercials in the middle of the clip.
I'm thinking about becoming a Luddite. Go back to playing board games.
Don't feel too bad. There's no consciousness there. Insects are running BASIC.Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Sep 29, 2018 5:15 pm I went out back to feed my outside dog. As I was headed in I passed a rolled out back window near my backdoor and it was buzzing. I saw a yellow striped wasp on the window and squished it with my metal feeding spoon. I then looked behind the glass and there was a nest the size of my fist or bigger. UGH. I hate wasps. I hate killing any living thing as they are only doing their thing but it being so near my door and my dog I made an exception. I went in and got a can of Lysol and sprayed them from inside through the screen then went out and tore it down. Man it was loaded with empty cells. Guess they were all out and about to leave soon due to cold weather. I hated to do it but they would be back to make new ones next year too.
Absolutely refuse helicopter rescue unless you are close to death, or on medicare. You will be on the hook until you are actually dead otherwise.Paingod wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 7:39 am NPR's running a story on the cost of life-saving helicopter flights... and how the cost is completely unregulated. The average they've gotten from bills people have sent them was around $40,000 and insurance might pay $12,000 of that... leaving you with a $30,000+ burden. The pricing is completely arbitrary, too. One person might get charged $15,000 while another is charged $55,000.
$12,000 would be a fair-market value and profitable if there wasn't a glut of competition. Apparently, in this market, more competition drives prices up as they have to spread operating costs over fewer patients. To compound the problem, more than half of the flights they make are done for Medicare/Medicaid who only reimburse them $6,500 and they can't go after the patients to fill in the blanks... so they roll that cost right over to everyone else.
So ... I don't ever want to have to get flown anywhere to save my life. Yes, I'd agree to it - but I'd hate myself for it too.
I read that networks are speeding up older TV shows by 7%. It's only barely noticeable and lets them squeeze 2 more minutes of ads into a half-hour show. If the jokes seem a little off or the pratfalls look weird when you're watching Seinfeld reruns, it's because they broke the timing.dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:16 pm Damn but everybody is putting in more commercials. TV of course but I've noticed more on the web now. They've found out how to bypass Firefox and Youtube is putting in commercials in the middle of the clip.
I'm thinking about becoming a Luddite. Go back to playing board games.
Wow. I looked into it, expecting to see Snopes. Nope, they're really doing it.Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Sep 29, 2018 11:29 pmI read that networks are speeding up older TV shows by 7%. It's only barely noticeable and lets them squeeze 2 more minutes of ads into a half-hour show. If the jokes seem a little off or the pratfalls look weird when you're watching Seinfeld reruns, it's because they broke the timing.dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:16 pm Damn but everybody is putting in more commercials. TV of course but I've noticed more on the web now. They've found out how to bypass Firefox and Youtube is putting in commercials in the middle of the clip.
I'm thinking about becoming a Luddite. Go back to playing board games.
By all accounts Jobs was a slave driving perfectionist with little respect for his employees.Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 9:46 pm Former Apple engineer states the obvious in court.
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2018/09/2 ... er-claims/
I'm no huge Apple fan, but they just went back and replaced batteries for free in years worth of iPhones. They do in fact repair their stuff, often free or cheaply depending on the issue. I fully agree it is in some cases overpriced, but what you are saying simply isn't factual.Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 11:01 pm In my opinion Apple has sold overpriced junk that breaks for years now. And they refuse to support the shit. And now they dont even repair stuff they release or allow others to do anything with them. I hate them. I cant believe people buy their overpriced junk.