Boeing is already a public/private enterprise. The down years in commercial aircraft are propped up by US Gov defence orders, lots of primary research is funded by the US taxpayer, the US Gov works very hard to help Boeing sell airplanes, and there’s heaps of tax breaks available at the State level.
Many of the trade offs that Boeing has made - outsourcing, devaluing internal expertise, focusing on shareholder returns over risky long-term bets, and aggressively fighting unions - mirror US culture more generally. There’s little evidence that nationalising Boeing would change this - as an example related to this news story, the DoD is outsourcing more and more of its training and aggressor flying to private corporations.
It is worth pointing out that many of the points about Boeing being a public/private enterprise also apply to Airbus.
I don’t want to argue that the keyboards and mice are perfect, but we have two magic keyboards, two mice, and one gen1 trackpad that have all been extremely reliable. All are +/- 10 years old.
Well, one mouse and one trackpad didn’t survive a recent toddler/tile floor situation. But that’s not Apple’s fault ;)
It’s not “for the sake of a wink and a nod” or “dogwhistling.” The ACLU is actively campaigning against the way the US Government and ICE in particular treats immigrants and people around the borders.
Have a look at the ACLU website... their position is quite clear.
> Many people who are left to on their on recognizance never show up to their court dates.
Many implies a majority. In fact, far from it. ICE and CBP already have tools to deal with people they deem a flight risk including but not limited to ankle monitors, etc.
BACS is generally cheaper at volume. In addition, BACS Bureau allows a payroll company to transfer money directly from your employer's account to yours without the money ever reaching their account.
All fixable, but payroll companies are generally chosen on price, not innovation.
The auction cleared at £45/MWh (1). This means that the bids referenced in the Bloomberg story have succeeded. Bloomberg have significantly updated their story to reflect the results.
In today’s good news story, we can change “may” to “will” in the headline to match the updated story :)
After 3 minutes, this just crashed the browser on an old AOSP stock Android device I have. The last time I implemented something like this as a proof-of-work (first party) solution, it fell apart instantly when someone wrote a dedicated bot for it - 5 zeroes were found in sub-0.5s times in non-browser-JS.
> after some inflection point, does your likelihood of survival actually increase with altitude?
For humans, no. After ~10sec you’re falling at terminal velocity, which is generally 2-300km/h, and your odds of survival are extraordinarily close to zero.
This lady had a double malfunction, where there were issues with both main and reserve parachutes, but per a police report (1), she was descending at 60km/h, so she must have had at least some parachute material out and slowing her fall.
She’s very lucky, despite what’s likely to be a shitty next couple of years of rehab, but this isn’t a “fell from an airplane without a parachute and survived” miracle.
Right so 300kmph = 83.3 m/s which means every 83.3 metres (call it 100) buys you an additional second of thinking time and back of the envelope calculation (2km/minute) [0] suggests you can move up to 33 metres per second horizontally (feel like this is optimistic - I openly welcome corrections here...)
"For humans, no. After ~10sec you’re falling at terminal velocity"
That means that falling higher will not increase your already slim chances of survival, and might well increase them, if ever so slightly. No?
Hard to say definitively - double malfunctions are relatively rare, so the sample size isn’t enormous.
More time can increase the likelihood that you can get some piece of parachute fabric above your head. And if you can do that, the odds go way up. There’s a saying I was taught on the first jump: “keep fighting until your goggles fill with blood.”
But if you cannot get a parachute out for some reason, a longer freefall will only give you more time to contemplate your fate.
I wonder if psychologically this ended up being a good thing. As in, physically the rehab might be bad but mentally.. it's bound to put things into perspective.
The primary things that's changed has been the availability of small powerful gas-turbine engines. That's what's made the folks you've mentioned, plus the Jetman project, possible.
To the best of my knowledge, this class of engines were originally developed for model aircraft.
I had a quick look and seems some impressive little jet engines out there in the model aircraft domain. Quick look found one capable of 25KG thrust, weights just over 1KG. Then when you factor in fuel per minute and weight of fuel per minute. Can soon see why a 22 mile trip needed a refuel. Though still better than jetpacks.
But certainly not cheap, looking around $2,000 mark and much of that would be due to supply/demand aspect. If demand increased, that price would drop.
Dirt cheap by military supplier standards. Makes a lot of sense as a small drone/cruise missile engine.
Coming soon to a wannabe State Level Actor's arsenal! I'm thinking Da'esh here, but could equally well be white supremacist militias or the New IRA post-Brexit, or just about anyone with a weapons R&D budget in low single-digit millions.
Just as smartphones have given us all a general purpose James Bond gadget in our pocket, so too is the availability of cheap computing elements, drone components, and tech like this going to give every militia on the planet the sort of smart weapons capability that was bleeding edge in the 1990s.
> Do the regulators take into account whether the firm is actually at fault?
To echo others: yes, a lot. To quote the Information Commissioner:
> "I have no intention of changing the ICO’s proportionate and pragmatic approach after 25 May [the GDPR intro date] ... Hefty fines will be reserved for those organisations that persistently, deliberately or negligently flout the law."
£183m is about 10% of the profit BA made in FY 2018 before exceptional items:
> Despite these challenges, our revenues have held up, increasing 5.7 per cent versus last year. ... we achieved an operating profit of £1,952 million before exceptional items and a return on invested capital (RoIC) of 17.3 per cent
Many of the trade offs that Boeing has made - outsourcing, devaluing internal expertise, focusing on shareholder returns over risky long-term bets, and aggressively fighting unions - mirror US culture more generally. There’s little evidence that nationalising Boeing would change this - as an example related to this news story, the DoD is outsourcing more and more of its training and aggressor flying to private corporations.
It is worth pointing out that many of the points about Boeing being a public/private enterprise also apply to Airbus.