Yes, that is the problem with news reporters. They have no specialized body of knowledge, so they don't understand that the statement is obviously ridiculous. It confuses exclusion zones in Eckernförde Bay with the entirety of the bay.
Ask lawyers who have a vested interest in finding someone with deep pockets at fault so they can collect on contingency.
None of you apparently wishes to hear it, but the cause of both these crashes, most proximately, was poor training of the flight crews.
Whatever Boeing did or did not do, and whatever corners they may have cut to reduce cost and remain competitive, these crashes cannot be laid at their door.
It's the inconvenient truth. The unpopular opinion. From the one person here who seems to have read and understood the preliminary accident reports and the FDR data: these aircraft experienced a runaway trim situation, and, whatever the cause, that is something that pilots must be trained to recognize and respond to without consulting the checklists.
Boeing and basic flight training provided everything needed to handle these emergencies. We can argue (as ALPA no doubt will) about the adequacy of training materials and what Boeing should have made sure pilots knew about the systems, blah, blah, blah.
In the end, if you cannot recognize a runaway trim condition in any aircraft you need to get busted back to flight school to start again.
This week I added two iPads to the massive pile that have come into our donation program locked and useless. But, miracle, I was able to find an email address for the donor.
It took me two goddam days of emailing instructions and encouragement to the owner to get them out of Find My Phone and unlocked for reuse. For ordinary folks the process is akin to AP Calculus.
Apple are the most craptacular, greedy, anti-environmental assholes on the planet. Of course they will protect service manuals and software with copyright.
I'm an Apple Developer with many commercial apps in the store. I started when Steve was CEO and I dearly loved and supported Apple for not being complete corporate assholes.
Now I'll die before I buy another Apple product. And they want to extend iCloud lock to laptops with a T2 chip.
Children are only expensive because we have a consumer mentality that we feel compelled to pass on to them.
Try cloth diapers. Make your own baby food (look it up). Avoid buying all that plastic, processed, unnecessary crap that is associated with childhood.
Child care can be very expensive. Avoid it by getting rid of as many monthly expenses as possible. You don't need cable. You don't need a cellphone--you can get by with a 7-year-old cellular Android tablet and a $15 per month data-only plan, then use dirt cheap VOIP for home and away. Don't eat anything that you did not cook yourself from raw ingredients. Don't go to restaurants. Don't get takeout. Don't buy anything processed.
This will put you in a position of not having to work extra hours to pay high monthly bills, so you can hopefully look after your child yourself instead of paying someone to do it.
Never buy anything new. People throw away children's clothing by the ton. Same with everything else. Start a reuse and clothing exchange/donation program in your building/area. You will drown in kid's clothing, toys, and supplies.
Also plan ahead. Use a condom now to prevent the additional stress that would come with another child in the future. One is more than enough. There's almost 8 billion of these things running around and we're well into environmental collapse because we can't seem to regulate our numbers.
We sleepwalk through our foolish lives. Our stupidity allows awful people to seize and hold on to wealth and power.
Anyone with a brain would see that allowing something like the royal family to exist is a propagation of the abhorrent notion that some people are born better than others.
Prince Andrew goes palling around with a convicted paedophile and we are far too stupid to see that it propagates a system where those born to privilege and with connections to wealth and power can do anything they want.
We don't just let them get away with it; we idolize them for it.
IIRC, the guy who gave him a ride to the start of the trail tried to give him a map that would have showed the cable not far from where he tried to ford on his way back, but was prevented by high water.
McCandless had some idiotic notion that the map would degrade the purity of his experience of nature, or something like that, so he refused.
How ridiculous that someone who was a fan of the book would die trying to ford the same river at the same place that stopped McCandless. Did they not read that part of the book where Krakauer decribed the cable, or did they just not remember it?
From the review and the preface, this does not look promising.
The author makes the typical mistake of conflating business success with intellectual authority, of assuming that knowledge in one field confers understanding of other, unrelated fields (what would university dropout Bill Gates know about nuclear energy? and why would anyone ever listen to his opinion on the matter?), and of assuming that credentials are a valid indication that people are sane, knowledgeable, and well-informed, instead of what they are: a business management shortcut.
Coming out of the Catholic Church, she seems to have absorbed the usual process there for achieving understanding. A man said it, so it must be true. Ask no questions. Require no corroboration. Stop.
Why read this when I can listen to my drunk uncle Fred explain the world at family gatherings? He has testicles, I presume, so he is equally qualified with the leading lights of Silicon Valley to expound on fields that are not his own.
If you look down the list of deliveries included in the article, you will see that at least one of the other doctors has an unusually low rate of weekend deliveries, but that they peak significantly on Thursday and Friday.
This is likely because many OB-Gyns induce labour for the opposite reason to that which is alleged of Shuen: so their weekend golf game doesn't get screwed up by a delivery.
In truth, there is little difference between inducing labour for financial versus personal reasons. No doctor ever said to a patient, "I have a tee-off time at 9:30 Sunday so we have to get this baby out now."
This means that the issue of consent is identical in both cases. Consent means "informed consent". It doesn't matter if you're trying to get the extra billing for a weekend delivery or if you are trying keep the weekend call schedule quiet; it doesn't matter if you pop a misoprostol in during a vag exam or go through the formal induction process with the hospital. If the patient doesn't know the REAL reason, it's still a crime because of the absence of INFORMED consent.
This has been happening as long as there have been OB-Gyns. Babies come when they want, and doctors have always tried to manipulate that for their own preference.
Shuen's crucifixion is therefore more the result of his motivation than the fact of his behaviour. He was apparently doing for money what almost every OB-Gyn does for reasons that we consider more noble, or at least understandable, but which are actually no different because they prioritize something other than the health of the baby and the mother.
Even if doctors were truly altruistic, reality would still require inductions for the banal reason of hospital staff scheduling or resource availability. We are fools if we think this is any different from what Shuen did.
Any system motivated and rewarded by money will always suffer from these sorts of imperfections, as will any system that is not motivated by money.
It is the height of naivete to think otherwise. Shuen just flew a little closer to the sun than everyone else.
Also, the article neglects the obvious problem with chain of custody. Once you throw an exam glove in the garbage, it's gone. If Shuen ever got his day in an actual court, his lawyer would tear that evidence apart to the point where it would have to be disregarded by a judge or jury. It's not fair to trot it out now in this hatchet piece as if it is the smoking gun.
Keep in mind that the nurses justifiably hated Shuen because he (admittedly) behaved like a complete asshole to them. Nurses are really good at finding clever ways to take you out under those circumstances. You have to interpret that piece of evidence in light of the unbridled hostility of those who collected it.
Research supported by the NSF and your tax dollars.
Taxpayers wallets double-dipped by the AAAS.
Summary written by an idiot for 6-year-olds.
And somehow, everyone thinks this is just fine.
The lead author (of the paper, not the summary) herself describes the difficulty and subtlety of the data analysis. Says it took extra time because, "It's easy to be overconfident and there are many ways to misinterpret the data, many ways that small errors can accumulate into significant mistakes, which is why we did not rush our analysis."
So the real story here is we have no access to the analysis, which is the main event, and must accept the brain dead summary by some random science writer.
I applaud your motivation, and I agree with your suggestion, but that's not where most cancer comes from. Most cancer arises out of a random failure of the mechanisms underlying apoptosis.
Random mutation rates are linked to rates of cell division. There is an error every x number of times a cell divides. The faster cells divide (say, because of inflammation caused by cigarette smoke), the greater the risk of a random mutation that will disable the normal mechanisms of cell death.
Environmental mutagens and carcinogens play a part by damaging DNA or increasing cell division rates (asbestos, for example, which destroys immune cells come to engulf the invader, leading to a cycle of cell damage) but they are only a tiny part of the picture.
Cancer is caused by math, in a very real sense. Mutation rates * cell division rates = risk of cancer. You can absolutely get cancer without any adverse environmental exposure, which is why some children get cancer very early on--genetic factors increase risk.
The universe is chaotic. There is often no reason for what happens to an individual. It's just random chance. Man's search for meaning is often futile.