I think I won’t explain Europe, but the concept that India has an efficient rail system is laughable. It’s a nice country, but very little there would one called efficient. More like, it works. I certainly don’t want to be one of the people camped out on the top of an overcrowded passenger car.

Even the realization that allowing the hijackers access to the cockpit was bad would have stopped the 9/11 attack. Opening the door to have a discussion was the fatal mistake. 

Are you sure? Behold, the Volkswagen Vanagon. Maybe a stretch to call it a tent, but it is certainly for camping. 

Raymond Loewy and Steve Jobs looking at it in disbelief over product design done so poorly.

The wheels are replaced at very short intervals, like 100 landings. That’s against up to 10 flights per day, so a replacement as often as every 10 days of the wheels. The wheel assembly has both wheel bearings in it and slides over the axle with a nut on the outside to stop it sliding back off. If the outer bearing…

More likely is the bearing in the wheel assembly failed and melted the end of the axle off.

I saw a workaround - maybe worth a try. Tie a pool noodle with about 2-3 feet off to the side. Won’t hurt any car and can’t snag, but it looks like it could and gives drivers a motive. Or they begin mirror jousting - trying to hit it with the mirror as they speed by. YMMV. Best of luck.

Where it works seems OK to me, but deciding to pop on over to Fort Worth from Dallas on a bicycle to pick up some cheesy bread? See you in 2 days, or just join the armadillo club decorating the edge of the road.

There is a VBA macro for everything.

Imagine real-life Walken at the grocery store checkout, talking with the cashier and putting items from his cart onto the belt.

https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/landing-with-nosewheels-at-90-degrees/

Almost like different makers make different decisions. 

There are 4 other normal access doors and either 2 or 4 overwing exits. Boeing never opens this door/plug to do anything to the interior. These doors/plugs aren’t on any other 737 MAX and those interiors have been installed just fine. Recall that even with the bolts removed that door/plug is hinged at the bottom so…

Those engineers mainly came on all at the same time during the rapid expansion phase. The only alternative would have been firing them piecemeal and continuing to chew people up to keep the corporation fresh. Like on the first day you roll a 20 sided die and the number that comes up is how many years they let you work…

I agree. The people who put passengers on a plane that was known to have a software problem and failed to drill the pilots until compensating for it was second nature should be in jail. But that is the government of Ethiopia we are talking about, the owners and operators of that flight.

Japan can have high speed passenger rail because most of the overland freight in Japan goes by truck and the rest is on ships. In the US, due to the vast size difference, a lot of overland freight goes on freight trains and passenger trains are not compatible with heavy freight usage.

I think this is the difference between “theft” and “conversion.”

The director is also not her boss. If directors were the boss they could fire people. The only thing a director is able to do is control who is or is not on the set, mostly. If the director decides she was not to be on the set it is the producer’s decision to continue to pay them, fire them, or to tell the director to…

Baldwin as a person was negligent with a firearm. Being on a movie set doesn’t absolve a person from blame for damages, injuries, or deaths due to negligence. He was handed an actual, operational gun, a weapon he wanted on the set for authenticity to show in his movie how deadly guns are and then he treated it…

“could have been put toward” was doing the work of indicating that more would be required, but the value elsewhere would be better than a measly 2.5% increase in capacity.