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Well, I suppose I can now comment on a picture I took. I would say it was about ten meters away from the power lines. The issue that worried me is how wind can move through these Fjords.

Granted many Americans have done the same things, but is this an example of “when it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.” BBC: UK Pilots Lured to Help Chinese Military

Could not agree more, the traditional concepts of efficiency have given way to "rent seeking" by which larger companies simply manipulate the state into distorting the market to suit them.

What you might see in China would be the extreme end of the Laffer Curve where work might make you worse off. Work hard, piss of local party boss by making him or her look bad and get in trouble. We see that to some extent in the US now. Imagine a recent immigrant who tries his or her hand at...

F-35 Crashes at Hill AFB

As to the subject of United Airline Holdings Inc (NASDAQ UAL) posting record profits, I doubt it has anything to do with flights. United has two main businesses, government subsidies and marketing credit cards. The subsidies increased during the pandemic as did the strings attached to them...

I think "lie flat" has a connotation of not simply of sloth, but keeping your head down. A strong work ethic and desire to standout are dangerous traits in most societies. Throughout most of history the dominant strategy for the average person has been mediocrity. The concept of the American...

She Had an AirTag in Her Lost Luggage. It Led Police to a Baggage Handler’s Home. Sure stolen bags have been found with AirTags, mostly stolen by airline employees, but I imagine airlines will look at hypothetical crimes that could be committed with them rather than those that are actually...

Aspen Pitkin is always a little crazy, granted it is still not Courchevel.

Thanks, I am a bit dense at times, all the tetraethyllead perhaps.

Was not too bad, the winter is way worse. What makes you say so?

Whether the VC-10, the Hawker Siddeley Trident or even the de Havilland Comet, England took some interesting risks in airliner design. The American designs like the 707, DC-8 and Convair 880 are decidedly less interesting.

Well, I was born during a period when leaded gas was very much the norm in cars which means I am one of those suffering from lower IQ. So please humor me, I gather that lead tends to mimic or possibly even inhibit the action of calcium as a regulator of cell function. Why would that not be...

Reminds me of this flight to KLEB

Thomas Midgley is a fascinating yet possibly tragic figure. Do you think Tetraethyllead as dangerous as I was told in grade school?

I recently traveled as a commercial passenger through Heathrow. While the airport is privately owned, the security is still run by the government, but the airport goes out of its way to insure that passengers move through security very rapidly. Apparently the reason for this is that the Heathrow...

I was actually in Riga when that occurred. Though was not aware of it. One thing that did strike me was now much military activity was going on in the Baltic. Not sure what the procedures are for flying around Kaliningrad?