Many aircraft, particularly those flying IFR, are required by law in many jurisdictions to broadcast their location to reduce the risk of collisions and facilitate air traffic control. Check aviation transponder interrogation modes and ADS-B in particular
I have to agree. Level of suck at management is also unrelated to any one quantified linear scale so the mean is the result of a particularly arbitrary personal (or national like GPA with range bias vs 0-20 with other bias) definition of a corresponding numerical ratings so median and mode have fewer degrees of freedom for arbitrary results.
It is also pretty absurd to assume without explanation that a minority who are especially bad at management have even their minority presence in management given that if sucking matters it should correlate with some type of failure that eventually correlates to drop out.
As a native speaker average is almost exclusively used to for mean and people specify median or mode when that’s what they are talking about. The same way people say mean without specifying arithmetic, geometric, or harmonic mean then it’s the arithmetic mean.
It’s only when someone says something like the average family rather than saying the average income when things get ambiguous. Typical on the other hand is closer to mean because it’s tossing out outliers.
My cynical view is that countries can do whatever they want and "freedom" only exists because it happens to be convenient and mutually beneficial (between government and people) for a particular period of time.
Bingo. You think the government will standby and watch the world economy collapse because some investment bank won't cancel their debt, or uphold our end of the deal to mutually cancel debt? Send in military, seize all assets, wipe the records. Yes, it's a dystopia, and there will be sociatal and economic consequences. But the alternative is far worse.
I think that the larger the world economies get, the closer we get to totalitarian policy being the only thing that works to mitigate disaster. Think economic collapse, climate change, viral epidemics. None can be solved by individual initiative, slow moving government policy, etc. They require large scale, immediate, dictorial action by large nation states.
You are right, and it is also the case that totalitarian policy can be implemented in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons. It can be a last resort measure to save a society (e.g., when the UK canceled elections to deal with the Nazi threat).
More importantly: it is perfectly possible to implement totalitarian policy while maintaining the aesthetics of freedom. There is a famous book about this, 1984 something... Sorry for the cliché, but here we are.
Let's say, for example, that you convince the population of the most powerful economy on earth that they are the most free, most amazing society ever, while the rest of the developed world actually enjoys affordable health care and vacation time. Meanwhile, most of your citizens not only spend the vast amount of their time in an endless rat race that only benefits economically the top .001%, send their sons and daughters to stupid wars, while aggressively demanding the continuation of this state of affairs.
Another important trick to maintaining this state of affairs is to create very violent political debate about a very narrow and irrelevant set of topics (e.g. bullshit topics such as "cultural marxism", "red pill", "cucks and soyboys", "cultural appropriation", the corrupt blue guy vs the corrupt red gal... you get the picture).
> ... or uphold our end of the deal to mutually cancel debt?
What do you mean "mutually"? the government is the debtor and the banks/funds/citizens the creditors. There's no mutuality.
> Send in military, seize all assets, wipe the records.
No need for such drama. If a government says they won't pay back, that's pretty much the end of it. Maybe check out UN Charter Article 2 (4). Of course such unilateralism is quite stupid so governments tend to avoid it
It's pretty different, it's a small metal bar (probably 1 inch wide 10 inch long) that you stand on with one leg, while remaining seated on the bicycle. The design is a lot more compact, so you can retrofit it to normal streets.
Sure the design is different, but the risk that the "first couple of times people usually fall off. Instant lawsuit overe there, I'm sure" looks the same to me. And yet t-bars and the like do exist in the US.
When you buy a ski pass at US ski areas you sign a huge disclaimer of liability. It's hard to imagine doing that for this kind of in-city infrastructure. Also, falling on snow is a bit different than pavement. :-)
That's a pretty strong claim. Do you have some citation for "this is a dangerous activity, participant assumes all liability" contracts being "legally meaningless?"
> You are going to be the only one of 20 people on the plane doing this, for jump after jump, no matter how experienced you become? I wish there was a way to test this. I don't believe you.
I'm really really surprised by these comments. Maybe it's a cultural thing but for sure where I live everyone checks at the very least themselves before jumping.
For me it's like saying "sure you won't remember to fasten the seatbelt on your car, ride after ride, once you are an experience driver?". Well, you can be damn sure I will ;)
Which is why I can't see how you're surprised. Seatbelts are the perfect example - in my experience, a lot of experienced drivers don't bother, or at least didn't bother in my country until the fear of getting ticketed for it started to feel real. And I'm convinced that the moment this law would disappear, a significant chunk of drivers would stop bothering with seatbelts.
What I am surprised at is the fact that the parent literally says "I don't believe you" regarding something that I experience myself all the time.
It's like they internalized that doing so is not only rare -which it might be in their country- but just not at all possible!!
> Seatbelts are the perfect example - in my experience, a lot of experienced drivers don't bother
See that's quite my point. I don't doubt that people might not use the seatbelt where you live. But if you told me you "don't believe" that the vast majority of people use it here when I see it with my own eyes every day... Then I'd be indeed very surprised.
(As a side note seatbelt usage here in Switzerland is reported to be ~94% by the European transport safety council)
I think this is a cultural thing. In the UK, I would say more people automatically wear a seatbelt than for example Italy. I had an Italian friend who was in a crash where the car flipped but luckily his time in the UK ingrained in him that he should wear a seatbelt, even while riding in the back. On the other hand, he now uses this story to try to change the behaviour of his Italian compatriots who he says very often do not wear seatbelts while in the back of a car.
I just checked the stats for seatbelt use in the United States. Interesting, in most states it’s over 90% to 97%, but in New Hampshire it’s only 70%. New Hampshire (I always liked its Live Free or Die motto) has no law requiring seat belt use. See https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8124...
>For me it's like saying "sure you won't remember to fasten the seatbelt on your car, ride after ride, once you are an experience driver?". Well, you can be damn sure I will ;)
I'm not sure about this example. All around the world tons of people don't fasten the seatbelt (and many more wouldn't do it if there weren't fines).
That doesn't mean it can happen at X% probability to everyone. Seatbelts on modern cars, of course, have warning lights and beepers. I never put my belt on before turning the car on, but I never take a trip without it. It's not really a matter of memory, because if I found myself driving without a seatbelt and no memory of how it happened, I'm still conditioned to feel naked.
I wonder if there are really a lot of people who are sensitive to the risk of a fine but not the risk of injury or death.
>Seatbelts on modern cars, of course, have warning lights and beepers. I never put my belt on before turning the car on, but I never take a trip without it
A popular accessory in some countries is a seat-belt "buckle" without the belt. You use it to silence the "seat belt unfastened" beepers.
- Florentine Italian displaced Sardinian, Napolitan, Romanesco, etc.
- Ille-de-france French displaced Provencal, Occitan, Breton, etc.
- English displaced Scots, Gaelic, Welsh, etc.
Even countrires traditionally considered "nation-states" in a linguistic sense such as Portugal went down this route to some degree, with Mirandese and Barranqueno all but gone nowadays.
Agreed, however in the case of Wales and Portugal there are some ongoing efforts to keep Welsh and Mirandese alive, which of course depends on the willingness of the local population to actually care about it.
Didn't knew that main Italian came from Florence, thanks for the hint.
Nowadays yes, Galician, Basque, Catalan, Valencian and Maiorquim share their status with Spanish on their regions and have newspapers, books, radio and TV shows.
I know my Iberian friends might have an argument about the last three ones, but I opted to list them as such anyway.
Then there are tiny ones like Leonese, which the government provides support for learning and still have small communities speaking it.
You could pass a tie-off if you had two carabiners, as you do in via ferrata. Don't know about the entanglement risk though... I'm not a diver but that sounds way less dangerous to me than losing the cable altogether, since worst case you could just release the carabiner
Another thing to consider is this is just a guideline - 2-3mm nylon, fixed in place often just be wrapping around a handy outcropping. If you tug on it with any force it will come loose. And then you and everyone in the cave with you are in a lot of trouble.
Another thing that guide mentions is that if the nylon guideline is cut, it will rapidly snap and retract and spool up (kind of like a fishing line).
Also I read an accident report of some divers who survived a silt out condition, they spent a lot of time carefully figuring out what direction they should follow the rope out to exit the cave in places where it has been wrapped around a stone a few times to anchor it.
