Given the number of EK A380s still in storage, I suspect the insurer’s appetite for financial outlay to get this older-build frame out of trouble is limited. If it can be ferried with temporary repairs, it will be. If not, I wouldn’t be shocked to see it broken up on site, with EK carrying engines ...
Jump to postBy pure coincidence, I'll be in Dallas on the day and will witness nearly four minutes of totality in over two and a half hours of eclipse. It will put a bit of a dent in my plane photography, but should be an amazing experience. I'll promise to vote photographers choice if you manage to get a shot...
Jump to postAutobahn is something else especially the unrestricted parts, but most people just stick to 130 or less. I did get a taste of it myself on the straight parts with low traffic. :mrgreen: Exactly. I don't drive through Germany that often, once or twice per year. But imo it is a popular misconception ...
Jump to postThe first car I bought, I was free to choose the price. And that was difficult! Context: the company I was working for was stopping activities. I was to be the last one there, end 2009. I had a company car, one I liked. A 3rd generation Ford Mondeo Ghia Estate with 80k kilometers or so. It was ugly,...
Jump to postI'd definitely consider Bruges. I love the whole old town vibe really appeals to be. I found Brussels a bit so so for the time that I was there tbh. Brussels isn't an easy city, the tourists always look like they're lost while the locals rush around so you have no idea where they're going and what ...
Jump to postIn the past, there was a lot of prestige involved with air travel in Europe. Every country with a flag carrier well supported by the governments. Most major cities got an airport at the start of the jet age. With a runway to handle those jets ordered by their flag carrier. And many smaller cities go...
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It means we have over 100 accepted shots of the registration.
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My stanndard answer: regulate, don't ban. Set a limit to max allowed caffeine and indicate the amount of caffeine with an icon or so, like they do with gluten. People with a medical condition usually know they have this condition and should be helped by providing them with the information on the pro...
Jump to postIf inequality is based on money, not impact, then the legitimate wealthy have made our lives better by producing a product or service we thought valuable to us. That’s the usual discussion on inequality. If it’s about impact, yes many who died poor had huge impacts. There have always been fabulousl...
Jump to postIf inequality is based on money, not impact, then the legitimate wealthy have made our lives better by producing a product or service we thought valuable to us. That’s the usual discussion on inequality. If it’s about impact, yes many who died poor had huge impacts. There have always been fabulousl...
Jump to postI don’t want it more equitable, progress is based on inequality, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, before them Henry Ford, JD Rockefeller and thousands more became fabulously wealthy by thinking and bringing to us devices to make our lives better, healthier, longer. Thank you. If everyone were average, it be...
Jump to postAre uploaders of old photos no longer being motivated to edit the shots as good as possible before upload? While there are truely fantastic old shots, perfectly edited coming in, I also see great old shots that are not edited all the way. Then I wonder why, for example, noise reduction hasn't been a...
Jump to postRemember that.. 1988, In Germany, the worst history killing 70 people by speculators on the field. Three jets collided and curled down to crash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y7jvQHy4xI&ab_channel=Aeroland It is very sad and scary. It shocked all over the world on the news. I was a young man...
Jump to postN14AZ wrote:How I wish they would stop these kind of airshows. It’s a thing of the past. Have been in Ramstein in 1988.
R. I.P little girl and may your brother recover quickly.
Flew SQ B744 JFK (BRU) SIN back in 1992! Return was via FRA. I cannot remember when SQ stopped the BRU stop?? Think it was 1992. Browsing through my slides of SQ passenger 747's in BRU my most recent one is mid 1992. Also in 1992 Thai started operating to Brussels. So I guess TG picked up the marke...
Jump to postThis is going to be deeply unpopular... but at some point in future years, we have to move on. Anybody under the age of about 27 has no personal memory of this - this includes people who have kids of their own. Yes, 9-11 is important, but there have been many terrible tragedies over the years... ho...
Jump to postOn top of the overwhelming tragedy Kristina's loved ones must be struggling with, knowing their own government killed her must be unbearable. With all due respect, she is another casualty in a brutal war with countless crimes against humanity, civil and military casualties of all ages. Of all casua...
Jump to postWas in France for two weeks in July...the best French cuisine is not in Paris. If you have a spare half day, suggest getting on TGV and having lunch in either the Loire valley or Dijon. Lots of recommended restaurants in both. Well now, it may be a bit too drastic to advice somebody who is going to...
Jump to postAny plane damaged like these？ Surely there are many. An extra unlucky one is this DC-3: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19920721-0&lang=nl The link describes it got blown into a 707 during a storm. This happened after is was repaired from another storm incident, when a crane ...
Jump to postThey are hyping this up but the reality is it was 39 yesterday, here in Madrid, and will reach 39 today but this morning it was 21. It’s always 35+ in July in Madrid. What’s not normal is 35 in April and 20 in June. Perhaps you're getting used to it, but average high in Madrid in July is 33, accord...
Jump to postAnd so remains a formidable challenge, impossible at present and for any foreseeable future. So I agree 100% Now if you imagine humanity survives for 1.000.000 more years, which still is nothing more than the blink of an eye in the cosmic scale, then we can not imagine what will be achieved. IF the...
Jump to postThe "aliens" are using some form of propulsion that can negate or manipulate gravity, so they really don't need to park themselves at a Lagrange Point. It's easy to argue for anything when you use magic in your logic. All the rest of us have is boring old science. You know...That stuff th...
Jump to postThe lawsuit specifically mentions the exact reproduction of extended passages of the copyrighted works. Plus, anyone who uses ChatAI knows that it copies passages verbatim from different sources, and combines them. I use ChatGPT every now and then and never noticed it. In my experience it's more so...
Jump to postIt is legal to do almost any artwork in the style of another artist. Or at least I have never heard otherwise. Agreed, but not if you reproduce the exact work, without authorization, in a manner that would be indistinguishable from the authentic version. That is the capability which AI has, that ma...
Jump to postAre those lines not already drawn? There is little reason why AI should get a different ruling than humans when it comes to copyright. The lines for AI are absolutely not already (or clearly) drawn. An AI is capable of infringement, in ways and at speeds, that humans are not. And how does one prose...
Jump to postThe courts will have to determine where to draw the line. If the AI can recite extended passages verbatim from the source, that would seem to be over the line, in my view. BlueCrew also raises the excellent point that the issue extends easily from copying into replication of any artistic work. Ther...
Jump to postSomebody smells money and starts a lawsuit.... While there are issues with AI chatbots and mentionning of source is one of them, I feel in this case ChatGPT is merely using commonly available information about the books to create a summary or to discuss them. It doesn't need to "read" the ...
Jump to postThere used to be large fireworks in my city on our national holiday and with New Year. Always attracted a massive crowd. Those are now gone, replaced with less noisy alternatives. Perhaps still attracting a crowd but I feel like I'm forced to drink alcohol free beer on my night out. There is similar...
Jump to postWe are clearly not very smart as a species, are we? Maybe this is why there is no sign of intelligent life in the universe... we self-destruct with technology we stumble upon that our monkey brains don't have the capacity to handle responsibly. Don't think it's really related to intelligence. It's ...
Jump to postIf we assume we keep the same amount of water, Stop right there! Hold the presses! Do not pass go! Do not collect $200! Cancel clearance for takeoff! If we assume we keep the same amount of water, then we don't get this map. So in order to get this map, we have to assume we get less water. Takeoff ...
Jump to postWith two major oceans that are not connected, tides would be quite muted. Also, the vast land areas without any intervening water would be prone to extreme temperatures much as Pangea was. If we assume we keep the same amount of water, then in an inverted map the continental shelf would still be un...
Jump to postIt is an interesting thing. I think nothing of swatting the fly or mosqutio that lands on me, but I generally let grasshoppers crickets, butterfiles and moths have a pass. Being annoying is close to a death sentence for most living beings. Flies and mosquitos probably are the only animals I activel...
Jump to postAs a naive optimist: imagine Putin gets overthrown and new leadership wants to end this nonsense. They could (rightfully perhaps) claim that all the crimes and debt aren't theirs, nor the Russians. If Russia was a corporation, they could just go bankrupt and start a new one, free of all debt. I wond...
Jump to postWith the fall of egg prices , it also means bread, cake, pasta, and a host of other items will plummet as well. . Will prices come down or will producers just enjoy higher margins because we're conditioned to paying these prices now? I think the law of economics and free markets take over. A force ...
Jump to postAren't the Dutch investing heavily in hydrogen technology?
In that sense, the government subsidies make sense. They buy expertise, not an aircraft.
As the father of 2 teenage girls, I wouldn't disregard meals and organised activities from the list. Meals offer probably the longest uninterrupted interaction time of the day. Organized activities, in our case that's often their sports tournaments, they're occupied playing games, watching other gam...
Jump to postThe A340 was the first major new plane type that was developed during my early life as a plane spotter. To day, I still think it's the best looking, most elegant plane every built. In the early days, my father and I did quite some chasing of those A340's on spotting trips. First time I saw it, flyby...
Jump to postAlso remarkable that it was a very European thing in the first years. Lufthansa, Alitalia, Air Inter, Swissair and Austrian all operating it before first operators in other continents. It took till 2001 for the first A321 to appear with a North American operator! https://www.flightglobal.com/north-a...
Jump to postThe article states "The nine sloths were transported as cargo inside and aircraft from a Qatarese company, which landed on Saturday morning. As the aircraft was blocked on the taxiway, it could not be reached safely due to the winter weather." Also the animals weren't supporsed to be offlo...
Jump to postIf you take away the legal guns, crime would skyrocket. Why? I think it's quite clear that legal gun ownership does absolutely nothing to prevent crime. In violent crimes, the criminal wants to be 1 step ahead of the victim. The more armed the victim, the more violent the criminal. In Europe, usual...
Jump to postIf you take away the legal guns, crime would skyrocket. Why? I think it's quite clear that legal gun ownership does absolutely nothing to prevent crime. In violent crimes, the criminal wants to be 1 step ahead of the victim. The more armed the victim, the more violent the criminal. In Europe, usual...
Jump to postJacinda Ardern is one of a very rare kind of politicians that made me think there may be a future for mankind after all. Humans generally want to be led by "schoolyard bully" kind of politicians. People who find greatness in bashing "the others". Inflated ego's who lie, decieve, ...
Jump to postA monarchy may have countered some of the division Trump created. A non-political person to truely represent all Americans. I understand your analogy, but if you're stuck with mom and dad, it could still be nice to know grandma's still there. I can't imagine there were many sane and functional Brit...
Jump to postI also don't see how having a royal family here in the US could counter what the orange man and friends were doing. Basically to me it's like knowing things are calm at grandma's house but you're stuck living with mom and dad so it's not much of a help. What united the USA under Trump? Disdain, if ...
Jump to postI also don't see how having a royal family here in the US could counter what the orange man and friends were doing. Basically to me it's like knowing things are calm at grandma's house but you're stuck living with mom and dad so it's not much of a help. What united the USA under Trump? A monarchy m...
Jump to postLet me put it in another way: would anyone, designing a new way of government, put a random family in such a place for eternity? Even one of the party leaders of one of our most royalist, conservative parties: CDA, said he would not design it in such a way. I would design it like that. Because demo...
Jump to postThe English monarchy has been reduced to an ordinary reality show. Has been like this for ages. They need to re-invent themselves. Stay out of the spotlights, except for official business. And the people, they should stop giving a crap about the personal lives of royals. Why does anybody even care? ...
Jump to postWhen uploading, I always do a bit of research on the plane and 26x I found the plane had crashed later in its career :( (at least) 4 were featured in an Air Crash Investigation: Episode "Fatal approach" 6213103 Episode "Nuts and Bolts" 6207783 Episode "High Rise Catastrophe&...
Jump to postThis is something I definitely would have wanted to do, but large stretches of nature aren't that easy to find in Western Europe. And I even think it isn't allowed to camp in nature in many European countries. Even in the Alps or Pyrenees, there's plenty roads and villages. Outside of Scandinavia pe...
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