Oh? This must rely on some different definition of "directing traffic" than "addressing pilots in aircraft, as the authority on traffic control, on what to do with their aircraft, and having them do it."

In a nation with 10% unemployment why don't we hire adults to repeat on-mike what an air traffic controller wants pilots to hear?  It ain't just about cost, is it? Isn't it just a little bit that every extra person between the controller and the pilot increases the risk of garbled communications in a lethal environment?  Especially if the cutout is a doofus who has no fricking clue what's going on, what's at stake, and is just parroting words for fun, because he's a minor?

> Einstein wrote:

> For two to three years I grew up in a true rural region.

A strawberry farm on our south,  the cow's to our southwest, the manure fertilized corn from west to Northwest, sheep to the north,  our own acre of vegetables, and three acres of corn to the east (then 2 mansions before more farms).

I ---KNOW---- the scents of farms and animals.

The odors might distract a city boy, but someone used to it has no issues with it.<<

yup your a politician, you don tmind the stink of bullshit cause you lost your sense of smell

Also missed pain

In many cases in the Midwest, especially where farms use the current disposal method of putting all waste in large pools, the odor can actually last for one or two miles beyond the source point... that's pretty damn bad!<<

CITY SLICKER

try 8 miles

u don't know Shit

SSRIs stop working though, which is why there are so many of them.  Maybe Prozac works a few years, then you switch to Celexa.  Then maybe extended release Prozac.

Is right

How was Easter at your place?

depressed people should not fly planes at all.  One of the first symptoms is loss of concentration and memory.  And SSRIs have limited effectiveness, so you have to switch.  And it takes a while to get the balance right on your new prescription.  What that means is you are under a doctor's care, you took your prescriptions, and then you wait to see if you forgot to put the wheels down before landing--that would indicate you need to step up the dosage.

taken with the EPA's threat to "limit" the use of de-icers at airfields, and the DHS's decision not to ban that Arab jackass who joked he was lighting his shoes on fire, and Obama's early "photo-op" with air force one and two jets over NYC...I think our President is not only a Muslim Kenyan, he's got a really [moo'd] up sense of humor

don't do it

you'll be enlisted and deployed to Afghanistan when you open the email

>>Your example of companies failing to use the technology created is not a question of the technology itself being used.  The original research was still useful, in that some business models succeeded and continued to use the technologies.  The failures you cite are only market concerns, not questions of a lack of demand for the technology created.<<

Give me $100,000,000 and I will smile

the smile will not give you $100,000,000

that is a market failure

not a failure of demand

It is true in every field of human endeavor.  Maybe not 100% of the program is waste. Maybe not 50%.  Probably 90% is useful.

But when you only contract to CREATE a thing, and not to use it, then you flush a lot of money down the toilet.

case in point: how many electronic games systems have died in your lifetime?

you fund an ongoing operation, I'm just saying if you set out to create stuff, voila there it is, how about a new contract to run it...no? thanks for the profit from creating useless shit, sucker!