the us are spending $200m per arrest. predictable result: next year will see huge numbers of people arrested and a back-slapping agency report how the cost / arrest has fallen drastically.
Tag: airplane
The Learjet repo man
Popovich’s first rule of firearms is pretty simple: The man who tells you he’s going to shoot you will not shoot you. So without so much as looking back, he got on the plane and flew it right to Chicago. “My job is to grab that plane. And if you haven’t paid for it, then it’s mine. And I don’t like to lose.”
Flight 1549
this is amazing. voice overs, 3d buildings, etc. give it a few years and we’ll be able to reconstruct most scenarios in 3d.
$500 UAV
Our first commercial autopilot, the Arduino-compatible ArduPilot, has been released and our goal of taking an order or 2 of magnitude out of the cost of an autopilot has been achieved: it’s $24.95! Combined with a RC plane, this makes it easy to build a complete UAV for less than $500, which is really kind of amazing.
Flight Safety
it’s more likely for a young child to be elected president in their lifetime than to die on a single jet flight
can we get rid of the safety fetish now?
BMI Yield
Airlines have been able to remove ovens, trash compactors, or even entire galleys, due to the elimination of hot meals on selected flights; others are using lighter seats; they have also removed magazine racks and replaced hard cabin dividers with curtains
the most obvious source of savings is still politically incorrect. but not for long. BMI yield management here we come.
Airlines complain
12 airlines including Jet Blue, Delta, American, AirTran and others pinged their frequent flier constituency egging them on to get politicians to crack down commodities investors or speculators who have caused crude oil prices to soar, hitting $146 a barrel last week.
lol. how delusional can you get? blaming “speculators” for your broken business model.
Jet-man
dude with jetpacks
747 lounge
a future that never was
Replacing Business Travel
Widespread teleconferencing could bring 10% of all flights to a halt
eh? try 50-70%. all those useless sales drones flying around add up.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 