#5
Success will come to those airlines and aircraft that are flexible in destination and are efficient to operate. You operate as a network not as a mainline and feeders. People do not need a bunch of frivolous amenities on a plane like the A380. Extra weight.
For example, I can fly on Iceland Air from Anchorage to Keflavik along a great circle route to Europe, change planes there, and fly to lots of European destinations in a total of 11 hours. Annnnnnnd, I don't have to stop in Detroit.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
12/11/2014 10:08 Comments ||
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#6
#1 - *snort*
Posted by: Frank G ||
12/11/2014 10:13 Comments ||
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#7
Annnnnnnd, I don't have to stop in Detroit.
That's a bonus right there, anyway you look at it.
Posted by: Woozle Scourge of the Wee Folk4194 ||
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#8
That's a bonus right there, anyway you look at it.
As long as you are high enough that a Saturday Night Special can't touch you.
#9
Our A380 parts production forecast ( 'waterfall' in Airbus-speak) has been sliding deliveries to the right for some time and it seems that every new forecast has bigger slides. We have parts in transit and we got a contract mod to delay for 60 days. And if anybody out there thinks the lazy B ( formerly of Seattle, now Chicago) writes crappy contracts, you need to take a look at the pile of doo-doo AB produces. They have some good people there but majority are arrogant French or Germans that still do not accept the Allies won the war ( French don't count, too busy hiding under the bed wetting themselves)
One of the advantages of being interested in history is that it gives you perspective. Sometimes – often – the perspective it gives you is “Thank heavens I was born in the mid twentieth century and not the mid sixteenth.”
...But Sarah, say you, what does this have to do with us? We’re the United States. We believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We believe in individual rights. Our criminals aren’t tortured, why should our enemies be?
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#1
Every person who has ever served on a jury knows that, especially in cases that involves someone's death, deliberations can be a very emotionally traumatic experience. Putting your own emotions aside and ruling strictly according legal statutes is never easy. But as noted in the article, the necessity to rule according to logic, rather than emotion, is the entire strength of the American justice system.
If you watch the entire Eric Garner video (unedited version) you will see that it lasted more than 30 minutes and all actions employed by the police officers were orchestrated by the (African American) officer in charge
While methods used against Eric Garner "appear" aggressive and against police policy, the grand jury ruled no "actual laws were broken" by the arresting officers.
As intimated in the article the whole purpose for the grand jury process is to protect American citizens from trumped up charges by an over zealous legal system. In most states any person accused of a felony offense has the legal right to have their case heard before the grand jury. Any attempt to alter those rights is a threat to the civil rights of all American citizens.
#3
It's not that he was black. It was that the state would use so much force, up to death, to engage in the collection of taxes at that petty level. You don't see the socialist demonstrating about that basic factor. They want their 'pound of flesh' from the proles.
#4
I think most people would agree it is better to have some guilty people remain free rather than put innocent people in prison. Of course when a case is tried in the media that sentiment is often reversed but then they are usually playing with truthy facts.
#5
Would it have been so bad to have a trial in either of these recent cases?
That probably would have eliminated a lot of this protesting bs, they don't have the attention span.
#6
I respectfully doubt that either the police or the grand jury were concerned with penny ante tax collection issues.
Eric Garner was a career criminal, with a history of more than 30 arrests dating back to 1980, on charges including assault and grand larceny.
At the time of Garner’s death, he was out on bail after being charged with illegally selling cigarettes, driving without a license, marijuana possession, and false impersonation.
Illegally selling cigarettes was in violation of the terms of Eric Garner's bail agreement, which left the police officers with no other choice except to arrest him.
The jury sat for nine weeks. It heard testimony from 22 civilian witnesses and 28 others, including police officers, emergency medical personnel and doctors.
There also were 60 exhibits admitted into evidence. They included photographs of the scene, four videos, NYPD records and autopsy information.
As was intimated previously, no other entity is better informed, instructed, or inherently qualified to determine whether an accused individual should be held over for trial.
The judge, Stephen Rooney of state court, disclosed the details in response to a prosecutor's request that limited information be released. The prosecutor did not ask for the release of further exhibits of testimony. Grand jury proceedings are secret unless a judge orders otherwise which would be a great disservice to the members of the jury and potentially put them and their family's safety in jeopardy.
There is little doubt that the members of the grand jury found themselves under immense pressure from many quarters to indict officer Pantaleo. It is always a great temptation and a lot easier for a grand jury to vote to indict and kick the responsibility for determining guilt or innocence on up the line to the petit jury.
The main stream media invariably and incessantly calls the grand jury decision a "failure" to indict.
It is, in my opinion, a testament to the courage and integrity of the grand jury, in the face and prospect of inciting national outrage, to vote in favor of what they truly believed to be justice according to the volume of evidence they were entrusted to deliberate upon.
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