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The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by leetcrew »

withinboredom wrote: post #321
mavhc wrote: post #281

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The left scroll wheel can: play/pause/next/previous/vol up/down in Normal mode If you press the wiper button on the steering wheel it can change wiper speed Long press is a custom function When there's a call it answers/declines, mute/unmute, and ends a call The right one actives autosteer/tacc/fsd, adjusts follow distance and max speed There's 3 buttons for left/right/high beam on the left, and on the right, buttons…

> When there's a call it answers/declines, mute/unmute, and ends a call Literally do not care about a phone call when it is raining. Hopefully, it at least has coyote time on it so when you adjust the wiper speed it will ignore a phone call. > Not sure I need a button for steering wheel tilt, should only be when stopped. I've had to adjust while driving. I don't remember for what reason, but I know I've had to do it…

> I also destroyed my transmission by putting it in park at high speed. Worth it.

absolutely not worth it. modern cars (ie, anything with abs and disk brakes) achieve maximum deceleration when you mash the brake pedal and allow the car to modulate the clamping force. using the emergency brake and putting the car in park just locks up the wheels. the whole point of abs is to avoid this. you destroyed your transmission to increase your stopping distance.

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by ta1243 »

bigfudge wrote: post #121
bionsystem wrote: post #79

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Hamas is using civilians as human shields pretty much literally. They set this war up so that there is as much civilian casualties as possible on their side to claim it's a genocide. In this particular case, Hamas has a written constitution claiming the destruction of Israel and the jewish people ; Hamas ARE the genociders, despite being the weak army in this war. Ukraine is NOT using its population as human shields.…

To open: I am not apologising for what Hamas has done at all. I think their actions are revolting. Whatever your view of the history of the region, the aim to eliminate Israel as a Jewish state is unrealistic, extreme and counterproductive. Nonetheless, I do find the claim they are using human shields as interesting. Whatever you think of Hamas' aims and methods (and I strongly disapprove of both), Palestinians engag…

> No, Israel is not in direct control of Gaza

It does however have a complete blockade on Gaza, and has done for decades. It also has control over a signifiant amount of territory inside the wall -- get too close and you get shot.

Gaza is on the sea, but you can't import water, fuel, food etc from the sea because Israel will sink any boat trying to.

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by badcppdev »

sitkack wrote: post #335
cies wrote: post #228

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There also has been no apology for US' use of agent orange in Vietnam, nor has there been a payment of compensation. Why not formally apologize for such a fuck up (Iran aircraft), except for arrogance/exceptionalism?

The US is still pressuring Vietnam to “pay it back for the Vietnam war“.

Interesting: " April 7, 1997

Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and Vietnamese Finance Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung agreed today that Vietnam will repay the United States approximately $145 million in economic debts owed by the former Republic of Vietnam. "

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/rr1587

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by thereddaikon »

dontlaugh wrote: post #337
thereddaikon wrote: post #320

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One of the main jobs of the USN is to protect commercial shipping lanes. This is of US national interest because a lot of commerce flows through international shipping lanes. Its not unique to the US either. Its a historical duty of most nation's blue water navies. The persian gulf does not belong to Iran. Its international waters. But they have a history of using piracy in the persian gulf as a tool of the state and…

Maybe the US shouldn't have invaded several countries in the region and encircled Iran.

This was in the 1980's. Who had the US invaded in the middle east?

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Post by tpm »

cies wrote: post #292
bolobo wrote: post #68

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I am sorry but Genocide is not about actually killing people, it is about "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group", which includes "killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group" ( https://en.wi…

Sorry, genocide is not bringing people to safe and allowing them school. If Putin wanted maximum death of Ukrainians he would carpet bomb big Ukrainian cities (like the US+allies did in Iraq, Vietnam, Japan, Germany, ...) This war --as bad as it is-- is nothing close to some of the worst wars we've seen in the last 100 years.

> genocide is not bringing people to safe and allowing them school

Stealing children actually meets the definition of genocide.

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by graphe »

ceejayoz wrote: post #300
ghaff wrote: post #270

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In the moment, it's really hard to step back and ask yourself "Does this make any sense?" when you're primed to react in some particular way.

Especially with an element of "I might personally get blown up" involved.

Yet the Cuban missile crisis with the stake of the entire world didn't escalate.

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by dontlaugh »

thereddaikon wrote: post #344
dontlaugh wrote: post #337

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Maybe the US shouldn't have invaded several countries in the region and encircled Iran.

This was in the 1980's. Who had the US invaded in the middle east?

The US orchestrated a coup in Iran and later helped Iraq invade. All for oil money.

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Post by mardifoufs »

raxxorraxor wrote: post #192
nojvek wrote: post #72

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War is rarely about morals. But if they did drop them, we would be talking about casualties 20-30 times higher. This isn't about morals, since that would demand that every death is one too many. Killing just as many Palestinians as Jews were killed would be a fundamentally unmoral justification as well. I think there is different expectation towards Israel, every country would have reacted to an attack like it happen…

That's funny because to me, there's so much more leniency towards Israel. Blockading an entire city for almost two decades, and controlling almost every external aspect of its life while also openly and proudly colonizing the west bank with 0 repercussions is something only Israel can get away with. Bombing a city into rubbles with 0 official international condemnation from the west is also a thing only Israel can do.

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by bogantech »

immibis wrote: post #194
VoodooJuJu wrote: post #147

Not reading your 20-post twitter vomit - just make a blog post dude.

In other good news, Mastodon is now so good a Twitter clone that you think it's Twitter.

People use the name Coke generically for cola too but it doesn't mean RC cola is any good
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