Captain Aggravated

websites that scroll wrong, and then they stop dead on some animation. Automatic nope on the product.

“Going out” means go somewhere very loud.

No.

Flight instructor here: There are several definitions of altitude that pilots are taught about and must consider during a flight. These include:

True altitude: The aircraft’s actual height above mean sea level. Nowadays you’d probably get this from a GPS receiver. Most of the time we don’t really care about this.

Absolute altitude: The aircraft’s instantaneous altitude above the surface directly below it. This might be measured by a radar altimeter if the aircraft is carrying one, or possibly calculated comparing the aircraft’s GPS position and a topographical map, a lot of moving map systems can do that these days. Fairly important to keep in mind for avoiding controlled flight into terrain.

Indicated altitude: The reading of a barometric altimeter set to the local barometric pressure. Below 18,000 feet, this is used for vertical separation of aircraft. Air Traffic Control tells you to climb and maintain 8,500, you climb until the altimeter points to that number. This is still above mean sea level so when flying over land your absolute altitude is almost certainly less than your indicated altitude.

Pressure altitude: The reading of a barometric altimeter set to 29.92 inches of mercury. Above 18,000 feet, used for vertical separation of aircraft. 18,000 feet is the floor of Class A airspace: en route IFR-only airspace, it’s where airliners cruise. They’re not worried about where they are in relation to the surface so much, they’re mostly concerned with avoiding other aircraft, and they don’t want to have to constantly adjust for local settings, so they sit it to match a standard day. This might mean they’re hundreds of feet off from their true altitude, but who cares? This is part of the reason we refer to altitudes up there as “flight levels”. 22,000 feet is called Flight Level 220.

Density altitude: This one is going to bend your brain a little. Density altitude is indicated altitude corrected for non-standard temperature. It is used for predicting aircraft performance. Aircraft work by interacting with air molecules. When the air is dense, the engine can generate more power, the propeller can generate more thrust, and the wings can generate more lift. When the air is less dense, you get less thrust and lift. Doesn’t matter why the air is less dense; air decreases in density as you climb, and the air becomes less dense as you heat it. It makes sense in a pilot’s head to think of this in terms of altitude on a standard day. The most average weather is 15 degrees C and 29.92 in. Hg, so we compare all weather to those conditions and calculate aircraft performance based on those conditions. On a very hot day, we’ll do a calculation which tells us what altitude it feels like we’re at on a standard day, and that makes intuitive sense to pilots. “Normally this runway is at 1,000 feet, but today it feels like it’s at 3,000 feet.” Takeoff and landing performance, ability to climb, and true airspeed are calculated from density altitude.

Conrail?

Clue didn’t work in the theater because they did this gimmick where they made three versions with three different endings. So because it had to be consistent with three contradictory endings, you CAN’T solve it as you go; it doesn’t function as a mystery movie. And, it was kind of short.

The TV cut crammed all three endings at the end with the “Here’s what REALLY happened” cards inserted, so one ending is now canonical while the others are plausible alternatives, it runs longer, especially the frantic, energetic ending plays longer, so while it still doesn’t function as a mystery movie, it is now an excellent farce.

I think it also found its audience in young millennials on television; it was made for and by my parents’ generation but they don’t like it, while a lot of people my age love it.

That movie has perfect casting. Everyone in it is exactly right for their parts. There is a B movie feel that I can’t quite put my finger on but it is an outright excellent film, one of my personal favorites.

Oh probably Local Forecast by Kevin MacLeod.

The tweenagers hosing on Axe in coastal cities will take care of that I think.

That was my first thought, a tide pod also rapidly dissolves in sea water, we shouldn’t be dumping those in the ocean though.

I find the amount of terminal usage a given distro requires depends mostly on the DE. Gnome is allergic to features so you’ll need to bash it more than KDE or Cinnamon, for example.

There was a time that Ubuntu was the distro for the masses! Their branding featured a bunch of diverse young people in casual clothing. That’s no longer the case. I outright recommend against it now.

Basically the only thing that help my headaches is caffeine. But that’s probably a me problem.

first that I used was an IBM PS/2 dual booting OS/2 and Windows 3.1. first that was actually mine was a NEC made Windows 98 laptop.

I used a Dbrand skin for awhile.

I’m not convinced OTC pain meds do anything, especially Tylenol.

Elaborate?

Oh I should mention: each state has its own government as well, the exact shape of that government varies state to state but many states also have a two-house legislature and the upper house is usually called the senate. For example, the North Carolina General Assembly has a senate and a house of representatives. “My father is a senator” could also mean that, though “US Senator” would imply the federal government.

Do NOT stop to talk in doorways.

Many European nations, and I believe the EU itself, has a parliament. A legislative body made up of representatives of a group of people. In the EU parliament, maybe each nation sends a representative.

For reasons that I think have to do with getting rid of royalty/nobility, the US legislative body is called the Congress. Much like the British parliament has a House of Commons and a House of Lords, which have different functions, serve different interests and serve as a check on each other, the US has a House of Representative and a Senate.

The House of Representatives is the lower house, it has more members, over 400. Each state gets a number of representatives based on population; small states like Rhode Island or states where nobody lives like Montana may have as few as one, big states with lots of people like California, Texas and New York might have 30 or 40. The idea here is equal representation of the POPULATION, though a cap on the number of members has kind of ruined that.

The Senate is the upper house. Each state sends exactly two senators. With 50 states in the union, there are 100 senators. Early on, senators were appointed by the governments of each state, but by amendment to the constitution senators are now elected directly by the people. Both senators are supposed to represent the state as a whole. Weird thing about our senate: The Vice President is nominally a member of the Executive branch, but the only job the constitution lays out for the VP is to preside over the senate and cast a tie breaking vote (because each state gets 2 senators, no matter what we do there’s an even number of senators, so ties aren’t uncommon). Otherwise the VP has no powers other than to be the hot spare for the president.

For a bill to become law, it must be deliberated and voted on in both houses. If both houses pass the bill, it goes to the President’s desk to be signed into law.

There are details like which house what kind of legislation is to come from, etc. There are some powers that ONLY the House of Representatives have, and some that ONLY the Senate has.

There are certain appointed positions, such as cabinet members, supreme court justices etc. that the President appoints, but the Senate must approve. If I understand it right, the President/executive branch makes treaties but the Senate must ratify it for the treaty to go into effect. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach federal officials (impeachment is kind of like indictment) but the trial takes place in the Senate.

Being a senator is seen as more prestigious than being a representative; senators are considered senior and there are fewer of them. It’s a position of significant political influence and massive corruption. Your friend’s father is definitely in the position to have protestors killed if a big business asks him to.

I doubt that.