Malygris on 24/9/2007 at 19:39
loyal we remain, baby
catbarf on 24/9/2007 at 20:33
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They have the ability to control the planes remotely, don't they?
Are you retarded? Don't you think that if they could control them remotely, we... oh I don't know... wouldn't need pilots? Is this another one of your 'arguing something I don't know so I can learn about it' things again?
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Lowclass, vulgar, unintelligent...typical. Not more than I've come to expect from you GayBabyMurderer.
Wow. And you call him vulgar and unintelligent.
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We haven't "permanently occupied" Iraq. We have defeated their military force and are hunting down terrorists. We are going to pull out when that is done...just like in Cuba and the Phillipines.
Bull. Shit. There's no way to pull out, because
we can't hunt down the goddamn terrorists! The people are so pissed off with the US, to the point where they aid the terrorists themselves! And even if that wasn't happening, they're guerilla fighters. They're NEVER caught, they only strike when they can easily escape. The only way this is going to end is if we get a democrat in office who can muscle Congress into a withdrawal.
This is a military occupation. America is using it to control the vital oil fields, and thus make more money for the upper class [already-rich white Republicans].
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What should he have done? Grounded all flights in the US and shot down incoming planes? The US is getting threats and reports like that daily. There was literally NOTHING he could do in that little time.
For an
entire week after the attacks, there were no flights at all. None. Grounded. Doing it before a major attack isn't too unreasonable.
The_Raven on 24/9/2007 at 21:24
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They have the ability to control the planes remotely, don't they?
Wow, I completely missed that one. Obviously, someone thought the Lone Gunman pilot episode was a fox documentary about 9/11.
37637598 on 24/9/2007 at 21:31
I know for a fact that they can now, I don't know if they could during 9/11 though. It's only for emergencies though. If a pilot has a heart attack and they are unable to land the plane, and for some odd reason the co-pilot in on the shitter during, the control stations can safely land the plane remotley. It may only be on certain planes though, or maybe cretain airlines.
I just had an old lady come into my shop and ask me to fix her phone. It suddenly turned off one day... I flipped open the phone, turned the power on, and she was like "Oh heavens what did you do?", I was like "I turnd the power on." "Oh thank you, I've never turned it off so I thought it was broken."
Anyway, where was I? oh yeah.
Printer's Devil on 24/9/2007 at 21:33
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...I attended a prestigeous University in the North Central United States, and have read many acreditted books on the subject...
What, no name-dropping?
demagogue on 24/9/2007 at 21:35
Maybe that's really the name of this prestigious university? North-Central United States University.
@376... You're talking about an autopilot feature ... edit: to respond to your next post ... of course it's not the traditional "autopilot" ... it's just what you said it was ... allowing a remote computer station to control the plane. The only reason I said it was "an" autopilot feature was that, like traditional autopilot, a computer is in control of the plane, as I understood it, except now from a remote location.
As I understood it from the Discovery channel thing on it, that's something that the pilots have to actively put in the control of flight control. Not sure it can work without the pilots allowing it. Manual control is probably always going to trump it, for obvious reasons ... you don't want some rogue hacker flying aircraft around from his laptop on the ground, or it allows the pilots to make some evasive maneuvers if they have to. A better argument is that most flights have armed air marshals on board, but didn't then.
37637598 on 24/9/2007 at 21:52
Nope, not auto pilot. It is a remote control feature for aircrafts so stations can remotley control the planes. And I understand what you're saying about the hacker flying planes around, so I don't know if it is something they put on all airplanes, or just certain ones. I know it's not autopilot though... I heard about it on some military cable show.
Gingerbread Man on 24/9/2007 at 22:00
Is anyone here from Lake Lerna? Can you give me some advice?
37637598 on 24/9/2007 at 22:13
Man I could write a book with bad spelling with all of the disses i've gotten here. I bring it upon myself though, by being such a beaner. If you people dis me and make it rhyme, i'll make a song or rap out of it. and post it here.
fett on 24/9/2007 at 22:37
Jesus, I leave for two pages and come back to this? What the fuck happened?
Oh, now I see.
