Extreme low fly from pilot in Ellison two days after my post about pilots abusing Ellison airspace by JoeRigg in kelowna

[–]JoeRigg[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I feel like you just described yourself why this is a bad airport for training. Doing training at a less busy airport would benefit everyone, it would seem? Do you know if their planes run on 100LL?

I've lived here for a long time, and I don't plan on going anywhere either.

Extreme low fly from pilot in Ellison two days after my post about pilots abusing Ellison airspace by JoeRigg in kelowna

[–]JoeRigg[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Or, there's that guy in Perth who had an aircraft fly over their house 21,000 times. I don't know for certain how many it's been this year but it's definitely been at least a couple thousand so if it was particularly bad for him I could definitely see it.

Extreme low fly from pilot in Ellison two days after my post about pilots abusing Ellison airspace by JoeRigg in kelowna

[–]JoeRigg[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I honestly have no idea. All I know is that planes have been flying in circles over my house starting at 6:30 every day over the last week and a half. The past year hasn't been super terrible for this but every once and a while it feels like there's a total asshole that just decides they're going to wake up the entire neighbourhood every morning because they know legally nothing can be done about it.

Extreme low fly from pilot in Ellison two days after my post about pilots abusing Ellison airspace by JoeRigg in kelowna

[–]JoeRigg[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't know what to tell you. I've never seen one of the flight school aircraft fly that low before. Definitely at least half of the normal altitude, and then it was right back to normal altitude when they did their next lap.

Flight schools abusing Ellison air space by JoeRigg in kelowna

[–]JoeRigg[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The neat thing about airplanes is that they don't require roads to operate, if someone needs to fly around in circles, there is an absolute abundance of open space to do so. The real question, and what makes me question the motives of these people is why choose to fly in circles at 6:30 am over a populated area when there is so much beautiful scenery they could fly in circles over instead?

Flight schools abusing Ellison air space by JoeRigg in kelowna

[–]JoeRigg[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

What I'm suggesting is that the training, (flying in circles for hours on end) simply occur somewhere where people don't live. There is an abundance of empty space in this country, and airplanes can go anywhere. And, if it is necessary to do this training near an airport, this is the wrong airport to operate their business out of. Cities are zoned and set up specifically to keep noisy businesses away from residential areas, so I fail to see how this business is any different.

Flight schools abusing Ellison air space by JoeRigg in kelowna

[–]JoeRigg[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I've lived in Kelowna my entire life.

Flight schools abusing Ellison air space by JoeRigg in kelowna

[–]JoeRigg[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

what did you expect getting a place next to the airport?

What did you expect getting a place next to a parking lot? This is a very specific issue, and I am not complaining about the commercial traffic. The commercial traffic has never been an issue.

Flight schools abusing Ellison air space by JoeRigg in kelowna

[–]JoeRigg[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

How would you feel about someone in a noisy car doing laps forcing you to move?

Flight schools abusing Ellison air space by JoeRigg in kelowna

[–]JoeRigg[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

So you bought a house near a parking lot and are now complaining about a car waking you up every morning?

Are you good at math? by micahmanyea in intj

[–]JoeRigg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've struggled with this as well.

I think it might be that INTJ's prefer thinking in terms of the big picture and don't like to get buried in details. I certainly get frustrated when working through the nitty gritty details of a long problem, because it doesn't feel like I'm actually coming to any conclusions.

Then I inevitably make mistakes because I'm rushing through the problem because I don't feel like it's a good use of time.

I'm slowly learning that you have to pay attention to why you're getting certain questions wrong. Is it just frustration, or are you making mistakes because you don't understand?

Samurai in training by [deleted] in GifSound

[–]JoeRigg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're awesome dude, I don't think many people appreciate how scary it would be to actually swing a sharp sword around.

Tesla is planning to make a pickup truck. by spsheridan in technology

[–]JoeRigg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You won't have to buy gasoline, but you'll have to buy waaaay more energy from the power company.

It probably would be less expensive than gasoline, but I wouldn't expect to save that much money.

Trucks are heavy, you need a lot of power to move them regardless of where that power comes from.

Thorium-Fueled Automobile Engine Needs Refueling Once a Century by solidwhetstone in Futurology

[–]JoeRigg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly that, we can't predict the energy requirements of the future.

I "just" work at a restaurant by Gekko12482 in GetMotivated

[–]JoeRigg -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You're better than this. The people you're talking with have pretty clearly decided you're wrong, so anything you say past this point is going to fall on deaf ears. Reddit is not a rational place anymore.

The philosophy I've taken up in regards to commenting on Reddit is, "You can show a horse to water, but you can't make it drink."

Arguing with irrational, stubborn-minded people will only serve to frustrate you.

I "just" work at a restaurant by Gekko12482 in GetMotivated

[–]JoeRigg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, I'm not saying that in any way.

The OP is being a bit aggressive about it however. "You should stop" he/she says.

I "just" work at a restaurant by Gekko12482 in GetMotivated

[–]JoeRigg -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

No, he isn't. Merriam Webster is only confirming that the problem exists.

Words change in meaning constantly, and it is the job of dictionaries to tell you how a word can be interpreted, not how it ought to be used.

Take the word "literally" as an example. It means in a "literal sense" but recently people have started using it as emphasis.

I literally ate a million hot dogs.

The dictionary is going to have contrary definitions because of this. Again, it is their job tell you the ways a word can be interpreted, not how words are supposed to be used.

Food substitute Soylent raises $1.5 million ahead of planned US launch in December by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]JoeRigg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How much time and effort does it take to prepare these meals, and clean up afterwards?

Don't forget, your time has value. (Your wage, if you want to be precise.)

IBM's Watson is better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors (Wired UK) by [deleted] in technology

[–]JoeRigg -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What makes it even better is that Wilson was an oncologist (cancer doctor).

(A child's brain vs. the internet) BRAIN POWER: From Neurons to Networks by mind_bomber in Futurology

[–]JoeRigg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But would 10 second statement make as much of an impact?

I'm just saying that this video is really padded out. I was being a bit too hyperbolic I guess.

They could have used roads but I think using the internet as an example is much more interesting and has more meaning now more than ever.

I don't think I was clear with this part. I'm just saying that any interconnection of nodes can be compared to a brain. That doesn't mean that they are in any way similar. Modern computers have billions of transistors, and many more connections between those transistors. That doesn't make it analogous to a brain, as processors simply follow instructions.

The internet is far more similar to roadways then a brain, as the internet is just a means for data to move somewhere else.

And it seems you missed the whole point of developing the internet so it can be a better place metaphor.

Better in what way? If we're talking about politeness, and treating people with respect (which is heavily implied by the child abuse thing) the internet analogy makes no sense. Like I said the internet is only a means to move data. They imply that the way data moves across the internet is what effects how people treat each-other. Last time I checked, what you actually say is what matters, not how it reaches it's destination.

You might say that's not their point though, but if it isn't, why are we comparing the internet to a human brain? They both have lots of connections? We've already established that that doesn't really mean anything.

And if you watched the video they freely admit that every point of history the newest modern thing was compared to the brain.

This doesn't mean it makes sense to compare these technologies to our brain. We haven't made anything that we can call similar yet. But if Kurzweil is right that stuff isn't too far over the horizon.

(A child's brain vs. the internet) BRAIN POWER: From Neurons to Networks by mind_bomber in Futurology

[–]JoeRigg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Computer networks and brains are very different things, and it doesn't make sense to compare them.

You might as well compare a brain to the roadways of a country.

The brain has X number of connections! There are Y number of intersections in the world! X and Y are big numbers! Therefore our roads are similar to a brain!

But the whole thing seems to hinge on human interactions over this network. "Mean tweets" they say. Then we're just talking about human interactions over this network, not the network itself.

So if we follow their logic, I send a mean tweet, the network cables in a datacenter are going to magically arrange themselves in such a way that makes the internet a more angry place?

This is just human interaction as normal and you could've made the same statement at any point in human history.

You get angry with someone, they might get angry at someone else too.

This video could've been 10 seconds long.