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Airline Pilots, Qualifications, and a Job

I recently saw this article on the regional airlines lowering their standards for pilots. The article (and the people quoted in the article) seems puzzled about why this is happening. It is happening because no one is going into aviation. Why? Here are some reasons:

Perhaps they see the airlines spending money like it is going out of style
Perhaps they look at the dumb business policies the airlines have that contribute to their losing money
Perhaps they talk to people who used to love to fly but now are no more than bus drivers in the air
Perhaps they see and hear about the massive layoffs that happened just a few years ago that are preventing people from flying for the majors.

Perhaps they talk to people like my dad who love to fly but at the peak of their career can’t even get Christmas off. At a time when a senior captain should be flying an international schedule of his choice, many pilots can’t even get their last Christmas off. Once the airlines start treating their pilots like the skilled profesionals they are instead of a number, you’ll see more people going into the profession.

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Serbia Videos

I came across these two videos while surfing you tube tonight.

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Stupid Article

I was reading some technology news this morning when I came across this article talking about the Internet getting full (actually running out of capacity).

The main point of the article?

“The study is the first to “apply Moore’s Law (or something very like it) to the pace of application innovation on the ‘Net,” the study says. “Our findings indicate that although core fiber and switching/routing resources will scale nicely to support virtually any conceivable user demand, Internet access infrastructure, specifically in North America, will likely cease to be adequate for supporting demand within the next three to five years.”

But later on, they say:

U.S. lawmakers can also help in several ways, he said. For example, the U.S. Congress could require that home contractors who receive government assistance for building affordable housing include broadband connections in their houses, he said. Congress could also provide tax credits to help broadband providers add more capacity

How does adding broadband connections in new houses help the core providers increase capacity? If anything, that stupid law would increase demand and speed the “demise” of the Internet (that won’t happen, but the article claims it will). Why can’t people think logically when they write things? Why can they not extrapolate out the impact of what they are thinking?

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I want to go on record and say

I don’t like this. And I don’t like Rick Warren. I don’t care what he says, this does nothing to advance the Kingdom. Why? I don’t see how a person can be a Christian (a real saved Christian…one who follows Jesus…not simply a cultural Christian) and support someone who believes it is ok to kill little babies (aka abortion). How does being unequally yoked with an unbeliever advance the Kingdom?

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/11/hillary_clinton_to_speak_at_ri.php

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Yard Sale

Who ever would have thought we had so much junk!  Today, we had a yard sale to sell some stuff before moving overseas.  I took some pictures and wanted to share them with you guys.  Here they are:

 

 
   
   
   

 Thanks to everyone who helped us with the sale by helping and buying stuff!  Just in case you are interested, we do have some leftovers.  For more information, look at this post .

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See….

I came across this guy’s blog post about the creation museum while reading another blog this morning before work. I’ll link to it but be warned…his post isn’t the best. You’ll have to read past some bad language to get to the point I wanted to bring up.

He says (about 1/7 of the way down):

Let me say this much: I have to admit admiration for the pure balls-out, high-octane creationism that’s on offer here. Not for the Creation Museum that mamby-pamby weak sauce known as “Intelligent Design,” which tries to slip God by as some random designer, who just sort of got the ball rolling by accident. Screw that, pal: The Creation Museum’s God is hands on! He made every one of those animals from the damn mud and he did it no earlier than 4004 BC, or thereabouts. It’s all there in the book, son, all you have to do is look.

What do we need to learn from this? We need to unashamedly stand up for the truth. We shouldn’t gloss it over. We shouldn’t worry about who it offends. We need to speak the entire council of God’s Word and stand up for it. Yes, we are going to get attacked…but I would rather be attacked for believing the truth instead of doing what these guys are doing.

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John Piper Appears to Get It

The IT in this case is ministries making information available for free. I suggest you go read his post and make up your own mind; however, I would want to bias you towards making your information available for free.

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Tractor Square Dancing

Seen on YouTube:

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