Who said anything about landing?
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Caveat - Iāve never project managed anything within several orders of magnitude of ārebuildingā the US national air traffic control system, but claiming to be able to do it in three years seems somewhat* ambitious. Big expensive hardware, critical software with extremely low client appetite for failure and what I imagine is a staggeringly complex integration tasks seems like it might take a tad more than three years. Are client requirements settled beyond āevery plane that goes up must come down where and when intended, and ideally safely.ā
Is there something Iām missing here? Is it off-the-shelf plug-and-play kit that can be assembled like flat pack furniture?
Orā¦
*ie ācatastrophicallyā
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Iām pretty sure your question is rhetorical, but just in case: itās the ānonsenseā one. Even if they really want to do it, itāll take longer than three years to write the spec.
This is āfull self drivingā for aviation infrastructure. Make happy noises, impress the rich idiot investors. And itāll delay any actual practical improvements or alternatives.
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TBH, it was 80% rhetorical, 20% ignorance of aviation, but thanks. Three years to write the spec is what I would have guessed.
California high speed rail all over again.
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Heāll just use Starlink and call it a day.
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Iām pretty ignorant of aviation myself, so take it all with the requisite grains of salt. But Iām basing it on years in the power generation industry, which - like airport building - also didnāt churn out units like Toyota does. Every single one was a major bespoke item, and the control systems reflected this.
Everywhere Iāve worked, thereās a manager who knows that Excel works the same everywhere and you donāt have to configure it, and theyāre baffled that the control infra doesnāt work the same way.
Best case scenario - weāre hearing from the local version of that manager right now.
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Iām pretty sure even Toyota needs to do more then 3 years of planning before theyāre in a position to churn out units
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AI! Itāll crib some info from the old system and add in some nonsense.
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This WaPo headline uses the word ācorrupt ā but in the weirdest possible way. Since when has it been a āsleepingā problem?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/12/trump-plane-qatar-politics/
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Hereās the relevant federal bribery statute, 18 US Code Ā§ 201:
(b)Whoeverā
(1)directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official or person who has been selected to be a public official, or offers or promises any public official or any person who has been selected to be a public official to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intentā
(A)
to influence any official act; or
(B)
to influence such public official or person who has been selected to be a public official to commit or aid in committing, or collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States; or
(C)
to induce such public official or such person who has been selected to be a public official to do or omit to do any act in violation of the lawful duty of such official or person;
(2)being a public official or person selected to be a public official, directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for:
(A)
being influenced in the performance of any official act;
(B)
being influenced to commit or aid in committing, or to collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States; or
(C)
being induced to do or omit to do any act in violation of the official duty of such official or person;
I donāt know why Lipton is thinking bribery requires that the intended influence actually occur. It doesnāt. There doesnāt even have to be a specific action requested. If the gift is intended to influence the public official, thatās bribery. Now, if the recipient is a dumbass, and doesnāt realize that, and just thinks someone is being nice to him, that official may not be guilty of bribery, but the giver sure as hell is if they had the intent to influence the official. And thatās why the emoluments clause, as well as a number of government regulations on officials receiving gifts, just ban the practice of accepting gifts.
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Either way, sheād be dead. Which would a boon.
Well, definitely NOT Dr Strangelove, thanks!
Almost certainly, yes - and from some ādonorā who has a bunch of off-the-shelf (OTS) software they are sure can be easily adapted to this task (think of all the ERM projects that failed because, basically, they were using OTS ERM packages to do things that needed highly bespoke development) ā¦ all of which adds up toā¦GRIFT!!!
I happen to have some insight here and I cannot say more seeing as my insight is inside. Yes, Japanese car makers with names beginning with T do in fact take longer than that to implement what is (AFAIK) a highly configured and bespoke ERM system. Not at all like the even more complex bespoke needs of an ATC system.
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I am not permitted to accept a pen for my staff, or samples for my patients, let alone anything for myself, specifically because there are studies showing that these de minimis bribes can and do influence decision making. I cannot imagine how anyone could think a āgiftā of that magnitude would not create undo influence. Of course, they donāt think that, and if this were Biden, the impeachment votes would already be underway. This is just demonstrating unquestioningl loyalty to Il Douche, and nothing more.
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Why is it tickling my brain that there was a recent court case claiming that without an explicit quid pro quo prior to exchange of items of value, there could be no bribery? I recall thinking it was stupid at the time, along the lines of āWill no one rid me of this troublesome priestā sort of defense. But i cannot recall the detsils.
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Yes, a recent SCOTUS ruling said that paying gratuities to public officials is totally not a bribe.
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Someone is really fond of his RV abd wants to keep it.
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To all of that, Iād add testing (however long that takes), but you mightāve left it out on purpose, figuring theyād just test it in production.
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