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05-24-2011, 10:55 AM
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Heyas,
Most "green" energy is nothing but a scam to soak Uncle Sucker. It neither has the energy density or the reliability to be any realistic alternative.
If you look at the total life cycle costs, energy output and peak generation capacity there's nothing out there to replace what we already have...nukes and natural gas.
Windmills, ethanol, gas from poop...it's all fluff.
It's remarkable how we've allowed ourselves to be crippled by this sideshow crap. Did you know that we no long have access to ANY plutonium for our planetary science probes? We no longer operate any reactors that make the stuff, and the last little bit we used we had to buy from the Russians. And they're not selling anymore.
4th and 5th Generation fisson plants along with re-processing of the fuel would eliminate practically all of the waste concerns. Natural gas for the mobile market.
The prize at the end of this game is fusion. It IS doable, but it's going to take a lot of really smart people to make it happen.
Nu
Most "green" energy is nothing but a scam to soak Uncle Sucker. It neither has the energy density or the reliability to be any realistic alternative.
If you look at the total life cycle costs, energy output and peak generation capacity there's nothing out there to replace what we already have...nukes and natural gas.
Windmills, ethanol, gas from poop...it's all fluff.
It's remarkable how we've allowed ourselves to be crippled by this sideshow crap. Did you know that we no long have access to ANY plutonium for our planetary science probes? We no longer operate any reactors that make the stuff, and the last little bit we used we had to buy from the Russians. And they're not selling anymore.
4th and 5th Generation fisson plants along with re-processing of the fuel would eliminate practically all of the waste concerns. Natural gas for the mobile market.
The prize at the end of this game is fusion. It IS doable, but it's going to take a lot of really smart people to make it happen.
Nu
Uncle Sam needs to get out of the energy game --> and the airline business too!
05-24-2011, 12:36 PM
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05-24-2011, 12:39 PM
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Guys, since life is a little slow here today you should mosey over to the SWA/AT Hard Landings thread. It makes for some pretty entertaining reading and makes me appreciate that (most) all of that merger stuff is behind us! Although, I don't think there was ever as much flaming going on here as they have now.
05-24-2011, 01:11 PM
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Has anybody figured out why management wants to pay RAH to operate FFD DCI RJ flights competing directly against Frontier? Perhaps they want to take the passengers from Frontier? 
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05-24-2011, 01:22 PM
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Guys, since life is a little slow here today you should mosey over to the SWA/AT Hard Landings thread. It makes for some pretty entertaining reading and makes me appreciate that (most) all of that merger stuff is behind us! Although, I don't think there was ever as much flaming going on here as they have now.
I have more than a handful of friends at Southwest that are so "drunk on Kool Aid" lately, with the merger/integration of seniority lists, it's difficult even having a conversation with them.
Obviously some want the FL guys stapled, most just want credit given to them for their "SUPER PREMIUM" contract. (Threw that in there for all ya'll fDAL kids.)
No worries though, TSquare is actively involved with putting them in their place. Go get em T. (Think I heard one of the WN guys insult the VOLS.)
Fly safe,
GJ
05-24-2011, 01:26 PM
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Ditto,
I have more than a handful of friends at Southwest that are so "drunk on Kool Aid" lately, with the merger/integration of seniority lists, it's difficult even having a conversation with them.
Obviously some want the FL guys stapled, most just want credit given to them for their "SUPER PREMIUM" contract. (Threw that in there for all ya'll fDAL kids.)
No worries though, TSquare is actively involved with putting them in their place. Go get em T. (Think I heard one of the WN guys insult the VOLS.)
Fly safe,
GJ
I have more than a handful of friends at Southwest that are so "drunk on Kool Aid" lately, with the merger/integration of seniority lists, it's difficult even having a conversation with them.
Obviously some want the FL guys stapled, most just want credit given to them for their "SUPER PREMIUM" contract. (Threw that in there for all ya'll fDAL kids.)
No worries though, TSquare is actively involved with putting them in their place. Go get em T. (Think I heard one of the WN guys insult the VOLS.)
Fly safe,
GJ
And if he badmouthed my Big Orange.. well... that's just too much.
05-24-2011, 01:26 PM
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I think he also joined the Pentaveret...after the Colonel went "tets up":
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05-24-2011, 01:58 PM
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Meh, it's just that one guy over there that I like to stir up. In his case, all he has is his paycheck to throw in everybody's face. It's all about the money, right?? I'm guessing that when our contract (and UAL, and AMR) puts SWA back in the also-rans where they have always been, he'll disappear back to whatever hole he crawled out of. Until then, it's a lot of fun to stir the pot...
And if he badmouthed my Big Orange.. well... that's just too much.
And if he badmouthed my Big Orange.. well... that's just too much.
Here's the problem with some of the SWA guy's position:
1) 20 year career expectation for a SWA pilot: 737 captain
20 year career expectation for a AT pilot: 737 captain
2) The paycheck that the SWA guys receive is between them and the company. If the company decides to pay the AT guys the same amount of money, not one DIME comes out of the SWA pilot's pocket, unless you use some "maybe, kinda, sorta in the future that was going to be our money" reasoning, which arbitrators never listen to. They are usually VERY good at separating out seniority issues (which are between pilots) from purely financial issues (which are between the pilots and the company).
3) If you use any kind of integration method that would pass muster at SWA (remember, they get MEMRAT for the SLI, as do the AirTran pilots), it will get voted down at AT, and vice versa.
4) The first thing an arbitrator will look at is "can I mush these guys together so as to not cause any harm to any party". If you start taking seats away from the AT guys, which practically all of the methods that the SWA guys are proposing would do, then harm has been done.
Conversely, if you do a relative seniority merge, no one gets harmed, at least directly and in the easily defineable immediate future.. No one has lost any CURRENT bidding power. Arbitrators are loath to engage in "what if" games.
5) If the SWA guys want to get some credit for their older pilot group, they might consider a pull and plug methodolgy similar to the DAL/NWA merger. It's got precedent, and arbitrators LOVE precedent, and it might net them a couple of hundred spots on the list, although the net might be zero if the ratio was tweaked ahead of time to account for it.
As for funding AAIs SLI....I'm told they had a major contingency fund that was kept in their name after the ALPA merger, so they have a fairly large warchest independent from ALPA.
Nu
05-24-2011, 02:01 PM
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I think he also joined the Pentaveret...after the Colonel went "tets up":
YouTube - ‪So I Married An Axe Murderer(colonel sanders scene)‬‏
(I feel your pain Buzz...)
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YouTube - ‪So I Married An Axe Murderer(colonel sanders scene)‬‏
(I feel your pain Buzz...)
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05-24-2011, 02:25 PM
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