Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, July 6, 2014

If It Ain't Boeing, I Ain't Going

Airbus has filed a patent application for a virtual reality cockpit.

If a better rendition of this is released, somebody needs to overlay a Blue Screen of Death on the display, like this:


There may be a tricky issue about what known in the patent business as "prior art". This one of the renditions of Airbus's cockpit:


Looks kind of familiar to me:


And if Boeing adopts the same thing, I'll drive or take the train. For if the cockpit is "virtual", what prevents it from being remotely controlled, like a drone?

2 comments:

Old NFO said...

I stay off them as much as I can now... If this, oh HELL no...

Nangleator said...

Well, don't worry about your pilot. He'll be sitting in an air-conditioned trailer in Chicago, and he'll have years of experience flying drones over Afghanistan.