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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/17/09

    In reply to Will Evangelize Your Tech Company for Food
    If Scoble hasn't got something on FriendFeed about him, he's dead to me. #dondodge
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    Image of Drunken Economist Drunken Economist
    11/17/09

    In reply to Will Evangelize Your Tech Company for Food
    Oh, c'mon Ryan, 'thanks' and 'good luck with that *is* 'Fuck You' in ValSpeak. Remember?

    And Evangelists are the assholes who SHOULD be the first to be laid off.. but usually, due to politics and their innate assholier than thou attitudes and exec patronage are the last. #dondodge
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    11/17/09

    In reply to Will Evangelize Your Tech Company for Food
    Well, he's right about Internet Explorer and Windows Mobile 6.5. They both suck.

    Also, he looks a lot like Stephen Colbert with a hot poker shoved up his rear.
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    Image of econdave econdave
    11/17/09

    In reply to Will Evangelize Your Tech Company for Food
    Evangelist or whore? #dondodge
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/17/09

    @econdave: There's a difference? #dondodge
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    11/17/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Not much. #dondodge
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    Image of Drunken Economist Drunken Economist
    11/17/09

    @econdave: Sorry, this is small change biz as usual compared to Sarah Lacey gushing about 'emerging India' on BollyCrunch.

    Wining, dining, Vivek Wadhwa lingham and taking dictation:

    [mindtaker.blogspot.com]

    Seriously, this is the best PR fluff she's never written.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/16/09

    In reply to Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
    I've read the article Langewiesche wrote for VF, and Sully's right. It's really just the macguffin to sell the book and differentiate it from the others. Langewiesche really does know his stuff when it comes to technical aircraft details, but in fact this is WAY overplayed.

    Langewiesche is in love with the Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines view of flying; a man, a stick, Death rides shotgun. #sully
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/16/09

    In reply to Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
    Well, I haven't read the book, or Sully's, for that matter, but as anyone who has ever worked with anything automated knows, it's the human who makes the difference. The human sees subtleties that the computer can't, the human has experience the computer doesn't, and the human knows when something is going wrong with the automation and can compensate for it. Let's assume that the automation did 95% of the work in the "miracle" situation; the 5% that Sully handled is where having the right person mattered, and why Sully's cool professionalism makes him invaluable. #sully
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
    I thought that multiple A320 pilots went on record saying that certain features of the automated cockpit made it more difficult to execute the maneuver as Sully did it. #sully
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
    Plane-Loving Minutiae Boy vs. Big Clangin' Balls Guy

    In the ring, gents. #sully
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    11/16/09

    In reply to Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
    There's no wire for keeping your cool, Billy. #sully
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/16/09

    In reply to Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
    I am going to suggest that Sully landed in the river ***despite*** the automated pilot, and that the automated pilot was doing everything the hell it could to keep the plane from landing in the river #sully
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    Image of YG2012 YG2012
    11/16/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Imagine off-roading with a GPS. #sully
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    11/16/09

    In reply to Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
    Langewiesche seems to want it both ways, happy to stir up controversy but sort of mealy mouthed when the subject talks back. Now he tells the Times about the autopilot: "I don’t think its role is critical, but it was functioning, it’s part of the story."

    But the earlier Times' review of his book, which portrayed it as very dismissive of Sullenberger's role, includes this: But his actual control of Flight 1549, Mr. Langewiesche writes, was "less reflective of unusual skill." No knock against Sully, he suggests, but almost any decent pilot could have done it. Then there is the image of how the designers of the fly-by-wire system reached out across the years and cradled them all the way to the water. [www.nytimes.com]
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    11/16/09

    In reply to Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
    Anyone seen those Sully at St. Jude commercials yet? He's like "I'm not a hero. These tiny children deciding to exist in spite of the constant horrible reality of their cancers are the heroes." But his humility just makes him a double-hero! #sully
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
    Langewiesche probably gets his jollies telling kids the tooth fairy doesn't exist. #sully
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    Image of J. Henry Waugh J. Henry Waugh
    11/16/09

    In reply to Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
    A book like this should be beneath Langewiesche, who is usually terrific. #sully
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    Image of ginger rant ginger rant
    11/16/09

    @J. Henry Waugh: My thoughts exactly. Maybe he's run out of smart-guy stuff to write about? #sully
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/16/09

    In reply to Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
    Hey, Langwienercheez, did the auto-pilot "calm" those three stewardesses in the JFK Comfort Inn in Jamaica, Queens later that night? Didn't think so. #sully
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/16/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Putting the "cock" in the cockpit! Auto-erotic!
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    Edited by Perhaps Not at 11/16/09 1:43 PM Perhaps Not was starred Perhaps Not was unstarred
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