From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017102520483766175-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Right, when driving you're very vulnerable to the idiots around you.  When   
   > flying, weather and your own mistakes are most likely to kill you.   
      
   I'd rather trust my own abilities to avoid mistakes, including dealing with   
   the weather than some Idiots any day!!!   
      
   > What strikes me in watching the videos is just how fragile small planes   
   > are. Insanely underpowered and mechanically fragile.  Or with some   
   > turboprops, almost enough power but still mechanically fragile.   
      
   Planes are Very robust! They're incredibly strong and resilient...all that   
   AND they actually fly too!   
   Fragility is all relative, and while it's certainly true that early flying   
   craft were little more large powered, and flimsy kites, monumental   
   improvements over the decades have evolved aircraft into one of the safest   
   vehicles around...the vast majority of them are very forgiving and durable   
      
   > And yet, the mathmatical part of my mind knows that if you take even the   
   > smallest of risks often enough, failure will find you.   
      
   Yes, but being well practiced, the odds are that you'll use your acquired   
   skills to prevail.   
      
   > Do any low risk activity often enough no matter how low the risk is, it'll   
   > bite you.   
      
   That would be a calculated risk...and it's the ones who don't calculate that   
   are the most taken by surprise, sometimes with disastrous results.   
      
   > The problem with flying is that failing is a big deal.   
      
   That's why planes are so very well designed to fly, and why I just don't   
   understand why someone would want to jump out of one just for fun. Sure, if   
   a catastrophic failure, like the loss of a wing, or any other condition that   
   would guarantee death were to occur, I wouldn't hesitate to bail out...but   
   if the plane if flyable, then the very best thing to do is to fly it, even   
   to a crash landing.   
      
   > Cars, high probability of accidents, but most accidents are minor.   
   > Flying, lower probability of accidents, but accidents are generally fatal.   
      
   Speed is the factor there, and cars are quite subject to it as well.   
      
   > I don't like the computer that much, but I like what I can do with it, as   
   > opposed to working with real live musicians that don't exist here where I   
   > am.   
      
   Real live musicians are the only kind there are....recordings of musicians   
   are Not musicians, they're only recording of musicians.   
      
   > I can see that.  I've put a few boat anchor window's pc's together in the   
   > past.  Primitive and absurdly unreliable compared to my current macbook   
   > pro's.   
      
   By 'boat anchor', I assume you mean non-notebook/laptop ;)   
   Well, I'm using a notebook computer right now. It sits on the  kitchen table   
   constantly, just like  one of those 'boat anchors' and never goes anywhere,   
   just like one of those 'boat anchors'...because I don't Need an easily   
   portable computer and never did.   
      
   > Yes, I understand Windows can be a stable OS.   
      
   Stable as in predictably always doing something Stupid!   
      
   > But to do that, you need to know a lot more about installing and   
   > maintaining it than I have access to.  So the fallback is the MacOS.   
   > Crippled in some ways, but generally very stable for a non-tech user.   
      
   There used to be a time when a software company would actually supply   
   DOCUMENTATION, Binders filled with it, to go with their operating   
   systems...like it's SUPPOSED TO BE...but now, with the overcomplicated   
   MESSES they've made, they don't bother...and they still expect to be paid!!!   
   Shame on them, but  I'm sure they don't know, much less care, what That   
   means either!   
      
   > Weight and size of gear is one of the things that will determine how long   
   > I can keep playing live.  Once I can't carry the gear to the gigs, I won't   
   > be doing the jobs.   
      
   Jim   
      
   I'm thinking about TOOLS, at least hand trucks and carts, to move the stuff.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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