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what is the moral legitimacy of government, if it is encouraged to to make its highly paid taxpaying citizens lose their jobs?

"A high crime is one which seeks to injure the country to the profit of an individual or group".

"Jonathan Hale, USAID deputy assistant administrator for Europe & Eurasia, is on a four-day trip to Armenia to meet with government and private industry leaders in the country. On his agenda is a meeting with Armenian economic minister Nerses Yeritsyan."

"We look forward to partnering with USAID on the IT sector, which has great potential as Armenia has an advantage in this sector," Yeritsyan said in a statement released by USAID. "We want companies to come to Armenia and create their innovative environments," Yeritsyan said."

"Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region that provide offshore IT and business services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent's low labor costs"

I fully expect the Republicans to come into the majority in the November elections, and for McCain and Mitch McConnell to keep their shrill promise to gut the Obama healthcare law of its protections. And oh yes, I am a conservative republican.

Recomendation: Come check out Vienna Austria first.

I am a "U.S. Citizen", "born in the USA", whose parents were also "born in the USA". I moved my family to Vienna, Austria 8 years ago. I have for 4 years, owned and operated my own business, a GmbH here.

Vienna. The #1 city in the world 2 years in a row.

http://www.mercer.com/qualityoflivingpr#City_Ranking_Tables

First U.S. City, HONOLULU is at #31 with San Francisco at #32.

Insurance: US versus Austria

Three years ago, my daughter, at the age of 14, was diagnosed with morbid Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, a life threatening condition. She spent 4 weeks in a hospital, with the total out of pocket cost of 280 euro for her meals. 100 % of the hospital costs and medical procedures was covered by insurance which costs my family 2400 euros per year.

In the U.S., in 2003, we paid $15,000 per year for insurance, with a $5500 per person deductible. My wife had her Gaul Bladder removed, and it cost us $11,000 deductible + all of the customary procedures which the insurance companies routinely refuse to pay until you take them to court.

My daughters hospital stay, and continuing medical treatments in the U.S. would certainly have led to a filing for bankruptcy (70 percent of all bankruptcy filings are due to medical bills). Instead, the annual costs of treatments in Austria is 240 euros per year, continuing hospital visits, and Methotrexate Injections.

FYI: Higher education is 100% taxpayer funded in Austria.

As long as a large majority of the U.S. voting public continue to believe that taxes are "theft" rather than paying their "fair share" of the "high financial costs of personal freedom and safety", and continue to refuse to admit that affordable healthcare is a basic human right, staying in Europe is a much better option in my opinion.

"I have yet to meet my first independent safety researcher, who looks for flaws in life-critical equipment for fame or money or ego…"

You have now, this is what I do for a living.

"The article also completely ignores the fact that DO-178B certified code, as found embedded in civil aircrafts, has a perfect safety track record"

DO-178B is a process, and not a "certification". It's utilization has not produced a "perfect track record" in safety critical systems.

You should know better than to make such grossly incorrect statements. Experts in this industry know for a fact that testing only proves the lack of a "tested for" failure condition, and cannot be relied upon to assure safety.

DO-178B is but one of several criteria by which the Aircraft certification authorities judge an avionics system to be safe.

Software is too complex to be assured by testing alone.

Static analysis is merely a tool, and is not a solution to this problem. You should be well aware of the limitations of Static analysis.

Regulators no longer are provided with access to design and testing data sufficient to fully review a product for safety, and they routinely rely heavily on the manufacturers, thru delegated authority, to regulate themselves.

Design defects can only be eliminated in the application of a transparent review process. Complexity issues in "limited human cognition" and "human bias" are the key causes of life threatening defects in safety critical systems.

Without external review and oversight by "outside consultants" such as myself, life threatening safety defects routinely go undetected.

All safety critical systems will ultimately be "public domain" for this very reason. Just as proposed by the Software Freedom Law Center.

The FAA does not absolve aircraft manufacturers for liability, as the case with the FDA and Medtronic. (see Varig v. United States) 28 USC 2680(a) Discretionary function exception

DO-178B software does not "in fact" have a "perfect safety track record".

Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 was a passenger flight which crashed during landing to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, on 25 February 2009, killing nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.

software defect utilized "invalid altitude data" as valid.

"Tests showed that the Rockwell Collins Enhanced Digital Flight Control System (EDFCS) uses radio altitude values that are characterised as ‘non computed’ (unusable,) whereas this characterisation should have prevented this."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72

ADIRU software defect utilized "invalid data" as valid.

This device was certified to DO178-B Level A, the very highest level of certification, where failure can result in catastrophic loss of aircraft.

1 August 2005, Boeing 777-200 registered 9M-MRG, from Perth to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

use of invalid data as valid

This device was certified to DO178-B Level A, the very highest level of certification, where failure can result in catastrophic loss of aircraft.