[OT]: Planes safer than cars?

[Christopher Browne]

On 10/22/07, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Scott Elcomb wrote:
>
> > Flying in the face of conventional wisdom - and partially relevant to
> > the thread "Geek woman news story of possible interest..."[1] is this
> > CNN article:
> >
> > "NASA refuses to disclose air safety survey"
> > http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/10/22/nasa.air.safety.ap/index.html
> >
> > While this isn't related to terrorism, I still think it has some
> > repercussions as regards to the general usage of aircraft for transit.
> >  In particular, this quote scares the crap outta me[2]:
> >
> > 'A senior NASA official, associate administrator Thomas S. Luedtke,
> > said revealing the findings could damage the public's confidence in
> > airlines and affect airline profits. Luedtke acknowledged that the
> > survey results "present a comprehensive picture of certain aspects of
> > the U.S. commercial aviation industry."'
>
> Gee, I thought that capitalism encouraged the free exchange of ideas ;)

Hmm...

Ownership of capital; implies existence of some free exchange of
*prices* on markets, but does not seem to imply anything about "free
exchange of ideas."

At any rate, our society certainly does not behave anywhere vaguely
like one would that deeply believed in capitalism.  Instead, it
clearly demonstrates that all of the powerful players believe in the
value of power, which doesn't differ too much from most sorts of
historical regimes...
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