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Forum: Marine Electronics

31-05-2013, 17:00

Replies: 526

Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

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Posted By Andrew Troup

Re: Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

Just a thought about the intent of the OP

The point is often made that, as Shaw observed, and as contributors to this thread have implied:

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the...

Forum: Marine Electronics

21-05-2013, 01:16

Replies: 526

Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

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Posted By Andrew Troup

Re: Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

I think, furthermore, that "rights" are neither a necessary nor a sufficient remedy when it comes to misuse of a commons.

A more realistic example involves the air, which (along with water) is...

Forum: Marine Electronics

21-05-2013, 01:00

Replies: 526

Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

Views: 46,995

Posted By Andrew Troup

Re: Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

That's a rather poor analogy, it seems to me.

Firstly the OP had nothing to do with rights, it was about refraining from squandering a limited resource.

The boats tied to a dock while...

Forum: Marine Electronics

19-05-2013, 00:30

Replies: 526

Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

Views: 46,995

Posted By Andrew Troup

Re: Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

I think that you're unwittingly setting out a false dichotomy.

Evans does not have to win everybody over for his appeal to be worthwhile.

If he hypothetically wins a few (which he has ... and...

Forum: Marine Electronics

19-05-2013, 00:02

Replies: 526

Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

Views: 46,995

Posted By Andrew Troup

Re: Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

I think someone floated the idea that Google disproves the pre-existing belief that filtering was not a viable way of extracting very small amounts of worthwhile information from very large amounts...

Forum: Marine Electronics

19-05-2013, 00:01

Replies: 526

Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

Views: 46,995

Posted By Andrew Troup

Re: Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

Using AIS to avoid collision with boats tied to docks might indeed be a good idea, for someone whose idea of collision avoidance extended broadly enough, if their watchkeeping involved sitting below...

Forum: Marine Electronics

18-05-2013, 20:35

Replies: 526

Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

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Posted By Andrew Troup

Re: Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

A "Commons" can take many forms.

Here's a hypothetical example with elements a few might recognise:

A building collapses, trapping people in the debris.

The rescuers are trying to find the...

Forum: Marine Electronics

18-05-2013, 14:07

Replies: 526

Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

Views: 46,995

Posted By Andrew Troup

Re: Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

(my emphasis added for clarification of the following point)

All I've seen is a request for people to consider the implications of their actions.

Why do you choose to mis-characterise the...

Forum: Marine Electronics

17-05-2013, 02:56

Replies: 526

Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

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Posted By Andrew Troup

Re: Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

Evans appears to have been largely wasting his time, in posting an appeal to sailors to consider putting the common good ahead of their individual convenience.

Many other people have already made...

Forum: Marine Electronics

16-05-2013, 00:33

Replies: 526

Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

Views: 46,995

Posted By Andrew Troup

Re: Please turn your AIS off when docked/moored/anchored

Thanks, Bash, that had to be said.

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