He wasn't fired. If you oppose gay marriage and run a company. I will not support you nor company with my dollar and time. It's really that simple. You do what you want, I do what I want.
If you stopped supporting every company you disagreed with you would probably starve to death and not be able to drive a car. The best you can do is try to support the ones that are the "least evil" and hope that the worst offenders slowly go away. Personally I think stuff like child labor and all the atrocities done for oil are far worse than whether or not you support gay marriage.
The data I quoted was from 2012, so it's not what I would call "old" data. It's only 2 years old. 2011 is when it crossed over and more people started supporting gay marriage than opposing it. So we're talking about an issue that less than 4 years ago a "clear majority" opposed. Here is a graph: http://features.pewforum.org/s... Unfortunately it doesn't differentiate between strongly and weakly. It does however show how quickly opinions can change and how in flux this issue is. It is far from a settled issue and could easily go back the other direction. The media and corporate america have prematurely (in my opinion) decided which direction this debate is suppose to go and is trying to make it unacceptable for anyone to have an opposing view. I'm personally on the fence about the issue and can see both sides of the argument but I don't like how corporate america is strong arming everyone to chose their side. If I had my way instead of recognizing same-sex marriages I would rather the government exit completely out of the marriage business altogether and no longer ask it on tax forms, etc... It seems strange to me that someone unmarried and living together is treated differently than someone who is married and living together or is treated differently than a brother and a sister who are living together.
One of the symptoms of depression is fatigue and decreased energy
So if I'm tired and don't have any energy does that mean I'm depressed? What's the difference between depressed and just being tired from working too hard or being burnt out? Basically, if you don't know you're depressed, how do you decide when it's time to be "tested" and are there even any "tests" that can be done to determine if you are depressed if you aren't displaying classic symptoms?
No, a witch-hunt would be if we didn't like him, and so we lied about what he said or set up an attack where loses his job if he did what we said, or if he didn't.
Roughly 50% of the population do blurt out offensive things that would negatively affect their career if they were a public figure. That is no surprise.
Probably well over 50% of the population blurts out idiotic nonsense that would get them fired if they were an engineer, too. Obviously a different set of idiotic nonsense, granted. But the average person does not have the skills or experience to be an engineer. Or a CEO. Part of being a CEO is to be the face of the organization. If you do anything that is high profile enough to be noticed by the public, that reflects on the organization. That is just part of being the public face of an organization.
Personally, I would never take that sort of job because I value privacy over money. But these are the sort of decisions a person makes in life.
I completely agree with your assessment of the situation but I disagree that it's a good thing. This is the exact reason that we always elect officials that are unwilling to go on record for any opinion and instead give fake half-answers to any direct questions. It's because we demand that our politicians cater to everyone and be politically correct all the time. Wouldn't it be better to know the real person and admit that they can misspeak and/or change their mind instead of only knowing the lying facade that all politicians have to create.
At best, a clear majority currently supports gay marriage rights, 55-59% are currently supporting it all recent polls.
I would hardly call even 59% a clear majority. Depending on how many they surveyed it's probably still within the margin of error and based on voting records where measures barely pass or barely fail then I would say it's still very much a debatable issue which shouldn't get you fired.
According to Pew, this poll shows for the first time that there is as much strong support for same-sex marriage as there is strong opposition to it – 22 percent for each category.
So my 20% guess was slightly off. Sorry, It's 22%. I would say that my guess was still pretty accurate if you ask me.
Another option for light users would be a hybrid SSD.
Why only for light users? I would think a small SSD in front of a large HD would work great. A simple algorithm that kept a combination of the most commonly and most recently accessed files on SSD should make cache misses rare.
Obamacare allows everyone in the country to share ownership of the means of production? Sweet. I'm going to tour some of the factories that I'm now part owner of.
If that was the only thing communism was then communism would be great. Who wouldn't want an equal share of everything. Actually communism is pretty great at the local level where you can kick someone out or they are free to leave. Communism/Socialism doesn't scale though as at the national level there is no non-violent way to handle freeloaders or people who cheat the system so you eventually end up with a bunch of rich people at the top taking advantage of the system and a bunch of lazy people at the bottom taking advantage of the system.
And that's pretty much what we are starting to have in the USA too.
This is so utterly false, I don’t even know where to start. Eich had every right to speak in support of Prop 8 or anything else he might like to, but I also have the right to express my distaste of his bigoted ideas by withholding my support of any organization which he runs.
Yes, you have a right to boycott or even protest but a company shouldn't base their decision on what a vocal minority says. At best, the people supporting gay marriage are roughly 50% based on current voting records but it's probably closer to 20% for, 20% against, and 60% don't really care either way so firing someone because 20% of the population complains that you he didn't take their side seems silly.
He stated an opinion and backed it up with money, lots of people found his position reprehensible and pointed out their displeasure. This displeasure was large enough to have him removed from Mozilla. Its not a witch hunt.
I think it's a witchhunt when someone is fired from a job for having an opinion that roughly 50% of the population has. Regardless of which side you are on, gay marriage it is very much still a debatable issue. There is a reason that it barely fails to pass in one area and then barely passes in another area only to be appealed and then appealed again. The national jury is still trying to decide. It seems wrong to fire someone for having an opinion when the collective whole is still trying to decide. Why should he be fired when approximately half of firefox's user base agrees with him?
I have never heard propaganda defined quite like that before.
From the article it sounds like there was plans to possibly introduce propaganda at some point but they never reached the threshold to do that. Basically they were just giving people a "free speech" platform. I'm all for phase 1 and my guess is that phase 1 would probably be enough as if people who are unhappy are given a way to secretly organize in an oppresive state then chances are they will eventually organize themself without the need for propaganda.
I think creating ways for people all over the world to freely talk and organize in places where it is illegal is a great non-military idea. Something like a bunch of satelites running TOR accessible from anywhere would be awesome.
We tried amazon and hated it. It was too expensive and too slow and individual servers weren't as reliable and predictable as we expected. I think it probably works ok for someone like netflix distributing it across hundreds of servers but I wouldn't recommend it for someone with less than a couple dozen servers. We switched to stormondemand (aka liquidweb) and have been much much happier. They have solid state drives which help with i/o which is one of amazon's weaknesses. They also have dedicated cloud servers where you can pick the specs and know what you're getting. Oh, and you can actually call and talk to someone if you need to.
I'm a college grad but some of the best programmers and employees I've hired have not had a degree but most of them were still working on one. I very much believe in the saying: "college doesn't make people successful but successful people go to college". The people who are going to be successful would most likely have been successful regardless of whether they went to college or not. Most of the billionaires are "college dropouts". It's not that they didn't go to college, it's that success caught up to them too fast so that they were too busy being successful to bother with college. If that is you, then great, otherwise, you should continue to go to college until you are successful. One of the things that a college degree shows is that you have the patience and dedication to follow something through to completion. That's probably the number one problem I've found with hiring people without degrees. They are typically alot less reliable than the ones with degrees but as far as their technical skills I've never had a problem.
He's looking at both complexity of the move and how many possible moves there are at each step. It is much easier to find a valid move and solve a puzzle if there are 10 opening moves. It is much harder if there is only a single path of 20 moves in a particular sequence. A puzzle with 20 steps that must be done in order is much much harder than a puzzle with 20 steps that can be done in any order just like it would be much harder to solve a word search if you had to find the words in order. This should be pretty accurate as a truly serial puzzle would be the sum of time to solve each step while a puzzle with parallel steps would be the average time to discover one of the possible next moves. On average if there is more than one solution on a step then finding one of the many solutions should be faster than finding the one solution.
Where do you even find wire hangars any more, an antique store? LOL. Cool link but it's another 90s relic.
Wire hangers are not obsolete. You can buy high quality ones at the store still but that's not how most people get them. All of the cheap wire hangers I have I got from and still get from places like dry cleaning and uniform cleaning shops.
That said, having laypeople is fundamentally at odds with the patent system, which specifies the idea of non-obviousness in terms of whether or not it's obvious to one "skilled in the art", i.e. someone with domain knowledge. A layperson isn't really qualified to judge non-obviousness without first receiving sufficient instruction to become skilled in the art, which simply isn't feasible. As such, it seems like it may make sense to bring in professionals for such cases.
One result I can pretty much guarantee for you is that if they do start bringing in professionals instead of laypeople to deal with these cases, the patent system will get overhauled in short order, simply because the professionals won't want to be getting dragged into court constantly to serve as jurors a disproportionate amount of the time compared to a typical person. Any changes that need to happen to get things fixed will suddenly happen when you start inconveniencing everyone in the field.
I definitely agreed that patents are supposed to be someone skilled in the art and also probably doesn't have the same issues as malpractice especially if both sides are also skilled in the arts. I'm not sure though that you would have to pull professionals more than the layperson. You wouldn't have to raise the bar all the way to the top but some minimum competence would be nice. Also you could selectively assign them to cases where there expertise would be an asset. It would be much more productive to put me on a computer or patent case where I can actually make a somewhat informed decision instead of putting me on a drug or battery case where I have zero experience and no frame of reference. You obviously don't want drug dealers deciding the verdict of convicted drug dealers but it makes sense for someone who can at least relate a little bit deciding the verdict of a homeless guy than a middle class white women who can't relate at all.
I'm not convinced someone who doesn't know what a patent is BEFORE being selected is the best person to decide a case like this. Why can't we have scientists in the jury when it's scientific, medical professionals when it's medical in nature, computer experts when it is computer related, etc... I think it's unrealistic to pick someone who doesn't know what a patent/modem/etc.. is and expect them to make an accurate decision when they don't understand the technology or process involved.
If you haven't noticed yet, the "heart shape" isn't really shaped like a real heart at all. There are plenty of theories about how it came to be. Many of the leading theories are that it may be originally based on a different organ entirely.
In summary, you said: More users is good because it results in more users.
If adding one non-contributing user has no benefit other than attracting another, the total benefit is two users multiplied by zero contribution = zero.
Even if this is true eventually one of these "non-contributing" users will attract a contributing user whether that contribution is giving back to the software, buying a support package, buying software that runs on X, developing software on X, etc..
Yes, he was eventually found out but only after becoming CEO of yahoo and probably having millions in the bank. I probably wouldn't want to do it but putting a 10 year old degree on your resume after you already have 20 years experience is probably pretty safe. They will probably call the last 2-3 places that you worked but chances are they won't actually call the college. As a contractor, even if they do call and it says you were never a student, you can play ignorant and move on. You could also play it safe and use a college that has since closed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... The OP was complaining of losing a significant number of jobs so he would have to weigh the number of lost jobs due to not having a degree vs the number of lost jobs due to someone calling and not being able to verify.
My guess is that you can get the bug fixed for less than the cost of a single license. If this is affecting multiple people, you can go together and offer even more. My experience is that by contacting the developer, offering a bounty, and/or using a site like freelancer.com you can get a bug fixed relatively cheap. Many developers have been willing to fix my bugs for free and even when they do quote me a price it's usually extremely reasonable (in the $50 to $300 range which is about what a single windows/OSX license would cost). So basically, don't expect free software to always be fixed for free but if it is actively maintained and you really need it fixed then you can usually get it fixed for less than the cost of switching to something else.
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
The US Constitution requlates state goverement since the passage of the 14th Amendment. A New York free speach law can not limit the speach of the owners and employees of Baidu. They are allowed to have bias.
The problem with this is that a corporation is not a citizen. The even BIGGER problem is that this is saying that censorship is allowed as long as the government doesn't do it. Does it make any difference if the censorship is done by the government or done by a handful of multinational corporation that control all the media. What if China told google that if they wanted to operate in their country then they needed to censor X globally. China is a large enough market that google might do it. So you now have Chinese censorship that applies to US searches that is completely constitutional. That is a bad idea.
My dad, an old white american, got detained because he bought a one-way ticket from missouri to north dakota on the same day of travel. Apparently that was enough to set off red flags and they almost didn't let him fly. He was going to a funeral but apparently one-way same-day tickets are suspicious. I would think they would be somewhat common for funerals but apparently not.
Thanks for the reply. It still reads like an ad. I also thought it was an ad until I saw this reply. I didn't even get through the whole summary. I started skimming as soon as my "this is spam" meter went off. I'm not sure what the solution is but it would be best to avoid making articles look like someone paid you to post them.
On a somewhat related note, my dad cut up some old generators from a power plant and sold them as scrap only to find out later that they could have possibly been worth $250k apiece if sold to rural towns in india.
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He wasn't fired. If you oppose gay marriage and run a company. I will not support you nor company with my dollar and time. It's really that simple. You do what you want, I do what I want.
If you stopped supporting every company you disagreed with you would probably starve to death and not be able to drive a car.
The best you can do is try to support the ones that are the "least evil" and hope that the worst offenders slowly go away.
Personally I think stuff like child labor and all the atrocities done for oil are far worse than whether or not you support gay marriage.
The data I quoted was from 2012, so it's not what I would call "old" data. It's only 2 years old.
2011 is when it crossed over and more people started supporting gay marriage than opposing it.
So we're talking about an issue that less than 4 years ago a "clear majority" opposed.
Here is a graph: http://features.pewforum.org/s...
Unfortunately it doesn't differentiate between strongly and weakly.
It does however show how quickly opinions can change and how in flux this issue is.
It is far from a settled issue and could easily go back the other direction.
The media and corporate america have prematurely (in my opinion) decided which direction
this debate is suppose to go and is trying to make it unacceptable for anyone to have an
opposing view. I'm personally on the fence about the issue and can see both sides of the
argument but I don't like how corporate america is strong arming everyone to chose their side.
If I had my way instead of recognizing same-sex marriages I would rather the government
exit completely out of the marriage business altogether and no longer ask it on tax forms, etc...
It seems strange to me that someone unmarried and living together is treated differently than
someone who is married and living together or is treated differently than a brother and a sister
who are living together.
One of the symptoms of depression is fatigue and decreased energy
So if I'm tired and don't have any energy does that mean I'm depressed?
What's the difference between depressed and just being tired from working too hard or being burnt out?
Basically, if you don't know you're depressed, how do you decide when it's time to be "tested" and are
there even any "tests" that can be done to determine if you are depressed if you aren't displaying classic
symptoms?
No, a witch-hunt would be if we didn't like him, and so we lied about what he said or set up an attack where loses his job if he did what we said, or if he didn't.
Roughly 50% of the population do blurt out offensive things that would negatively affect their career if they were a public figure. That is no surprise.
Probably well over 50% of the population blurts out idiotic nonsense that would get them fired if they were an engineer, too. Obviously a different set of idiotic nonsense, granted. But the average person does not have the skills or experience to be an engineer. Or a CEO. Part of being a CEO is to be the face of the organization. If you do anything that is high profile enough to be noticed by the public, that reflects on the organization. That is just part of being the public face of an organization.
Personally, I would never take that sort of job because I value privacy over money. But these are the sort of decisions a person makes in life.
I completely agree with your assessment of the situation but I disagree that it's a good thing.
This is the exact reason that we always elect officials that are unwilling to go on record for any opinion
and instead give fake half-answers to any direct questions.
It's because we demand that our politicians cater to everyone and be politically correct all the time.
Wouldn't it be better to know the real person and admit that they can misspeak and/or change their mind
instead of only knowing the lying facade that all politicians have to create.
At best, a clear majority currently supports gay marriage rights, 55-59% are currently supporting it all recent polls.
I would hardly call even 59% a clear majority. Depending on how many they surveyed it's probably still within the margin
of error and based on voting records where measures barely pass or barely fail then I would say it's still very much a debatable
issue which shouldn't get you fired.
Oh, and just for the fun of it I looked up the stats: http://takingnote.blogs.nytime...
According to Pew, this poll shows for the first time that there is as much strong support for same-sex marriage as there is strong opposition to it – 22 percent for each category.
So my 20% guess was slightly off. Sorry, It's 22%. I would say that my guess was still pretty accurate if you ask me.
Another option for light users would be a hybrid SSD.
Why only for light users? I would think a small SSD in front of a large HD would work great.
A simple algorithm that kept a combination of the most commonly and most recently accessed files on SSD
should make cache misses rare.
Obamacare allows everyone in the country to share ownership of the means of production? Sweet. I'm going to tour some of the factories that I'm now part owner of.
If that was the only thing communism was then communism would be great. Who wouldn't want an equal share of everything.
Actually communism is pretty great at the local level where you can kick someone out or they are free to leave.
Communism/Socialism doesn't scale though as at the national level there is no non-violent way to handle freeloaders
or people who cheat the system so you eventually end up with a bunch of rich people at the top taking advantage of
the system and a bunch of lazy people at the bottom taking advantage of the system.
And that's pretty much what we are starting to have in the USA too.
This issue is a SMALL group of people attempting to put pressure on a company to get rid of an employee based on their personal views.
FTFY
This is so utterly false, I don’t even know where to start. Eich had every right to speak in support of Prop 8 or anything else he might like to, but I also have the right to express my distaste of his bigoted ideas by withholding my support of any organization which he runs.
Yes, you have a right to boycott or even protest but a company shouldn't base their decision on what a vocal minority says.
At best, the people supporting gay marriage are roughly 50% based on current voting records but it's probably closer to 20% for,
20% against, and 60% don't really care either way so firing someone because 20% of the population complains that you
he didn't take their side seems silly.
Communism never even came close to having even a foothold in this country.
There are plenty who might disagree with you. It's just slowly coming in the backdoor with socialist (aka communist) programs like obamacare.
He stated an opinion and backed it up with money, lots of people found his position reprehensible and pointed out their displeasure. This displeasure was large enough to have him removed from Mozilla. Its not a witch hunt.
I think it's a witchhunt when someone is fired from a job for having an opinion that roughly 50% of the population has.
Regardless of which side you are on, gay marriage it is very much still a debatable issue. There is a reason that it
barely fails to pass in one area and then barely passes in another area only to be appealed and then appealed again.
The national jury is still trying to decide. It seems wrong to fire someone for having an opinion when the collective
whole is still trying to decide. Why should he be fired when approximately half of firefox's user base agrees with him?
"Free exchange of ideas"
I have never heard propaganda defined quite like that before.
From the article it sounds like there was plans to possibly introduce propaganda at some point but they never
reached the threshold to do that. Basically they were just giving people a "free speech" platform.
I'm all for phase 1 and my guess is that phase 1 would probably be enough as if people who are unhappy
are given a way to secretly organize in an oppresive state then chances are they will eventually organize
themself without the need for propaganda.
I think creating ways for people all over the world to freely talk and organize in places where it is illegal is a great non-military idea.
Something like a bunch of satelites running TOR accessible from anywhere would be awesome.
We tried amazon and hated it. It was too expensive and too slow and individual servers
weren't as reliable and predictable as we expected.
I think it probably works ok for someone like netflix distributing it across hundreds of servers
but I wouldn't recommend it for someone with less than a couple dozen servers.
We switched to stormondemand (aka liquidweb) and have been much much happier.
They have solid state drives which help with i/o which is one of amazon's weaknesses.
They also have dedicated cloud servers where you can pick the specs and know what
you're getting. Oh, and you can actually call and talk to someone if you need to.
I'm a college grad but some of the best programmers and employees I've hired have not had a degree but most of them were still
working on one. I very much believe in the saying: "college doesn't make people successful but successful people go to college".
The people who are going to be successful would most likely have been successful regardless of whether they went to college or not.
Most of the billionaires are "college dropouts". It's not that they didn't go to college, it's that success caught up to them too fast so that
they were too busy being successful to bother with college. If that is you, then great, otherwise, you should continue to go to college
until you are successful. One of the things that a college degree shows is that you have the patience and dedication to follow
something through to completion. That's probably the number one problem I've found with hiring people without degrees. They are
typically alot less reliable than the ones with degrees but as far as their technical skills I've never had a problem.
He's looking at both complexity of the move and how many possible moves there are at each step.
It is much easier to find a valid move and solve a puzzle if there are 10 opening moves.
It is much harder if there is only a single path of 20 moves in a particular sequence.
A puzzle with 20 steps that must be done in order is much much harder than a puzzle with 20
steps that can be done in any order just like it would be much harder to solve a word search if
you had to find the words in order.
This should be pretty accurate as a truly serial puzzle would be the sum of time to solve each
step while a puzzle with parallel steps would be the average time to discover one of the possible
next moves. On average if there is more than one solution on a step then finding one of the
many solutions should be faster than finding the one solution.
Where do you even find wire hangars any more, an antique store? LOL. Cool link but it's another 90s relic.
Wire hangers are not obsolete. You can buy high quality ones at the store still but that's not how most people get them.
All of the cheap wire hangers I have I got from and still get from places like dry cleaning and uniform cleaning shops.
That said, having laypeople is fundamentally at odds with the patent system, which specifies the idea of non-obviousness in terms of whether or not it's obvious to one "skilled in the art", i.e. someone with domain knowledge. A layperson isn't really qualified to judge non-obviousness without first receiving sufficient instruction to become skilled in the art, which simply isn't feasible. As such, it seems like it may make sense to bring in professionals for such cases.
One result I can pretty much guarantee for you is that if they do start bringing in professionals instead of laypeople to deal with these cases, the patent system will get overhauled in short order, simply because the professionals won't want to be getting dragged into court constantly to serve as jurors a disproportionate amount of the time compared to a typical person. Any changes that need to happen to get things fixed will suddenly happen when you start inconveniencing everyone in the field.
I definitely agreed that patents are supposed to be someone skilled in the art and also probably doesn't have the same issues
as malpractice especially if both sides are also skilled in the arts.
I'm not sure though that you would have to pull professionals more than the layperson. You wouldn't have to raise the bar
all the way to the top but some minimum competence would be nice. Also you could selectively assign them
to cases where there expertise would be an asset. It would be much more productive to put me on a computer or patent case
where I can actually make a somewhat informed decision instead of putting me on a drug or battery case where I have
zero experience and no frame of reference. You obviously don't want drug dealers deciding the verdict of convicted drug dealers
but it makes sense for someone who can at least relate a little bit deciding the verdict of a homeless guy than a middle class
white women who can't relate at all.
I'm not convinced someone who doesn't know what a patent is BEFORE being selected is
the best person to decide a case like this. Why can't we have scientists in the jury when
it's scientific, medical professionals when it's medical in nature, computer experts when
it is computer related, etc... I think it's unrealistic to pick someone who doesn't know what
a patent/modem/etc.. is and expect them to make an accurate decision when they don't
understand the technology or process involved.
If you haven't noticed yet, the "heart shape" isn't really shaped like a real heart at all.
There are plenty of theories about how it came to be. Many of the leading theories are
that it may be originally based on a different organ entirely.
In summary, you said:
More users is good because it results in more users.
If adding one non-contributing user has no benefit other than attracting another, the total benefit is two users multiplied by zero contribution = zero.
Even if this is true eventually one of these "non-contributing" users will attract a contributing user whether that contribution
is giving back to the software, buying a support package, buying software that runs on X, developing software on X, etc..
Google "yahoo ceo scott thompson resume"
Yes, he was eventually found out but only after becoming CEO of yahoo and probably having millions in the bank.
I probably wouldn't want to do it but putting a 10 year old degree on your resume after you already have 20 years
experience is probably pretty safe. They will probably call the last 2-3 places that you worked but chances are
they won't actually call the college. As a contractor, even if they do call and it says you were never a student,
you can play ignorant and move on. You could also play it safe and use a college that has since closed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
The OP was complaining of losing a significant number of jobs so he would have to weigh the number of lost jobs
due to not having a degree vs the number of lost jobs due to someone calling and not being able to verify.
My guess is that you can get the bug fixed for less than the cost of a single license. If this is affecting multiple people,
you can go together and offer even more. My experience is that by contacting the developer, offering a bounty, and/or
using a site like freelancer.com you can get a bug fixed relatively cheap. Many developers have been willing to fix my bugs
for free and even when they do quote me a price it's usually extremely reasonable (in the $50 to $300 range which is about
what a single windows/OSX license would cost). So basically, don't expect free software to always be fixed for free but
if it is actively maintained and you really need it fixed then you can usually get it fixed for less than the cost of switching to
something else.
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
The US Constitution requlates state goverement since the passage of the 14th Amendment. A New York free speach law can not limit the speach of the owners and employees of Baidu. They are allowed to have bias.
The problem with this is that a corporation is not a citizen.
The even BIGGER problem is that this is saying that censorship is allowed as long as the government doesn't do it.
Does it make any difference if the censorship is done by the government or done by a handful of multinational corporation that control all the media.
What if China told google that if they wanted to operate in their country then they needed to censor X globally.
China is a large enough market that google might do it. So you now have Chinese censorship that applies to US searches that is completely constitutional.
That is a bad idea.
My dad, an old white american, got detained because he bought a one-way ticket from missouri to
north dakota on the same day of travel. Apparently that was enough to set off red flags and they
almost didn't let him fly. He was going to a funeral but apparently one-way same-day tickets are
suspicious. I would think they would be somewhat common for funerals but apparently not.
Thanks for the reply. It still reads like an ad. I also thought it was an ad until I saw this reply.
I didn't even get through the whole summary. I started skimming as soon as my "this is spam"
meter went off. I'm not sure what the solution is but it would be best to avoid making articles look
like someone paid you to post them.
On a somewhat related note, my dad cut up some old generators from a power plant and sold
them as scrap only to find out later that they could have possibly been worth $250k apiece
if sold to rural towns in india.