They reverted that policy long ago. More than two years ago for sure. There was a time they experimented with not allowing families with kids, but it didn't last long.
Military, disabilities, parents traveling with small children...all get early pre-board on United.
First of all, if your company bought it, why do you care if it gets stolen?
Second, don't live in fear. People can smell fear a mile away. It makes you a target regardless of what laptop you're using.
Third. Do you think you're something special by having a Apple product? Go into any airport, any coffee shop...ANYWHERE in the world. They are everywhere. Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa. I travel them all for work, constantly. Apple is everywhere. Business travelers are everywhere.
Your Apple product is no more of a "High Value Target == business traveler" beacon than any other laptop.
You're not going to attract a moments notice unless you give off that stink of fear.
Reading your post...you give off that stink of fear.
How many Trump voters do you think could tell you what Brexit was? How many Clinton voters for that matter?
To think that US voters are influenced by European politics is ignoring what most of the people on Slashdot would characterize as a fault in Americans. Namely, we don't pay attention or care about anyone else.
Bingo. I'm not unreasonable to requests to cover something on a weekend or holiday. Just give me a reasonable heads up that that's the expectation. I'm on salary so we don't even have to talk about OT.
But once the issue is resolved, don't expect to see me in the office for a couple of days as I take a vacation that I'm not putting on the books.
It's one thing to punch someone in the face as an automatic/instinctive irrational response to a provocative statement made in your presence.
It's quite another when the wheels of government lurch into motion over the same thing. There is nothing automatic or instinctive about thinking about and then deciding to arrest someone over statements made in poor taste on the internet. That's not spur of the moment. That's cold and calculated.
Soccer has been irrelevant in the US for longer than the World Cup has been played. So your "case in point" sucks.
It's not that soccer is irrelevant because the US is no good at it...it's that the US is no good at soccer because it is and always has been (at least since the rise of college football in the late 1800's) irrelevant.
Soccer was overtaken by American style football. End of story. Game over.
Then it is a pointless thing to say. Paraphrasing it to fit your needs than appealing to the authority of a Founding Father to drive the point home is a weak move. I mean, who can argue with a Founding Father right? That's un-American.
Ben Franklin diddled little boys - Thomas Jefferson
I may be paraphrasing a bit, but you can't argue with Jefferson now can you?
Or take Columbine. When this tragedy hit, our readers took it a differently. Instead of blaming video games, we looked hard at the culture of abuse that drives high school. We talked about how the jocks beat us up. We knew that the terrible events of that day are almost inevitable when you stick kids into a system where certain groups of kids are given free reign to beat up others based on extra curricular activities. During that series of stories many people had a place to talk. It was cathartic. Our role was small, but it mattered.
Slashdot was no better than the Mass Media at identifying the true issues involved in Columbine. While the media and politicians ran with the Marilyn Manson/video game angle to confirm their own biases, Slashdot ran with the bully meme, which was no more accurate and just as much of a bias.
The Columbine shooters were not motivated or pushed to the edge by bullies. The facts just don't bear it out, but the story lives on because it suits the people pushing that angle. It justifies their biases and prejudices. Just like Cassie Bernall, one of the Columbine victims, did not actually get shot for affirming her belief in God/Jesus but it suits the Evangelical Christian movement to push that story.
Instead of an event deserving kudos, the Voices from the Hellmouth series is a black mark on Slashdot.
That only pokes holes in the notion that the Bible (choosing one of the major ones) is indeed the literal word of God passed down unerringly through man from Him.
God could still exist, it just the Bible is not unerring due to man's interference and fallibility. Certainly puts a lot of fundies on shaky ground, but most moderate religions could cope.
Your "argument" might be useful against the ignorant bible-thumper at a PTA meeting, but wouldn't hold up against any real religious scholar.
No you don't. I host templates or golden copies of my VMs on a NFS filesystem all the time. If I'm too lazy to set up the proper vmkernel to mount NFS shares directly to ESX, I mount the NFS filesystem to a solaris box and scp them up.
Do you need some help nailing yourself to that cross, you poor, tortured, misunderstood soul?
You don't care much for other uses of computers? Astonishing. How do you think you are able to use a computer in the first place? Because someone saw a profit in designing, building and selling you one. "Oh but I build my own out of recycled parts from 3rd world countries!" Whatever. The company that designed the CPU, they most certainly used computers for profit. The broadband company that sells you access most certainly does it for profit. The fact that you are able to blissfully wander around in your little world, free from such crass concerns as "computers for profit" is in fact enabled by a huge economy that runs on computers....for profit.
Also, you don't think people use online services from Amazon, Google...Blizzard, for expressions of their mind and soul? How about the person that buys a book of poetry from Amazon? (or sells it on Amazon or Ebay). How about the people doing huge art projects via Flickr?
Again, no ability to think in the abstract and obviously no ability to see beyond your own nose. And you call Greg P. a "fucking idiot". That's what is sad.
oftware as a service? Yeah... I'm sure we're all going to want to be running Photoshop via the net and trust our precious photos to a third party.
yeah, what do those Flickr people think they're doing? Or Snapfish, or Kodak online services. People trusted their photos to 3rd parties for DECADES. Only a very tiny minority ever developed film on their own back in the "olden days".
I don't know about you, but I don't even trust my e-mail to anyone but myself. I run my own mail server.
Well good for you. The success of Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo Mail shows that as time goes on, you're going to be as quaint as a horse-drawn buggy. People thought co-location was a pipedream once upon a time. "Move my servers to someone else's facilities!!? Preposterous!" People thought outsourcing IT functions was crazy, but the success of companies like EDS shows that there is a huge demand for such things.
This guy's head is up his ass in my opinion.
And that's why you're ranting on Slashdot and he's getting quoted all over the Internet. You have no vision. You only see how *you* do things. You have a limited ability to think in the abstract. And then you cuss and swear.
Pretty convenient for you to invoke the UN when it opposed the US invading Iraq over nonexistent nukes, and the US ignores N Korea's real ones.
How is that convenient for me? Do you know my stance on the Iraq War? You probably think you do since I'm not parroting your stance on Bush, therefore I must be a rabid Bush Supporter like you've tried to paint everyone else in this thread that disagrees with you.
Is having N. Korean nukes a few hundred miles away convenient for Japan or S. Korea? Is it convenient for the world? The world's leaders sure don't seem to think so as every leader is stepping up to the mike to chastise N. Korea, even China. You seem to think an ongoing "us vs them" stance is the only response. It's what we deserve. That attitude what you claim got us here in the first place so why are you advocating "staying the course" now? Spite? A desire to see Bush fail even further?
Listing the sins of the Bush Administration may be fun for you, but they do little to contribute to the resolution of what everyone seems to think is a real problem.
Of course cutting and running is not an option. But the rest of the world sitting back and pointing to the US saying "You handle it." is not an option either.
The rest of the world can't spend 16 years directly refuting our claims to special privileges, spend 5 years chastising the US over how we violated the sanctity of the UN and multi-lateral cooperation over Iraq and then when something as serious as nukes get into the mix try to cut and run themselves. Trying to hoist the US on its own petard is a seriously stupid thing to do when the stakes get to this level.
This is a global problem. There aren't many countries in the world (other than N. Korea) that think this is a good development. The global community is responsible for stepping up and solving it.
It is not about owing the US you self-centered child, it is about what you owe your fellow man.
So Canadians are content to let millions of North Koreans starve? They are content to let Japan and S. Korea live within missile range of North Korea nukes?
Go look at what your own government is saying today. They don't want nuke testing in North Korea any more than the US does. Your own foreign minister said that the test represented a crisis to which Canada will be forced to respond. Do you even pay attention to your own government? Or do you just refresh US news sites looking for the next thing to piss and moan about?
Our messes? In case they've stopped teaching history in Canada you may want to read up on Canada's role in the Korean War back in the day. It is not the US's fault that Canada hasn't been taking their turn manning the DMZ for 50 years.
Do you speak for all Canadians when you say you just don't give a fuck? I'll bet Canadian business and citizens working in South Korea or Japan most certainly do give a fuck.
The world is bigger than the US. More countries than the US are responsible for helping deter nuclear proliferation. More countries than the US are responsible for helping North Korea feed their starving population. (And many others do help..but apparently Canadians just don't give a fuck.)
Again, there are a couple of hundred countries in the world...what have they contributed to a peaceful solution?
Where is the massive influx of European or Canadian aid? Did they even try?
Why is it the role of the US to clean this up (or prevent it) in the first place? As we are continually told, the world doesn't want us to be some self-appointed policeman..but now they want us to confront the bad guy with a big gun.
You don't see how enacting laws that, in part, outlawed critisism of the US President couldn't be the act of a special interest group? How about the special interest group that was the political party of the sitting President? You don't think that stifling dissent from the likes of Jefferson and his supporters would help out Adams' party?
Best interest of the nation? The laws were there to smother opposition, not to protect the nation.
Astonishing that people think everything was hunky dory in the United States after the revolution. Many of our Founding Fathers were so crooked they had to screw their socks on in the morning.
When was the last time you heard that there were problems counting votes in Germany, or France, or the UK, or Norway, or ancient Greece, or whatever.
When was the last time that every news agency in the world focused on the voting in Germany, France, or UK? The US is under a spotlight and a microscope in everything it does. Those other countries are not. Not saying that is good or bad, but that's the way it is.
Don't you think a story about a mass stampede during an election rally in Yeman merits more attention than this? How many news agencies would lead with a Yemen election story though? How many would lead with a US Election story no matter how banal?
It's not like programmers just love to dive into maintaining code either you know. They're usually the ones just chomping at the bit to chuck everything and start something new and exciting to put on their resume (or blog about these days).
Why is America the only country that has to defend having sports other than soccer take center stage?
Do people get their panties in a twist over Canada liking hockey more? Is it a deep rooted Canadian need to be unique and dominant? Does the fact that they also embrace a version of football that is not soccer piss the world off?
Australians and New Zealanders like Aussie Rules Football or Rugby more. Why is that?
India and Pakistan love their cricket. Any deep seeded psychological reasons the world would like to debate over that?
China? What's their problem?
The two most populous nations in the world and seven of the top 10 have no representation in Germany this World Cup and people say Americans have issues.
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They reverted that policy long ago. More than two years ago for sure. There was a time they experimented with not allowing families with kids, but it didn't last long.
Military, disabilities, parents traveling with small children...all get early pre-board on United.
It's all on their website
https://www.united.com/web/en-...
First of all, if your company bought it, why do you care if it gets stolen?
Second, don't live in fear. People can smell fear a mile away. It makes you a target regardless of what laptop you're using.
Third. Do you think you're something special by having a Apple product? Go into any airport, any coffee shop...ANYWHERE in the world. They are everywhere. Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa. I travel them all for work, constantly. Apple is everywhere. Business travelers are everywhere.
Your Apple product is no more of a "High Value Target == business traveler" beacon than any other laptop.
You're not going to attract a moments notice unless you give off that stink of fear.
Reading your post...you give off that stink of fear.
How many Trump voters do you think could tell you what Brexit was? How many Clinton voters for that matter?
To think that US voters are influenced by European politics is ignoring what most of the people on Slashdot would characterize as a fault in Americans. Namely, we don't pay attention or care about anyone else.
So which is it?
Spot on. Social apps are the least of the problems.
Add in databases of criminal records, medical records, etc, etc.
As people are wont to say about the TSA, dropping out of social media is just security theater.
Bingo. I'm not unreasonable to requests to cover something on a weekend or holiday. Just give me a reasonable heads up that that's the expectation. I'm on salary so we don't even have to talk about OT.
But once the issue is resolved, don't expect to see me in the office for a couple of days as I take a vacation that I'm not putting on the books.
My boss is fine with that.
That's why everyone who is ever pulled over speeding always gets a ticket. No if's and's or but's. ...except that's not what happens at all.
Bottom line, the police do have discretion.
It's one thing to punch someone in the face as an automatic/instinctive irrational response to a provocative statement made in your presence.
It's quite another when the wheels of government lurch into motion over the same thing. There is nothing automatic or instinctive about thinking about and then deciding to arrest someone over statements made in poor taste on the internet. That's not spur of the moment. That's cold and calculated.
Soccer has been irrelevant in the US for longer than the World Cup has been played. So your "case in point" sucks.
It's not that soccer is irrelevant because the US is no good at it...it's that the US is no good at soccer because it is and always has been (at least since the rise of college football in the late 1800's) irrelevant.
Soccer was overtaken by American style football. End of story. Game over.
Then it is a pointless thing to say. Paraphrasing it to fit your needs than appealing to the authority of a Founding Father to drive the point home is a weak move. I mean, who can argue with a Founding Father right? That's un-American.
Ben Franklin diddled little boys - Thomas Jefferson
I may be paraphrasing a bit, but you can't argue with Jefferson now can you?
Slashdot was no better than the Mass Media at identifying the true issues involved in Columbine. While the media and politicians ran with the Marilyn Manson/video game angle to confirm their own biases, Slashdot ran with the bully meme, which was no more accurate and just as much of a bias.
The Columbine shooters were not motivated or pushed to the edge by bullies. The facts just don't bear it out, but the story lives on because it suits the people pushing that angle. It justifies their biases and prejudices. Just like Cassie Bernall, one of the Columbine victims, did not actually get shot for affirming her belief in God/Jesus but it suits the Evangelical Christian movement to push that story.
Instead of an event deserving kudos, the Voices from the Hellmouth series is a black mark on Slashdot.
And do you think they run that important stuff on their GoogleFarm of cheap linux machines?
With the track record of the CIA do you actually think that "knowing better" is such a stretch? Why do you hold them in such high regard?
The CIA would like to put everyone from the Director down to the Janitor on covert status if they thought they could get away with it.
That only pokes holes in the notion that the Bible (choosing one of the major ones) is indeed the literal word of God passed down unerringly through man from Him.
God could still exist, it just the Bible is not unerring due to man's interference and fallibility. Certainly puts a lot of fundies on shaky ground, but most moderate religions could cope.
Your "argument" might be useful against the ignorant bible-thumper at a PTA meeting, but wouldn't hold up against any real religious scholar.
No you don't. I host templates or golden copies of my VMs on a NFS filesystem all the time. If I'm too lazy to set up the proper vmkernel to mount NFS shares directly to ESX, I mount the NFS filesystem to a solaris box and scp them up.
Do you need some help nailing yourself to that cross, you poor, tortured, misunderstood soul?
You don't care much for other uses of computers? Astonishing. How do you think you are able to use a computer in the first place? Because someone saw a profit in designing, building and selling you one. "Oh but I build my own out of recycled parts from 3rd world countries!" Whatever. The company that designed the CPU, they most certainly used computers for profit. The broadband company that sells you access most certainly does it for profit. The fact that you are able to blissfully wander around in your little world, free from such crass concerns as "computers for profit" is in fact enabled by a huge economy that runs on computers....for profit.
Also, you don't think people use online services from Amazon, Google...Blizzard, for expressions of their mind and soul? How about the person that buys a book of poetry from Amazon? (or sells it on Amazon or Ebay). How about the people doing huge art projects via Flickr?
Again, no ability to think in the abstract and obviously no ability to see beyond your own nose. And you call Greg P. a "fucking idiot". That's what is sad.
oftware as a service? Yeah... I'm sure we're all going to want to be running Photoshop via the net and trust our precious photos to a third party.
yeah, what do those Flickr people think they're doing? Or Snapfish, or Kodak online services. People trusted their photos to 3rd parties for DECADES. Only a very tiny minority ever developed film on their own back in the "olden days".
I don't know about you, but I don't even trust my e-mail to anyone but myself. I run my own mail server.
Well good for you. The success of Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo Mail shows that as time goes on, you're going to be as quaint as a horse-drawn buggy. People thought co-location was a pipedream once upon a time. "Move my servers to someone else's facilities!!? Preposterous!" People thought outsourcing IT functions was crazy, but the success of companies like EDS shows that there is a huge demand for such things.
This guy's head is up his ass in my opinion.
And that's why you're ranting on Slashdot and he's getting quoted all over the Internet. You have no vision. You only see how *you* do things. You have a limited ability to think in the abstract. And then you cuss and swear.
How is that convenient for me? Do you know my stance on the Iraq War? You probably think you do since I'm not parroting your stance on Bush, therefore I must be a rabid Bush Supporter like you've tried to paint everyone else in this thread that disagrees with you.
Is having N. Korean nukes a few hundred miles away convenient for Japan or S. Korea? Is it convenient for the world? The world's leaders sure don't seem to think so as every leader is stepping up to the mike to chastise N. Korea, even China. You seem to think an ongoing "us vs them" stance is the only response. It's what we deserve. That attitude what you claim got us here in the first place so why are you advocating "staying the course" now? Spite? A desire to see Bush fail even further?
Listing the sins of the Bush Administration may be fun for you, but they do little to contribute to the resolution of what everyone seems to think is a real problem.
Of course cutting and running is not an option. But the rest of the world sitting back and pointing to the US saying "You handle it." is not an option either.
The rest of the world can't spend 16 years directly refuting our claims to special privileges, spend 5 years chastising the US over how we violated the sanctity of the UN and multi-lateral cooperation over Iraq and then when something as serious as nukes get into the mix try to cut and run themselves. Trying to hoist the US on its own petard is a seriously stupid thing to do when the stakes get to this level.
This is a global problem. There aren't many countries in the world (other than N. Korea) that think this is a good development. The global community is responsible for stepping up and solving it.
It is not about owing the US you self-centered child, it is about what you owe your fellow man.
So Canadians are content to let millions of North Koreans starve? They are content to let Japan and S. Korea live within missile range of North Korea nukes?
Go look at what your own government is saying today. They don't want nuke testing in North Korea any more than the US does. Your own foreign minister said that the test represented a crisis to which Canada will be forced to respond. Do you even pay attention to your own government? Or do you just refresh US news sites looking for the next thing to piss and moan about?
Our messes? In case they've stopped teaching history in Canada you may want to read up on Canada's role in the Korean War back in the day. It is not the US's fault that Canada hasn't been taking their turn manning the DMZ for 50 years.
Do you speak for all Canadians when you say you just don't give a fuck? I'll bet Canadian business and citizens working in South Korea or Japan most certainly do give a fuck.
The world is bigger than the US. More countries than the US are responsible for helping deter nuclear proliferation. More countries than the US are responsible for helping North Korea feed their starving population. (And many others do help..but apparently Canadians just don't give a fuck.)
Better prepared to do what? Invade?
Again, there are a couple of hundred countries in the world...what have they contributed to a peaceful solution?
Where is the massive influx of European or Canadian aid? Did they even try?
Why is it the role of the US to clean this up (or prevent it) in the first place? As we are continually told, the world doesn't want us to be some self-appointed policeman..but now they want us to confront the bad guy with a big gun.
You don't see how enacting laws that, in part, outlawed critisism of the US President couldn't be the act of a special interest group? How about the special interest group that was the political party of the sitting President? You don't think that stifling dissent from the likes of Jefferson and his supporters would help out Adams' party?
Best interest of the nation? The laws were there to smother opposition, not to protect the nation.
Astonishing that people think everything was hunky dory in the United States after the revolution. Many of our Founding Fathers were so crooked they had to screw their socks on in the morning.
When was the last time you heard that there were problems counting votes in Germany, or France, or the UK, or Norway, or ancient Greece, or whatever.
When was the last time that every news agency in the world focused on the voting in Germany, France, or UK? The US is under a spotlight and a microscope in everything it does. Those other countries are not. Not saying that is good or bad, but that's the way it is.
Don't you think a story about a mass stampede during an election rally in Yeman merits more attention than this? How many news agencies would lead with a Yemen election story though? How many would lead with a US Election story no matter how banal?
Sometimes it's not illegal, sometimes it results in the former CEO of Brocade and the VP of HR facing possible jail time.
It goes both ways.
It's not like programmers just love to dive into maintaining code either you know. They're usually the ones just chomping at the bit to chuck everything and start something new and exciting to put on their resume (or blog about these days).
Why is America the only country that has to defend having sports other than soccer take center stage?
Do people get their panties in a twist over Canada liking hockey more? Is it a deep rooted Canadian need to be unique and dominant? Does the fact that they also embrace a version of football that is not soccer piss the world off?
Australians and New Zealanders like Aussie Rules Football or Rugby more. Why is that?
India and Pakistan love their cricket. Any deep seeded psychological reasons the world would like to debate over that?
China? What's their problem?
The two most populous nations in the world and seven of the top 10 have no representation in Germany this World Cup and people say Americans have issues.