Obvious solution: Charge your car at night, when the ACs are mostly off, and there is plenty of cheap base load power.
I have an electric car, and it is preprogrammed to start charging at 2am.
A/C runs 24/7 here during the summer, usually. It's still well into the mid 80's on many nights, and we've had some rather strange humid spells lately. Of course I'm not saying we'll have nightly blackouts, but as we add more and more housing (and now electric cars,) to the grid.. things are not going to get better. We do have time of use rates, where it's cheaper at night, but holy hell.. I would not want to run central air during the summer daytime with their day rates. For those of us who work from home, or have pets that we don't want to die of heatstroke.. time of use plans are crippling: SCE's summer afternoon rates are up to $.44/kwh.
There has been a large increase in residential solar lately, but it's still relatively expensive unless you want another 30 year lease, and it doesn't do much for you at night. Perhaps if better storage solutions are offered, it would make sense, but that's still a little ways off.
Hey if you choose to live somewhere where the power infrastructure sucks that's on you. LA is a fine place but most of the US doesn't have much difficulty getting power reliably. If it's a big problem for you there are lots of other places in the US where you can live a very happy life.
If the power is out charging your car is probably the least of your problems. Get a backup generator and charge your car that way if it's such a concern to you. Works fine and if it's big enough you can power your house at the same time.
I didn't choose to live here. I grew up here, family moved down here in '84. It's hard to just pick up and move after 30+ years. Our infrastructure didn't suck back then, but the region has just built and built and built, and I don't recall them ever building a new power station. In fact, they shut down our only nuke plant a couple years ago. They are adding wind/solar, but only out in the deserts. I doubt any of that power makes it past Palmdale or the inland empire. Our problem here is the generally mild 9 months of the year, and some of the most brutally punishing summers outside of Atlanta or Phoenix for the past 5 years. They don't seem to build or plan for the peak season whatsoever. A lot of homes built here in the 60's (which is a huge number of them) were built without central air. Now that the summers are getting hotter, more people are adding A/C. The neighbors on either side of me just installed last year. As more units come online, it taxes the grid even further. They keep raising our rates to 'plan for the future', but the future is here and we still have constant interruptions...
I have a generator, but it's for keeping the freezer running, fish tanks filtering, and not much else. If I wanted a car that required a gas engine to operate.. oh wait.
Not to mention places like Los Angeles, where our infrastructure is shit, power rates keep climbing, and we have multiple brown/blackouts during the summer months just from A/C usage alone. They're talking up to two weeks of blackouts this summer due to the Aliso Canyon fiasco. Just what we all need, electric cars that we can't charge because the power's out, and can't afford to charge because we've already got second mortgages just to keep the house cool when it's 110 outside. Electric cars are a great idea, but some places just aren't prepared for a massive influx of them.
The FAA advisory says there is a 253nm ring of interference at 50ft AGL (above ground level)
So, depending likely on your line of sight to the transmitter, there is a good chance most of Southern California and Nevada are going to have ground-level interference.
Take a look at a topo map of southern California. We've got the San Gabriel Mountains between us (LA/Orange/Ventura counties) and China Lake. Ain't no little hill, neither.
How many of those fatalities are bush planes, operating in rugged terrain and bad weather? How many are training flights, or people sightseeing and getting stuck in box canyons, unfamiliar terrain, air show stunts, etc; not A to B travel flights at a safe altitude and heading. General aviation isn't just straight LAX-ATL flights at 40k feet, where not a whole lot can go wrong. I'm sure if you strip out everything but the mundane going-somewhere flights, the safety concerns of general vs commercial travel will be far less of an issue..
If you ever hear "realigning synergies" in relation to your job it means your getting fired.
If anyone around here uses the term 'realigning synergies' it means I'm quitting ASAP. There are many reasons why I left corporate America, and the mouths that spoke without saying anything was one of the biggies.
The thing is, while dissipating energy from your cold junctions on Earth is dead easy -- convection, conduction, evaporation into the atmosphere -- the only option you have in space is radiation.
The only way to make space factories practical would be via a space elevator, otherwise getting raw materials up and finished goods down reliably would be extremely cost prohibitive. An elevator would provide plenty of surface area for radiation and circulation of coolant fluid back down to the ground, where the excess heat could be used as an energy source. Don't ask me how to build such an elevator though; that's above my pay grade.
The first thing I would do if I was in that situation is figure out who owned the supermarket. They don't want to be used as public parking and I'd bet the landlord would be getting a letter from a lawyer soon after. I mean, I'm sure they wouldn't have tenants towed since that would hurt their image.
They apparently made an agreement with the supermarket lot owner. I think they did so knowing that nobody in their right mind wanted to walk a mile round trip every time they went out in the dead of the California summer. I don't think they cared much about their image at that point. If they did, they would have contacted the city to get an exemption for the street parking. There was ample room to park all of our cars along that strip, but there was a bike lane that would have needed to close temporarily. Never happened.
Agree with this. When I still lived in an apartment, I came home one evening to find a note on all the doors saying that the parking lot would be repaved the following morning and that anyone not gone by 7:30 AM would be towed. No alternative parking offered. Less than 18 hours notice - and some people weren't home but left their car behind.
I came home one day to find all of the covered parking spots, which were about 80% of the available parking, cordoned off with yellow tape. Seems the city came by and found that a couple of the support poles had slowly twisted over the years, and condemned them. So naturally, the complex manager just said fuck it, lets get rid of all of them! Parking was an issue as it was, but this caused the situation to shoot well past the clusterfuck zone into unknown territory. Our complex was all by itself on a long road that had "no parking" signs on it for absolutely no reason. We were all told if we didn't get one of the ~20 available spots, we had to park down the street in a supermarket parking lot, 1/2 mile away, or the cops would ticket us. No exceptions, no apologies, no compensation, nothing. It took weeks for them to bring down all the structures, and they never put them back up like they promised. So we bought a house, and never looked back. Suck it.
Typically, at 500 feet, an landing airliner will be about a mile and half from one end of the runway, about three miles from the center of the airport. So we might say you're not "near an airport" if you're least six miles from the center of an airport; sound about right? At the moment, there are two commercial airports within six miles of me, and at least two private airfields. At the last place I lived, in another town, there were also two airports within six miles. That's about typical - probably most places in the US have a commercial airport or two within six miles, and a couple of private airfields.
By not near an airport, I was thinking more like 20+ miles. If a plane crashes within that distance, there's a very good chance the tower or someone else on the ground nearby will be able to spot it visually. If a flight is at 500ft 20+ miles out, something is not going well. Even if it doesn't wind up crashing, the cost of dumping the beacon is minimal compared to the search and rescue costs trying to find it if it does. Activating the beacon immediately upon the event of a crash at any distance would cut down the response time to get rescue crews moving, as it would be "flight crashed" and not "lost contact", with all the unknowns that come with that status.
On the other hand, the suggestion of a FLOATING auxiliary black box has been made seriously and isn't ridiculous. A challenge is that the device must reliably leave the airplane in case of a crash, but not be knocked loss by flying at 680MPH, or be dislodged by a rough landing at an airport.
From what I've seen of airplanes hitting the water at full tilt, getting things to leave them isn't really all that difficult. But, why not take it a step further and design a mechanism to jettison a copy of the black box data and a locator beacon before impact? Say at about 500 ft above ground/water level while on a downward slope at any location not in the vicinity of an airport, per onboard GPS, or immediately upon 'X' G's outside of a survivable impact (rough landing).
Robots break. When your burger robot breaks your entire store is out of commission vs calling in another worker to cover their shift.
I'm sure there's still someone around with the cognitive capacity to shovel fries into a paper tray if the robot goes down. On a related note, workers break too. Grease burns are a son of a bitch. Robots don't require workers comp insurance.
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Still sounds like a people problem, not a robot one:)
It also works 24/7 without a break, is never late to work, operates at a consistent and predictable pace, doesn't spit in the food, strike, or demand increasing wages. Some fast food chains have replaced their burger flippers with conveyor belt ovens, and it seems to be working out just fine. You get a consistent cook on the meat without having to pay someone to stand there doing nothing between flips. When it comes to producing hundreds or thousands of the same product to the same standard, a robot makes more sense than a human who can fatigue, make errors, or generally doesn't give a shit no matter what the minimum wage may be. Sure, robots do require maintenance and will have down time, but if you've ever worked with humans, you'll know they aren't anywhere near 100% reliable either.
Once someone labels themselves as Fat and Ugly then they lose hope and stops trying to live a healthy lifestyle.
So I was fat once. 260 was my high water mark. One day I thought to myself "Holy shit, I'm fat as fuck and this sucks". Know what I did? Something. Through diet and exercise, I lost 70 pounds. Labeling myself fat gave me the motivation to not be fat. If I had thought "I'm fat and I'm OK with this", I'd still be fat, probably fatter.
I also worked for several years doing shitty low paying jobs. One day I said "Holy shit, this job fucking sucks" and I went back to school to start a career. If I had said "This job sucks, but I'm fine with it" I'd probably be 400 pounds, or dead.
Without realizing how low you are, you may never find a reason to crawl out of it. Labeling yourself as fat, or a failure, or whatever, is not a negative thing. It all depends on what you do with that realization. You can bitch out, or you can do something about it. Your call, but don't blame society for making you 'feel bad' and then give up.
Would you want to see advertisements that included bikini girls with hairy moles, cleft palates, and lobster claw hands? How about one that's so fat she's starting to become one with the fabric of the sofa she's lived on for the past 3 years. Why not? You can be a quarter-tonner and still be healthy, all women are beautiful, right? At what point does Facebook get to state that they are not obligated to accept every ad, and some of these images are driving off more people than they're bringing in? They are a business, after all. This isn't fat shaming, or whatever the fuck guilt-laden term you want to call it, these are images people find to be unappealing and generally don't want to see. I'd rather watch that Sarah McLachlan commercial with the dogs than look at this woman in a bikini. I'm fine with her believing that she looks good, but a lot of us don't agree and don't want to see it. Nobody would want to see my hairy ass walking around in a bikini either, and I totally respect their wishes.
So if you went to the gas station the day after you bought a tank, and they lowered their price by $0.02, you show them your receipt from the day before, and they give you cash back?
Because you can't return gas, ever. You can't just pour your gas back into the storage tank and demand a refund. Gas is also a product with inherent price volatility, and it never goes on sale; same as the stock market. The price matching many stores do is to avoid the hassle of you returning that (returnable) item and then immediately repurchasing it at the sale price.
I haven't used Newegg in years. Their return policy is terrible.
Amen. I bought a board from them a few years back. Got the PC all built and running, but something was causing lock ups. Turns out several individual pins were bent in the CPU socket. There's no way I'm good enough to just bend a single pin in several different places, so it had to have come like that. I didn't want to wait a week+ without a PC while I shipped it back and they shipped me another one, so I purchased the same one overnight from Amazon and had it up and running the next day. Newegg's return policy for mobos is "No". Just "No". Even if they shipped it to you in three pieces, you cannot return for a refund under any circumstance. It took several days for them to at least agree to give me store credit. After spending thousands with them over the years, I found this to be an exceptionally poor way to handle a $150 purchase. I haven't been back to their site since, and I spend every opportunity I can advising people not to shop with them.
Unless a stray air-to-air rocket got it into his infrared sensor.
Oh jeebus, now we have to worry about wild packs of stray air to air missiles roaming the countryside? Please friends, remember to spay or neuter your munitions.
Why do you assume it's easier to breach security in Cairo than in Paris?
How many times over the past few years have we seen reports of "rioting youths" in Paris....
CDG had very tight security when I went through there a few years ago. It's the only place I've seen them put a dog through the x-ray machine. It's the only place I've ever been where another man put his hands down my pants because the metal detector went off once. My g/f had her carry-on bag randomly searched by hand as we were going down the jet way to board the plane. It seemed a bit excessive, but at least you can't say they took a lax attitude towards security.
And what do rioting youths have to do with airport security? Rioters are usually dealing with poor living conditions or injustices, not the destruction of the country they live in.
If my wife is not being honest with me, I want to know about it. If I'm not being honest with her, she wants to know about it. If you want to help increase people's ability to deceive their spouse while stepping out, that's your business. And if I want to do the opposite, that's my business.:D
Everyone has secrets. Maybe you should just trust your wife, and she should trust you, or you both can learn to deal with the alternatives. What if I told you I saw your wife banging the mailman last week, then you hauled off and killed her in a fit of rage? How is that going to make the world a better place? This sense of duty some people have to wreck other peoples lives in the pursuit of exposing the 'truth' makes me sick. Seriously people, if nobody's life is in danger, why inject yourself into the situation? And to be clear, I'm talking about strangers here. Friends and family do have more of a leg to stand on when doing things that affect others in their lives, but perfect strangers spying on others in order to expose them can go get right bent.
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Obvious solution: Charge your car at night, when the ACs are mostly off, and there is plenty of cheap base load power.
I have an electric car, and it is preprogrammed to start charging at 2am.
A/C runs 24/7 here during the summer, usually. It's still well into the mid 80's on many nights, and we've had some rather strange humid spells lately. Of course I'm not saying we'll have nightly blackouts, but as we add more and more housing (and now electric cars,) to the grid.. things are not going to get better. We do have time of use rates, where it's cheaper at night, but holy hell.. I would not want to run central air during the summer daytime with their day rates. For those of us who work from home, or have pets that we don't want to die of heatstroke.. time of use plans are crippling: SCE's summer afternoon rates are up to $.44/kwh.
There has been a large increase in residential solar lately, but it's still relatively expensive unless you want another 30 year lease, and it doesn't do much for you at night. Perhaps if better storage solutions are offered, it would make sense, but that's still a little ways off.
Hey if you choose to live somewhere where the power infrastructure sucks that's on you. LA is a fine place but most of the US doesn't have much difficulty getting power reliably. If it's a big problem for you there are lots of other places in the US where you can live a very happy life.
If the power is out charging your car is probably the least of your problems. Get a backup generator and charge your car that way if it's such a concern to you. Works fine and if it's big enough you can power your house at the same time.
I didn't choose to live here. I grew up here, family moved down here in '84. It's hard to just pick up and move after 30+ years. Our infrastructure didn't suck back then, but the region has just built and built and built, and I don't recall them ever building a new power station. In fact, they shut down our only nuke plant a couple years ago. They are adding wind/solar, but only out in the deserts. I doubt any of that power makes it past Palmdale or the inland empire. Our problem here is the generally mild 9 months of the year, and some of the most brutally punishing summers outside of Atlanta or Phoenix for the past 5 years. They don't seem to build or plan for the peak season whatsoever. A lot of homes built here in the 60's (which is a huge number of them) were built without central air. Now that the summers are getting hotter, more people are adding A/C. The neighbors on either side of me just installed last year. As more units come online, it taxes the grid even further. They keep raising our rates to 'plan for the future', but the future is here and we still have constant interruptions...
I have a generator, but it's for keeping the freezer running, fish tanks filtering, and not much else. If I wanted a car that required a gas engine to operate.. oh wait.
That's not the only problem.
Not to mention places like Los Angeles, where our infrastructure is shit, power rates keep climbing, and we have multiple brown/blackouts during the summer months just from A/C usage alone. They're talking up to two weeks of blackouts this summer due to the Aliso Canyon fiasco. Just what we all need, electric cars that we can't charge because the power's out, and can't afford to charge because we've already got second mortgages just to keep the house cool when it's 110 outside. Electric cars are a great idea, but some places just aren't prepared for a massive influx of them.
The group that has guns?
Yes, because all murders are committed with firearms....
The FAA advisory says there is a 253nm ring of interference at 50ft AGL (above ground level)
So, depending likely on your line of sight to the transmitter, there is a good chance most of Southern California and Nevada are going to have ground-level interference.
Take a look at a topo map of southern California. We've got the San Gabriel Mountains between us (LA/Orange/Ventura counties) and China Lake. Ain't no little hill, neither.
Nothing can move faster than the speed of light?
Wat?
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The fatality rate for general aviation is 82 times that for commercial flight. Are these people utterly insane?
How many of those fatalities are bush planes, operating in rugged terrain and bad weather? How many are training flights, or people sightseeing and getting stuck in box canyons, unfamiliar terrain, air show stunts, etc; not A to B travel flights at a safe altitude and heading. General aviation isn't just straight LAX-ATL flights at 40k feet, where not a whole lot can go wrong. I'm sure if you strip out everything but the mundane going-somewhere flights, the safety concerns of general vs commercial travel will be far less of an issue..
If you ever hear "realigning synergies" in relation to your job it means your getting fired.
If anyone around here uses the term 'realigning synergies' it means I'm quitting ASAP. There are many reasons why I left corporate America, and the mouths that spoke without saying anything was one of the biggies.
Wow I can't stand that word. If that word comes up in your pitch im walking away right then. Not going to say anything just turn around and leave.
But you can't move forward with shifting paradigms without realigning synergies!
The thing is, while dissipating energy from your cold junctions on Earth is dead easy -- convection, conduction, evaporation into the atmosphere -- the only option you have in space is radiation.
The only way to make space factories practical would be via a space elevator, otherwise getting raw materials up and finished goods down reliably would be extremely cost prohibitive. An elevator would provide plenty of surface area for radiation and circulation of coolant fluid back down to the ground, where the excess heat could be used as an energy source. Don't ask me how to build such an elevator though; that's above my pay grade.
The first thing I would do if I was in that situation is figure out who owned the supermarket. They don't want to be used as public parking and I'd bet the landlord would be getting a letter from a lawyer soon after. I mean, I'm sure they wouldn't have tenants towed since that would hurt their image.
They apparently made an agreement with the supermarket lot owner. I think they did so knowing that nobody in their right mind wanted to walk a mile round trip every time they went out in the dead of the California summer. I don't think they cared much about their image at that point. If they did, they would have contacted the city to get an exemption for the street parking. There was ample room to park all of our cars along that strip, but there was a bike lane that would have needed to close temporarily. Never happened.
Agree with this. When I still lived in an apartment, I came home one evening to find a note on all the doors saying that the parking lot would be repaved the following morning and that anyone not gone by 7:30 AM would be towed. No alternative parking offered. Less than 18 hours notice - and some people weren't home but left their car behind.
I came home one day to find all of the covered parking spots, which were about 80% of the available parking, cordoned off with yellow tape. Seems the city came by and found that a couple of the support poles had slowly twisted over the years, and condemned them. So naturally, the complex manager just said fuck it, lets get rid of all of them! Parking was an issue as it was, but this caused the situation to shoot well past the clusterfuck zone into unknown territory. Our complex was all by itself on a long road that had "no parking" signs on it for absolutely no reason. We were all told if we didn't get one of the ~20 available spots, we had to park down the street in a supermarket parking lot, 1/2 mile away, or the cops would ticket us. No exceptions, no apologies, no compensation, nothing. It took weeks for them to bring down all the structures, and they never put them back up like they promised. So we bought a house, and never looked back. Suck it.
Typically, at 500 feet, an landing airliner will be about a mile and half from one end of the runway, about three miles from the center of the airport. So we might say you're not "near an airport" if you're least six miles from the center of an airport; sound about right? At the moment, there are two commercial airports within six miles of me, and at least two private airfields. At the last place I lived, in another town, there were also two airports within six miles. That's about typical - probably most places in the US have a commercial airport or two within six miles, and a couple of private airfields.
By not near an airport, I was thinking more like 20+ miles. If a plane crashes within that distance, there's a very good chance the tower or someone else on the ground nearby will be able to spot it visually. If a flight is at 500ft 20+ miles out, something is not going well. Even if it doesn't wind up crashing, the cost of dumping the beacon is minimal compared to the search and rescue costs trying to find it if it does. Activating the beacon immediately upon the event of a crash at any distance would cut down the response time to get rescue crews moving, as it would be "flight crashed" and not "lost contact", with all the unknowns that come with that status.
On the other hand, the suggestion of a FLOATING auxiliary black box has been made seriously and isn't ridiculous. A challenge is that the device must reliably leave the airplane in case of a crash, but not be knocked loss by flying at 680MPH, or be dislodged by a rough landing at an airport.
From what I've seen of airplanes hitting the water at full tilt, getting things to leave them isn't really all that difficult. But, why not take it a step further and design a mechanism to jettison a copy of the black box data and a locator beacon before impact? Say at about 500 ft above ground/water level while on a downward slope at any location not in the vicinity of an airport, per onboard GPS, or immediately upon 'X' G's outside of a survivable impact (rough landing).
Is that thirty-one hours or thirty-one days?
Well, the first sentence of the summary does mention it took over 30 hours. 31 days is over 30 hours, sure, but we're all smart people here. Right?
Robots break. When your burger robot breaks your entire store is out of commission vs calling in another worker to cover their shift.
I'm sure there's still someone around with the cognitive capacity to shovel fries into a paper tray if the robot goes down. On a related note, workers break too. Grease burns are a son of a bitch. Robots don't require workers comp insurance.
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Still sounds like a people problem, not a robot one :)
The machine does one task and a person does many.
It also works 24/7 without a break, is never late to work, operates at a consistent and predictable pace, doesn't spit in the food, strike, or demand increasing wages. Some fast food chains have replaced their burger flippers with conveyor belt ovens, and it seems to be working out just fine. You get a consistent cook on the meat without having to pay someone to stand there doing nothing between flips. When it comes to producing hundreds or thousands of the same product to the same standard, a robot makes more sense than a human who can fatigue, make errors, or generally doesn't give a shit no matter what the minimum wage may be. Sure, robots do require maintenance and will have down time, but if you've ever worked with humans, you'll know they aren't anywhere near 100% reliable either.
Once someone labels themselves as Fat and Ugly then they lose hope and stops trying to live a healthy lifestyle.
So I was fat once. 260 was my high water mark. One day I thought to myself "Holy shit, I'm fat as fuck and this sucks". Know what I did? Something. Through diet and exercise, I lost 70 pounds. Labeling myself fat gave me the motivation to not be fat. If I had thought "I'm fat and I'm OK with this", I'd still be fat, probably fatter.
I also worked for several years doing shitty low paying jobs. One day I said "Holy shit, this job fucking sucks" and I went back to school to start a career. If I had said "This job sucks, but I'm fine with it" I'd probably be 400 pounds, or dead.
Without realizing how low you are, you may never find a reason to crawl out of it. Labeling yourself as fat, or a failure, or whatever, is not a negative thing. It all depends on what you do with that realization. You can bitch out, or you can do something about it. Your call, but don't blame society for making you 'feel bad' and then give up.
Would you want to see advertisements that included bikini girls with hairy moles, cleft palates, and lobster claw hands? How about one that's so fat she's starting to become one with the fabric of the sofa she's lived on for the past 3 years. Why not? You can be a quarter-tonner and still be healthy, all women are beautiful, right? At what point does Facebook get to state that they are not obligated to accept every ad, and some of these images are driving off more people than they're bringing in? They are a business, after all. This isn't fat shaming, or whatever the fuck guilt-laden term you want to call it, these are images people find to be unappealing and generally don't want to see. I'd rather watch that Sarah McLachlan commercial with the dogs than look at this woman in a bikini. I'm fine with her believing that she looks good, but a lot of us don't agree and don't want to see it. Nobody would want to see my hairy ass walking around in a bikini either, and I totally respect their wishes.
So if you went to the gas station the day after you bought a tank, and they lowered their price by $0.02, you show them your receipt from the day before, and they give you cash back?
Because you can't return gas, ever. You can't just pour your gas back into the storage tank and demand a refund. Gas is also a product with inherent price volatility, and it never goes on sale; same as the stock market. The price matching many stores do is to avoid the hassle of you returning that (returnable) item and then immediately repurchasing it at the sale price.
I haven't used Newegg in years. Their return policy is terrible.
Amen. I bought a board from them a few years back. Got the PC all built and running, but something was causing lock ups. Turns out several individual pins were bent in the CPU socket. There's no way I'm good enough to just bend a single pin in several different places, so it had to have come like that. I didn't want to wait a week+ without a PC while I shipped it back and they shipped me another one, so I purchased the same one overnight from Amazon and had it up and running the next day. Newegg's return policy for mobos is "No". Just "No". Even if they shipped it to you in three pieces, you cannot return for a refund under any circumstance. It took several days for them to at least agree to give me store credit. After spending thousands with them over the years, I found this to be an exceptionally poor way to handle a $150 purchase. I haven't been back to their site since, and I spend every opportunity I can advising people not to shop with them.
Unless a stray air-to-air rocket got it into his infrared sensor.
Oh jeebus, now we have to worry about wild packs of stray air to air missiles roaming the countryside? Please friends, remember to spay or neuter your munitions.
Why do you assume it's easier to breach security in Cairo than in Paris?
How many times over the past few years have we seen reports of "rioting youths" in Paris....
CDG had very tight security when I went through there a few years ago. It's the only place I've seen them put a dog through the x-ray machine. It's the only place I've ever been where another man put his hands down my pants because the metal detector went off once. My g/f had her carry-on bag randomly searched by hand as we were going down the jet way to board the plane. It seemed a bit excessive, but at least you can't say they took a lax attitude towards security.
And what do rioting youths have to do with airport security? Rioters are usually dealing with poor living conditions or injustices, not the destruction of the country they live in.
If my wife is not being honest with me, I want to know about it. If I'm not being honest with her, she wants to know about it. If you want to help increase people's ability to deceive their spouse while stepping out, that's your business. And if I want to do the opposite, that's my business. :D
Everyone has secrets. Maybe you should just trust your wife, and she should trust you, or you both can learn to deal with the alternatives. What if I told you I saw your wife banging the mailman last week, then you hauled off and killed her in a fit of rage? How is that going to make the world a better place? This sense of duty some people have to wreck other peoples lives in the pursuit of exposing the 'truth' makes me sick. Seriously people, if nobody's life is in danger, why inject yourself into the situation? And to be clear, I'm talking about strangers here. Friends and family do have more of a leg to stand on when doing things that affect others in their lives, but perfect strangers spying on others in order to expose them can go get right bent.