As someone who used Debian as a main distro for a while, I'll take a stab at this one - Debian is completely stable, but Debian stable itself is very behind compared to Ubuntu. Debian testing is closer, but every so often an update will sneak through and cause a fantastic dependency break which uninstalls all of X (yes I know, safe-upgrade is your friend...).
Ordinarily being "behind" isn't a big deal, but the areas it is behind are the ones desktop users care most about: -Graphics drivers -Multimedia codecs -Support for newer hardware (wifi, printers, etc)
To get better versions of that, you need to resort to manual install (which needs some finesse to reconcile against official packages) or third party repos.
Basing off of Ubuntu reduces the amount of behind-the-scenes polish needed, just desktop manager customization and apps.
The difference is when the government wastes money the taxpayers lose out. When the private sector wastes money the company goes out of business (or the government bails them out, but that's less than half the time).
Canada still does refillable bottles (as does Mexico). I make it a point to bring the glass bottles back up there because of this (I buy them at IGA instead of duty free, so I'm not cheating the deposit system).
I will let people in (either by slowing down or shifting over), and I have noticed when merging the same issue as you have. The best advice I got regarding this as a new driver was to shove in once going the speed of traffic. The guy who refuses to slow down will now be forced to, or we all swap stories for an hour waiting for the trooper.
Well, it's a debit card, not a credit card. And can be activated online to protect your balance. So actually not much can go wrong. Once you realize it's lost, go online with your phone, deactivate it, and whatever cash remains is still there to be put onto a new card whenever you can get to a human agent. If it was stolen, whoever took it would have to (1) get the balance, and (2) buy just enough things to stay under that balance at a store before you get a chance to deactivate.
I didn't mean self-checkout... rather, the cash registers that instantly dispense the change into a cup on the customer side while the cashier handles the bills.
Android pay became faster than credit card due to the introduction of the chip; ranked by speed it seems to be: 1. Tapping a card (e.g. PayPass) 2. Swiping a card (such as a gift card, or if terminal or card is not yet chip enabled) 3. Cash with no change, or automatic change dispenser 4. Android/Apple pay 5. Cash with hand counted change 6. Chip card (no pin or signature) 6a. Chip card with pin 6b. Chip card with signing 7. Personal Check
No, your comment is completely false. Lufthansa and ANA depart from terminal 1, as well as United international flights. Air Canada departs from terminal 2. Terminal 4 is for International ARRIVALs so they can be processed via immigration, and other international airlines not lucky enough to use the main gates.
Wikipedia article concurs with my memory. Apparently Terminal 3 also has Iberia and Japan Airlines.
There's a few passport checks on an international itinerary. 1. Providing the info to the airline. 2. Showing the airline (or code-share partner) the passport to print a boarding pass and check luggage. Even if the "showing" is a scan on a kiosk. 2a. This might be skippable if you print at home, I always have luggage and no printer so I don't know how this works out. 3. The boarding pass will have a big honking "INTL" on it when going through security, even for the domestic leg, prompting the TSA to ask for the passport as a travel document. They also write some scribbles on the boarding pass. 4. Finally, when boarding the actual international plane, airline staff will look at everyone's passport and stamp the boarding pass with something indicating they're good to go. The gate agent will look at the stamp before letting each person in.
I'm simultaneously poking two holes in the plan. One being that the people choosing to fly out on an expired visa can be data mined from a flight database without needing to be caught in the act. The other being that it is simpler, less risky* and far less illegal to walk out of the country and into another one, with a fresh visa, and then fly home. There would be no proof whatsoever of visa overstay. This scanner program is trying to catch a complex Visa scam while a far simpler (and likely more effective) one will still exist.
*Walking out has its own risks. If the Immigration guy on the other side asks how long the person was in the US, and they lie, it's a very serious crime. If they tell the truth they risk being denied entry, at which point they have to return to US Immigration and re-enter, and the overstay will be blatantly obvious.
Except any gate can have an international flight. My main experience is with United but, the same gate at O'Hare / Newark / IAD can have a flight to Hong Kong or London followed by a flight to Houston. Hell sometimes even the plane to Houston continues on to South America, meaning the same flight has a mixture of domestic/international passengers.
From the flight records. You don't need to catch them in the act... and even if you catch it the moment they book the ticket, it doesn't matter, you want them to leave.
And if someone wanted to leave without a paper trail, anyone can just walk out to Canada or Mexico. Niagara Falls and Tijuana come to mind.
I meant afford the illegal services. The plane ticket is probably the easier part, compared to finding someone who looks like them, and is willing to fly out and risk an anomaly on their own passport.
I am absolutely horrible with names. Some sort of AR glasses which "stores" name+face data when people say "Hi I'm Jack Ass, Director of Marketing" and "This is my spoiled brat Chrissy riding her pony named 'Glue'" would be good. Then when I see them again, the names comes up, and the relationship info.
Now that I think of it, I think this technology was demonstrated in a Black Mirror episode. Probably not the best endorsement, but I did say it would piss people off...
Seems plausible, but if true it exposes an even worse problem - how easy it is for someone to book and board a flight (let alone international) with documents belonging to someone else. If this is prevalent enough that an illegal immigrant can afford it, doesn't that make the no-fly list ineffective?
Even worse, a 2 for 1 - one of these passport offenders could give their documents and facilitate someone who is on the no-fly list.
Worse than that, it's not just international flights. There's no US exit process, so international flights depart from the same gates as domestic. The only way this would work is to scan everyone at the airport.
Instead of UBI it needs to be delivery of necessities. Free but boring clothes, tiny dorm room, cafeteria downstairs with food. Free wifi and cheap netbook (to look for jobs, or porn, or whatever). If they want nothing more in life, they are free to live it out like that forever. The important thing is to divorce necessities from money.
Hell even after getting a job, people would be be free to stay there (after all, universal applies to everyone, from homeless dude on the street to Bill Gates). It would remove the work disincentive. In theory people will want more than three hots and a cot, and move out.
That's the inherent flaw of centrally planned economies, though. A small number of idiots can tank an entire country. In a capitalist country, a large number of competing idiots have to simultaneously ignore facts and reason, and all make the same move, in order to tank the country. Our closest recent example was the banking crisis, and even then, there were still winners - all the smaller banks that were like "lol wtf?" at the sub prime mortgages and stayed out of that game. As well as any individuals with precious metals stashed away. When things are traded at what they are worth, it's difficult to make wealth disappear. In this regard planned economies make David Copperfield jealous.
Totally agree, with kids and dogs, definitely would not want an apartment. 2 years of research and blind faith went into my current place (they don't show occupied apartments, and they're never unoccupied long enough to make it to market). The trash chute is clutch.
According to one of the CNN interviews, a plane that landed at 1:15 didn't get access to a portable stairway until 7:30. Unless they authorize emergency slides, or were lucky enough to be regional jets with built-in stairs, there were still limiting factors.
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As someone who used Debian as a main distro for a while, I'll take a stab at this one - Debian is completely stable, but Debian stable itself is very behind compared to Ubuntu. Debian testing is closer, but every so often an update will sneak through and cause a fantastic dependency break which uninstalls all of X (yes I know, safe-upgrade is your friend...).
Ordinarily being "behind" isn't a big deal, but the areas it is behind are the ones desktop users care most about:
-Graphics drivers
-Multimedia codecs
-Support for newer hardware (wifi, printers, etc)
To get better versions of that, you need to resort to manual install (which needs some finesse to reconcile against official packages) or third party repos.
Basing off of Ubuntu reduces the amount of behind-the-scenes polish needed, just desktop manager customization and apps.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
The difference is when the government wastes money the taxpayers lose out. When the private sector wastes money the company goes out of business (or the government bails them out, but that's less than half the time).
Canada still does refillable bottles (as does Mexico). I make it a point to bring the glass bottles back up there because of this (I buy them at IGA instead of duty free, so I'm not cheating the deposit system).
I like the reviews for railroad bridges and other infrastructure. 5/5 would interlock again!
And for government offices - apparently the state tax department makes the best tacos.
I will let people in (either by slowing down or shifting over), and I have noticed when merging the same issue as you have. The best advice I got regarding this as a new driver was to shove in once going the speed of traffic. The guy who refuses to slow down will now be forced to, or we all swap stories for an hour waiting for the trooper.
Well, it's a debit card, not a credit card. And can be activated online to protect your balance. So actually not much can go wrong. Once you realize it's lost, go online with your phone, deactivate it, and whatever cash remains is still there to be put onto a new card whenever you can get to a human agent. If it was stolen, whoever took it would have to (1) get the balance, and (2) buy just enough things to stay under that balance at a store before you get a chance to deactivate.
I didn't mean self-checkout... rather, the cash registers that instantly dispense the change into a cup on the customer side while the cashier handles the bills.
City of Philadelphia came up with a novel idea - their new transit pass (SEPTA Key) is also a Mastercard debit card.
Android pay became faster than credit card due to the introduction of the chip; ranked by speed it seems to be:
1. Tapping a card (e.g. PayPass)
2. Swiping a card (such as a gift card, or if terminal or card is not yet chip enabled)
3. Cash with no change, or automatic change dispenser
4. Android/Apple pay
5. Cash with hand counted change
6. Chip card (no pin or signature)
6a. Chip card with pin
6b. Chip card with signing
7. Personal Check
... this whole article is about scanning departing passengers to catch Visa overstays.
Go home, you're drunk :).
No, your comment is completely false. Lufthansa and ANA depart from terminal 1, as well as United international flights. Air Canada departs from terminal 2. Terminal 4 is for International ARRIVALs so they can be processed via immigration, and other international airlines not lucky enough to use the main gates.
Wikipedia article concurs with my memory. Apparently Terminal 3 also has Iberia and Japan Airlines.
There's a few passport checks on an international itinerary.
1. Providing the info to the airline.
2. Showing the airline (or code-share partner) the passport to print a boarding pass and check luggage. Even if the "showing" is a scan on a kiosk.
2a. This might be skippable if you print at home, I always have luggage and no printer so I don't know how this works out.
3. The boarding pass will have a big honking "INTL" on it when going through security, even for the domestic leg, prompting the TSA to ask for the passport as a travel document. They also write some scribbles on the boarding pass.
4. Finally, when boarding the actual international plane, airline staff will look at everyone's passport and stamp the boarding pass with something indicating they're good to go. The gate agent will look at the stamp before letting each person in.
I'm simultaneously poking two holes in the plan. One being that the people choosing to fly out on an expired visa can be data mined from a flight database without needing to be caught in the act. The other being that it is simpler, less risky* and far less illegal to walk out of the country and into another one, with a fresh visa, and then fly home. There would be no proof whatsoever of visa overstay. This scanner program is trying to catch a complex Visa scam while a far simpler (and likely more effective) one will still exist.
*Walking out has its own risks. If the Immigration guy on the other side asks how long the person was in the US, and they lie, it's a very serious crime. If they tell the truth they risk being denied entry, at which point they have to return to US Immigration and re-enter, and the overstay will be blatantly obvious.
Except any gate can have an international flight. My main experience is with United but, the same gate at O'Hare / Newark / IAD can have a flight to Hong Kong or London followed by a flight to Houston. Hell sometimes even the plane to Houston continues on to South America, meaning the same flight has a mixture of domestic/international passengers.
From the flight records. You don't need to catch them in the act... and even if you catch it the moment they book the ticket, it doesn't matter, you want them to leave.
And if someone wanted to leave without a paper trail, anyone can just walk out to Canada or Mexico. Niagara Falls and Tijuana come to mind.
I meant afford the illegal services. The plane ticket is probably the easier part, compared to finding someone who looks like them, and is willing to fly out and risk an anomaly on their own passport.
I am absolutely horrible with names. Some sort of AR glasses which "stores" name+face data when people say "Hi I'm Jack Ass, Director of Marketing" and "This is my spoiled brat Chrissy riding her pony named 'Glue'" would be good. Then when I see them again, the names comes up, and the relationship info.
Now that I think of it, I think this technology was demonstrated in a Black Mirror episode. Probably not the best endorsement, but I did say it would piss people off...
Seems plausible, but if true it exposes an even worse problem - how easy it is for someone to book and board a flight (let alone international) with documents belonging to someone else. If this is prevalent enough that an illegal immigrant can afford it, doesn't that make the no-fly list ineffective?
Even worse, a 2 for 1 - one of these passport offenders could give their documents and facilitate someone who is on the no-fly list.
Except, who cares if they overstayed, they're leaving! Worry about it when they try to come back!
Worse than that, it's not just international flights. There's no US exit process, so international flights depart from the same gates as domestic. The only way this would work is to scan everyone at the airport.
Instead of UBI it needs to be delivery of necessities. Free but boring clothes, tiny dorm room, cafeteria downstairs with food. Free wifi and cheap netbook (to look for jobs, or porn, or whatever). If they want nothing more in life, they are free to live it out like that forever. The important thing is to divorce necessities from money.
Hell even after getting a job, people would be be free to stay there (after all, universal applies to everyone, from homeless dude on the street to Bill Gates). It would remove the work disincentive. In theory people will want more than three hots and a cot, and move out.
That's the inherent flaw of centrally planned economies, though. A small number of idiots can tank an entire country. In a capitalist country, a large number of competing idiots have to simultaneously ignore facts and reason, and all make the same move, in order to tank the country. Our closest recent example was the banking crisis, and even then, there were still winners - all the smaller banks that were like "lol wtf?" at the sub prime mortgages and stayed out of that game. As well as any individuals with precious metals stashed away. When things are traded at what they are worth, it's difficult to make wealth disappear. In this regard planned economies make David Copperfield jealous.
Totally agree, with kids and dogs, definitely would not want an apartment. 2 years of research and blind faith went into my current place (they don't show occupied apartments, and they're never unoccupied long enough to make it to market). The trash chute is clutch.
According to one of the CNN interviews, a plane that landed at 1:15 didn't get access to a portable stairway until 7:30. Unless they authorize emergency slides, or were lucky enough to be regional jets with built-in stairs, there were still limiting factors.