There are major parts of this story that many don't seem to take into account. The story we all hear is the story that this man ran to the news with. He never states exactly what he tweeted, he merely paraphrases what it said and it changes in different articles I've read about this. This leads me to believe he's not being completely forthcoming in his version of what the tweet said.
Another point is after the initial situation with the agent he admits to blurting out "Twitter will be hearing about this!". Perhaps. you have a different life experience, but the folks I meet in life that use phrases and tactics like this are far from reasonable people. They are the "I'm taking my football and going home!" types, when they don't get to be quarterback. His children were too old to qualify for the Family Boarding policy SWA has which is after the A group but before the B group. He'd had to have paid more for his tickets to get his children in the A group with himself. He simply chose not to and was hoping to get his kids through with the higher paid tickets for free. He intentionally planned his trip poorly by either not buying the correct tickets he wanted, or going with an airline that would let him buy assigned seats.
A major issue is that he did not simply state "The agent for flight X was very rude, I'm dissappointed @SWA". He proceeded to give her name and location out. This is what he admitted to openly, and based on his previous behavior that he admitted to, I'm inclined to think it was worse than he said. She very well might have been nervous for her safety, you don't know her situation, and nobody has heard her side of things yet. She might have an abusive ex she is trying to avoid, etc. It was not his place to do that. She might have been wrong, but nobody knows for sure because nobody has heard her say anything. Visit this man's twitter. It's private now, but you can still see he styles himself as a social media buff. He knows exactly what he's doing. At least be fair to her and cast judgement later.
There is a trend however, of criminals kidnapping people and taking them around to various ATMs with their credit and debit cards until their accounts are empty.
Molyneux's games fail? Fable is one of the most popular games on Xbox. Every iteration of it has been fun for me. I know others who loved his other games, they just weren't in my genres.
Newer plasmas do not suffer from burn-in issues. In fact, if an image is "stuck" after being displayed for an extended period of time, the solution is to simply watch TV on it. After a short while it returns to normal. Someone left a game paused on my TV for over a day once, and yes there was a slight shadow of it for a short while, by the time a half hour show was over it was gone.
I realize this is off-topic but I have to ask. Are some of the slashot ads now spawning malware tabs? This is a brand new install of windows with full A/V and firewall, clean install of firefox with no plugins. I know the ads are bad (some play audio now without permission), but one appears to be spawning multiple windows to fake updates for firefox or installs for malicious plugins. On a tech news site. This never used to happen before. I apologize for the post, but this is just ridiculous.
And on Deloreans, the windshield is designed to be kicked out. At that point though, I don't care if my doors are in poor condition, the car is totalled.
Are you sure he did? He claims now that he was a CIA trained spy, and claimed before this even that he took the job at the NSA expressly to gather evidence. Someone who is taking a job to gather evidence doesn't go through proper channels to report. If you can post where NSA admitted, I would like to see because I haven't been able to find anything where they admitted it. A lot of his behavior and speech goes against what I would expect someone to do and say if they had only good intentions at heart.
I do believe his first leaks were good, alerting everyone to the NSA snooping network. Everything after that questions anything positive about the first part.
Coal is expected to overtake oil as the leading energy source soon. The coal companies themselves have already stated this will have no effect on their financial health, and that it's pretty much just a "makes us feel good anyway" action on the part of Stanford. After all, they sell their stock but certainly someone bought it.
A coworker of mine had one. Then one day I went to get a soda from the break room and while passing by his cube I heard a loud bang. His chair had exploded and dropped him square on the floor. At least they honored his warranty and mailed him a new one.
The Newport News Shipyard has a well known apprenticeship program with a full school and everything. I know several people who got their bachelors degree there and were working and getting paid while they did it. They now work to design the ship and sub components. My own brother was in it for a while before he switched to an outside school (still paid for by his employer) and is working on his master's degree as we speak. The Hampton Roads area alone has several large shipyards, large manufacturing plants and rail yards.
Very cool! I love WWII history. Would love to one day have real artifacts in my collection but to date it's a solitary "War Bonds" poster, and many signed books and pictures from veterans and historians.
That was very brave of you. My dad was in the service until the early 80's though, and he said he was often given leftover K rations too. Your cousin should keep some of those though, re-enactors and collectors pay well for those.
I have to mention that MREs now are at least as good as anything I've had canned from something like Chef Boyardee. The Chili MRE is actually better than most canned chili brands I've tasted. I was also shocked that when I added cold water to the milkshake bag, it really did taste like a milkshake. Not the best clearly but close enough to be considered a nice treat to find in the MRE bag.
That's a huge misconception. My Delorean needs only 11" of clearance between me and the car next to me in order to fully open my door. Try doing _that_ in a sedan. The hinges aren't needed at all:)
I built a brand new 1850sqft house with all the bells and whistles (granite/hardwood floors) for less than 300K. I live in Hampton Roads, Virginia. My house isn't unusually cheap or expensive for what I got either, it's about middle of the road in price.
I don't think the issue at first is the 5 cents of power. It's the danger that might have been caused by him plugging in something in a circuit he knows nothing about without asking first. It could have caused damage to school equipment or caused an electrical fire. He could have damaged his car and tried to sue. For me the amount of power he took isn't really any concern, it's the risk he might have caused.
I don't however, agree that putting him in jail overnight was reasonable. This should have been handled by a simple fine.
Wasn't it found that there was someone with a gun on the other side who fired first? I remember reading (or seeing in a documentary) that there was someone who was intentionally trying to start the shooting.
Thanks for this post. Now it makes sense when I see Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell get in to a jet to fly before the Apollo 13 mission. I thought at first it was just part of his regular duty to stay up on flying jets. That's a pretty impressive way to travel to your launch.
I have a 65" LG plasma and was shocked when I took it out of the box to find out how thin it really is. I was also shocked to find out that it wasn't the heavy monster they once were and it actually runs quite cool. In contract I bought a 50" LED LCD to hang in my bedroom and not only is it twice as thick but it's quite a bit heavier. The picture on my plasma is wonderful too. My only complaint with it is the glossy screen since it sometimes reflects light in the evenings.
The processes and hoops you have to jump through in order to respond to their requests for proposal are ridiculously complicated. Way too often companies who are not qualified get the contract merely because they knew how to play the system.
The government has programs to support small businesses like 8a for disadvantaged, one for businesses owned by disabled Vets, one for women owned. This does help some, but more often than not those companies are just paid so that bigger companies can bid for work and use them as the vehicle to get it. In my experience as a government contractor for most of my career I've seen countless scenarios of companies bidding for 8 resources on a task but really only using 2. I've seen them work on contracts for over a decade, and despite horrible execution of the project they continue to win the re-compete because they'll purposely squirrel away anyone who can help a new contract winner. They'll eat the cost and give people useless jobs at their corporate offices just to attempt to make the new contracting company fail.
There is also a terrible history of nepotism involved. The entire system is abused. Officers have even set up companies and awarded contracts to themselves right before retirement. When they leave they have a ready made contracting company complete with an ongoing contract and perhaps one or two for their past performance record already. By the time they're caught, they are fined a million or so which at that point is small price to pay for them. They just had the world's best interest free business startup loan. Yes, I have first-hand knowledge of one such instance of this and I know it is definitely not an isolated incident.
Here is an example of waste: When I was on one of my last contracts I spent months doing nothing of real consequence. Through some weird situation I was left with no project manager and no tasks. I informed all of the management who would listen, and requested work. I began to worry I'd be cut, along with the worry that if I sat idle my hard-earned skills would dull. I found another job and quit. I received a call from the vice president of the company telling me she was hearing what a great job I was doing and that they wanted to offer me a substantial raise to stay. It was then I realized they didn't care what I did. They could bill for me. By showing up I was doing a "good job". I couldn't take it and left.
I would look forward to a system where someone doesn't have to be a millionaire or have millionaire friends to get in to office. There are plenty of people who would do an excellent job but don't even attempt to run for office anywhere because they don't have money to spend on commercials and big websites. It would be simpler if there were controlled places to announce a candidacy, and a ban on all of the ads these people put everywhere for election. Everyone gets equal time and opportunity to state their positions and goals. I know, it's not reasonable to expect this would come to fruition.
It's not as simple as that. It is true that there are a certain portion of contracts set aside for small businesses (with further specialization for Woman Owned, Disadvantaged, Native American, Veteran Owned (at least for disabled vets), but they all still fall under the small business category. Once they reach a certain dollar threshold they are no longer considered small business and those benefits are not applicable to them anymore.
It was created to foster small businesses and give a leg up so that they can compete with the giant contracting companies that would otherwise dominate. There is just a plain "Small Business" category but the more you can claim in your business registry the smaller the competition pool gets and the greater your chances of winning are. There are some for say "8a" where you might very well be the only bidder and you'll win pretty much by default unless your proposal was completely off the mark.
I don't disagree with your point, but I have an honest question. I do believe that currently alcohol and tobacco currently cause more problems than drugs and both are unhealthy. My question is, how much of that is due to the fact that they are both legal and easily accessible? I know prohibition created underground markets and crime rose due to that. The flip side of the coin is whether general alcoholism was as common then as it is now? Does the scale get tipped in another direction rather than actually improve the situation? Many like the famous crime families in Chicago and New York rose to power from prohibition but was there also a dip in public intoxication, driving under the influence etc?
If we legalize certain drugs is there then a repeat where instead of people coming from a smoke filled bar drunk, they're on one of the legalized drugs and we've simply shifted the problem from illegal drug sales and gang crime to an increase in average people getting involved in risky situations? I have read about prohibition but never saw much mentioned on the other effects.
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There are major parts of this story that many don't seem to take into account. The story we all hear is the story that this man ran to the news with. He never states exactly what he tweeted, he merely paraphrases what it said and it changes in different articles I've read about this. This leads me to believe he's not being completely forthcoming in his version of what the tweet said.
Another point is after the initial situation with the agent he admits to blurting out "Twitter will be hearing about this!". Perhaps. you have a different life experience, but the folks I meet in life that use phrases and tactics like this are far from reasonable people. They are the "I'm taking my football and going home!" types, when they don't get to be quarterback. His children were too old to qualify for the Family Boarding policy SWA has which is after the A group but before the B group. He'd had to have paid more for his tickets to get his children in the A group with himself. He simply chose not to and was hoping to get his kids through with the higher paid tickets for free. He intentionally planned his trip poorly by either not buying the correct tickets he wanted, or going with an airline that would let him buy assigned seats.
A major issue is that he did not simply state "The agent for flight X was very rude, I'm dissappointed @SWA". He proceeded to give her name and location out. This is what he admitted to openly, and based on his previous behavior that he admitted to, I'm inclined to think it was worse than he said. She very well might have been nervous for her safety, you don't know her situation, and nobody has heard her side of things yet. She might have an abusive ex she is trying to avoid, etc. It was not his place to do that. She might have been wrong, but nobody knows for sure because nobody has heard her say anything. Visit this man's twitter. It's private now, but you can still see he styles himself as a social media buff. He knows exactly what he's doing. At least be fair to her and cast judgement later.
There is a trend however, of criminals kidnapping people and taking them around to various ATMs with their credit and debit cards until their accounts are empty.
Molyneux's games fail? Fable is one of the most popular games on Xbox. Every iteration of it has been fun for me. I know others who loved his other games, they just weren't in my genres.
Newer plasmas do not suffer from burn-in issues. In fact, if an image is "stuck" after being displayed for an extended period of time, the solution is to simply watch TV on it. After a short while it returns to normal. Someone left a game paused on my TV for over a day once, and yes there was a slight shadow of it for a short while, by the time a half hour show was over it was gone.
I realize this is off-topic but I have to ask. Are some of the slashot ads now spawning malware tabs? This is a brand new install of windows with full A/V and firewall, clean install of firefox with no plugins. I know the ads are bad (some play audio now without permission), but one appears to be spawning multiple windows to fake updates for firefox or installs for malicious plugins. On a tech news site. This never used to happen before. I apologize for the post, but this is just ridiculous.
And on Deloreans, the windshield is designed to be kicked out. At that point though, I don't care if my doors are in poor condition, the car is totalled.
Fair enough. I'm interested to hear about this "spy training" too.
Are you sure he did? He claims now that he was a CIA trained spy, and claimed before this even that he took the job at the NSA expressly to gather evidence. Someone who is taking a job to gather evidence doesn't go through proper channels to report. If you can post where NSA admitted, I would like to see because I haven't been able to find anything where they admitted it. A lot of his behavior and speech goes against what I would expect someone to do and say if they had only good intentions at heart.
I do believe his first leaks were good, alerting everyone to the NSA snooping network. Everything after that questions anything positive about the first part.
Coal is expected to overtake oil as the leading energy source soon. The coal companies themselves have already stated this will have no effect on their financial health, and that it's pretty much just a "makes us feel good anyway" action on the part of Stanford. After all, they sell their stock but certainly someone bought it.
A coworker of mine had one. Then one day I went to get a soda from the break room and while passing by his cube I heard a loud bang. His chair had exploded and dropped him square on the floor. At least they honored his warranty and mailed him a new one.
The Newport News Shipyard has a well known apprenticeship program with a full school and everything. I know several people who got their bachelors degree there and were working and getting paid while they did it. They now work to design the ship and sub components. My own brother was in it for a while before he switched to an outside school (still paid for by his employer) and is working on his master's degree as we speak. The Hampton Roads area alone has several large shipyards, large manufacturing plants and rail yards.
Very cool! I love WWII history. Would love to one day have real artifacts in my collection but to date it's a solitary "War Bonds" poster, and many signed books and pictures from veterans and historians.
That was very brave of you. My dad was in the service until the early 80's though, and he said he was often given leftover K rations too. Your cousin should keep some of those though, re-enactors and collectors pay well for those.
I have to mention that MREs now are at least as good as anything I've had canned from something like Chef Boyardee. The Chili MRE is actually better than most canned chili brands I've tasted. I was also shocked that when I added cold water to the milkshake bag, it really did taste like a milkshake. Not the best clearly but close enough to be considered a nice treat to find in the MRE bag.
That's a huge misconception. My Delorean needs only 11" of clearance between me and the car next to me in order to fully open my door. Try doing _that_ in a sedan. The hinges aren't needed at all :)
No, around 265K
I built a brand new 1850sqft house with all the bells and whistles (granite/hardwood floors) for less than 300K. I live in Hampton Roads, Virginia. My house isn't unusually cheap or expensive for what I got either, it's about middle of the road in price.
I don't think the issue at first is the 5 cents of power. It's the danger that might have been caused by him plugging in something in a circuit he knows nothing about without asking first. It could have caused damage to school equipment or caused an electrical fire. He could have damaged his car and tried to sue. For me the amount of power he took isn't really any concern, it's the risk he might have caused.
I don't however, agree that putting him in jail overnight was reasonable. This should have been handled by a simple fine.
Wasn't it found that there was someone with a gun on the other side who fired first? I remember reading (or seeing in a documentary) that there was someone who was intentionally trying to start the shooting.
Thanks for this post. Now it makes sense when I see Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell get in to a jet to fly before the Apollo 13 mission. I thought at first it was just part of his regular duty to stay up on flying jets. That's a pretty impressive way to travel to your launch.
I have a 65" LG plasma and was shocked when I took it out of the box to find out how thin it really is. I was also shocked to find out that it wasn't the heavy monster they once were and it actually runs quite cool. In contract I bought a 50" LED LCD to hang in my bedroom and not only is it twice as thick but it's quite a bit heavier. The picture on my plasma is wonderful too. My only complaint with it is the glossy screen since it sometimes reflects light in the evenings.
The processes and hoops you have to jump through in order to respond to their requests for proposal are ridiculously complicated. Way too often companies who are not qualified get the contract merely because they knew how to play the system.
The government has programs to support small businesses like 8a for disadvantaged, one for businesses owned by disabled Vets, one for women owned. This does help some, but more often than not those companies are just paid so that bigger companies can bid for work and use them as the vehicle to get it. In my experience as a government contractor for most of my career I've seen countless scenarios of companies bidding for 8 resources on a task but really only using 2. I've seen them work on contracts for over a decade, and despite horrible execution of the project they continue to win the re-compete because they'll purposely squirrel away anyone who can help a new contract winner. They'll eat the cost and give people useless jobs at their corporate offices just to attempt to make the new contracting company fail.
There is also a terrible history of nepotism involved. The entire system is abused. Officers have even set up companies and awarded contracts to themselves right before retirement. When they leave they have a ready made contracting company complete with an ongoing contract and perhaps one or two for their past performance record already. By the time they're caught, they are fined a million or so which at that point is small price to pay for them. They just had the world's best interest free business startup loan. Yes, I have first-hand knowledge of one such instance of this and I know it is definitely not an isolated incident.
Here is an example of waste: When I was on one of my last contracts I spent months doing nothing of real consequence. Through some weird situation I was left with no project manager and no tasks. I informed all of the management who would listen, and requested work. I began to worry I'd be cut, along with the worry that if I sat idle my hard-earned skills would dull. I found another job and quit. I received a call from the vice president of the company telling me she was hearing what a great job I was doing and that they wanted to offer me a substantial raise to stay. It was then I realized they didn't care what I did. They could bill for me. By showing up I was doing a "good job". I couldn't take it and left.
I would look forward to a system where someone doesn't have to be a millionaire or have millionaire friends to get in to office. There are plenty of people who would do an excellent job but don't even attempt to run for office anywhere because they don't have money to spend on commercials and big websites. It would be simpler if there were controlled places to announce a candidacy, and a ban on all of the ads these people put everywhere for election. Everyone gets equal time and opportunity to state their positions and goals. I know, it's not reasonable to expect this would come to fruition.
It's not as simple as that. It is true that there are a certain portion of contracts set aside for small businesses (with further specialization for Woman Owned, Disadvantaged, Native American, Veteran Owned (at least for disabled vets), but they all still fall under the small business category. Once they reach a certain dollar threshold they are no longer considered small business and those benefits are not applicable to them anymore.
It was created to foster small businesses and give a leg up so that they can compete with the giant contracting companies that would otherwise dominate. There is just a plain "Small Business" category but the more you can claim in your business registry the smaller the competition pool gets and the greater your chances of winning are. There are some for say "8a" where you might very well be the only bidder and you'll win pretty much by default unless your proposal was completely off the mark.
I don't disagree with your point, but I have an honest question. I do believe that currently alcohol and tobacco currently cause more problems than drugs and both are unhealthy. My question is, how much of that is due to the fact that they are both legal and easily accessible? I know prohibition created underground markets and crime rose due to that. The flip side of the coin is whether general alcoholism was as common then as it is now? Does the scale get tipped in another direction rather than actually improve the situation? Many like the famous crime families in Chicago and New York rose to power from prohibition but was there also a dip in public intoxication, driving under the influence etc?
If we legalize certain drugs is there then a repeat where instead of people coming from a smoke filled bar drunk, they're on one of the legalized drugs and we've simply shifted the problem from illegal drug sales and gang crime to an increase in average people getting involved in risky situations? I have read about prohibition but never saw much mentioned on the other effects.