Some places like Minnesota would have their kids waiting for the school bus in pitch black during the winter
Oh noes, won't someone invent the lightbulb to save us from this heinous darkness! Seriously though, what kind of a screwed up city doesn't have lighting at bus stops?
It's bold of you to criticise someone for daring to know something that has been discussed on a Tesla forum. I mean what kind of a weirdo has a conversation online anyway?
Rather than buying Chinese goods cut China off completely. It's far more ethical to plunge a country of 1.4billion people into a recession. Those poor people have had it too good for too long with their crappy low income jobs.
By the time he's finished renegotiating the deal he will have spent billions on government shutdowns and secured an even more expensive project with even less funding for it.
Oh I don't think anyone has taken a bigger risk than Blizzard recently. Announcing a mobile game at Blizcon? The developers are lucky they didn't get lynched by the angry mob.
users have been trained for decades by Microsoft to automatically install an alternate browser on the platform they use frequently.
Actually users have been trained by decades of "Switch to Chrome, a smarter browser for a better experience" popups every time they search for something. There's no such jarring marketing on mobile platforms.
It's worth remembering that users didn't make a choice to dump IE. They were told to, by friends, by websites they visit, by the sheer frustration of the slow piece of shit that was IE.
Incidentally this is also why I used a variety of browsers in the early Android days. The included browsers were garbage. Around about the Galaxy S4-5 days is when the default Samsung browser became usable.
No thanks. They may be part of an alliance, but the members of that alliance are worlds apart in customer service, quality, and cost.
United is on my don't buy list. Lufthansa is getting pretty frigging close as well after our last ordeal with the rude worthless shits they call "hostesses" looking after passengers.
On the flip side both Thai and Singapore Airlines are among some of the best airlines I've traveled with. TAP and Turkish are incredibly cost effective so they get a lot of leeway (even though TAP have never once been on time when I've used them).
Having the same procedures does not mean you would expect them to sue their customers... or drag them off the plane in a bloody mess (given a specific airline on your list).
It's their own fault for artificially inflating prices based on the route rather than the costs incurred.
They don't. They discount certain flights, and incur different base costs depending on destinations for others. Airline pricing is far more complex than you seem to think.
If they wish to gouge people
You're talking about an 800km journey that costs 90 euro. Per km this is already the cheapest form of transport. You're not going to win any friends by considering this "gouging".
Airlines charge you for food, for blankets for baggage (believe it or not, they never used to).
Yes they did. In fact they used to charge you far more than they do now. I've been flying constantly all my life and I don't for a moment want to return to the past where flying was an activity reserved for the rich and well off. These days I happily take the plane to destinations easily reachable by car. You want a meal? You want a checked bag? Book a fully flexible premium economy ticket. You get extra points too, and it's STILL cheaper than it used to be.
I think they haven't gone far enough. Start charging customers per kg. The less I subsidise services of others in which I have no interest, the better.
In my experience many flights are overbooked (which I think is an asshole move by the airline).
You don't typically see this happen so much in Europe thanks to the airlines having to not only get you to your destination anyway but also having to pay out a penalty often higher than the cost of the original trip.
I've been on an overbooked flight once. The airline rebooked me on another flight. I got to my destination 5 minutes earlier (on a competitor's airline) and got a 120euro payout. The original flight was only 200 euro return in the first place.
Why do that when it's significantly cheaper to fly?
Just for shits and giggles I just checked how much it would cost to take the train from the Netherlands to Austria. 149euro one way and takes 12 hours. Compare that with the 35euro the plane ticket costs... and disregard the 8 hours you save (that includes arriving at the airport early).
If you're not there, they give your seat to someone else.
they don't check to see if you're not on the plane.
Aside from showing you've never taken a multi-leg flight on a single plane before your post actually cannot possibly make sense, not unless you randomly have flights where some person comes in and sits on your lap since by your accounts airlines both have no idea if you're on the plane, AND also give your seat away.
Airlines do everything in their power to cheat the customer.
Indeed. Yet thanks to insane competition customers have done everything to cheat the airline too leading to an industry that is now operating on razor thin margins which has made air travel one of the cheapest forms of short haul transport.
I certainly don't blame airlines from pulling every trick in the book to extract money out of customers. Those who don't do so... well they don't exist anymore.
Richard Branson said it best when asked by a student how to become a millionaire. "Start as a billionaire and then create an airline."
All of your concerns don't exist for flights with plane changes. Even the baggage won't be checked through if you select a significantly large layover time as airports refuse to store baggage beyond a certain time.
Disingenuous it may be, but to ignore it is to commit a fatal error of understanding how users interact with software. If anything this should be a clear indication to the likes of Firefox and Opera that in this day and age it is no longer sufficient to produce good software. You have to be in control of the default user experience.
The day I want to hear what your faggot-ass butt-fucking self thinks about any of this, I'll ask.
Until then, stick to sucking dicks and leave the grammar to people who know [it's hard to correct this part since I'm not sure if you intended to put a full stop (incorrect) or had an aneurysm and couldn't finish the sentence.]
The fact that it is usable and has an adblocker is to their credit as well. I've tried a few different browsers, but quite unlike IE I went back to the default installed on my device. Chrome is unusable due to adverts, and Firefox well after trying it over and over again and finding bugs that made it difficult to read (wrong zooms to content, stupid choices of font size, etc) I just gave up.
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If everyone "fucked up" as much as NASA did on this mission we'd have solved all of the worlds problems by now.
Some places like Minnesota would have their kids waiting for the school bus in pitch black during the winter
Oh noes, won't someone invent the lightbulb to save us from this heinous darkness! Seriously though, what kind of a screwed up city doesn't have lighting at bus stops?
The big problem with India is it has a population of 1 and therefore only 1 person can address 1 problem at any given time.
It's bold of you to criticise someone for daring to know something that has been discussed on a Tesla forum. I mean what kind of a weirdo has a conversation online anyway?
Rather than buying Chinese goods cut China off completely. It's far more ethical to plunge a country of 1.4billion people into a recession. Those poor people have had it too good for too long with their crappy low income jobs.
California is going bankrupt.
I knew it!. I mean all those economists and finance guys are saying otherwise, but thankyou for confirming it internet man.
By the time he's finished renegotiating the deal he will have spent billions on government shutdowns and secured an even more expensive project with even less funding for it.
#theartofthedeal
You can start by not tearing down a democracy and replacing it with a dictatorship because you want some more oil.
'Muerika!!!!!
They are doing the best thing possible given their gross levels of company mismanagement.
Generous severance packages suck compared to having a steady job at a company that is able to create stable sustainable employment.
what's needed is some risk
Oh I don't think anyone has taken a bigger risk than Blizzard recently. Announcing a mobile game at Blizcon? The developers are lucky they didn't get lynched by the angry mob.
The industry may have, but the ones doing the layoffs have announced quite a hefty profit and the CEO just scored himself a nice 8 figure bonus.
Yeah, by that logic they clearly need to bundle their free browsers with cell phones.
Yes. That's exactly what I was saying.
users have been trained for decades by Microsoft to automatically install an alternate browser on the platform they use frequently.
Actually users have been trained by decades of "Switch to Chrome, a smarter browser for a better experience" popups every time they search for something. There's no such jarring marketing on mobile platforms.
It's worth remembering that users didn't make a choice to dump IE. They were told to, by friends, by websites they visit, by the sheer frustration of the slow piece of shit that was IE.
Incidentally this is also why I used a variety of browsers in the early Android days. The included browsers were garbage. Around about the Galaxy S4-5 days is when the default Samsung browser became usable.
No thanks. They may be part of an alliance, but the members of that alliance are worlds apart in customer service, quality, and cost.
United is on my don't buy list.
Lufthansa is getting pretty frigging close as well after our last ordeal with the rude worthless shits they call "hostesses" looking after passengers.
On the flip side both Thai and Singapore Airlines are among some of the best airlines I've traveled with. TAP and Turkish are incredibly cost effective so they get a lot of leeway (even though TAP have never once been on time when I've used them).
Having the same procedures does not mean you would expect them to sue their customers ... or drag them off the plane in a bloody mess (given a specific airline on your list).
It's their own fault for artificially inflating prices based on the route rather than the costs incurred.
They don't. They discount certain flights, and incur different base costs depending on destinations for others. Airline pricing is far more complex than you seem to think.
If they wish to gouge people
You're talking about an 800km journey that costs 90 euro. Per km this is already the cheapest form of transport. You're not going to win any friends by considering this "gouging".
Airlines charge you for food, for blankets for baggage (believe it or not, they never used to).
Yes they did. In fact they used to charge you far more than they do now. I've been flying constantly all my life and I don't for a moment want to return to the past where flying was an activity reserved for the rich and well off. These days I happily take the plane to destinations easily reachable by car. You want a meal? You want a checked bag? Book a fully flexible premium economy ticket. You get extra points too, and it's STILL cheaper than it used to be.
I think they haven't gone far enough. Start charging customers per kg. The less I subsidise services of others in which I have no interest, the better.
Given how united are still operating after physically assaulting them, clearly nothing.
In my experience many flights are overbooked (which I think is an asshole move by the airline).
You don't typically see this happen so much in Europe thanks to the airlines having to not only get you to your destination anyway but also having to pay out a penalty often higher than the cost of the original trip.
I've been on an overbooked flight once. The airline rebooked me on another flight. I got to my destination 5 minutes earlier (on a competitor's airline) and got a 120euro payout. The original flight was only 200 euro return in the first place.
Why do that when it's significantly cheaper to fly?
Just for shits and giggles I just checked how much it would cost to take the train from the Netherlands to Austria. 149euro one way and takes 12 hours. Compare that with the 35euro the plane ticket costs... and disregard the 8 hours you save (that includes arriving at the airport early).
If you're not there, they give your seat to someone else.
they don't check to see if you're not on the plane.
Aside from showing you've never taken a multi-leg flight on a single plane before your post actually cannot possibly make sense, not unless you randomly have flights where some person comes in and sits on your lap since by your accounts airlines both have no idea if you're on the plane, AND also give your seat away.
Airlines do everything in their power to cheat the customer.
Indeed. Yet thanks to insane competition customers have done everything to cheat the airline too leading to an industry that is now operating on razor thin margins which has made air travel one of the cheapest forms of short haul transport.
I certainly don't blame airlines from pulling every trick in the book to extract money out of customers. Those who don't do so ... well they don't exist anymore.
Richard Branson said it best when asked by a student how to become a millionaire. "Start as a billionaire and then create an airline."
All of your concerns don't exist for flights with plane changes. Even the baggage won't be checked through if you select a significantly large layover time as airports refuse to store baggage beyond a certain time.
Disingenuous it may be, but to ignore it is to commit a fatal error of understanding how users interact with software. If anything this should be a clear indication to the likes of Firefox and Opera that in this day and age it is no longer sufficient to produce good software. You have to be in control of the default user experience.
The day I want to hear what your faggot-ass butt-fucking self thinks about any of this, I'll ask.
Until then, stick to sucking dicks and leave the grammar to people who know [it's hard to correct this part since I'm not sure if you intended to put a full stop (incorrect) or had an aneurysm and couldn't finish the sentence.]
Corrected your poor grammar. Have a nice day.
The fact that it is usable and has an adblocker is to their credit as well. I've tried a few different browsers, but quite unlike IE I went back to the default installed on my device. Chrome is unusable due to adverts, and Firefox well after trying it over and over again and finding bugs that made it difficult to read (wrong zooms to content, stupid choices of font size, etc) I just gave up.