Cue the/. comments how this development requires UBI to 'take care' of the poor language handlers in Geneva. Of-course Switzerland just voted down an attempt at UBI in a democratic referendum, 78% against the UBI.
What the fuck is there to compromise in the airport experience?
Let's summarize shall we:
- Arrive at the airport. Park at the super-uber-overpriced airport parking lot - or pay the super-uber-overpriced cab driver.
It's Switzerland. Super-uber-overpriced is the norm in the entire country.
- Enter the terminal. From here on, you can't smoke or vape - so sneak a quick one before entering.
GVA has smoking lounges for the terminally addicted behind security. Before security you can just slip out the terminal for 5 minutes.
- Find your friggin' check-in desk. Despite arriving 3h early, there's a million tourists with too many luggages and no mastery of english whatsoever already waiting in line.
That may be a bit of a problem, especially in the winter season. But at least then it's Brits that congest the place, and they do speak English!
- It's your turn: lift the fucking luggage onto the scale - pay an extra $100 because it's 2 grams overweight.
Only when you are flying Swiss
- Get entered into the airline database. Get issued a stupid e-ticket printed on 40g thermal toilet paper. Pray you don't lose it.
Evere heard of e-ticketing, on your phone? If you insist un getting a printed boarding pass, you might as well travel by horse and carriage.
- Rush to the security area. There, the million tourists who were waiting in line to check in are now waiting in line to get groped by TSA perverts, like cattle at the slaughterhouse.
- It's finally your turn. You almost want to be groped at this point, to be done with it and go get a coffee.
Really, GVA has one of the best security checks that I know off. Speedy (15 min. queue max.) and friendly, but there could be a bit more place to re-pack your things.
- Find a coffee shop. Pay $15 for something black and watery the shop calls coffee.
It's no the US. This would be European coffee, which is actually stronger than tea.
- Find your gate. Sit at your gate with the million tourists who think it's the holiday of a lifetime.
- Realize the gate has changed, you didn't notice and your flight departs in 3 minutes 50 gates away.
How many gates do you think GVA has?
- Rush like a madman. Find the gate closed. Miss your flight.
What is there to redeem in the airport experience? Really? The only people who have a nice airport experience are those who fly private jets, because they don't go through the fucking airport in the first place.
That's another plus of GVA: the private jets! Lots of small business thingies, plus the occasional 747. Because when you want to check your bank account, you want to do so in style.
What's more, the notification windows says right in the middle "CLICK HERE TO CHANGE SCHEDULE OR CANCEL THE UPGRADE": http://core0.staticworld.net/i...
So why do people who do not want the upgrade actually read the text and click there? Are they just mindlessly X-ing everything away?
People don't read the page, the scan the page. Do a test with a group of people and an eye tracker, and they will probably see this on average:
1. Windows 10 is recommended upgrade for this PC (“I'd rather not”)
2. Sunday, May 22, 11:00 PM (“Certainly not! Bugger off”)
3. OK (“No, it's not OK”)
4. Upgrade Now (“FU! Where's the other option ?????”)
5. X (“That's want I want: CANCEL the incestuous bastard”)
Airbus is on board with equipping them, Boeing less so. Boeing's concern centers around accidental deployment - they estimate that there will be 6 or 7 deployments per year.
An understandable concern, especially since accidental deployment may well happen on a runway, where FOD is a real risk to other aircraft, as testified by the fate of flight AF4590.
That's not even considering commercial freight vehicles which need to tow SIGNIFICANTLY more weight.
I see electrical trucks driving around a lot. Not everyday, but at least once a week. You can buy them ‘of the shelf’. Not meant for countrywide delivery, but great in the city.
Its one thing to share where you ran. Its another to share your location at all times.
Which it cannot do. Privacy settings on iOS9 for Runkeeper has only two settings: never, and only when app is active. What is stated in the summary should not be possible.
I think programs like this are great, and we should encourage charity for these folks, but I've always been worried that the food/books/money/etc that is sent never makes it to the people that need it the most. How do we know that this stuff is actually making it to the schools, and not being used to line the pockets of a warlord or politician who receives the books and then just sells them?
That is quite simple. Find a local reliable partner (there are lot of middle class Ugandans that set up projects for the less well to do), and make sure their books are checked regularly by a reliable third party. Basically, the same way subsidies work in the Western world.
That would work if Uganda's postal service was reliable. Unfortunately it is not. When I was there in 2014 I tried to find a post office to be able to send some cards home. Nobody even knew where it was, the basic reply was “Why would you use the postal service when you can use the Internet?”.
As it happens the Dutch are leading the way with renewables.
Leading the way? What have you been smoking? The Dutch are near the bottom of the pit for renewables, only Malta and Luxembourg fare worse in the EEU.
This proposal (which won’t be turned into a law, the government doesn't support it and nobody likes its enough to impeach the government over it) is a bad case of windowdressing by politicians that do not dare to take measures that do matter (and cost money).
This is really going to depend on where you live - around here, lobbying groups for taxi companies and their drivers forestalled any attempts at legislated change for over a decade before Uber stepped in
And around here drivers can only pick-up passengers at the official stands when they conform to the rules (clean car, formal clothing, no private telephone calls, etc.).
Note that the taxi driver organizations initiated these regulations, the municipal government stepped in later en put them into formal legislature, and currently everything is being checked by an independent board.
It is so nice to live in a place where self-interest is not purely explained is short term monetary gain.
For comparison's sake, look at India where just one of the 40 year old buses spewing black smoke is emitting thousands times more pollutants than a VW car, and then think that India has millions of these vehicles on the road.
Have you ever been to India? I guess not, since you will not find any diesel buses in the capital, New Delhi. The last diesel bus in Delhi ran in 2002! All buses and all auto-rickshaws have been converted to CNG, and do not spit out black smoke.
There are clearly other factors at play there, since New Delhi is the city with the worst air pollution on earth (bypassing even Beijng), such as delivery trucks and industry.
A police spokesman said the two suspected Dutch traffickers - arrested at stunning five-star Santiago de Compostela hotel Hostal Dos Reis Catolicos on the city’s famous Obradoiro Square - had drawn attention to themselves by “throwing 500 euro notes around as if they were water.”
Plus the fact - in the Renault case - that there is no lack of surveying stations if you are looking for a traffic jam. Each and every car in the jam can tell you quite reliably that the jam is there, the problem is just getting that information distributed to other vehicles.
The iPhone's fingerprint scanner is pretty close to 100% reliable.
Except when:
- I am out in the rain;
- When it's cold outside (from December to February);
- When I'm cooking;
- When I'm working in the garden;
- When I've been rock climbing.
Iran is a very interesting country. Contrary to popular belief the inhabitants are not anti-Western at all.
Make sure you watch Our Man in Tehran, a series of documentaries by Dutch journalist Thomas Erdbrink, who married an Iranian photographer and has lived in Iran ever since.
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As with everything else, the Europeans will blame the US for this.
The Belgiums can blame the UK, it was the GCHQ that hacked Belgacom, their biggest telco.
Cue the /. comments how this development requires UBI to 'take care' of the poor language handlers in Geneva. Of-course Switzerland just voted down an attempt at UBI in a democratic referendum, 78% against the UBI.
I discuss why UBI is the wrong idea in a few posts and there is an obvious backlash from the usual suspects here.
The baggage handlers would probably be living in France anyway.
What the fuck is there to compromise in the airport experience?
Let's summarize shall we:
- Arrive at the airport. Park at the super-uber-overpriced airport parking lot - or pay the super-uber-overpriced cab driver.
It's Switzerland. Super-uber-overpriced is the norm in the entire country.
- Enter the terminal. From here on, you can't smoke or vape - so sneak a quick one before entering.
GVA has smoking lounges for the terminally addicted behind security. Before security you can just slip out the terminal for 5 minutes.
- Find your friggin' check-in desk. Despite arriving 3h early, there's a million tourists with too many luggages and no mastery of english whatsoever already waiting in line.
That may be a bit of a problem, especially in the winter season. But at least then it's Brits that congest the place, and they do speak English!
- It's your turn: lift the fucking luggage onto the scale - pay an extra $100 because it's 2 grams overweight.
Only when you are flying Swiss
- Get entered into the airline database. Get issued a stupid e-ticket printed on 40g thermal toilet paper. Pray you don't lose it.
Evere heard of e-ticketing, on your phone? If you insist un getting a printed boarding pass, you might as well travel by horse and carriage.
- Rush to the security area. There, the million tourists who were waiting in line to check in are now waiting in line to get groped by TSA perverts, like cattle at the slaughterhouse.
- It's finally your turn. You almost want to be groped at this point, to be done with it and go get a coffee.
Really, GVA has one of the best security checks that I know off. Speedy (15 min. queue max.) and friendly, but there could be a bit more place to re-pack your things.
- Find a coffee shop. Pay $15 for something black and watery the shop calls coffee.
It's no the US. This would be European coffee, which is actually stronger than tea.
- Find your gate. Sit at your gate with the million tourists who think it's the holiday of a lifetime.
- Realize the gate has changed, you didn't notice and your flight departs in 3 minutes 50 gates away.
How many gates do you think GVA has?
- Rush like a madman. Find the gate closed. Miss your flight.
What is there to redeem in the airport experience? Really? The only people who have a nice airport experience are those who fly private jets, because they don't go through the fucking airport in the first place.
That's another plus of GVA: the private jets! Lots of small business thingies, plus the occasional 747. Because when you want to check your bank account, you want to do so in style.
What's more, the notification windows says right in the middle "CLICK HERE TO CHANGE SCHEDULE OR CANCEL THE UPGRADE": http://core0.staticworld.net/i... So why do people who do not want the upgrade actually read the text and click there? Are they just mindlessly X-ing everything away?
People don't read the page, the scan the page. Do a test with a group of people and an eye tracker, and they will probably see this on average:
1. Windows 10 is recommended upgrade for this PC (“I'd rather not”)
2. Sunday, May 22, 11:00 PM (“Certainly not! Bugger off”)
3. OK (“No, it's not OK”)
4. Upgrade Now (“FU! Where's the other option ?????”)
5. X (“That's want I want: CANCEL the incestuous bastard”)
Airbus is on board with equipping them, Boeing less so. Boeing's concern centers around accidental deployment - they estimate that there will be 6 or 7 deployments per year.
An understandable concern, especially since accidental deployment may well happen on a runway, where FOD is a real risk to other aircraft, as testified by the fate of flight AF4590.
That's not even considering commercial freight vehicles which need to tow SIGNIFICANTLY more weight.
I see electrical trucks driving around a lot. Not everyday, but at least once a week. You can buy them ‘of the shelf’. Not meant for countrywide delivery, but great in the city.
No, it cannot do this. You can't even give it permission to track you all the time.
Its one thing to share where you ran. Its another to share your location at all times.
Which it cannot do. Privacy settings on iOS9 for Runkeeper has only two settings: never, and only when app is active. What is stated in the summary should not be possible.
First, is English taught and understood there?
Ever heard of this site called Wikipedia?
I think programs like this are great, and we should encourage charity for these folks, but I've always been worried that the food/books/money/etc that is sent never makes it to the people that need it the most. How do we know that this stuff is actually making it to the schools, and not being used to line the pockets of a warlord or politician who receives the books and then just sells them?
That is quite simple. Find a local reliable partner (there are lot of middle class Ugandans that set up projects for the less well to do), and make sure their books are checked regularly by a reliable third party. Basically, the same way subsidies work in the Western world.
That would work if Uganda's postal service was reliable. Unfortunately it is not. When I was there in 2014 I tried to find a post office to be able to send some cards home. Nobody even knew where it was, the basic reply was “Why would you use the postal service when you can use the Internet?”.
There are benefits.
Ne pas plus mourir.
I much prefer paper towels. So much more sanitary and easier to use.
Just make sure you are using them the right way.
As it happens the Dutch are leading the way with renewables.
Leading the way? What have you been smoking? The Dutch are near the bottom of the pit for renewables, only Malta and Luxembourg fare worse in the EEU.
This proposal (which won’t be turned into a law, the government doesn't support it and nobody likes its enough to impeach the government over it) is a bad case of windowdressing by politicians that do not dare to take measures that do matter (and cost money).
Not at those speeds.
Indeed.
dihydrogen monoxide
U+1F44D
Complain to your municipal government.
This is really going to depend on where you live - around here, lobbying groups for taxi companies and their drivers forestalled any attempts at legislated change for over a decade before Uber stepped in
And around here drivers can only pick-up passengers at the official stands when they conform to the rules (clean car, formal clothing, no private telephone calls, etc.).
Note that the taxi driver organizations initiated these regulations, the municipal government stepped in later en put them into formal legislature, and currently everything is being checked by an independent board.
It is so nice to live in a place where self-interest is not purely explained is short term monetary gain.
So you tell me that this guy bought 12k € of garden furniture? He must have a hell of a garden. Maybe he's just camping in his back yard?
For comparison's sake, look at India where just one of the 40 year old buses spewing black smoke is emitting thousands times more pollutants than a VW car, and then think that India has millions of these vehicles on the road.
Have you ever been to India? I guess not, since you will not find any diesel buses in the capital, New Delhi. The last diesel bus in Delhi ran in 2002! All buses and all auto-rickshaws have been converted to CNG, and do not spit out black smoke.
There are clearly other factors at play there, since New Delhi is the city with the worst air pollution on earth (bypassing even Beijng), such as delivery trucks and industry.
Only Fairphone.
Secondly, not all people who would commit such an act are dumb enough to publicly flaunt illicitly acquired wealth.
But some are. This just happened yesterday:
A police spokesman said the two suspected Dutch traffickers - arrested at stunning five-star Santiago de Compostela hotel Hostal Dos Reis Catolicos on the city’s famous Obradoiro Square - had drawn attention to themselves by “throwing 500 euro notes around as if they were water.”
Plus the fact - in the Renault case - that there is no lack of surveying stations if you are looking for a traffic jam. Each and every car in the jam can tell you quite reliably that the jam is there, the problem is just getting that information distributed to other vehicles.
The iPhone's fingerprint scanner is pretty close to 100% reliable.
Except when:
- I am out in the rain;
- When it's cold outside (from December to February);
- When I'm cooking;
- When I'm working in the garden;
- When I've been rock climbing.
Iran is a very interesting country. Contrary to popular belief the inhabitants are not anti-Western at all.
Make sure you watch Our Man in Tehran, a series of documentaries by Dutch journalist Thomas Erdbrink, who married an Iranian photographer and has lived in Iran ever since.