Then I guess the whole bit about "name on ticket must match name on ID" was a big fat lie. If the FAA prohibited it, they did a lousy job of enforcement. When did the FAA regulations change? If it was within the past 4-5 years, it hasn't been reflected in how the airlines handle identification requirements.
The airlines themselves have been requiring photo ID for several years. The ID requirement is stated when you buy your tickets. They are allowed to do so if they want to.
At this point the only evidence we have that there is a "secret directive" from the government requiring them to do so is Gilmore's assertion. The experience he decribes on his web page as the basis for his assertion is from the perspective of someone in front of the ticket counter trying to get ticketdroids to violate airline policy. It would be far more convincing if he had spoken with someone at the airline who had authority to make policy decisions, who had said "I'm sorry Mr. Gilmore, I would really like to let you fly without checking your ID, but *URK*!" and fallen dead on the spot, victim of a disintegrating dart coated in undetectable poison.
Okay, so I got a little silly there, but that seems to be the terrirory we're operating in here.
It's really a shame, too, since I agree or at least sympathize with nearly everything else he says. It's just this "secret directive" talk that's going to lose him the case, and in such a way that no one will take anything he says seriously.
I actually own the IBM PC version of MULE. I used to play it on the original IBM PC. The music suffered of course, but otherwise it was the same game. I think you're right, and it was IBM that published the PC version and not EA. I still have the 5-1/4" floppy somewhere but it would require a slowdown utility to play it.
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Then I guess the whole bit about "name on ticket must match name on ID" was a big fat lie. If the FAA prohibited it, they did a lousy job of enforcement. When did the FAA regulations change? If it was within the past 4-5 years, it hasn't been reflected in how the airlines handle identification requirements.
The airlines themselves have been requiring photo ID for several years. The ID requirement is stated when you buy your tickets. They are allowed to do so if they want to.
At this point the only evidence we have that there is a "secret directive" from the government requiring them to do so is Gilmore's assertion. The experience he decribes on his web page as the basis for his assertion is from the perspective of someone in front of the ticket counter trying to get ticketdroids to violate airline policy. It would be far more convincing if he had spoken with someone at the airline who had authority to make policy decisions, who had said "I'm sorry Mr. Gilmore, I would really like to let you fly without checking your ID, but *URK*!" and fallen dead on the spot, victim of a disintegrating dart coated in undetectable poison.
Okay, so I got a little silly there, but that seems to be the terrirory we're operating in here.
It's really a shame, too, since I agree or at least sympathize with nearly everything else he says. It's just this "secret directive" talk that's going to lose him the case, and in such a way that no one will take anything he says seriously.
I actually own the IBM PC version of MULE. I used to play it on the original IBM PC. The music suffered of course, but otherwise it was the same game. I think you're right, and it was IBM that published the PC version and not EA. I still have the 5-1/4" floppy somewhere but it would require a slowdown utility to play it.