1) is a mistake. Long ago, planes had smaller loads because the seat's pitch were decent. As such, carrying a 2nd bag was a big issue. NOW, more ppl on the aircrafts. As such, if you do not charge for the bags, ppl will bring all sorts of BS. 1 carry-on, and 1 checked (or 2 checked) is plenty fair.
2) agreed. To be honest, it is in the airlines best interest to have a decent minimum pitch/width, but also a decent size bathroom. Those are insane and leading to ppl pissing all over the floor. That is getting old. In addition, if airlines were smart, they would move to using heavies betweens hubs, with decent seats, similar to how midwest ran, though they were using dc-9, which was stupid. This would bring Western Airlines back and able to compete against Emirates, etc.
3) Interesting.
4) That is at the current market price. That is fair considering that the airlines change their pricing based on how close to take-off they are.
5) skip #5. It is already done by the Pilot. It is filed with the airlines.
6) hmmm. Interesting.
7) rebate should be based on market value. i.e. put up for bid.
No, overbooking is needed because ppl will try to cheat the system. Back in the 60s, that was not done. But after Jimmy Carter Deregulated the airlines, regular coach passengers went down in class and worked on getting even cheaper rates and doing all sort of garbage to get seats. Back then, it was possible for the regular passengers to get stand-bys. That is gone, but the airlines still have a-holes pulling that prank so as to bring down the load so they car spread out. Oddly, that is due to the airlines own fault of crunching ppl into sardine cans.
Any airline that is doing this should be called out. It is one thing to charge much higher prices based on how soon you get a ticket, 1-way vs 2-way, etc. BUT, to actively split families and then make them pay to be together, are airlines and CEOs that I hope dies off soon.
Caffeinated bacon,, your link shows America is not only superior to China's but that we have the highest efficiency units. Basically, your link, like all your garbage, proves you are a liar
BTW, China is just warming up now, just like America. Both climates have temps increasing.
BUT, you are correct about Russia and any far northern or Southern lands. Russia will become a land of plenty. In fact, Putin would be smart to get the ppl combined with companies into Siberia that he wants now. I think that Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Northern EUrope, Russia, New Zealand, Argentina, etc will enjoy their economies, but may have to deal with invasion of illegals. I suspect at some point, China will invade Mongolia and then onto Siberia.
This area, Sichuan, was considered some of the most fertile land on the planet. Sadly, it is also becoming heavily polluted with lead and mercury from coal plants that did not use emissions controls, combined with heavy industry to the west that dumps raw pollution directly into their rivers as do the cities dumping raw sewage (which is actually not as bad as industry; it can at least fertilize the land, though microbial contamination is bad).
But 40 years ago, when I was in Various Ag classes, they referred to that area and said that it competed well with anything that was in the Mid West America/Canada or San Joaquin Valley in California .
uh. The nat gas brought us down under O. What is keeping it down now, is NOT nat gas prices, but the states, along with utilities, which KNOW that CO2 is a real issue. In fact, out of all the idiotic things that Trump has done, I think one of the worst, was in allowing massive exports of our nat gas. That is going to raise our price, which will encourage some utilities to re-open coal.
It is for that very reason that I want to see us bring on line with Nuclear SMRs esp. with NuScale. Theirs is perfect for putting in place of old coal plants. our old coal plants are small, but gad, are they dirty. They are somewhere around 30-35% efficiency and are major CO2 emitters. If we shut down coal plants that are older than 20 years, we would cut our Co2 emissions by something like 20-25%. That is huge. Of course, that is over 150 GW of plants that have to come down.
BTW, China went from 2 tonnes in 1990 to 7.45 in 2016, and are expected to jump heavily in 2018. Personally, I say, wait for a year after OCO3 comes on-line. Then we will see China jump massively, just like they did after OCO-2 came on, and they admitted that real coal being burned was another 17% higher (and it still was not enough).
This is Caffeinated Bacon/Crimson Tsunami. He is a constant liar and a troll of all things American.
The most inefficient AC that you can have are window units, which is what is going into China. Those are VERY low efficiency (typical SEERS in 8-12).
In America, we push efficient house-house units, as well as mini-splits. Most have SEERS in the 15-45 realm.
As to efficient food? I can only imagine that he means less energy used? America is far more efficient than nations like Mexico, which has cheap energy.
First off, America is buying large numbers of EVs. Heck, we manufacturer the most. And we buy the most efficient ACs going. As to food, what is your idea of efficient food?
Caffeinated Bacon, you are still a liar and an idiot.
America imports NO beef from Brazil. They have ZERO impact on Brazil;s meat market. OTOH, Hong kong, China, and Europe import HUGE amounts from them. Yet, you continue to blame America for this????? PLEASE.
Even earlier you pointed to America's per capita eating, while ignoring the fact that Hong Kong has DOUBLE what America consumes.
Caffeinated Bacon, you are a true idiot and a liar, to boot.
No. With higher temps, we WILL see more moisture in the air. BUT, the temps have to drop down for the precipitation. Since that will not be the case, we will see a LOT more droughts, but also a lot more flooding. For example, here in Colorado, we are a high plains Desert. We used to get lots of snow (.5-1.5 m at time just on the plains). Now, we are doing good if we get 2-3 cm and 1 blast with maybe 5 cm. For the last 10 years, we have been in a drought (of course, some would say that is simply weather or climate change). We had 1 year where we got major flooding which our rivers, reservoirs, etc was not prepared for, but otherwise precip has been way down.
BTW, I was born in GreenVille Miss, and lived in more than a dozen states including Irving Texas, and little rock, Ark. Those are HUMID. Lots of farming goes on in those places. Now, imagine temps of 115-120. How much farming do you think will go on in that sauna? south Europe will be suffering same impact and so will China's breadbasket.
The problem is that South/Mid Europe, along with China's breadbasket, produce a LOT of food. Supposedly, all of that will disappear. That will lead to wards. Bad news. today, ppl can make a difference. We need nations to stop pointing fingers and all drop their CO2. At the very least, all nations need to quit adding CO2.
All of which is another red herring from you Crimson Tsunami/Caffinated Bacon.
What matters is that Brazil is clearing their forest and they are doing it because Hong Kong, China and Europe are buying so very much.
And yet, America's CO2 continues to drop for the last 9 years, not has built coal plants over the last 8 years, while China's and others GHG emissions climb and are adding massive numbers of new coal plants.
If Americans did not care, why does our emissions continue to drop? Even when we have Trump and the GOP as leaders. Because citizens care and push our states.
is that America will NOT be the hardest hit. Mid to Southern Europe, along with China's breadbasket, will be hit by high temps and massive droughts.
If Nations want to avoid this, they will all work together, as opposed to pushing others to cut back, while they continue to add lots more fossil fuel plants.
Only for the McDonald in Hong Kong, China, and EU, which are the top 3 importers of Brazilian beef. And I doubt that McDonalds does that much importing in those nations.
the NSA is NOT about stealing secrets/IP/etc. However, they DO listen in to various spies, business/gov heads and have caught dirty deal going down, such as when Airbus did million dollar bribes to middles eastern gov. The NSA WAS listening to those gov officials and caught them taking the bribes. Later on, IP was being sold to Russia/China by European employees when NSA was listening to the Russian/Chinese. In fact, over and over, we see that NSA catches ppl selling IP/ state secrets/etc to foreign advisaries. Show me a case where NSA listened in on European Business-> European Business or other national business and we captured IP from them? It has NEVER happened.
LOL.
The NSA can not touch a single American. They are NOT allowed to do that. And Chinese gov. DOES grab ppl from foreign soils. So does America, but China/Russia do it far far more.
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1) is a mistake. Long ago, planes had smaller loads because the seat's pitch were decent. As such, carrying a 2nd bag was a big issue. NOW, more ppl on the aircrafts. As such, if you do not charge for the bags, ppl will bring all sorts of BS. 1 carry-on, and 1 checked (or 2 checked) is plenty fair.
2) agreed. To be honest, it is in the airlines best interest to have a decent minimum pitch/width, but also a decent size bathroom. Those are insane and leading to ppl pissing all over the floor. That is getting old. In addition, if airlines were smart, they would move to using heavies betweens hubs, with decent seats, similar to how midwest ran, though they were using dc-9, which was stupid. This would bring Western Airlines back and able to compete against Emirates, etc.
3) Interesting.
4) That is at the current market price. That is fair considering that the airlines change their pricing based on how close to take-off they are.
5) skip #5. It is already done by the Pilot. It is filed with the airlines.
6) hmmm. Interesting.
7) rebate should be based on market value. i.e. put up for bid.
No, overbooking is needed because ppl will try to cheat the system. Back in the 60s, that was not done. But after Jimmy Carter Deregulated the airlines, regular coach passengers went down in class and worked on getting even cheaper rates and doing all sort of garbage to get seats. Back then, it was possible for the regular passengers to get stand-bys. That is gone, but the airlines still have a-holes pulling that prank so as to bring down the load so they car spread out. Oddly, that is due to the airlines own fault of crunching ppl into sardine cans.
Actually, dao was not truly random. He very likely bought the last single ticket for the flight.
Any airline that is doing this should be called out. It is one thing to charge much higher prices based on how soon you get a ticket, 1-way vs 2-way, etc. BUT, to actively split families and then make them pay to be together, are airlines and CEOs that I hope dies off soon.
Caffeinated bacon,, your link shows America is not only superior to China's but that we have the highest efficiency units. Basically, your link, like all your garbage, proves you are a liar
cities, I was told that most of the older houses and apartments had neither air conditioning nor heating until the last few years. In this region, people were accustomed to apartments that were âoehot in summer; cold in winter.â Their drafty homesâ"built with leaky window and no insulationâ"pretty much reflected the temperature outside. But lately, almost all the residents of these older buildings have installed window units that provide both heating and cooling. I asked my Chinese colleagues if they were less efficient than central AC or heat. In terms of mechanics, of course, these smaller units are less efficient. China is horrible with efficiency and I showed it last time that you were a liar.
BTW, China is just warming up now, just like America. Both climates have temps increasing.
BUT, you are correct about Russia and any far northern or Southern lands. Russia will become a land of plenty. In fact, Putin would be smart to get the ppl combined with companies into Siberia that he wants now. I think that Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Northern EUrope, Russia, New Zealand, Argentina, etc will enjoy their economies, but may have to deal with invasion of illegals. I suspect at some point, China will invade Mongolia and then onto Siberia.
This area, Sichuan, was considered some of the most fertile land on the planet. Sadly, it is also becoming heavily polluted with lead and mercury from coal plants that did not use emissions controls, combined with heavy industry to the west that dumps raw pollution directly into their rivers as do the cities dumping raw sewage (which is actually not as bad as industry; it can at least fertilize the land, though microbial contamination is bad).
But 40 years ago, when I was in Various Ag classes, they referred to that area and said that it competed well with anything that was in the Mid West America/Canada or San Joaquin Valley in California .
uh. The nat gas brought us down under O. What is keeping it down now, is NOT nat gas prices, but the states, along with utilities, which KNOW that CO2 is a real issue. In fact, out of all the idiotic things that Trump has done, I think one of the worst, was in allowing massive exports of our nat gas. That is going to raise our price, which will encourage some utilities to re-open coal.
It is for that very reason that I want to see us bring on line with Nuclear SMRs esp. with NuScale. Theirs is perfect for putting in place of old coal plants. our old coal plants are small, but gad, are they dirty. They are somewhere around 30-35% efficiency and are major CO2 emitters. If we shut down coal plants that are older than 20 years, we would cut our Co2 emissions by something like 20-25%. That is huge. Of course, that is over 150 GW of plants that have to come down.
Ok, caffinated bacon/Crimson Tsunami; you just can not stop lying.
Here is Europe's Edgar. America went from 21 tonnes in 2000 to 15.5 in 2016 . BTW, 2018 is supposed to be around 12-13. EU-28 went from 9 in 1990 down to about 6.75 in 2016. And Europe is expected to go up in 2018
BTW, China went from 2 tonnes in 1990 to 7.45 in 2016, and are expected to jump heavily in 2018. Personally, I say, wait for a year after OCO3 comes on-line. Then we will see China jump massively, just like they did after OCO-2 came on, and they admitted that real coal being burned was another 17% higher (and it still was not enough).
This is Caffeinated Bacon/Crimson Tsunami. He is a constant liar and a troll of all things American.
The most inefficient AC that you can have are window units, which is what is going into China. Those are VERY low efficiency (typical SEERS in 8-12). In America, we push efficient house-house units, as well as mini-splits. Most have SEERS in the 15-45 realm.
As to efficient food? I can only imagine that he means less energy used? America is far more efficient than nations like Mexico, which has cheap energy.
First off, America is buying large numbers of EVs. Heck, we manufacturer the most. And we buy the most efficient ACs going. As to food, what is your idea of efficient food?
Caffeinated Bacon, you are still a liar and an idiot.
America imports NO beef from Brazil. They have ZERO impact on Brazil;s meat market. OTOH, Hong kong, China, and Europe import HUGE amounts from them.
Yet, you continue to blame America for this????? PLEASE.
Even earlier you pointed to America's per capita eating, while ignoring the fact that Hong Kong has DOUBLE what America consumes.
Caffeinated Bacon, you are a true idiot and a liar, to boot.
No. With higher temps, we WILL see more moisture in the air. BUT, the temps have to drop down for the precipitation. Since that will not be the case, we will see a LOT more droughts, but also a lot more flooding. For example, here in Colorado, we are a high plains Desert. We used to get lots of snow (.5-1.5 m at time just on the plains). Now, we are doing good if we get 2-3 cm and 1 blast with maybe 5 cm. For the last 10 years, we have been in a drought (of course, some would say that is simply weather or climate change). We had 1 year where we got major flooding which our rivers, reservoirs, etc was not prepared for, but otherwise precip has been way down. BTW, I was born in GreenVille Miss, and lived in more than a dozen states including Irving Texas, and little rock, Ark. Those are HUMID. Lots of farming goes on in those places. Now, imagine temps of 115-120. How much farming do you think will go on in that sauna? south Europe will be suffering same impact and so will China's breadbasket.
The problem is that South/Mid Europe, along with China's breadbasket, produce a LOT of food. Supposedly, all of that will disappear. That will lead to wards. Bad news. today, ppl can make a difference. We need nations to stop pointing fingers and all drop their CO2. At the very least, all nations need to quit adding CO2.
All of which is another red herring from you Crimson Tsunami/Caffinated Bacon.
What matters is that Brazil is clearing their forest and they are doing it because Hong Kong, China and Europe are buying so very much.
no evidence for what? That Southern/Mid Europe and China will be in bad shape? Or that AGW is happening?
And yet, America's CO2 continues to drop for the last 9 years, not has built coal plants over the last 8 years, while China's and others GHG emissions climb and are adding massive numbers of new coal plants.
If Americans did not care, why does our emissions continue to drop? Even when we have Trump and the GOP as leaders. Because citizens care and push our states.
is that America will NOT be the hardest hit. Mid to Southern Europe, along with China's breadbasket, will be hit by high temps and massive droughts.
If Nations want to avoid this, they will all work together, as opposed to pushing others to cut back, while they continue to add lots more fossil fuel plants.
Only for the McDonald in Hong Kong, China, and EU, which are the top 3 importers of Brazilian beef. And I doubt that McDonalds does that much importing in those nations.
In 2016, Hong Kong ($148M), China($110M), and then EU (68M) are the largest importers from Brazil. In addition, it appears that Brazil's exports for these nations is up over 100% this year.
So yeah. Some of these nations really are irresponsible in supporting this kind of operations.
sure. what bids? Back up what you are saying with proof.
the NSA is NOT about stealing secrets/IP/etc. However, they DO listen in to various spies, business/gov heads and have caught dirty deal going down, such as when Airbus did million dollar bribes to middles eastern gov. The NSA WAS listening to those gov officials and caught them taking the bribes. Later on, IP was being sold to Russia/China by European employees when NSA was listening to the Russian/Chinese. In fact, over and over, we see that NSA catches ppl selling IP/ state secrets/etc to foreign advisaries. Show me a case where NSA listened in on European Business-> European Business or other national business and we captured IP from them? It has NEVER happened.
LOL.
The NSA can not touch a single American. They are NOT allowed to do that. And Chinese gov. DOES grab ppl from foreign soils. So does America, but China/Russia do it far far more.
Paris, like Kyoto, is a joke. Even your nation is breaking it.