Fees added to plane tickets is "through plane tickets". The question was about whether costs for the scanners come from the General Fund, or some special fund funded from alternative sources. Whether the special funding is via airline taxes, passed to passengers inside the ticket, or via on-top fees is irrelevant to that question
It's why I still can't take my water bottle on any flight
I've never had a problem taking an empty water bottle through security, and flying with it full, having filled it up after security. Well, I take it back. Flying to the US internationally, they often screen you twice. Once to get to the secure area, based on local regulations, then a second time at the gate to meet US regulations. You can't buy or get liquids after the second screening, in some airports.
So, we need to spend $1T to stop an even t with a death toll in line with the average school shooting, but make sure to not actually stop school shootings. Got it. I don't understand the reasoning, nor do I agree. But I at least understand what you are saying.
He said he could think of ways. He included PU as one in a list. You then said that all of them are impossible because one in a long list would be impractical.
A suicide bomber with 50 lbs of explosives in a carry-on sized bag would be able to take out quite a few people. You don't have to strap in minimal explosives to your body when everyone around you is pulling around a small suitcase.
It's not the liberals writing the rules to allow in the terrorists from the 9/11 country in. All the conservatives' rules explicitly allow the terrorists in. Why do the conservatives love terrorists? Oh yeah, a few dead Americans worth the trillions of dollars of tax dollars they give to their billionaire friends, at least in conservative logic. Higher taxes and more dead Americans. Vote Conservative.
Broadway is effective theater. The story of Phantom of the Opera or Cats isn't any more true on Broadway than the 2nd grade class's show. It's just better at seeming real.
The American public already operates under suspension of disbelief. "Effective theater" is theater that doesn't violate the suspension of disbelief.
Security theatre is by definition ineffective security only done for show.
But if the show is more convincing, how is that not effective theater?
Last I looked, the USA was the only country that taxed non-resident citizens. Inconsistently and unfairly, at that (depending on where you earn it, and the sources of income, it's so complicated, most non-residents don't pay taxes, and hope they never get noticed).
We have proof now that some of the molotov cocktail throwers in the '60s were paid FBI agents. Show up, join the cause, push them to extremism, then throw them all in jail. Worked in the '60s, still working today. Given then actions of the government and contractors in this case, seems more likely that the "violence" was false-flag by the government to discredit undesirables.
the only thing the contracted workers were "blamed" for was for being employed on the basis of cost rather than skill,
The implication is obviously that the skill was lower, or there'd be no need to mention it. They were picked on cost. Period. Mentioning skill weakens your claimed focus solely on management. Why bring up the skill of the workers if it's unrelated to the incident?
The effect would have been the same if they had replaced the workers with young new-hires, cheap retirees, or any other group they intended to pay the minimum they could get away with and planned to ignore feedback from. The union has claimed that the firing of experienced workers made the outage worse, because the new people hadn't ever run up a DR failover to backup systems. BA claims that's not true (though is unclear on which part of the claim isn't true). I expect many will use this for their own political gain. But hopefully this will show people that IT is worth paying for. Like the NIH, struck by ransomware not long ago, for failing to keep computers patched, failure to block attacks in firewalls, and failure in blocking malware on endpoints. Any one of 10 different IT policies/capabilities at "best practices" and they'd not have gotten hit (or hit as hard).
The definition of "terrorist" is "anyone you don't like". And private contractors will turn people into proven terrorists, for a fee. Gotta love the free market.
Nope. You only need to pay to renounce citizenship if the IRS thinks the renunciation is related to avoiding US income tax, or if you are "selling" US income to your non-US self.
If someone with no assets and little income were to renounce, nobody would ever care, and there's no fee to do so.
Nope. I'm alive, regardless of whether I have a piece of paper from the government to prove it. The corporation exists solely as a piece of paper from the government.
Yes, the anti-government "militia", all on welfare, shows government ID to collect their food stamps. But hates the government and taxes, but don't touch my food stamps or medicaid.
"I'm not blaming the IT workers" isn't true, when you follow it up with blaming the IT workers (contracted). The contracting doesn't mean sub-standard workers are used. It means the management is even more separated from those doing the work, so a contractor suggesting $100k in power upgrades, to be done by his outsource team is seen as a sales pitch, not a "do this or you lose $1B from a failed infrastructure". That's purely a management failure that's unrelated to contracting, location of the contractors, or the workers in any way. If management doesn't solicit and listen to workers' ideas, then the company will fail.
And yes, you dd imply that the workers hold some of that responsibility. They don't.
Even if it was a power supply issue (and I'm pretty sceptical about that), it sounds like the resulting problems would still be a result of their penny-pinching sacking of the experienced staff most likely to know what they were doing (and be in a position to do it). It's sure as hell not their responsibility any more.
What I've seen on the news has indicated a "power supply" issue, as in the supply of power, not what computer guys would think of as a "power supply". A power failure of some kind caused the issue, according to all the accounts so far, and I've seen nothing that indicated there's any reason to doubt that account. One of the cardinal rules of publicly traded companies is: Don't say it in an official press release if it isn't true. Anything else opens you up to lots of liability. The word choice of "power supply" is irrelevant. "power issue" is what was meant. And there's no reason to even suspect that wasn't the cause.
But, for a minimal cost, they could have replicated their infrastructure in another data center (certainly minimal compared to the loss they have on their hands now). If the problem were with a cloud provider, it seems likely others would have been affected, or someone would have started pointing fingers or leaks. So it would seem that they were hosting their own stuff somewhere. Did they build/select a place with sufficient power, and best practices power delivery? I'm guessing it'll come out that they either picked the lowest-cost host, or did it themselves with worst practices implementation. It has nothing to do with the workers, and everything to do with the "cut costs at all costs" mentality of the "penny wise, pound foolish" corporate practices.
Bringing up outsourcing is a way of blaming the contractors, when that's likely irrelevant. Management is the sole point of responsibility, and we need not mention anything else as a distraction.
Don't blame the IT workers. I had the same thing happen where I work. The middle manager, trying to look good, cut necessary costs. One power blip in the grid, and everything was dead because we had undersized UPSs everywhere, and they couldn't handle the load. He said "inrush current" thousands of times, but never knew what it meant.
China doesn't care. Li Bingbing was the draw there, and they made more in China than the US. So expect to see more Chinese stars in US movies. Not long before most movies are bilingual...
The cooler American-style "saunas" that's only in the 50-70 C range are more problematic, because they're not hot enough for the body to enter this state.
You are simply full of shit.
The "saunas" that are in the 50 C range are steam-rooms. The only steam room I've ever been in was in Europe (Amsterdam), so America-hate is misplaced. A "wet sauna" (properly called a steam room) works differently than a dry sauna, but 50C wet gets a similar physical reaction as 90C dry.
Even more so because of the aversion to nakedness causing Americans to cover themselves with towels or bathing suits, reducing the cooling effect of profuse sweating. Add that they're below the dew point, so benches won't be dry but covered with hot moisture.
That's why saunas are generally wood, and steam rooms are generally tile. And the clothes don't matter when you are in a "wet" environment. Your sweat doesn't help, anyway.
It's an uncomfortable experience compared to a real sauna, and I'm sure temperature sensitive individuals can have a hard time with them.
Your opinion is based on incorrect facts, thus, your opinion is invalid. But feel free to keep hating Americans and fat people. Your hate for everyone (and indifference to fact) would have you fit right in as an American.
LCD suffers burn-in at a rate similar to plasma. And leaving a TV on all day will not create burn-in, unless you are watching CNN or something else with a fixed banner or emblem. But a plasma on 24/7 playing regular TV or a movie on repeat will not get any burn-in (unless you aspect ratio is all wrong, and you spend all your time with bars on the top or sides). But, as I noted earlier, the problem exists for LCD and LED as well as plasma.
Once someone is out of the country and is "wanted", it's standard to invite them back (including international warrant), and once that fails, then interview them remotely. But Sweden didn't follow their own regular procedures. Why not?
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I'd never before owned a computer where I had to regularly reboot the keyboard and dock for it to work. Amazing feat of engineering.
Fees added to plane tickets is "through plane tickets". The question was about whether costs for the scanners come from the General Fund, or some special fund funded from alternative sources. Whether the special funding is via airline taxes, passed to passengers inside the ticket, or via on-top fees is irrelevant to that question
It's why I still can't take my water bottle on any flight
I've never had a problem taking an empty water bottle through security, and flying with it full, having filled it up after security. Well, I take it back. Flying to the US internationally, they often screen you twice. Once to get to the secure area, based on local regulations, then a second time at the gate to meet US regulations. You can't buy or get liquids after the second screening, in some airports.
So, we need to spend $1T to stop an even t with a death toll in line with the average school shooting, but make sure to not actually stop school shootings. Got it. I don't understand the reasoning, nor do I agree. But I at least understand what you are saying.
He said he could think of ways. He included PU as one in a list. You then said that all of them are impossible because one in a long list would be impractical.
Are you retarded?
A suicide bomber with 50 lbs of explosives in a carry-on sized bag would be able to take out quite a few people. You don't have to strap in minimal explosives to your body when everyone around you is pulling around a small suitcase.
Like the thousands of drug mules that manage to make it through without puking, despite a lethal dose of chemicals inside them.
I was walking the day after an appendectomy. I wasn't walking for a long time after a knee surgery. Depends on the surgery.
It's not the liberals writing the rules to allow in the terrorists from the 9/11 country in. All the conservatives' rules explicitly allow the terrorists in. Why do the conservatives love terrorists? Oh yeah, a few dead Americans worth the trillions of dollars of tax dollars they give to their billionaire friends, at least in conservative logic. Higher taxes and more dead Americans. Vote Conservative.
The American public already operates under suspension of disbelief. "Effective theater" is theater that doesn't violate the suspension of disbelief.
Security theatre is by definition ineffective security only done for show.
But if the show is more convincing, how is that not effective theater?
Last I looked, the USA was the only country that taxed non-resident citizens. Inconsistently and unfairly, at that (depending on where you earn it, and the sources of income, it's so complicated, most non-residents don't pay taxes, and hope they never get noticed).
The government worked to discredit and disband them, and yes, plenty saw the inside of a jail cell, including journalists covering the "event".
We have proof now that some of the molotov cocktail throwers in the '60s were paid FBI agents. Show up, join the cause, push them to extremism, then throw them all in jail. Worked in the '60s, still working today. Given then actions of the government and contractors in this case, seems more likely that the "violence" was false-flag by the government to discredit undesirables.
the only thing the contracted workers were "blamed" for was for being employed on the basis of cost rather than skill,
The implication is obviously that the skill was lower, or there'd be no need to mention it. They were picked on cost. Period. Mentioning skill weakens your claimed focus solely on management. Why bring up the skill of the workers if it's unrelated to the incident?
The effect would have been the same if they had replaced the workers with young new-hires, cheap retirees, or any other group they intended to pay the minimum they could get away with and planned to ignore feedback from. The union has claimed that the firing of experienced workers made the outage worse, because the new people hadn't ever run up a DR failover to backup systems. BA claims that's not true (though is unclear on which part of the claim isn't true). I expect many will use this for their own political gain. But hopefully this will show people that IT is worth paying for. Like the NIH, struck by ransomware not long ago, for failing to keep computers patched, failure to block attacks in firewalls, and failure in blocking malware on endpoints. Any one of 10 different IT policies/capabilities at "best practices" and they'd not have gotten hit (or hit as hard).
The definition of "terrorist" is "anyone you don't like". And private contractors will turn people into proven terrorists, for a fee. Gotta love the free market.
Nope. You only need to pay to renounce citizenship if the IRS thinks the renunciation is related to avoiding US income tax, or if you are "selling" US income to your non-US self.
If someone with no assets and little income were to renounce, nobody would ever care, and there's no fee to do so.
Nope. I'm alive, regardless of whether I have a piece of paper from the government to prove it. The corporation exists solely as a piece of paper from the government.
Yes, the anti-government "militia", all on welfare, shows government ID to collect their food stamps. But hates the government and taxes, but don't touch my food stamps or medicaid.
And yes, you dd imply that the workers hold some of that responsibility. They don't.
Even if it was a power supply issue (and I'm pretty sceptical about that), it sounds like the resulting problems would still be a result of their penny-pinching sacking of the experienced staff most likely to know what they were doing (and be in a position to do it). It's sure as hell not their responsibility any more.
What I've seen on the news has indicated a "power supply" issue, as in the supply of power, not what computer guys would think of as a "power supply". A power failure of some kind caused the issue, according to all the accounts so far, and I've seen nothing that indicated there's any reason to doubt that account. One of the cardinal rules of publicly traded companies is: Don't say it in an official press release if it isn't true. Anything else opens you up to lots of liability. The word choice of "power supply" is irrelevant. "power issue" is what was meant. And there's no reason to even suspect that wasn't the cause.
But, for a minimal cost, they could have replicated their infrastructure in another data center (certainly minimal compared to the loss they have on their hands now). If the problem were with a cloud provider, it seems likely others would have been affected, or someone would have started pointing fingers or leaks. So it would seem that they were hosting their own stuff somewhere. Did they build/select a place with sufficient power, and best practices power delivery? I'm guessing it'll come out that they either picked the lowest-cost host, or did it themselves with worst practices implementation. It has nothing to do with the workers, and everything to do with the "cut costs at all costs" mentality of the "penny wise, pound foolish" corporate practices.
Bringing up outsourcing is a way of blaming the contractors, when that's likely irrelevant. Management is the sole point of responsibility, and we need not mention anything else as a distraction.
Don't blame the IT workers. I had the same thing happen where I work. The middle manager, trying to look good, cut necessary costs. One power blip in the grid, and everything was dead because we had undersized UPSs everywhere, and they couldn't handle the load. He said "inrush current" thousands of times, but never knew what it meant.
China doesn't care. Li Bingbing was the draw there, and they made more in China than the US. So expect to see more Chinese stars in US movies. Not long before most movies are bilingual...
The cooler American-style "saunas" that's only in the 50-70 C range are more problematic, because they're not hot enough for the body to enter this state.
You are simply full of shit.
The "saunas" that are in the 50 C range are steam-rooms. The only steam room I've ever been in was in Europe (Amsterdam), so America-hate is misplaced. A "wet sauna" (properly called a steam room) works differently than a dry sauna, but 50C wet gets a similar physical reaction as 90C dry.
Even more so because of the aversion to nakedness causing Americans to cover themselves with towels or bathing suits, reducing the cooling effect of profuse sweating. Add that they're below the dew point, so benches won't be dry but covered with hot moisture.
That's why saunas are generally wood, and steam rooms are generally tile. And the clothes don't matter when you are in a "wet" environment. Your sweat doesn't help, anyway.
It's an uncomfortable experience compared to a real sauna, and I'm sure temperature sensitive individuals can have a hard time with them.
Your opinion is based on incorrect facts, thus, your opinion is invalid. But feel free to keep hating Americans and fat people. Your hate for everyone (and indifference to fact) would have you fit right in as an American.
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There's a gender bias that's unrelated to weight.
Let me guess, you like fat shaming?
My preference for temperature hasn't changed much as my weight has fluctuated.
LCD suffers burn-in at a rate similar to plasma. And leaving a TV on all day will not create burn-in, unless you are watching CNN or something else with a fixed banner or emblem. But a plasma on 24/7 playing regular TV or a movie on repeat will not get any burn-in (unless you aspect ratio is all wrong, and you spend all your time with bars on the top or sides). But, as I noted earlier, the problem exists for LCD and LED as well as plasma.
Once someone is out of the country and is "wanted", it's standard to invite them back (including international warrant), and once that fails, then interview them remotely. But Sweden didn't follow their own regular procedures. Why not?