No, the "security theater" has impacted you in other ways as well. For instance, you can no longer wait with your family in the terminal until the very last moment (if you're leaving on a business trip).
You also have to factor in the time it takes to get through security. Even if the line is moving at a good clip, it's still a non-zero amount of time, and in aggregate, it's a lot of lost passenger-hours.
You also have to factor in the the money. Who do you think is paying for all that equipment and man-hours? It's YOU. through the ticket price and taxation. And you're paying a more for a few minutes security theater than you'd pay for an evening of actual theater.
Note that the last few times I flew, the planes were pretty much full. Hardly a sign that security regulations have impacted ticket sales all that much.
In fact, "full planes" is precisely a sign that airlines are cutting back to the bare minimum number of planes to accommodate their expected market. It means that there are very likely shortages of seats on some or many routes, which at the very least is inconveniencing a few passengers, and more likely is actually pushing passengers into choosing alternate means of transportation.
Full planes are good from a fuel efficiency standpoint, but they're far less than ideal from a market efficiency standpoint.
I would suggest, that if you are dissatisfied with your union officials that you either leave the union or.. run for office! You might have less time to do the work you really want to do, but at least you'll know that the union bs is being handled competently.
The mob ties bit was a bit of a joke.. ragging on the historical connection between labor unions and organized crime. But you can't have just one guy at one company refuse to work with outsourced divisions/software. You've really got to do it across the board, or at least across a significant swath of the board. Which implies at least some level of organization.
It's the prisoners' dilemma: The thing that betrays the prisoners is their lack of communication.
For many people it is difficult to grasp how a series of random events can lead to a result that seems engineered.
Indeed. People just like you, Mr. (or Ms.) AC. GP had a very clear and plausible explanation which, even if incorrect, would not be incorrect for any of the reasons you specified.
It's not a coincidence. All those chance mutations add up to fit the constraints. Knowing which constraints are the most rigid is most certainly important for postulating what drives what.
Well.. send a copy of whatever info you get along to your credit card company, along with the most important piece of information: Your desire for them not to accept any more charges from the company. Make it the CC company's problem, and see how quickly it gets resolved.
I'm pretty sure the CC companies would take you at your word, ANYWAY, but a lil' proof doesn't hurt.
We as American tech workers need to stand up against this. The first thing we need to do is to refuse to cooperate in any way with any Indian company. It may mean that we lose our jobs, but it's better to lose them for taking a stand than losing them to some half-assed outsourcing company.
If that's your plan, then the zeroth thing you need to do is form a union. This kind of collective bargaining business doesn't work unless there's...a collective. Also, mob ties, to keep the collective in line.
Or.. just include staged compression pumps and high pressure helium tanks. Pump the helium back into the tanks to maintain neutral buoyancy. Then you only need replace leakage, rather than inefficient maneuvering wastage.
Obviously, I'm assuming that the fuel for the pumps is less valuable than the helium in the bladders.
I'm always surprised that, when flying through weather, the other passengers never seem to stare coldly at me when I put my hands up in the air and shout, "Woo!" with every big drop...
Did you even RTFA? Helium is a byproduct of oil extraction. If the oil dries up, no more helium, either. Unless you think transmuting elements is something that can be economically done on a large scale.
With generous assumptions, the absolute minimum efficiency you are claiming is 20%, which is quite impressive for home solar panels.
But.. If you're claiming to have solved the parent's problem, which is more likely a 5kW roughly continuous (i.e. through-the-night) requirement in a location north of the tropic of cancer, at a time of year other than summer solstice, I'm becoming a bit suspicious.
Does "spectroscope" == spectrometer? 'Cause I would think that the "Doctors" you refer to are real doctors (Ph.Ds) and not "memorization doctors" (M.D.s).
Real doctors are generally smart fellows, and usually have some experience with Unix, at least peripherally, what with writing their theses and journal articles in LaTeX, and their programs in abomination^h^h^h^h^h^h^hFortran.
The problem we have is that both Obama and McCain (and Hillary when she was running) are only really passionate about one thing: Being President.
They appear have a few principles which they vaguely care about, but both politicians have made incredible compromises (and in many cases from positions I don't like to positions I do support, which actually infuriates me) in their bid for the top post.
They don't have something they're passionate about that they need to be president for, and they've made so many contradictory promises that neither will have a mandate, even in the unlikely event that these very similar fellows will actually have election results that is statistically differentiable from a hundred million or so coin-flips.
Although subsidies tend to get the specific effect you ask for, like genie wishes, they also tend to come with unintended consequences.
I just think it's better, in general, to go for solutions which don't involve direct subsidies. After all, you can always escalate to subsidies later, but it's very difficult to get government spending off the books if it turns out it wasn't necessary, or was actually harmful.
And my point on the silver bullet is that it's not only necessary, it's inevitable. Eventually, energy prices are going to get to high, and we're not going to be able to conserve our way out of it that people will get fed up with the NIMBYs and override their concerns.
We all know a silver-bullet is unlikely for the energy "crisis"
Incorrect. A silver bullet is exactly what we need.
The problem at the moment (i.e. timescales of at least 10,000 years) is NOT a lack of energy sources. We've got the means to tap the water cycle, air currents, hot rocks, fissionable metals, trapped hydrocarbons, coal, extra-planetary radiation, ocean currents, angular momentum, and probably a dozen things I can't think of off the top of my head.
The problem is that nearly every time we try to exploit one of those resources, the project is stymied by bureaucratic regulators more concerned with placating NIMBYs and BANANAs than facilitating a responsible plan to supply our nation's ever-growing need for energy.
The silver bullet is not technological. It's political. We need only one thing: the will to start new energy projects. Nearly ANY new energy projects at the moment are an improvement.
Let me be the first to say, "Yes, I do want a Nuclear Power plant in my back yard. Or a wind farm. Or a solar farm. Or a deep hole. or a Dam. Or even a coal plant (I'm not real keen on the coal plant, for aesthetic reasons but if we must, we must). And turn those ugly condos that replaced the tank farm into a refinery."
Conservation is good too. It's just another angle, but it's not sufficient on it's own.
Re: motorcycle parking, you don't even need to subsidize it, just splitting some spaces to allow more motorcycle parking closer to places is probably enough. But ban "cruisers" from the spaces. No bike that weighs as much as, costs more than, and gets worse gas mileage than a jeep wrangler ought to be treated like a bike.
You have to pay for handholding, but for issues that have been solved, the forums are both free and extremely helpful.
It may be that you don't want or don't have time sift through the forums yourself. You could pay a neighborhood kid to do it, but wouldn't it make more sense to get help straight from the horse's mouth, as it were?
Also, MS's "free support" pretty much amounts to "knowledge base" which is a more officially blessed version of ubuntuforums, is it not?
Huh? You've always been able to get free disks. When the first LTS came out, they decided to only stamp those versions, so you couldn't get 7.10 sent to you, but you could get 6.06.
Now, at the moment, you're limited to one disk, unless you can write a convincing essay. It's still pretty amazing that they do that, though.
Which is why I call the sales beast over and ask 'em to fetch a blu-ray disk and player. Then proceed to annoy them by asking them to move from screen to screen (but only after complaining that the disk they chose is a mash of compression problems and inexplicably added fake "film grain," and the first five minutes are footage of old, blurry news on an an even older television set, complete with visible scan-lines or spinning-color-wheel)
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No, the "security theater" has impacted you in other ways as well. For instance, you can no longer wait with your family in the terminal until the very last moment (if you're leaving on a business trip).
You also have to factor in the time it takes to get through security. Even if the line is moving at a good clip, it's still a non-zero amount of time, and in aggregate, it's a lot of lost passenger-hours.
You also have to factor in the the money. Who do you think is paying for all that equipment and man-hours? It's YOU. through the ticket price and taxation. And you're paying a more for a few minutes security theater than you'd pay for an evening of actual theater.
In fact, "full planes" is precisely a sign that airlines are cutting back to the bare minimum number of planes to accommodate their expected market. It means that there are very likely shortages of seats on some or many routes, which at the very least is inconveniencing a few passengers, and more likely is actually pushing passengers into choosing alternate means of transportation.
Full planes are good from a fuel efficiency standpoint, but they're far less than ideal from a market efficiency standpoint.
I would suggest, that if you are dissatisfied with your union officials that you either leave the union or.. run for office! You might have less time to do the work you really want to do, but at least you'll know that the union bs is being handled competently.
The mob ties bit was a bit of a joke.. ragging on the historical connection between labor unions and organized crime. But you can't have just one guy at one company refuse to work with outsourced divisions/software. You've really got to do it across the board, or at least across a significant swath of the board. Which implies at least some level of organization.
It's the prisoners' dilemma: The thing that betrays the prisoners is their lack of communication.
Yeah, but over in europe, the gallons are bigger...
Indeed. People just like you , Mr. (or Ms.) AC. GP had a very clear and plausible explanation which, even if incorrect, would not be incorrect for any of the reasons you specified.
It's not a coincidence. All those chance mutations add up to fit the constraints. Knowing which constraints are the most rigid is most certainly important for postulating what drives what.
Well.. send a copy of whatever info you get along to your credit card company, along with the most important piece of information: Your desire for them not to accept any more charges from the company. Make it the CC company's problem, and see how quickly it gets resolved.
I'm pretty sure the CC companies would take you at your word, ANYWAY, but a lil' proof doesn't hurt.
If that's your plan, then the zeroth thing you need to do is form a union. This kind of collective bargaining business doesn't work unless there's...a collective. Also, mob ties, to keep the collective in line.
Or.. just include staged compression pumps and high pressure helium tanks. Pump the helium back into the tanks to maintain neutral buoyancy. Then you only need replace leakage, rather than inefficient maneuvering wastage.
Obviously, I'm assuming that the fuel for the pumps is less valuable than the helium in the bladders.
I'm always surprised that, when flying through weather, the other passengers never seem to stare coldly at me when I put my hands up in the air and shout, "Woo!" with every big drop...
Why is that surprising? The same is true in printers, and probably a whole slew of other products.
Did you even RTFA? Helium is a byproduct of oil extraction. If the oil dries up, no more helium, either. Unless you think transmuting elements is something that can be economically done on a large scale.
With generous assumptions, the absolute minimum efficiency you are claiming is 20%, which is quite impressive for home solar panels.
But.. If you're claiming to have solved the parent's problem, which is more likely a 5kW roughly continuous (i.e. through-the-night) requirement in a location north of the tropic of cancer, at a time of year other than summer solstice, I'm becoming a bit suspicious.
Yeah, but that increase has been priced in for months. If you want to make profit now you have to change the game a little.
Wha? You're sorry you used up Robert C. Byrd's bandwidth? why?
Does "spectroscope" == spectrometer? 'Cause I would think that the "Doctors" you refer to are real doctors (Ph.Ds) and not "memorization doctors" (M.D.s).
Real doctors are generally smart fellows, and usually have some experience with Unix, at least peripherally, what with writing their theses and journal articles in LaTeX, and their programs in abomination^h^h^h^h^h^h^hFortran.
Change AND hope in the same sentence! Audacious.
The problem we have is that both Obama and McCain (and Hillary when she was running) are only really passionate about one thing: Being President.
They appear have a few principles which they vaguely care about, but both politicians have made incredible compromises (and in many cases from positions I don't like to positions I do support, which actually infuriates me) in their bid for the top post.
They don't have something they're passionate about that they need to be president for, and they've made so many contradictory promises that neither will have a mandate, even in the unlikely event that these very similar fellows will actually have election results that is statistically differentiable from a hundred million or so coin-flips.
Although subsidies tend to get the specific effect you ask for, like genie wishes, they also tend to come with unintended consequences.
I just think it's better, in general, to go for solutions which don't involve direct subsidies. After all, you can always escalate to subsidies later, but it's very difficult to get government spending off the books if it turns out it wasn't necessary, or was actually harmful.
And my point on the silver bullet is that it's not only necessary, it's inevitable. Eventually, energy prices are going to get to high, and we're not going to be able to conserve our way out of it that people will get fed up with the NIMBYs and override their concerns.
Incorrect. A silver bullet is exactly what we need.
The problem at the moment (i.e. timescales of at least 10,000 years) is NOT a lack of energy sources. We've got the means to tap the water cycle, air currents, hot rocks, fissionable metals, trapped hydrocarbons, coal, extra-planetary radiation, ocean currents, angular momentum, and probably a dozen things I can't think of off the top of my head.
The problem is that nearly every time we try to exploit one of those resources, the project is stymied by bureaucratic regulators more concerned with placating NIMBYs and BANANAs than facilitating a responsible plan to supply our nation's ever-growing need for energy.
The silver bullet is not technological. It's political. We need only one thing: the will to start new energy projects. Nearly ANY new energy projects at the moment are an improvement.
Let me be the first to say, "Yes, I do want a Nuclear Power plant in my back yard. Or a wind farm. Or a solar farm. Or a deep hole. or a Dam. Or even a coal plant (I'm not real keen on the coal plant, for aesthetic reasons but if we must, we must). And turn those ugly condos that replaced the tank farm into a refinery."
Conservation is good too. It's just another angle, but it's not sufficient on it's own.
Re: motorcycle parking, you don't even need to subsidize it, just splitting some spaces to allow more motorcycle parking closer to places is probably enough. But ban "cruisers" from the spaces. No bike that weighs as much as, costs more than, and gets worse gas mileage than a jeep wrangler ought to be treated like a bike.
Not only that, but robots rarely get pissed off and wail on each other.
So.. You want a Starcraft themed sequel to Battlezone II?
Doesn't Blizzard bring in more than a billion in profits a year, by itself? What's Activision bringing to the table?
You have to pay for handholding, but for issues that have been solved, the forums are both free and extremely helpful.
It may be that you don't want or don't have time sift through the forums yourself. You could pay a neighborhood kid to do it, but wouldn't it make more sense to get help straight from the horse's mouth, as it were?
Also, MS's "free support" pretty much amounts to "knowledge base" which is a more officially blessed version of ubuntuforums, is it not?
Huh? You've always been able to get free disks. When the first LTS came out, they decided to only stamp those versions, so you couldn't get 7.10 sent to you, but you could get 6.06.
Now, at the moment, you're limited to one disk, unless you can write a convincing essay. It's still pretty amazing that they do that, though.
Which is why I call the sales beast over and ask 'em to fetch a blu-ray disk and player. Then proceed to annoy them by asking them to move from screen to screen (but only after complaining that the disk they chose is a mash of compression problems and inexplicably added fake "film grain," and the first five minutes are footage of old, blurry news on an an even older television set, complete with visible scan-lines or spinning-color-wheel)
The blind guy at the next intersection.