Europe has tons of socialism. The US has too much of it as well.
Europe, the USA, my country (Canada) have social programs, all to varying degrees. There's no such thing as "tons of socialism." You're either socialist (Cuba) or you're not. If you don't have mass state-owned enterprise you're not socialist.
Correct, however you need to head to the library and do some reading on what socialism actually is (unless the library is too 'socialist' for you).
Europe, Canada etc. are not socialist nations. Do they have social programs for their citizens? Yes. However, socialism is defined as state ownership of enterprises. A good example of a socialst nation is Cuba - The state owns all means of production. Cuba is failing, which is why they are moving away from socialism.
I suppose they're not technically comics, but with the artwork you can almost consider his books graphic novels. Start with "Lost and Found" linked above.
Lost and Found is also available as a short animated film:
I still wonder how it is that they are profitable. Nobody pays anything for the service, other than with their privacy.
Same way television was profitable for many years for the likes of CBS, NBC & ABC. Nobody paid anything to watch TV either and the broadcasters had tremendous infrastructure expenses.
the FAA literally makes flying MORE DANGEROUS AND MORE EXPENSIVE
More expensive? Absolutely. More dangerous? That's seems like a bit of a stretch...
Floor level emergency lighting, bird indigestion, de-icing boots, better non-flammable wiring insulation, smoke detectors, lightning hit management, ETOPS, stick-shakers... All are the result of FAA regs - And that's just off the top of my non-pilot head.
No, that 80 column dot matrix would still be running today. Apples to oranges comparison you make.
No, that Radio Shack printer (rebranded Centronics) died repeatedly - Bad power supply, crappy tractor feed, destroyed solenoids pounding against a steel platen. And don't get me started on the nightmarish printer ribbon feed mechanism - It was an impossible mess.
The $200 craptastic laser printer won't be running 4 years from now.
I bought my HP 1012 in late 2003 and it's still going strong nearly nine years later. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it you anonymous coward.
We pay just the same price as we did for our consumer goods
In 1979, an 80-column dot-matrix printer (with no descenders) for my TRS-80 cost $1000, which is $2900 in today's dollars. Today, you can buy a laser printer for under a hundred bucks.
From VCRs to coffee machines there's about a zillion other examples.
I think you'll find the cost & throughput ratio that comes with mailing DVDs to Iraq and Afghanistan to be pretty good, compared with the digital delivery alternatives. Latency's a bitch, though.
I'm not suggesting we shouldn't bust corrupt TSA screeners. I *am* suggesting that it's not their job to catch people moving drugs around the country. That's what law enforcement are for, not rent-a-cops with dollar store badges.
I'm annoyed by the TSA as much as the next guy, but it's their job to screen people and baggage for threats to aircraft (snow globes, nail clippers, pasta sauce, hand grenades etc.). Since when is it their job to detect drugs? That's the job of the police, not the TSA. Cocaine and meth are not threats to aircraft.
There doesn't seem to be any valid security reason to show ID at all before flying, much less proving that your ID and boarding pass match, any more than there is when you take a bus, ferry, subway, or train.
Exactly right - This isn't Soviet Russia. I can see needing to present a passport at check-in for International flights, but for domestic flights? No ID should be required to fly within the USA (or my country, Canada).
it is one of the very few things the TSA has done or is doing that makes sense
Why should you need to present ID to fly? I'm 45 - I remember flying in the 80s to a student conference using the ticket of a buddy who couldn't go. (I also had a TRS-80 Model 1 in my checked luggage, but that's a different tale...)
your car's [sic] black box will mostly be used to protect the people who crashed into you
Not necessarily. It could also protect you - If you're in a crash and the police insist you were speeding the black box could prove you weren't, or it could prove you were braking not accelerating etc.
Sounds great! OK then, let me just check out the options for Zurich to Toronto on Cathay. Hmm... OK seems we've got Zurich to Hong Kong, then Hong Kong to Toronto. Only 33 hours of travel, compares to 9 hours on Air Canada, at three times the cost. Makes perfect sense.
Same here. All the video on my iPod is ripped from DVDs (either from my collection or borrowed from the library.) All the audio is audiobook MP3 rips from the library. Once I've watched / listened to something I delete it. I have a few games, but I just bought those on the device directly.
I like SkyDrive, but the max file size (50 megs IIRC?) means that for me it's dead in the water. I realize MS is concerned about people using it to trade pirated movies and music, but it also means the service is pretty useless. If I can't even send my parents a video of their granddaughter playing in the park, or singing happy birthday, what's the point?
they make the security lines longer by having more stuff to check.
Yeah, but even with only one bag it represents a ridiculous amount of screening these days. Yesterday I flew home from the USA - I had FOUR bins scanned at security:
Bin 1: Shoes / Jacket / Liquids in Baggie
Bin 2: Laptop
Bin 3: Tablet
Bin 4: Backpack
Back in the day I'd've just passed my backpack through the x-ray machine and that'd've been it.
the question is "is it or is it not possible to create a liquid explosive on an airliner." YMMV.
Even if it is hypothetically possible to make a bomb out of shaving cream, coca-cola and snow-globes the question is not whether it can be done, but rather, whether or not the BILLIONS spent screening for contact lens solution and baby formula could be better spent elsewhere - The cost spent screening for liquids needs to be considered against the infinitesimally small risk of a liquids bomb.
....and if society decides that yes, liquids are a danger, then ALL liquids need to be banned. It's ridiculous to say 'liquids are dangerous, but not in small amounts' because all I need to do is go through security 20 times to get a large amount on the other side of security. The whole thing just looks farcical.
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Europe has tons of socialism. The US has too much of it as well.
Europe, the USA, my country (Canada) have social programs, all to varying degrees. There's no such thing as "tons of socialism." You're either socialist (Cuba) or you're not. If you don't have mass state-owned enterprise you're not socialist.
All socialism fails
Correct, however you need to head to the library and do some reading on what socialism actually is (unless the library is too 'socialist' for you).
Europe, Canada etc. are not socialist nations. Do they have social programs for their citizens? Yes. However, socialism is defined as state ownership of enterprises. A good example of a socialst nation is Cuba - The state owns all means of production. Cuba is failing, which is why they are moving away from socialism.
My toddler LOVES Oliver Jeffers:
http://www.oliverjeffers.com/picture-books/lost-and-found
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPTigw_CNZk
I suppose they're not technically comics, but with the artwork you can almost consider his books graphic novels. Start with "Lost and Found" linked above.
Lost and Found is also available as a short animated film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOqMuOTsOc
I still wonder how it is that they are profitable. Nobody pays anything for the service, other than with their privacy.
Same way television was profitable for many years for the likes of CBS, NBC & ABC. Nobody paid anything to watch TV either and the broadcasters had tremendous infrastructure expenses.
the FAA literally makes flying MORE DANGEROUS AND MORE EXPENSIVE
More expensive? Absolutely. More dangerous? That's seems like a bit of a stretch...
Floor level emergency lighting, bird indigestion, de-icing boots, better non-flammable wiring insulation, smoke detectors, lightning hit management, ETOPS, stick-shakers... All are the result of FAA regs - And that's just off the top of my non-pilot head.
That seems short-sighted
Whoosh!
No, that 80 column dot matrix would still be running today. Apples to oranges comparison you make.
No, that Radio Shack printer (rebranded Centronics) died repeatedly - Bad power supply, crappy tractor feed, destroyed solenoids pounding against a steel platen. And don't get me started on the nightmarish printer ribbon feed mechanism - It was an impossible mess.
The $200 craptastic laser printer won't be running 4 years from now.
I bought my HP 1012 in late 2003 and it's still going strong nearly nine years later. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it you anonymous coward.
We pay just the same price as we did for our consumer goods
In 1979, an 80-column dot-matrix printer (with no descenders) for my TRS-80 cost $1000, which is $2900 in today's dollars. Today, you can buy a laser printer for under a hundred bucks.
From VCRs to coffee machines there's about a zillion other examples.
Came here to see somebody post "Airbus=Scarebus"...
How about "If ain't Boeing, I ain't going!"
That cover it for you?
Hollywood distributes movies both digitally
I think you'll find the cost & throughput ratio that comes with mailing DVDs to Iraq and Afghanistan to be pretty good, compared with the digital delivery alternatives. Latency's a bitch, though.
I'm not suggesting we shouldn't bust corrupt TSA screeners. I *am* suggesting that it's not their job to catch people moving drugs around the country. That's what law enforcement are for, not rent-a-cops with dollar store badges.
I'm annoyed by the TSA as much as the next guy, but it's their job to screen people and baggage for threats to aircraft (snow globes, nail clippers, pasta sauce, hand grenades etc.). Since when is it their job to detect drugs? That's the job of the police, not the TSA. Cocaine and meth are not threats to aircraft.
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There doesn't seem to be any valid security reason to show ID at all before flying, much less proving that your ID and boarding pass match, any more than there is when you take a bus, ferry, subway, or train.
Exactly right - This isn't Soviet Russia. I can see needing to present a passport at check-in for International flights, but for domestic flights? No ID should be required to fly within the USA (or my country, Canada).
it is one of the very few things the TSA has done or is doing that makes sense
Why should you need to present ID to fly? I'm 45 - I remember flying in the 80s to a student conference using the ticket of a buddy who couldn't go. (I also had a TRS-80 Model 1 in my checked luggage, but that's a different tale...)
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Inconceivable!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sic
your car's [sic] black box will mostly be used to protect the people who crashed into you
Not necessarily. It could also protect you - If you're in a crash and the police insist you were speeding the black box could prove you weren't, or it could prove you were braking not accelerating etc.
If you had bothered to read the article
You must be new here.
West Jet is cheaper anyways...
Hey there you Anonymous Coward, lemme know how WestJet works for you the next time you want to fly Zurich to Toronto non-stop.
just fly cathay pacific
Sounds great! OK then, let me just check out the options for Zurich to Toronto on Cathay. Hmm... OK seems we've got Zurich to Hong Kong, then Hong Kong to Toronto. Only 33 hours of travel, compares to 9 hours on Air Canada, at three times the cost. Makes perfect sense.
A muslim will set your kids on fire to protest your open practice of another religion if you live in a Muslim country
Rubbish. No one is setting kids on fire in Malaysia or Jordan.
I definitely will never use this feature
Same here. All the video on my iPod is ripped from DVDs (either from my collection or borrowed from the library.) All the audio is audiobook MP3 rips from the library. Once I've watched / listened to something I delete it. I have a few games, but I just bought those on the device directly.
Nobody is using skydrive
I like SkyDrive, but the max file size (50 megs IIRC?) means that for me it's dead in the water. I realize MS is concerned about people using it to trade pirated movies and music, but it also means the service is pretty useless. If I can't even send my parents a video of their granddaughter playing in the park, or singing happy birthday, what's the point?
they make the security lines longer by having more stuff to check.
Yeah, but even with only one bag it represents a ridiculous amount of screening these days. Yesterday I flew home from the USA - I had FOUR bins scanned at security:
Bin 1: Shoes / Jacket / Liquids in Baggie
Bin 2: Laptop
Bin 3: Tablet
Bin 4: Backpack
Back in the day I'd've just passed my backpack through the x-ray machine and that'd've been it.
the question is "is it or is it not possible to create a liquid explosive on an airliner." YMMV.
Even if it is hypothetically possible to make a bomb out of shaving cream, coca-cola and snow-globes the question is not whether it can be done, but rather, whether or not the BILLIONS spent screening for contact lens solution and baby formula could be better spent elsewhere - The cost spent screening for liquids needs to be considered against the infinitesimally small risk of a liquids bomb.
....and if society decides that yes, liquids are a danger, then ALL liquids need to be banned. It's ridiculous to say 'liquids are dangerous, but not in small amounts' because all I need to do is go through security 20 times to get a large amount on the other side of security. The whole thing just looks farcical.