The hell they don't. The problem is, when I'm done opening it, it can't close. Bwahahaha. *goes to look for hammer*

Wait... is that a metric fucking disaster or imperial?

There are terms and conditions for purchasing a ticket. Unless one of those terms was "We can kick you off the plane for sending a tweet" then they are in violation of contract and should be taken to small claims court. Of course it's more of a PITA than it's worth, but it would be fun to see SWA's lawyers have to defend such absurd behavior.

I should hope so. Otherwise how do they reach the pedals?!

You are absolutely right about the stigma thing. My wife used to swear up and down that she would never get a minivan. She toughed it out with her CR-V as long as she could. When the in-laws (or other visitors) came over, I would dutifully crawl in the back, while everybody else piled in. But once we had our second kid, it became increasingly impossible to safely get the whole family where we were going. Then when the older one entered grade school, there was the need to shuttle friends about, too.

So we've had a Honda Odyssey for over a year now. The mileage isn't bad. The thing handles better than my Accord. It has more luggage room and is more configurable than the Pilot would have been. My only complaint so far is that the windshield is so large that it distorts my field of vision giving me a slight headache on long trips. But my wife says it's just my imagination. She has embraced being a minivan mom. She'll probably be one until the kids are grown.

I liken a minivan to any other tool. Once you get used to using the right tool for the job, you wonder why you ever did it any other way.

Regarding the push-button fold flat seats, that is already an option for the back seat of one brand. Don't remember which, though.

Here are the rules at my house: Be safe. Be nice. Four words, and still my seven-year-old finds a way to get all lawyery.

That's actually a pretty good point. Policies are set out to protect the company, while appearing to protect the employees. If an employee signs something saying they know harassment is not allowed on premises, it makes it a lot easier to fire them. If you don't have such a policy, it makes it a lot easier for the harassee to go after the company as well as the harasser.

Besides it isn't always so clear cut, which illegal activities will get you fired. How many companies will fire you for getting a speeding ticket? What if you get a DUI? How many companies will fire you if you smoke a joint (while not at work)? What about bouncing a check? Hell, some school districts have policies forbidding teachers from being seen drinking in public.

I don't think a company policy is meant to cover everything, just everything they are worried about getting sued over. I wonder if anybody has ever used the excuse "Well it wasn't in the policy, so you can't fire me for torturing my puppy to death," or some other heinous act.

Man that guy is a complete idiot. Pa$$w0rd! is like the stupidest password ever.

Basically if there's no personal or financial information I'll use a low security password. Hasn't caused any problems yet, and I find it easy to remember passwords for forums this way.

I was thinking the same thing. If you fall asleep, a jolt to the old butt-cheeks might just wake you up before you become a menace. And the fear of it happening again would probably be enough to keep you wired (no pun intended) until you get to your destination.

Hmm... That's actually the best argument I've ever heard for this whole TSA/airport thing. Well done!

It is absolutely insanity. If the goal is to make it very unlikely, we were already there before naked scanners and confiscating water bottles. Using your own example of ever-shrinking Venn diagram intersections: The circle containing "people who just forgot to charge their phone" is probably 4 or 5 orders of magnitude bigger than any of the other circles you just told us to draw. Also the odds of the people building a bomb into an iPhone not being able to also make the phone look and act like an iPhone for some short amount of time is tiny.

Further, the act of blowing up the iBomb in the security line would be more dangerous and costly than actually blowing it up on a plane. Can you imagine? You'd get to shut down an entire airport and kill the hundred people in line. Back to my point, the continuing addition of rules at the checkpoints is insane. To think otherwise is willful ignorance.

Actually, Title III of the ADA pretty much says they must let us bring in food. Space Center Houston is a "public accommodation." An allergy is "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities" (eating). They have to make reasonable accommodations to their policies. Since they do not offer any dairy free menu items in their food court, a reasonable accommodation would be to allow us to bring in a sandwich. The alternative is that they lose ALL the money I would spend in their food court.

Shit... now that I look more closely at this, I really should sue the Honolulu airport. When we went through there, they had all these signs saying that they don't serve people with food allergies. WTF? Of course, since it's an airport, you're kind stuck there without a lot of options. Anybody know any good civil rights lawyers?

Can you imagine if they had a sign that said "Sorry, no retards allowed."

At first I was surprised to see this article didn't have at least 300 comments. Look at the recent SCOTUS article. But now I see why. I can't believe they chose to present answers from Lessig in this format. How absurd. I was just telling my son how stupid it was that he wades through 7 minutes of Minecraft Youtube videos when the same info can be garnered in 10 seconds on the wiki. I'm appalled that they don't at least have a transcription posted here. Web accessibility is one of those touchstone topics for Mr. Lessig, so I am flabbergasted that they would have chosen him for a video-sans-transcript response.