Maybe not everywhere, by in my polling location (GWU in Ashburn) they haven't had the e-voting booths for at least the last 4 years. It's all been paper/marker Scantron-type ballots.

With Hollywood Accounting, every movie is profitable while at the same time being a loss.

Well, according to their latest ad campaign "If it's not an iPhone, it's not an iPhone."

See also: "No shit, Sherlock!"

Whoooosh!

Until the switch to smartphones, nearly every phone on VZW was saddled with BREW (the OS) no matter what OS the manufacturer would normally put on their phones.

Also, their Snapdragon SoCs have been a huge success for them.

"We're going to block your revenue stream unless you give us a piece of the action."

Sounds like the Mafia protection racket of old.. "Nice shop you've got here. Would be a shame if something happened to it.."

What is up with their name? They have nothing to do with "internet security."

If I saw that name out of the context of this article, I would think they were something like CERT..

You forgot the "Muhahahahahaha!"

Those laws have existed for a long time. Google, Apple, and the rest used what was already common practice for international corporations. It's only now that lawmakers have decided that it's bad.

"choppy sea" is a bit of an understatement. Waves were in excess of 10 meters.

IMHO, ticket sales are tanking due to the cost of tickets and the movie going experience. I'd pretty much stopped going to see movies in the theater because I was sick of paying a lot of money for a terrible experience at my local Regal. Starting with the supposed show time, you'd get about 15-20 minutes of commercials, the MPAA PSA that accuses you of being a thief, a couple of trailers, and finally, a half hour after it was supposed to start, the movie. Then, during the movie, half the audience would be jabbering away, cell phones going off all the time, and even people shining laser pointers at the screen. And the theater wouldn't do anything to try to stop it.

Now that I have an Alamo, I'm starting to go to movies again because it's completely different. Tickets for regular showings are cheaper than the matinee showings were at Regal and the experience is FAR better. Add to that good food and drink, and it's wins all around.

I realize it's not in their job description, but they chose to take over the only point that everyone has to go through. People can check in online and skip the ticket counter.

It's one thing for a bag that is slightly too big for the overhead on a smaller regional jet, but they're letting through the full sized bags that are blatantly oversized.

I don't know if this is still OK in the United States of Scaredy-cats, but I got on a flight at the first stop (Las Vegas, instead of my booked origin of Salt Lake City) of my booked route without issue when I was on my way home from vacation several years ago.

My last few flights on Delta, they were gate checking bags though to your destination. There was no option to get it back at the next stop.

Frankly, I prefer this since it prevents the massive clusterfuck of people blocking the ramp waiting for their bag while everyone else is trying to get off the plane. A few years ago, you'd only see a dozen or so folks waiting, now it's half the plane since nobody wants to pay the the check bag fee. This wasn't helped by the idjits at the TSA checkpoint allowing bags that were obviously too large through as "carry ons." The security checkpoint should be making those people go back to the ticket counter and check their bags before letting them through.

Google got that fuel at discounted prices by using those planes to do work for NASA. It's not like they just showed up and said 'fill 'er up!' out of the blue.