The price may or may not be reasonable, depending on your budget, though it definitely is for a non-trivial number of people, but the Tesla Model S fulfills the other requirements today.

My Nissan LEAF doesn't, though it's still a very practical car that easily manages all but a small fraction of my driving.

"Failure to comply with the orders" of a flight attendant, gate attendant, or just about any other airline employee while in any area they "control" (e.g., the airplane, the gate, etc.) is a felony in the US.

So, yeah, it's "police state stuff", because these people know they have that kind of power.

Do you seriously think that she would have reacted the same way (pull him off the plane and ask him to delete the tweet) if she had let the kids join him and he tweeted positively about how great she is at customer service?

The situation would be identical in that she would be named personally and an opinion would be stated about her. Just because that opinion might be a "bad" one doesn't give her the right to use her very real authority to attempt to bully him into retracting the post.

So if he had named her in a tweet full of praise, it would be OK? Wouldn't she then feel threatened that wackos might want to propose to her because she's such a great person? He's not responsible for what other people might do in regards to a truthful but opinionated twitter post, regardless of whether that post is positive or negative.

I would be OK with your idea if she only requested that he remove her name from the post, and explained her personal discomfort. If she then also offered contact information for her supervisor so that he could complain about her personally if he wished, that would have been just about the perfect way to react. But, none of this should have involved pulling him off the plane. That was done solely as leverage to get her way.

As others have pointed out, "failing to follow the instructions of a airline/TSA/whatever employee" when at an airport is a felony in the US. Thus, if he refused to remove the tweet, he technically could have been arrested.

Whenever the government says "you can't do X" and "X" is exercising one of your inalienable rights, it's a Constitutional issue, which in this case is 1st Amendment.

Surprisingly, Southwest has some of the lowest prices and still allows you to check up to two bags (up to 50 lbs. each) for free.

Actually, I suspect that he felt that instead of boarding first and then saving the seats for his kids (which the flight attendants will let you do), he felt that letting them board at the same time would have the same net effect on other passengers but allow him to keep his kids with him the whole time.

No, SW doesn't tell you this when you line up, and specifically allows "families" to board together first. In addition, for groups that don't qualify as a "family" that have different boarding assignments, the flight attendants have no problem with the first persons to board saving seats in the same rows for later people. They won't let you save random seats all over the aircraft, though.

There are dozens of solutions that the gate attendant could have chosen that would have resulted in the man feeling he had received good customer service and thus never posting a bad review. After the tweet was out there, the gate attendant then chose the very worst method to try to resolve the situation in her (but not Southwest Airlines) favor.

Thank you!!!

This is exactly what I've been waiting for, even if this first version only supplies a single diopter of focal plane adjustment:

Since orienteering maps are _very_ detailed I normally require +2 or more bifocal glasses in order to see all the fine detail clearly.

There is also a potential problem with the size of the lens: The visual opening is smaller than a natural or fixed replacement lens so the problem with night vision would still be there.

OTOH, this also means that the research is ongoing, I'm hoping for even better options in a few years. :-)

Terje

"Truth" You've obviously never seen the UK series Airline. Agents gladly *cause* people to miss flights. Never piss an agent off. They didn't criticize the company, but the company's agent. She got them back. oops, missed your flight.

It is when the same incompetence in the private sector isn't condemned.

Was the baby a citizen? I thought the rules were any legally-born child (not to an illegal entrant) was a citizen. And that was another reason they kicked them out more recently. But those rules also changed between your time here and mine. I just didn't follow too closely, as they didn't affect me.

Old rancher's saying: "Men fight over land, but they kill for water."

Unless your distance vision is *really* bad, to the point where you can't make out the target at all, distance vision doesn't have much impact on shooting. In a proper sight picture you should be focused on the front sight, and you also need the rear sight to be clear enough that you can verify precise alignment. The target will always be blurry, so having it a little blurrier because of nearsightedness isn't typically a problem.

I often tell the older shooters I teach to wear their reading glasses. Not only does the improved sight alignment help, but I think the inability to see the target clearly strongly discourages them from trying to focus on it, which helps even more.

You'd never see that if Mobile did a new middleware upgrade that wasted $300M and never worked.

And the issue here isn't Lockheed Martin's incompetence in delivering the contract, but the Government's in poorly managing a vendor.

The hypocrisy is that the government is always blamed.