No, people started doing that long before those days. Since the early 1980's, I would always avoid checked baggage so it would make the airport arrival much less of a hassle, not having to go to baggage claim and wait for the suitcase-go-round. Also, then I could go out the "Departures" level which was completely un-crowded when all the traffic was at the "Arrivals" area level, and jump into my prearranged ride. Unless I had a very large suitcase, for a trip of over a week, I would never check luggage. Plus, it avoided the "lost luggage" horror completely that way.

Of course, eventually that led to jerk-offs trying to bring their entire baggage as carry-on, even if they had 3-4 bags per person. This led to over-stuffed bins and extended boarding and leaving sessions, so after it got to a certain obnoxious level, the airlines started first limiting the size and number of carry-ons, then eventually charging for them.

You're talking to one now. A long time ago, back in the 1980's, I went to San Mateo, and my luggage went to San Jose. That sucked - it took the airline about 3 days to track down, find my suitcase, and deliver it to my hotel. Luckily, I was staying 2 weeks, and I had (very little) extra cash to go buy a pair of underwear and socks, a toothbrush and a coat (it was a bit cold in the evenings at the time). I used to travel frequently back then for work, and this was the only time in hundreds of flights they ever got it wrong, but holy crap, what an inconvenience!

I'm guessing that due to economies of scale, the more popular and longer routes are run more, so since there's more of them and more competition, they drive the prices down on them. The shorter in-between flights aren't as popular so they are more "Specialized" and cost more?

Me neither.

"Steaming" would be more appropriate for this turd...

(Waves Hand)

These are not the assholes you are looking for...

So they weren't as malicious as possible, that gives them a pass somehow?

"If you don't do what we want, we WON'T do it again!"

There, FTFY.

Awww, you're so cute when you're trying to act all grown up like that.

I'll name one thing wrong - you posted at all. People like you do nothing but exacerbate problems. You take a joke and turn it into seething political flamebait, spewing the Fox News Greatest Hits soundbytes as you go. Do you think YOU added anything but bile and hate to the conversation? It was about astronomy, in case you forgot and were distracted by your own stupid, unnecessary commentary.

Spare us next time you get the urge to post, and just fuck off, AC troll.

OK, that makes more sense - thank you. Then again, what did I expect from an article with "lakes of water that is methane"? I am a fan of exoplanetary research, so I am familiar with most of what you said. However, the "full of oil" came out of left field and threw me momentarily...

Also what makes them think there's oil there? Would that not have required having life there that died and rotted away and got buried for centuries??

The Fox News runs deep within this disciple. Let the hate flow, flow, let it consume you so your descent into the dark side is complete...

And what happens to you when you sell fake dope to the mafia? You get taken out, kind of like, you know, what happened to them? *harumpf* *cough*... Maybe Kim Jong Un got pissed he wasted an hour downloading a file full of anti-piracy ads!

The whole lame-brained idea of dilution of the "stolen" or "illegal" product, so "buyers" won't know if they are getting the "genuine illegal" product or not is not going to stop anyone, and usually people with half a brain will know approximate file sizes, so they won't waste their time trying to download a 3 GB MP3 file... Duh...

They were used on belt-driven tables, too. I have a Thorens that is belt-drive and it has a strobe.

Actually the grid frequency is very stable, it has to be, so that generators going on and off-line don't fight for dominance against the "inertia" of the grid (a Bad Thing). Any variation in the grid frequency would cause a change in the strobe speed, not the turntable speed, but would give (very slightly) incorrect readings due to that. However, the grid varies only +/- 0.1 Hz on the average, so that tiny difference would not be noticeable by most people. With a scope or a frequency counter, maybe...

Usually, not. The cheap idler-wheel and C-Frame motor (think BSR) turntables had AC synchronous motors, and could not have their speed adjusted short of changing the AC electrical grid frequency, and that ain't gonna happen. Those were fixed speed, but had different "gearing" ratios to provide multiple speeds.

Yes, I positioned it highly so it would be seen. However, you don't get Karma from humor., so get some Karma of your own!

Butthurt? ITHINKSO. Until your moronic karma-jealous comment hit, mine was pretty much being ignored... So, thanks!

Not to mention how the hell are we gonna clean weed on CD covers or iPods?

You could de-seed a whole oz. in 5 minutes on a good double album and a card back in the day.

But then, the weed today isn't half seeds like it used to be, either...