Comment Free Republic? Not exactly the best "source". (Score 1) 346
How about directly linking to the article instead of the commentary?
How about directly linking to the article instead of the commentary?
DFW looks terrible. Separate buildings and across the street from each other. Plus the terminals are curved. So you have to walk a long way around and then over a bridge.
They have a bidirectional train line that links them all. For all the concourses they have, it makes things quite well.
ATL is all perfectly straight. You can go between opposite ends of the airport in like 10 minutes. Going from B to C is like 30 seconds by train, or like 2 minutes by walking fast on the moving sidewalks.
That helps if you're flying Delta, but doesn't help if you're not.
As opposed to a hub-like arrangement (DFW), ATL has a series of long concourses linked by that tunnel. If you manage to have one flight on one concourse, and it's clear on the end of the other one, you'll see the problem as clear as day.
Given that Snowden's endangered the country in ways not unlike Bergdahl, bringing him to court is the only way to get the truth. That, and overwhelming evidence against him still is a fair trial - while he thinks he's entitled to an unfair trial in his favor.
For that, I stand with America by standing with the efforts to bring him in. If anything, it should also mean that anyone that meets him (or gains knowledge of exact whereabouts) but does not turn him is fit to be considered aiding a fugitive.
Given that they would do such to secure his stay, it would be the simplest explanation to say he did.
Excellent/efficient airport layout/design
Try having to go from one concourse to another, then you'll find out that it's not so good.
As I've said upthread, ATL could learn from DFW on how to do a large airport while minimizing travel between gates.
Given the layout of ATL, going from one concourse to another (especially if you go between a civilized airline and Delta) requires a trip to one people-mover that unnecesarily increases the distance. Perhaps they could take a lesson from somewhere like DFW and fix that.
If I want online access, my phone does it quite well.
The only American content in those cars is the fact that they use permatemps to assemble Japanese-designed cars. They're the manufacturing equivalent of guest workers.
Perhaps when the put a bit more car in
Also competition makes us all better. Why are we afraid of a little competition?
Not if businesses are only seeking the most compliant party, not the most competent party.
It's why the US first sought slaves, then Southerners, then Mexicans, and then the rest of the Third World. It's also why businesses want contractors, which gives union-type protections to employers against their own workforce. Workers are more easily controlled in those countries versus developed countries like the US, UK, Western Europe(although contract-based hiring doesn't help), and Australia.
No, guest worker systems on the whole represent anti-citizen fraud. They're the 21st Century version of indentured servants.
The tax law isn't the problem, it's that guest worker systems incentivize fraud. Get rid of that first, then you can talk taxes.
Just because the evidence is not going to be remotely in your favor doesn't mean you won't get a fair trial. That, and given what he has done, solitary confinement for ~30 years is relatively light compared to execution. That, and if they finally decide to prosecute people that have helped him, without regard to profession, they might not get too bad of a deal.
On the other hand, what Snowden and his friends are asking to not have a fair trial, since they want exceptions here and there. In addition, there were people unfortunate enough to lose clearances to his actions yet they will not get the same ability to call that privilege.
As for taking pictures of people without their knowing or recording everything it's just not happening.
The latter can be fixed, just that Google wants to make the regular Glass a boring device with all the interesting functions already removed.
That, and it's not like such a command could be changed to be less obtrusive (such as an eye blink pattern).
You either need to have you hand up near your head tapping it or saying "ok glass, take photo". It is actually a lot easier to take an unobtrusive photo with a phone. Where the camera comes into its own is taking photos while you are holding something with both hands. That and the ability to stream what your phone is seeing to the tethered phone - this means you can get a second set of eyes on things if you wanted.
This would get around the Google Glass's unwarranted block on face recognition - just stream raw data out and have Something Else do the interpretation and feedback.
That's enough for an overlay of game-related information - which could go one step further than things like the Logitech G15
If not for the intentional block surrounding face recognition and the general lack of availability, Glass would have a better chance at succeeding.
Instead of having a heavily controlled device, how about letting a large amount of users figure it out? That way, you'd have less comments about Glassholes and more people really exploring the bounds of what *can* be done with it, not what *should* be done.
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