Comment State trade war. Let's go. (Score 1) 294
Tesla sales banned in Michigan? OK. Ford and General Motors sales banned in California. California's auto market is six times the size Michigan's.
Tesla sales banned in Michigan? OK. Ford and General Motors sales banned in California. California's auto market is six times the size Michigan's.
The safety spiel is pointless theater. Please suggest one example where the outcome of an emergency would have been significantly different if nobody had listened to the safety speech. They exist only to give a false belief that you can survive a real plane emergency. Air travel is statistically safer than driving, but if a plane goes down, you are dead. Your corpse will yard sale or burn up, usually both, in that order. (Carlin said it best: "In the event of a water landing...doesn't that sound an awful lot like CRASHING INTO THE OCEAN!")
Also, the safety spiel is just a disclaimer to shield airlines from "The tray attacked me!" lawsuits.
The function of flight attendants is to babysit adults for a couple hours and deal with "problem passengers." The safety spiel lets attendants believe their role is more important than it is, so their union wants to preserve the silly exercise.
Of course! Just bomb climate change into submission. Why didn't we think of this sooner?
'Murrica.
are statistically less prone to separation forces inherent in the system.
(A related study claims that weeks beginning with a dose of python are 42% more likely to contain mirth.)
do you have a shit eating grin?
I made a jammer to block mobile phone conversations that I don't want clogging public spectrum. Of course, it doesn't block my conversations.
For UK and European readers, "the size of Delaware" is just a tad more than a fourth of "the size of Wales".
That exchange rate keeps plummeting. When I was a kid, you could get two Wales for a Delaware.
Pray I do not alter them again.
I'm too Xy for this post.
...it's the only way to be sure.
Agreed.
What's that? They got Ebola too?
spies!
Google Intertubes Exploder 6 (TM) is tightly integrated with your Andoid operating system. Attempting to uninstall it will void your warranty, the screen will get scratched, the phone will prank call your Aunt, the battery will burst into flames, and you will get a bad case of athlete's foot.
Apple engineers unable to plug Bono's analog hole.
Nuke it from orbit (quit and find a more promising job.) Its the only way to be sure (escape the cubicle before the concrete hardens.)
Notch.
Hackers of the world, unite!