Yes, cause rocking the boat in an airport is a good idea.

Do you want to give the TSA more reason to be even more ridiculous?

Don't lie.

You'll pick the most convenient time or cheapest price, regardless of the airline company.

How do you let him go from being a father? take his kids away, kill them or kill him?

If he showed the agent before he boarded, surely if it was her being rude, she would have stopped them boarding.

If that was the case, the delay suggests she informed her supervisors and they made the decision to remove them from the plane.

Most strollers are too big to take as carry on.

http://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/cabin-baggage

It would be a very small stroller to fit in those size limits. They do make them but they're not too common. They fold up like those bags with pull out handles and wheels.

Depends on the size of the adult.

Maybe it's different in USA but there are size and weight limits for carry on luggage in New Zealand.

Where I'm from they ask the people seated at the rear of the plane to board first, so the people who stand around in the isles trying to put their carry on in the overhead compartment only hold up half a plane's worth of people at a time, not all of them.

Anyone who takes longer to get their shit together should either be boarded well before anyone else or after everyone else.

You mean SWA should be charged with extortion? She was acting on behalf of the company.

Are you left handed?

Managers where I work usually get iPads.

All they can do in addition to Facebook and other web browsing is browse the intranet (which nobody really does anyway) and check email. They already get emails on their Blackberry's and use them more often.

Pretty much a corporate toy.

The summary makes it out that the decision to repeal Australia's carbon taxes was a bad one.
It was a horribly broken system that didn't work.

If you accept that, then this "He writes that this action from the US Congress is worse even than the Australian government's move to cancel their carbon tax" becomes the same as "He writes that this action from the US Congress is worse even than a spark of sanity from the Australian Government"

GP was talking about a battery.

Protip: Read before you post. Stops you looking like an idiot.

It's hard to make a battery explode, releasing the stored energy because it has no readily available oxidiser.

TNT has a built-in oxidiser, so when it's burnt under pressure the fuel can ignite quick enough to cause a supersonic flame front.

Sure, you can make a battery explode by heating it up. But you can also make CO2 bottle explode too. The energy of the explosion isn't the burning of the any fuel, it's the release of the pressure. You might get a fireball from the battery as the chemicals burn with their new found oxygen in the atmosphere, but that's not going to be part of the explosion - it's not going to be burning faster than the speed of sound so will not create a shock wave.

It's ok Pluto, I'm not a planet either :(