they can stay 1st class if I am one class extra above it (that would be what - business class?). Would that be ok?

What is the difference between religious, political and non affiliated wackos?

Their shit goes kaboom - so it is us who should worry.

Which leader do you exactly mean? I think you should clearly call them as all leaders of major countries possibly involved in this discussion (i.e. about space travel) did and continue doing bizarre things. Each one in one's own little way of course but still.

Two things.
One is this: nature does not work like you guys think it does. Its power is in producing apparently senseless types like us mama's basement dwellers because they may at some point in time be important for survival of the species. As unlikely as it may sound to you. If that were not so we would not have gays among us because they would be die off. We still have them around.
Second thing is this: I am a basement type (have my own by now), I dislike social environs because they confuse me and I see no point in casual conversations in such setups, most of the normalos do not enjoy conversations with me all that much either so all is well. Yet I managed to get involved 'romantically' anyway and to pass on my genes. Well to be true I did not run the test so I just think I did - still I had some warm body to play with and reproduce. I returned to my basement years ago and go out only for exercise, work, food acquisition and some such, I also give up my basement life style when kids are around. So both things happen - random deviation in how genetic makeup works produce all different sorts of beasts and even the least attractive beast (from the perspective of majority) can find another beast ready to cooperate in reproduction like activities that, even if only accidentally, may actually produce offspring.

Not sure if we think the same entertainment industry but there is always an issue with STD or if you have family STI. Use of drugs in entertainment industry is also a huge problem. Not sure how huge your income should be to cover for those.

Worked few months with some studenst and post grads last 2years - what is this commodity programming skills that you speak of? The advice about local work is good.

You mean they make most of elements somewhere, ship it to the building site and then assemble - improved efficacy I admit although I would not want to live in first few generations of such houses made in china. My understanding of what you trying to say is that (besides assembling workforce needing a plumber or two as well) in case one pipe in this building starts leaking you just replace the whole building? Because in unlikely case if you want to rather fix the fcking. pipe you will need a plumber or you just live with the shit just leaking to your neighbour - I guess that is an option too. Ach I forgot - you can of course skip all the pipes. Heating can be done with electricity, washing and shedding waste moved outside. Well done. Did not think of it.

I worked in different software houses for quorter of a century and I have seen many people, even young people taken to a hospital from the floor because they could not move due to back pain. I also have seen some just falling unconscious and never coming back too. Back pain is only sometimes caused by heavy lifting. Usually life style choices and lack of fitness and proper technique at lifting is a problem. Wrong bad is also a factor. It is a quite physical job at times but unless leeches make you do more than you can and you do not take care of your body, you are good. As in any other job brains are important. Cohders may be good at coding but that is monkey job anyway - you need much more to stay on top of things. Taking care of fitness of your body and mind is your task - IT or plumbing.
OC if you work in an uranium ore mine in china or wolfram mine in Andes and your wage is only good for a bit of food then this is different. It has nothing to do with job itself but with pay and work conditions. That is why offshoring actually works in many cases. You offshore jobs to countries with lots of desperate people, not much legal rights for workers, no rules for environmental protection - you save on all these costs. Plumbing is in a sense the same as any other job. Skill and organization of your work is vital. You cannot work for leeches of course as emptyheads will suck all juice out of you and dump you as soon as their last offshoring bonus went up in the nose or out trough the door with a hooker. You need to learn other things, new tools in plumbing there are new materials too. At some point you can become Master and let other 'help' you.
Claims that plumbing does not work are exaggerated. It does - you just have to do it right. It is the same with being a lawyer. There are many lawyers that do not earn enough too because they went on to do family law in some odd place.

You mean Sweden or France? Just wondering. It is of course OT but interesting anyway - delegalizing prostitution in any way is just a scam like war on drugs is - it is self propelling process in which all wrongs, that are done while executing it, are blamed on others so that more power is given to the executor.

Not sure if that is true. My body was deteriorating too and I worked in 'IT' - the reason was the ugly bitch standing in the way of all things that can be good for you including forcing common TV sessions so that we enjoy time together which I hated for the brainlessness of TV shows. Bitch is gone, money too but with limited amount of care I went back to reasonable levels of fitness. Stopped drinking too so my doctors tell me I am better than the average 30yo. Most of people doing 'plumbing' that I know are doing things in a very unhealthy way and they eat shit that makes them fat. No wonder that when they are 40, they cannot catch breath for 10mins after fetching a beer from fridge. We are not talking working in a coal mine either. Besides it already works like this. Most of the guys in the corp I work for bread and butter live well but that is probably only half of them only. Most of the families in settlement I live in have income coming not from high eduction jobs. Some do but that is a minority. Most of them do exactly what has been said - do 'plumbing' etc become a master and others work for your or because you are a specialist you do only your special well paid and not so tough on your body thing. Works for most of them it seems. Bottom line is this - if you stay at the bottom of a ladder you are most likely fcked but even there with little brains you can manage. Only you cannot let the leeches do what is common in IT - doing more and more job for the same money while not even being allowed to improve your work environment to make it possible without extending work day. The same as in IT actually. The emptyheads in your software house will lay you off eventually. This is unavoidable. Each company goes trough offshoring phase as it goes trough down sizing - cost cutting phase etc.When it goes better you start using slack to look for a new job. Has a chance to go well as long as your team at home is on your site and you do not fall for becoming loyal to your company and some other bullshit like this. There is no real reason why we are here on this planet - your life purpose is to live with possibly little pain and suffering and enough good time - loyalty to your company is not anywhere there. If going gets tough and you see no escape, being old and sick is not nice especially if it is not your fault to become sick - think if you cannot take some asshole politician or drug dealer at local school to the grave with you without harming bystanders - at least you go with a bang. Other than that 'plumbing' job is as good for your body and mind as your average IT job is.

The linked article (about Berlin Tegel) is simply wrong or at least confusing. Berlin Tegel is an old airport within city limits that was supposed to be closed when new Berlin Brandenburg airport opened. As the later data is not in sight thanx to incompetence, political corruption, changing requirements and some other disasters the old airport is still open and its opening dates are like weather - change. Take any other airport if you want to show successful creation of a new airport outside city limits replacing an old one within.

Everybody makes mistakes. But I had to work with shit made by OMA 'experts' on other issues and quite frankly if I got my hands on them they would be running around: without balls and smeared in tar and feathers. The OMA specs or at least those few I have seen are abomination - hyperlinked documentation written by people with attention span of a chicken after its head been cut off. I actually have no problem believing the security hole is as big as said in TFA.

I knew I was missing something - thank you!
No day is complete without paying respect to the great leaders of this world.

I do not mind their models of business whichever which way - license fee for buying products or license fee for using - I do not have any. Corp I work for may have issue with that tho if more money is spent on it and/or if more problems are created this way. Then again they outsourced all infrastructure anyway so it is subcontractor that have to deal with this shit. I do not mind if they switch to linux or whatever is out there as long as browser, mailer, wireshark and eclipse work there.