cafebabe's Friends

Td;lr: Married couple finds their seats in economy class taken up by a sleeping man. By courtesy they just sit down on seats three rows away which happened to be in economy plus class on a flight which is half empty. They asked to upgrade but were refused and then headed to their assigned seats. However by then the airline had decided that they were rule breakers and must be thrown off regardless.

Details: United Airlines flight number 1737 on 2017-04-15. George Bush Intercontinental Airport (Houston, Texas) on Saturday to Liberia, Costa Rica.

Last time after the second incident, the stock took a fall from 69.8 to 69 US$ (UAL). One can ask how much this will cost in market value decimation? and customers dropping them? what will the economist and MBA, CEO, Oscar Muñoz say?

Soylent Upgrade Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey extension v13

Posted by takyon on Friday April 14 2017, @08:38AM (#2300)
8 Comments

SKIP TO THE COMMENTS

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Judge Found Dead in the Hudson River

Posted by takyon on Thursday April 13 2017, @04:33PM (#2299)
0 Comments

First African-American Female Judge On New York's Top Court Found Dead

Abdus-Salaam became the first female Muslim to serve as a U.S. judge when she joined the New York State Supreme Court in 1994, according to Zakiyyah Muhammad, the founding director of the Institute of Muslim American Studies, as quoted in The Times.
In 2013, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., appointed her to the state's highest court, known as the Court of Appeals.
[...] The Court of Appeals has been on recess since the end of last month. The court is due back in session in less than two weeks.
Abdus-Salaam received her law degree from Columbia Law School, where she attended classes with Eric Holder, the former U.S. attorney general.

Police Believe New York Judge Found in Hudson River Committed Suicide

Completely Irrelevant Information

Posted by takyon on Tuesday April 11 2017, @07:20PM (#2296)
8 Comments

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UNITED_PASSENGER_REMOVED?SITE=SCAND&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

The man dragged from a full United Express flight by airport security officers in Chicago is a Kentucky physician who was convicted more than a decade ago of felony charges involving his prescribing of drugs.
But David Dao's unflattering history quickly became the focus of attention, even though there's no indication that his past influenced how he was treated or that the airline or airport police were aware of his background.
Dao, who is 69 and lives in Elizabethtown, did not return messages from The Associated Press, which has confirmed that he is the man who can be seen on the cellphone videos taken by other passengers Sunday night at O'Hare Airport.

U.S. government scientists recommends geoengineering studies

Posted by kaszz on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:49PM (#2295)
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U.S. should pursue controversial geoengineering research, federal scientists say for first time

The United States government office that oversees federally funded climate research has recommended studies into two areas of geoengineering research, marking the first time scientists in the executive branch have formally called for studies in the controversial field. The move, part of a climate science planning report sent today to Congress, will likely further normalize discussion of deliberate tinkering with the atmosphere to cool the planet, and of directly collecting carbon from the sky, both topics once verboten in the climate science community.

Geoengineering is discussed in two paragraphs in the 119-page plan.

Scientists, often working on their own time have published hundreds of theoretical or modeling papers with plans for sun blocking to carbon extraction. But National Science Foundation declined funding. Peter Eisenberger’s proposed demonstration of a carbon extraction machine fared poorly since the department’s carbon-capture program focuses on coal.

What could go wrong.... *duck*

Life everywhere: Break the ice

Posted by takyon on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:46AM (#2293)
6 Comments

Prospects for life in solar system are good as amino acids and water ice seem ubiquitous in asteroid belt and nearing a dozen subsurface liquid ocean worlds

List of largest lakes and seas in the Solar System

Life "on" (inside) Europa, Enceladus? Sheeeeeeit, you can have it on Dione, Titania, Oberon, or Triton. Or maybe Pluto, Charon, Orcus, Makemake, Eris, Sedna... etc.

And if there are no life forms in these places, then you can quench your thirst (as long as you live there too).

School, best way to handle it?

Posted by kaszz on Saturday April 08 2017, @06:02PM (#2292)
12 Comments

Considering that the article "Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education". Really paints a bleak picture when one reads the comments. It seems the system is designed to screw you regardless how you act.

So if you were to start elementary or high school right now. What advice would you have wanted?

Run away and study the GPA in a cottage for 10 years?

What is the gold tips that makes school way easier to handle and still come out with grades enough for university without becoming an empty machine?

Social media prank leads 11-year-old to suicide

Posted by takyon on Friday April 07 2017, @09:58PM (#2290)
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11-Year-Old Boy Kills Himself After Alleged Social Media Prank — and Another Child Is Charged

Michigan boy, 11, hangs himself after social media prank

The juvenile is being charged with malicious use of telecommunication services and using a computer to commit a crime.

11-Year-Old Boy Killed Himself After Girlfriend Faked Suicide, Mom Says

Goss said the girl and some of her friends orchestrated the prank. It was not clear who faces charges. "She had pranked her own death," Goss, 41, said of her son's girlfriend. "I don't know what possessed her to do such a weird prank. It's a twisted, sick joke." The unnamed juvenile is being charged in Marquette County with telecommunication services-malicious use and using a computer to commit a crime, Marquette city police Capt. Michael Kohler said in a news release.

Trump: Bad for Gun Sales

Posted by takyon on Monday April 03 2017, @08:07PM (#2285)
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Oops: 'Democrats Are Good For Gun Sales': Guess What Happened After Trump's Election

Since Trump's election, background checks have fallen three straight months from year-ago levels. And shops like Nova Firearms in McLean, Va., have detected a notable drop in sales of certain types of weapons such as AR-15 military-style semi-automatic rifles. During the heat of the campaign, says salesman Tom Jenkins, the shop couldn't keep those weapons in stock. Customers were worried the rifles would be singled out for a ban by Hillary Clinton.
"During the political crisis we had dozens of them downstairs, and then there would be zero. And it would go again and then go again. And right up to the election, literally, brought them in, brought them up and sold them."
Since Trump's victory those guns aren't moving nearly as fast, says Jenkins, pointing to five AR-15 style weapons on a rack behind the counter of the shop. He says it's a certain type of customer whose buying decisions are influenced by politics.
"The hunter doesn't care who's president. The revolver shooter or the target shooter or the competition shooter really didn't care who was president. It's the self-defense market and the people think certain guns may be tied to politics."
[...] On the day after the election shares of gun maker Sturm Ruger fell 14 percent. And the price of Smith & Wesson, which has since changed its name to the generic sounding American Outdoor Brands, fell 15 percent. Shares of both companies are still down, in contrast to the overall stock market, which has enjoyed big post-election gains. All of this points to that weird dynamic in the gun business.

Give it time?

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