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Woman claims United forced her to pee in a cup -- (link) - ty97 May 10, 14:29 2
- That's nothing. Man U fans would probably drink it. -- nm - Arsenal!! May 10, 14:33
- Gold Status unlocked. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 14:30
I suppose the reduction in flights & subsequent cancelled airline routes will be good for the environment. 🌎🌈 -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 14:17 2
- They'll redeploy planes to where people fly instead. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 14:18 1
  - Glorious russian airspace. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 14:19
Love this. -- (link) - Beryllium May 10, 14:15
I have two Europe trips in the next few months. I'll definitely take them. I'll leave my laptop home. - ty97 May 10, 14:07 13
- FedEx it -- nm - decline May 10, 14:20
- I'm going to Africa next (through Amsterdam). I'll probably put my laptop in the checked bag. -- nm - pmb May 10, 14:19 3
  - Like you, some people will. I never will. - ty97 May 10, 14:20 2
    - Having it stolen is your concern? -- nm - pmb May 10, 14:22 1
      - My biggest concern. I'm also concerned about damage, as I see how they toss bags around, leave them in the rain, etc -- nm - ty97 May 10, 14:27
- Don't want it in your checked bags? Are you afraid of theft? And does this affect tablets like iPads? -- nm - Mop May 10, 14:17 3
  - We don't know the details yet, but the previous ban was everything larger than a phoen -- nm - ty97 May 10, 14:30
  - Theft, and if it catches fire in the baggage hold like they've been doing in the overheads. -- nm - Meg May 10, 14:28 1
    - Baggage holds theoretically have fire suppression systems, but yeah. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 14:31
- or someone has to invent a portable collapsable screen, mouse & keyboard to plug into your smartphone for travel overseas -- nm* - Peglegpete May 10, 14:16
- And in the middle of all this L.A. is hoping to win the 2024 Olympics. Good luck with that. -- nm - Meg May 10, 14:11 1
  - Yeah.....not gonna happen - ty97 May 10, 14:17
- We have super convenient stores where you can buy a brand new laptop when arriving at your destination, ready to go! -- nm - Apple May 10, 14:08
Well as long as there was a reason -- (link) - Reagen May 10, 14:05 9
- I can see a situation where Trump sincerely believes nothing inappropriate happened and at the same time believes there's nothing inappropriate about - Max May 10, 14:07 8
  - I dont buy any of that. He knew exactly how big of a deal this would be. But he clearly got assurances from the GOP that they would stand by him - Jovian May 10, 14:11 6
    - I think he did underestimate it. They were clearly unprepared for the backlash. Whether the backlash makes a difference or not I don't know. -- nm - pmb May 10, 14:20 5
      - see I dont buy that at all. They are making it appear they werent prepared for the backlash. -- nm - Jovian May 10, 14:21 4
        
        they aren't that good at thinking things through. His staff was blind sided and i honestly think he thought the Dems would be happy and he'd get some - Andie May 10, 14:23 2
        
        Agree with this. And it's because he's so self-absorbed he can't see beyond his own point of view. -- nm - pmb May 10, 14:25 1
        
        This is right. -- nm - David May 10, 14:30
        
        They aren't that good at acting and they look like complete imbeciles. -- nm - pmb May 10, 14:23
  - I think he can in with an overestimation of the President's powers and an underestimation of the work involved. - crash davis May 10, 14:10
In international travel news, this is pretty funny. -- (link) - Beryllium May 10, 14:00
*pays Kelly $11 in unrolled pennies* -- nm - Remlik May 10, 13:54 4
- $9 in pennies, Remlik. I only need $9. -- nm - kelly May 10, 14:07 3
  - don't harsh his buzz, he is just thrilled he counted to 1100. -- nm - groiny May 10, 14:12
  - he needs $2 in change -- nm - Beaker May 10, 14:09 1
    - ^ding -- nm - Remlik May 10, 14:16
The Ms have hit .500! The Ms have hit .500! *runs around room, re-aggravates injury* -- nm - crash davis May 10, 13:53
And frankly, if I'm a terrorist (I'm not FTR), I just route wherever I need to route to avoid the banned routing - ty97 May 10, 13:52 5
- yup -- nm - Beaker May 10, 13:57
- This to me is another reason it is a stupid rule. I completely agree with this. Too many of the rules on this stuff seem aimed at making it look - pmb May 10, 13:54 1
  - SO MUCH security theatre -- nm - ty97 May 10, 14:04
- Or use a non-laptop / tablet vector -- nm - JD May 10, 13:53 1
  - "Son, have you tried NOT being a terrorist?" -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:54
FWIW, the suppositions I've seen (no idea how accurate) is that this is about plans to build a bomb using non-metal or limited metal - ty97 May 10, 13:50 1
- No wonder they're taking away so much leg room. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:51
"The biggest DC sports night in... ever." -- nm - radio May 10, 13:45 1
- forget those silly Super Bowls -- nm - crash davis May 10, 13:50
"pop goes the bubble" says one person about this snapchat number -- (link) - Beryllium May 10, 13:44 1
- (And I see it was posted below) -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:47
pmb. Less American will travel to Europe work leisure/work and vice versa. Emirates has already cut some US flights because of this. -- nm* - ty97 May 10, 13:39 12
- The impact this will have on the economy is so damaging. Goodbye business travel and tourism. -- nm - MDH May 10, 13:43
- Still skeptical. I'm not surprised people would avoid the Middle Eastern countries as some are connection destinations (they'll route around it). - pmb May 10, 13:41 9
  - People in Europe have a choice whether and where to vacation. US is but one choice. They can go elsewhere. -- (edited) - ty97 May 10, 13:45 8
    - My eagerness to travel to the States is way down. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 13:53 1
      - we won't go back for awhile. -- nm - Beaker May 10, 14:10
    - Yep. Unless there's a specific reason for travel to the US, like visiting family or friends, travellers will find alternatives - especially for - Roger More May 10, 13:50 1
      - Yes to your IM -- nm - ty97 May 10, 13:50
    - Your IM is the comment I was going to make. What business in their right mind would allow you to check a laptop? Insane. -- nm - MDH May 10, 13:49
    - When I texted Dawson about this, his response was literally "I won't ever come back to Europe then I guess" -- nm - ty97 May 10, 13:47 2
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        :) -- nm - ty97 May 10, 13:49
- dear ty97: read down the board first. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 13:40
ribeye is on sale at $4.99 a pound. I now have a 10 pound hunk in the spare fridge dry aging until about July 4 -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 13:38 7
- so ST shows up at your house on July 4th? -- nm - crash davis May 10, 13:45 4
  - the sale is at Smiths/Kroger if you have one locally...and you & the Mrs. are invited over anytime. not just 7/4 -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 13:57
  - yes. -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 13:54
  - *shows up on July 3rd with a fork and a smile* -- nm - Will Humping May 10, 13:46 1
    - I bet he has a special travel steak knife. -- nm - crash davis May 10, 13:56
- Nice! I went in to this famous butcher shop on the UES yesterday to possibly get a skirt steak for dinner. It was 1.5 lbs and cost $46. -- (edited) - Krusty May 10, 13:43 1
  - accounting for weight loss and trimming the dry areas, this will cost me $7 a pound at the most -- nm - Peglegpete May 10, 13:55
*twitch* and that's just at the thought of work email going away after 90 days. -- nm - b. May 10, 13:36 2
- the 90 day thing is very odd to me -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:38 1
  - I remember reading that it was being adopted more frequently after the sony madness. -- nm - b. May 10, 13:41
To make up for the business this is going to cost us, we'll go ahead and shrink legroom an additional 18" -- nm - The Airlines May 10, 13:34 2
- *sets weight limit to get on flight to 100 pounds, charge 20 bucks for every 5 pounds over.* -- nm - Airlines May 10, 13:36 1
  - Heh. That'd be interesting. Super low base price and then weight based -- nm - JD May 10, 13:38
SNAP down over 20% in aftermarket trading after disappointing first earnings report. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 10, 13:32 6
- Oh...*whips off sunglasses* SNAP! -- nm - Mel Profit May 10, 13:46
- instagram stories hurt them a lot, but I still prefer sc by far. (that may change with the timer going away and announcement that - b. May 10, 13:39 2
  - I wish there was a better site to share photos. I really dislike Instagram now that I can't view pictures chronologically. - Krusty May 10, 13:46 1
    - deleting because I completely misread. this has the sc updates. nm but: -- (link*) - b. May 10, 14:11
- "Earnings: we had them but then we clicked away!" -- nm - Reagen May 10, 13:36 1
  - heh -- nm - prayformojo May 10, 13:40
I am in a foul mood today so this may not be a big deal, but seriously people - if you are meeting me for a Craigslist transaction, - kelly May 10, 13:25 9
- "No, I don't have $11 on me. But I do have half a Tobinator" -- nm - crash davis May 10, 13:31 8
  - This useless bitch had already stood me up once today. She asked to meet me at 2; at 2:20 I called to see where she was. "Oh, you never got back to me - kelly May 10, 13:51 5
    - This seems appropiate -- (link) - JD May 10, 14:04
    - I'm sorry. You have every right to be pissed. If its any consolation, calling her a useless bitch here made me laugh -- nm - crash davis May 10, 13:55 3
      - She was wearing a boot on one of her feet. Something about getting hurt due to her landlord's negligence, I don't know, I stopped listening. - kelly May 10, 14:11
      - At least be a *useful* bitch. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 14:06 1
        
        otherwise, what is the point of bitchiness? -- nm - crash davis May 10, 14:08
  - "Son, I really like you, but I had to sell you for 11 dollars because I had no change" -- nm - groiny May 10, 13:32 1
    - I love you like a don, but, well you can always have another, but a Maltese falcon, that's once in a lifetime. -- nm - zeitgeist May 10, 19:53
and here's another reason why a cargo hold full of laptops is bad juju -- (link) - Beryllium May 10, 13:22 [youtube] 1
- "My User wants me to go after the MCP." -- nm - laptop May 10, 13:24
Quinnipiac: Voters disapprove (71 to 22 percent) of the way Republicans in Congress do their job; Dems 58 - 34. -- (link) - mara May 10, 13:22 1
- The number that's shocking there is that he's only +1 with whites with no college. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 13:35
I should start marketing a "traveller's kit" with an Intel Compute Stick, micro mouse and roll-up keyboard for travellers -- nm - oblique May 10, 13:22 2
- Yes, I think there's a business potential there. Especially if you can have it waiting at the hotel for folks. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:24 1
  - Forget that. You can put it in your carry-on. It's not a laptop. Looks like a thumb drive and accessories. Now if we could just get those flexible displays :) -- nm* - oblique May 10, 13:25
in important news, The fourth Mariner starting pitcher (Hisashi Iwakuma) has hit the DL this season -- (link) - crash davis May 10, 13:21 1
- Robinson Cano is supposed to be day to day with quad issues, but he is currently 4 for 4 , 2 runs and 3 rbis today -- nm - crash davis May 10, 13:23
OMG THE SKITTLES MOTHER'S DAY COMMERCIAL -- nm - Spawn May 10, 13:20 1
- *Googled it, saw a picture* That's as much as I ever want to see. -- nm - Mop May 10, 14:02
pmb, the choice will be that people avoid travelling to the US. -- nm - Beaker May 10, 13:19 43
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  - People will avoid it so they don't have to check their laptops. I hardly trust baggage handlers with my socks. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 13:40 2
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      - It's not just laptops but tablets too. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 13:54
  - I think you underestimate the rage of parents not being able to give their kids tablets for entertainment -- nm - oblique May 10, 13:27 7
    - It is going to change things and make travel overall suck even more. The question is whether it will deter people from actually making a trip they - pmb May 10, 13:30 6
      - It simply makes the US an even more unwelcoming destination. Why bother with the hassle? -- nm - ty97 May 10, 13:48 4
        
        Again, I'll just say that it's because people have a reason to come here. It may make a difference on the margins but it was going to be a hassle to - pmb May 10, 13:52 3
        
        Sure, travel won't drop to zero. Some will still come. Some won't. - ty97 May 10, 14:05 2
        
        my plane next week only has the drop down ceiling screens for movies (don't get me started). If i didn't have my tablet - Andie May 10, 14:15 1
        
        Yeah, AA has that on some international planes STILL. Delta thankfully has all personal TVs on long haul -- nm - ty97 May 10, 14:31
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  - But surely you see that internationally, your country is coming across as increasingly isolationist and hostile to travellers, no? -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:25 14
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      - I already don't bring my personal laptop to the US, and have gone that route for several years. -- (edited) - Beryllium May 10, 13:32 7
        
        its SAN DIEGO!! - Epiphany May 10, 13:33 6
        
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        If the idea is that it can be used for a bomb, then *anyone* in*any* country could be suspect. -- nm - Reagen May 10, 14:11 1
        
        of course -- nm - Beaker May 10, 14:15
        
        IMO they're going to have to apply it to Canadian-origin flights at some point in time just due to the vagaries of cross-oceanic travel and weather. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:35 1
        
        There haven't been issues with different procedures for different destinations - Reagen May 10, 13:37
        
        You'd definitely start having more fights on planes. -- nm - pmb May 10, 13:35
    - I suspect that if this is really a concern based on intelligence you may see other countries follow suit. Especially if it is actually used somewhere -- nm - pmb May 10, 13:27 4
      - Perhaps, but they didn't follow suit on the first one (other than the UK, in its own form) -- nm - ty97 May 10, 13:49
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        only the UK fell in line with the last ban, so we'll see -- nm - ty97 May 10, 13:51
        
        Didn't the liquids rules start elsewhere first? I thought it began in the UK. -- nm - pmb May 10, 13:33
- I think it's unlikely to be the deciding factor except for purely optional trips. People who need to come for business will come. People who want to - pmb May 10, 13:22 11
  - I think every technical conference will be impacted, to varying degrees. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:23 10
    - Really? Again, this is only transatlantic flights (so far), so I'm not sure there is that much international travel for technical conferences. And - pmb May 10, 13:25 9
      - The last conference I attended in Seattle had 20% speakers from the UK/Europe. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:26 8
        
        My point is they had to place a high value on doing it to make that trip anyway. I doubt people who feel it is valuable enough to make that trip will - pmb May 10, 13:28 7
        
        The international speakers I follow are already holding off on it. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:36 6
        
        We'll see. I'm skeptical it will move the needle. -- nm - pmb May 10, 13:39 5
        
        Well, watch the retail and tourism jobs data over the next 9 months and see how it affects things. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:40 4
        
        Yeah, though it will be somewhat difficult to judge what is causing the impact. The whole Trump and America are xenophobic thing is already hurting - pmb May 10, 13:43 3
        
        ... uh ... it's all the same thing. Reducing the number of people entering the country is the goal of the increased security theatre. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:46 2
        
        I don't get the point. You're suggesting that this rule is simply to cause people to want to not come here as opposed to providing actual security? -- nm - pmb May 10, 13:56 1
        
        If not the primary purpose, in no way seen as a negative by those in charge. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:59
- This is what I'm saying. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:20 1
  - People need to meet/conference online more anyway. -- nm - mara May 10, 13:24
- organized crime are going to have a field day stealing checked bags -- nm - Beaker May 10, 13:20 1
  - SIGINT are going to have a field day rooting hardware. -- nm - Beryllium May 10, 13:21
*starts a Go Fund Me page to pay for the umbrellas to put in the drinks at that party* -- nm - groiny May 10, 13:19
Laptops can travel in cargo, sure. I don't trust that. -- nm - ty97 May 10, 13:17
*aggressive air quotes* -- nm - Diva May 10, 13:17 1
- "rockstar" yes you are. -- nm - Dr. Evil May 10, 13:18

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