What could possibly go wrong?
Extra fuel is joining peanuts and magazines on the list of things American Airlines wants to ditch at the gate. The airline announced plans this week to save cash by using “scientifically precise” computer models to load less fuel. If pilots want more, they’ll need to submit a request in writing.
Jaw, meet floor. To be fair to Fox News, at least they had one dissenting panelist who scoffed at the idea that oil was just in a "few isolated patches", and that nature could take care of it. Frankly, the moment Brit asked "Where’s the oil?" I would have informed him it’s in his skull, where his brain should be.
I post this because Singapore is dealing with its own oil spill now too. Obviously its an order of magnitude smaller than what BP managed to do in the US, but given Singapore is barely the size of a country town in land area the effects are being felt all over the place. The smell, mostly :P.
This has nothing to do with computer science or software or anime, but when Alex Sadlier shared this in Google Reader I just had to comment on it.
I want the car culture to fall down tomorrow, and I no longer care who knows it. I want the end of single-occupant vehicles, and the end of suburbs that force us to drive 30 or 40 miles to get to a job.
Newt and Calista Gingrich, please report to the south coast of the US for cleanup duty.
The problem isn’t that you’re paying too much for petrol Newt, its that you’d rather spend time and effort drilling in the middle of the friggen ocean instead of developing alternatives, all under a thin veil of patriotism. Any temporary reduction in prices would only provide temporary relief, and would do nothing to solve either the energy crisis of which you speak, or energy independence.
I’m assuming he wasn’t being sarcastic, if you were sir then please disregard.
Reuters: Has the Times Square bomb scare in New York City made you rethink your travel plans?
No.
Anyone who’s changed their minds, I’d be more than happy to take your flight and hotel reservations off your hands. Visit RubenSchade.com for my contact details. Cheers.
While rational, logical people with common sense, decency and a sense of humour are doing their bit to discredit the increasingly scary self described "teabaggers" in the United States, I reckon I have the ultimate rebuttal.
This isn’t a technology related story, but then again Avatar had a lot of fancy CGI depicting floating mountain things and this is about something just as plausible in the real world. Emphasis added by me:
I know we’re all bored to tears with American healthcare reform analysis, but someone against the bill tweeted me this afternoon with a message I think summaries the debate pretty damn well.
I’m taking a break from anime backgrounds for a while (stop the presses!) for this photo taken of the Dequindre Cut in Detroit of all places!
This isn’t a technology or cute anime story, but I felt compelled to comment on it. Here’s the link to the story, and here’s the comment: Dick Cheney is a war criminal and should be tried as such in a civilian court. He didn’t want to give full civilian court rights to suspected terrorists, but I’m a reasonable person.
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