This article is bad and you should feel bad. This has the potential to be an incredible tool and Ballmer could have just bought the data to make another billion. Instead, he’s giving it away so people can learn if they choose. How are you snarky about this?

Man does good thing. Blog that agrees with his conclusions mocks him anyways.

Yeah Burnaby. I’m pretty sure the Metro Vancouver RCMP highway patrol is HQ’d there.

You’d think with all the panel gaps, ventilation would be fantastic.

There is no way the flight crew let’s a dude rack out couch style during taxi and takeoff. This couple sounds totally full of it to me. If they went back to their seats peacefully no way they get removed. They are lying their asses off in my opinion.

It makes a difference because the guy sitting in 21A, who paid a bunch of money to be upgraded, will feel ripped off if they just let random people sit next to him. Also, United tries not to fill the economy plus middle seats unless the plane is full, and economy plus purchasers know that, so they would be taking away…

IDK.

I’m maybe (actually, “probably”) giving Barkley too much credit here, but I took his comments to mean “we shouldn’t be sitting here looking in at his grief. It’s wrong, this guy needs to be with his family, not thrust into being a spectacle for thousands in person, and millions on TV.” Which is how I felt. Maybe he…

This was a really special team. They were sitting at 11 and goddamn 30 with no hope of a turnaround and every excuse to quit, in a league that has gotten to the point where tanking on one end and resting players on the other is encouraged. The NBA landscape is ripe for teams to give up individual games and entire…

No, the passenger wasn’t wrong. When flights are overbooked people are usually denied before the gate. He got his boarding pass so he was allowed on the plane. You can’t force someone who is on the plane to leave without a good reason. This is only made worse by the fact that he had to leave his seat for United…

As I pointed out elsewhere they do have the right to overbook, and they do have the right to deny boarding as a result of overbooking. However, the way their contract of carriage is written, I’m fairly sure that they don’t have the right to remove someone who has already boarded (at least not just because they’re…

It’s their plane. They’re allowed to kick anyone off a flight for whatever reason. Yes, they have to refund you, yes it is a shitty thing to do but that is how business works.

I’ve posted this in another thread, but it needs to be said anywhere this incident is covered:

If tiny business suits are the only other things besides leggings in a 10 year olds wardrobe, sure? Obviously this was something that her parents should have handled, the responsibility isn’t the 10 year olds. But the fact of the matter is: when using a free ticket, you abide by the rules of the free ticket. If it…

What’s especially despicable about United is the fact that this latest jaw-dropping incident doesn’t seem out of the ordinary for the airline. It was just a couple of weeks ago that United refused to allow three young girls to board their flight, because they were wearing leggings. United didn’t apologize for that…

OK, this is bullshit, they overbooked the flight and I promise you there was a way to compensate a passenger to willingly get off the airplane. $2K? $10K? A first class flight to Paris for two and a hotel voucher? Charter a private jet to take their 4 employees that absolutely had to be there? There was a solution to…

[Tim Tebow hits a home run]

The U.S. Navy, by contrast, calls its small carriers “amphibious assault ships.”

Let’s remember some chokers:

the well mannered Kirk Cousins just politely asked, never demanded.