New regs on electronic devices on aircraft

Den mandag den 7. juli 2014 00.15.02 UTC+2 skrev Cursitor Doom:

from what I read all electronic devices will have to be turned on to show they are working, so if you laptop or cellphone has run out of battery, too bad you have to leave it behind ...

and this:

-Lasse

There's so much hassle and delay in flying that I simply drive to any project located between Santa Barbara and Austin. ...Jim Thompson

Is Santa Barbara as beautiful as ever, Jim, or has it become slum-central for illegal immigrants?

I haven't been there in a couple of years, but I'd expect that they don't take kindly to illegal immigrants... although UCSB is another one of those nut-case California universities... who knows what they might do ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Same with trip from San Francisco to LA.

Compare:

FLYING: Leave home at 6:15 to be there the 'proper' earliness. Flight departure at 8:30 delay, takes off at 8:45 arrives LA 9:45 [if lucky, with no holding pattern] disenbark by 10:15, [grab luggage if unfortunately had to go that route] out to car rental by 10:40 fuss around getting auto leave airport with car by 11:10 now must drive away from airport to ?? get into area by 11:35

AUTO: Leave home at 6:15 drive relaxing with foot in carburator arrive destination 10:45am hmmm saved some time and now you get to leave ANY TIME you want! or go down to San Diego and Del Coronado

Didn't we just pay something like $20B for California to cut 20 minutes of the SF to LA train ride?

No, your children loaned it to you.

Do you really think they're going to pay it back?

No. It's in bonds, most of which have not been issued yet. About $71 billion total in (2014 dollars):

The map:

The plan (405 pages):

See Pg 328 for the projected rise in sea level and its effect on the project. Reading between the lines, they seem to have selected an inland route in order to avoid coastal flooding.

My Inner Cynic thinks it's just churn, to make the Powers That Be think they're doing something.

Of course it is beautiful. It is in California. Actually it is just OK, but I'm not a fan of beach towns.

But why do you assume illegal aliens live in slums?

How can they? None of them can get a job.

Do you think the US government will ever pay off the debt?

Because my experience tells me that no matter how nice a place is before illegals move in, it becomes a slum afterwards. Not straight away perhaps, but in due time. There's a lesson there somewhere.

Okay, good, that was causing me so much anxiety wondering if they had taken that into account in their planning. California has it together!

The Chinese have done so in the past. "Strike up a Waltz. This boat is unsinkable." - Titanic Captain. "I didn't see this collapse coming at all." - Fed Chmn Greenspan, after 2008.

Thank you, Obama.

Um, that was exactly my point.