Handsome Rob

It's inverse. [/sarcasm]

I agree in full, and you can't talk about Calin without getting into Montie Brewer or worse, Robert Milton and the corporate raping they put AC through. But none of that makes defined benefit pensions reasonable for unskilled labor working at an airline on life support that just moved away from penny stock, in an industry that is racing to see who can match Walmart the quickest.

Looting Does that image in any way prove that any of those people break in/entered or stole from the store? There are a couple of home run images like the guy lighting the rag in the cop car or the even brighter folks pleading guilty for all to see on facebook. However, by and large I'd expect 95% of the worst of the participants won't even see probation. This happens often enough to a lesser extent here. Fireworks/Olympic opening ceromonies/Big name venues like G n'R/UFC/Monster Trucks that won't come back ever again. If the persons responsible were actually held accountable, it wouldn't keep happening.

The CAW is not getting the pensions they wanted. DB pensions will remain DB pensions, that wasn't on the table. New hires will be switched to DC pensions, and they said "A little tweaking" to existing employee pensions. Details still thin, I bet wages will be the quid pro quo, but it looks like the strike was pointless. Sucks even more for the IAM/ACPA/CUPE when their turn comes soon enough.

Any tips? I've got a 6 inch Dob, have seen all planets out as far as Saturn. I think I managed to get the Orion nebula, but still unsure. If it was it didn't look spectacular or I had crappy conditions. Tried M31 @ 48x many times to no avail. What are you looking at this time of year?

Thanks.

This vote is today, no? Anyone know when?

1. What is going to replace the billion and a half from the feds? 2. What is going to replace the badly needed tax revenue from the HST? 3. What is the cost to repeal the HST and where is the guarantee it won't cost more than the added burden? 4. How can you guarantee that any of the above will be better off than status quo?

Asteroid 2005 YU55 to Approach Earth on November 8, 2011

BC's legislature voted themselves a 10% pay raise in the middle of 'The depression,' and record deficits. Not sure if the rules are the same or not. At the very least it ought to be scaled by years of service. You want to get paid more? Do a good job and get reelected.

Right, passengers whispering -> complaining about two passengers = incident/disturbance in the cabin. Not rocket science but I know it can be tough. Should we call it a roller-disco party instead? So why did the passengers start complaining while the aircraft was taxiing? Why wasn't this done at the gate before the door closed? This makes some semblance of sense to you? Because if I was a bigoted prejudiced asshole that didn't want to fly with muslims because they were muslims, I certainly wouldn't wait for the door to close. Every single one of them took a minimum of a 1 hour delay in their travels, being a feeder airline how many missed their connections? They did this willingly? Just to get them? If their employees are such bigoted assholes, why wouldn't they discipline them? Such discipline would certainly be justified, and look good in the public's eye. But they publicly state the opposite, why? Why would they bring any more press to such a non-story at all?

Yay! We've established something happened in the cabin causing the aircraft to turn around. Surely this discredits the idea that the pilot is a bigoted rube hell bent on removing the passengers at any cost. Something happened in that cabin to cause them to turn around. Next question in the ever present chain of logic that doesn't appear, what happened in that cabin to cause these events? Was it teenagers whispering causing the grape vine to upset everybody? Did one of the Imam's utter a "think we're terrorists" joke, that was eavesdropped by the other passengers? The list of possibilities is endless. Crowd mentalities get nasty, especially in a crowded aluminum pipe where everybody just finished getting poked and prodded for the security theatre and are concerned about missing their downstream connections. Surely if the rest of the passengers were that ridiculous prejudiced and bigoted, they would have grounded their concerns long before the door closed and they pushed. If they were that hell bent on removing these two at any cost, the airplane never would have pushed. (Note, this doesn't imply guilt on the hands of the victims any more than it does the crew) But shall we continue with guilty until proven innocent?

Ah, and I thought intelligence was totally lost 3 or 4 pages ago, but it seems a small quantity still dwelled until now. Why did the aircraft return to the gate pray tell? Maybe their was another airplane the next gate over that it had a crush on? They forgot to load gas? Maybe the pilot wanted lunch? Lot's of perfectly reasonable explanations for an airplane to return to the gate that have nothing to do with the self loading freight being removed against their will, in la la land of the naive. Why even bother reading? You already made up your mind, no other alternative is possible. I guess their is a lack of equipment up there to process other possibilities, but I always thought you could go through them one at a time. I guess critical mass has been achieved. Oh, and I used a better word than pax, hope you're happy?

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But after they finish filling up for $1.35/litre and subsequent moaning, they walk into the convenience store happy as can be to buy a bottle of evian spelled backward for $4.50/litre.

That's a hefty premium. I certainly hope you didn't buy comprehensive & collision from I Can't Believe the Cost directly? I pay $100/month in insurance, $120/month in fuel, and an average of about $50/month in maintenance. Lot's of road trips on that though, my commute is about 2 Km.

Ah yes, the bigoted pilot hell bent on removing the two imams at any cost. But he wasn't going to stop at just stopping them at the gate, he was going to taxi out to depart, then feign an event in the cabin causing the pax to ask these two fellows to deplane. It was conspired during the safety brief you see, the story's passed around the cabin so they could be the same. Thus not only does he get to give the two muslims the boot, he was going to give the carrier the finger too, cutting every penny of revenue possible out of the flight at the two thousand bucks an hour it costs to run an RJ. But of course the airline is in on the conspiracy too. They're not pissed at the money burned up any more than they are the bad press, and they certainly wouldn't throw this arsehole of a pilot to the wolves in a 1/4 second to stop a minute of possible bad publicity. Have you any idea what happened to the pilot flying BA 038 that saved 152 lives....just because he was looked at poorly by the public, for no good reason? But of course everything necessary is known, so no point in considering further.

https://news.change.org/stories/delta-pilot-refuses-to-fly-with-imams-wearing-islamic-garb Speaks volumes about what we don't know about the story. The carrier more than likely holds far and away more liability than the pilots ever will, from public perception if nothing else. But of course we know everything because it doesn't matter, it's bigotry no matter what, there are other possible scenarios but we they don't matter, we all know what happened.

Nobody knows. Yet. Do you charge a rate for your psychic services? I know these things do not occur because I work at one of Canada's busiest airports, worked in this industry for years. Seen everything from people uttering bomb threats to hog tied with cuffs and carried out by the chains. I repeat, aircrew do not stand at the gate looking for passengers to deplane. For the captain to intervene in the happenings of the cabin, something had to happen. Whatever the gate controller says is meaningless, they have no idea, the head purser may. It does not mean the Imam's did something wrong, it doesn't mean somebody else did something wrong, we have no idea. But somebody flying commercial on a 705 carrier has been hauling pax for years. Your suggesting such a person has made it through dozens of jobs/interviews/evaluations without incurring a similar incident? The idea is ludicrous.

You don't have to blow stuff up to cause a disturbance, and you don't have to be a terrorist to have ill intentions, or be percieved as such. Some times people have irrational reactions to events such as last weekend, that doesn't make it a percieved al q plot by default

Wow. You know far less about the complete truth to this story than the pilot did about his passengers, yet express far greater prejudice than he is alleged to have committed. You have no idea what sort of disturbance in the cabin instigated his actions, but if one thing is certain, it's that the probability that this pilot was standing at the gate looking for passengers to deplane, is pretty much zero. Such incidents do not occur without reason, reasons that will come out in time. In the mean time, when you look at it in context, everybody from Richard Reed, to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to the 9/11 perpetrators were cleared by airport security theatre as well. The cockpit door and the PIC's discretion remain the only aspects proven effective, in aviation security's history. This fellow may turn out to be a racist arsehole, he may turn out to be doing his job well, but those who live in glass houses do not throw stones.

I'm yet to meet somebody on EI who didn't milk it. Most manage to find some degree of work within a short period of time, anything that's better than EI. Those that remain are enjoying the solace. Anecdotal, but my experience.

If you took all the wealthy folks money and gave it all to the poor folk, in X years the now poor folk would be wealthy again, and most of the now rich folk would be poor again.

Not calling against her or demanding resignation, don't care either way so long as the law was followed, but this is getting funny. Where's Ruth Milk Carton

It's collected off the long form, now national household survey; which I understand is not mandetory. On said survey, they ask for permission or you can give it manually.