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@cmdrsass: The cheap seats dominate about 75% of the electorate, I'd venture.
"Durrr, you can't come here in a jet! Yes, I fly in a jet several times a month, but dammit I'm an important politician!"
"How dare you make profit exploring, refining, and distributing a precious commodity!
United Sets Woman's Luggage On Fire
@Hank Scorpio: I thought it said 3,500# at first. Which would be more believable.
United Sets Woman's Luggage On Fire
@pecan pi:
I felt the following both connoted intent:
"Sets woman's luggage on fire"
"Luggage was incinerated"
Pedantically, neither explicitly means it was intention, but both of those phrases are used most commonly with intent. $0.02
United Sets Woman's Luggage On Fire
The writeup here repeatedly made it sound like it was intentional. The Tribune wasn't much better. It was an accident. A negligent one, but an accident nonetheless.
@Plates: hahahaha, seconded.
I'm sure the testimony of the victims' families will facilitate a very objective response from our government. They're all impartial scientists bent on objective truths, after all.
Is Suze Orman Nothing But A Lying Shill?
@FordingTheRiver_GitEmSteveDave: And if you ever get tired of them, just search for "Guido" on flickr or Google and you'll be entertained/terrified for days.
Is Suze Orman Nothing But A Lying Shill?
If you squint at the pic above, she looks like some jerkoff guy from the 80s.
I voted "better than nothing." Her ongoing "women and money" series seems like a pretty good thing, especially since it's aimed at the gender in charge of 85% of retail spending. So, in other words, her common sense is what drove us into this recession. Suze Orman is evil!
How A CEO Can Live On $500K A Year
The one problem I see with the "pay them stock options" argument is that the stock market has been less than rational for the last couple years. Companies that are doing pretty well--especially in the financial sector--have been beaten all to hell by things like sector funds. Yes, sadly most banks are at the whims of institutional investors and the occasional hedge fund.
So until/unless stock price can reflect the real value of a company, I don't think it's a great compensation tool. What we have now is like the opposite of the tech bubble--every bank is vilified, every bank stock depressed.
Comments from Ash78 ain't got time to bleed
Private Jet Manufacturers Annoyed At Backlash, Claim Jets Are Practical
The backlash is hurting Cessna where it counts, the company recently laid off 4,500 workers because of the sudden drop in demand.
Bzzt. Most of those layoffs were in the general aviation sector and have nothing to do with jets, which are a relatively minimal part of Cessna's business.