What are you doing? (Part 1)

Stockholm got hit, typical truck attack

Finished first season of True Detective. This Rust character was just beaming sunshine and rainbows all over the place. (I think Cioran would approve) :stuck_out_tongue:

So I was talking to my friends from Aleppo today and we were all like lolwut

Gorgeous day! :stuck_out_tongue:

It seems like it was his idea.

Planning a lovely day tomorrow. Early lunch with a nice female philosophy professor who’s roughly my age then tubing down a river with an ex stripper 11 years younger than me, then a visit to a museum to see a monk I know, and a retired philosophy professor and watch them fuck up a mandala thingy made of sand that dude has been working on all week, then dinner with a self professed nihilist girl who is among my best friends, then back home to spend the night with the ex stripper. I rarely plan a day, but I’ve got a good reason to need to have a good day. Among the rarer things in my life is a day of stress, which will be Monday. So I figure the more estrogen I can be submerged in, the better. To all the ladies of the world, thanks for your contributions. They’re appreciated. Let’s hope Monday goes better than expected, because if so, I may be off to St. Augustine and then Ft. Lauderdale to visit 2 of my longest running friends where I will de-stress in the best possible way. No phone, no internet, no business, no clocks, just friends, sun, boats, and drinks.

The words of the great philosopher Tupac come to mind.

Every where I go, niggas holla at me, “keep it real g” and I reply “till they kill me, act up if you feel me. I was born not to make it but I did…the tribulations of a ghetto kid”.

46:30 and onward: good examples are given for explaining how complexity can be created as a result of increasing entropy (better than the standard coffee/cream example, anyway). youtube.com/watch?v=y5NkmdrPQQA

I’m guessing that harnessing the power of black holes would also have to be put on the agenda list at some point, right? :mrgreen:

Kettle’s hand-cooked chips and home-made red wine, whilst mentally listing my tasks for the week.

It may have been his idea but, he is surrounded by others and the others have authority plus brains.

United Airlines has always treated its passengers like cattle, but I guess you get what you pay for. :confused:

United Airlines new commercials: 8-[

youtube.com/watch?v=ntf05SPWWJM
youtube.com/watch?v=qQ4WcR36GgM

Yea but, how many of us actually read the tickets we buy? The fine print is more often than not, ignored. I think I would rather take a train or drive. Buses can be pretty nasty as well.

I am simply wallowing in my current state of misery.

Yeah, now I’ve read it. :laughing: Rule 21 regarding refusal to transport does not actually include anything that would fall under this situation, that is, to make space for UA employees:
united.com/web/en-US/conten … riage.aspx
And this was not an overbooking situation, either. However, reading about this “doctor’s” history, I wonder if the computer algorithm also might have included previous felonies, because apparently this doctor is no angel, either. :-k nypost.com/2017/04/11/doctor-dra … s-for-sex/

Being a terror! :evilfun: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

I dunno this section of 21 could apply look at the assets and cost them money part.

Any Passenger who, by reason of engaging in the above activities in this Rule 21, causes UA any loss, damage or expense of any kind, consents and acknowledges that he or she shall reimburse UA for any such loss, damage or expense. UA has the right to refuse transport, on a permanent basis, to any passenger who, by reason of engaging in the above activities in this Rule 21, causes UA any loss, damage or expense of any kind, or who has been disorderly, offensive, abusive, or violent. In addition, the activities enumerated in H) 1) through :sunglasses: shall constitute a material breach of contract, for which UA shall be excused from performing its obligations under this contract.
UA is not liable for its refusal to transport any passenger or for its removal of any passenger in accordance with this Rule. A Passenger who is removed or refused transportation in accordance with this Rule may be eligible for a refund upon request. See Rule 27 A). As an express precondition to issuance of any refund, UA shall not be responsible for damages of any kind whatsoever. The passenger’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be Rule 27 A).

And well probably the Doc did give it a hiccup.:slight_smile:

I think this would boil down as to whether freeing up your seat for an employee would be considered a reasonable request by the company, because otherwise, an airline would be able to make arbitrary requests of its passengers and cite this rule in justification (by refusing to take off unless the request was executed thus actually indirectly causing loss of business to itself).

Wow, I’m surprised this agreement doesn’t cover a situation like this more clearly.

If they hadn’t already boarded him, this would still probably be an “Oversold Flight”:

Since a seat that is needed for United employees would not be an ‘available seat’, they could deny boarding involuntarily on the grounds the the flight is oversold.

But the only right they have is to “deny boarding”, a term that I don’t see further defined. Clearly, this doctor wasn’t denied boarding, he’s sitting on the plane, he’s been boarded. Beyond that, they may be able to change his seat (it isn’t clear if 4(D) applies after boarding), but I wouldn’t read that to increase the scope of the right to deny boarding, or to revoke boarding once it’s been granted.

Thanks for linking, Pandora. I just assumed that the agreement would be maximally airline-friendly, but I think this gives the doctor a pretty strong case that United did not have the right under the contract to remove him from the plane.

I’m a little bewildered by the reporting on the doctor’s history, it seems entirely irrelevant to the interpretation of the contract between him and United.

The reason I brought it up is because someone mentioned of an incident which supposedly happened some years ago with the airline (It is not verified and needs to be confirmed but it does raise some interesting questions). Some years back, UA needed to get a certain passenger off the plane because he had some problems with the law (I do not know specifics) so the airline, unbeknownst to the rest of the people at the time, decided to have an “overbooking” situation in order to get him off the plane, which it did. The flight was not technically “overbooked” as well, so one may think that the “overbooking” situation is used by airline for other reasons. In that particular case it was supposedly done for safety and security reasons. So, I am wondering if the computer algorithm which selects at random, is not all that random after all. Dr. Dao had six previous felony charges so could it be that the airline was aware of his criminal history before hand and it had something to do with random selection? (this could also bring the safety and security issue into play as justification)

To know that we would have to know how often he has flown on that airline or others.