I’m not sure I’ve ever been madder than when they confiscated a “knife” this exact size at PDX
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With all due respect, if you had the same size amount of cocaine you’d have been screwed too. Banned items are banned items. Kinda silly thinking you could carry any type of a knife onto a plane imo
I didn’t think it was ok. I didn’t know it was in my bag.
It still made me mad. Especially since it had apparently been in the bag for at least three prior flights
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In Bogota they took my pointy tweezers but allowed me to keep the regular ones.
Renewed my passport so had to go come to the bank to update my account. No wait and was ushered right to a window.
That was 30 minutes ago and they’re not done yet. I will never understand how the simplest banking matter is always like this in China.
Edit: thirty minutes later still going strong
I took my son to the bank this year to open a checking account (United States). He already had a savings account with the bank. Took a fucking hour.
And on top of it, I can’t link his account to mine, even though his savings account is (and he’s a minor) because my bank account is technically my wife’s, even with my name also on it. She signed him up for his savings account. I signed him up for his checking account. Thus, his savings is linked but his checking isn’t. We have to all go into the bank together and sign some shit to get them connected.
Amazon Kindle (or anything else) which adds the source information whenever you copy and paste.
Yes. When I’m reading my book and want to google a word or a person I really instead want to google.
Random word - from some fucking book. Published by some fucking publisher. All rights protected 1998. Fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck off
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Keep a text editor open that you can chuck that shit into and then pick what you want out of it. Better than trying to delete a bunch of crap from a text box…
Yeah it’s for your security apparently.
Lol. Thanks dad.
Of course there are workarounds. But that makes it more annoying. There are zero people in the world who have cited a kindle book properly, only because of the added text in a copy-paste.
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I take a HOV lane into Minneapolis every day, it works the same way as that description but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it over $5. Usually around $1 during morning and afternoon weekdays.
I get the concept and everything, but framing it as making sure people are still able to go 55 mph when there’s a wreck in the middle of the road made me chuckle. That doesn’t seem ideal.
Some people said they see it get to $40 when there is an accident on the toll road.
That sure seems like a bug.
Then those people paying $40 to get home 30 minutes faster get to the grocery store and freak out about the price of milk.
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So I am watching “Canary Black” on Amazon, and it get’s to a point where a CIA agent and a hacker open a file that is supposed to be a blackmail list. They look at it for a second, and the agent says “That’s not a blackmail list”. Fair enough, you see a bunch of code popping up, so you quickly get that’s not some list. But then the hacker says after two more seconds or so: “It’s a virus. It looks like it corrupts and encrypts all internet traffic” and concludes that it would shut down the internet basically.
How the **** are you supposed to figure all that out after just 10 seconds? I, for one, need a while to even understand my own code if I haven’t looked at it for a bit. Now I can’t enjoy this meaningless action flick any more! 
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They probably used really good variable names.
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Even if they spelled all that out plainly in a README it would take longer to read that. Here is another example from an older movie:
“The structure is perfect”
Actually, like this it would have been realistic and somewhat funny: “The README says it’s a virus that corrupts and encrypts all internet traffic”
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