Recent content by AmericaWestCMH

Made some money daytrading these wild swings. Still up about 5% for the year. I'll take it.

No changes at all.

Bissell Healthy Home vacuum has worked very well for me.

A few hundred pounds of luggage and fat makes little difference on a jet weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds. Jets do just fine and in most cases as well or better than a typical prop; see the 'Gimli Glider' story and the Air Transat flight that had to glide down. The Gimli Glider (767)...

Don't be so dramatic. Flotation devices (seat cushions) are the required equipment in this application, and that is what is being provided. Nothing illegal or unsafe here.

What's the big deal? Airplanes have pretty amazing glide ratios, but if it just so happens to take a nosedive into water you're fish food anyway. Why worry about every once-in-billion "what if?" scenario?

:rolleyes: Oh c'mon now, I certainly wasn't targeting the exceptions to the rule. We all know millions of people built/bought further and further out in the car-dependent exurbs in order to get an affordable house, and they are now paying the price, literally. Forward thinking is not...

$3.98 now. No big deal, I didn't get myself into a situation where I'm driving a 12mpg behemoth on a 50 mile commute. Hooray for common sense.

Yields are too low since it's mostly leisure travelers (on vacation packages, etc.). US Airways is already planning a hefty drawback of their hub there.

How do you know the cost of first hasn't gone up? Most legacy airlines' fare structures would make your head spin; i.e you'd never know if the overall price went up or down because it's not static. It's all based on yield management.

Short-blade knives (<4") were not illegal pre-9/11.

:rolleyes: Those 'security measures' look good on paper, but the execution is laughable at best. These baggage fees aren't about survival, it's beating around the bush to pillage a few extra bucks from leisure travelers who would balk if their $99 ticket to Disneyland went up $10...

If something is obviously bad, I'll toss it. Everything else is fair game. I'm still eating Kraft mac that expired last spring. Mmmmm.

I just built a new PC and stuck with XP Pro. The benchmark tests I've seen show Vista is slower than XP in nearly every task, and there are still driver issues to work out. I'll just wait for Windows 7.

Awesome, got to love a good storm (as long as no one gets hurt). Severe threat tomorrow is NE Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and So. Missouri.