I am a little more concerned about Baxter international and other companies making the 'cures' that are releasing the pandemics at the same time.

I would also add that despite much media hype, the Swine Flu isn't a made-up problem. The Significant Otter indicated that the residents and staff at her Medical School convened a special meeting to discuss the Swine Flu, as well as the State Hospital System's methods of preparation for and response to a potential pandemic. According to her, this is not something that well-trained physicians are taking lightly. All well and good, in my opinion.

Today has been the first day in a long time that Comcast Internet has been working correctly for me. As for cable, I'll switch to Fios when they get all of the local channels I have on Comcast.

I can hear all of the people complaining about the lights and air vents being mounted all the way over to the one side. Not like the last 727's didn't have the service panel over their but it was a pain 20 some years ago, I'd suspect it will be a pain now.

I completely agree. It is not something to be taken lightly (especially with the speed in which the flu is spreading) but I think people are a little further down the panic road then they have to be at this point. Of course, a lot (all?) of this is just fueled by the media.

To your other post - I am also in support of investing funds to help the CDC as long as it is spent wisely to prepare us for any future pandemic. Unfortunately, with the panic that the media is building, I have a feeling most of the money has the potential of being poorly spent, out of panic, on the pig flu.

the threat is very real.

Here some article about my last post:
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canad...7/8560781.html

we should be very cautious of the manipulation by greed of some to make money in such times.

I hope that Boeing redesign doesn't reduce the overall cubic footage of available overhead space. With the new checked-bag fees, space is tight enough as it is.

Absolutely. I also feel that hype is running well ahead of actual conditions. However, it looks like the type of people who will be at the front-lines of response are taking a calculated and responsible approach so far, which is ^

Unfortunately, crises are ideal times for less than scrupulous people to take advantage of government appropriations for personal (rather than public) gain. Human nature being what it is, I doubt we'll ever completely overcome this risk. Personally, I feel that if the government makes a determination that the risk of the pandemic outweighs the risk of graft, and if they put as many reasonable controls (transparency & tracking mechanisms) onto the funds as possible, that the money should be appropriated. If anyone misappropriates the funding, then they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Granted, that may not always be enough to recover the taxpayer's loss, but it's better than nothing.

Newark, NJ might need some new garbage trucks to help in the piggy flu fight. (That's how they wisely spent their terror prevention money)

I would think that the lights and FA call button will be in a console on the armrest. Vents would present the only problem, methinks.

Sorry, almost took Teh Box into OMNI/PR territory. :rolleyes:

In other :rolleyes:, it looks like TPA-IAD posted at 1x earnings rates. Shame.

Vents? What are those? ;) CO's 767/777 (as well as many other airlines) don't have them anyways.

Or they can go old-skool (or Soviet) and put them on the seat back. :D

The city sits on a maze of bayous that flow into Galveston Bay. The entire city is relatively flat, and due to ground subsidence, has been sinking in many areas (although this problem isn't as bad as it used to be). Then there's the continued growth and sprawl. Concrete and buildings don't absorb water like the ground and trees do. And it has rained a lot lately, so the ground is pretty wet and can't soak up as much.

And Houston doesn't flood all the time. This kind of flooding happens once or twice every couple of years, usually in the spring or early summer, when torrential rains hit that dump a lot of water in a short period of time.

Research companies are a serious :rolleyes:

I noticed that as well. I'm going to follow-up with Joanna as all my other QUP/HUPs on Ted/UEX get the normal 325%. Even the ones they had to manually post last week....

My power went out a couple of weeks ago and I was able to stay online with my laptop on its battery and the DSL modem and Wi-Fi router on UPS for well over an hour until the UPS that supplies just the router and modem ran down.