Posts for: Ghery
Feb 16, 2020 17:27:30 #
I have a friend who used to work for HP in their ink squirter printer division. He freely admitted that they don't make money selling printers, they make it selling ink.
Nov 28, 2019 13:18:24 #
OlinBost wrote:
Sorry but, I still have my American Flyer Trains and still working on a layout. Many of my stuff is over 55 years old and still working. I try to fix was isn't.
Everyone have a save and blessed Holiday Season.
Everyone have a save and blessed Holiday Season.
Me, too. Got mine in the late 1950s as a joint present with my younger brother. The trouble with Lionel was the three rail track. American Flyer was also the next smaller gauge, so it took a little less room, too.
Nov 20, 2019 20:27:47 #
As a friend who used to work for HP in their ink squirter division once told me, HP doesn't make any money on the printers. They make their money selling ink. And given what I have paid over the years for ink for HP printers, he was absolutely correct.
Nov 8, 2019 10:25:43 #
Don't worry too much about this. As I understand it, this is not a retrofit for existing aircraft, it is only available on certain new ones. And, given the price tag on those, I'll never see it in anything I fly. Certainly not aircraft built in the 1970s.
Nov 2, 2019 14:34:42 #
In the 24 Halloweens in our current house we've had exactly 1 person come by. And that was a high school kid a decade or so ago looking for canned goods for a local food bank. She got candy, as well. This year, as with all but one year, 0.
Aug 25, 2019 16:54:24 #
therwol wrote:
I share your concern. Having gone through the TSA Pre line several times, I can tell you that the screening is cursory compared with what you get in the normal line. Just last Thursday at SFO, they allowed my wife to keep liquids in her carry on bag and didn't even want to see it. Do simple x-ray scans really know it isn't an explosive or flammable liquid? I don't think that random people should be able to go through that line. I hope it isn't random.
Even if you take it out of the bag they can't tell the nature of the liquid, only if you have more than the magic amount.
Aug 25, 2019 16:06:57 #
billmck wrote:
My wife and I regularly get TSA Pre-Check when flying Delta. I’m a Delta Million Miler, don’ Know if that has anything to do with it.
United Million Miler here. I'm sure that I got the TSA Pre-Check approval prior to getting Global Entry due to my membership in their program, but now with Global Entry I plan on getting it. And do.
Aug 25, 2019 16:05:09 #
elliott937 wrote:
Ghery, This is our first year with GlobalEntry, and I've wondered what the renewal process was. So that can all be done via mail, and no second interview?
It is done online. No second interview or anything. Just pay your money, answer the multitude of questions and then wait. You can start the renewal process up to one year in advance. I waited until 1 month in advance and that wasn't anywhere near early enough. Once they are happy they send you a notice that you've been re-approved and then they send the new card with instructions on activating it. Same price, $100 per person for 5 years.
Aug 25, 2019 16:00:59 #
Architect1776 wrote:
But, but, but is stupid, in hindsight many things can be said.
Again you cannot anticipate everything.
And box cutters had NOTHING to do with it. Planes were hijacked for decades before. They were never flown into skyscrapers before.
Only a fool believes box cutters were the cause of 9/11.
Again you cannot anticipate everything.
And box cutters had NOTHING to do with it. Planes were hijacked for decades before. They were never flown into skyscrapers before.
Only a fool believes box cutters were the cause of 9/11.
Box cutters weren't the cause, they were the tools. Good grief.
Aug 25, 2019 12:18:16 #
JDG3 wrote:
I think you have to provide the KTN (known travele... (show quote)
UA does the same with their frequent flying program. I always have TSA Pre marked on my boarding passes and the KTN is recorded when I buy my tickets.
Aug 25, 2019 12:16:06 #
If they had prohibited carrying box cutters on board prior to 9/11 that would have helped. TSA was not and it not the answer. Only in the minds of those who believe that the government must "protect" us. Two things have prevented a repeat. The airlines (admittedly with government mandate) have strengthened the cockpit doors and passengers no longer are passive about attempted highjacking. It used to be that if your flight was highjacked you would wind up going someplace you hadn't planned and would be delayed (with a few exceptions), but you would eventually get where you planned on going. 9/11 ended that. Now a highjacker is taking their life in their hands as the passengers will take them out rather than be unwilling participants in a flying bomb demonstration. To claim that the MacDonalds rejects in TSA are responsible for this is nuts.
Aug 25, 2019 12:08:23 #
I've had Global Entry for a bit over 5 years. TSA Pre-check comes with it. You can pay $90 for TSA Pre or $100 for Global Entry and TSA Pre. No brainer for me. I travel internationally several times a year and domestically a few times, as well. TSA Pre-check allows you to keep you stuff in your carry-on, keep your shoes on and "enjoy" shorter lines. It's almost like security was before 9/11 (except you still have to deal with the TSA drones).
BTW, it was time to renew my Global Entry earlier this year. I applied a month before it expired and finally got the new card in August. They're still blaming the government shutdown the beginning of the year. I think it's an excuse. The bottom line is that you should apply well before your first anticipated need.
BTW, it was time to renew my Global Entry earlier this year. I applied a month before it expired and finally got the new card in August. They're still blaming the government shutdown the beginning of the year. I think it's an excuse. The bottom line is that you should apply well before your first anticipated need.
Aug 13, 2019 15:58:41 #
jackpinoh wrote:
It had holes of various diameter in it to let some air through to prevent the door being torn off the plane. Great design, except for the extremely loud noise of air passing through 20+ holes of different diameter at 150mph--the loudest screaming I have ever heard! We couldn't wait to get out of that plane.
I'll bet that was the hidden reason for the holes, you and your buddies didn't want to stick around and listen to that noise, so you had an added incentive to jump.
Aug 13, 2019 11:38:36 #
Leo_B wrote:
Recording evidence for the committing hearing huh? :) Good luck to her.
In Army ROTC back in the early 1970s our Sgt. Major loved to say, "Two things fall from the sky. Birds$%t and fools!"
A number of years ago I asked a colleague at work who was into skydiving why he would jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Then I saw the planes they were jumping out of and I understood why he said there was no such thing as a perfectly good airplane. They beat the heck out of those things. I'm not sure I'd fly one of their jump planes (and I am a pilot).
I hope she has fun.
Jul 1, 2019 15:01:44 #
JeffL wrote:
Having been a general aviation pilot for almost 50... (show quote)
Agreed. There are accidents for which the NTSB is unable to assign a cause, but they are outnumbered by the ones labeled as "pilot error". I lost a friend in one of those "unknown cause" accidents back in 2010. They never did come up with a reason that he crashed in the Rockies with two others on board coming home from Oshkosh. And he had an ATP and A&P.
Lack of proficiency is bad. I have an instrument rating, but I'm not current. And, even if I had an IPC and became current again I wouldn't be proficient. So I stick to VFR. Looking out the window, I really ought to go fly today. It's a beautiful day in the PNW.