I do that all the time. One of the main reasons I hate headlinese.
“Amazon Kindle Fire Engineers”… Wait, did [Amazon]'s [Kindle] project just fire all of their [engineers], or is the story about [engineers] of [Amazon]'s [Kindle Fire] product? Most headlines are a two-pass parsing operation, and even then some still require you to just read the second sentence of the article (the first always being some pointless lead-in, joke, or cryptic declaration).
Even if newspapers use the style to save ink and space, bits are essentially free. Why the hell aren’t we writing online headlines in plain “artilce-and-all” English?
Of course all this is simply a symptom of “the terrorists have won” - the TSA just doesn’t realise they are Al Qaeda’s enforcers
In other news - I travel with an APEC business card - this is essentially a business visa for Pacific Rim nations - acceeted almost everywhere, but the US, which is only a junior member of APEC, while it doesn’t get me into the country it does get me into the crew line at SFO and LAX which is enough of a boon
One reason is RSS feeds – RSS will truncate “Title” text, different readers truncate at different, arbitrary lengths. Google News used to truncate headlines to 37 characters (and 3 dots, for 40 total).
The TSA uses a private contractor at SFO, which might have something to do with it. (I’m not on the “government is inherently incompetent” train but in the TSA’s case, all aboard.)
The hell of it is, I see plenty of people who have a problem with this, and yet somehow they still keep voting for democrats* and republicans, so they are really bringing it upon themselves (and unfortunately, upon the rest of us poor fellow travelers upon this planet who are afflicted by fools like them.)
*I don’t mean good democrats like Wyden and Warren, of course, I’m talking about the ones like Feinstein and Cuomo who make up the huge majority of democrats in public office.
A PSA for my fellow BB folks. Let’s keep this between us. If you fly out of Newark Liberty Terminal C don’t use the “Premier” checkpoint of you are premier status. Just use one of the others as if you are not premier status. Here’s why: first off everyone seems to be premiere status. It’s more than 1/3 of travelers I am guessing which means this checkpoint is getting more than its share of travelers. On top of that I think they often operate with fewer porno scanners than the other two checkpoints. And lastly it seems all traveling in wheelchairs or with people in wheelchairs is directed to this checkpoint. It was a non-stop-steady stream of wheelchairs “jumping ahead” of the other line for people not with wheelchairs. So don’t use this special like. It’s not special.
We flew four times to Japan and once to Australia in 2015, and thought about buying into the precheck program. I’m so glad we didn’t, because in only one case did we see a precheck line that was open, on a connecting flight through Canada.
If TSA wanted to reduce the lines (and improve security), they’d stop checking IDs for the airlines’ revenue protection, stop searching for bottles of water, and apply the current Pre✓ screening procedures to everyone. Probably too much loss of face to contemplate, however.
The majority of crew/passengers survived that crash/fire, actually. I had relatives on the flight, and they both lived. One stayed on a little too long and the movement of the zeppelin went up so his jump down was longer and thus he broke…a leg, I think. But otherwise, they were fine. It seemed that a minority died horribly due to the fire, but the majority walked away with no or minor injuries.
