I wonder how our hero police officer would have coped if many of the disenfranchised (ex-)passengers had opted for that arrest option. At least they would have had to be warmly housed while in that arrest situation, or the hero might have worked out the inhumanity of his claims. Just my 2c worth of foreign input.

(Written on 12/30/2022)(Permalink)

Years ago I worked in a Tea processing plant. Their management had scheduled days where they worked on a rotation through all areas of the plant. Even as a seconded contractor, I joned that rotation. It was more of a novelty for me, but I found it improved the raport between all staff.

(Written on 08/11/2022)(Permalink)

There is a fairly large number of South African passport holders who can barely speak Afrikaans, let alone read/write it, I'm a reasonably fluent speaker, but useless at reading/writing it. It may have been taught in schools as a second or even 3rd language option, but the percentage of the South African population who would be "native" speakers of the language is around 10%.

(Written on 06/09/2022)(Permalink)

such a kind gesture.

(Written on 12/31/2021)(Permalink)

Employers complaining about not being able to employ employees. Potential employees complain about employers unwilling to pay a decent rate for the expected work. I know that I certainly won't work for a pittance, and maybe it is time the employers realised this, too.

(Written on 10/28/2021)(Permalink)

By Christopher Buckley Mr. Buckley is a novelist and humorist.

(Written on 10/21/2021)(Permalink)

Directly copied from the By-Line of the article "...By Christopher Buckley Mr. Buckley is a novelist and humorist...." So this is more likely a spoof piece?

(Written on 10/21/2021)(Permalink)

And the comms loss would only become apparent when the data was needed, and by then it is too late to back-track and fix anything. I admit it would be nice to have whatever data could be archived in real-time, but too many ways for it to be lost forever.

(Written on 10/07/2021)(Permalink)

Apparently based (very loosely, or not at all - depends which reference you read) on the events around Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who did this between 1988 and 2006 while he waited to obtain a visa for onward travel.

(Written on 04/08/2021)(Permalink)

That's what that airline calls itself. The headline is correct in that area. Can't vouch for anything else in there, though :-)

(Written on 11/26/2020)(Permalink)