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BTS - Accounting and Reporting Directives
Topic: Miscellaneous 1:28 am EST, Feb 14, 2005

] Reporting Code Fare Category Description
] F Unrestricted First Class
] G (new) Restricted First Class
] C Unrestricted Business Class
] D (new) Restricted Business Class
] Y Unrestricted Coach/Economy Class
] X (new) Restricted Coach/Economy Class

Note to me: IATA codes for Ticket class. Also called Fare Identifier Codes (FIC)

BTS - Accounting and Reporting Directives


Aircraft Codes
Topic: Miscellaneous 1:13 am EST, Feb 14, 2005

Note to self: Giant list of aircraft of public and private aviation. Gives stats of plane as well as IATA code of plane.

(I am totally going to trip a bot with all these searches on air travel infrastructure)

Aircraft Codes


Airline ticketing classes
Topic: Miscellaneous 1:09 am EST, Feb 14, 2005

note for me. Contains lots of free PDFs to train airline workers / travel agents. How to use computer systems, book flights, look up prices, etc. Some insight into IATA codes used in ticket magstripes and barcodes.

Airline ticketing classes


A Brief History of HDTV
Topic: Miscellaneous 10:15 pm EST, Feb 10, 2005

] A Brief History of HDTV

] Broadcast Industry asks for bandwidth for HDTV
] FCC says "OK, we'll set aside bandwidth for HDTV"
] FCC says "What standards?"
] Industry says 'No Standards Please' and come up with
] EIGHTEEN recommended formats for HDTV. I am not shitting
] you.
] FCC says "Isn't 18 different standards a bit much?"
] Industry says "Shut the fuck up FCC, we know what we are
] doing. The 'market' will handle this!"

Hehe. A expletive filled history of adopting HDTV

A Brief History of HDTV


Mohawked teen scapled for disrespecting women
Topic: Miscellaneous 11:12 am EST, Feb  9, 2005

] A member of a punk clique scalped another member
] apparently as punishment for her disrespectful behavior
] toward women, police said. The victim, a 16-year-old girl
] whose hair was cut in a mohawk, survived.

[snarfs coke] HAHAHA! oh the irony of it all. Rebel my young punks, but only against your parents and The Man!

Mohawked teen scapled for disrespecting women


Florida hotel identified as scene of child porn photos
Topic: Miscellaneous 12:32 am EST, Feb  6, 2005

] A Walt Disney hotel in Florida is under investigation as
] the place where police believe pornographic images of a
] child were taken and circulated on the internet.
]
] Police in Toronto say they tracked down the hotel after
] releasing photos from a porn site, showing the locations
] of sex attacks against a girl who was around 12 years
] old.

Nice Followup: Police were able to find the hotel after posting pictures where the abuse took place with the victum removed.

Florida hotel identified as scene of child porn photos


FACT Act: Forces free credit reports every 12 months
Topic: Miscellaneous 10:59 pm EST, Feb  1, 2005

] AnnualCreditReport.com is a centralized service for
] consumers to request annual credit reports. It was
] created by the three nationwide consumer credit reporting
] companies, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
]
] AnnualCreditReport.com processes requests for free credit
] file disclosures (commonly called credit reports). Under
] the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act)
] consumers can request and obtain a free credit report
] once every 12 months from each of the three nationwide
] consumer credit reporting companies.
] AnnualCreditReport.com provides consumers with the secure
] means to do so.

FACT Act: Forces free credit reports every 12 months


Frontline: secret history of the credit card
Topic: Miscellaneous 9:36 pm EST, Feb  1, 2005

[sigh]... PBS is my History/Discovery/HBO... and this program show who surprising well they keep up. Watch online and more. (

Frontline: secret history of the credit card


SBC AT&T Merger
Topic: Miscellaneous 8:44 pm EST, Jan 30, 2005

] SBC to buy AT&T for $16 Billion
] After days of talks the boards of SBC and AT&T are to
] vote on a 16B tentative deal reached Sunday.

That is one big telco!

SBC AT&T Merger


Massive cow manure mound burns for third month
Topic: Miscellaneous 12:16 pm EST, Jan 28, 2005

] But Dickinson, who makes his living in the cattle
] business, has an environmental problem on his hands that
] is vexing state officials: a 2,000-ton pile of burning
] cow manure.

Buring shit.

Massive cow manure mound burns for third month


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