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Zerowantuthri106 karma

I arrived at O'Hare Airport (Chicago) a couple weeks ago at the international terminal. I stood in line for immigration control and whatnot and didn't get to the baggage hall until 45 minutes after we landed. No luggage.

It wasn't until about 70 minutes that luggage started coming through and mine showed up around 85 minutes after landing.

FWIW it was a big plane, a 787.

Is there a reason it takes over an hour for the first bag to make it from the plane to the baggage claim?

Zerowantuthri39 karma

Why haven't ISPs been forced to deliver on their promises of broadband access that the government already paid them for, and they agreed to, but they have not delivered?

Can we get a refund?

Zerowantuthri32 karma

Do you mean 60% margins? Because 60% market share would be enormous in the "premium" headphone industry.

Nope...it is almost 60% market share:

The numbers are astonishing. According to a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal, Beats revenues increased fivefold between 2010 and 2012 alone, hitting the $1 billion mark. As of this summer, some 59 percent of high-end headphones sold in the U.S. bear the Beats logo. All this despite the fact that the audiophile press has often viewed Beats as underwhelming—or worse—and overpriced. SOURCE

What I did not realize till reading that article is that Beats is also affiliated with Monster...the company that sells outrageously overpriced cables hyped to provide all sorts of benefits when in reality they are no better than cables at small fractions of their cost. Now Beats makes sense as more of the same. Over priced hype that does not deliver compared to other options in the same price range.

Every time I see someone on the train wearing Beats I want to point and laugh.

EDIT to add: This recent video by Marques Brownlee, The Truth About Beats by Dre!, claims Beats has 64% of the market.

Zerowantuthri23 karma

I wonder if you could pull this off (or most anyone reading this)?

Imagine you having to go to court to prove your competency with those requirements. I have my life in order (mostly) and I would find the requirements you list onerus to say the least and I would be really worried if someone made me prove my competence at life.

Zerowantuthri21 karma

Name one time a restraining order has saved someone's life.

That's impossible to answer. A lot of restraining orders have been issued where no one has been killed. There is no way to know if any of those prevented something worse.

That said I understand if someone is intent on murder a restraining order is small potatoes and not going to be the thing that deters them.