THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY HAS GONE CHARGING EXTRA CRAZY FOR EVERYTHING AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT - SIMILAR TO HOW THE TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY MAKES YOU PAY FOR ALL THOSE TAXES THEY ARE BY LAW TO PAY FOR - THUS YOU THE CONSUMER PAYS FOR ALL OF IT IN THE END - BUT I DIGRESS AS HAWAIIAN AIRLINES CHARGES A PASSENGER FOR ALL THINGS A US$12 DOLLARS FOR A BLANKET

IT’S certainly annoying when airlines make you fork out for extras like checked luggage and earphones.

But one passenger’s frustration reached a whole new level on a recent flight after he was told he’d have to pay $16 for a blanket.
A Hawaiian Airlines flight from Las Vegas had to divert to Los Angeles after a passenger got into a dispute with a flight attendant over the cost, the Associated Press reported.
The airline confirmed flight HA7 from Las Vegas was about an hour into its trip on Wednesday, local time, when the plane turned and stopped at Los Angeles airport (LAX).
There was a dispute between a 66-year-old male passenger and the flight crew about the cost of a blanket, said Rob Pedregon of the Los Angeles Airport Police.
After being informed a blanket cost $12 ($A16) the passenger “made a statement that he wanted to take somebody behind the woodshed over this, which prompted the flight crew to contact the captain who then in turn diverted the aircraft to LAX”.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/man-kicked-off-flight-after-raging-against-16-blanket-fee/news-story/5a1f5c4b9914b8b43cf6159327d187fc

WHO NEW RISING OIL PRICES CAN RAISE EXPORTS - AS AN EXAMPLE S KOREA EXPORT GROWS 20% UNDER THE USA POTUS TRUMP - AS PETROCHEMICAL DERIVED FROM OIL GETS SOLD AT A HIGH PROFIT COST

South Korea's exports jumped 19.3 percent on-year in the first 10 days of this month led by petrochemical goods, semiconductors and automobiles, government data showed Saturday.

Overseas shipments from March 1-10 were estimated at US$1.43 million after hitting a five-year high in the previous month, the Korea Customs Service said in a statement.

"Rising oil prices in recent months have boosted local exporters who had been suffering from slumping oil prices and slowing demand in global markets," a KCS spokesman said.

Exports of petrochemical goods soared 109.7 percent in the 10 days from the same period of 2016, it said.

Oil price hikes allowed domestic petrochemical companies to sell their products at higher prices and boosted demand in oil-producing countries, helping stimulate the global economy.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170311000057

COMMUNIST CHINA PREPARES ITS FUTURE WARS WITH THE WESTERN USA WITH SPACE BASED MILITARY LASERS, RAILGUNS, AND HIGH POWER MICROWAVE - AS THE CHINESE MILITARY TO NEUTRALIZE THE USA ADVANTAGE IN SPACE BY TAKING DOWN COMMUNICATION AND ALL OTHER SATTELLITES

China’s military is developing powerful lasers, electromagnetic railguns and high-power microwave weapons for use in a future “light war” involving space-based attacks on satellites.
Beijing’s push to produce so-called directed-energy weapons aims to neutralize America’s key strategic advantage: the web of intelligence, communication and navigation satellites enabling military strikes of unparalleled precision expeditionary warfare far from US shores.
The idea of a space-based laser gun was disclosed in the journal Chinese Optics in December 2013 by three researchers, Gao Ming-hui, Zeng Yu-quang and Wang Zhi-hong. All work for the Changchun Institute for Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics – the leading center for laser weapons technology.


“In future wars, the development of ASAT [anti-satellite] weapons is very important,” they wrote. “Among those weapons, laser attack system enjoys significant advantages of fast response speed, robust counter-interference performance and a high target destruction rate, especially for a space-based ASAT system. So the space-based laser weapon system will be one of the major ASAT development projects.”
The researchers propose building a 5-ton chemical laser that will be stationed in low-earth orbit as a combat platform capable of destroying satellites in orbit. Given funding by the Chinese military, which is in charge of China’s space program, the satellite-killing laser could be deployed by 2023.

http://www.atimes.com/article/light-war-space-based-lasers-among-beijings-high-tech-arms/

SELF DRIVING CARS TO BE THE NORM IN SF CA AS THE DMV RELEASES NEW REGULATION CONTROLLING THE INHUMAN CAR WILL ALLOW 27 COMPANIES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DRIVERLESS CAR TRANSPORTATION AS EARLY AS NEXT YEAR

Self-driving cars with no human behind the wheel — or, for that matter, any steering wheel at all — may soon appear on California’s public roads, under regulations state officials proposed Friday.
The rules represent a delicate balance, trying to ensure the safety of a new technology many people don’t trust while avoiding tough restrictions that could send car companies fleeing to other states.
Until now, California has required all 27 companies testing autonomous cars in the state to have someone in the driver’s seat, ready to take over, when testing on public roads. And those vehicles needed to have steering wheels and brake pedals, even if some self-driving car engineers didn’t consider them necessary.
 
Both of those requirements would disappear under the new regulations proposed by the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
Instead, automakers would need to certify to the state that their own testing — either on closed tracks or through computer modeling — shows the cars are ready to operate on public roads with no one behind the wheel. Tests with no driver would require an operator monitoring the car, ready to steer via remote control if necessary.

Source: (CA) DMV
By the numbers
27 Number of companies testing self-driving cars in California
180 Number of licensed self-driving cars in California
658 Number of drivers permitted to test-drive autonomous cars in California
Leaders: Google/Waymo (77 cars, 239 drivers); GM/Cruise (27 cars, 55 drivers); Tesla (24 cars, 64 drivers)


 http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/DMV-Humans-soon-no-longer-required-in-10993072.php