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One time I found a booking.com lanyard on the ground and wore it and people thought I worked for them so I got free drinks at bars and shit in tropical tourist areas when I said 'yeah!' Before anyone harshes me for this I met a chick with a smirnoff lanyard who was getting free shots without being from them too
Sounds like a match made in heaven lol
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Booking.com is kind of a Dutch company, at least the .com division, but it's actually owned by a American parent, "Booking Holdings", based in Norwalk, Connecticut.
They sold themselves to Priceline because Europe doesn't seem capable of funding startups.
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I don't understand your point. In "Breaking Bad" if he had a hotel instead of a car wash, he could claim it was 95% occupied every night. Thereby washing large quantities of cash. In the EU do they have to keep IDs for a certain amount of time or something? If so then you just keep a few on file and hand those over when asked.
It depends on countries, in Italy the data on the ID of guests (of a hotel or similar) is transmitted electronically (within 24 hours) to the Police. This since a few years, 2013 I believe, until then you had to send (via snail mail) the "records" or bring them daily to the nearest Police (or Carabinieri) station. The provision is since 1978, it was a Law approved in a short time due to the "emergency of fighting ter…
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Any programmer who permanently sticks to only one language and has "no interest in learning yet another programming language" simply isn't a good programmer, no matter what their only language is. You have not given any reasonable proof for this. If this were true, just to give you one example, linux kernel programmers would be bad programmers. I used to use Perl for web development, but quit web development years ag…
I think you are confusing a program that is written in one programming language with people who only program in one programming language. So name some linux kernel programmers you actually know for a fact that they only know and program in one programming language? I bet I can name a lot more Linux kernel programmers who know and use multiple programming languages. Have you considered the possibility that most Linux…
i know perfectly well what point i am making and you do not have to spin this differently and try to make me look like a fool. you stated that anyone who is not interested in learning a new language is a bad programmer, and you are wrong. people make choices for different reasons.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Chamber "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."
Henry Stimson later clarified he only meant close allies. It is also hard to take moral guidance from the guy who oversaw Japanese internment camps in the US and decided to change the city we dropped the atomic bomb on because the original target was where he went on his honeymoon.
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The way I use booking.com: Search for a suitable hotel or apartment and find their name. Then search for them independently and make the reservation directly. I mean: they have a great search interface and all, but I refuse to funnel money to gatekeepers whenever I can... Stories like this just affirm my suspicions about companies like them...
To play the devil's advocate here - I do the same as you, but last month when I booked a 3 week vacation Booking offered better prices than the hotels themselves. They also didn't pull any stunts like other hotel aggregators do (show you a price and change it when you get to the checkout). I also had a single instance in the past where I wanted to prolong my stay at a hotel, and the hotel clerk told me I'd get a bett…
A "traditional" hotel will (should) have a proper "bookings/reservation" procedure a "modern" one may well rely entirely on booking.com or similar.
Moreover it depends on the "incentives" (or lack thereof) of the actual people at the reception, in large hotels (or chains of hotels) why employee/clerk - say - #215 (possibly a low paid intern) would want to actually work to make your reservation (as you can do it yourself online, less work and responsibilities for him/her).
If you think a bit about it, when you book on one of these sites, you take all responsibilities about dates (arrival departure) people (number of people in each room) types of rooms (like two/three bed, queen size or king size bed, etc.) type of accomodation (with/without breakfast).
It is not entirely uncommon that people arrives on the "wrong" date or has miscalculated the days of stay (rare but happens from time to time), or - this happens quite often - having booked a single use room for two people or similar, simply because of a slip on the finger or not having read the whole page of info on the accomodation.
If you write or (when possible better) talk with the reception, usually they can verify your request and offer you more options (like - say - a "family room" for 4 people instead of two doubles, or a room with a large balcony if you are traveling with a pet).
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Henry Stimson later clarified he only meant close allies. It is also hard to take moral guidance from the guy who oversaw Japanese internment camps in the US and decided to change the city we dropped the atomic bomb on because the original target was where he went on his honeymoon.
He changed the target because he convinced Roosevelt that Kyoto was a city of historical importance, not merely because he went there on his honeymoon. That's a dishonest retelling of one of the most important moments in war diplomacy.
All 5 potential targets were shortlisted because they were civilian centers and not targets of military value. At that point in the war everything of military value had already been heavily bombed, so they were left with non-strategic targets to show the maximum "before and after" contrast for the test.
If anything, Kyoto was the more militarized option. It was a major rail hub between Osaka and Tokyo, as well as hosting the second largest engine factory in Japan.
As far as being "one of the most important moments in war diplomacy," it is hard to grant such a title to what amounted to an arbitrary decision to kill the entire population of San Francisco instead of Seattle or Houston. Had we not been the victors, it surely would be called a genocide.
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You’re mistakenly assuming that everyone sees intelligence services as bad, because as much as many people are concerned, “an enemy of an enemy is a friend.”
Nah - it is assuming they should be seen as bad actors and we would all be better off if they were all shoved feet first through a wood chipper but alas there is a tragic lack of identified targets, chippers, and people to shove them in.
Better legislation to restrain their abusive tendencies, and an endless global push for human rights, liberty, and human well-being is a solid long view, I think.
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I don't understand your point. In "Breaking Bad" if he had a hotel instead of a car wash, he could claim it was 95% occupied every night. Thereby washing large quantities of cash. In the EU do they have to keep IDs for a certain amount of time or something? If so then you just keep a few on file and hand those over when asked.
It depends on countries, in Italy the data on the ID of guests (of a hotel or similar) is transmitted electronically (within 24 hours) to the Police. This since a few years, 2013 I believe, until then you had to send (via snail mail) the "records" or bring them daily to the nearest Police (or Carabinieri) station. The provision is since 1978, it was a Law approved in a short time due to the "emergency of fighting ter…
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I wonder when will people stop being surprised that any corporation puts profit as it's end goal. Them being nice for a while, it just a coincidence of aligned interests. Court mandated fines are taken into the account - if profit increase is higher than the fine, what's stopping them from going forward with such idea?
How about we go after the actual fucking culprit for a change?
the current system that makes is the most rational action to take?