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How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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post #129

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it isn't a guy and it uses it/its pronouns.

Guys doesn't refer to men anymore, it's now a neutral word that can refer to both genders.

So how many guys have you slept with?

It's not neutral but guys like to pretend it is.

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

#363

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If it asks for it.

The page literally says the pronouns are "it/she" so you can call her "she" and no one should be offended, correct?

Doesn't sound right to me. A normal clause of that form would look like "she/her" and indicate that the pronoun is "she" as the subject of a clause and "her" otherwise.

This would indicate that maia wants to be referred to as "it" as the subject of a clause and "she" otherwise.

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

#364
post #50

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Please give maia the respect she deserves and use the correct pronouns.

She goes by it, so go look in the mirror. We're all trying our best here.

Maia uses both she and it pronouns. The poster before me misgendered it though, which absolutely isn't okay.

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

#365

As a software engineer even I sometimes can't help romanticising hacking in my imagination. But so many times it turns out to be just like some company left the front gate wide open and the "hacker" walked in and took a look around. Eg when an airline had a public API where you could get someone's passport number and details just from their boarding pass https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minis...

Ha! Loved the linked story. Thanks for posting.

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

#366

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I just had one today that had the last char of a field as '\', which escaped the closing quote and then munged the column count from there.

Isn't that your parser's problem? I don't think true CSV has any special characters other than comma, quote, and CRLF.

Unless it's a CSV file exported from a Nordic locale Excel, in which case your CSV exports will use semi-colon as column separators and commas as decimal points. And yes the filename will still end with ".csv"

So the following Excel export I just did will parse perfect fine with your CSV parser but give you completely the wrong thing:

  1;2,3;3,3
  2;7,3;9,3
  3;4,5;7,5

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

#367

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The page literally says the pronouns are "it/she" so you can call her "she" and no one should be offended, correct?

Doesn't sound right to me. A normal clause of that form would look like "she/her" and indicate that the pronoun is "she" as the subject of a clause and "her" otherwise. This would indicate that maia wants to be referred to as "it" as the subject of a clause and "she" otherwise.

That.....frankly doesn't make sense, or it breaks the English language in ways that I'm not familiar with(admittedly it's not my first language).

Do you mean that instead of saying "it's her apple" you'd say "it's she apple"?

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

#368
post #247

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Basically any air charter service (no matter how small) will have access to the no fly list. It's honestly surprising that it's not up to date online within minutes.

If I was the US government, I would add some fake but legitimate-looking IDs in such lists, different ones for every airline I send the list to, so I can identify who leaked the list ex post facto, and come down with God's Wrath on any airline that leaked theirs. But then, I am not a Bond-esque criminal organization bent for world domination.

This is called “seeding” a list and is standard practice for data brokers. But maybe that’s a sign they’re Bond-esque criminal organizations…

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

#369

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Doesn't sound right to me. A normal clause of that form would look like "she/her" and indicate that the pronoun is "she" as the subject of a clause and "her" otherwise. This would indicate that maia wants to be referred to as "it" as the subject of a clause and "she" otherwise.

That.....frankly doesn't make sense, or it breaks the English language in ways that I'm not familiar with(admittedly it's not my first language). Do you mean that instead of saying "it's her apple" you'd say "it's she apple"?

> That.....frankly doesn't make sense, or it breaks the English language in ways that I'm not familiar with

Correct; it is massively ungrammatical.

> Do you mean that instead of saying "it's her apple" you'd say "it's she apple"?

No possessive form is indicated. But instead of saying "I gave it a dress", you would say "I gave she a dress".

Re: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

#370

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That.....frankly doesn't make sense, or it breaks the English language in ways that I'm not familiar with(admittedly it's not my first language). Do you mean that instead of saying "it's her apple" you'd say "it's she apple"?

> That.....frankly doesn't make sense, or it breaks the English language in ways that I'm not familiar with Correct; it is massively ungrammatical. > Do you mean that instead of saying "it's her apple" you'd say "it's she apple"? No possessive form is indicated. But instead of saying "I gave it a dress", you would say "I gave she a dress".

Well, thank you for explaining. I have complete respect for anyone's choices in this area but I'll leave the opinion on this particular choice to myself.

Edit: looking at other comments, it seems like it might not be the correct explanation after all?

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