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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by DaniFong on Sunday November 27, 2011 @09:24PM (#3284164)
In another, more macabre calculus:

1.6 billion hours per year

= 182648 person years per year

Divided by forty (perhaps the average number of years of life expectancy remaining for fliers)

= 4566 remaining lifetimes stolen

= equivalent of 4566 deaths

which is more deaths than caused by 9/11. Every year.

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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by AshleysBrain on Sunday November 27, 2011 @09:58PM (#3284248)
If 1 billion people take a 20 minute nap every day... that's equal to 38,000 years wasted time every day... which is about 20 lifetimes every HOUR! OMFG nobody should nap!
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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by code_duck on Monday November 28, 2011 @02:19AM (#3284952)
How about 'the government should not mandate that everyone must nap'... does that sound reasonable?
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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by 16BitTons on Sunday November 27, 2011 @10:43PM (#3284393)
Except without sleep, we all die. The question before us is this: without TSA, do we all die?
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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by duck on Sunday November 27, 2011 @11:29PM (#3284535)
They said nap, not sleep. Dying from a 20 minute nap is pretty unlikely.
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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by artursapek on Sunday November 27, 2011 @09:36PM (#3284190)
That's a ridiculous way to look at it.
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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by lancewiggs on Sunday November 27, 2011 @10:17PM (#3284319)
The economic term is deadweight loss. Not so ridiculous, as that is product capacity lost to society.
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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by DaniFong on Sunday November 27, 2011 @09:47PM (#3284217)
Out of genuine curiosity, why is it ridiculous? Stolen time is stolen time, no?
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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by artursapek on Sunday November 27, 2011 @10:11PM (#3284291)
All you do your entire life is what you're confined to doing on an iPad in an airplane? It's not that huge of a loss. You're not dead for half an hour on each flight.
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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by DaniFong on Monday November 28, 2011 @06:27AM (#3285454)
Haha, you make a good point.

Nonetheless, flying could be an amazing experience. But fliers are some of the least happy people because they are treated either like criminas, children, or cattle. If the time isn't quite stolen, it is at least spoiled.

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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by artursapek on Monday November 28, 2011 @05:58PM (#3288004)
All I can say is to watch Louis CK's rant about how everything is amazing and nobody's happy. I fly several times a year and I honestly enjoy it. People who complain about their flying experience need thicker skin and more problems in their lives.
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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by morsch on Monday November 28, 2011 @04:33AM (#3285241)
No, but I sometimes wish I was dead for just that half an hour.
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Re:Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why by moultano on Sunday November 27, 2011 @09:46PM (#3284215)
Why? What common units would you convert it to?
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