Agreed.A “gadgets off” policy means you will be paying attention to your surroundings. This means you will respond to them. Should there be an emergency, you may faintly remember the indications from the people working on the plane.When you don’t pay attention, you become the douchebag who doesn’t want to move because he’s too busy playing Angry Birds Space on an iPad. You become the idiot who is playing music so loudly through the headphones that everybody hears it.Having devices turned on through a flight offers people yet another chance to become assholes that get in other people’s way.

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Opinion: Shutting down your gadgets at takeoff and landing: not such a bad idea

Agreed.A “gadgets off” policy means you will be paying attention to your surroundings. This means you will respond to them. Should there be an emergency, you may faintly remember the indications from the people working on the plane.When you don’t pay attention, you become the douchebag who doesn’t want to move because he’s too busy playing Angry Birds Space on an iPad. You become the idiot who is playing music so loudly through the headphones that everybody hears it.Having devices turned on through a flight offers people yet another chance to become assholes that get in other people’s way. Read More »

This answer pretty much sums up the best way to get it done. The server puts each message on the appropriate label but it remains in an unread state, so Thunderbird will pick up the hint and notify you of unread messages.

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How do I synchronize Thunderbird tags with Gmail labels? – Super User

This answer pretty much sums up the best way to get it done. The server puts each message on the appropriate label but it remains in an unread state, so Thunderbird will pick up the hint and notify you of unread messages. Read More »

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I’d been feeling, the past few years of my 30-plus-year tenure in public education, that there was something or somebody out there, a power of a sort, that doesn’t really want you kids to be educated. I felt a force that wants you ignorant and pliable, and that needs you able to fill in the boxes and follow instructions. Now I’m sure.

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