Samsung Galaxy Tab A with AT&T is,,,Way too Slow to "boot" start and open main screen, plugged into a power cord or by battery.

Stalls at the battery %...
Stalls at the brand name...
(at work)

TOO SLOW, Samsung!!

I just don't understand how Alaska can be voted "Best Domestic Airline" when I've had so many problems!

Dad and i and another pair or two went to Alaska to fish yearly. The flight to Seattle was ok, nothing special. Remember as a kid riding in the back of the station wagon? Like that.

But leaving Seattle on an old dirty half seats, half cargo smaller commercial jet was the beginning of the adventure!
In Anchorage we had to wait a couple hours for a flight back down to Yakutat, the famous Situk River and super Capt. Mark.
Once the gate agent woman was so rude as to tell us to "just sit!"

One time my duffel was sent way out to the Aleutian islands for 3 days;To me, no accident, just pure hostility. My raingear, dop kit, and clean clothes...no excuse!
Another time most of our checked 70# boxes of halibut, silver salmon and red sockeye salmon was checked baggage "lost" by Alaska Airlines; We finally were retail price fully reimbursed, and the fish we bought lasted us a year almost as planned, it just wasn't the fish we spent $1000s to catch and swat mosquitos almost as big as...

On one trip I expected to see Brown bears across the 20-40ft wide Situk River, so i called Alaska to ask if I could bring $35 big can of pepper spray and holster.
"Sure you can, as long as you declare it and put it in your checked bag. No problem. We do it all the time."
Just to be sure I called back twice and got the same story from Alaska reservation clerks.
At the airport I told the guy at the front check-in counter.
By the time I walked to the gate, "it was confiscated" the gate agent told me!
What!?

Not enough?
I caught a last minute flight to Hawaii to be with someone, and Alaska wasn't my first second or third preference.
Sure enough, the long narrow plane was a boring decor of white walls and blue seats.
And the Flight Attendants mostly hid in the back kitchen for the 5hr daytime flight.

Southwest crews are almost always in a better, more fun mood; I've only been on 1 uncleaned plane flight.
One carrier has tropical decor partitions ,,, and Navy blue seats.
JetBlue use to have leather biz seats for Everyone and happy crews.
United may have to change it's name after dragging an MD off a plane for his overbooked seat.
The old guy on the Alaska plane tail is Not that interesting.

So what am I missing???

One huge secret problem with the EU has always been the right to immigrate. More French move to England than English rich retirees move to France?

Then problem comes when 1000s of Eastern Europeans move into your town and don't want to Assimilate! They make their own less attractive neighborhood. Some bring gang crime, like moving from Mexico to the USA with millions and millions of Latin gangsters now. LA, Fresno, etc.

Fewer local shoppers means fewer local shops. Kind of like the big box stores and huge malls destroying town's tiny downtown thriving businesses, like novel Valley Fair and downtown San Jose, Redev. Agency costly criminal mess, and still SJ is struggling after city govt moved out and back, and crime peaked. Beside pampering BigBiz to detriment of resident citizens and their neighborhoods, SJ is still a mess. Sanctuary City anyone? East San Hosed.

Western Europe, like SF, depends on tourism.
If you fly to Italy or Austria, France or Sweden, do you want to meet locals or unhappy unassimilated 1000s of uncivilized bad habit possibly unprincipled or criminal Eastern Europeans?

Western European country cultures are so different and still not ready for EU no borders.
That's why since the 1960s the EC or now EU has had trouble talking about this aspect of the human not biz huge social experiment.

Scotland's Edinburgh and Germany's Berlin do Not have strong effective Rent Control, like SF.

Shocking the EU hasn't gotten around to that,,,, yet!

Google Map doesn't allow annoymous resident Reviews of Apartment building businesses, unlike hotels motels and hostels. Also does Not show all night freight or passenger RxR railroad tracks, say if you are looking for a quiet hotel or motel. And does Not show bike& pedestrian crossings over highways, if you are staying at an $ hotel and want to get to a restaurant on the other side of the highway.

Congress does a lousy job of regulating the internet, don't you think?

SF wants to Ban All Cigarettes, the First city in the Nation. Wouldn't it be so much Easier Smarter Wiser to just ban cigarette Filters from Sale? End of future butt litter on land and ocean.

Banning cigarettes and tobacco nicotine from addicts is like banning ,,, wine ,,,and Foolish Folly of Prohibition all over again, more $ for Organized Crime.
Stupid.

Is the SF Bay an Asset or still a Dump? The Legislature and Congress are Experts at ignoring problems big and small, from Fed tax rewrite to decades of boats abandoned in Our Bay!

Currently there is an abandoned sailboat near Brisbane on the Peninsula between Sierra Point and Candlestick right on the shore.

"So pick the trash up!!", you might say.
Obviously, with all the govt we have from City to County to State and the Feds with all the regional agencies like Bay Area Conservation and Development Commission and the California Coastal Commission and even the military, the United States Coast Guard. And the Clean Water Act.

In the go-go develop 60s, private ownership of the land below the Bay water was allowed and raw sewage from most cities around the Bay was without sewage plants just piped into the Bay.

All our state politicians are so busy collecting Citizen United ruling approved "campaign contributions" of political funds, or bribes. And they have been very busy as insiders getting richer and richer as our democratic Republic's senators and representatives. If they were still in elementary school they would all get "D"s for "Johnny and Judy don't do most of their homework."

So I call a few local Reps offices.
"Not in My District."
"Gee, my district but don't know who to call to remove that abandoned yacht right next to highway 101. Did you try the Coast Guard?"

All the govt employees and billions spent on them and this small but significant problem for Decades of who/which agency or commission or Dept actually removes abandoned yacht is still unclear, undecided in 2019!

Called the Coast Guard twice at SFO station and GG Bridge station, that took a report.
Nothing happened.
Called Save the Bay, report or info taken.
Nothing done.
Called the Baykeepers, like the Riverkeepers.
"We don't know either."

I'm not trying to get the Feds to total change the tax corrupt code of loopholes and rifleshots and complexities or get universal health care for the last advanced nation or end these endless enemy-making foreign wars or ban cigarette filters not cigarettes or stop global warming and or get Trump un-re-elected.
I'm just trying to get 1 yacht trash removed, then all yacht trash removed, maybe, hopefully.
Easy right?

So I called KNTV2 newsroom and ABC7 tv newsroom.
Guess one more abandoned small yacht/boat in the Bay doesn't have the "infotainment" sex appeal needed to be "news"nowadays.
Have you also seen old widows standing on the curb after a 3day no cause eviction? Oh right, we ignore old weak poor lonely disabled "street" people, shamefully, don't we.
No more Bay Guardian newspaper...
KQED has become so commercial tho "public"...
Who cares?
The new Governor, Gavin Newsom?
The Frisco Mayor, fighting for homeless shelters in All the rich,or poor, SF neighborhoods?

SF's Redesign of "Hwy 101" Van Ness Blvd is a 3 YEAR MESS and 2 YEARS BEHIND SCHEDULE! What if it doesn't probably work emphasizing and declining ridership trouble Muni City bus system??

So many OOPS PROJECTS recently in SF from Cheap steel tracks replaced in the subway to the sinking and leaning Mission St. Millennium Tower to Big Early Cracks in the Salesforce Big Expensive Transit Center to Nuclear Waste hidden and falsified report at Hunters Point Shipyard to ,,, even the lack of basic Housekeeping of clean sidewalks and sewage left on Pennsylvania x 22nd Street from City Workers for Days!

Blame Oakland and J.Brown for the Oakland Bay Bridge $6B cost overrun Fiasco.