This reminds me of what happened to my self last year. I had a YouTube channel with Gaming Videos, they went to my channel created a fake Google+ account using my name and started posting offensive content on it.
They then went to videos with homosexual acts and posted comments with my name saying things like "I endorse this", etc..
On the Google+ page they posted Male Pornography all under my name.
I went to the Police here in Dubai and after a few weeks of no response I found out that they lost my file and that I would have to do another report to get anything done about it.
I eventually took it into my own hands, contacted Google+ send pictures of my passport and they shutdown the account and removed all Google query's of the page.
This seems more like a myth to me. I have friend that I have known since we were toddlers.
Even though me and him are in different countries we Skype daily! I will be visiting him in August and he's going to visit me in December.
This is pretty suspicious. First we find out that two passengers were using stolen passports and now we find out that 20 passengers belonged to the same company.
I'm not going to say it's terrorism just yet but it is pointing towards that or something like it.
Isn't it pretty standard for groups to be traveling together? I'm fairly certain you'd find some kind of larger group on pretty much all flights. In this case it happened to be 20 passengers working for Freescale.
Actually, this crops up as a legal/insurance concern for larger valuable companies every so often, where company policy must stipulate in writing that critical numbers and/or groups of employees should not fly on the same airplane at the same time, since airplanes, though statistically safer than cars, are still prone to catastrophic accidents and are opperated by pilots not under direct control of the company.
In order to fulfill certain contracts or receive insurance coverage, written language for company travel policies must ensure the continuity of proprietary trade secrets, and redundancy for mission-critical personnel, in case of disaster, or catastrophic accident.
There was a tech company (during the 80's or 90's?) that was completely destroyed by a single random plane crash that killed a handful of the key people in one fell swoop, but the name escapes me, and my google skills are failing. Maybe someone else will remember. I want to say it was a vintage video game company, but it might've just been some old (now defunct) electronics company...
For this same reason, the president and vice president of the united states don't fly together. I think military command adheres to similar rules.
You would think governments would also avoid such risk, but the top brass of Polish government all got wiped out when a plane crashed in Russia in 2010, including their President. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_TU-154_c... A sad event, but could have been avoided or at least minimised.
I wonder how that squares with tech companies providing shuttle buses in the Bay Area. I found a reasonable looking comparison that said bus travel is more dangerous than flying.
My guess is the company has more control over the bus, or the bus charter company shoulders the insurance burden.
The missing factor is time for recovery. If an employee, even an executive, dies, it may be a problem, but probably not a catastrophe. Others can pick up the slack, a replacement can be hired and trained, etc.. You can kill the entirety of the original team and not be in dire straits, provided they die over the course of several years.
If an entire team dies at once, there's no one to pick up the slack, and no one to train replacements.
It is both unlikely that an entire team will be on a commuter bus at once, and even if they were, it is unlikely that a bus crash would kill all of them.
Plane crashes, in contrast, have a nasty habit of killing everybody on board all at once.
I don't think you understand what he meant. I know there are companies around me that have offices located in not-so-central areas of the city that offer a free bus service to bring you from major public transport hubs to their offices.
It is true there are corporate shuttles covering a variety of distances and particular use cases. It eludes me why that makes you think I didn't understand, or what it has to do with my comment.
Years ago I was asked to help organise a reward/training day for our department at a large European corporate. I found a charter flight and arrangements for a hotel in France that knocked the spots off local options and came in 15%+ cheaper. It was a no go because of the risk of putting everyone on a single flight. Still - I'd agree this is likely to be a co-incidence and the result of these poor souls effectively commuting between fab and design facility.
While the two stolen passports are suspicious, it's important to realize that there's plenty of flights with people with stolen passports. The most common reason is illegal immigration rather than anything more untoward.
Also according to AVHerald, it is now reported that one of the Chinese individuals identified on the manifest never left China. It seems to me that this is almost certainly about illegal immigration and/or stateless individuals than it is anything nefarious.
While we are going for crazy conspiracy theories, 24 of the Chinese passengers were from a calligraphy art group returning from having their art displayed in KL. Maybe it is someone who really really hates Chinese calligraphy?
The point is that there are all kinds of reasons why groups of people end up on the same plane.
Last year, when my employer had an offsite event, nearly the entire flight was filled with my coworkers.
When I was working for an event management company a few years ago, it was very common to have 10-15 people of the same company in the same flight..
Forget about suspicious.. There is nothing odd or even remotely unusual to have 20 people of one company travelling in the same flight. Let's not add more to the mystery than what's already there.
I can't think of any reason someone would bring down a plane just to kill 20 probably low-level Freescale employees. I can't even think of any reason someone would be specifically targeting Freescale employees at all -- not even their myriad competitors would stand to gain in any material fashion.
I'm also Muslim so I guess I can answer this.
We usually pay it to charities, in the old days Muslims would go around looking for people who needed the money and directly pay it to them but now we send it off to foundations though we can still pay it directly if we would like.
Most Muslims also sponsor Orphans. I am actually sponsoring two orphans.
This is how bad things have become. I just thought that maybe I, a non-Muslim, could contribute to one of these charities. And then I immediately was worried that the transactions would be noticed and I would be accused of supporting a terrorist organization, because of the meta data between me and the charity and then innocent and coincidental meta data beween some third party person of interest and the same charity.
And thus is the First Amendment right to freedom of association destroyed. Fuck you, NSA.
I meant that if only a small subset of society are honest, then only that dmall subset will do alms, thus the impact of alms to the needy will be somewhat small and ineffective.
And if there is large subset of society not honest and try to pose as the needy to receive the alms, then the system is screwed.
Oh I understand what you mean. Well obviously for his system to work the would need to be authorities that could find people that truly premise as impoverished.
I don't want to sound like a nutcase conspiracy theorist but to be quite honestly if the government had always wanted an excuse to violate basic human rights, 9/11 was probably the best thing that happened for them.
After 9/11, they were able to convince us that we NEED to be felt up by strangers at the airport and that we NEED to invade a country and that ITS OKAY to just kill thousands and thousands of civilians "by accident" all in the name of National Security and when some civilians try and kick out these strangers that invaded their country and killed their family, they're the nut jobs, they're the bad people, they're the real terrorists.
I honestly think the US is a bigger terrorist that Osama ever was. Now, after 9/11 people we're living our normal lives normally; while in Afganistan, families everyday are terrorized, scared, afraid that this might be their last day. Today might be the day their father doesn't come back. Today might be the last day they see each other.
They then went to videos with homosexual acts and posted comments with my name saying things like "I endorse this", etc..
On the Google+ page they posted Male Pornography all under my name.
I went to the Police here in Dubai and after a few weeks of no response I found out that they lost my file and that I would have to do another report to get anything done about it.
I eventually took it into my own hands, contacted Google+ send pictures of my passport and they shutdown the account and removed all Google query's of the page.