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Top Document: FAQ: Air Traveler's Handbook 1/4 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [1-20] Hidden City Fares Next Document: [1-22] Discount Airlines See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Many people, when they can't use their nonrefundable ticket (or the return leg of a round trip ticket), try to sell their tickets through classified advertisements. This can be a source of cheap air tickets. However, you'll be traveling under someone else's name, and the airlines frown on this practice. If they catch you doing this, you'll be forced to pay full fare for the return flight (typically twice the face value of the round-trip ticket), and the airline will cancel all your frequent traveler miles and all the frequent flyer miles of the person who originally bought the ticket. They may also terminate your membership in their frequent flyer program. Their contract is with the person named on the ticket, not with you. If the tickets are actually stolen tickets, they will definitely catch you. Many airlines offer a bounty to employees who confiscate such tickets. Most airlines only check IDs on full flights or on fares that require a special ID, such as a student ID. But more are checking IDs on randomly selected tickets in an effort to discourage this practice. All carriers reserve the right to require identification and to refuse transportation if identification cannot be provided. For example Northwest prints the following warning on the inside flap of the ticket jacket: "Photo identification is required for all passengers. Boarding may be denied and ticket confiscated if passenger's identification does not match the name on the ticket." If the person named on the ticket checks in for you at the baggage check-in counter, you'll probably run into trouble on the return trip. If the airline catches you, you'll have to pay for a full fare one-way ticket, which will negate any savings (and probably cost you more than a round-trip would have). Plus, many airlines now check IDs on boarding at the gate, to discourage this practice. If the airplane should crash and you die, the airline won't have your real name (which can affect life insurance policies), and this is just plain unethical. Moreover, your legal rights are extended only to the person named on the ticket (or their estate), so in the event of a loss or claim against the carrier, you will have no legal recourse whatsoever. But given that the airline pricing strategies try to game the consumer market, some consumers feel they are entitled to game the system right back. I NEITHER ADVISE NOR CONDONE USING THIS PRACTICE AS A MEANS OF OBTAINING CHEAP AIR TRAVEL. This practice constitutes fraud, and hence is illegal. One thing, however, cannot be stressed enough: Never purchase such a ticket for international travel. If the name on your ticket does not match the name on your passport, you can get into a lot of trouble, not just with the airline, but with Immigration, Customs, and the police at your destination. The airlines are required to check your travel documents before you are allowed to board the aircraft, so they will compare the name on your ticket with the name on your passport. Many countries require airlines to return passengers to their country of origin (at airline expense) if the passenger is denied entrance into the country. So airlines have some incentive to be careful. If, by some fluke, they don't catch you, Immigration and Customs will also inspect your travel documents. They also tend to compare the name on the passport with the name on the bags. When they catch you, the consequences can be a lot more serious than having to pay for a full-fare ticket. Since traveling under false documents is often a crime under the laws of the destination country, you will be subject to the courts and punishments of the destination country, and there will be little your embassy can do to help you. User Contributions:Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: FAQ: Air Traveler's Handbook 1/4 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [1-20] Hidden City Fares Next Document: [1-22] Discount Airlines Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: mkant@cs.cmu.edu
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Throughout time, we can see how we have been slowly conditioned to come to this point where we are on the verge of a cashless society. Did you know that the Bible foretold of this event almost 2,000 years ago?
In Revelation 13:16-18, we will read,
"He (the false prophet who deceives many by his miracles--Revelation 19:20) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666."
Speaking to the last generation, this could only be speaking of a cashless society. Why's that? Revelation 13:17 says that we cannot buy or sell unless we receive the mark of the beast. If physical money was still in use, we could buy or sell with one another without receiving the mark. This would contradict scripture that states we need the mark to buy or sell!
These verses could not be referring to something purely spiritual as scripture references two physical locations (our right hand or forehead) stating the mark will be on one "OR" the other. If this mark was purely spiritual, it would indicate both places, or one--not one OR the other!
This is where it really starts to come together. It is incredible how accurate the Bible is concerning the implantable RFID microchip. This is information from a man named Carl Sanders who worked with a team of engineers to help develop this RFID chip:
"Carl Sanders sat in seventeen New World Order meetings with heads-of-state officials such as Henry Kissinger and Bob Gates of the C.I.A. to discuss plans on how to bring about this one-world system. The government commissioned Carl Sanders to design a microchip for identifying and controlling the peoples of the world—a microchip that could be inserted under the skin with a hypodermic needle (a quick, convenient method that would be gradually accepted by society).
Carl Sanders, with a team of engineers behind him, with U.S. grant monies supplied by tax dollars, took on this project and designed a microchip that is powered by a lithium battery, rechargeable through the temperature changes in our skin. Without the knowledge of the Bible (Brother Sanders was not a Christian at the time), these engineers spent one-and-a-half-million dollars doing research on the best and most convenient place to have the microchip inserted.
Guess what? These researchers found that the forehead and the back of the hand (the two places the Bible says the mark will go) are not just the most convenient places, but are also the only viable places for rapid, consistent temperature changes in the skin to recharge the lithium battery. The microchip is approximately seven millimeters in length, .75 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a grain of rice. It is capable of storing pages upon pages of information about you. All your general history, work history, criminal record, health history, and financial data can be stored on this chip.
Brother Sanders believes that this microchip, which he regretfully helped design, is the “mark” spoken about in Revelation 13:16–18. The original Greek word for “mark” is “charagma,” which means a “scratch or etching.” It is also interesting to note that the number 666 is actually a word in the original Greek. The word is “chi xi stigma,” with the last part, “stigma,” also meaning “to stick or prick.” Carl believes this is referring to a hypodermic needle when they poke into the skin to inject the microchip."
Mr. Sanders asked a doctor what would happen if the lithium contained within the RFID microchip leaked into the body. The doctor replied by saying a (...)