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Top Document: FAQ: Air Traveler's Handbook 2/4 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [2-9] Avoiding Travel Scams Next Document: [2-11] Getting There Faster See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge If you ever miss a connection because your plane was late and the lines at the service desk are very long (e.g., everybody else on that flight needs rebooking), call the airline's 800 number. Sometimes they'll let you rebook because of a missed connection over the phone. You may still have to pick up the flight coupon at the service desk (though sometimes you'll be able to get it at the gate), but at least you'll make the next flight. If you wait on the line, you may not make the next flight if everybody in front of you is also waiting for the next flight, or the next flight leaves in a few minutes. Depending on the airline and the airport, you may be able to be rebooked on a flight by going directly to the gate. Some airlines will force you to go to the service desk. (For example, TWA in JFK requires that all changes go through the service desk.) If the flight you want to be rebooked on is "full", it may pay to ask the agents whether upgrading to first class will make a difference. It'll cost you, but it may save you from being stuck in the airport for a few hours. When buying a ticket with a connection, allow enough time to get from one gate to the next at the connecting airport. The airline computers have an estimate of the minimum time required to make a connection, but this isn't always accurate, especially if the gates are at opposite ends of the airport, or you're seated at the tail of the plane. The connection times are based on the arriving and departing airline, whether the flight is international or domestic, and other factors such as the flight number. The most common connection time for domestic flights is 45 minutes, which is the default minimum. Flights on the same airline at adjacent gates, however, may have shorter connection times. International flights will, of course, have greater connection times. With the new on-time rules, airlines are reluctant to hold flights for passengers coming from connecting flights that are late. The connection times, of course, do not allow for late flights (except insofar as there is a small built-in allowance for slight variations in arrival). If you're carrying your own baggage, have kids, walk slowly, or want to take a pit stop at the bathroom, allow yourself extra time the first time you fly a particular route. Ask your travel agent whether there will be enough time for you to make the connection, and if they think it's close, what other flights are available that leave the connecting city a little later. User Contributions:Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: FAQ: Air Traveler's Handbook 2/4 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [2-9] Avoiding Travel Scams Next Document: [2-11] Getting There Faster 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 (...)