Don't know if its what your looking for, but I know a few people with large collections that buy a dedicated external hard drive for music. (you can get a 1Tb on sale for about 60 bucks) Load up what your computer can hold and when its time to change it up, pull the hard drive off the shelf and file transfer.

It is not unlike the oil refinery ... an experiment in vertical integration and labor.

SkyWest is not really a player in the race to the bottom. Pinnacle's somewhat ballistic trajectory came from underbidding the flying, losing their butts, then entering bankruptcy. While GoJets participated, SkyWest mostly sat on the sidelines and worked their play book to diversify their revenue base.

Also, Northwest has a very close relationship with Pinnacle. Prior to the bankruptcy Delta was already doing side deals to compensate Pinnacle pilots contractual gains. I don't understand that relationship, but clearly it exists (I can find the news articles if you're interested).

From what I am hearing Pinnacle will be Delta without Delta pilots. This experiment has been played before at ASA, but Delta has more capability now than it had then. There are a lot of RJ centric resources left over from Comair (World's largest CF-34 engine shop outside of GE if I am not mistaken) and the same network capability that facilitated our merger enables virtualization of an airline like Pinnacle easy.

IMHO ALPA does a better job on our top end scope and we lead the industry in our JV language and capacity sharing arrangements. In as much as our t production balances are "inclusive scope" I like the model.

The execution is strained after the Admin agreed to an expansion of the measurement window to three years with a one year cure. Everyone seems to agree a one year window allows for seasonal adjustments while being effective as a job protection device. However, I get what our MEC was thinking with the benefits of the Alitalia addition which would increase our flying.

It is frustrating that there seems to be no plan to restore our shortfall in the AF/KLM JV. However, our MEC is aware of the issue and not dodging it. They seem to be holding their fire waiting for the right targeting solution. There are a lot of theories on what that solution might be ... we're obviously going to have to figure out the Virgin Atlantic piece.

Thanks for your thoughts. I would love to sit down and have some beers with a group of wb guys. There is a great deal to learn and I learn better with a beer in my hand.:D

Were you around for the LM "line in the sand?"

I have done that with a chunk of music and about 250 movies. It is a start, but there's got to be a better way. Hopefully, someone has a final universal solution, because I don't want to be chained to apple for life.

On a side note, it is surprising how little space all those movies take up on an external terrabyte.

I'm personally a 2 banana monkey. Otherwise, you'll get that on the line.:D

Thanks for the adventure :D

Off Topic Question
 

Good discussions of earnings report, but I have an off topic question. ATL based going to initial qual in Sept. I checked the box that I want a hotel room for training in my AE bid. Do I still need to notify training planners for said hotel? Thanks,
Burn Notice

I had CQ recently and the hotel name & number was placed on my monthly schedule. A month or so prior to training I got a pop-up message on ICrew regarding what two days I wanted for a hotel. So I believe your hotel booking should be automatic and posted on your schedule.