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/oblg. Airport Logic ?

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TSA, noun, Theater Security Airhead.

In 2012, TSA global strategies chief John Halinski was asked directly whether there had been a single arrest or detention on terrorism charges creditable to the implementation of whole-body scanners. He answered that there was not.

awesome, now there is a french military victory.

The Samsung Paper Bag will be more paper, and water proof.

Cool story bro. U mad? Just because you're PC nobility and have to miss out on all the content your Multi-Platform Kings and Queens gets to enjoy at their beck and call, you think you have to shit on the Console Knights and Mobile peasants? Know your role and shut your mouth.

Yes. However, people who choose to use twitter and sites like it are choosing to hear others because they are platforms designed to facilitate interaction. Those using them do not get a guarantee that they won't hear/read things they find offensive. People who complain about this actually want pulpits from which they can preach to the masses but not have to listen. There're other platforms for such people (eg personal sites/blogs). That's not what twitter's creators intended. People who don't like the nature of it shouldn't use it. People not ready to handle confrontation are not ready for platforms that give a mass audience and are most certainly not cut out for interactive PR/media/etc.

Most of the people complaining about free speech are the ones who spout off a bunch of fallacy ridden crap and then cry victim when they get the inevitable backlash.
quite apt:
http://images-cdn.9gag.com/pho...

The current crop of 'social justice' purveyors remind me of the christian apologetics during the heyday of the internet's 'new atheist' surge.

Even more obligatory

So basically, this... :)

http://9gag.com/gag/aqZR9XQ/ap...

Is that anything like an arts degree?

You cannot assume washed hands. You can only assume something is being inserted into the air stream.

http://images-cdn.9gag.com/pho...

http://9gag.com/gag/aVW1LGM/yo...

Yes, it's especially annoying having to reduce the security of the strong passwords I generate using a password manager because a major organisation has employed a coder who thinks that "between 6 and 8 characters, including a digit and a special character" is a stronger password than "MXxFrmyx6pUCbyBvNx3zerBb06DABs" ("Must contain a special character").

And I know I'm not the only one frustrated by this.

I love the ones that say things like "Must contain ONE number, ONE upper case character and ONE special character. And must be 8 characters exactly." Boy that simplifies things a lot. I had a fucking BANK that demanded this kind of 'secure' password...

Yes, it's especially annoying having to reduce the security of the strong passwords I generate using a password manager because a major organisation has employed a coder who thinks that "between 6 and 8 characters, including a digit and a special character" is a stronger password than "MXxFrmyx6pUCbyBvNx3zerBb06DABs" ("Must contain a special character").

And I know I'm not the only one frustrated by this.

...similar to how a draped or gift-wrapped bicycle is still identifiable as a bicycle, because cloaking it like that retains the underlying shape.

So then why wasn't it called the vacuum cleaner attack?
http://images-cdn.9gag.com/pho...

It's a joke..

Sorry Tim, it's a tragedy. An abortion of a submission. I've seen funnier jokes about literal shit on 9gag. Literally.

You have no sense of comedy, no timing, no passion, and no clue how to make something funny. You and samzenpus also have no idea how to pick an interesting selection of stories for the front page and can do little else but resort to tired clickbait and Bennett Haselton journals.

Your inability to properly curate users submissions has lead to the inexorable decay of this site, and your support for bitter, divisive, political stances over the years has driven away the better part of the only asset this site ever had -- the commentators.

A smart man, a competent man, a man with skills, would have found another career by now and bowed out. But you are not Rob Malda, are you Tim?

So you're saying this doesn't happen anymore?

i haven't met a woman like that personally. i haven't had terribly bad experience with women, either.
but there's this crusade which is getting more and more crazy. while it is lead by a crazy minority, there seems to be no opposition to that assholish behaviour.
well, here's some :)
http://9gag.com/gag/avZ65AW?ref=t

Because Americans are no longer educated about their government or their history, and as long as they can catch the latest episode of Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo they really don't care about what is happening. Those of us who DO care and pay attention are in the extreme minority. No matter how loudly we shout about the problems we're racing into, the rest of America looks at as like we're some crazy conspiracy theorists.

It doesn't help that many of the large news outlets are government sycophants, refusing to carry news that may damage the current administration. Note that this behavior is not limited to CBS or our current administration. They're all corrupt to some degree.

But yeah, nobody gives a shit, give them some Soma, all is well. Aldous Huxly was right.

The basic problem is that the writers are not smart, let alone geniuses, so they simply do not know enough to write a show about geniuses.

...right there.

What about Ginger?

True, the standard pronunciation of that is "djindjer". But I've read reports that "ginger" used as a racial slur against redheads is sometimes pronounced with the hard [g] and rhymes with "singer" or "swinger". (Compare the anagram.)

Not gonna happen

What do you think Apple is, exactly? There is prior art for every single patent Apple used against Samsung when they won in Germany, just for example. A funny take on a couple aspects of this: http://9gag.com/gag/5195630

First of all, most curtains are open by default!

Easily fixed. DNT is like the outside facing doors of your house locking by default (example). Apache is saying "We have the right to walk right into your house, even if the door is locked".

you'd probably leave very very quickly.
Depends, if your an 80 year old guy or Steve Stiffler your probably embrace the situation...

evaluate potential partners for being
decent-looking, reasonably healthy and not crazy before jumping into bed.

Amen to that!

Some real reasons women might be happier
Disagree, a better list:
+ shopping
+ shopping for shoes
+ no pmt
+ shopping
+ self induced orgasm
+ shopping
+ chocolate
+ shopping
+ chocolate
+ shopping for shoes

http://9gag.com/gag/3110794

is we all know what comes next

As for having "little regard for their fellow humanity (sic)", well, even someone of only average intelligence would think that half the people in the world are stupid. Imagine what Feynman felt like.

I often have, among others. Feynman loved to teach. I asked an ex professor friend of mine if he'd heard of him. He said he didn't, until he said, "Oh yes, he teaches concepts!"

I.Q. is flawed because while memory is great, what makes someone intelligent is what they can create. If you understand the concepts, then the rest falls into place quickly and easily. If you only "memorize" parameters and processes, then you can't as easily create a solution to a different but related problem. (Like with division, I got in trouble for doing it "my" way, but it showed I knew what I was doing. They wanted me to use their process and memorize it, but it didn't help me understand what exactly what all of those numbers meant in the real world.) You don't discover for yourself, which is the joy in learning. He was indeed a great teacher, and I think he could teach anyone almost anything, provided the time and that they weren't retarded. Even then, you might be surprised. As Mr. Miyagi said, "No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher." All you need to teach anyone something is their interest.

Although I have little if any real science to back this up, I can offer the anecdotal evidence that the majority of high IQ people I know are collectively dumber than a box of rocks. They are quite knowledgeable when it comes to certain fields of expertise but just can't hack Real Life. They're arrogant jack-asses with little regard for their fellow humanity.

Ignorance is merely "lack of knowledge". Stupidity is wanting to stay ignorant. (for whatever reason, including some form of ignorance or overconfidence) Stupid does not mean dumb, which is more of a retardation. There are a LOT of intelligent, stupid people. I think most are likely just ignorant of the fact they aren't half as wise as they think.

Related comic...

Indeed, but in some cases, it could be more than just themselves.

For Date handling - regardless of platform you run into date handling issues. The way I work around it is to store the timestamp value instead (the milliseconds since 1970-01-01 for Java) and then I have one key value that I know is consistent and that I can do math with. When I come to presentation of the date I use the suitable date functionality that exists to handle it.

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