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Going Through the Garbage
frankejames writes "This is a very funny piece on how Portland politicians said it was okay for police to seize a citizen's garbage without a search warrant. But when some reporters swiped their garbage (and reported the contents!) they screamed foul play! Read Portland's top brass said it was OK to swipe your garbage--so we grabbed theirs."
Only 4 troll posts so far, and already their webserver has melted!
Are they being hosted by that "webserver-on-a-gameboy" guy, or what?
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I think that's the "do as I say, not as I do" law.
This gives new meaning to Dumpster Diving.
Garbage In, Garbage Out...
Wrong! The *full* text from the site is as follows:
Error connecting to site
The Proxomitron couldn't connect to...
www.wweek.com/flatfiles/News3485.lasso
The site may be busy or the web server may be down.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
--Aristotle
All your garbage are belong to us!
thank you very much for posting that text i really enjoyed reading it and was afraid i wouldn't get a chance since the server is slashdotted why slashdot doesn't create their own cache to avoid this problem is completely beyond me thank you once again for your service to this community i will place you in my friends list sircrashalot
Being a seventh grader, on the other hand, seems far more easy to detect.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
perhaps they grabbed the server out of the garbage?
Have you seen one of those tampon shredders at Office Max? Or should we all incinerate our trash now too... Going through trash without a warrant in my opinion is a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America. I am not a lawyer, but I am an American citizen and that is my interpretation.
JOhn
Campaign for Liberty
>The lying on these surveys is astounding.
really? I've always thought that telling the truth
on those surveys was a bit odd. I mean, what's my
incentive for giving true answers?
The weirdest part about moving to oregon is learning that you can't pump your own gas.
(yes, it is illegal to get out of your car and fill up).
That and no sales tax, but you get used to it.
my associative arrays can kick your hash - TCL
Its illegal to do the teamster's job of taking away trash. If too many people trash-pick, then there won't be enough jobs for the teamsters. Gotta love those unions.
If anyone has tradeshow setup experience you'll be nodding your heads right about now
From the article :
"Chinese takeout boxes and junk-food wrappers testify to a busy lifestyle with little time to cook. A Post-it note even lays bare someone's arithmetic skills (the addition is solid, but the long division needs work)."
Ouch.
My
Limekiller
When there are no ordinary citizens with camcorders around.
Money for nothing, pix for free
If you live in Portland just start flushing your garbage down the toilet and shitting in your garbage can.
Trolling is a art,
How can you make that huge leap of inference?
:
How is that not consistent with
a: "Hey, I brought you a porno mag"
b: "er, thanks"
b throws it in the trash when a leaves
or
a: "son, this is a pornographic magazine and this is what I think of them"
a throws magazine in trash
or
a: "hey, look the printed some writing of mine in Playboy. Bah, I'm going to have to throw it in the trash in case someone finds it and thinks I'm into porno"
a throws magazine in trash
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Everybody should just start planting suspicious items into their garbage.
From the Blue World 'analysis' of Lasso versus PHP:
"The Lasso vs PHP report shows how Lasso Professional 5 beats PHP," said Bill Doerrfeld, CEO of Blue World. "This white paper will further increase awareness as to the significant performance, ease-of-use, architecture, security and total cost of ownership benefits of using Lasso over competing offerings such as PHP."
Uh, sure it fucking does. Scaled like a fucking champ here.
Hypocracy? WTF is that? A ruling class of syringes?
... Don't think that just burning your receipts is sufficient, the ink can be recovered with chemical processes if the ashes are intact, so you still need to pulverise the results, so why not skip the burning stage and just pulverise them correctly in the first place.
:)
Let me guess... Ex-Enron?
-- MrMud
Sometimes, when my own garbage cans are full, I put my overflow in the neighbor's can. They do the same thing. Taints the "chain of possesion" doesn't it? Also, my trash is kept behind a locked gate until the night before collection. My dog will bark insanely if an unauthorized leaf lands on my property, so the only way anyone could pilfer my trash without alerting me would be to do it just before the garbage truck arrives (while it's approaching noise masks any sounds made by a scavenger).