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Northwest Gives Personal Data to NASA
Tree writes "Following four months on the heels of JetBlue's confession that they released passenger data to the Feds against their stated privacy guidelines, the Washington Post is reporting that Northwest has now admitted that they've done the same thing during a time period when they said they weren't. Nice. They were once my favorite airline."
What are you on about, simpleton?
I knew the goverment was gathering information on consumers as soon as grocery stores introduced no-clip coupon cards. I say ban the cards.
Cow tipping is a tradition among rural youths that has been around since humans first domesticated the bovine species. The practice is a great way to increase sef-confidence at an early age. Also, with the increasing separation of humans from the natural world, cow tipping is an easy way to get in "touch" with nature.
However, the urbanization of rural areas worldwide has begun to threaten this long-standing and important custom. It is therefore imperative that cow tipping be kept alive so future generations can enjoy this activity, which has been so important to rural adolescent development. The following steps will ensure a successful night of cow tipping:
- Choose a cloudy or moonless night. The darker it is, the easier it will be to approach the cow.
- Make sure there are NO BULLS in the field. Bull attacks are the leading cause of injury among cow tippers. Remember, bulls are cows with horns. As a safety precaution, bring a red blanket for impromptu matadoring.
- Once you have found a good location, check wind direction and approach your target cow against the wind. This will make it harder for the cow to hear you.
- Go for the tip! In a creeping motion, walk toward the cow, place both hands on one of its flanks, and push with a hard, but smooth stroke.
- As soon as the tip is complete, revel briefly in your success, then RUN LIKE HELL!! The tipped cow will usually wake on impact with the ground, which will awaken the other cows. Sometimes a panicked stampede will follow, and that's a really bad scene.
Have fun with your new-found activity, but please be a humane and considerate cow-tipper. Keep in mind that cows are living creatures and sacred in several nations. Treat them as you would want to be treated. Also, good citizens respect property rights. You should get permission before you enter a field with cattle. You may save yourself some buckshot to the buttocks.Find a location with the fewest cows. This will increase the chances that all the cows will be asleep.
Happy tipping!!!
Federal disclosure records show that Clark lobbied directly on "information transfers, airline security, and homeland security issues" for Acxiom. The company was pushing the by now notorious CAPPS II, a creepy program designed to profile all airline passengers. Clark, who reportedly got $800,000 in fees for his work, lobbied the Justice Department, CIA, and Department of Transportation. According to The Arkansas Democrat Gazette, he met personally with Vice President Dick Cheney.
NSA needs it so that they can be sure people comply with the GPL of SELinux.
Yet one more reason I will never fly on their airline. Those "Body Nazis" were the first to ban smoking on international flights. That's when they lost me as a customer, permanently.
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We lose 35 HUNDRED Americans so the Govt. now has the right to spy on and remove the liberties of the remaining 300 MILLION! You obviously don't GET IT so let me EXPLAIN IT TO YOU: The terrorists failed. They KNOW they failed. What terrorism attempts to do is demoralize and frighten the people being terrorized. They FAILED to do that with Amreica! Just like the japanese terrorists of Pearl Harbor, all they managed to do was stregnthen America's resolve! We don't NEED Bush and his cronies spying on us. First off do you really believe that the 9/11 terrorists would possibly be able to get away with it now? If they tried, they would likely wound have been mummified by duct tape and thrown out the back door of the plane! Pre 9/11 there was a different attitude towards airplane terrorism. No Government official considered that airplanes culd be used as bombs (though a few sic-fi and game makers knew it all along). NOW that would not happen simply because the pilots would never leave the cockpit! Get real, what Bush et al are doing is using 9/11 as a reason to lock the barn door after the cow has escaped...and take a few hundred rights away from 300 million people in the process! Thomas Jefferson said that those who would give up freedom for security deserve neither! The residents of Iraq were safe before we Americans came. Now they're not. Yet, you who derided me for questioning my president taking away my freedom believes that it's ok for him to make it LESS SAFE in Iraq so they can have more liberty! Sorry guy, you can't have it both ways. Time eo choose!