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Anon E. Muss writes "Just because you can put a camera somewhere doesn't mean you should. Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security doesn't grasp this concept. They've installed video cameras in urinals at Houston's Hobby Airport. At least they weren't sneaky about it — they posted a notice saying 'Automatic infrared flush sensors also provide video monitoring for security purposes.' (Insert bad joke about bashful bladder syndrome here)."
Well, that just takes the piss...
i see what you did there.
Except that most people don't walk around on the street corner with their wang out.
"When did we put on yellow lens filters on the cameras?" "We didn't"
I do.
What if the camera is too big to flush?
I smell a prank.
Oddly, the prank smells a lot like asparagus.
Except that most people don't walk around on the street corner with their wang out.
What? You don't walk out with your cock out?
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#2007_arrest_and_consequences
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Actually that depends on the street corner, and whether or not there are ongoing celebrations.
And you get modded insightful... What's going on today, this must be one of those false awakenings, I bet I'm still dreaming...
This post was made in complete sincere seriousity; as such any attempts to derive humour are doomed to instant failure.
I'm sure this is a prank. Since this is generating bad publicity for the DHS, they will probably catch the person who put these stickers on the urinals after reviewing the video from the real, covert hidden cameras they have covering the urinals.
Can anyone tell me how to set my sig on Slashdot?
Indeed. This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
They exist?
And you get modded insightful... What's going on today
Yes, clearly that comment should have been modded informative.
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I'm one of those douchebags. The ALS makes my legs and trunk too weak for me to stand unsupported, and my neck won't hold my head up unless I lean it back far enough to balance. I'll try to piss my pants next time, so as to avoid bothering you.
That sound you hear is 16 armed TSA officers bursting in the bathroom.
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
>> 1. I thought Houston was in Texas.. why weren't you packing? Defend yourself asshole.
Please carry a firearm into the Houston airport terminal and let us know how that works out for you. kthanksbye.
Oh, yeah, the land of the "free". Just continue being "proud" and do some flag-waving.
I was thinking the same thing, but I'm wondering if this would get us on at least TWO no-fly lists.
Citizen. Come with me. Uncle Sam wants to peep your dilznick. Make even the least bit of sense? No? We're detaining you indefinitely anyhow, terrorist.
So why don't they just take a leak already?
And you get modded insightful... What's going on today
Yes, clearly that comment should have been modded informative.
The mod may be apt as it's fully...in...sight
Plus, they are probably desensitized to it all anyway. It would take a bit to shock them.
Still, I wonder what happened to the goatsie guy, and whether he ever flies.
Looking for cameras, of course.
Seriously, though, when I travel, I generally carry with me some essential survival equipment: pocket-size rain poncho; "space blanket"; some string; some tape; a couple of needles, 2 or 3 yards of thread in different colors, and a thimble; a magnifying glass; some safety pins; a multi-tool; at least a small lighter but usually also some matches in a waterproof case; a flint-steel-magnesium firestarter; a small but powerful flashlight (Surefire or equivalent).
Tomorrow: Ironically it turns out there really are secret IR cameras installed in these facilities which caught him in the mischievous act of labelling. Hmm.
which is totally what she said
I wouldn't want to reveal my Willy of Mass Destruction to the cameras.
What's with all the unnessicary bolding that seems to occur ever three or four words. It almost seems like their word processor is trying to speak like Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.
The opinions in this post are ficticious. Any similarity to actual opinions, real or imagined, is purely coincidental.
Oh, yeah, the land of the "free". Just continue being "proud" and do some flag-waving.
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Well, the terrorists hate us for our freedom. Obviously the solution is to destroy all traces of freedom.
</sarcasm>
Normally, I have to trick people into looking at my penis. Now, I have an audience. Thanks, TSA!.
This whole thing is just a shitty idea!
Shouldn't you have been in the kitchen cooking breakfast instead of composing this reply? :: ducks ::
I'm kidding, of course. I very much respect all women, and especially women on slashdot for dealing with asshats like me with our lame, redundant jokes. Frankly though, they're sort of like fart jokes... I don't think we'll ever stop laughing at them, no matter how stupid they/we/I may be. ^_^
No way it could be a fake. If somebody tried to plant those stickers the urinal cameras would have identified him immedi.... Oh. Hang on....
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
Does this "Peter Wang" happen to know a urologist by the name of "Dick Chopp"?
Friends don't let friends line-dance.
That's really a long time to hold it. Have you considered therapy?
Well you don't need to be so pissy about it. :-P
"I know that every word that man just said is true, because it's EXACTLY what I wanted to hear." -- Space Ghost
Well, first things first, the irony of you telling me that I read too much into your post, then taking seriously the assertiveness that I believe you are being defensive of me saying you're a cat from Outer Space is pretty much the most ironic thing I've read this morning, which granted has started less than an hour ago.
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Now, and totally ignoring your ramblings about intelligence and technology and averages, let's move to the next point.
Jokes that rely on stereotypes.
Ok, so let's make something clear: stereotypes are sociological constructs based on empirical statistical evidence. By definition, being cultural knowledge and not individual knowledge, they can have a generation delay if changes occur to the grounds where that statistical data is based.
Jokes about stereotypes can be of two main types:
1) Jokes created by generations less than two generational replacements away from the social change that renders the stereotype incorrect, or 2) Jokes created by further generations.
The jokes contained in "1" are generally speaking jokes aimed at ridicule or derision of the joke's subject. The jokes in "2", however, even if they can contain exactly the same words, are created to ridicule the people from the previous generations, or those in the current generation whose beliefs are still rooted in the stereotype, against all statistical and social change available. They can also be aimed (and this is your case) at the excessive (to absurd levels) defensiveness of some members of the social group that the stereotype refers to, or white knights that believe the defense of that group to be their life's goal.
Now, the only way you can distinguish easily between those two types of jokes is by context and by knowing the person (or getting subtle hints in the joke itself, or accompanying sentences. This of course requires a high capability for empathy, a good sense of humour, and a clear view of the world without excessive defensiveness clouding your judgment, and we both know dykes don't have that.
See?
now when you say "flag" do you mean my penis? because i have to say that i will proudly waive mine for the camera in a most patriotic fashion to let them know that i am a true patriot. hell i might even go and get an American flag tattooed on my flagpole so that i can relieve myself with true patriotism and in a free manor that all Americans can be proud of. because as every free man and woman and child in the US of A knows there is no better expression or re-enforcement of those freedoms our forefathers died for. yes i have to say that as an american i would be proud to have someone film my junk while i go to the bathroom. and then put it on the nightly news as a perfected example of the kinds of freedoms we have in this country. we have freedom from free speach, we have freedom from expression, we have freedom from information, we have freedom from our own privacy, and now we have the freedom to be free from not being watched while we pee. this is a true and perfect step in the right direction for this great country we live in.
seriously tho guyz if i really wanted to have my wang filmed while i take a piss i would move to frakkin tokyo.
Penis recognition software (PRS) is being developed in conjunction with this camera install. The FBI is keenly aware that "the terrorists" are likely to employ elaborate forms of disguise, even resorting to cosmetic surgery, but hardly anybody ever carves up their Johnson. Soon, all commercial toilets will be online and a massive archive of biometric dicktatude will be available. "Honey, how did it go at work today?" "Don't ask darling...nothing but a bunch of dicks down at the airport." Enjoy.
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