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China Worried About Terrorist Pigeons
An anonymous reader writes: A pleasant event was planned for the 65th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. A ceremony at Tiananmen Square would release 10,000 pigeons at sunrise to symbolize an era of peace. Unfortunately, even symbols of peace can apparently remind people of violence. Chinese authorities searched all 10,000 pigeons for "dangerous materials," after the government was concerned they might be used for attacks. The pigeons' feathers were checked, and they were given a cavity search as well. The reports did not indicate what kind of "dangerous materials" these pigeons might be carrying. It's unclear whether any pigeons disclosed terror plots under interrogation.
They always seem to be dropping 'dangerous materials' on my car...
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
the authorities didn't want to do they cavity search, they were worried it would pigeon hole their career.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
What the Chinese authorities missed is that this event was being used as cover for circumventing the Great Firewall of China using RFC 1149: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc11...
Who could miss the symbolism of 10,000 pigeons shitting on the citizens gathered in the square.
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In many languages there's only one word for both doves and pigeons. In Dutch it's both duif, in German it's both Taube, in Japanese it's both hato, etc.
You'll have to go a lot further if you want to come close to United States levels of paranoia. We once shut down the entire city of boston because we couldnt tell the difference between a light-up sign and a bomb. Our monument to the last major terrorist attack on america is so heavily fortified its nicknamed "fear tower" and the public park in front of it requires extensive security screening as well as a reservation just to get in. We once spent 3 trillion dollars attacking a country that not only had nothing to do with 9/11, but that we supported extensively in the past. We used the phrase 'support the troops,' a sentiment also used by Nazi Germany, to make sure our citizens went along with a war we couldnt win. We've shamed and humiliated entire generations of US Citizens in our zeal to ensure the elderly and children arent carrying explosives. Hell, we once had a color coded scare-o-meter to tell people how nervous they should feel on any given day.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Hell, we once had a color coded scare-o-meter to tell people how nervous they should feel on any given day.
They should be numerically graded.
How else are we to know EXACTLY how nervous we should be?
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Worst ... job ... ever.
"Oh, hey honey, how was your day at work?"
"You know, the usual, stuck my finger into a couple hundred pigeons, just like every other day."
"*sigh* Looks like I need to clean the poop off your uniform again"
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
In 1988 Korean pigeons had a different unpleasant experience at the Seoul olympic games opening ceremony.
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
I stick my finger up pigeons butts.
In many languages there's only one word for both doves and pigeons. In Dutch it's both duif, in German it's both Taube, in Japanese it's both hato, etc.
...While in English, we have two equally nonspecific words for the same group of birds.
Taxonomically, doves and pigeons don't refer to distinct species, they both refer to any of hundreds of members of the family Columbidae. At best, you can say that doves "tend" to look smaller and lighter-colored
For the car analogy, we tend to refer to the largest passenger vehicles as SUVs and the smallest cars as subcompacts... Yet neither word actually refers to a specific nonoverlapping set of models, and we actually have cars advertised as subcompact SUVs.
To resist RFC-1149.
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