"The high school I graduated from recently enforced school uniforms, suspending students who refuse to conform."
I don't understand what your problem is with uniforms. When you go to a school either you or your parents sign an agreement stating that you will abide by the school rules. If you don't you get either suspended or expelled. PERIOD. You signed it (or your parents who know better for you signed it) so you agree with it. Most of the world uses school uniforms. No-one seems to bitch and moan too much about it there. (Africa, Carribean, South America, GB, Ireland....) Is it because you can't show off your latest brand name-waste of money- trendy clothes? Or is it because it infringes on your precious right to choose? As a Marine Engineering Student I am required to wear a my uniform (which I loathe)on my college's campus. The only thing I like about the uniform is that you don't have figure out what you are going to wear the next day. (cuts down on laundry alot too) I remember my days of high school. Personally I think uniforms would have been a good idea. Two reasons. My family was poor so I could never keep up with the latest fashion ($100 jeans!! hell my dad laughed when i asked to buy a $50 pair) which was always a source of amusement to the shallow teens and a source of shame to me. The second point. There were alot of hotties in my school who I would have loved to have seen in a schoolgirl outfit.
I hardly get spam in my hotmail either. To my memory I've only gotten nigerian 401 scams. I don't consider them spam. I consider them entertainment.
Spammer: "A relative of yours has died in Sinapore we need can help you release the funds." Me: "Your spam bot is an idiot. Look at my email address. (XXXXXXXXvandebunte@hotmail.com) Does it look like i could remotely have a relative in singapore with an obviously dutch last name?"
Spammer: "We are looking for a God fearing man to help us release the funds." Me: "I worship the dark lord Satan is that ok?"
"The new business rationale is that STOLEN music should be paid for by profit sharing of newly sold Zune music players"
This pisses me off. They automatically assume that every motherfracking MP3 player is playing full albums ripped from Teh Piratebay. 99% of my 25GB of music is legally obtained. Bought and paid for via HMV and Futureshop i've even got the two massive CD folders to prove it. Just by buying the Zune in their eyes brands you as a criminal. Looks like We have another product to boycott.
(Although I wouldn't have bought it anyways. Microsoft...*shudders*)
is good with one exception. When the bankers come to collect the US will need to call in some markers to pay of their debts. The nations that the US lends money to for the most part cannot possibly pay back the money. Mrs. Marcos cannot sell all her shoes which she bought with her embezzled money and Achmed certainly can't sell his tanks. So in short the US is screwed. The Chinese know this. There is reason why the US turns a blind eye to so many human rights violations. If China decided to declare economic war on the US they would be buried.
One of main reasons that Zango got nailed (as the well should be) is because of stealth installs. Those Leet Haxxors are not only bundling Zango shit along with those lovely virii and trojan when you visit their often innocent looking websites. One a few months back was a hacked World Wresting Entertainment site. Zango knows full well that the majority of their income comes from these often unwanted installs. They knew that the Install yes/no boxes are pre-ticked yes so you accidentally click it and recieve the pop-ups of doom. They knew they had affiliates who didn't even bother with the yes/no install boxes. They still paid these affiliates. Zango only stopped paying certain affiliates when they got busted by Ben Edleman, and Paperghost. Zango deliberately made their EULA so confusing that most Lawyers can't even read it let along your average person. Ad-ware/Malware distributors do come to your proverbial door. Most (if not all) Zombie computers have some for of adware running on them. Zango knocks on your door almost every time you get a "cool" video from your friends via email. Zango kicks down your door when your daughter gets some free emoticons from a friend on her favourite IM and it contains a virus which zombifies your machine. These guys are ruthless and heartless. So don't give me that shit about internet safety 101 when innocent sites are hacked to have the activeX install upwards of 500MB (yep you read that right) of garbage on your computer. True they should have firewalls, ant-virus and everything else running like most of us here do but they don't. Why? Because we shouldn't be required to go to local Walmart wearing a bulletproof vest in real life and we shouldn't be required to have a virtual one on either to "just surf the net" or check out when Hulk Hogan is coming to town. These people are just innocent by-standers in this underground war for internet control. Your defense is like saying she deserved being raped because she was wearing a skirt.
You are forgetting the Sims franchise. There's your no violence with online capabilities. Also IMHO incredibly fucking boring but one of the best selling games of all time.
The intel technique makes sense. I mean lets face it. How many of us when moving on to another job have had their productivity slip? Generally I get the attitude of "What are you gonna do fire me? I got X days left, leave me alone so I can get back to UT."
I was a airplane re-fueler at Edmonton International Airport post 9/11 (Shell Aerocenter 2002-2003) . I can tell you this. EVERY refueler and most baggage handlers carry knives or a multi-tool (ie. leatherman) of some sort. So do many pilots. Why is this? We use them to lever open hatches, latches, open your bags for the video cameras ect. (I shit you not. I know several guys who carry those little keys that fit the little locks on your bags so they can poke around in your bags) It would be a snap for some one on the inside to plant a knife. Or even a small gun.
But how do you get past security you ask. I'll tell you. We don't. We have our own entrances and exits and these don't use metal detectors or our steel-toed boots would set them off every time. The only thing that is our security check is our id tags. Sure we go through an extensive process before we are issued one but there's lots of criminals working at your airports. That and they aren't that tough to forge. If you have a "friend" at your local DMV you could probably do it.
So security is tight at the terminal? You can charter a small to large plane at your local FBO. We never check you or your bags. Why would we? We think you are some rich guy who jaunts around on his private jet. Perfect for loading with explosives and plowing into buildings on you jihadic quest.
But what about the regular people who go through security? Did you know that you are allowed 10 packs of matches but no lighters? I can do a shit load of damage with ten packs of matches and I'm sure you could too! Oh yeah the metal detectors that you walk through aren't sensitive enough to pick up a bic lighter. If you get caught with one. Just say oops, my bad I forgot about it and make sure they see your pack of smokes. They'll take the lighter away and thats it!
If you are worried when they swab your laptop and you've been chopping some of columbia's finest ontop of it don't worry. They are searching for bomb residue. But here's a secret. They don't swab your MP3 players, video cameras, and cell phones. They just scan them with the machines. I'm not sure how many ounces of high explosive you fit in a video camera but i'm guessing it's a fair amount.
What about sniffing dogs? I fly all over the place to meet up or disembark from ships. I can't remember the last time I saw one. Why? They are a bitch to train. (pun semi-intended) Something like one out of every 20 makes the grade. And THEN they are split up for K-9 tracking, bomb sniffing, narcotics, sniffing, blind leading ect. The odds of running into a dog is pretty slim unless ou are at one of the well funded big airports. (LAX, Heathrow ect.) Most of the guys who I work with on multi-national ships regularily bring some drugs home. Not alot, but a few grams to help make the welcome home party a bit more welcoming.
These flaws are just a few I could think of off the top of my head. So whats the point? If you are creative enough (and hackers prove this regularily) and determined enough you can get past and security thats in place. Especially when it's so shoddy like it is at our airports.
So to be honest some one forging a boarding pass should be the least of their worries. Happy flying!
I agree with you.
A friend of mine put it so succintly. MS is like McDonalds. They take some one else's idea and mass produce something that just slightly shittier than the original but most people haven't experienced the original so they don't know any better. McDonalds has the the McFlurry (DQ's blizzard), Their 1/4 pounders (BK's 1/4 Pounder's), Salads (Wendy's Salads) ect. MS has done the same with Tabs (Firefox, Netscape), Windows (Mac), plug and play (mac), Window's media player (Winamp anyone?), I'm sure you get the idea. Like McD's the quality sucks, it's not good for you, and for most people it's the first flavour they've had so they go with what they know.
"Finally, how come an album can come out and the first week it's $11, and then two weeks later it's marked up to $18? What causes a 60% markup like that?"
Ask your local dope dealer. Give it to you a low price and when you get around to telling your mates about how good it is the price has gone up. More than likely they will sell it as a subsidy until it's popular enough to generate a profit. It's a time honoured business tactic.
Should see me when I finish a six month contract on a Container ship where no one gives a crap about appearances. My Goatee was just under 10" last time.
It's my opinion that only true videophiles will be buying either one of these systems until
A) the prices of the HDTV's come down and I'm not talking about the "ready" ones. Thats a shitty advertising gimmick. You still need some sort of transformer for the TV. I don't know too many people who will shell out $2k for a TV when their 27" looks fine to them. Not to mention reciever's that usually run a couple hundred for a half decent one.
B) The format war settles down so that there is only one. (Laserdisc what???)
C) They give out some movies that would blow your socks off. Talledega Nights? Please. How about X-Men 3? Or hell, Click which has better effects than TN. Some thing where you can see the indivdual hairs on Storm's head as she becomes the whirlwind.
D) The HDTV "ENABLED" TV's are your every day TV. Right now it's not a convenient change over. This isn't something like DVD which out-sold VHS's ten year sales in the span of two. There's too much new equipment thats needed. With the DVD player all you had to do was plug into your TV (or VCR if your TV was really old). Can't do it with HD-DVD / blu-ray and see the true beauty of the system. See point A
Halon is. It also displaces oxygen. problem solved. (Works well for fire-fighting. Banned now though due to ozone depleting concerns. How something heavier than air damages the ozone I'm kinda hazy on though.)
ya make one spelling mistake and you pay for it. Anti-climactic is the word of the day. Every one scream when you hear it! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!
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"The high school I graduated from recently enforced school uniforms, suspending students who refuse to conform."
I don't understand what your problem is with uniforms. When you go to a school either you or your parents sign an agreement stating that you will abide by the school rules. If you don't you get either suspended or expelled. PERIOD. You signed it (or your parents who know better for you signed it) so you agree with it. Most of the world uses school uniforms. No-one seems to bitch and moan too much about it there. (Africa, Carribean, South America, GB, Ireland....)
Is it because you can't show off your latest brand name-waste of money- trendy clothes? Or is it because it infringes on your precious right to choose? As a Marine Engineering Student I am required to wear a my uniform (which I loathe)on my college's campus. The only thing I like about the uniform is that you don't have figure out what you are going to wear the next day. (cuts down on laundry alot too)
I remember my days of high school. Personally I think uniforms would have been a good idea. Two reasons. My family was poor so I could never keep up with the latest fashion ($100 jeans!! hell my dad laughed when i asked to buy a $50 pair) which was always a source of amusement to the shallow teens and a source of shame to me. The second point. There were alot of hotties in my school who I would have loved to have seen in a schoolgirl outfit.
I hardly get spam in my hotmail either. To my memory I've only gotten nigerian 401 scams. I don't consider them spam. I consider them entertainment.
Spammer: "A relative of yours has died in Sinapore we need can help you release the funds."
Me: "Your spam bot is an idiot. Look at my email address. (XXXXXXXXvandebunte@hotmail.com) Does it look like i could remotely have a relative in singapore with an obviously dutch last name?"
Spammer: "We are looking for a God fearing man to help us release the funds."
Me: "I worship the dark lord Satan is that ok?"
Oddly enough they never replied...
The funny thing. Last time I was in Singapore I picked up X-Men 3 on DVD the day it came out in theaters for $2 US. It had sub-titles and everything.
Can you say double standards?
"The new business rationale is that STOLEN music should be paid for by profit sharing of newly sold Zune music players"
This pisses me off. They automatically assume that every motherfracking MP3 player is playing full albums ripped from Teh Piratebay. 99% of my 25GB of music is legally obtained. Bought and paid for via HMV and Futureshop i've even got the two massive CD folders to prove it. Just by buying the Zune in their eyes brands you as a criminal. Looks like We have another product to boycott.
(Although I wouldn't have bought it anyways. Microsoft...*shudders*)
is good with one exception. When the bankers come to collect the US will need to call in some markers to pay of their debts. The nations that the US lends money to for the most part cannot possibly pay back the money. Mrs. Marcos cannot sell all her shoes which she bought with her embezzled money and Achmed certainly can't sell his tanks. So in short the US is screwed. The Chinese know this. There is reason why the US turns a blind eye to so many human rights violations.
If China decided to declare economic war on the US they would be buried.
That is a track record I would not be proud of!
LOL the Martha Stewart... Problem. Yep going to jail is a problem alright.
One of main reasons that Zango got nailed (as the well should be) is because of stealth installs. Those Leet Haxxors are not only bundling Zango shit along with those lovely virii and trojan when you visit their often innocent looking websites. One a few months back was a hacked World Wresting Entertainment site. Zango knows full well that the majority of their income comes from these often unwanted installs.
They knew that the Install yes/no boxes are pre-ticked yes so you accidentally click it and recieve the pop-ups of doom.
They knew they had affiliates who didn't even bother with the yes/no install boxes. They still paid these affiliates.
Zango only stopped paying certain affiliates when they got busted by Ben Edleman, and Paperghost.
Zango deliberately made their EULA so confusing that most Lawyers can't even read it let along your average person.
Ad-ware/Malware distributors do come to your proverbial door. Most (if not all) Zombie computers have some for of adware running on them. Zango knocks on your door almost every time you get a "cool" video from your friends via email. Zango kicks down your door when your daughter gets some free emoticons from a friend on her favourite IM and it contains a virus which zombifies your machine.
These guys are ruthless and heartless.
So don't give me that shit about internet safety 101 when innocent sites are hacked to have the activeX install upwards of 500MB (yep you read that right) of garbage on your computer.
True they should have firewalls, ant-virus and everything else running like most of us here do but they don't. Why? Because we shouldn't be required to go to local Walmart wearing a bulletproof vest in real life and we shouldn't be required to have a virtual one on either to "just surf the net" or check out when Hulk Hogan is coming to town. These people are just innocent by-standers in this underground war for internet control.
Your defense is like saying she deserved being raped because she was wearing a skirt.
Get them to read Paperghost's security blog Vitalsecurity.org it's written in plain and often humorus english.
Or taken from the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6114458.stm
You are forgetting the Sims franchise. There's your no violence with online capabilities. Also IMHO incredibly fucking boring but one of the best selling games of all time.
The intel technique makes sense. I mean lets face it. How many of us when moving on to another job have had their productivity slip? Generally I get the attitude of "What are you gonna do fire me? I got X days left, leave me alone so I can get back to UT."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Kpyf47RRPC4
Gotta love Family Guy
God I miss my StarTac. That thing was invincible and even out in the sticks you could get good reception.
worst idea. ever. (well it was till I RTFA)
Security is a joke in airports.
I was a airplane re-fueler at Edmonton International Airport post 9/11 (Shell Aerocenter 2002-2003) . I can tell you this. EVERY refueler and most baggage handlers carry knives or a multi-tool (ie. leatherman) of some sort. So do many pilots. Why is this? We use them to lever open hatches, latches, open your bags for the video cameras ect. (I shit you not. I know several guys who carry those little keys that fit the little locks on your bags so they can poke around in your bags) It would be a snap for some one on the inside to plant a knife. Or even a small gun.
But how do you get past security you ask. I'll tell you. We don't. We have our own entrances and exits and these don't use metal detectors or our steel-toed boots would set them off every time. The only thing that is our security check is our id tags. Sure we go through an extensive process before we are issued one but there's lots of criminals working at your airports. That and they aren't that tough to forge. If you have a "friend" at your local DMV you could probably do it.
So security is tight at the terminal? You can charter a small to large plane at your local FBO. We never check you or your bags. Why would we? We think you are some rich guy who jaunts around on his private jet. Perfect for loading with explosives and plowing into buildings on you jihadic quest.
But what about the regular people who go through security? Did you know that you are allowed 10 packs of matches but no lighters? I can do a shit load of damage with ten packs of matches and I'm sure you could too! Oh yeah the metal detectors that you walk through aren't sensitive enough to pick up a bic lighter. If you get caught with one. Just say oops, my bad I forgot about it and make sure they see your pack of smokes. They'll take the lighter away and thats it!
If you are worried when they swab your laptop and you've been chopping some of columbia's finest ontop of it don't worry. They are searching for bomb residue. But here's a secret. They don't swab your MP3 players, video cameras, and cell phones. They just scan them with the machines. I'm not sure how many ounces of high explosive you fit in a video camera but i'm guessing it's a fair amount.
What about sniffing dogs? I fly all over the place to meet up or disembark from ships. I can't remember the last time I saw one. Why? They are a bitch to train. (pun semi-intended) Something like one out of every 20 makes the grade. And THEN they are split up for K-9 tracking, bomb sniffing, narcotics, sniffing, blind leading ect. The odds of running into a dog is pretty slim unless ou are at one of the well funded big airports. (LAX, Heathrow ect.) Most of the guys who I work with on multi-national ships regularily bring some drugs home. Not alot, but a few grams to help make the welcome home party a bit more welcoming.
These flaws are just a few I could think of off the top of my head. So whats the point? If you are creative enough (and hackers prove this regularily) and determined enough you can get past and security thats in place. Especially when it's so shoddy like it is at our airports.
So to be honest some one forging a boarding pass should be the least of their worries. Happy flying!
I agree with you. A friend of mine put it so succintly. MS is like McDonalds. They take some one else's idea and mass produce something that just slightly shittier than the original but most people haven't experienced the original so they don't know any better. McDonalds has the the McFlurry (DQ's blizzard), Their 1/4 pounders (BK's 1/4 Pounder's), Salads (Wendy's Salads) ect. MS has done the same with Tabs (Firefox, Netscape), Windows (Mac), plug and play (mac), Window's media player (Winamp anyone?), I'm sure you get the idea. Like McD's the quality sucks, it's not good for you, and for most people it's the first flavour they've had so they go with what they know.
"Finally, how come an album can come out and the first week it's $11, and then two weeks later it's marked up to $18? What causes a 60% markup like that?"
Ask your local dope dealer. Give it to you a low price and when you get around to telling your mates about how good it is the price has gone up. More than likely they will sell it as a subsidy until it's popular enough to generate a profit. It's a time honoured business tactic.
Yeah and Grizzly Adamas had a beard.
Grizzly Adams did have a beard.
---Happy Gilmore---
Should see me when I finish a six month contract on a Container ship where no one gives a crap about appearances. My Goatee was just under 10" last time.
It's my opinion that only true videophiles will be buying either one of these systems until
A) the prices of the HDTV's come down and I'm not talking about the "ready" ones. Thats a shitty advertising gimmick. You still need some sort of transformer for the TV. I don't know too many people who will shell out $2k for a TV when their 27" looks fine to them. Not to mention reciever's that usually run a couple hundred for a half decent one.
B) The format war settles down so that there is only one. (Laserdisc what???)
C) They give out some movies that would blow your socks off. Talledega Nights? Please. How about X-Men 3? Or hell, Click which has better effects than TN. Some thing where you can see the indivdual hairs on Storm's head as she becomes the whirlwind.
D) The HDTV "ENABLED" TV's are your every day TV. Right now it's not a convenient change over. This isn't something like DVD which out-sold VHS's ten year sales in the span of two. There's too much new equipment thats needed. With the DVD player all you had to do was plug into your TV (or VCR if your TV was really old). Can't do it with HD-DVD / blu-ray and see the true beauty of the system. See point A
Thats my 4 cents.
That was my point.
Did any one else notice the wording. "It absolutely could happen." Thats pretty definite. Is he taking lessons from John Kerry?
Halon is. It also displaces oxygen. problem solved. (Works well for fire-fighting. Banned now though due to ozone depleting concerns. How something heavier than air damages the ozone I'm kinda hazy on though.)
ya make one spelling mistake and you pay for it. Anti-climactic is the word of the day. Every one scream when you hear it! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!
Damn it! I knew there was a flaw to my plan. *stops building wall*
You forgot one thing. When the wall around DC is finished fill it with water.