Quick question. How many bombs have made it on planes in spite of the new, post 9/11 security theater and how many have been stopped? That's right, not one, ONE, report of a bomb being found/stopped by security. Passengers on the other hand, they all but kill the "terrorists".
But this is kind of interesting. Why are we drawing parallels between 9/11 and bombs? 9/11 was perpetrated by Saudi's with box cutters. No bombs were used or required. With all of our bomb sniffing/detecting/fondling methods, 9/11 still would have happened. We are not safer.
And the interesting part is, I doubt the passengers will go for that. I'd bet the farm that the passengers would all but kill, if not kill, the assailant(s). The images of 9/11 won't fade easily and until they do no one will risk being slammed into a building.
So, your argument boils down to: if we drop the theater and go back to metal detectors only, then 9/11 style hijackings in the US would be "common" again (mind you they only ever happened once on US soil, hence the date describing them)? Also mind you, they had no explosives, etc. Just box cutters.
Sorry, but no. Case in point, even with "enhanced" security we still had shoe and underpants bomber "terrorists" get through. Security hasn't gained us anything. Awareness of the fact that not all hijackings end up in safe landings has forced the public's hand in dealing with the threat in the air. We all but kill them now.
The attitude shift _alone_ will stop hijackings. Now random bombs in bags, ok, screen bags with dogs and sending them through scanners. Problem pretty much solved, or at least reduced to near zero, just as it was before.
And the amount of people who will die in car accidents to and from the airports will be higher than that, but that is besides the point. I haven't verified the math, but it would be interesting if true that statistically more people would be hurt/killed from the scanners than from "terrorist" events themselves.
Seriously, since 9/11 we have gone from a "let the hijackers land where they want and don't fuss" mentality to a "kill the fucker" sport mentality. Hijackings, at least on US flights are a thing of the past. Sure, ok, finding an explosive is a good thing, but at what cost? The chances of being on a plane with a bomb are so tiny it isn't even worth worrying about.
Lets go back to metal detectors to get the obvious and maybe walk bomb sniffing dogs through often enough to deter would-be "terrorists". Oh, and scan checked luggage all you want, just stop stealing from it, ok?
Nude photos and fondling my (and everyone elses) man bits isn't making me feel safer, it's just making me want to fly less and make me loathe my government even more. I'm spending less and the government is spending more. What a great recipe.
The problem is, what stops you, as a scalper, from buying out every ticket you possibly can through whatever means necessary, and then jack the prices up? I have no problem with a guy buying 2 tickets and selling them if he can't go. The problem comes up when someone buys them all merely to resell them at a profit. It's the same idea behind the limits on purchases of heavily discounted items like TV's, etc. You can't just go in and buy them all just to turn around and sell them at a profit. With limited quantities (tickets, discounted items, etc) you have to put limits/rules in place or the only people buying them are those that want to profit off it.
No, because if you want into the main market with Android, you play by Google's rules. But _nothing_ stops you from making your own market. There are already a ton of apps located outside the official marketplace that you can go and get. This is the huge advantage with Android. With the iWhatever, you are utterly locked into Steve Jobs Market, that's it. End of Story. As an Android user, I welcome new markets. Sprout them up!
For one, I'm just finishing Battlestar Galactica. I never saw it on tv so this is my first run through. I have watched the whole series (new one, minus the first 2 episodes that are disc only, go figure) on Netflix in HD. It's also a great way to watch random movies without having to sort through torrents, wait for them to finish, upload them to my htpc, etc. Also helps that I only get OTA programming. I also refuse to pay $80+/mo for TV.
Last I checked certain religions don't allow women to show their faces in public let alone submit to naked pictures. Pretty sure there are less extremes than that particular religion that also frown upon getting nude shots taken of you.
You honestly think hijackings will still work? Seriously? Every time there has been a peep of insurrection on a plane the passengers all but kill the assailant. General screening for bombs is fine (although that doesn't even work, Shoe Bomber, Underpants Bomber). But the days of box cutters equaling destroyed sky scrapers is _gone_.
But, you don't have to go through the scanner. You can always opt for a genital pat down instead! You can trade _seeing_ your genitals for _touching_ them if you want!
This tripe is informative? Obviously you've never served on a Jury. I have, and let me tell you that those random people were the most professional people I've ever met. They cared deeply, and made sure to be as objective as possible. We were asked to basically decide people's financial fate and none of us took that lightly. This is the most overrated piece of garbage I've read in a long while.
If you don't have the money to pay 5k let alone 50k+ what does it matter if they tell you to pay millions? Why not billions? or trillions? It's a pipe dream to expect that amount. If I were her, I'd try to get that number as high as possible. The higher it is, the more the system looks like nonsense and the more chance there is for positive change.
Just curious, but what security is there besides 8 channels (Not that channels offer security)? What's stopping my neighbor from watching where I surf or what I watch?
WoW gets them millions upon millions each month... It's a freaking behemoth.. It worked there, so.. why not? (mind you, I'm not saying I like it, frankly I HATED the Arena's)
So anyone that does something knowingly illegal should be barred from basically touching a computer? Even if not in prison? Because I see no reason why this guy is a menace to or with computers and thus there should be no reason to restrict his use of computers.
Pretty much agree, however, netbook more defines a class of laptop. One that generally has good battery life/low power, more portable than a normal laptop and cheap. If this new mac isn't a "netbook" then it's clearly an underpowered laptop. A $1000 underpowered, magical laptop.
Reading the court document posted in TFA, there is no mention of the crime being related to or associated with a computer of any kind. There was mention of a pellet gun, some drug use, etc. No mention of a computer.
A $999 netbook? Part of the definition of netbooks is that they're inexpensive.
So if Apple wants to release a netbook without it being a netbook, all they have to do is jack the price up. It's a netbook with a stupid high price tag. Putting a C2D in a netbook a couple years ago would have made it too expensive, today, those chips are cheap and can fit the bill the atom did before.
It walks like a duck. It quacks like a duck. Apple says it's not a duck. It's not a duck?
Apple says they don't see the point in netbooks. How can we release a netbook without being hypocrites? Ahh, we see netbooks, by definition aren't cheap. Throw a $1000 tag on there.. Done! not a netbook!
It walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.
Then that's not the internet, it's a fancy BBS, no? They could setup a full bank of modems for cheaper. Less bandwidth, but it's still a closed off and restricted system.
Isn't this all just ignoring the real problem? It doesn't matter if you buy a nation, or buy an island, or buy a satellite. You have to get your internet pipe from some external source of which isn't in your "bubble of safety". You could setup a pirate planet, but if you want to connect back to earth you still need a transceiver based in a country not owned and operated by you. Great! You can't be prosecuted for doing what you want to do, but no one can access it.
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Quick question. How many bombs have made it on planes in spite of the new, post 9/11 security theater and how many have been stopped? That's right, not one, ONE, report of a bomb being found/stopped by security. Passengers on the other hand, they all but kill the "terrorists".
But this is kind of interesting. Why are we drawing parallels between 9/11 and bombs? 9/11 was perpetrated by Saudi's with box cutters. No bombs were used or required. With all of our bomb sniffing/detecting/fondling methods, 9/11 still would have happened. We are not safer.
And the interesting part is, I doubt the passengers will go for that. I'd bet the farm that the passengers would all but kill, if not kill, the assailant(s). The images of 9/11 won't fade easily and until they do no one will risk being slammed into a building.
So, your argument boils down to: if we drop the theater and go back to metal detectors only, then 9/11 style hijackings in the US would be "common" again (mind you they only ever happened once on US soil, hence the date describing them)? Also mind you, they had no explosives, etc. Just box cutters.
Sorry, but no. Case in point, even with "enhanced" security we still had shoe and underpants bomber "terrorists" get through. Security hasn't gained us anything. Awareness of the fact that not all hijackings end up in safe landings has forced the public's hand in dealing with the threat in the air. We all but kill them now.
The attitude shift _alone_ will stop hijackings. Now random bombs in bags, ok, screen bags with dogs and sending them through scanners. Problem pretty much solved, or at least reduced to near zero, just as it was before.
And the amount of people who will die in car accidents to and from the airports will be higher than that, but that is besides the point. I haven't verified the math, but it would be interesting if true that statistically more people would be hurt/killed from the scanners than from "terrorist" events themselves.
Seriously, since 9/11 we have gone from a "let the hijackers land where they want and don't fuss" mentality to a "kill the fucker" sport mentality. Hijackings, at least on US flights are a thing of the past. Sure, ok, finding an explosive is a good thing, but at what cost? The chances of being on a plane with a bomb are so tiny it isn't even worth worrying about.
Lets go back to metal detectors to get the obvious and maybe walk bomb sniffing dogs through often enough to deter would-be "terrorists". Oh, and scan checked luggage all you want, just stop stealing from it, ok?
Nude photos and fondling my (and everyone elses) man bits isn't making me feel safer, it's just making me want to fly less and make me loathe my government even more. I'm spending less and the government is spending more. What a great recipe.
I would love a quake remake! I loved multiplayer in it as well. Couldn't get enough of CTF when if first came out (mod community)!
The problem is, what stops you, as a scalper, from buying out every ticket you possibly can through whatever means necessary, and then jack the prices up? I have no problem with a guy buying 2 tickets and selling them if he can't go. The problem comes up when someone buys them all merely to resell them at a profit. It's the same idea behind the limits on purchases of heavily discounted items like TV's, etc. You can't just go in and buy them all just to turn around and sell them at a profit. With limited quantities (tickets, discounted items, etc) you have to put limits/rules in place or the only people buying them are those that want to profit off it.
No, because if you want into the main market with Android, you play by Google's rules. But _nothing_ stops you from making your own market. There are already a ton of apps located outside the official marketplace that you can go and get. This is the huge advantage with Android. With the iWhatever, you are utterly locked into Steve Jobs Market, that's it. End of Story. As an Android user, I welcome new markets. Sprout them up!
For one, I'm just finishing Battlestar Galactica. I never saw it on tv so this is my first run through. I have watched the whole series (new one, minus the first 2 episodes that are disc only, go figure) on Netflix in HD. It's also a great way to watch random movies without having to sort through torrents, wait for them to finish, upload them to my htpc, etc. Also helps that I only get OTA programming. I also refuse to pay $80+/mo for TV.
Last I checked certain religions don't allow women to show their faces in public let alone submit to naked pictures. Pretty sure there are less extremes than that particular religion that also frown upon getting nude shots taken of you.
You honestly think hijackings will still work? Seriously? Every time there has been a peep of insurrection on a plane the passengers all but kill the assailant. General screening for bombs is fine (although that doesn't even work, Shoe Bomber, Underpants Bomber). But the days of box cutters equaling destroyed sky scrapers is _gone_.
But, you don't have to go through the scanner. You can always opt for a genital pat down instead! You can trade _seeing_ your genitals for _touching_ them if you want!
So creepy...
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/31/0234232/TSA-To-Make-Pat-Downs-More-Embarrassing-To-Encourage-Scanner-Use
This tripe is informative? Obviously you've never served on a Jury. I have, and let me tell you that those random people were the most professional people I've ever met. They cared deeply, and made sure to be as objective as possible. We were asked to basically decide people's financial fate and none of us took that lightly. This is the most overrated piece of garbage I've read in a long while.
If you don't have the money to pay 5k let alone 50k+ what does it matter if they tell you to pay millions? Why not billions? or trillions? It's a pipe dream to expect that amount. If I were her, I'd try to get that number as high as possible. The higher it is, the more the system looks like nonsense and the more chance there is for positive change.
Just curious, but what security is there besides 8 channels (Not that channels offer security)? What's stopping my neighbor from watching where I surf or what I watch?
WoW gets them millions upon millions each month... It's a freaking behemoth.. It worked there, so.. why not? (mind you, I'm not saying I like it, frankly I HATED the Arena's)
So anyone that does something knowingly illegal should be barred from basically touching a computer? Even if not in prison? Because I see no reason why this guy is a menace to or with computers and thus there should be no reason to restrict his use of computers.
Pretty much agree, however, netbook more defines a class of laptop. One that generally has good battery life/low power, more portable than a normal laptop and cheap. If this new mac isn't a "netbook" then it's clearly an underpowered laptop. A $1000 underpowered, magical laptop.
Reading the court document posted in TFA, there is no mention of the crime being related to or associated with a computer of any kind. There was mention of a pellet gun, some drug use, etc. No mention of a computer.
No, I didn't ignore what you wrote.
A $999 netbook? Part of the definition of netbooks is that they're inexpensive.
So if Apple wants to release a netbook without it being a netbook, all they have to do is jack the price up. It's a netbook with a stupid high price tag. Putting a C2D in a netbook a couple years ago would have made it too expensive, today, those chips are cheap and can fit the bill the atom did before.
It walks like a duck. It quacks like a duck. Apple says it's not a duck. It's not a duck?
How convenient.. for Apple.
Apple says they don't see the point in netbooks. How can we release a netbook without being hypocrites? Ahh, we see netbooks, by definition aren't cheap. Throw a $1000 tag on there.. Done! not a netbook! It walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.
Take any netbook on the market and charge $1000 for it. Is it now not a netbook?
Then that's not the internet, it's a fancy BBS, no? They could setup a full bank of modems for cheaper. Less bandwidth, but it's still a closed off and restricted system.
Isn't this all just ignoring the real problem? It doesn't matter if you buy a nation, or buy an island, or buy a satellite. You have to get your internet pipe from some external source of which isn't in your "bubble of safety". You could setup a pirate planet, but if you want to connect back to earth you still need a transceiver based in a country not owned and operated by you. Great! You can't be prosecuted for doing what you want to do, but no one can access it.