Radiation fear mongers are the same ones that want to shut down your wifi. The meter is on the outside of the house, any radiation they produce is no more than your neighbors wifi, which is on 24/7.
Was in commercial radio for about 20 years...part of that time in the engineering end and am also a Ham Radio operator. Spooking people with stories of a big source WiFi radiation outside their home is as rooted in truth as telling kids they'll grow hair in their palms or go blind from masturbation.
I used to accompany our head engineer to the transmitter on a mountain top location. The transmitter was running at 100,000 W...hence away from every/anybody. The first time I ever visited the site...I walked into the room which had the lights on what looked like a dimmer turned 1/2 way up...but the switch was in the "off" position. Turned on the lights to full power. Then we used the "Jesus Pole" after this to ground off any stray current...we cleaned the cabinet out and tweaked the final.
As for Ham Radio use...I put any antenna up as high/far away from anyone to keep RF away from where people are to keep them from bitching when I transmit and their TV goes crazy.
It can backfire, however. Gambling is heavily regulated and one of the requirements in some places is that the thing being gambled on must be random.
The only flaw in this is that they've shown the random number generator on motherboards aren't. Some former techs for the slot machine companies got caught milking the odds by about 3% on machines they had built because the RNG wasn't. Three percent doesn't sound like much...but they lost their job and any future employment in any gaming industry for "cheating" the casinos out of the three percent they thought was theirs.
Another one which isn't technically illegal (the casinos will escort you off the property the first time and worse after this) is counting cards. It's probability and puts the odds more in your favor...but will still get you 86'ed. See the movie "21" or the documentary of the students at MIT which did this to get an idea.
Are we really surprised? There are very few games in a casino where the house doesn't have a significant advantage. The house wants you to lose money because their business model depends on it. They only pay out winnings to keep people coming back. The whole gambling industry (including lotteries) is nothing more than a system of wealth redistribution. The rich love casinos (if they own the place) because it makes money for them and the government loves casinos because it means more tax revenue. Everyone else loses.
I used to work in casinos for several years...but never in actually running the game itself. Got out of it after about 3-4 years of not being able to handle working for a large company (Goldman Sucks)...egotistic managers...idiotic co-workers (did have some good people I would be more than happy to work with at any other job) and being able to not look in the mirror because of my employment in a business set up to screw people out of their money...even of their own accord.
One thing you have to realize about any lawful casino (usually an international company of another division of a company who may have stole your retirement on Wall Street)...the odds are set by the state. Those lights...drinks you love...machines you play are there to make sure you lose and lose as much as they can wring from you. As they used to tell us over and over...you have a job because people lose. You want to win at a casino...don't walk in the door or don't stop at any table or machine.
If you believe a casino won't make money...on some of the worst days during the week...I would go through at least 1/2 a million dollars we would unload from 1/6 of all the machines every week. On many weekends...it wasn't uncommon to have between 1-2 million dollars go through my hands on Saturday and Sunday.
The one thing to tell your grandmother...never play a penny slot machine. These thieves are set on the floor to take your money as quickly as you can shovel it into the coin slot. I have better odds pissing and hitting a jet at 35,000 feet than winning a decent payout on one of these machines. The reason...they are intentionally set up to waste your time and distract you. The reason...you may bet 100+ pennies ($1.00+) at one time...but you tell yourself it's only pennies. Use this analogy to a quarter/dollar machine. You bet 100 quarters ($25 +) or dollars ($100+) at one time...but having the better amounts on these machines...your odds are better to at least get some of your money back than the penny machines.
You want walk away with better odds of winning part of whatever you put into the machine...play the quarter+ machines or goto the high roller area. The service is better and you will walk away with something more than the grandma throwing her inheritance on those penny machines. Plus...at the higher denomination machines...you don't suck in smoke from someone who thinks it's okay to poison the air around them.
The one overall rule about any casino is there is no such thing as luck...only odds/probabilities. They are set against you no matter what you think.
The NYTimes has, of course, a lot of coverage on the topic, but many, including the editorial board, make the very strong point - how is this any better? Yes, as countless first posters try to show everyday, nigger is offensive, but nothing is such a blight on American history as the institution of slavery. This censorship wrongly conflates the word to be the problem, when really the problem is the hundreds of years of oppression, hatred, and violence that has and is aimed at blacks that the word represents. Some choice editing won't change the realities of the South in the mid-1800s, to think this fools anyone is a presumption of ignorance amongst teachers, parents, and children.
Having did a family tree several years ago...found out these terms:
1. Ancestors came from Switzerland to South Carolina in 1629
2. They owned land and slaves. In a will from 1775...the slave owner mentioned a "Mazzie" by name as a fine house servant. I could be incorrect that this woman could be the "Sally Hemmings" in my family tree.
3. Movement of relatives to Mississippi years after this.
4. Moved to Texas years later.
5. Moved to Oklahoma after that.
6. Unknown...if I had any ancestors who fought on either side during the Revolutionary War. Known...had ancestors who fought in the War of Northern Aggression.
Being from the South...that word was in common use until the 70's. Now...can't stand the word...but I do know this that poor whites/blacks are treated the same way by those with power/money. Other than skin color...there is no difference between the two races.
Having read this story the other day...went over to one of the free book sites and downloaded copies of Twain's work published during his lifetime or soon after his death to have a copy of it. You never know how far censors can go to having what they don't like banned and being impossible to find in the future.
The good news is that they've figured out how to restore colour to the B&W negatives. The bad news is that it requires Kodachrome processing...
No problem there at all. Just use the Tardis and go back to the heyday of Kodachrome processing. For this...it really helps to use a Time Lords trick of thinking inside the box.
Pilots, truck drivers, and nuclear reactor operators have work hour controls to ensure that fatigue is managed. The same should be true with doctors.
This has been tried...but you have prick's who believe this is the only way to teach medicine who made sure things stay the same...no matter the result.
Having worked with doctors on a daily basis in the past...unless I am losing a limb...a big amount of blood or something major...I only want nurses to working on me. More times than not...they're the ones with the good bedside manner without being a prick. Plus...they are usually not sleep deprived.
Even at that the NHS manages to do far better than private healthcare, because at least not all of the money is being eyed up by profit-hungry shareholders. I would never even consider going private, because you pay more to get the cheapest possible "care".
You attempt to tell/show people here in the States this...they drag out that old LP of Ronald Reagan ramming the evils of "Socialized" medicine down your throat or that idiot bitch from Alaska talking about how you'll become Soylent Green.
The bigger problem with our "health care reform" was too much money/power in the hands of those who loved the status quo. What we ended up with wasn't any type of reform...just enough of the same BS...only jumbled up even worse than before. Even sadder was Obama was so proud of what little he actually accomplished.
The biggest problem with "health care reform" in the US was you had too many people being lied to...with many being too selfish that they might have to help their fellow man. With the attitude of "I've got mine...f*ck you"...we have a nation that continually is more of a third world banana republic than the shining beacon many claim it is. Now...you've got many states in this country who are chomping at the bit to race to become the biggest banana republic ahead of everyone else. It's nothing but shameful that this country will live to regret its shameful behavior and perish by it in the future.
If you want to view porn, that's up to you, and nobody should prevent you from doing so, as long as it's behind a door that says "here there be porn." That way, I and my wards won't stumble upon it without my expressed consent.
Simple method has been around for many/many years...knocking on the door...then waiting till told to enter.
President Wilson is an asshole for jailing people simply because they used their speech to oppose the war.
The problem is that he wasn't the first (will not be the last) to imprison anyone who didn't toe the line on US wars of aggression. John Adams was the first president to use the Alien and Sedition Acts to imprison anyone they chose. Lincoln even used the suspension of Habis Corpus to jail public figures who had Southern sympathies. Was just reading about a newspaper owner in Maryland who was jailed for printing anti-Lincoln articles.
Even using the US "Patriot Act" from jr bush...there were mufflers/promises of jail if you contacted counsel to defend yourself if you were prosecuted under secret subpoenas. If jr could've openly passed and used another Alien/Sedition Act without the Supreme Court slapping him more stupid than he all ready was...he would have. I have a feeling Obama would do the same as well if the same thing didn't happen with him getting knocked stupid. Am shocked Congress hasn't tried this with Wikileaks making plenty of foreign service jerks look as stupid as they were.
I started with the BASIC language as a child. And it was not easy.
Have to agree with you. It was BASIC on an HP 3000 mainframe which got me started with computers for a math class to graduate from college back in 1983. While I was one of those who didn't go past BASIC to do any type of programming...this class was just like finding the perfect person to spend your life with and never looking back. Except for a 3-4 month timeframe 20 years ago when I was homeless...have had some type of computer...all the way from a Timex Sinclair 1000 I bought used for $5 to my current quad-core AMD system with 8 GB of memory.
Funny thing about that Timex...had to goto Wal-Mart to get an Atari 2600 power adapter to be able to use it. Think I sold the whole bundle for $20 with a couple of books I bought to program some games by hand.
I'm wondering why no one is asking about using dogs for bomb sniffing.
Biggest reason is you can't make as much off of a dog as a machine. Plus...if you have TSA perverts feeling up/abusing the dogs for practice/boredom...it would be funny to watch and perverts would be losing their arms/hands/crotches when they won't buy the dogs dinner/a movie.
I had typed Speedscript in, byte-by-byte, from a COMPUTE! Magazine article, years before. For a 6K (yes, six kilobytes) program, it did an absolutely outstanding job! I used that program more than any other on my C64 for years.
I thought I was the only one who typed that in by hand over 2-4 weeks. After that...made sure I had a copy on probably 10 different 5 1/4" disks to make sure I would never have to type it in again.
Just like yourself...that word processor got me through college and turned out many papers. I printed off to the Commodore plotter with pens I bought at Radio Shack. From there...would run the printouts to a print shop and enlarge them to 8.5 X 11. Turned them in (with the printout) and got decent grades. Later...had access to the Commodore dot matrix printer. Used another typed-in program which gave that printer descending tails (g/j/p/y) and changed the font to more NLQ than was possible with that device.
As for the disks...they went away over 20 years ago...so would probably not be able to use them anyway...since I don't even have a floppy drive on my quad-core & haven't for 5 years.
Just down the road from where I work, there is a Christmas display in the front yard of a business on a quite major thoroughfare. There is a Santa getting haslled by TSA agents, and several child manikins dressed only in disheveled skivvys.
I'm surprised the business owner hasn't been arrested. The sad thing is, he is only exaggerating a little bit.
Granted, I haven't seen all the videos this pilot made, but from what I have seen and read so far it sounds like what this pilot was pointing out was things that were already publicly known. Things like airport ground crews having access to restricted areas without themselves having to go through screening, no TSA agents searching them or anything they carry prior to having access to aircraft, etc. Anybody with an ounce of intelligence could have figured out what this pilot documented by just sitting at an airport and watching for a little while, or by getting chummy with airport employees at a nearby bar and asking a few basic questions.
And I certainly don't think this pilot was the first one to point out these flaws. It just sounds to me like the TSA is trying to make a scapegoat out of him.
All of this is happening when the lobbyists for the worthless porno scanners are trying to keep Congress from putting a cap on spending for TSA. Most/all of these are either former members of Congress or government employees. On the other hand...the "bad guys in the black hats" are shipping bombs in by cargo planes and other methods...since they know 95% of all cargo isn't inspected.
If TSA/the government were serious about protecting the public...rather than lining the pockets of former government employees/former members of Congress...they would be putting the perv's out at the ports inspecting where the real threat is going to happen. Since this means those who profit won't make anything. When a bomb does go off at the dock/the cargo area of the airport...all those who would not do what is needed should be flown to the offending country and put on trial in their courts.
And, since this is about media corporations, the democrats are even more likely to be behind this since that's a big source of their dollars... Don't let their rhetoric confuse you about their actual behavior... If they're elected, they've most likely been bought...
I wasn't clear...especially what I should have said that any politician has to be a legend in his own mind who's willing to take money from whoever is giving it out...no matter what they claim otherwise.
Nothing will become of it...especially from any republican. The reason...these corporations have enough money and lobbyists to make sure nothing but their way will be the way it is. Welcome to the United States of Facsism...where corporations and their money are the government.
The Mormons' specific interest in genealogy is that they believe a Mormon can save his deceased ancestors by baptizing them posthumously. That's why they build the data base. Your main risk is that one of your remote descendants might become a Mormon and baptize you after you're dead.
Wasn't going to bring that one up...but you're right. They've even gotten into trouble several times for baptizing the dead from the Holocaust.
As for their main genealogical repository...it's built better than Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs. Forgot the location...but it's built into a mountain...only I don't think they have a Stargate located there...except for missionary work. Makes it easier than riding a bicycle.;)
Seriously, it was no BSG, but other than Caprica, what exactly does SyFy have going for it now?
Due to the job situation...had to cut back on the satellite TV channels...so wasn't able to get SciFi for the past year...while watching whatever on Hulu and such. With improving prospects...was going to add it back in with all the other channels I enjoy. Now...that's not going to happen...especially since I want to watch wrestling or idiots chasing ghosts...I can get other channels other than SciFi to watch that garbage.
They've canceled the two shows I've enjoyed. Funny thing about NBC...when they canceled "My Name is Earl"...I haven't watched anything on NBC after that...but ABC/CBS has plenty of stuff to watch when I'm in the mood for American TV. If I could just get a subscription to ITV/Channel 4/BBC on the dish...wouldn't have to watch any American TV.
However to make the purchase, it is clearly more efficient and therefore cheaper to sell through either giant mail-order only warehouses (e.g. order from amazon, or order direct from the manufacturer) or something like Argos for when you want to be able to collect it yourself same-day.
Sometimes you also need to remember that there are many rural places where you can't find the item you maybe looking for. The only way to get the item without spending hours driving to a large city which MIGHT have the item is to order from an online merchant.
It was the same thing 150-100 years ago...so you have the precursor of Amazon...Sears & Roebuck/JC Penny's/Montgomery Ward's catalogs.
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Radiation fear mongers are the same ones that want to shut down your wifi. The meter is on the outside of the house, any radiation they produce is no more than your neighbors wifi, which is on 24/7.
Was in commercial radio for about 20 years...part of that time in the engineering end and am also a Ham Radio operator. Spooking people with stories of a big source WiFi radiation outside their home is as rooted in truth as telling kids they'll grow hair in their palms or go blind from masturbation.
I used to accompany our head engineer to the transmitter on a mountain top location. The transmitter was running at 100,000 W...hence away from every/anybody. The first time I ever visited the site...I walked into the room which had the lights on what looked like a dimmer turned 1/2 way up...but the switch was in the "off" position. Turned on the lights to full power. Then we used the "Jesus Pole" after this to ground off any stray current...we cleaned the cabinet out and tweaked the final.
As for Ham Radio use...I put any antenna up as high/far away from anyone to keep RF away from where people are to keep them from bitching when I transmit and their TV goes crazy.
Aren't casinos exploiting humans? Isn't this worse?
That's why I got out of it after several years. Cheating stupid people isn't game...just means easy prey.
It can backfire, however. Gambling is heavily regulated and one of the requirements in some places is that the thing being gambled on must be random.
The only flaw in this is that they've shown the random number generator on motherboards aren't. Some former techs for the slot machine companies got caught milking the odds by about 3% on machines they had built because the RNG wasn't. Three percent doesn't sound like much...but they lost their job and any future employment in any gaming industry for "cheating" the casinos out of the three percent they thought was theirs.
Another one which isn't technically illegal (the casinos will escort you off the property the first time and worse after this) is counting cards. It's probability and puts the odds more in your favor...but will still get you 86'ed. See the movie "21" or the documentary of the students at MIT which did this to get an idea.
Are we really surprised? There are very few games in a casino where the house doesn't have a significant advantage. The house wants you to lose money because their business model depends on it. They only pay out winnings to keep people coming back. The whole gambling industry (including lotteries) is nothing more than a system of wealth redistribution. The rich love casinos (if they own the place) because it makes money for them and the government loves casinos because it means more tax revenue. Everyone else loses.
I used to work in casinos for several years...but never in actually running the game itself. Got out of it after about 3-4 years of not being able to handle working for a large company (Goldman Sucks)...egotistic managers...idiotic co-workers (did have some good people I would be more than happy to work with at any other job) and being able to not look in the mirror because of my employment in a business set up to screw people out of their money...even of their own accord.
One thing you have to realize about any lawful casino (usually an international company of another division of a company who may have stole your retirement on Wall Street)...the odds are set by the state. Those lights...drinks you love...machines you play are there to make sure you lose and lose as much as they can wring from you. As they used to tell us over and over...you have a job because people lose. You want to win at a casino...don't walk in the door or don't stop at any table or machine.
If you believe a casino won't make money...on some of the worst days during the week...I would go through at least 1/2 a million dollars we would unload from 1/6 of all the machines every week. On many weekends...it wasn't uncommon to have between 1-2 million dollars go through my hands on Saturday and Sunday.
The one thing to tell your grandmother...never play a penny slot machine. These thieves are set on the floor to take your money as quickly as you can shovel it into the coin slot. I have better odds pissing and hitting a jet at 35,000 feet than winning a decent payout on one of these machines. The reason...they are intentionally set up to waste your time and distract you. The reason...you may bet 100+ pennies ($1.00+) at one time...but you tell yourself it's only pennies. Use this analogy to a quarter/dollar machine. You bet 100 quarters ($25 +) or dollars ($100+) at one time...but having the better amounts on these machines...your odds are better to at least get some of your money back than the penny machines.
You want walk away with better odds of winning part of whatever you put into the machine...play the quarter+ machines or goto the high roller area. The service is better and you will walk away with something more than the grandma throwing her inheritance on those penny machines. Plus...at the higher denomination machines...you don't suck in smoke from someone who thinks it's okay to poison the air around them.
The one overall rule about any casino is there is no such thing as luck...only odds/probabilities. They are set against you no matter what you think.
The NYTimes has, of course, a lot of coverage on the topic, but many, including the editorial board, make the very strong point - how is this any better? Yes, as countless first posters try to show everyday, nigger is offensive, but nothing is such a blight on American history as the institution of slavery. This censorship wrongly conflates the word to be the problem, when really the problem is the hundreds of years of oppression, hatred, and violence that has and is aimed at blacks that the word represents. Some choice editing won't change the realities of the South in the mid-1800s, to think this fools anyone is a presumption of ignorance amongst teachers, parents, and children.
Having did a family tree several years ago...found out these terms:
1. Ancestors came from Switzerland to South Carolina in 1629
2. They owned land and slaves. In a will from 1775...the slave owner mentioned a "Mazzie" by name as a fine house servant. I could be incorrect that this woman could be the "Sally Hemmings" in my family tree.
3. Movement of relatives to Mississippi years after this.
4. Moved to Texas years later.
5. Moved to Oklahoma after that.
6. Unknown...if I had any ancestors who fought on either side during the Revolutionary War. Known...had ancestors who fought in the War of Northern Aggression.
Being from the South...that word was in common use until the 70's. Now...can't stand the word...but I do know this that poor whites/blacks are treated the same way by those with power/money. Other than skin color...there is no difference between the two races.
Having read this story the other day...went over to one of the free book sites and downloaded copies of Twain's work published during his lifetime or soon after his death to have a copy of it. You never know how far censors can go to having what they don't like banned and being impossible to find in the future.
The good news is that they've figured out how to restore colour to the B&W negatives. The bad news is that it requires Kodachrome processing...
No problem there at all. Just use the Tardis and go back to the heyday of Kodachrome processing. For this...it really helps to use a Time Lords trick of thinking inside the box.
Pilots, truck drivers, and nuclear reactor operators have work hour controls to ensure that fatigue is managed. The same should be true with doctors.
This has been tried...but you have prick's who believe this is the only way to teach medicine who made sure things stay the same...no matter the result.
Having worked with doctors on a daily basis in the past...unless I am losing a limb...a big amount of blood or something major...I only want nurses to working on me. More times than not...they're the ones with the good bedside manner without being a prick. Plus...they are usually not sleep deprived.
Even at that the NHS manages to do far better than private healthcare, because at least not all of the money is being eyed up by profit-hungry shareholders. I would never even consider going private, because you pay more to get the cheapest possible "care".
You attempt to tell/show people here in the States this...they drag out that old LP of Ronald Reagan ramming the evils of "Socialized" medicine down your throat or that idiot bitch from Alaska talking about how you'll become Soylent Green.
The bigger problem with our "health care reform" was too much money/power in the hands of those who loved the status quo. What we ended up with wasn't any type of reform...just enough of the same BS...only jumbled up even worse than before. Even sadder was Obama was so proud of what little he actually accomplished.
The biggest problem with "health care reform" in the US was you had too many people being lied to...with many being too selfish that they might have to help their fellow man. With the attitude of "I've got mine...f*ck you"...we have a nation that continually is more of a third world banana republic than the shining beacon many claim it is. Now...you've got many states in this country who are chomping at the bit to race to become the biggest banana republic ahead of everyone else. It's nothing but shameful that this country will live to regret its shameful behavior and perish by it in the future.
If you want to view porn, that's up to you, and nobody should prevent you from doing so, as long as it's behind a door that says "here there be porn." That way, I and my wards won't stumble upon it without my expressed consent.
Simple method has been around for many/many years...knocking on the door...then waiting till told to enter.
President Wilson is an asshole for jailing people simply because they used their speech to oppose the war.
The problem is that he wasn't the first (will not be the last) to imprison anyone who didn't toe the line on US wars of aggression. John Adams was the first president to use the Alien and Sedition Acts to imprison anyone they chose. Lincoln even used the suspension of Habis Corpus to jail public figures who had Southern sympathies. Was just reading about a newspaper owner in Maryland who was jailed for printing anti-Lincoln articles.
Even using the US "Patriot Act" from jr bush...there were mufflers/promises of jail if you contacted counsel to defend yourself if you were prosecuted under secret subpoenas. If jr could've openly passed and used another Alien/Sedition Act without the Supreme Court slapping him more stupid than he all ready was...he would have. I have a feeling Obama would do the same as well if the same thing didn't happen with him getting knocked stupid. Am shocked Congress hasn't tried this with Wikileaks making plenty of foreign service jerks look as stupid as they were.
If you have no wireless access in the classroom...problem solved.
I started with the BASIC language as a child. And it was not easy.
Have to agree with you. It was BASIC on an HP 3000 mainframe which got me started with computers for a math class to graduate from college back in 1983. While I was one of those who didn't go past BASIC to do any type of programming...this class was just like finding the perfect person to spend your life with and never looking back. Except for a 3-4 month timeframe 20 years ago when I was homeless...have had some type of computer...all the way from a Timex Sinclair 1000 I bought used for $5 to my current quad-core AMD system with 8 GB of memory.
Funny thing about that Timex...had to goto Wal-Mart to get an Atari 2600 power adapter to be able to use it. Think I sold the whole bundle for $20 with a couple of books I bought to program some games by hand.
I'm wondering why no one is asking about using dogs for bomb sniffing.
Biggest reason is you can't make as much off of a dog as a machine. Plus...if you have TSA perverts feeling up/abusing the dogs for practice/boredom...it would be funny to watch and perverts would be losing their arms/hands/crotches when they won't buy the dogs dinner/a movie.
I had typed Speedscript in, byte-by-byte, from a COMPUTE! Magazine article, years before. For a 6K (yes, six kilobytes) program, it did an absolutely outstanding job! I used that program more than any other on my C64 for years.
I thought I was the only one who typed that in by hand over 2-4 weeks. After that...made sure I had a copy on probably 10 different 5 1/4" disks to make sure I would never have to type it in again.
Just like yourself...that word processor got me through college and turned out many papers. I printed off to the Commodore plotter with pens I bought at Radio Shack. From there...would run the printouts to a print shop and enlarge them to 8.5 X 11. Turned them in (with the printout) and got decent grades. Later...had access to the Commodore dot matrix printer. Used another typed-in program which gave that printer descending tails (g/j/p/y) and changed the font to more NLQ than was possible with that device.
As for the disks...they went away over 20 years ago...so would probably not be able to use them anyway...since I don't even have a floppy drive on my quad-core & haven't for 5 years.
Just down the road from where I work, there is a Christmas display in the front yard of a business on a quite major thoroughfare. There is a Santa getting haslled by TSA agents, and several child manikins dressed only in disheveled skivvys. I'm surprised the business owner hasn't been arrested. The sad thing is, he is only exaggerating a little bit.
I want pictures!!!
Granted, I haven't seen all the videos this pilot made, but from what I have seen and read so far it sounds like what this pilot was pointing out was things that were already publicly known. Things like airport ground crews having access to restricted areas without themselves having to go through screening, no TSA agents searching them or anything they carry prior to having access to aircraft, etc. Anybody with an ounce of intelligence could have figured out what this pilot documented by just sitting at an airport and watching for a little while, or by getting chummy with airport employees at a nearby bar and asking a few basic questions.
And I certainly don't think this pilot was the first one to point out these flaws. It just sounds to me like the TSA is trying to make a scapegoat out of him.
All of this is happening when the lobbyists for the worthless porno scanners are trying to keep Congress from putting a cap on spending for TSA. Most/all of these are either former members of Congress or government employees. On the other hand...the "bad guys in the black hats" are shipping bombs in by cargo planes and other methods...since they know 95% of all cargo isn't inspected.
If TSA/the government were serious about protecting the public...rather than lining the pockets of former government employees/former members of Congress...they would be putting the perv's out at the ports inspecting where the real threat is going to happen. Since this means those who profit won't make anything. When a bomb does go off at the dock/the cargo area of the airport...all those who would not do what is needed should be flown to the offending country and put on trial in their courts.
I'm pretty sure I won't be getting a hot wife for Christmas, especially from my current wife.
Well, she could, but you'd probably have to get her a hot husband in exchange.
Or even a hot female model might be great enough. Would be for me!
FTFY...
And, since this is about media corporations, the democrats are even more likely to be behind this since that's a big source of their dollars... Don't let their rhetoric confuse you about their actual behavior... If they're elected, they've most likely been bought...
I wasn't clear...especially what I should have said that any politician has to be a legend in his own mind who's willing to take money from whoever is giving it out...no matter what they claim otherwise.
Nothing will become of it...especially from any republican. The reason...these corporations have enough money and lobbyists to make sure nothing but their way will be the way it is. Welcome to the United States of Facsism...where corporations and their money are the government.
Couldn't remember the location...but I remember that the place made Cheyenne Mountain look like a Disneyland cut into the mountain by comparison.
The Mormons' specific interest in genealogy is that they believe a Mormon can save his deceased ancestors by baptizing them posthumously. That's why they build the data base. Your main risk is that one of your remote descendants might become a Mormon and baptize you after you're dead.
Wasn't going to bring that one up...but you're right. They've even gotten into trouble several times for baptizing the dead from the Holocaust.
;)
As for their main genealogical repository...it's built better than Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs. Forgot the location...but it's built into a mountain...only I don't think they have a Stargate located there...except for missionary work. Makes it easier than riding a bicycle.
Go ask the Mormons. They maintain the most extensive set of genealogical records on pretty much everyone.
Not only that...but if there's a Mormon temple in your area...they will also have one of their genealogical center in the vicinity.
There is another option that I've looked at. Getting a subscription to a UK proxy server to be able to watch BBC content online.
Seriously, it was no BSG, but other than Caprica, what exactly does SyFy have going for it now?
Due to the job situation...had to cut back on the satellite TV channels...so wasn't able to get SciFi for the past year...while watching whatever on Hulu and such. With improving prospects...was going to add it back in with all the other channels I enjoy. Now...that's not going to happen...especially since I want to watch wrestling or idiots chasing ghosts...I can get other channels other than SciFi to watch that garbage.
They've canceled the two shows I've enjoyed. Funny thing about NBC...when they canceled "My Name is Earl"...I haven't watched anything on NBC after that...but ABC/CBS has plenty of stuff to watch when I'm in the mood for American TV. If I could just get a subscription to ITV/Channel 4/BBC on the dish...wouldn't have to watch any American TV.
However to make the purchase, it is clearly more efficient and therefore cheaper to sell through either giant mail-order only warehouses (e.g. order from amazon, or order direct from the manufacturer) or something like Argos for when you want to be able to collect it yourself same-day.
Sometimes you also need to remember that there are many rural places where you can't find the item you maybe looking for. The only way to get the item without spending hours driving to a large city which MIGHT have the item is to order from an online merchant.
It was the same thing 150-100 years ago...so you have the precursor of Amazon...Sears & Roebuck/JC Penny's/Montgomery Ward's catalogs.