You say it won't solve anything, so you are implying they won't be making any more ink cartridge bombs, so you are implying the only problem here is people's fear of ink cartridge bombs, which screening for ink cartridges solves. Sounds to me like they are fixing the problem just fine.
If you read TFA, you would know the group claiming responsibility for the plot says they intend to try again with passenger flights. There's a good chance they're just bluffing to create more fear, but if we don't make sure we can catch any further bombs like this, they have every reason to try again.
While you do have a point, to be fair your argument only works because no successful terrorist attack in 9 years doesn't (assumedly) establish statistical significance. With each day, the argument that the TSA may actually be doing something gains credibility. Now, there is no reliable way to establish how effective each of their dumb policies are, but to discredit them as a whole is overdoing it.
If you have the short-sighted strategy of trying to get the best viable candidate into office this term for whatever small change he will do, yes you can waste your vote on third party candidates. If your strategy (like mine) is to break the two-party system in the long run, any vote that isn't third party is a waste of a vote.
Sorry to post just to complain about spelling: when you breathe, you take a breath of fresh air. I have seen "breathe" written as "breath" so often that I almost doubt myself- I'm making the point to complain because I think a lot of people honestly don't know the difference.
I'm no biologist, but my understanding of "superbugs" is simply that they are resistant to cures that have otherwise worked. If we have no real cure for a common cold, the worst that can happen from developing a cure is that the common cold becomes resistant to that cure, and we are back where we started. While it would be a problem for colds to start killing people, I don't think that would have anything to do with efforts to treat the cold.
The only way I could see agreeing with you is if you wanted to keep treatments in reserve, only for use in the event that the cold does turn deadly or something. That of course would assume the cure will still work at that point (although that is more likely than expecting the cure to work as well if it has been in use for a while).
I don't have a phone with an alarm clock on it, but I do have a clock/flashlight/alarmclock that also has phone (and text) capabilities... does that count?
My phone (a Razr) lets you snooze with one of the buttons on the sides of the phone, so I don't have to open my eyes to snooze. The only problem is the other side button turns the alarm off altogether, and I haven't bothered to learn which is which (the only time I'm concerned which is which is also when I'm too tired to bother to figure it out).
But the color adds so much to the experience- it allows my pages to age and yellow like a real book! Not to mention how it should be able to display far more realistic coffee stains...
Or the book could dynamically update product placement... depending on how fast advertisers change, your hero could be spending more time being indecisive about his favorite coffee shop than getting around to dealing with the plot.
So long as we have our arsenal, it is generally understood that anyone using a nuke stands a good chance of being nuked themselves. If we eliminated our stockpile, anyone who feels safer with that deterrent suddenly needs to actually build a deterrent of their own. Anyone not happy with the new nuclear program across the border also needs a program of their own.... the important thing here is the effectiveness of the deterrent isn't important, only a belief that it is effective. I heard this theory from the department of defense (I didn't make it up)- on one hand it adds credibility as if anyone can explain the use of our arsenal, they can; on the other hand if anyone has bias to want to perpetuate the nuclear program, they do.
Sure, the above scenario won't necessarily play out, but I feel the risk involved (small) is greater than the risk currently posed by the US stockpile (almost zero).
at GaTech [...] It's no wonder our educational system [...]
I'm glad I don't go to Georgia Tech, and I'm glad that they aren't actually the leading standard for our educational system. Maybe a lot of schools are guilty of similar textbook practices as those at GaTech, but my school is reasonable and I doubt it is the only one (I go to Rose-Hulman by the way).
Well duh that makes the problem harder. It would take years just to train the bees how to kayak, not to mention refitting airport body scanners- in 100 cities even! Can't we just simplify things and teach these bees how to send viagra spam so they don't have to travel to play salesman?
Notepad is my favorite specialty browser. You name the file (url).txt, and it instantly renders the website as a blank page- think of all the clutter you don't have to deal with! Plus, you can add in whatever text you want- ever wanted to make microsoft.com say "Linux rules!"? Well now you can! I can't imagine how anyone could want anything else.
They imply that changing the fonts is simply one way to force the reader to pay a bit more attention, instead of doing the reading equivalent of "in one ear, out the other". They don't intend this to be a one-size-fits-all solution, just an easy one to implement and test.
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You say it won't solve anything, so you are implying they won't be making any more ink cartridge bombs, so you are implying the only problem here is people's fear of ink cartridge bombs, which screening for ink cartridges solves. Sounds to me like they are fixing the problem just fine.
If you read TFA, you would know the group claiming responsibility for the plot says they intend to try again with passenger flights. There's a good chance they're just bluffing to create more fear, but if we don't make sure we can catch any further bombs like this, they have every reason to try again.
While you do have a point, to be fair your argument only works because no successful terrorist attack in 9 years doesn't (assumedly) establish statistical significance. With each day, the argument that the TSA may actually be doing something gains credibility. Now, there is no reliable way to establish how effective each of their dumb policies are, but to discredit them as a whole is overdoing it.
If you have the short-sighted strategy of trying to get the best viable candidate into office this term for whatever small change he will do, yes you can waste your vote on third party candidates. If your strategy (like mine) is to break the two-party system in the long run, any vote that isn't third party is a waste of a vote.
So we can use these in windows to both block out the sunlight and power indoor lighting? Talk about killing two birds with one stone!
Or in 2007 when Switzerland invaded Liechtenstein. Of course, they seem to just have gotten lost instead of following a bad map.
Better yet, check out the original article.
Best. Post. Ever.
Why? You actually used "couldn't care less" properly, something I haven't seen in who knows how long.
I don't know, I'd rather my holographic projector come with a free teleporter than a bunch of hot pockets (however tasty).
Sorry to post just to complain about spelling: when you breathe, you take a breath of fresh air. I have seen "breathe" written as "breath" so often that I almost doubt myself- I'm making the point to complain because I think a lot of people honestly don't know the difference.
I'm no biologist, but my understanding of "superbugs" is simply that they are resistant to cures that have otherwise worked. If we have no real cure for a common cold, the worst that can happen from developing a cure is that the common cold becomes resistant to that cure, and we are back where we started. While it would be a problem for colds to start killing people, I don't think that would have anything to do with efforts to treat the cold.
The only way I could see agreeing with you is if you wanted to keep treatments in reserve, only for use in the event that the cold does turn deadly or something. That of course would assume the cure will still work at that point (although that is more likely than expecting the cure to work as well if it has been in use for a while).
I don't have a phone with an alarm clock on it, but I do have a clock/flashlight/alarmclock that also has phone (and text) capabilities... does that count?
My phone (a Razr) lets you snooze with one of the buttons on the sides of the phone, so I don't have to open my eyes to snooze. The only problem is the other side button turns the alarm off altogether, and I haven't bothered to learn which is which (the only time I'm concerned which is which is also when I'm too tired to bother to figure it out).
But the color adds so much to the experience- it allows my pages to age and yellow like a real book! Not to mention how it should be able to display far more realistic coffee stains...
Or the book could dynamically update product placement... depending on how fast advertisers change, your hero could be spending more time being indecisive about his favorite coffee shop than getting around to dealing with the plot.
Agreed. Anyone caught using Inter-Continental Mallistic Bissiles has certainly succumbed to the terrorists.
So that rules out most of the internet and email then, eh?
RTFA- this was in Paris, not Canada.
So long as we have our arsenal, it is generally understood that anyone using a nuke stands a good chance of being nuked themselves. If we eliminated our stockpile, anyone who feels safer with that deterrent suddenly needs to actually build a deterrent of their own. Anyone not happy with the new nuclear program across the border also needs a program of their own.... the important thing here is the effectiveness of the deterrent isn't important, only a belief that it is effective. I heard this theory from the department of defense (I didn't make it up)- on one hand it adds credibility as if anyone can explain the use of our arsenal, they can; on the other hand if anyone has bias to want to perpetuate the nuclear program, they do.
Sure, the above scenario won't necessarily play out, but I feel the risk involved (small) is greater than the risk currently posed by the US stockpile (almost zero).
I think slashdot's audience is more than just the Linux-zealot crowd.
Yeah, there's also the Linux marines and Linux zerglings... I still don't know what you're getting at.
at GaTech [...] It's no wonder our educational system [...]
I'm glad I don't go to Georgia Tech, and I'm glad that they aren't actually the leading standard for our educational system. Maybe a lot of schools are guilty of similar textbook practices as those at GaTech, but my school is reasonable and I doubt it is the only one (I go to Rose-Hulman by the way).
Well duh that makes the problem harder. It would take years just to train the bees how to kayak, not to mention refitting airport body scanners- in 100 cities even! Can't we just simplify things and teach these bees how to send viagra spam so they don't have to travel to play salesman?
If by "bionic" you mean "rum", and by "limbs" you mean "more rum", then the answer is yes.
Had a friend confuse bulbs of garlic with cloves of garlic.
My uncle made that mistake once. It resulted in everyone asking him for the recipe (true story).
Notepad is my favorite specialty browser. You name the file (url).txt, and it instantly renders the website as a blank page- think of all the clutter you don't have to deal with! Plus, you can add in whatever text you want- ever wanted to make microsoft.com say "Linux rules!"? Well now you can! I can't imagine how anyone could want anything else.
They imply that changing the fonts is simply one way to force the reader to pay a bit more attention, instead of doing the reading equivalent of "in one ear, out the other". They don't intend this to be a one-size-fits-all solution, just an easy one to implement and test.