Maybe they didn't take a ton of photos for the memories, but because they are hobby photographers? Having new and different environments to take pictures of is one of my favorite aspects of travel. What makes a trip enjoyable for you is not necessarily the same for everyone.
Interestingly, we did have a case where a juror ignored the judge's admonition against outside research - she printed out a definition of "Burden of Proof" she found online and brought it into the deliberations. It was confiscated by the bailiff before anyone else could look at it and she was dismissed. We spent most of the rest of that day playing on our cellphones waiting for an alternate juror to come in.
God forbid a juror actually be familiar with the law...
Nobody is making you go to the doctor. You do so because he provides a demonstrable benefit. What demonstrable benefit does the TSA groping provide? When has the security theater ever ONCE actually accomplished it's supposed goal?
Now to be fair, way more often that not in the scenario that I described above, a lost bag is just a lost bag, but the question you have to ask yourself is that if it only takes one package that is actually filled with explosives to kill a bunch of people shouldn't additional security measures be taken to help deter that outcome, however unlikely it may actually be, from happening?
If the cost is just regular people and employees being vigilant, some extra staff training, and the occasional announcement? Sure, that sounds like a decent trade off, even for a fairly unlikely scenario.
If the cost is a large hunk of our civil liberties? I'm going to want a lot more concrete reason than "might prevent something that might happen, that might not be otherwise prevented" before I'd even consider giving up that much.
Are you really that worried about something that is extraordinarily unlikely ever to happen? Should the rest of us be frisked when we leave the house too, on the basis that one of us might pull out a gun and shoot you for no reason? Safety and security are numbers games. You have to weigh the cost of the protection against the likelihood that the thing will actually happen.
Copyright is a public investment in the arts. He doesn't want free stuff, he wants the stuff we've all invested in to become ours at some point in his own lifetime (or his children's, at least).
Now you're just quibbling over terminology. Whatever you'd like to call them, I have people I'd like to keep tabs on without having to make 100 phone calls a month. I can keep up with what my cousins and other extended family members are doing, and see how old friends from high school and college are doing with minimal time investment. If I didn't have Facebook, I just wouldn't be able to keep up with most of these people.
This is already true in some states, and some statistics suggest that it has made the problem worse, because people do awkward things to talk on the phone without being seen.
I am not holding my breath for a self-driving car. Robots cannot even vacuum a room with furniture in it, so it may be a while before we have a car that can drive itself safely through a maze of streets and avoid hitting old ladies and bikers.
You say that as if free speech did not exist outside of those zones, instead of them being convenient public places to air such speech (something not actually required by the first or any other amendment).
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Maybe they didn't take a ton of photos for the memories, but because they are hobby photographers? Having new and different environments to take pictures of is one of my favorite aspects of travel. What makes a trip enjoyable for you is not necessarily the same for everyone.
This post is depressingly insightful.
People keep claiming this. Do you have some data to back that up or are you just assuming that it is true?
Except that in this case, he didn't have to climb over, the owner had left the key under a mat and showed him where to find it.
wtf? this guy is a general ?,
He's a colonel. And the show's basic premise was "these are the wrong people in the wrong place".
Interestingly, we did have a case where a juror ignored the judge's admonition against outside research - she printed out a definition of "Burden of Proof" she found online and brought it into the deliberations. It was confiscated by the bailiff before anyone else could look at it and she was dismissed. We spent most of the rest of that day playing on our cellphones waiting for an alternate juror to come in.
God forbid a juror actually be familiar with the law...
Nobody is making you go to the doctor. You do so because he provides a demonstrable benefit. What demonstrable benefit does the TSA groping provide? When has the security theater ever ONCE actually accomplished it's supposed goal?
Now to be fair, way more often that not in the scenario that I described above, a lost bag is just a lost bag, but the question you have to ask yourself is that if it only takes one package that is actually filled with explosives to kill a bunch of people shouldn't additional security measures be taken to help deter that outcome, however unlikely it may actually be, from happening?
If the cost is just regular people and employees being vigilant, some extra staff training, and the occasional announcement? Sure, that sounds like a decent trade off, even for a fairly unlikely scenario.
If the cost is a large hunk of our civil liberties? I'm going to want a lot more concrete reason than "might prevent something that might happen, that might not be otherwise prevented" before I'd even consider giving up that much.
Are you really that worried about something that is extraordinarily unlikely ever to happen? Should the rest of us be frisked when we leave the house too, on the basis that one of us might pull out a gun and shoot you for no reason? Safety and security are numbers games. You have to weigh the cost of the protection against the likelihood that the thing will actually happen.
Copyright is a public investment in the arts. He doesn't want free stuff, he wants the stuff we've all invested in to become ours at some point in his own lifetime (or his children's, at least).
I can read every one of these posts as if they were plaintext. I need to get out more...
and if someone says something on Slashdot, it must be true!
Netcraft confirms this.
Hoggish Greedly, is that you?
Are you suggesting someone from the township is going to sit and hit refresh on Google Earth, watching for changes?
Clearly the road is still in beta.
As a resident of a modern urban environment, this is a problem I would love to have.
Just because you don't place value on social interactions with people you don't see on a regular basis, doesn't mean nobody else does.
Facebook isn't even vaguely covered by free speech. Just the government.
Now you're just quibbling over terminology. Whatever you'd like to call them, I have people I'd like to keep tabs on without having to make 100 phone calls a month. I can keep up with what my cousins and other extended family members are doing, and see how old friends from high school and college are doing with minimal time investment. If I didn't have Facebook, I just wouldn't be able to keep up with most of these people.
If they exist, none of the people I know use them. A social network isn't much use to me if nobody I know uses it.
What does that have to do with free speech or the first amendment?
This is already true in some states, and some statistics suggest that it has made the problem worse, because people do awkward things to talk on the phone without being seen.
I am not holding my breath for a self-driving car. Robots cannot even vacuum a room with furniture in it, so it may be a while before we have a car that can drive itself safely through a maze of streets and avoid hitting old ladies and bikers.
You should probably tell Google that, they're going to be bummed.
http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/thinking-tech/googles-self-driving-car/5445/
You say that as if free speech did not exist outside of those zones, instead of them being convenient public places to air such speech (something not actually required by the first or any other amendment).
There's an app for that!