"because the obvious goal of the TSA is to make the pat-down embarrassing"
The author draws the conclusion that the purpose of more rigorous searches is a higher rate of scans, but I don't see any specific evidence to support the claim. The GP then asserted the author's supposition as fact.
I'm a little disappointed, actually. If there were any kind of actual evidence, it would make a great talking point for the anti-scanner crowd. As it stands, it's just a sloppy conspiracy theory.
we will stop choosing to fly. Then the airlines will ask for relief. And there will be none.
Nice in theory. The reality is, that time has come and gone. Evidently, there's always a few billion socked away to prop up the airlines. I don't think we can count on that to change.
And it was recently noted that they have been instructed not to do "better" pat downs, but more "uncomfortable" pat downs to get people to opt to do the scanner.
This would be great if it was true. Does anyone have some kind of citation for this AC's claim?
Using the same think of the children excuse to further my goals that I criticize when used to support privacy invasions and draconic criminal laws just doesn't seem right.
This sounds like a legitimate strategy to me, even though I agree with your statement. We have to use the weapons at hand. We can't cure the sheep. They'll leap to attention For The Children no matter what. I think public spectacle is the best way to get the change ball rolling, and child molestation is headline material.
I can't very well imagine too terribly many sane people on earth...at least in the US, would like to give up the good life, family, friends, the comforts of life here on earth (lots of women to chase, good variety of good food, aged single malt scotch, sports cars, guns, vacationing to the beach or for snow skiing, etc)...to leave it all behind while in the prime of life, to get a one way ticket to uncertainty, lower life quality till death.
Your lack of imagination really isn't germaine. The reality is there are many people who would leap at the chance to be the first settlers on Mars - certainly thousands, and possibly many more. It would be a huge honor, an event that can take place only once in the course of all human history. I'm not convinced I'd be one of those people, but I would give it serious thought - if I were qualified, of course.
"probable cause" and "presumed innocent until proven guilty" and your Miranda rights
And let's not forget that the airport security goonsquad aren't even real law enforcement
Isn't this the truly despicable part of TSA agents? They aren't "real" law enforcement, and aren't bound by the same laws. They aren't curbing your rights - you're free to walk to your destination.
Anyway, that's my understanding - I hope it's flawed. I hate this system so much. The American public just bought into what the terrorists were selling, and the country will take many years to recover its senses.
Liberty is risky! Freedom is dangerous! Embrace the consequences, because the price is more than fair.
Actually, gorillas (like most other primates) have relatively small genitalia. Humans are an exception - at least, some of them are.
Blame our big brains.
No, seriously. At birth we have pretty honkin' big noggins. A larger, more resilient birth canal is required. That will tend to select for more generous male genitalia, female orgasms being a factor in successful impregnation.
Science!
(Okay, I kinda made all that up - but it's a good hypothesis...)
If you have an array of 30 reasons for going to war (@reasons), all with non-false values, doing a print $reasons[3] does not make @reasons evaluate false. It doesn't even make $reasons[3] evaluate false. Not even if $reasons[24] == 'oil'. Massive logic fail for you, go debug.
I'm a credentialed geek, and I have no idea what you're talking about. Take it slower, and use a car analogy and some Whedon references, please.
Do you have a link for reference? I'm poking around and can't find info on nationalization and constitutionality for some reason. Is it a SC ruling? I have found (temporary) WWI nationalization, and the railroads, and the private airport security industry in/after 2001.
I'd really like to learn more about this, because the last-mile issue really gets stuck in my craw.
Our four... no... Amongst our triumphs... Amongst the aspects which allow us to triumph... are such elements as marketing, high production values... I'll come in again.
You just blew my mind. "Cardinal Fang! Read the charges...."
The dude from Comcast's rote answer to questions was to post links to Comcast's PR.
As for my company and who I shill for, that's easy. I'm a public sector education and video teleconferencing goblin in the 49th state. And I shill for children with low incidence disabilities who are using technology.
Another K Street fatcat, lobbying for Big Pediatric Disability.
The US should be breaking-up these monopolies, the same way it broke-up the AT&T monopoly.
The US should just nationalize the last mile, treat it as a utility, and avoid all that icky anti-trust litigation.
While I wait for that to happen I'm going to hold my breath until Steve McQueen rides a rainbow-winged pegasus out of my ass.
The reality will probably involve the encroachment of the insurance industry into the ISP realm. You'll need a co-pay to call customer service, and you can only use an ISP from the approved list.
A mature adult should be able to tolerate some inappropriate language.
"Of course, of course," said Dr. Hardrum, "but my dear lady, what about the children?"
It is up to the parents of the child to raise that child, not other corporations, the FCC or any other government agency unless if they are wards of the state.
I'm sorry, I should have been less cryptic. I agree with you, I was just pointing out the tired old excuse of Thinking of the Children.
I think people who ring that bell may be trying to protect their own childish insecurities, but I don't think there's a short-term way to drag them kicking and/or screaming into adulthood.
I like to believe that newer generations are less prone to the echo chamber, as technology allows for easier access to pluralism - but that may just be my own naive idealism.
Don't get too caught up in the type of glass, that often has far more to do with marketdroid hype than anything else. Thickness, how well in the glass supported around the edges, how well has it been cut and what state are the edges left in, what are reject rates at the manufacturer, what quality control has been implemented in passing glass panels for use.
Apple like other pretend manufacturers choosing the cheapest nastiest does not always pay off and trying to shove those losses back onto the consumer and even generating extra profits by it, well that just plain sucks.
Glass stronger than plastic, have to be careful with that one, is that stronger in regards to bearing capacity in tension and compression, impact resistance, crack propagation from temperature variations and edge defects or is it just a broad markedroid sweep with scratch resistance.
It would have been handy to get information on the thickness of the new versus the old panel and other pretend and actual manufacturer's glass panels (branders versus ODMs).
You can see through glass, too. It's called "transparent".
High DPI mice start at $50, and are absolutely essential for gaming. This is just a $30 premium for complete physical configurability + extra wheel + sniper mode. That's not bad by gaming standards.
Except for the additional $50 for wireless.... I was so excited about this, but now I'll wait for the movie. $50 for wireless is just gouging.
It's a cool mouse, and it's neat to have an "indie" hardware product, but it's not that cool if they're charging so much for standard features.
On the shelf, I see wireless mice only ~$10-$15 above wired. Anyone have an idea what the real price difference in manufacturing wireless vs wired?
Thanks to corporate personhood, they are, though - evil children. They're like that little kid in the original Twilight Zone episode that could just make things happen, and everyone was terrified of his capricious wrath. Don't mess with little Johnny, he has legislative clout.
No, I meant at the beginning of the fight you can see the scar clearly.
It's really much worse than that. As soon as you see her take a beat to look at his scar as a child you know it's going to be pivotal to the story later. Then she encounters a big dragon and - oh. How shocking. Just as bad as the garbage in blockbusters. Nice hair animation, but the facial expressions were like dolls, very poorly exhibited affects.
I just didn't care about her. There was zero emotional impact. So she had a little childhood buddy, and then she killed him. And after years of searching, she just... what, walks away? She should have thrown herself over the cliff, and then had the baby dragon come save her. Instead she just looks like a horrible, selfish little [expletive].
Even then, why should we care? The voice of the old man was obviously recorded without seeing the actual character - totally wrong approach. The adult dragon looked like a huge bat, the montage was jarring and generic at the same time - there was no sense of continuity. She traveled across the world searching for this little dragon, but wtf? Why exactly? Was she just randomly walking? She evidently didn't know she was ever near dragons. And what's the deal with dragons here, anyway? If they're rare, people in her little village didn't seem remotely interested. Odd.
I'm only so worked up because a real strong indie animation has to grab the imagination to draw in quality directors. It's the only way to start weaning the public off Hollywood pablum. This looks like it was conceived and implemented by borderline-aspergers technophiles. Which, let's be honest, it probably was.
Good luck, guys - I'm really pulling for a success, but this isn't it.
Slashdot Mirror
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/10/31/0234232
Thanks for the link. From the article:
"because the obvious goal of the TSA is to make the pat-down embarrassing"
The author draws the conclusion that the purpose of more rigorous searches is a higher rate of scans, but I don't see any specific evidence to support the claim. The GP then asserted the author's supposition as fact.
I'm a little disappointed, actually. If there were any kind of actual evidence, it would make a great talking point for the anti-scanner crowd. As it stands, it's just a sloppy conspiracy theory.
we will stop choosing to fly. Then the airlines will ask for relief. And there will be none.
Nice in theory. The reality is, that time has come and gone. Evidently, there's always a few billion socked away to prop up the airlines. I don't think we can count on that to change.
And it was recently noted that they have been instructed not to do "better" pat downs, but more "uncomfortable" pat downs to get people to opt to do the scanner.
This would be great if it was true. Does anyone have some kind of citation for this AC's claim?
Using the same think of the children excuse to further my goals that I criticize when used to support privacy invasions and draconic criminal laws just doesn't seem right.
This sounds like a legitimate strategy to me, even though I agree with your statement. We have to use the weapons at hand. We can't cure the sheep. They'll leap to attention For The Children no matter what. I think public spectacle is the best way to get the change ball rolling, and child molestation is headline material.
I can't very well imagine too terribly many sane people on earth...at least in the US, would like to give up the good life, family, friends, the comforts of life here on earth (lots of women to chase, good variety of good food, aged single malt scotch, sports cars, guns, vacationing to the beach or for snow skiing, etc)...to leave it all behind while in the prime of life, to get a one way ticket to uncertainty, lower life quality till death.
Your lack of imagination really isn't germaine. The reality is there are many people who would leap at the chance to be the first settlers on Mars - certainly thousands, and possibly many more. It would be a huge honor, an event that can take place only once in the course of all human history. I'm not convinced I'd be one of those people, but I would give it serious thought - if I were qualified, of course.
"probable cause" and "presumed innocent until proven guilty" and your Miranda rights
And let's not forget that the airport security goonsquad aren't even real law enforcement
Isn't this the truly despicable part of TSA agents? They aren't "real" law enforcement, and aren't bound by the same laws. They aren't curbing your rights - you're free to walk to your destination.
Anyway, that's my understanding - I hope it's flawed. I hate this system so much. The American public just bought into what the terrorists were selling, and the country will take many years to recover its senses.
Liberty is risky! Freedom is dangerous! Embrace the consequences, because the price is more than fair.
Actually, gorillas (like most other primates) have relatively small genitalia. Humans are an exception - at least, some of them are.
Blame our big brains.
No, seriously. At birth we have pretty honkin' big noggins. A larger, more resilient birth canal is required. That will tend to select for more generous male genitalia, female orgasms being a factor in successful impregnation.
Science!
(Okay, I kinda made all that up - but it's a good hypothesis...)
Sigh, OK, let me explain in geek.
If you have an array of 30 reasons for going to war (@reasons), all with non-false values, doing a print $reasons[3] does not make @reasons evaluate false. It doesn't even make $reasons[3] evaluate false. Not even if $reasons[24] == 'oil'. Massive logic fail for you, go debug.
I'm a credentialed geek, and I have no idea what you're talking about. Take it slower, and use a car analogy and some Whedon references, please.
It was the SGC firing at yet another goa'uld mothership, duh!
Indeed.
a weapons riding gap.
Comfort-fit, wrinkle free ballistic saddle in an array of autumn colors?
There's a Gap for that.
You have to dial in directly.
And the password is "joshua"
Citizens Bank Park has sold out
Indeed.
Ever seen a frog and a pig getting it on? No, because that would be disturbing. (Especially for kids.)
Of course if they're married it's fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ChbqaTIs8
Hey Commodore,
Do you have a link for reference? I'm poking around and can't find info on nationalization and constitutionality for some reason. Is it a SC ruling? I have found (temporary) WWI nationalization, and the railroads, and the private airport security industry in/after 2001.
I'd really like to learn more about this, because the last-mile issue really gets stuck in my craw.
Thanks,
AS
Our four ... no ... Amongst our triumphs ... Amongst the aspects which allow us to triumph ... are such elements as marketing, high production values ... I'll come in again.
You just blew my mind. "Cardinal Fang! Read the charges...."
Thanks =)
The dude from Comcast's rote answer to questions was to post links to Comcast's PR.
As for my company and who I shill for, that's easy. I'm a public sector education and video teleconferencing goblin in the 49th state. And I shill for children with low incidence disabilities who are using technology.
Another K Street fatcat, lobbying for Big Pediatric Disability.
You people make me sick.
The US should be breaking-up these monopolies, the same way it broke-up the AT&T monopoly.
The US should just nationalize the last mile, treat it as a utility, and avoid all that icky anti-trust litigation.
While I wait for that to happen I'm going to hold my breath until Steve McQueen rides a rainbow-winged pegasus out of my ass.
The reality will probably involve the encroachment of the insurance industry into the ISP realm. You'll need a co-pay to call customer service, and you can only use an ISP from the approved list.
I can't tell whether or not I'm joking.
A mature adult should be able to tolerate some inappropriate language.
"Of course, of course," said Dr. Hardrum, "but my dear lady, what about the children?"
It is up to the parents of the child to raise that child, not other corporations, the FCC or any other government agency unless if they are wards of the state.
I'm sorry, I should have been less cryptic. I agree with you, I was just pointing out the tired old excuse of Thinking of the Children.
I think people who ring that bell may be trying to protect their own childish insecurities, but I don't think there's a short-term way to drag them kicking and/or screaming into adulthood.
I like to believe that newer generations are less prone to the echo chamber, as technology allows for easier access to pluralism - but that may just be my own naive idealism.
Don't get too caught up in the type of glass, that often has far more to do with marketdroid hype than anything else. Thickness, how well in the glass supported around the edges, how well has it been cut and what state are the edges left in, what are reject rates at the manufacturer, what quality control has been implemented in passing glass panels for use.
Apple like other pretend manufacturers choosing the cheapest nastiest does not always pay off and trying to shove those losses back onto the consumer and even generating extra profits by it, well that just plain sucks.
Glass stronger than plastic, have to be careful with that one, is that stronger in regards to bearing capacity in tension and compression, impact resistance, crack propagation from temperature variations and edge defects or is it just a broad markedroid sweep with scratch resistance.
It would have been handy to get information on the thickness of the new versus the old panel and other pretend and actual manufacturer's glass panels (branders versus ODMs).
You can see through glass, too. It's called "transparent".
...
A mature adult should be able to tolerate some inappropriate language.
"Of course, of course," said Dr. Hardrum, "but my dear lady, what about the children?"
Envelope? I've heard of that, I think, but where might I find one?
Glass houses, kid. I remember when I read this and laughed. Learn from my mistake. It will happen to you too!
Oh, and get the hell off my lawn.
High DPI mice start at $50, and are absolutely essential for gaming. This is just a $30 premium for complete physical configurability + extra wheel + sniper mode. That's not bad by gaming standards.
Except for the additional $50 for wireless.... I was so excited about this, but now I'll wait for the movie. $50 for wireless is just gouging.
It's a cool mouse, and it's neat to have an "indie" hardware product, but it's not that cool if they're charging so much for standard features.
On the shelf, I see wireless mice only ~$10-$15 above wired. Anyone have an idea what the real price difference in manufacturing wireless vs wired?
Companies are not children.
Thanks to corporate personhood, they are, though - evil children. They're like that little kid in the original Twilight Zone episode that could just make things happen, and everyone was terrified of his capricious wrath. Don't mess with little Johnny, he has legislative clout.
No, I meant at the beginning of the fight you can see the scar clearly.
It's really much worse than that. As soon as you see her take a beat to look at his scar as a child you know it's going to be pivotal to the story later. Then she encounters a big dragon and - oh. How shocking. Just as bad as the garbage in blockbusters. Nice hair animation, but the facial expressions were like dolls, very poorly exhibited affects.
I just didn't care about her. There was zero emotional impact. So she had a little childhood buddy, and then she killed him. And after years of searching, she just... what, walks away? She should have thrown herself over the cliff, and then had the baby dragon come save her. Instead she just looks like a horrible, selfish little [expletive].
Even then, why should we care? The voice of the old man was obviously recorded without seeing the actual character - totally wrong approach. The adult dragon looked like a huge bat, the montage was jarring and generic at the same time - there was no sense of continuity. She traveled across the world searching for this little dragon, but wtf? Why exactly? Was she just randomly walking? She evidently didn't know she was ever near dragons. And what's the deal with dragons here, anyway? If they're rare, people in her little village didn't seem remotely interested. Odd.
I'm only so worked up because a real strong indie animation has to grab the imagination to draw in quality directors. It's the only way to start weaning the public off Hollywood pablum. This looks like it was conceived and implemented by borderline-aspergers technophiles. Which, let's be honest, it probably was.
Good luck, guys - I'm really pulling for a success, but this isn't it.