Another factor that wasn't considered in TFA: airports tend to be built 'way out in the country, where there aren't a lot of local residents to complain about the noise. Typically, the thousands of acres an airport needs are carved out of prime agricultural land. And if the airport is built next to a major population centre, how do you put a price on the degraded quality of life suffered by thousands of people who have to endure the constant din of landing jets roaring overhead?
Offering these scumbags money just teaches them that they're on the right track. If you've got money to burn, why not throw a little at some of the many groups that are trying to outlaw this practice?
Britain "definitely does not have a Ministry of Defense"??? How about a "Ministry of Defence", then? You're either spectacularly ignorant, or a nitpicking pedant. In either case, you're full of meadow muffins.
I've still got a working Apple 2c and a custom-modified dot matrix printer to use with it.
And a rock. I've got a rock. I bet it would still do the same job some caveman would have used it for if he found out the chief was shagging his cave-mate, though I just use it as a doorstop.
These are the same idiots who are putting surveillance cameras everywhere, fingerprinting and taking DNA samples from musicians who are simply visiting the UK to play in a few clubs (then denying them entrance because the clubs hadn't paid a fee and agreed to report on them), and generally acting like fascists.
They're great at grabbing reams of private information they would have no right to if Britain were still a free society. Protecting it from unauthorized access? Not so much.
Your kilo of Purple Shishkaberry will be making its final approach to your back yard in approximately 3 minutes. Please ensure that no cats, dogs, children or uniformed officials are blocking the runway. Thank you for choosing Aer Lungus, the micro-airline that gets you high by getting your cargo high. Please remember that we offer a volume discount for frequent fliers.
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster says Craigslist deserves to be prosecuted because the site is like "...a hotel or motel owner that knows prostitution is going on on their premises and fails to do anything about it, especially after having been told."
Perhaps Mr. McMaster himself should be prosecuted. Prostitutes openly flaunt their wares on the streets of every major city in his state, yet McMaster has failed to limit their activities in any meaningful way. If he put half the time and effort into cleaning up South Carolina's sin-soaked streets as he has attempting to prosecute a glorified Want Ads site, perhaps that situation could be improved.
Of course, that might involve busting a few familiar faces (cough Spitzer cough).
It seems to me that allowing a combination of big business and government to develop and implement foreign policy is about as sane and responsible as letting a convicted pedophile babysit your kids.
They're a bunch of cocksuckers, why would it be a surprise that Homeland Security drones are trying to get information from urinals? J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the FBI when they did crap like this, and he used to prance around his office in ladies' dresses.
The only weapon these folks are likely to find under my clothes will be perfectly easy to detect if they simply show me a few pictures of Natalie Portman. Probably quite a bit cheaper than the scanner, too.
I assume this movie was made for your basic young adult male, since that's supposed to be the most desirable segment of the audience, especially for this genre. Abrams and company obviously believe such people are lobotomized morons, since that's the level they pitched the movie to. Most of the young people I know are brighter than that. They might turn out for this movie, but I doubt very much whether they'll be back en masse for the sequel.
Bad post...I wasn't clear. My point is that the reflexive reaction, no matter what it is, isn't the one that has a lot to do with a long-term pair bond. A sexy picture of the significant other is going to conjure memories of an actual physical relationship. A sexy picture of somebody hot might be stimulating, but it can't replicate the memory of something that has actually happened.
Would anybody like to place a bet that Brad Pitt's brain would light up brighter for Jacobs' wife (assuming she's reasonably hot)? Does it mean either guy would even consider trading wives? Not for a second.
And let's not forget that there's a measurable time lag before the hormones kick in and that immediate flash of reflexive horniness morphs into something similar but far from identical.
I understand women's shelters are a good place to focus on. Google apparently labours under the misapprehension that any half-decent stalker wouldn't be able to find out everything they want to know from a car, a fleeting glimpse of a sweater (Alt-Prt Scr), or a characteristic body-type/tattoo, so you might just as well make a real dog's breakfast of it and set up a camera outside a place like that and supply the GPS coordinates.
Sorry...you didn't deserve that, but I the point needed to be made. I know a girl who was stalked by somebody who knew their way around the web, and managed to find her from a Facebook picture that showed somebody's back yard.
What you want to do is fine, just use a little common sense. If I were thinking about a project like that, I'd be inclined to set up a camera on a deer trail. Just about every kind of wildlife that likes an easy path through the bush uses them.
researcher Yun Lai, has been seen hanging around the Lost and Found Office at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with a VERY pissed-off expression on his face.
When Google alleges that what they show is no different from what could be seen by a person walking down the street, they miss the point. That hypothetical viewer is also part of the scenery...and can be seen. For example, someone lurking in the area of a women's shelter would run the risk of being noticed and identified. Google allows such a person to stalk their victim safely and securely, and merely blurring faces and license plates wouldn't prevent an abuser from identifying their victim with ease.
Privacy is easy to lose, and almost impossible to get back.
If you don't restrict your e-mailing to regular work hours, you're an "emailaholic"? What a steaming pile of crap!
I answer e-mail when I get around to it, and that's often outside of regular work hours (unless it's from the boss and requires an immediate response, of course). If I was somehow addicted to e-mail, the 353 unread, non-spam messages currently awaiting my attention would be getting dealt with right now. Yet here I am, futzing around on Slashdot when I should have my nose firmly against the grindstone.
I guess what I'm trying to say in my semi-literate way, is, "I got yer spambot right here, analyst boy.
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Your sense of scale could use some work.
Another factor that wasn't considered in TFA: airports tend to be built 'way out in the country, where there aren't a lot of local residents to complain about the noise. Typically, the thousands of acres an airport needs are carved out of prime agricultural land. And if the airport is built next to a major population centre, how do you put a price on the degraded quality of life suffered by thousands of people who have to endure the constant din of landing jets roaring overhead?
If they can train a dog to find DVDs in Malaysia that AREN'T pirated, give me a call.
Offering these scumbags money just teaches them that they're on the right track. If you've got money to burn, why not throw a little at some of the many groups that are trying to outlaw this practice?
Simply say, "Sorry, but the last time I got it back, it was [fill in your own minor catastrophe here]. I just can't afford to fix it again."
And I'll add "My Bad" if you actually do have TV licenses over there, and were being sarcastic.
Britain "definitely does not have a Ministry of Defense"??? How about a "Ministry of Defence", then? You're either spectacularly ignorant, or a nitpicking pedant. In either case, you're full of meadow muffins.
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/home
I've still got a working Apple 2c and a custom-modified dot matrix printer to use with it.
And a rock. I've got a rock. I bet it would still do the same job some caveman would have used it for if he found out the chief was shagging his cave-mate, though I just use it as a doorstop.
These are the same idiots who are putting surveillance cameras everywhere, fingerprinting and taking DNA samples from musicians who are simply visiting the UK to play in a few clubs (then denying them entrance because the clubs hadn't paid a fee and agreed to report on them), and generally acting like fascists.
They're great at grabbing reams of private information they would have no right to if Britain were still a free society. Protecting it from unauthorized access? Not so much.
Goddamn wankers!
Your kilo of Purple Shishkaberry will be making its final approach to your back yard in approximately 3 minutes. Please ensure that no cats, dogs, children or uniformed officials are blocking the runway. Thank you for choosing Aer Lungus, the micro-airline that gets you high by getting your cargo high. Please remember that we offer a volume discount for frequent fliers.
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster says Craigslist deserves to be prosecuted because the site is like "...a hotel or motel owner that knows prostitution is going on on their premises and fails to do anything about it, especially after having been told."
Perhaps Mr. McMaster himself should be prosecuted. Prostitutes openly flaunt their wares on the streets of every major city in his state, yet McMaster has failed to limit their activities in any meaningful way. If he put half the time and effort into cleaning up South Carolina's sin-soaked streets as he has attempting to prosecute a glorified Want Ads site, perhaps that situation could be improved.
Of course, that might involve busting a few familiar faces (cough Spitzer cough).
It seems to me that allowing a combination of big business and government to develop and implement foreign policy is about as sane and responsible as letting a convicted pedophile babysit your kids.
They're a bunch of cocksuckers, why would it be a surprise that Homeland Security drones are trying to get information from urinals? J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the FBI when they did crap like this, and he used to prance around his office in ladies' dresses.
These guys are obviously cut from the same cloth.
If I had any moderator points right now, you'd definitely be getting one.
The only weapon these folks are likely to find under my clothes will be perfectly easy to detect if they simply show me a few pictures of Natalie Portman. Probably quite a bit cheaper than the scanner, too.
I assume this movie was made for your basic young adult male, since that's supposed to be the most desirable segment of the audience, especially for this genre. Abrams and company obviously believe such people are lobotomized morons, since that's the level they pitched the movie to. Most of the young people I know are brighter than that. They might turn out for this movie, but I doubt very much whether they'll be back en masse for the sequel.
Bad post...I wasn't clear. My point is that the reflexive reaction, no matter what it is, isn't the one that has a lot to do with a long-term pair bond. A sexy picture of the significant other is going to conjure memories of an actual physical relationship. A sexy picture of somebody hot might be stimulating, but it can't replicate the memory of something that has actually happened.
Would anybody like to place a bet that Brad Pitt's brain would light up brighter for Jacobs' wife (assuming she's reasonably hot)? Does it mean either guy would even consider trading wives? Not for a second.
And let's not forget that there's a measurable time lag before the hormones kick in and that immediate flash of reflexive horniness morphs into something similar but far from identical.
I understand women's shelters are a good place to focus on. Google apparently labours under the misapprehension that any half-decent stalker wouldn't be able to find out everything they want to know from a car, a fleeting glimpse of a sweater (Alt-Prt Scr), or a characteristic body-type/tattoo, so you might just as well make a real dog's breakfast of it and set up a camera outside a place like that and supply the GPS coordinates.
Sorry...you didn't deserve that, but I the point needed to be made. I know a girl who was stalked by somebody who knew their way around the web, and managed to find her from a Facebook picture that showed somebody's back yard.
What you want to do is fine, just use a little common sense. If I were thinking about a project like that, I'd be inclined to set up a camera on a deer trail. Just about every kind of wildlife that likes an easy path through the bush uses them.
I thought Windows 7 was everybody's pet name for Vista SP1.
3D Realms threw a handful of bills at Take Two Interactive's bitch lawyers and said, "Wanna dance?"
researcher Yun Lai, has been seen hanging around the Lost and Found Office at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with a VERY pissed-off expression on his face.
When Google alleges that what they show is no different from what could be seen by a person walking down the street, they miss the point. That hypothetical viewer is also part of the scenery...and can be seen. For example, someone lurking in the area of a women's shelter would run the risk of being noticed and identified. Google allows such a person to stalk their victim safely and securely, and merely blurring faces and license plates wouldn't prevent an abuser from identifying their victim with ease.
Privacy is easy to lose, and almost impossible to get back.
If you don't restrict your e-mailing to regular work hours, you're an "emailaholic"? What a steaming pile of crap!
I answer e-mail when I get around to it, and that's often outside of regular work hours (unless it's from the boss and requires an immediate response, of course). If I was somehow addicted to e-mail, the 353 unread, non-spam messages currently awaiting my attention would be getting dealt with right now. Yet here I am, futzing around on Slashdot when I should have my nose firmly against the grindstone.
I guess what I'm trying to say in my semi-literate way, is, "I got yer spambot right here, analyst boy.