The "on American soil" deck-stacking is irrelevant, because the people who desire to commit the acts we're trying to prevent are mainly outside the country at this time.
It could also owe to the fast food culture, the sound byte culture, the twitter culture, etc. - people have very short attention spans today and need to constantly be moved from amusement to amusement, or they get bored.
People get up in arms about profiling, but this is what you get when you say it has to be completely random. 3-year olds, nuns, grandmothers being searched.
Meanwhile people who are thousands of times more likely to be an issue can't be targeted even though it makes good sense.
One side effect I think of the gratuitous CGI is probably that the shots are kept short to keep your eye from paying too much attention to the CGI. If you examine it in detail, it's obvious that it's computer rendered, and thus not as effective. The quick cuts keep shoving "eye candy" at you without making it stand up to the eye.
I remember the first BluRay I watched was a Spider-man movie that was packed with the BluRay player. The HD detail actually made this movie worse (if possible) because it showed how fake and cartoony it make Spider-man look. It's a total backfire.
The film makers think they are thrilling us, but really it's all kind of shallow and yawn-inducing.
I can see why embarrassing someone with the goal of shaming them into paying their debts may be an effective tactic, but this may not be technically illegal.
It's illegal to discuss the nature of the debt but you are allowed to contact other people to try to "locate" that person. Saying "I'm with MarkOne Financial, do you know how I can reach this person who it says is your sister" is probably legal, saying "Did you know your sister hasn't paid her car payment in 6 months" is not.
If you look in TFA, you see that Windows XP SP3 seems to present a clear choice for the novice user when you combine the performance with the familiarity they probably already have with Windows.
It is pretty close, but if you're buying a netbook for your computer sub-novice parents like I am, then XP presents the best chance to have the machine work well and generate fewer calls to "technical supoprt" (me).
He's just as beholden to special interests as everyone else in Washington - it's just a different set of special interests than we were working with before.
I don't believe for a moment that there is any will in Congress to fight p-rnographers. They are very wealthy and could certainly exert a lot of influence.
Pirates are a nebulous group with no leadership, no lobbyists, and most importantly no money to direct at the people who need to be movitated to "see things our way".
Much like the gambling industry, the p-rn industry will make damned sure that whoever gets whatever they need to stay in business. How many billion a year industry is it again?
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It can't be less, either.
I've not seen so many troll/sockpuppets in one place before, it's like a museum exhibit.
They are optimal for anything that doesn't require heavy typing or heavy use of system resources.
You will be branded enemy of socialism, GNUtist pig-dog!
It's already happening. Both AT&T and Verizon sell them.
I asked about one from AT&T, and either it cost $150 to improve the signal in my home, or I could rent one from them for something like $10 a month.
(Hey, how about you just deliver the service you are charging me for instead?)
I never said anything about race in the parent post, but everyone inferred that meaning.
I'm talking about conducting intelligent search profiling based on a myriad of factors, race maybe or maybe not being a factor.
Something like the Motorola F3 would be a lot cheaper than this, in the end - and it can text and store phone numbers
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5394928&CatId=5117
$19.99 after rebate.
If your statements are true, then why hasn't it happened in the nearly 10 years since the proof-of-concept of this attack vector?
The "on American soil" deck-stacking is irrelevant, because the people who desire to commit the acts we're trying to prevent are mainly outside the country at this time.
Exactly - not ONLY based on country of origin, but on a myriad of intelligent factors, should we profile.
It could also owe to the fast food culture, the sound byte culture, the twitter culture, etc. - people have very short attention spans today and need to constantly be moved from amusement to amusement, or they get bored.
There's nothing wrong with searching people getting on flights.
There is something wrong with the gropings they are mandating.
People get up in arms about profiling, but this is what you get when you say it has to be completely random. 3-year olds, nuns, grandmothers being searched.
Meanwhile people who are thousands of times more likely to be an issue can't be targeted even though it makes good sense.
One side effect I think of the gratuitous CGI is probably that the shots are kept short to keep your eye from paying too much attention to the CGI. If you examine it in detail, it's obvious that it's computer rendered, and thus not as effective. The quick cuts keep shoving "eye candy" at you without making it stand up to the eye.
I remember the first BluRay I watched was a Spider-man movie that was packed with the BluRay player. The HD detail actually made this movie worse (if possible) because it showed how fake and cartoony it make Spider-man look. It's a total backfire.
The film makers think they are thrilling us, but really it's all kind of shallow and yawn-inducing.
I can see why embarrassing someone with the goal of shaming them into paying their debts may be an effective tactic, but this may not be technically illegal.
It's illegal to discuss the nature of the debt but you are allowed to contact other people to try to "locate" that person. Saying "I'm with MarkOne Financial, do you know how I can reach this person who it says is your sister" is probably legal, saying "Did you know your sister hasn't paid her car payment in 6 months" is not.
TFA leaves out the important details.
If you look in TFA, you see that Windows XP SP3 seems to present a clear choice for the novice user when you combine the performance with the familiarity they probably already have with Windows.
It is pretty close, but if you're buying a netbook for your computer sub-novice parents like I am, then XP presents the best chance to have the machine work well and generate fewer calls to "technical supoprt" (me).
Obviously the election butthurt is strong with you.
I don't know. If it sucks, it sucks at any price.
Would you like a tissue?
He's just as beholden to special interests as everyone else in Washington - it's just a different set of special interests than we were working with before.
I don't believe for a moment that there is any will in Congress to fight p-rnographers. They are very wealthy and could certainly exert a lot of influence.
Pirates are a nebulous group with no leadership, no lobbyists, and most importantly no money to direct at the people who need to be movitated to "see things our way".
Much like the gambling industry, the p-rn industry will make damned sure that whoever gets whatever they need to stay in business. How many billion a year industry is it again?
All Points Bulletin.
Would anyone play it for free? Got some bad reviews IIRC
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The government used funds from the 2009 stimulus bill to buy these "backscatter" scanners.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/05/technology/full_body_scanner/
And say what you will, but it wasn't until this crop of scanners came around that this administration created the existing policies on opt-outs.
I flew many times post 9/11, and the worst I ever got was my bags opened or run over with the wand.