From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_colony
The British used North America as a penal colony both in the usual sense and through the system of indentured servitude. Most notably, the Province of Georgia was originally designed as a penal colony. Convicts would be transported by private sector merchants and auctioned off to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is generously estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to colonial America, representing perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the eighteenth century.
When that avenue closed in the 1780s after the American Revolution, Britain began using parts of modern day Australia as penal colonies. Some of these early colonies were Norfolk Island, Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales. Advocates of Irish Home Rule or of Trade Unionism (the Tolpuddle Martyrs) often received sentences of deportation to these Australian colonies.
Note that 'sex!' appears twice in the query. Must be VERY important.
As do fired, racis!, arrest!, intox! and contravers!
A fine example of a GIGO query.
If I, in peeking through your computer, find child pornography, I am legally bound to report it, and you go to jail. I am also now at a liability for sharing private information.
I'd say you were morally bound to report it, not legally, unless you currently work for. or represent, some organization that would, by policy or regulation, require you to report it to the authorities for further action.
The way you state it would be like the original Texas CCL that said if you were licensed to carry a concealed weapon, and witnessed a crime, you were obligated, actually expected, to get involved.
This reminds me of when they started requiring HVAC personnel to be fully certified/licensed and to purchase 20K worth of gear to ensure freon did not escape into the atmosphere back in the early 90's. Much of the same speculation and fear ran through that industry, and it was one of the reasons I made the move to IT. Suddenly, things that had been done for years could not be done without a huge financial outlay by the people doing the job.
Now the end result of this (taking the environment out of the picture for the moment), was that a lot of independent and small shop HVAC techs went out of business, and the big HVAC outfits leveraged that into more business for themselves while attempting to get umbrella coverage. This umbrella would allow them to get the 20K worth of gear at better prices, get the techs certified, and pass those costs back to the public. And since they didn't have as much competition from the small shops, they could charge as much as the market would bear.
Several years later, as techs took advantage of the companies generosity in providing them with the certification, and the price of recovery systems has fallen, they have left the big boys to form independent and small shop HVAC repair shops.
So it was big shake-out, in which some people got out of the business, some big companies got fat, and after a period of time the little guys got back in the picture.
If you look at this from the same perspective, you could see where some big box companies could parlay this into an opportunity to do the same thing. Independent techs can't afford the licensing? Hire them and put them through the course for certification. Hey, looks good on paper - earn while you learn, with a nice little clause that you would have to work for them for n years so they can recoup their investment.
Serves two purposes - kill off the small guys who compete for the same customers anyway, and up the bottom line for that business unit.
As for the criminal past thing - the last IT company I worked for did extensive background checks on everybody they hired. I'd wager that 4 out of 10 candidates never made it through the door because of those background checks. When, exactly, did IT become the safe-haven work environment of the criminal element? I thought most of those guys worked in the financial sector.
But seriously, a lot of them would end up working for less than desirable wages at one of the big companies just to stay employed, and some would get out of IT altogether. Me, I just moved from working directly in the IT industry to doing IT work in an industry where there is still money to be made.
"The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast is so mind-bogglingly stupid that it thinks that if you can't see it, it can't see you. Therefore, the best defense against a Bugblatter Beast is to wrap a towel around your head."
Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
Against who, exactly? The dating site, which is likely a scam front for stealing personal data from people who reply to the ad.
The sites' host? Good luck there. Most decent hosts may take the site down, but there are few well-known hosting companies that would tell you, "Hey, they paid the bill, so they do whatever they want."
The possible scammer behind the email? If he is using your identity to send out the emails to begin with, do you really think he used his real info to setup any of the the accounts.
Then again, your response may have been based on your sig.
Yep, but if you at the statistics provided by the airlines, every one of those flights you were on departed on time and arrived on time. Of course the airlines admitted definition of on time entails moving the plane from the departure gate, not the actual take off of the flight.
So you get to the airport 1-2 hours before the flight, sit around waiting to board, finally get to your seat, and then the plane gets pushed back from the gate and you sit for another 30 minutes to 1 hour on the ground before you even get airborne.
Then there's the snakes! Everybody listen up! We have to put a barrier between us and the snakes!
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Yeah! That's what we need. Let's thaw out The Duke, and let him and John Cassavetes, and Lee Marvin, and Charles Bronson, and Clint Eastwood, and Chuck Norris be on all the flights they can cover. That will make air travel safer and more enjoyable. At least on those flights.
Taking a boat across the Atlantic or Pacific is right out; even when there was still regular passenger service, it took more than a month to cross the Atlantic. According to Cunard's website, average time to cross the Atlantic is only 6-7 days - on the scheduled trips they still offer.
Not time efficient, but it does show that regular passenger service is still available.
Personally, given the opportunity to do it, I'd take the ship across. It would be welcome down-time.
You sir, have provided a wonderful tagline for my sig file.
"Of course I don't have proof, that would be against the entire spirit of internet-based debate.", shall now be attached to all future communications, and possibly a t-shirt.
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would benefit greatly from this. Full stereo cacophony instead of the over-driven mono racket would be a blessing.
Watch those cartoon commercials where they've basically cartooned over real people talking and moving: THAT'S how much people move around.
That process is called rotoscoping. It's been around for almost 100 years, although more recently the technique has been performed using computers.
and in 1985 Max Headroomlooked pretty realistic too.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_colony The British used North America as a penal colony both in the usual sense and through the system of indentured servitude. Most notably, the Province of Georgia was originally designed as a penal colony. Convicts would be transported by private sector merchants and auctioned off to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is generously estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to colonial America, representing perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the eighteenth century. When that avenue closed in the 1780s after the American Revolution, Britain began using parts of modern day Australia as penal colonies. Some of these early colonies were Norfolk Island, Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales. Advocates of Irish Home Rule or of Trade Unionism (the Tolpuddle Martyrs) often received sentences of deportation to these Australian colonies.
Of course they may have been using Spotted Owls to judge your response to see if you were a replicant.
Note that 'sex!' appears twice in the query. Must be VERY important. As do fired, racis!, arrest!, intox! and contravers! A fine example of a GIGO query.
If I, in peeking through your computer, find child pornography, I am legally bound to report it, and you go to jail. I am also now at a liability for sharing private information.
I'd say you were morally bound to report it, not legally, unless you currently work for. or represent, some organization that would, by policy or regulation, require you to report it to the authorities for further action.
The way you state it would be like the original Texas CCL that said if you were licensed to carry a concealed weapon, and witnessed a crime, you were obligated, actually expected, to get involved.
Only if he is reporting it directly to whatever Federal Acronym has the current regimes' favor.
This reminds me of when they started requiring HVAC personnel to be fully certified/licensed and to purchase 20K worth of gear to ensure freon did not escape into the atmosphere back in the early 90's. Much of the same speculation and fear ran through that industry, and it was one of the reasons I made the move to IT. Suddenly, things that had been done for years could not be done without a huge financial outlay by the people doing the job.
Now the end result of this (taking the environment out of the picture for the moment), was that a lot of independent and small shop HVAC techs went out of business, and the big HVAC outfits leveraged that into more business for themselves while attempting to get umbrella coverage. This umbrella would allow them to get the 20K worth of gear at better prices, get the techs certified, and pass those costs back to the public. And since they didn't have as much competition from the small shops, they could charge as much as the market would bear.
Several years later, as techs took advantage of the companies generosity in providing them with the certification, and the price of recovery systems has fallen, they have left the big boys to form independent and small shop HVAC repair shops. So it was big shake-out, in which some people got out of the business, some big companies got fat, and after a period of time the little guys got back in the picture.
If you look at this from the same perspective, you could see where some big box companies could parlay this into an opportunity to do the same thing. Independent techs can't afford the licensing? Hire them and put them through the course for certification. Hey, looks good on paper - earn while you learn, with a nice little clause that you would have to work for them for n years so they can recoup their investment.
Serves two purposes - kill off the small guys who compete for the same customers anyway, and up the bottom line for that business unit.
As for the criminal past thing - the last IT company I worked for did extensive background checks on everybody they hired. I'd wager that 4 out of 10 candidates never made it through the door because of those background checks. When, exactly, did IT become the safe-haven work environment of the criminal element? I thought most of those guys worked in the financial sector. But seriously, a lot of them would end up working for less than desirable wages at one of the big companies just to stay employed, and some would get out of IT altogether. Me, I just moved from working directly in the IT industry to doing IT work in an industry where there is still money to be made.
debunked - http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.asp
"The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast is so mind-bogglingly stupid that it thinks that if you can't see it, it can't see you. Therefore, the best defense against a Bugblatter Beast is to wrap a towel around your head."
Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
Or the Harmony in My Head http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Harmony-In-My-Head-lyrics-The-Buzzcocks/0803FA4DAD578EA548256B2100358D71
File libel lawsuits.
Against who, exactly? The dating site, which is likely a scam front for stealing personal data from people who reply to the ad. The sites' host? Good luck there. Most decent hosts may take the site down, but there are few well-known hosting companies that would tell you, "Hey, they paid the bill, so they do whatever they want." The possible scammer behind the email? If he is using your identity to send out the emails to begin with, do you really think he used his real info to setup any of the the accounts. Then again, your response may have been based on your sig.
Yep, but if you at the statistics provided by the airlines, every one of those flights you were on departed on time and arrived on time. Of course the airlines admitted definition of on time entails moving the plane from the departure gate, not the actual take off of the flight. So you get to the airport 1-2 hours before the flight, sit around waiting to board, finally get to your seat, and then the plane gets pushed back from the gate and you sit for another 30 minutes to 1 hour on the ground before you even get airborne. Then there's the snakes! Everybody listen up! We have to put a barrier between us and the snakes!
Yeah! That's what we need. Let's thaw out The Duke, and let him and John Cassavetes, and Lee Marvin, and Charles Bronson, and Clint Eastwood, and Chuck Norris be on all the flights they can cover. That will make air travel safer and more enjoyable. At least on those flights.
and cake. Cake is an important incentive for the test subjects.
You sir, have provided a wonderful tagline for my sig file. "Of course I don't have proof, that would be against the entire spirit of internet-based debate.", shall now be attached to all future communications, and possibly a t-shirt.