people will decide to take their car (at least for a certain subset of trips)
I'm just not sure how big that subset would be. Is somebody in Kansas City seriously going to consider a drive to Atlanta or Cleveland, or will they just stay home for Thanksgiving and decide that 15 minutes on Skype will have to be good enough?
Not really. This is a lot like the Sony Nightshot porn stories from about a decade ago - garish green images with too much contrast aren't really something to get the blood pumping IMO. Same thing with these security images. Anybody who gets aroused looking at these grotesque caricatures probably needs therapy.
So I can't have dignity and a penis at the same time? The way I look at it, it's not my dignity that's at stake here, it's the dignity of the guy who's selling his soul by agreeing to sit in a room for an entire 8-hour shift watching images of other people's privates. He's the one who's going to have karma issues at the end of the day - not me.
Perhaps not, but it does have a 100% "this fucking sucks" rate. I opt out of enhanced imaging every single time I fly - not because I give a shit if some high-school flunky sees my junk - but because I see no compelling reason to increase my cumulative lifetime dose of radiation if I can simply avoid it by choosing the fondle option.
The "per mile" argument is a bit of a red herring for all these reasons and more. In fact, many types of trips wouldn't even exist if it weren't for air travel. Later today, I am getting on a plane and flying ~3 hours to spend 3 days on a client site. There is no ground-based analogue for the trip I am taking. If it weren't for air travel, my job (or at least this component of it) wouldn't exist.
You missed a step or two: Pull over, stop the car, get out of the car regardless of the weather conditions or any personal threat you may face (there are lots of reasons people call 911), possibly walk away from the car until the jamming field subsides... and finally, make the call.
Or how about this one: Convince the driver of the car to pull over, plead with the driver to pull over so you can get out, keep pleading with the driver "please, please, stop the car! just stop the car!"... repeat as necessary.
Dude, you're the one making assertions. It is therefore your responsibility to provide supporting evidence. I'm perfectly willing to have my opinion changed, but lazy drive-by sniping isn't going to cut it. Go do your homework.
Super idea. Let's take away the ability for anybody inside a vehicle (and presumably within some radius outside of it too) to make a 911 call in the case of an emergency.
do you seriously think I'll ever fly to the US again while this bullshit is going on?
I am forced to travel to patdownistan for my work, but one of the many reasons I am looking for alternate employment is that I hate all the bullshit that goes along with business travel these days.
Nobody is taking your landline away. So in a power outage you pop your CD into a laptop (our household has 4 of them... well, 3, since one of them has a fried mainboard I think), look up the number you want, dial the digits, and tell the person who answers "yo dude... I'm in a power outage over here."
Same basic news stories - except you'll be reading about how a Linux nerd escaped from a nearby data centre, causing a ruckus as local residents stepped out of their homes to gawk at the delicate, pasty white skin.
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If there is life swimming in a big ocean under the ice of Europa, the question becomes: how does it taste?
Electronic attacks like this are not what this government does
Re-read that a few times and give it some thought, then let us know if you'd like to amend that statement.
You can get paid to write things on Slashdot? Where do I sign up?
people will decide to take their car (at least for a certain subset of trips)
I'm just not sure how big that subset would be. Is somebody in Kansas City seriously going to consider a drive to Atlanta or Cleveland, or will they just stay home for Thanksgiving and decide that 15 minutes on Skype will have to be good enough?
Not really. This is a lot like the Sony Nightshot porn stories from about a decade ago - garish green images with too much contrast aren't really something to get the blood pumping IMO. Same thing with these security images. Anybody who gets aroused looking at these grotesque caricatures probably needs therapy.
So I can't have dignity and a penis at the same time? The way I look at it, it's not my dignity that's at stake here, it's the dignity of the guy who's selling his soul by agreeing to sit in a room for an entire 8-hour shift watching images of other people's privates. He's the one who's going to have karma issues at the end of the day - not me.
Perhaps not, but it does have a 100% "this fucking sucks" rate. I opt out of enhanced imaging every single time I fly - not because I give a shit if some high-school flunky sees my junk - but because I see no compelling reason to increase my cumulative lifetime dose of radiation if I can simply avoid it by choosing the fondle option.
Hang on a second ... if 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, what is 1/42 the answer to?
The "per mile" argument is a bit of a red herring for all these reasons and more. In fact, many types of trips wouldn't even exist if it weren't for air travel. Later today, I am getting on a plane and flying ~3 hours to spend 3 days on a client site. There is no ground-based analogue for the trip I am taking. If it weren't for air travel, my job (or at least this component of it) wouldn't exist.
doing something about it
Exactly. These lawyers are in real danger of receiving a sternly-worded rebuke.
You missed a step or two: Pull over, stop the car, get out of the car regardless of the weather conditions or any personal threat you may face (there are lots of reasons people call 911), possibly walk away from the car until the jamming field subsides ... and finally, make the call.
Or how about this one: Convince the driver of the car to pull over, plead with the driver to pull over so you can get out, keep pleading with the driver "please, please, stop the car! just stop the car!" ... repeat as necessary.
This plan is idiocy. Complete and utter idiocy.
Dude, you're the one making assertions. It is therefore your responsibility to provide supporting evidence. I'm perfectly willing to have my opinion changed, but lazy drive-by sniping isn't going to cut it. Go do your homework.
Super idea. Let's take away the ability for anybody inside a vehicle (and presumably within some radius outside of it too) to make a 911 call in the case of an emergency.
Idiocy.
Why would you want to post something that's less convincing to slashdot than a well supported argument?
... ahhh, I bet that tastes nice and soothing ... I nice warm mug of strawman cider ... you're gonna sleep like a baby tonight.
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It is a business course, and that's pretty much the central lesson of modern business.
What exactly does "radiation (that matters)" mean? Are you a lawyer?
... or if a passenger chooses not to submit to being showered with radiation inside a device with untested health effects.
do you seriously think I'll ever fly to the US again while this bullshit is going on?
I am forced to travel to patdownistan for my work, but one of the many reasons I am looking for alternate employment is that I hate all the bullshit that goes along with business travel these days.
Using bacteria to fix concrete?
Seems the homeless people in my town have had the right general concept all along ... they just haven't been getting the details right.
Nobody is taking your landline away. So in a power outage you pop your CD into a laptop (our household has 4 of them ... well, 3, since one of them has a fried mainboard I think), look up the number you want, dial the digits, and tell the person who answers "yo dude ... I'm in a power outage over here."
Companies (and sports teams) having been whoring themselves out to the highest taxpayer bidder this way for years.
Same basic news stories - except you'll be reading about how a Linux nerd escaped from a nearby data centre, causing a ruckus as local residents stepped out of their homes to gawk at the delicate, pasty white skin.
Nah, they'll just institute some kind of security screening and full-body-scan protocol for anyone entering/exiting the entire 500sq.km area.