Of course the TSA scanners and body searches are desirable. Just ask the LGBT. They'll be quick to inform you that everyone wants to be probed, and anyone who says differently is a probophobe.
You will only "force exposure" at the point of a gun.
But, don't let that bother you. The various MAFIAA's of the world have no qualms over purchasing entire police forces to break into people's homes, offices, and data centers at the points of multiple guns to seize "evidence".
What is this "the point" you speak of? Dude - just give it to marketing. The market droids can sell shit sandwiches without any bread, and the consumers go crazy over it. We don't CARE what use it may or may not be - we just want it on the market!
I think that it should be noted that an "all you can eat" deal is usually a bit expensive to start with. There is - or at least was, not sure if it's still there - a restaurant in Oklahoma that offered a gigundous steak dinner, for free - IF you could eat it all. If you couldn't clean your plate up, then you had to pay something like $50. The value of the meal changed over time, but it was a HUGE dinner. I met several people who tried to eat it all, and failed. They could have eaten a meal of similar quality at any of dozens of other restaurants, closer to home, for half that price or less. But they thought, or hoped, that they could get a free meal.
Personally, I seldom opt of an "all you can eat" deal. I just can't eat a whole lot at one time. Although, I will do buffets and smorgasbords if there is good variety of foods available. I LOVE to fill a plate with just a table fork full of dozens of items! Just a taste of everything, but I'm stuffed when I leave.
If you offer me unlimited Bar-B-Que in exchange for fifty bucks, and I pay the fifty, you have to keep serving the chow until I call it quits. If you don't want to stay up all night serving spicy sauce covered meat, then you had BETTER make it clear in your offer that I have to consume all my food before your 9:PM closing time. And - if you don't want me to be waiting for you when you return to open in the morning, you had BETTER make it clear that I can only eat what I'm capable of consuming in one sitting.
In short - offer what you intend to deliver. Or, be prepared to deliver what you offer.
None of the telcos wants you to have unlimited data. They need to make that clear in their advertising, and in their contracts. Stop offering unlimited to induce people to sign up for overpriced 5 gig contracts.
I'm sure that happens. But, I've refused to allow cops to search my vehicles, and so has my son. When I have refused, they threatened to bring a dog out to sniff my vehicle. The last time my son refused, they actually brought a dog out. The dog walked around the car three times, without alerting. The cop had the dog to "Sit" beside the driver's door, dog looked around for a few seconds, then slobbered on the door. "Ha, he's found something! That's what he does when he's alerting us!"
Bunch of losers found nothing of course - all they did was to waste their time, and the kid's time.
Originally, the Review Journal held the "rights". Righthaven sued over the violation of those "rights". The judge figured out that Righthaven had no right to sue, so the Review Journal transferred the actual "rights" to Righthaven, so that Righthaven actually did have the right to sue. But, alas, Righthaven filed their suits BEFORE they had any right to sue - so it was all for naught.
NOW, the judge says they have to surrender those works which they now actually own.
So - DMCA notices served against the Review Journal are in order. The Review no longer owns those copyrighted works.
You did note my use of the word "seldom". I didn't mean to imply that every person worth a million dollars is an evil sumbitch. And, we all know that not every poor bastard is kind hearted. But - if I were hurt or sick, or hungry and cold, and I needed some charitable person to help me get back on my feet, the most likely place to look for assistance would be a working man, a waitress, a nurse, someone who works hard for their living, and just makes ends meet.
Sure, I MIGHT find someone in a rich neighborhood to give me a meal, and a porch to sit on - but if so, it would most likely be the maid who did so. The rich folk who own the houses are far more likely to call the cops, and report me as a begger, a vagrant, or a prowler.
But, like yourself, I've known a couple of very decent rich men, and a couple more who I would be proud to call brother or friend. They are just rare creatures, is all.
So - who in the hell ARE these small business people? Well, I was one. I went into a partnership, which was later dissolved for personal/family reasons. Poor people, who scrounge for the cash to purchase tools, equipment, and supplies, and to rent building space. Poor people who hire other poor people. And, if they keep up the struggle for long enough, and if they are smart and lucky, then they move further up the food chain, so that they are no longer poor.
I've seldom had a rich man give me a break. Poor folks are always willing to give another poor man a break! Even hardened criminals are more likely to lend a hand when you need it, than some rich sumbitch with a yacht.
"a risk of a plane hitting" a building implies an accident, in which the pilot is at least TRYING to veer off. Implying, an indirect impact.
What did you see as you watched those aircraft impact the twin towers? Did you see a bumbling fool accidentally impact the buildings, or did you see two massive missiles aimed at the hearts of the buildings?
Speaking of engineering - bullet proof vests and body armor are engineered to save the life of the guy wearing them. Yet - people die frequently when hit by bullets while wearing body armor. Can you explain that?
Almost everyone is shocked beyond description when it is mentioned that certain persons, corporations, or organizations may have been complicit in the attack. I have little doubt that we know who, when what, and where - but the "why" is still elusive.
And, yes I'm familiar with the New American Century. I despise them. They would indeed tear the hearts out of their own mothers and grandmothers bodies if the profit were deemed to be high enough. We see them doing almost that, as they continue to ship jobs overseas, instead of investing in America.
Those planes didn't fly into the bottom of the towers, nor did they fly into the tops of the towers. Remember that OBL was something of a construction expert. They guy knew buildings. He also had people who know buildings. They calculated where the planes should hit to maximize the destructive potential.
And, these planes did not simply crash into the towers. They were driven into them, under power, at speed. There's a big difference between a simple crash, and a suicide attack run.
I'm a little younger than you. By the time I joined the fleet, I'm pretty certain that all carriers except the Forrestal were nuclear powered. Hell, the last of the diesel boats was retired shortly after I joined the Navy, and all submarines were nuclear.
We took on fuel and potable water from the Enterprise in the North Atlantic. We were bobbing up and down on our tin can, and the Enterprise just held steady as a rock. Freaking awesome! An aircraft carrier has to be one of the world's wonders.
Lemme just ask some retarded questions. I'm terribly stupid, naive, uninformed, ignorant, and whole bunch of other horse shit. Oh yeah, can't forget batshit crazy.
With that out of the way - just how large an aircraft do you think would be required to destroy your home, if it were to crash into your home? Alright - how large a plane would be required to destroy your city hall? Your high school? Come on - THINK about it. Have you ever seen a mere 5-gallon can full of nothing but gasoline vapors explode? It's fucking DESTRUCTIVE, man! It will tear your goddamned HEAD OFF!
Now, imagine the explosive power in an automobile's gas tank - 10, 14, maybe 20 gallons of gasoline. Put that in your house. Ignite. Add a bottle or two of pure oxygen - remember, those high altitude aircraft come equipped with an oxygen source, large enough to supply all the people aboard, just in case.
Have you absorbed that yet? Fine - let's move on. How many gallons of aviation fuel did those jetliners carry? I don't even know - but I know damned well that even almost empty, they held more fuel than your family car - or an 18-wheeler.
Pull our heads out of our asses? No - I suggest you study physics.
Skyscrapers aren't exactly "stationary" to start with. They sway. They bend, They stretch. Just like Romper Room, "Bend, and stretch, reach for the stars!"
Impact one side, at a predetermined elevation, in the process destroying some structural elements, and delivering an explosive charge along with some nice long lasting flammables. You don't NEED to bring the building down. All you need do is to destroy SOME structural members, weaken some more - and wait for the building to bring itself down.
And THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE SAW ON 9/11/01 ! ! ! ! !
Those buildings stood for quite a long while after the impacts. It took TIME for them to finish destroying themselves. But, once those impacts, explosions, and fires were started, it was only a matter of time until they fell.
Personally, I think your post is pretty accurate. The last couple of "terrorists" that I've read about didn't seem to be smart enough to plan an attack, let alone to build a bomb. One need look no further than the fact that they trusted an "undercover agent" to supply the bomb to find proof they ain't smart.
I can picture the hill country from the movie 'Deliverance'. A black car pulls up to the gas pumps, guy gets out, pumps some gas, pays for it, and starts talking to the inbred bunch of hillbillies loitering around. They're talking about something that "just ain't right" - taxes, or a black president, or the price of tobacco seed - whatever. So, the smooth talking guy from the black car thinks he's found a "live one", and goads them into badmouthing the president, or government in general. Pretty soon, he has one of them really mouthing off, so he offers to put them in touch with "some people I know".
The whole bunch of nitwits failed to notice the government tags on the black car, LMAO!!
Very interesting. Soooo - what would a shrink have to say about a guy who has changed careers a half dozen times? I don't mean just changed jobs, but changed careers. I worked at one type of work because I enjoyed it. Then, I went into the navy because I thought that I would enjoy it, and I did actually enjoy it. After 8 years, I got out, and started doing another type of work, because I found that work enjoyable.
Had I ever actually stuck with a career, I'd probably be well off, or even wealthy today. Instead, I kept chasing after work that I could enjoy.
Kinda sounds like a cowboy movie, huh? Poor fool can't settle down because he might miss something happening out over the horizon.
The very title of TFA is, "Redheads feel a different kind of pain"
That, I can probably accept. I can't accept that they have higher pain tolerance. I come from a family with a lot of redheads. I'm a brownheaded guy, who had red mixed in before it all went to gray. (Why does the red turn gray first, long before the brown started going gray?) Some things that bothered the hell out of me, didn't phase my redheaded sisters. Things that bothered them, I didn't even notice. Of course - women have been telling us forever that guys are sissies when we get sick, and that having a baby would kill any of us.
Somehow, I suspect that it would be impossible to establish what "normal" is for any group of people, whether we considered race, complexion, hair color, gender, or whatever.
Well, he's probably right. I mean - Google crawls the web with bots, and catalogs stuff that they find. That's based on a previously existing idea. Never mind that Google does it differently, or that they use their own algorithms, or that the content is ranked based on criteria that can be tailored to your own needs./sarcasm
Obviously, some people at some time believed Manning to be trustworthy, or he wouldn't have had the clearance to do his job. But, added into the statement that Manning was NOT trustworthy, is the fact that the US Army was incapable of recognizing that Manning was demonstrably NOT trustworthy.
I mean, please - how many times must a person verbally and/or physically assault his supervisors, before he is dismissed?
That "member state" wouldn't happen to be capable of forging receipts for six million tons of yellow cake, that looked authentic enough to fool a bunch of hysterically fearful old women, would it?
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Of course the TSA scanners and body searches are desirable. Just ask the LGBT. They'll be quick to inform you that everyone wants to be probed, and anyone who says differently is a probophobe.
You will only "force exposure" at the point of a gun.
But, don't let that bother you. The various MAFIAA's of the world have no qualms over purchasing entire police forces to break into people's homes, offices, and data centers at the points of multiple guns to seize "evidence".
What is this "the point" you speak of? Dude - just give it to marketing. The market droids can sell shit sandwiches without any bread, and the consumers go crazy over it. We don't CARE what use it may or may not be - we just want it on the market!
I think that it should be noted that an "all you can eat" deal is usually a bit expensive to start with. There is - or at least was, not sure if it's still there - a restaurant in Oklahoma that offered a gigundous steak dinner, for free - IF you could eat it all. If you couldn't clean your plate up, then you had to pay something like $50. The value of the meal changed over time, but it was a HUGE dinner. I met several people who tried to eat it all, and failed. They could have eaten a meal of similar quality at any of dozens of other restaurants, closer to home, for half that price or less. But they thought, or hoped, that they could get a free meal.
Personally, I seldom opt of an "all you can eat" deal. I just can't eat a whole lot at one time. Although, I will do buffets and smorgasbords if there is good variety of foods available. I LOVE to fill a plate with just a table fork full of dozens of items! Just a taste of everything, but I'm stuffed when I leave.
If you offer me unlimited Bar-B-Que in exchange for fifty bucks, and I pay the fifty, you have to keep serving the chow until I call it quits. If you don't want to stay up all night serving spicy sauce covered meat, then you had BETTER make it clear in your offer that I have to consume all my food before your 9:PM closing time. And - if you don't want me to be waiting for you when you return to open in the morning, you had BETTER make it clear that I can only eat what I'm capable of consuming in one sitting.
In short - offer what you intend to deliver. Or, be prepared to deliver what you offer.
None of the telcos wants you to have unlimited data. They need to make that clear in their advertising, and in their contracts. Stop offering unlimited to induce people to sign up for overpriced 5 gig contracts.
I don't use AT&T, or I'd be trying to get in on the fun. I did post the article to G+ hoping that some of my friends can do the honors.
I'm sure that happens. But, I've refused to allow cops to search my vehicles, and so has my son. When I have refused, they threatened to bring a dog out to sniff my vehicle. The last time my son refused, they actually brought a dog out. The dog walked around the car three times, without alerting. The cop had the dog to "Sit" beside the driver's door, dog looked around for a few seconds, then slobbered on the door. "Ha, he's found something! That's what he does when he's alerting us!"
Bunch of losers found nothing of course - all they did was to waste their time, and the kid's time.
They sell hot potatoes on eBay? How do they stay hot until I get them? They must have some super high efficiency insulation to wrap them in!
Originally, the Review Journal held the "rights". Righthaven sued over the violation of those "rights". The judge figured out that Righthaven had no right to sue, so the Review Journal transferred the actual "rights" to Righthaven, so that Righthaven actually did have the right to sue. But, alas, Righthaven filed their suits BEFORE they had any right to sue - so it was all for naught.
NOW, the judge says they have to surrender those works which they now actually own.
So - DMCA notices served against the Review Journal are in order. The Review no longer owns those copyrighted works.
You did note my use of the word "seldom". I didn't mean to imply that every person worth a million dollars is an evil sumbitch. And, we all know that not every poor bastard is kind hearted. But - if I were hurt or sick, or hungry and cold, and I needed some charitable person to help me get back on my feet, the most likely place to look for assistance would be a working man, a waitress, a nurse, someone who works hard for their living, and just makes ends meet.
Sure, I MIGHT find someone in a rich neighborhood to give me a meal, and a porch to sit on - but if so, it would most likely be the maid who did so. The rich folk who own the houses are far more likely to call the cops, and report me as a begger, a vagrant, or a prowler.
But, like yourself, I've known a couple of very decent rich men, and a couple more who I would be proud to call brother or friend. They are just rare creatures, is all.
I haven't had mod points in a week or two. Wish I had some here.
Small businesses employ more than half of all American workers. Here's the first link I found that supports my claim, that doesn't require any special literary skills to understand: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/nov2009/sb20091112_157141.htm
So - who in the hell ARE these small business people? Well, I was one. I went into a partnership, which was later dissolved for personal/family reasons. Poor people, who scrounge for the cash to purchase tools, equipment, and supplies, and to rent building space. Poor people who hire other poor people. And, if they keep up the struggle for long enough, and if they are smart and lucky, then they move further up the food chain, so that they are no longer poor.
I've seldom had a rich man give me a break. Poor folks are always willing to give another poor man a break! Even hardened criminals are more likely to lend a hand when you need it, than some rich sumbitch with a yacht.
"a risk of a plane hitting" a building implies an accident, in which the pilot is at least TRYING to veer off. Implying, an indirect impact.
What did you see as you watched those aircraft impact the twin towers? Did you see a bumbling fool accidentally impact the buildings, or did you see two massive missiles aimed at the hearts of the buildings?
Speaking of engineering - bullet proof vests and body armor are engineered to save the life of the guy wearing them. Yet - people die frequently when hit by bullets while wearing body armor. Can you explain that?
Ahhhh - the hardest theory to debunk.
Almost everyone is shocked beyond description when it is mentioned that certain persons, corporations, or organizations may have been complicit in the attack. I have little doubt that we know who, when what, and where - but the "why" is still elusive.
And, yes I'm familiar with the New American Century. I despise them. They would indeed tear the hearts out of their own mothers and grandmothers bodies if the profit were deemed to be high enough. We see them doing almost that, as they continue to ship jobs overseas, instead of investing in America.
The punctuation invalidates my post? Cool.
Those planes didn't fly into the bottom of the towers, nor did they fly into the tops of the towers. Remember that OBL was something of a construction expert. They guy knew buildings. He also had people who know buildings. They calculated where the planes should hit to maximize the destructive potential.
And, these planes did not simply crash into the towers. They were driven into them, under power, at speed. There's a big difference between a simple crash, and a suicide attack run.
Salutes, old Salt.
I'm a little younger than you. By the time I joined the fleet, I'm pretty certain that all carriers except the Forrestal were nuclear powered. Hell, the last of the diesel boats was retired shortly after I joined the Navy, and all submarines were nuclear.
We took on fuel and potable water from the Enterprise in the North Atlantic. We were bobbing up and down on our tin can, and the Enterprise just held steady as a rock. Freaking awesome! An aircraft carrier has to be one of the world's wonders.
Lemme just ask some retarded questions. I'm terribly stupid, naive, uninformed, ignorant, and whole bunch of other horse shit. Oh yeah, can't forget batshit crazy.
With that out of the way - just how large an aircraft do you think would be required to destroy your home, if it were to crash into your home? Alright - how large a plane would be required to destroy your city hall? Your high school? Come on - THINK about it. Have you ever seen a mere 5-gallon can full of nothing but gasoline vapors explode? It's fucking DESTRUCTIVE, man! It will tear your goddamned HEAD OFF!
Now, imagine the explosive power in an automobile's gas tank - 10, 14, maybe 20 gallons of gasoline. Put that in your house. Ignite. Add a bottle or two of pure oxygen - remember, those high altitude aircraft come equipped with an oxygen source, large enough to supply all the people aboard, just in case.
Have you absorbed that yet? Fine - let's move on. How many gallons of aviation fuel did those jetliners carry? I don't even know - but I know damned well that even almost empty, they held more fuel than your family car - or an 18-wheeler.
Pull our heads out of our asses? No - I suggest you study physics.
Skyscrapers aren't exactly "stationary" to start with. They sway. They bend, They stretch. Just like Romper Room, "Bend, and stretch, reach for the stars!"
Impact one side, at a predetermined elevation, in the process destroying some structural elements, and delivering an explosive charge along with some nice long lasting flammables. You don't NEED to bring the building down. All you need do is to destroy SOME structural members, weaken some more - and wait for the building to bring itself down.
And THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE SAW ON 9/11/01 ! ! ! ! !
Those buildings stood for quite a long while after the impacts. It took TIME for them to finish destroying themselves. But, once those impacts, explosions, and fires were started, it was only a matter of time until they fell.
Pull our heads out of our asses, indeed.
Well, I'm sure that your imagination is insanely powerful.
Personally, I think your post is pretty accurate. The last couple of "terrorists" that I've read about didn't seem to be smart enough to plan an attack, let alone to build a bomb. One need look no further than the fact that they trusted an "undercover agent" to supply the bomb to find proof they ain't smart.
I can picture the hill country from the movie 'Deliverance'. A black car pulls up to the gas pumps, guy gets out, pumps some gas, pays for it, and starts talking to the inbred bunch of hillbillies loitering around. They're talking about something that "just ain't right" - taxes, or a black president, or the price of tobacco seed - whatever. So, the smooth talking guy from the black car thinks he's found a "live one", and goads them into badmouthing the president, or government in general. Pretty soon, he has one of them really mouthing off, so he offers to put them in touch with "some people I know".
The whole bunch of nitwits failed to notice the government tags on the black car, LMAO!!
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Damn, I thought Bubba said that!
Very interesting. Soooo - what would a shrink have to say about a guy who has changed careers a half dozen times? I don't mean just changed jobs, but changed careers. I worked at one type of work because I enjoyed it. Then, I went into the navy because I thought that I would enjoy it, and I did actually enjoy it. After 8 years, I got out, and started doing another type of work, because I found that work enjoyable.
Had I ever actually stuck with a career, I'd probably be well off, or even wealthy today. Instead, I kept chasing after work that I could enjoy.
Kinda sounds like a cowboy movie, huh? Poor fool can't settle down because he might miss something happening out over the horizon.
The very title of TFA is, "Redheads feel a different kind of pain"
That, I can probably accept. I can't accept that they have higher pain tolerance. I come from a family with a lot of redheads. I'm a brownheaded guy, who had red mixed in before it all went to gray. (Why does the red turn gray first, long before the brown started going gray?) Some things that bothered the hell out of me, didn't phase my redheaded sisters. Things that bothered them, I didn't even notice. Of course - women have been telling us forever that guys are sissies when we get sick, and that having a baby would kill any of us.
Somehow, I suspect that it would be impossible to establish what "normal" is for any group of people, whether we considered race, complexion, hair color, gender, or whatever.
Well, he's probably right. I mean - Google crawls the web with bots, and catalogs stuff that they find. That's based on a previously existing idea. Never mind that Google does it differently, or that they use their own algorithms, or that the content is ranked based on criteria that can be tailored to your own needs. /sarcasm
That was more or less my point. ;^)
Obviously, some people at some time believed Manning to be trustworthy, or he wouldn't have had the clearance to do his job. But, added into the statement that Manning was NOT trustworthy, is the fact that the US Army was incapable of recognizing that Manning was demonstrably NOT trustworthy.
I mean, please - how many times must a person verbally and/or physically assault his supervisors, before he is dismissed?
That "member state" wouldn't happen to be capable of forging receipts for six million tons of yellow cake, that looked authentic enough to fool a bunch of hysterically fearful old women, would it?