Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re
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TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old
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How you get there is your problem. If you want to get on a commercial flight in the US to get to Hawaii then current laws compel you to submit to a security screening.
The are other methods of getting to Hawaii. If they happen to be unattractive or impractical that is unfortunate, but is ultimately your problem.
You have no inherent inalienable right to board somebody else's airplane.
I didn't claim that defense at all. In fact I was pretty explicit that I felt the groping a child to be an unlawful in impermissible action. Seriously, read it.
The point I was making is that, regardless of whom is ultimately responsible, that TSA agent doing the groping has been trained and convinced that the groping is necessary. That person will commence the groping when instructed to do so. We should be trying to prevent that from ever happening. Not trying to effect change by sending a child through security screening to elicit sexual assault on a minor.
Persecuting a TSA dumbass for following an illegal order is probably the worst way of effecting change. Do you understand that the problem is at the top of the pyramid? The problem is the people at the top and the policies they are crafting. Not the rank and file guys following these ridiculous policies.
By no means am I condoning the activity, but stringing up the first TSA grunt that gropes the wrong person is ridiculous. That dudes life will be absolutely and utterly destroyed for following what he believe to be legal and lawful instructions. I'm saying we should prevent the groping from happening in the first place.
If it's a computer, it can save images. When I read reports that the machines are incapable of storing and transmitting images I get angry.
I would be infinitely be more likely to trust a press report stating that TSA policies prohibit storing and transmission of these images, but as with anything computer related there is always a risk that the system will operate in ways that were not intended.
One of these days I'm praying that this happens and that either a TSA agent is charged as a sex criminal or the TSA itself is defeated in a Civil Suit for instructing their agents to sexually molest children.
Eeek. That TSA agent is likely a drone that has been repeatedly instructed by his superiors that the regulations are all totally legit, and the gropings are necessary to protect 'murica. I'm not going to say that this is right, but I would hate to see the test case for this revolving around some half wit honestly believing that what he was doing was ok.
For sure, the best way to protect the children would be to prevent this from ever happening.
for example, the requirement to notify the government 72 hours in advance when you travel domestically
Keep in mind though that his only applies to airlines. There is no government intrusion for people packing up their own private vehicle and driving across the country (almost none anyway).
I don't support the intrusion on privacy in general, but I also acknowledge that when electing to use nationally critical infrastructure for travel I must submit to some kind of vetting before I'm allowed on it. The current state of security theater has gone too far, but I don't think we can ever rightfully expect to completely eliminate security screening.
I had them. Occasionally they were helpful to reference complex formulae or names/dates I never cared to memorize. But the activity of summarizing concepts and creating the cheat sheet was all the review I needed to handle the exam.
When you work for a small company that can't afford a technical writer. Holy fuck is it annoying to completely rewrite document after document produced by a bunch of slackers who think because they know how to ping something that means they can be practically nonfunctional at everything else including such basic things as language.
I would easily have traded any of my undergrad humanities classes for a class on technical writing. My school simply didn't offer it. The humanities departments expected the technical departments to teach to their own writing styles, and the individual sci/tech departments just expected that through 4 years of education you will pick it up. Trying to learn effective technical writing by mimicking journal articles and the APA style guide (social "scientist" here) is daunting.
Probably some value to it from an educational standpoint. Though the end result is you inevitably get some very educated people who just can't write effectively.
I think if you integrate some sort of gaze detection sensor you might have a winning concept for the American market.
Rather than lift your arm to physically depress a button, the machine will detect and dispense the item you are lustfully staring at. Bonus points if it assists decision making by evaluating salivary gland activity.
A concern about colonization on the Moon is that it has even less available resources than Mars.
Mars has a modicum of local resources that could be exploited. A Moon colony would be almost entirely dependent on Earth supplies and recycling. Of course that Moon colony is so close that once a routine supply capacity is developed, it might not be prohibitively expensive to maintain.
Also, there's nothing on the Moon. We've been there. Mars at least has the possibility of life and has characteristics we probably haven't seen before. Which probably makes it seem more sciency to the public.
it will always be the most comfortable natural body in the solar system, no matter how hard we try to destroy it.
This.
Even if we could mess it up enough where it is no longer capable of supporting human life, it would still be easily the most hospitable environment in the solar system.
Protectionism doesn't work if everyone is doing it.
As an American, the major issue I have with China is that they have the luxury of having seen how the rest of the developed world developed their science and technology industry, and can copy off of us. They're going to catch up with us very quickly. Feels like cheating.
Fortunately for the individual user, the process of rooting a G1 and flashing a custom ROM is very straightforward and well documented (running Cyanogenmod 6.0 currently).
Though this opens up a lot of new concerns about platform incompatibility, not to mention that there is no guarantee that a given ROM is legitimate. It is by no means a solution for the community as a whole.
He's just saying that a death penalty forces people who are going to commit crimes to shoot for grander crimes to keep a favorable risk/reward ratio. People don't expect to be caught, but they are aware they might be caught and want to make sure that the potential benefit of their crime outweighs the potential risk.
Plus when you get into organizations that commit crime, you have to remember that the individuals that are responsible for the decision making will not suffer the full brunt of the punishment. They do stand to receive a huge portion of the gain if they succeed.
Redundancy would help that effort though. Relying primarily on air support for your (re)supply capability might be fine now when we're fighting underarmed tribals, but may not be sufficient in the future.
They are invading a country where they aren't wanted and are murdering people.
And we are responsible for sending them there.
Own up to the fact that we have let our political leadership run wild with our recent wars. The military answers to Civilian authority. Soldiers very literally have no ability to refuse their orders. This is ingrained in them from the moment they enter basic training. Civilian authorities like that because it means we can send these guys to do our bidding while publicly denouncing the horrendous necessity of their existence.
They are doing exactly what our political leadership is asking them to do. Our political leadership is elected by people like you and me. You can't put those atrocities on them without accepting equal responsibility for allowing it to happen.
But if it makes you feel good about yourself to shit on these guys on Veterans day, go right ahead.
Taking personal responsibility scares people. It's much easier to blame things on soldiers than by accepting responsibility for letting our elected officials get away with empire building.
It makes me sad that you were modded as flamebait.
You're totally right. Hate on the politicians and leadership, but the individuals who actually pick up a rifle and go off to war deserve nothing but respect. It's a high stress job, we ask them to do things that no person should ever have to do. Some of those guys snap, make mistakes and do things that we wished they hadn't. The vast majority handle that burden with honor and class.
Yeah if memory serves, their military was very territorial and did not play well together. I seem to remember reading that they refused to share knowledge between their flight schools, so Army and Navy aviators were completely incapable of sharing their experiences. Their Navy also maintained huge numbers of troops because they didn't trust the Army to fight on land.
Of course, that's nothing compared to the complete separation between their military and diplomatic corps. That was literally two organizations with not clue of what the other was up to. Japanese diplomats were as surprised by Pearl Harbor as Americans.
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How you get there is your problem. If you want to get on a commercial flight in the US to get to Hawaii then current laws compel you to submit to a security screening.
The are other methods of getting to Hawaii. If they happen to be unattractive or impractical that is unfortunate, but is ultimately your problem.
You have no inherent inalienable right to board somebody else's airplane.
Good old copper landlines still work just fine without power.
More accurately, if you're on a copper line then you get all the power you need for free right from the phone company.
Did you read anything beyond the first line?
I didn't claim that defense at all. In fact I was pretty explicit that I felt the groping a child to be an unlawful in impermissible action. Seriously, read it.
The point I was making is that, regardless of whom is ultimately responsible, that TSA agent doing the groping has been trained and convinced that the groping is necessary. That person will commence the groping when instructed to do so. We should be trying to prevent that from ever happening. Not trying to effect change by sending a child through security screening to elicit sexual assault on a minor.
By the Power of GODWINS LAW!!!
Persecuting a TSA dumbass for following an illegal order is probably the worst way of effecting change. Do you understand that the problem is at the top of the pyramid? The problem is the people at the top and the policies they are crafting. Not the rank and file guys following these ridiculous policies.
By no means am I condoning the activity, but stringing up the first TSA grunt that gropes the wrong person is ridiculous. That dudes life will be absolutely and utterly destroyed for following what he believe to be legal and lawful instructions. I'm saying we should prevent the groping from happening in the first place.
Of course they are. That's why you need a permit to operate a motor vehicle on them, and your vehicle must be registered.
If it's a computer, it can save images. When I read reports that the machines are incapable of storing and transmitting images I get angry.
I would be infinitely be more likely to trust a press report stating that TSA policies prohibit storing and transmission of these images, but as with anything computer related there is always a risk that the system will operate in ways that were not intended.
One of these days I'm praying that this happens and that either a TSA agent is charged as a sex criminal or the TSA itself is defeated in a Civil Suit for instructing their agents to sexually molest children.
Eeek. That TSA agent is likely a drone that has been repeatedly instructed by his superiors that the regulations are all totally legit, and the gropings are necessary to protect 'murica. I'm not going to say that this is right, but I would hate to see the test case for this revolving around some half wit honestly believing that what he was doing was ok.
For sure, the best way to protect the children would be to prevent this from ever happening.
for example, the requirement to notify the government 72 hours in advance when you travel domestically
Keep in mind though that his only applies to airlines. There is no government intrusion for people packing up their own private vehicle and driving across the country (almost none anyway).
I don't support the intrusion on privacy in general, but I also acknowledge that when electing to use nationally critical infrastructure for travel I must submit to some kind of vetting before I'm allowed on it. The current state of security theater has gone too far, but I don't think we can ever rightfully expect to completely eliminate security screening.
Unfortunately the internet is only set up to support the "flame" setting.
Less extreme behavioral modification settings would require the add-ons to support realistic social consequences of acting like a douchebag.
Boom. This right here.
I had them. Occasionally they were helpful to reference complex formulae or names/dates I never cared to memorize. But the activity of summarizing concepts and creating the cheat sheet was all the review I needed to handle the exam.
When you work for a small company that can't afford a technical writer. Holy fuck is it annoying to completely rewrite document after document produced by a bunch of slackers who think because they know how to ping something that means they can be practically nonfunctional at everything else including such basic things as language.
I would easily have traded any of my undergrad humanities classes for a class on technical writing. My school simply didn't offer it. The humanities departments expected the technical departments to teach to their own writing styles, and the individual sci/tech departments just expected that through 4 years of education you will pick it up. Trying to learn effective technical writing by mimicking journal articles and the APA style guide (social "scientist" here) is daunting.
Probably some value to it from an educational standpoint. Though the end result is you inevitably get some very educated people who just can't write effectively.
I think if you integrate some sort of gaze detection sensor you might have a winning concept for the American market.
Rather than lift your arm to physically depress a button, the machine will detect and dispense the item you are lustfully staring at. Bonus points if it assists decision making by evaluating salivary gland activity.
yo dawg, we heard you like chicken...
Why not just let the Judge whack the guy in the noggin during sentencing?
He's already got a tiny little hammer.
A concern about colonization on the Moon is that it has even less available resources than Mars.
Mars has a modicum of local resources that could be exploited. A Moon colony would be almost entirely dependent on Earth supplies and recycling. Of course that Moon colony is so close that once a routine supply capacity is developed, it might not be prohibitively expensive to maintain.
Also, there's nothing on the Moon. We've been there. Mars at least has the possibility of life and has characteristics we probably haven't seen before. Which probably makes it seem more sciency to the public.
it will always be the most comfortable natural body in the solar system, no matter how hard we try to destroy it.
This.
Even if we could mess it up enough where it is no longer capable of supporting human life, it would still be easily the most hospitable environment in the solar system.
Protectionism doesn't work if everyone is doing it.
As an American, the major issue I have with China is that they have the luxury of having seen how the rest of the developed world developed their science and technology industry, and can copy off of us. They're going to catch up with us very quickly. Feels like cheating.
My school had a club league for gaming over the network.
This wasn't academic in the technical sense, but was certainly part of the socialization experience that most people seek in a modern college.
Fortunately for the individual user, the process of rooting a G1 and flashing a custom ROM is very straightforward and well documented (running Cyanogenmod 6.0 currently).
Though this opens up a lot of new concerns about platform incompatibility, not to mention that there is no guarantee that a given ROM is legitimate. It is by no means a solution for the community as a whole.
He's just saying that a death penalty forces people who are going to commit crimes to shoot for grander crimes to keep a favorable risk/reward ratio. People don't expect to be caught, but they are aware they might be caught and want to make sure that the potential benefit of their crime outweighs the potential risk.
Plus when you get into organizations that commit crime, you have to remember that the individuals that are responsible for the decision making will not suffer the full brunt of the punishment. They do stand to receive a huge portion of the gain if they succeed.
Redundancy would help that effort though. Relying primarily on air support for your (re)supply capability might be fine now when we're fighting underarmed tribals, but may not be sufficient in the future.
Options are a good thing.
They are invading a country where they aren't wanted and are murdering people.
And we are responsible for sending them there.
Own up to the fact that we have let our political leadership run wild with our recent wars. The military answers to Civilian authority. Soldiers very literally have no ability to refuse their orders. This is ingrained in them from the moment they enter basic training. Civilian authorities like that because it means we can send these guys to do our bidding while publicly denouncing the horrendous necessity of their existence.
They are doing exactly what our political leadership is asking them to do. Our political leadership is elected by people like you and me. You can't put those atrocities on them without accepting equal responsibility for allowing it to happen.
But if it makes you feel good about yourself to shit on these guys on Veterans day, go right ahead.
Taking personal responsibility scares people. It's much easier to blame things on soldiers than by accepting responsibility for letting our elected officials get away with empire building.
It makes me sad that you were modded as flamebait.
You're totally right. Hate on the politicians and leadership, but the individuals who actually pick up a rifle and go off to war deserve nothing but respect. It's a high stress job, we ask them to do things that no person should ever have to do. Some of those guys snap, make mistakes and do things that we wished they hadn't. The vast majority handle that burden with honor and class.
Yeah if memory serves, their military was very territorial and did not play well together. I seem to remember reading that they refused to share knowledge between their flight schools, so Army and Navy aviators were completely incapable of sharing their experiences. Their Navy also maintained huge numbers of troops because they didn't trust the Army to fight on land.
Of course, that's nothing compared to the complete separation between their military and diplomatic corps. That was literally two organizations with not clue of what the other was up to. Japanese diplomats were as surprised by Pearl Harbor as Americans.