I'm just waiting for the day when a TSA agent becomes a terrorist.
If I wanted to really do some damage to America, that's where I'd recruit if I were Bin Laden. Just look at the paranoia that happened when that Army officer went berserk.
I'm having the same issue....Windows XP, btw? I've been seeing if there's a virus or something that's intercepting messages on the queue, but nothing. It's really weird....
Have you had a problem with any of the credit bureaus lately? You get an 800 number which then you call someone in India - I think. To identify yourself, you have to answer all these personal questions about your location, SSN, DOB, bills, and amounts.
After I was done, I asked, "By the way, what country are you in?"
"We do not answer that for security reasons."
So my personal information, everything needed to get a Government ID and borrow money, is in another country and God knows where else. If someone steals said information and abuses it, I'll be the one spending the rest of my life trying to clear my name - maybe from a jail cell.
None of their theories consider this one fact - all labor is now a commodity. And no one country has this special expertise that other countries do not have.
A few years ago, I remember this economist saying that Americans need to get more education and go up the "food chain" of labor. Get those master's degrees, JDs and Ph.D.s. What they didn't consider is companies sending those jobs overseas too. You see, their models are based upon Third World countries doing the "lower food" chain jobs. They never considered the "high food" chain jobs going overseas too.
Very simply, there are over 7 billion people on this Earth and anyone can be replaced with someone cheaper. Technology has allowed communication to become extremely cheap.
Just to elaborate, if this rabbit mates, it's children will not be radioactive nor will they receive radioactive materials. The problem is only with this generation.
So, we're no t going to have rabbit super heroes with super powers that will fight for Truth, Justice and the American Way?!?
There is no safe flight without us. We are what stands between you and a messy demise.
That's a lie. A determined terrorist can get around TSA security easily.
So either STFU, do what we tell you, and enjoy your flight, or don't fly.
My, my, my. Someone's got a God complex! Who the fuck do you think you are? You're just a fucking grunt with a badge. I bet this asshole is the type to cause travelers a lot of shit because he can - Mr. Bigshot TSA screener!
We are the last line of security, and it is our duty to ensure that security is NEVER breached, by anyone foreign or domestic.
Can you believe this idiot?
What this typical government numbnut doesn't understand that by screening us, they're just proving that they have no clue as to who are the threats - they're just casting a big net with the hope of catching someone. They're wasting a lot of time and resources, damaging our health, and diminishing the values that this country stands for. This TSA dipshit will never catch a terrorist. He'll spend his entire career searching for crap and "catching" people who accidentally forgot to leave their pocket knife behind - of course, it goes into the TSA stats as a "thwarted hijack attempt" - typical Government incompetence.
Keep this in mind Mr TSA bigshot, while you're standing around those x-ray machines all day, I hope your health plan is really good.
You do realize that determined terrorist will put something up his ass or her vagina, don't you? The only way to be completely safe is to do full cavity searches and head to toe X-rays because you never know when they'll surgically insert something into their abdominal cavity.
It's also MY RIGHT to feel some assurance that the guy sitting next to me isn't planning on hijacking the plane.
No it's not your right. So, this is your reasoning:
"Oh NO! I want to feel safe! Please government, go ahead and search me and make sure I don't have any weapons so that I'll be safe! Take my Fourth Amendment rights away."
It's that sort of attitude that makes terrorism so effective. Yes, I'm saying people like you allow terrorism to be effective.
The higher it is, the more the system looks like nonsense and the more chance there is for positive change.
No. The only change that will happen is some knee-jerk moronic shit that will go too far the other way. Our government and legal system is only capable of going from one extreme to another which just adds to the nonsense.
My wife has a friend that wants the "best" of everything and she's not rich. If she takes a cooking class, she's got to have the top of the line Henkel knives. She wants a "Benz". She buys a purse, it's a Gucci. etc....
She's always broke. She says that one day she'll be making six figures - she's a paralegal so it's doubtful she'll get even close. Anyway, I tell my wife, even if she made seven figures, she'd still be broke all the time. Why? Because she's a poor slob who thinks like a poor slob. She doesn't think on how to make her money work for her - just about crap she can buy.
Gold diggers are the same. They're people who believe that "fancy" things will make them happy. They believe being married to someone "successful" will make them happy.
Yes, if she wants diamonds on Valentine's Day definitely - have your fun and then get rid of her. She's just trouble down the road.
I mean, it's creative and ridiculous on a par with bad-scifi plot twists.
Bad sci-fi? I was thinking more of a Hollywood movie. The hero, a very smart well dressed man in some secret spy agency, let's say MI6, goes after the coders. Now, after using all of his super secret gadgets to infiltrate the the hackers headquarters, he's caught. BUT one of the hackers likes him and she becomes his ally, let's call her Boobies Mucho (She's Latina). Now Boobies frees this secret agent only for both of them to get caught, tied up, and hung over a tank of mutated guppies. These guppies have big teeth! And as an added bonus, have masers strapped on their heads - that's right microwave lasers! But they escape, and this secret agent finds and sets the destruct button on all of their computers - that's right, they're Dells and it's the power buttons!
The marines show up and they have a shoot out while all the Dell's are going up in explosions! The secret agent the sleeps with the ex-hacker and we 're done.
People want the issues broken down into sound bites so that they can go on with their lives.
It is just impossible for anyone to understand all the issues and make an educated decision. The media, theoretically, is supposed to boil that stuff down. Instead they go for the ratings and the fear you talk about - Fox News is the champ.
To understand all the issues is a few full-time jobs in itself. How can the average working man keep up? They can't. I can't and I don't think even the most die hard Political gadfly can.
That's just it - they haven't done anything to reverse the disaster.
They couldn't reverse the disaster. The only they could do was keep it from getting even worse with the stimulus money. I'm trying to find the GAO study where it estimated what the unemployment rate would have been if there wasn't a stimulus - it would have been much higher.
I strongly believe that if we followed the Republican way, we'd be really bad off. BUT, if the Reps were in power, they would have done exactly the same thing as the Dems. Why? Because like all politicians, they want to keep their cushy overpaid jobs.
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If I wanted to really do some damage to America, that's where I'd recruit if I were Bin Laden. Just look at the paranoia that happened when that Army officer went berserk.
Please, see my sig. It explains everything.
I'm having the same issue....Windows XP, btw? I've been seeing if there's a virus or something that's intercepting messages on the queue, but nothing. It's really weird....
What to do, what to do. It's the Bible and yet, it's porn!
That is $ 10 Billion coming in to the US - by exporting products (33 planes from Boeing, 414 Jet Engines from GE, etc.) to India. .
Chump change.
Have you had a problem with any of the credit bureaus lately? You get an 800 number which then you call someone in India - I think. To identify yourself, you have to answer all these personal questions about your location, SSN, DOB, bills, and amounts.
After I was done, I asked, "By the way, what country are you in?"
"We do not answer that for security reasons."
So my personal information, everything needed to get a Government ID and borrow money, is in another country and God knows where else. If someone steals said information and abuses it, I'll be the one spending the rest of my life trying to clear my name - maybe from a jail cell.
Hired for how long? I suspect that most of employees left after working for several months in order to get a raise in other Indian company.
And IBM will just hire more cheap labor. So, your point being?
He is what he is, another tax-and-spend Democrat ....
I'll take that over the "borrow and spend" Republicans any day. Cash and carry. It's not good - but it's a little better.
And people wonder why I "throw my vote away" on Libertarians.
Commodity jobs are being exported...
All jobs are a commodity.
A few years ago, I remember this economist saying that Americans need to get more education and go up the "food chain" of labor. Get those master's degrees, JDs and Ph.D.s. What they didn't consider is companies sending those jobs overseas too. You see, their models are based upon Third World countries doing the "lower food" chain jobs. They never considered the "high food" chain jobs going overseas too.
Very simply, there are over 7 billion people on this Earth and anyone can be replaced with someone cheaper. Technology has allowed communication to become extremely cheap.
The radioactivity has given them super powers with laser beam eyes - they're using they're laser beams to disintegrate their turds.
Just to elaborate, if this rabbit mates, it's children will not be radioactive nor will they receive radioactive materials. The problem is only with this generation.
So, we're no t going to have rabbit super heroes with super powers that will fight for Truth, Justice and the American Way?!?
Using "Wesearchers Wace to Wecover Wadoactive Wabbits" makes it easier.
Siwwy Wabbit.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Getting that MBA seemed to be a good idea at the time. Gimme a break!
There is no safe flight without us. We are what stands between you and a messy demise.
That's a lie. A determined terrorist can get around TSA security easily.
So either STFU, do what we tell you, and enjoy your flight, or don't fly.
My, my, my. Someone's got a God complex! Who the fuck do you think you are? You're just a fucking grunt with a badge. I bet this asshole is the type to cause travelers a lot of shit because he can - Mr. Bigshot TSA screener!
We are the last line of security, and it is our duty to ensure that security is NEVER breached, by anyone foreign or domestic.
Can you believe this idiot?
What this typical government numbnut doesn't understand that by screening us, they're just proving that they have no clue as to who are the threats - they're just casting a big net with the hope of catching someone. They're wasting a lot of time and resources, damaging our health, and diminishing the values that this country stands for. This TSA dipshit will never catch a terrorist. He'll spend his entire career searching for crap and "catching" people who accidentally forgot to leave their pocket knife behind - of course, it goes into the TSA stats as a "thwarted hijack attempt" - typical Government incompetence.
Keep this in mind Mr TSA bigshot, while you're standing around those x-ray machines all day, I hope your health plan is really good.
It's also MY RIGHT to feel some assurance that the guy sitting next to me isn't planning on hijacking the plane.
No it's not your right. So, this is your reasoning:
"Oh NO! I want to feel safe! Please government, go ahead and search me and make sure I don't have any weapons so that I'll be safe! Take my Fourth Amendment rights away."
It's that sort of attitude that makes terrorism so effective. Yes, I'm saying people like you allow terrorism to be effective.
Thank you so very little.
You couldn't drive today's Jeeps in the outback either.
Where's the catch? What will you inadvertently start using that will later need licensing?
There is no catch. Microsoft is doing this because F# has no commercial value. Who uses F#? A couple of math/CS geeks?
It sounds like it's more of a problem with the implementation of the Adobe Flash Player than anything. Let's put the blame where it belongs.
...but my computer ran out of batteries and I had to find an outlet.
I have several outlets besides computers - cooking, swimming, yoga, masturbation to hairy milf porn, ....oh, you're talking power outlet! My bad.
The higher it is, the more the system looks like nonsense and the more chance there is for positive change.
No. The only change that will happen is some knee-jerk moronic shit that will go too far the other way. Our government and legal system is only capable of going from one extreme to another which just adds to the nonsense.
She's always broke. She says that one day she'll be making six figures - she's a paralegal so it's doubtful she'll get even close. Anyway, I tell my wife, even if she made seven figures, she'd still be broke all the time. Why? Because she's a poor slob who thinks like a poor slob. She doesn't think on how to make her money work for her - just about crap she can buy.
Gold diggers are the same. They're people who believe that "fancy" things will make them happy. They believe being married to someone "successful" will make them happy.
Yes, if she wants diamonds on Valentine's Day definitely - have your fun and then get rid of her. She's just trouble down the road.
I mean, it's creative and ridiculous on a par with bad-scifi plot twists.
Bad sci-fi? I was thinking more of a Hollywood movie. The hero, a very smart well dressed man in some secret spy agency, let's say MI6, goes after the coders. Now, after using all of his super secret gadgets to infiltrate the the hackers headquarters, he's caught. BUT one of the hackers likes him and she becomes his ally, let's call her Boobies Mucho (She's Latina). Now Boobies frees this secret agent only for both of them to get caught, tied up, and hung over a tank of mutated guppies. These guppies have big teeth! And as an added bonus, have masers strapped on their heads - that's right microwave lasers! But they escape, and this secret agent finds and sets the destruct button on all of their computers - that's right, they're Dells and it's the power buttons!
The marines show up and they have a shoot out while all the Dell's are going up in explosions! The secret agent the sleeps with the ex-hacker and we 're done.
It is just impossible for anyone to understand all the issues and make an educated decision. The media, theoretically, is supposed to boil that stuff down. Instead they go for the ratings and the fear you talk about - Fox News is the champ.
To understand all the issues is a few full-time jobs in itself. How can the average working man keep up? They can't. I can't and I don't think even the most die hard Political gadfly can.
That's just it - they haven't done anything to reverse the disaster.
They couldn't reverse the disaster. The only they could do was keep it from getting even worse with the stimulus money. I'm trying to find the GAO study where it estimated what the unemployment rate would have been if there wasn't a stimulus - it would have been much higher.
On the other hand, we're going to have to stop the Gov spending or private sector will slow down.
I strongly believe that if we followed the Republican way, we'd be really bad off. BUT, if the Reps were in power, they would have done exactly the same thing as the Dems. Why? Because like all politicians, they want to keep their cushy overpaid jobs.