Clearly everything should be done to prevent explosives getting on board an aircraft in quantities sufficient to cause structural failure and bring the plane down.
Clearly you haven't thought this through, or you'd realize that "everything" includes ending air travel, or doing full medical-grade X-rays of every passenger. No, what should clearly be done is to reduce the risk of injury due to terrorism below that of things people put themselves at risk to every day, like car travel. The rest is a matter of educating people. At that point, by definition, the terror caused by the risk of someone taking down a plane is less than that of traveling in a vehicle, and we have won and the terrorists have lost. That's the way to win without subjecting the very people we want protected (us!) to any unnecessary hardship.
I'd really like to know whether theodp properly reports things he buys out-of-state, and pays the taxes. I guess he must, otherwise he wouldn't be criticizing Amazon, so nevermind.
So do you believe that merchandise magically appears at a brick&mortar shop ?
Do you believe that shipping 100 widgets on a single truck to a single store costs anywhere close to shipping 100 widgets individually to 100 people's doorsteps?
Here in the US we have a device which also charges no fees to either the buyer or the seller. They have a nice feature in that if you lose one, nobody can access the rest of your money.
I don't understand; if you know that they operate a certain way, why would you let them have your money in the first place? You say they need to be regulated as a bank, but why is that necessary if you can protect yourself from them by not having anything to do with them in the first place?
Which, of course, is really quite ironic: during a period when you probably want real, functional security procedures the most (ie, when the most people are traveling), the TSA has to ratchet down their policies in order to handle the load...
Seemingly ironic only if you misunderstand their real purpose.
Do you not see the irony in this? Not even one little bit?
I don't see an irony in what you described, no. An example of irony would be the conspiracy theorist's wife being an employee of a company behind some of this creeping fascism, or one of the people behind this kind of thing being a victim of its misuse.
Yep, it's kind of like encryption. If you want a secure connection, do it from end-to-end, rather than requiring that everyone inbetween implement whatever security features you desire. Here, the fix is simple: have ISP require that all subscribers be 18 or over, and that they agree to take responsibility for any users under 18. Problem solved.
Related to HFCS, I've seen agave nectar sold as a healthy sweetener alternative to sugar, but apparently agave has even higher fructose content than HFCS. But it's natural, and not evil sugar, so it must be better for humans.
The difference beween all the things you describe and imaginary property is that the things you describe are voluntary, whereas imaginary property is really a way to control everyone's property in some way, in an ever-growing list of things one cannot form one's own property into. That's a huge difference.
Yeah, we could try a new scheme where people can only own physical things. Then as long as you own the material, you can form it into whatever patterns you want. No need to ask permission for certain patterns. Radical idea, I know.
Have you heard the difference between them? The discrete card puts out a cold, mechanical sound, while the continuous is warm, with an ambience and character unmatched.
On the other hand a diagnostic dental xray is probably higher res needing higher intensity. On the other hand the efficiency of the flux (forget the name) is probably way the heck higher for a dental xray than a nudie scanner.
You see, this is one effect of X-rays: having three (or more) hands.
I don't think you understand what sarcasm is; it doesn't matter whether what you are implying is true, it's that you are doing the implying by claiming preference for the opposite of what you actually prefer.
During early winter our yard has an almost 6-inch layer of leaves. If a service would scoop them up and take them away for free, they could use them for fuel. It would benefit 3 parties: us (leaf removal), the leaf processing company, and The Planet.
Even simpler: set them on fire. As a bonus, you get your house heated.
Ahhh. So they did actually defraud someone (the seller of the ticket). It still seems a losing battle, because the ticket sellers are attempting to defy basic market principles, that of pricing tickets below market value and somehow expecting to prevent resellers from making a profit off the difference. They seem like spammers in a way, always there because they can find a way through, and people keep buying from them.
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theodp is the one who submitted the article, Every Day's a Tax Holiday At Amazon.
Clearly you haven't thought this through, or you'd realize that "everything" includes ending air travel, or doing full medical-grade X-rays of every passenger. No, what should clearly be done is to reduce the risk of injury due to terrorism below that of things people put themselves at risk to every day, like car travel. The rest is a matter of educating people. At that point, by definition, the terror caused by the risk of someone taking down a plane is less than that of traveling in a vehicle, and we have won and the terrorists have lost. That's the way to win without subjecting the very people we want protected (us!) to any unnecessary hardship.
I'd really like to know whether theodp properly reports things he buys out-of-state, and pays the taxes. I guess he must, otherwise he wouldn't be criticizing Amazon, so nevermind.
Do you believe that shipping 100 widgets on a single truck to a single store costs anywhere close to shipping 100 widgets individually to 100 people's doorsteps?
So, this inconvenience justifies forcing PayPal by law to behave differently, even though they aren't forcing anything on you?
Here in the US we have a device which also charges no fees to either the buyer or the seller. They have a nice feature in that if you lose one, nobody can access the rest of your money.
I don't understand; if you know that they operate a certain way, why would you let them have your money in the first place? You say they need to be regulated as a bank, but why is that necessary if you can protect yourself from them by not having anything to do with them in the first place?
...wherin the allocation mode is set in real-time based on the user's mood and astrological sign. Hey, a new patent!
Now that the team has stored 90GB of data in 1g o bacteria, they're still working on how the hell to read the data back succesfully.
Seemingly ironic only if you misunderstand their real purpose.
I don't see an irony in what you described, no. An example of irony would be the conspiracy theorist's wife being an employee of a company behind some of this creeping fascism, or one of the people behind this kind of thing being a victim of its misuse.
Yep, it's kind of like encryption. If you want a secure connection, do it from end-to-end, rather than requiring that everyone inbetween implement whatever security features you desire. Here, the fix is simple: have ISP require that all subscribers be 18 or over, and that they agree to take responsibility for any users under 18. Problem solved.
I don't know; are you?
Related to HFCS, I've seen agave nectar sold as a healthy sweetener alternative to sugar, but apparently agave has even higher fructose content than HFCS. But it's natural, and not evil sugar, so it must be better for humans.
No way it could be a paid review, where the summary says absolutely nothing about what the hell Spring Dynamic Modules are. No way.
The difference beween all the things you describe and imaginary property is that the things you describe are voluntary, whereas imaginary property is really a way to control everyone's property in some way, in an ever-growing list of things one cannot form one's own property into. That's a huge difference.
Argh, how did I miss such an opportunity?! Thanks for filling that in.
Yeah, we could try a new scheme where people can only own physical things. Then as long as you own the material, you can form it into whatever patterns you want. No need to ask permission for certain patterns. Radical idea, I know.
Wouldn't it be a lot less conspicuous if it merely copied said code? Theft will get found out pretty quickly due to the fact that it will be missing.
Have you heard the difference between them? The discrete card puts out a cold, mechanical sound, while the continuous is warm, with an ambience and character unmatched.
You see, this is one effect of X-rays: having three (or more) hands.
I don't think you understand what sarcasm is; it doesn't matter whether what you are implying is true, it's that you are doing the implying by claiming preference for the opposite of what you actually prefer.
Even worse than that: "Hi, I've just been hired for a job I don't know how to do. Could you teach me how to do it? kthxbai"
Even simpler: set them on fire. As a bonus, you get your house heated.
Ahhh. So they did actually defraud someone (the seller of the ticket). It still seems a losing battle, because the ticket sellers are attempting to defy basic market principles, that of pricing tickets below market value and somehow expecting to prevent resellers from making a profit off the difference. They seem like spammers in a way, always there because they can find a way through, and people keep buying from them.