He planned every detail of the hijacking, so it seems unlikely he would fail to plan the escape as well. I'm speculating an accomplice on the ground. They could listen to the aircraft radio to determine when he jumped, or have him jump at an agreed-upon time - that'd get them an approximate location. Then a rented helicopter to search for the chute as soon as dawn broke. Or a truck and a flare gun - they launch, he heads for the flares. It explains why no parachute has ever been found.
There are lots of people who think The Man is out to get them. Sometimes they are right - political activists and outright criminals. Sometimes they are just paranoids who think Obama is plotting to take their guns so the UN can invade and force their children to be gay. Either way, they don't really care where their traffic seems to come from, so long as it can't be traced back to them.
Domestic cats are the main vector for toxoplasmosis, a fairly nasty disease itsself. Cats have the 'cute immunity' factor: People really love cute fluffy cats, and they aren't going to let a little thing like a disease that can potentially cause blindness and death get in the way of that.
There was a great outcry here in the UK over proposals to cull introduced hedgehogs from the Hebrides, as they were breeding in great numbers by eating the eggs of endangered birds. So great was the outcry about killing 'cute' animals that the government was forced to abandon the cull and instead launch a humane relocation program, which was a dismal failure, because it's very hard to search an entire island for brown animals that spend most of their time hiding in brown bushes and only move during the night.
People are stupid. There's a reason the WWF uses a panda as their mascot: Cute animals raise a lot more money and awareness than ugly ones.
There's no need to run legal and PR risks deliberately degrading service. Just cut the maintenance and upgrade budget, and watch it slow down naturally.
I work at a school. Every now and then, a new game site is suddenly cropping up on our monitoring - usually being played by five students at once, until we block it. Word travels very quickly. From discovery to common knowledge in a day. I don't see why unblocked porn sites would be any different.
Somewhat surprisingly, we very rarely find anyone trying to look for porn. I can only assume no-one wants to look at porn in school, where there is no privacy and lots of people potentially peeking.
Pornography is something of an impulse decision: When you want it, you want it now. Spending ten minutes messing around with an age verification system is going to drive away most customers, who will simply go to one of the many, many non-UK-operated porn sites. Complying with this proposal renders a site commercially unsustainable.
There's also the people who see a way to exploit it.
"Ohh, this company is giving away free pens. Let's see... the pen has an aluminium body. Cool. What's the scrap value for aluminium? I'll take two million pens, please."
It's an easy argument to make. Free and open source software brings in no tax money, commercial software brings in a ton of tax money. Which would you expect government to favor?
1. Allow lots of fair use rights. 2. Forbid the cracking of DRM, distribution/possession of tools to crack DRM, or distribution of media with DRM removed. 3. Release everything only in DRMed form.
I call it the 'Texas Abortion' proposal: You have your rights enshrined in law, but all means of exercising them are closed to you.
It's highly probable that the UK will still end up in TPP or a similar trade deal. Leaving the EU throws a spanner in the negotiations that might take a few years to unjam, but that's all it'll do. There's just too much money pushing for such a treaty.
I found a portal in ingress that was most easily accessed by charging at a brick wall, then taking a dive at the last moment and curling up around the phone. It loses GPS, carries on extrapolating, and you can 'slide' on past the brick wall and travel just far enough to reach the portal on the other side.
I don't recall Janeway ever showing any interest in sex at all, unless you count 'the amphibian incident.' The one that no crew member ever dared speak of afterwards.
I watch porn, I have no kids, and I don't want anyone who I let use my internet connection to be able to find out about the porn. Many people are very sternly disapproving.
There are privacy implications. What happens when you have the snooping parents, potential partner or puritanical co-worker visiting your house? If you let them on to wi-fi then it's a matter of seconds to type in "e621.net" and find out if you are a dirty perv who asked their ISP for pornography.
It could even be cited as a factor in divorce proceedings.
Sort of. The government isn't doing this directly, but they have held some consultations and debates over the issue, and made the government position quite clear: Either ISPs start filtering, or the government will introduce a law to require filtering. All of the major ISPs including Sky considered the risk of a vaguely-written law passed by a parliament that has no idea how the internet works and probably involving impossible or contradictory requirements, and decided they'd rather comply voluntarily.
For now, you can turn it off. The obvious next step is do mandate filtering for 'extreme pornography' as possession of this is already illegal in the UK. You can't turn off the piracy filter.
You also can't turn of the child abuse material filter, which is a bigger issue than you might think - the filter is generated by the IWF, about as opaque an organisation as you can get. The list is secret, the rules for what goes on the list are secret, websites are not informed when they go on the list, there is no process of appeal, and many ISPs will spoof a 404 page so the end user doesn't even realise they are being restricted.
Because ten years is the sentence for counterfeiting of physical goods. The industry lobbyists argued that the sentence should be the same for uploading a film as for selling a fake DVD.
"Many people's plan is to wait for their parents or some other relative to die"
Unfortunately, an aunt stands between me and that money. Two branches of the family are seeking the favour of a certain grandparent and eyeing up his house. I think he'll have the last laugh though: His mind looks to be going long before his body. All that inheritance is going to be sucked up by his care costs.
You could move up north. The property price crisis is mostly a London and South-East thing. Head up and prices get a lot better, once you are beyond the influence of the London extended commuter zone.
Here in the UK it's now commonplace to live with parents into your thirties. I do. For the same reason: House prices and rent have reached the point where most single people can't afford to live on their own. The options are to see almost all your income disappear on rent and bills, or accept the indignity and stay with the parents.
I'm amassing savings, but you can't even get the most basic hovel of a flat in the south-east for under £100,000 now.
"There are evolutionary reasons that we are strongly driven to have as many children as possible."
For some species. Humans seem to have evolved an indirect method: They are driven to have as much sex as possible. They mate a great deal more than almost any other species, as it serves a social as well as reproductive role. They also found lots of ways to get the sex without the reproduction, technological means to block reproduction when mating - they are so ridiculously over-sexed they even enjoy watching other people mate.
The human female reproductive system is actually quite rubbish - the implantation rate is awful, more fertilised eggs are lost than grown. When you're mating four times a week, you don't need to make sure every one will take.
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He planned every detail of the hijacking, so it seems unlikely he would fail to plan the escape as well. I'm speculating an accomplice on the ground. They could listen to the aircraft radio to determine when he jumped, or have him jump at an agreed-upon time - that'd get them an approximate location. Then a rented helicopter to search for the chute as soon as dawn broke. Or a truck and a flare gun - they launch, he heads for the flares. It explains why no parachute has ever been found.
Or had co-criminals on the ground, with a rented helicopter?
But the area was searched thoroughly. No body found.
There are lots of people who think The Man is out to get them. Sometimes they are right - political activists and outright criminals. Sometimes they are just paranoids who think Obama is plotting to take their guns so the UN can invade and force their children to be gay. Either way, they don't really care where their traffic seems to come from, so long as it can't be traced back to them.
Domestic cats are the main vector for toxoplasmosis, a fairly nasty disease itsself. Cats have the 'cute immunity' factor: People really love cute fluffy cats, and they aren't going to let a little thing like a disease that can potentially cause blindness and death get in the way of that.
There was a great outcry here in the UK over proposals to cull introduced hedgehogs from the Hebrides, as they were breeding in great numbers by eating the eggs of endangered birds. So great was the outcry about killing 'cute' animals that the government was forced to abandon the cull and instead launch a humane relocation program, which was a dismal failure, because it's very hard to search an entire island for brown animals that spend most of their time hiding in brown bushes and only move during the night.
People are stupid. There's a reason the WWF uses a panda as their mascot: Cute animals raise a lot more money and awareness than ugly ones.
Yes, but don't call it that. You'll scare the uneducated.
There's no need to run legal and PR risks deliberately degrading service. Just cut the maintenance and upgrade budget, and watch it slow down naturally.
I work at a school. Every now and then, a new game site is suddenly cropping up on our monitoring - usually being played by five students at once, until we block it. Word travels very quickly. From discovery to common knowledge in a day. I don't see why unblocked porn sites would be any different.
Somewhat surprisingly, we very rarely find anyone trying to look for porn. I can only assume no-one wants to look at porn in school, where there is no privacy and lots of people potentially peeking.
Pornography is something of an impulse decision: When you want it, you want it now. Spending ten minutes messing around with an age verification system is going to drive away most customers, who will simply go to one of the many, many non-UK-operated porn sites. Complying with this proposal renders a site commercially unsustainable.
There's also the people who see a way to exploit it.
"Ohh, this company is giving away free pens. Let's see... the pen has an aluminium body. Cool. What's the scrap value for aluminium? I'll take two million pens, please."
It's an easy argument to make. Free and open source software brings in no tax money, commercial software brings in a ton of tax money. Which would you expect government to favor?
There's an easy solution for them.
1. Allow lots of fair use rights.
2. Forbid the cracking of DRM, distribution/possession of tools to crack DRM, or distribution of media with DRM removed.
3. Release everything only in DRMed form.
I call it the 'Texas Abortion' proposal: You have your rights enshrined in law, but all means of exercising them are closed to you.
It's highly probable that the UK will still end up in TPP or a similar trade deal. Leaving the EU throws a spanner in the negotiations that might take a few years to unjam, but that's all it'll do. There's just too much money pushing for such a treaty.
I found a portal in ingress that was most easily accessed by charging at a brick wall, then taking a dive at the last moment and curling up around the phone. It loses GPS, carries on extrapolating, and you can 'slide' on past the brick wall and travel just far enough to reach the portal on the other side.
I don't play Ingress any more.
Dr Who has tentacled hermaphrodites from Alpha Centauri. Crossover potential?
I don't recall Janeway ever showing any interest in sex at all, unless you count 'the amphibian incident.' The one that no crew member ever dared speak of afterwards.
No, far too many bytes. I've not tried to decode it, but can tell you at a glance that it isn't ASCII or UTF8 English text.
I watch porn, I have no kids, and I don't want anyone who I let use my internet connection to be able to find out about the porn. Many people are very sternly disapproving.
There are privacy implications. What happens when you have the snooping parents, potential partner or puritanical co-worker visiting your house? If you let them on to wi-fi then it's a matter of seconds to type in "e621.net" and find out if you are a dirty perv who asked their ISP for pornography.
It could even be cited as a factor in divorce proceedings.
Sort of. The government isn't doing this directly, but they have held some consultations and debates over the issue, and made the government position quite clear: Either ISPs start filtering, or the government will introduce a law to require filtering. All of the major ISPs including Sky considered the risk of a vaguely-written law passed by a parliament that has no idea how the internet works and probably involving impossible or contradictory requirements, and decided they'd rather comply voluntarily.
For now, you can turn it off. The obvious next step is do mandate filtering for 'extreme pornography' as possession of this is already illegal in the UK. You can't turn off the piracy filter.
You also can't turn of the child abuse material filter, which is a bigger issue than you might think - the filter is generated by the IWF, about as opaque an organisation as you can get. The list is secret, the rules for what goes on the list are secret, websites are not informed when they go on the list, there is no process of appeal, and many ISPs will spoof a 404 page so the end user doesn't even realise they are being restricted.
Because ten years is the sentence for counterfeiting of physical goods. The industry lobbyists argued that the sentence should be the same for uploading a film as for selling a fake DVD.
"Many people's plan is to wait for their parents or some other relative to die"
Unfortunately, an aunt stands between me and that money. Two branches of the family are seeking the favour of a certain grandparent and eyeing up his house. I think he'll have the last laugh though: His mind looks to be going long before his body. All that inheritance is going to be sucked up by his care costs.
You could move up north. The property price crisis is mostly a London and South-East thing. Head up and prices get a lot better, once you are beyond the influence of the London extended commuter zone.
Here in the UK it's now commonplace to live with parents into your thirties. I do. For the same reason: House prices and rent have reached the point where most single people can't afford to live on their own. The options are to see almost all your income disappear on rent and bills, or accept the indignity and stay with the parents.
I'm amassing savings, but you can't even get the most basic hovel of a flat in the south-east for under £100,000 now.
"There are evolutionary reasons that we are strongly driven to have as many children as possible."
For some species. Humans seem to have evolved an indirect method: They are driven to have as much sex as possible. They mate a great deal more than almost any other species, as it serves a social as well as reproductive role. They also found lots of ways to get the sex without the reproduction, technological means to block reproduction when mating - they are so ridiculously over-sexed they even enjoy watching other people mate.
The human female reproductive system is actually quite rubbish - the implantation rate is awful, more fertilised eggs are lost than grown. When you're mating four times a week, you don't need to make sure every one will take.