So a sometime programmer likes to think he is better than people who don't know how to program at all? As a fulltime programmer (which apparently puts me higher in the hierarchy) I think that is just a bit silly.
The economics of airports barely work out as it is, I cannot imagine more than one airport *in the same location* competing with each other. I'm luck and I live near 3 airports, but the time and money involved in getting to/from those airports differs wildly. To really compete, the time/money needed to get to each airport would have to be comparable/competitive.
The feasibility of competition between airports driving innovation aside, your definition of a capitalist country leaves much to be desired. Would all government services have to be provided by private industry - unregulated - to be a capitalist country? Your definition of a communist country is, as the anonymous coward noted, fascist, not communist. In a communist country, there wouldn't be a contractor chosen by government friends - that's private industry and corrupt government working together (go USA!). Instead the company - if it existed separately from the state at all - would be entirely owned by the state.
Maybe they aren't evil, power hungry, or nakedly greedy. Perhaps they just have a really ambitious sense of humor (Microsoft Tweet), and competing with their customers is just how they do. Their next step will be announcing they are launching an own-brand laptop in a retail store made entirely of painted glass windows.
Because right now, coverage disparities allow some companies to charge through the roof (Verizon) with impunity. I'm no fan of T-Mobile, but as long as there are such massive differences in coverage, speed, and reliability, Verizon (and AT&T hilariously) will continue to gouge customers.
Nicely structured sentences! Anywho, the TSA doesn't need to care about bad PR. The companies that make a profit off air travel, and the politicians we tie to the TSA's practices do.
There may have been a legitimate reason for refusing to hear the case, though with the current makeup of the court there is no reason to suspect their hearing the case would have gone well.
Instead let's take this as an impetus to get serious about tackling the TSA's abusive methods.
PR: Publicly boycott air travel as much as possible. When you do travel, avoid airports with the scanners, and opt for public pat down screenings as much as possible if you must use those airports. Do this to slow down the lines, and to let other passengers see you (and thus dampen their enthusiasm for flying). Take out ads in local papers and targeted ads online attacking the TSA and its methods. Promote and share videos and stories that illustrate these abuses.
Legislation: Call your congress critters and let them know how you feel about the TSA. Work to make the TSA a featured issue in the campaigns you can vote in. Get in touch with the lobbyists who represent businesses dependent on air travel (especially airlines), and get them to fight the TSA for economic reasons.
It might be hurting prospective users. I am in between the Galaxy S3 and the iphone 5, upgrading from a non smartphone. The battery issues and map problems are both making me lean towards Samsung.
I've done that. I've opted out, insisted it was in public (no private screening) so other passengers would see (everyone looked uncomfortable). I've made clear to the TSA officials doing the pat down that I would let them know if they acted inappropriately. Having been through the experience - I felt like a criminal. It was an invasion of personal space, privacy, and I felt disgusting afterwards. All because I didn't want to go through the x-ray machine like a good citizen.
Take the bus or the train. If you travel to the DC area, and know one airport (Dulles) has scanners, maybe find out if BWI or DCA doesn't. Maybe you fly for part of your journey, and take the train or rent a car for the last leg. I've flown to Charlotte, NC, and driven to SC for business.
I don't know, nor do I care. I want to put economic pressure on the airports and airlines. I already avoid air travel as much as possible. When I absolutely have to fly, knowing which airports have the scanners (and therefore the molestation-pat-down searches for people who refuse to go through them) would help me decide how to plan my business travel.
Militant Leader: Hello, sir, may I enter your home please?
Innocent Civilian Child: Can't you just point a gun at my head and force your way in, using me as a human shield?
Militant Leader: Oh ho hoooo, no. We militants are like vampires, we need to be INVITED in!
Coming this Fall: Let the Right One In 2: Drone Wars in Pakistan
Logical fallacy there. I don't see how these incidents not showing up in the mainstream media is evidence of a liberal bias, let alone liberals who hate Christianity more than anything else. There are a lot of things they'd have to hate less! Republicans! The Tea Party! Mitt Romney! Conservative Democrats! The coming bacon shortage! Jersey Shore! People who suddenly stop walking on the sidewalk right in front of you with no damn warning! Corporations! The Koch Brothers! etc.....
Hahahah, I'm not saying what you said isn't a problem. I'm saying that your statement "the public domain work ends up recopyrighted" is inaccurate - the painting itself isn't suddenly under copyright because photos of it are under copyright. An observation that was apparently worth "-1 zomg flamewurthy" to someone.
Everything else about this man, his wealth, or his goals aside - this is a good thing. A great thing. Having people with the resources to make progress pushing us to get off our dumpy human butts and really settle space beyond our own planet is going to be a net win for our species. It will lead to more jobs, advances in technology, advances in art (I can't wait to read the first poems written by native Martians!). We'll up our chances of surviving a number of extinction level events, and edge ourselves ever closer to exploring beyond our tiny little solar system. To get us started, it just takes an insane impulse, strong will, and the resources to burn. Full speed ahead!
:(.... Yeah. I don't think you are getting what I am saying. I'm saying "hey, that onion cartoon is annoying, but it isn't really 100% accurate.". I provided a counter example. Done.
I'm not getting into a pissing match over which sky-fairy produces the most violence. Simply pointing out that fundamentalist beliefs lead to violence. Did you actually read the article? Do you honestly believe you need to go back 24 years to find examples of violent Christian reactions to art, or as you phrase it, a wider net of "Christian violence"?
Except that it has happened for other major religions. Catholicism, for one: Religious War Ignites in France. "The Last Temptation of Christ" ignited people.
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So a sometime programmer likes to think he is better than people who don't know how to program at all? As a fulltime programmer (which apparently puts me higher in the hierarchy) I think that is just a bit silly.
The economics of airports barely work out as it is, I cannot imagine more than one airport *in the same location* competing with each other. I'm luck and I live near 3 airports, but the time and money involved in getting to/from those airports differs wildly. To really compete, the time/money needed to get to each airport would have to be comparable/competitive.
The feasibility of competition between airports driving innovation aside, your definition of a capitalist country leaves much to be desired. Would all government services have to be provided by private industry - unregulated - to be a capitalist country? Your definition of a communist country is, as the anonymous coward noted, fascist, not communist. In a communist country, there wouldn't be a contractor chosen by government friends - that's private industry and corrupt government working together (go USA!). Instead the company - if it existed separately from the state at all - would be entirely owned by the state.
Maybe they aren't evil, power hungry, or nakedly greedy. Perhaps they just have a really ambitious sense of humor (Microsoft Tweet), and competing with their customers is just how they do. Their next step will be announcing they are launching an own-brand laptop in a retail store made entirely of painted glass windows.
Because right now, coverage disparities allow some companies to charge through the roof (Verizon) with impunity. I'm no fan of T-Mobile, but as long as there are such massive differences in coverage, speed, and reliability, Verizon (and AT&T hilariously) will continue to gouge customers.
Nicely structured sentences! Anywho, the TSA doesn't need to care about bad PR. The companies that make a profit off air travel, and the politicians we tie to the TSA's practices do.
Would the Onion reject it? Or would they pay Glenn Beck to work deep undercover on the cutting edge of embedded satirical news radio?
I wonder if they are using drupal or a custom VB app for the server. Probably BF.
There may have been a legitimate reason for refusing to hear the case, though with the current makeup of the court there is no reason to suspect their hearing the case would have gone well.
Instead let's take this as an impetus to get serious about tackling the TSA's abusive methods.
PR: Publicly boycott air travel as much as possible. When you do travel, avoid airports with the scanners, and opt for public pat down screenings as much as possible if you must use those airports. Do this to slow down the lines, and to let other passengers see you (and thus dampen their enthusiasm for flying). Take out ads in local papers and targeted ads online attacking the TSA and its methods. Promote and share videos and stories that illustrate these abuses.
Legislation: Call your congress critters and let them know how you feel about the TSA. Work to make the TSA a featured issue in the campaigns you can vote in. Get in touch with the lobbyists who represent businesses dependent on air travel (especially airlines), and get them to fight the TSA for economic reasons.
Good luck!
It might be hurting prospective users. I am in between the Galaxy S3 and the iphone 5, upgrading from a non smartphone. The battery issues and map problems are both making me lean towards Samsung.
I've done that. I've opted out, insisted it was in public (no private screening) so other passengers would see (everyone looked uncomfortable). I've made clear to the TSA officials doing the pat down that I would let them know if they acted inappropriately. Having been through the experience - I felt like a criminal. It was an invasion of personal space, privacy, and I felt disgusting afterwards. All because I didn't want to go through the x-ray machine like a good citizen.
Take the bus or the train. If you travel to the DC area, and know one airport (Dulles) has scanners, maybe find out if BWI or DCA doesn't. Maybe you fly for part of your journey, and take the train or rent a car for the last leg. I've flown to Charlotte, NC, and driven to SC for business.
I don't know, nor do I care. I want to put economic pressure on the airports and airlines. I already avoid air travel as much as possible. When I absolutely have to fly, knowing which airports have the scanners (and therefore the molestation-pat-down searches for people who refuse to go through them) would help me decide how to plan my business travel.
Is there an updated list of the airports that use the scanners, so we can avoid giving them our business?
They tested the kids on Toddlers and Tiaras. Specifically they tested Honey Boo Boo like 50 times.
Militant Leader: Hello, sir, may I enter your home please?
Innocent Civilian Child: Can't you just point a gun at my head and force your way in, using me as a human shield?
Militant Leader: Oh ho hoooo, no. We militants are like vampires, we need to be INVITED in!
Coming this Fall: Let the Right One In 2: Drone Wars in Pakistan
Logical fallacy there. I don't see how these incidents not showing up in the mainstream media is evidence of a liberal bias, let alone liberals who hate Christianity more than anything else. There are a lot of things they'd have to hate less! Republicans! The Tea Party! Mitt Romney! Conservative Democrats! The coming bacon shortage! Jersey Shore! People who suddenly stop walking on the sidewalk right in front of you with no damn warning! Corporations! The Koch Brothers! etc.....
Hahahah, I'm not saying what you said isn't a problem. I'm saying that your statement "the public domain work ends up recopyrighted" is inaccurate - the painting itself isn't suddenly under copyright because photos of it are under copyright. An observation that was apparently worth "-1 zomg flamewurthy" to someone.
It makes sense once you employ the kind of math that turns a $20 textbook into a $180 textbook.
In those examples, the photos fall under copyright, not the original work.
Some of the other comments discounted him for being part of the 1%. I wanted to say, regardless of your feelings about that...
Everything else about this man, his wealth, or his goals aside - this is a good thing. A great thing. Having people with the resources to make progress pushing us to get off our dumpy human butts and really settle space beyond our own planet is going to be a net win for our species. It will lead to more jobs, advances in technology, advances in art (I can't wait to read the first poems written by native Martians!). We'll up our chances of surviving a number of extinction level events, and edge ourselves ever closer to exploring beyond our tiny little solar system. To get us started, it just takes an insane impulse, strong will, and the resources to burn. Full speed ahead!
Close, but not quite: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/03/20/44856.htm
:(.... Yeah. I don't think you are getting what I am saying. I'm saying "hey, that onion cartoon is annoying, but it isn't really 100% accurate.". I provided a counter example. Done.
I'm not getting into a pissing match over which sky-fairy produces the most violence. Simply pointing out that fundamentalist beliefs lead to violence. Did you actually read the article? Do you honestly believe you need to go back 24 years to find examples of violent Christian reactions to art, or as you phrase it, a wider net of "Christian violence"?
Except that it has happened for other major religions. Catholicism, for one: Religious War Ignites in France. "The Last Temptation of Christ" ignited people.