Even if this guy was setting up a publicity stunt, the TSA agents were absolute idiots for even giving a commercial publication a second notice as evidence against the carrier.
Meanwhile, the real terrorists carried full tactical nukes in the carry on luggage.
Dammit, people! Freedom is NOT FREE! You have to work at it. I love people who sit back and do nothing and then complain when things are not to their liking.
To the OP, you live in the UK. Do you really think there is another place that is practically better? You may not be in the best place to live, but not far from it. Get involved.
I can't imagine how forcing a 13-year old girl to strip ensures anyone's health and safety, especially since they were looking for IBUPROFIN, for heaven's sake.
You can't imagine? I guess you don't know thirteen year olds today. They can be very nasty little things. My kids will be 19 next week, and even they are shocked at some of the things the younger kids do. Last year, a seventh grade girl was expelled for giving a boy on the bus oral sex. Incredibly, it was for just a few bucks.
BTW, I do agree with your sentiment about a strip search over Advil.
Remember Edward Yourdon? He wrote "Decline and Fall of the American Programmer" and, at the time, everyone thought the gig was up. He sold a lot of copies, but it was just so much drivel designed to sell books.
Don't get me wrong, it is great if you are one of these guys. I'll take the money...
If we, in the Linux world, would stop all of the BS bickering, we could have taken advantage of this situation. Arguments over Gnome vs KDE vs whatever and the horrible treatment newbies get on the forums are killing any kind of mass migration.
Freedom is the right to say what you want to say and do what you want to do so long as it has *some* ethical justification. Downloading stuff isn't that.
HUH?
That is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. And it sounds like cereal box drivel. You need no ethical justification of any kind. I don't need to justify what I say and do. You need to prove that I can't say or do it. Your freedom ends where it infringes on the next guy's freedom. And then we could go on and on about where that line is drawn.
Arrest this Doofus! He has revealed vital national secrets!
Don't tell anyone, but those guys have offices/bunkers all over the country. I just can't tell you where, or I would have to kill myself for this hackneyed cliche.
I guess it will not be a Panasonic. If it had issued a warning after putting hte battery in, then it would be OK. This just sounds like the same crap Lexmark pulled. I still actively recommend against their printers.
In fact, caps are just an excuse for not serving you with the full capacity of the service you're paying for.
Say what? You are capped at 'X'. You are paying for 'X' throughput. You get 'X' throughput. That is the service you are paying for. But, I would also insist on rollover throughput.
What pises me off is being told I have unlimited usage and then being capped when I download a few distros in rapid succession. That AIN'T unlimited.
Since when is China a communist state? It is a brutal, oligarchical dictatorship. There is NOTHING about China that is communist. Actually, there has never been a communist state anywhere at anytime. China is a slave state.
As long as we allow the financial ( including Federal Taxes ) and medical industries to store and or retrieve our information at off-shore facilities ( like India and others ) we can not have any privacy. In fact, we are opening ourselves up to a greater risk of identity theft.
The rate of security breaches have not slowed down, we are just not hearing about them in the headlines. You have to search for them.
Most kids coming through the US education system are idiots. Not their fault, the idiot teachers are turning them into idiots. They are not allowed to think for themselves and must parrot back the poltically correct drivel that is hammered into them.
I guess this kid managed to escape his teacher's clutches.
Of course, you have to wonder if it could have been used to predict our current economic difficulties."
You didn't need a computer to tell you the current economic mess was coming. It was obvious something big was coming by the end of the year. Of 2007, that is. They were giving mortgages to people that wouldn't have allowed to rent.
What authors have put DRM on their music? I have only found record labels. You know, those guys that get all the money and do none of the work and threaten artists who even try to take the work directly to the masses.
That reminds me of my early days of obtaining desktops, circa 1986. Anything over $500 had to go for bid, so we got bids on the parts. They assembled it for 'free'. That worked for close to two years.
I bet/hope that they are using this opportunity to call into question the validity of "be able to run Windows software" requirement.
And to what degree does the software need to run? I have been able to run Office 2003 in Wine on Ubuntu 8.04. Some of the 'features' do not work. Like VBA. IMHO, not being able to run VBA is a feature, not a liablilty. Screw that IMHO.
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Now, that I would buy. I love non-fiction.
Even if this guy was setting up a publicity stunt, the TSA agents were absolute idiots for even giving a commercial publication a second notice as evidence against the carrier.
Meanwhile, the real terrorists carried full tactical nukes in the carry on luggage.
Dammit, people! Freedom is NOT FREE! You have to work at it. I love people who sit back and do nothing and then complain when things are not to their liking.
To the OP, you live in the UK. Do you really think there is another place that is practically better? You may not be in the best place to live, but not far from it. Get involved.
I can't imagine how forcing a 13-year old girl to strip ensures anyone's health and safety, especially since they were looking for IBUPROFIN, for heaven's sake.
You can't imagine? I guess you don't know thirteen year olds today. They can be very nasty little things. My kids will be 19 next week, and even they are shocked at some of the things the younger kids do. Last year, a seventh grade girl was expelled for giving a boy on the bus oral sex. Incredibly, it was for just a few bucks.
BTW, I do agree with your sentiment about a strip search over Advil.
Just another blowhard 'export'.
Remember Edward Yourdon? He wrote "Decline and Fall of the American Programmer" and, at the time, everyone thought the gig was up. He sold a lot of copies, but it was just so much drivel designed to sell books.
Don't get me wrong, it is great if you are one of these guys. I'll take the money...
If we, in the Linux world, would stop all of the BS bickering, we could have taken advantage of this situation. Arguments over Gnome vs KDE vs whatever and the horrible treatment newbies get on the forums are killing any kind of mass migration.
Freedom is the right to say what you want to say and do what you want to do so long as it has *some* ethical justification. Downloading stuff isn't that.
HUH?
That is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. And it sounds like cereal box drivel. You need no ethical justification of any kind. I don't need to justify what I say and do. You need to prove that I can't say or do it. Your freedom ends where it infringes on the next guy's freedom. And then we could go on and on about where that line is drawn.
Arrest this Doofus! He has revealed vital national secrets!
Don't tell anyone, but those guys have offices/bunkers all over the country. I just can't tell you where, or I would have to kill myself for this hackneyed cliche.
I guess it will not be a Panasonic. If it had issued a warning after putting hte battery in, then it would be OK. This just sounds like the same crap Lexmark pulled. I still actively recommend against their printers.
Having said that, it's a free country, and he can protest whatever he wants... Wait, no... I'll be back to you on that one.
You'll have a long wait. China is nothing more than a slave state.
I am sorry, I do not understand.
In fact, caps are just an excuse for not serving you with the full capacity of the service you're paying for.
Say what? You are capped at 'X'. You are paying for 'X' throughput. You get 'X' throughput. That is the service you are paying for. But, I would also insist on rollover throughput.
What pises me off is being told I have unlimited usage and then being capped when I download a few distros in rapid succession. That AIN'T unlimited.
That's why you do testing
in production...
wait a minute...
...something...
Since when is China a communist state? It is a brutal, oligarchical dictatorship. There is NOTHING about China that is communist. Actually, there has never been a communist state anywhere at anytime. China is a slave state.
As long as we allow the financial ( including Federal Taxes ) and medical industries to store and or retrieve our information at off-shore facilities ( like India and others ) we can not have any privacy. In fact, we are opening ourselves up to a greater risk of identity theft.
The rate of security breaches have not slowed down, we are just not hearing about them in the headlines. You have to search for them.
"'If you're IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, your worst nightmare is now visible.'"
Like I would EVER trust a company to store my data, let alone touch it. The life's blood of my company.
Don't duck! You spoke the truth.
Nah! He ain't a genius.
Most kids coming through the US education system are idiots. Not their fault, the idiot teachers are turning them into idiots. They are not allowed to think for themselves and must parrot back the poltically correct drivel that is hammered into them.
I guess this kid managed to escape his teacher's clutches.
Of course, you have to wonder if it could have been used to predict our current economic difficulties."
You didn't need a computer to tell you the current economic mess was coming. It was obvious something big was coming by the end of the year. Of 2007, that is. They were giving mortgages to people that wouldn't have allowed to rent.
What's that smell? Its like something died.
What authors have put DRM on their music? I have only found record labels. You know, those guys that get all the money and do none of the work and threaten artists who even try to take the work directly to the masses.
HEH
That reminds me of my early days of obtaining desktops, circa 1986. Anything over $500 had to go for bid, so we got bids on the parts. They assembled it for 'free'. That worked for close to two years.
I bet/hope that they are using this opportunity to call into question the validity of "be able to run Windows software" requirement.
And to what degree does the software need to run? I have been able to run Office 2003 in Wine on Ubuntu 8.04. Some of the 'features' do not work. Like VBA. IMHO, not being able to run VBA is a feature, not a liablilty. Screw that IMHO.
Verizon is a corporation and the operator a mindless drone.
The sheriff was a real moron. "$20 you say, here is MY credit card number, jackass.".