the guy is arrested for TRESSPASSING, "the owners want you gone, if you don't go, that's trespassing, if you haven't done anything wrong talk to the owners or call a lawyer after you have left the premises." could avoid the scuffle that you so clearly enjoyed.
Is trespassing a criminal offence in the U.S.? It isn't in the UK.
People need it, shift workers don't get very much of it. Just the bit most get in passing going to & from work helps allot. Without it, people are in general a bit more unhappy & lethargic.
When I worked 12 hour shifts, including nights, I got a lot more sun than I get now I do "9-5" in a windowless office, commuting on undeground rail. In the winter I'm underground before the sun rises, and leave after the sun sets.
Let every other country degrade themselves and their citizens into a police state BUT let _this_ country remain a shining beacon for freedom and democracy. Let them envy us. Let them have one overarching wish - to be a citizen of the United States of America. Naive on my part, perhaps? Sure. The "right" thing to do, regardless? Also sure.
Bugger, I was going to mod you funny, but I've already posted!
The irony is that any terrorist with half a brain is never going to attempt to get a bomb or weapon onto a plane again
Terrorists with half a brain never did. The ringleaders don't get their hands dirty, they want to get the thick and brainwashed.
That said, the ring leaders know that people willing to kill others, let alone blow themselves up are rare (hence you generally don't have people blowing themselves up or going on gun rampages), and any they get will be targeted to get maximum effect. This is pretty much a failure though -- the Glasgow airport attack were a bit of a fizzle, the Intercontinental attack in Kabul recently has made me happier about staying in Kabul. I'm more worried about traffic and road conditions than I am about Mumbai bombings.
When I went through security in London Heathrow, about a week after the Christmas Underwear Bomber attempt, and I accidently set off the metal detector because of a foil-lined wet wipe in my pocket, their security was quick and intelligent. They didn't feel the need to extend their patdown into a bag search, and once they found the wet wipe manually in my shirt pocket they wanded me quickly again, passed me, and gave me back the wet wipe. It took something like a minute for the whole process. Granted, they were smart enough to leave enough space in the airport for security, which is probably triple what we have in the US, but their employees seemed to actually care about what they were doing, didn't joke around in a way that made me uncomfortable, and treated it all as important but routine.
Enought space sounds like T5, were you on BA?
I didn't set the machine off in Heathrow last November, the first time in months I hadn't. I was shocked, and looked at the guard. He obviously didn't like the way I looked at him and frogmarched me over to the backscatter machine. No option for a patdown in the UK.
I asked how it worked, if it was a backscatter or MMW scanner (I knew it was a backscatter). They said it used both. These goons haven't got a clue.
Keep your head down, make sure you don't set the WTMD off, and you should be OK.
I set the metaldetector off in Bangkok yesterday. Was told to remove my shoes (boots, not steel ones though) and walk through again. This is what security used to be about, find the metal and you're fine.
Couple of years ago in Lisbon, they confiscated a butter knife off my 82 yearold grandmother. The type they serve on planes. They don't confiscate large glass bottles from duty free, which make a formidable weapon.
I didn't get the "guilty until proven innocent" feeling that I get in our own airports.
I've heard lots of good things about El Al, as everyone on here talks about. I really wish that our policy makers would stop thinking that the technological approach is the way to go and start thinking about the human interaction approach. I'd bet that we could go back to simple metal detectors again if security actually made conversation with passengers instead of treating them like cattle to be mechanically put through the processes.
Last time I came through Tel Aviv I was interrogated for about an hour before checkin, and story collaborated with a colleague. I Had to boot my laptop up, load eclipse, VPN into our work system to show what I'd been doing for the previous 4 days. I'm just glad my Pakistan/Egypt/Afghan visas are in my "clean" passport, with Israel and the U.S. in my "dirty" passport.
Didn't need to remove my shoes or get rid of my water bottle though. They actually look for real threats (people).
Why is the pilot's union telling them to avoid the machines? (Honest question)
Two simple reasons:
1. They get enough radiation already, thank you
Pilots fly a maximum of 1,000 hours a year, or 20 hours a week. Frequent flyers do a lot more than that. I'm not a frequent flyer but I'm averaging 20 hours/week for the last couple of months.
2. WTF is the point of scanning the guy who is flying the airplane??? If he wanted to kill everybody, he could do it trivially by deliberately crashing the aircraft.
Finding someone sympathetic to your cause (shooting congresswomen, sniping people on the beltway, groping children, and other wholesome all-american activities), who's willing to smuggle a bomb through to airside, is much easier than finding someone willing to blow themselves up.
I assume everyone going airside, from the cleaners to the pilots, from management to baggage handlers, from cops to press, get the radiation booth along with everyone else.
Came through Bangkok airport yesterday. Wihle the passengers were busy with the safety dance, Flight crew waltxed through their line without a glance. No xray, no metal detectors.
It's often caused by having a page in one tab doing something slow (loading from a slow server, lots of JS, something like that) and locking up all the other tabs because they aren't properly independent in Firefox.
By the way, is this true for Chrome, too? It's said to be parallel but by my experience (on a dual-core system) some other busy tab can quite efficiently jam the current one I'm browsing.
I tend to find it's DNS that causes the jam-everything problem. If your DNS is slow to respond, everything grinds to a halt.
I doubt they have to worry about any tree hugging iPhone using New Englanders or Old Englanders for that matter since they have managed to kill their number one industry which was tourism. It's relatively easy getting rid of a government but you should at least try and have some sort of plan to replace the old before you start storming the barricades.
I went on holiday to Cairo in May, wonderful time to go. There's never been any danger to tourists, aside from people unused to checkpoints that went out for a period of about 3 days in the height of the revolution.
There's hardly anyone in the Egyptian museum, rock up to the great pyramid at 12 and walk straight in (normally last ticket is sold at 08:46, 90 second after opening), and a 6 day holiday, staying in 5* accommodation, swanky resturants, etc. with a business class day trip to luxor, cost less than 12 days in Greece in June, staying for free with my parents.
I strongly advise you to go now, before the Muslim Brotherhood take over and it becomes like Saudi.
Is there a policy at Apple stores that doesn't allow the customer to try the computers out? Isn't installation one of the things a prospective customer would want to see? I know as a Mac user, I'd show off the install feature since it's one of the best things about Mac OS X compared to other OSes.
Mumsnet have removed their advertising from Sky. The latter will hurt, as that's advertisers considering all of News International too toxic to deal with.
Murdoch's pissed off mumsnet? My the lord have mercy on his soul!
And 2 days later, 180 years of "news"paper history comes to an end. Politicians on both sides are scrabbling to rescue their relationship with Lord Murdoch, the question is how high will the falling on swords go
Spamming is an economic problem, and until we employ economic solutions, spamming will never truly be defeated.
Yet here in the real world, spam has been defeated. Spam doesn't include the crap mailing list you signed up to a few years ago and can't be bothered to unsubscribe.
Why was he given a police caution ? He did nothing illegal, nothing that police had previously been asked to be told about, so why a caution ? Yes what he did accidentally caused some disruption; but this was not intended.
Did he get a caution? Or is it some in-experienced beeb hack that's interpreting "The police talked to him [to find out it was innocent]" and linked that to an official police caution.
Mumsnet have removed their advertising from Sky. The latter will hurt, as that's advertisers considering all of News International too toxic to deal with.
Murdoch's pissed off mumsnet? My the lord have mercy on his soul!
Quite possibly the worst traffic control structure ever invented.
We have them in Canada and they cause more bullshit than they solve.
I was brought up with roundabouts - I hate traffic lights. Roundabouts allow me to navigate a junction at 30mph 5 nights in a row. Traffic lights mean I'll be stopped on 2 or 3 of those nights, burning gas, brakes, and time.
Free-flowing traffic is much better than stop-start.
If a junction is so busy, and the weight of roads so much, that roads back up, then you rely on people leaving a gap for non-stopped traffic flows, which generally does happen.
I can see why introducing roundabouts to people that haven't got experience causes issues, but when society in general knows how to deal they're almost always more efficent than traffic lights.
For UKians reading with scorn, think how alien 4-way stops are.
While motorcycling in England we weren't sure which smaller road to take from the large rotary in Leeds. So we went around again while my wife unfolded the table sized Michelin road map
Hang on, she was sitting on (presumably the back) of a motorbike, at 20mph, and managed to unfold a map and enter into a conversation?
I agree with what you said, I just want to do some CNN-bashing: Those damn journalists were trying to be sensational again by saying that the air traffic affects the *climate* while it is obvious that it just affects the *weather*. If the air traffic disappears the *weather* will just roll back to its usual behavior that is dictated by the *climate*. Of course, I am only taking about the condensation wisps that are referred to in the article, not the aircraft emissions, that do have an effect on the *climate*.
But I guess the word weather is out of fashion, and climate sounds so much better... Damned journalists, I hate you guys...
It's a problem with journalists. "Climate" sounds sexier than "Weather" just like "Deficit" is sexier than "Debt". These terms start off being correctly used, but soon fall away and reports gets "sexed up"
You should check out the rat poison window manager.
If you've ever used screen in a console, you'll be right at home. Where screen uses control-a
And it's really annoying. Outside of screen, ctrl-a (by default) jumps to the front of the line (I love vim, but can't get my head arround set -o vi).
In screen, ctrl-a enters command mode, I'm often halfway through editing the line before I realise what's happened. Sure I could remap, on hundereds of servers, but then it becomes non-standard and is more likely to catch me out when I get to a server that doesn't have the remapping.
It should also be noted that the IRA struck mainly British armed forces and police officers, even though they had quite a few civilian losses as collateral damage.
Which police were the IRA targeting when they planted a bomb outside McDonalds in Warrington on mothers day? Which armed forces were they targeting when they blew up Manchester a few years later?
Tim Parry, aged 12 and Johnathan Ball, a 3 year old toddler, were killed in the American-funded murder in Warrington in 1993.
4 years later Tim Parry's parents shared a platform and shook hands with Gerry Adams.
After a terrible terrorist attack, three people do three things.
Person A: Invades one country, then another, looking for the ring leader. Fails to find him, spends trillions on it. Person B: Sends troops into an ally's country, performs an extra-judicial killing, and buries the body at sea. Person C: Forms a Foundation for Peace, shares a platform and shakes hands with the ring leader.
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the guy is arrested for TRESSPASSING, "the owners want you gone, if you don't go, that's trespassing, if you haven't done anything wrong talk to the owners or call a lawyer after you have left the premises." could avoid the scuffle that you so clearly enjoyed.
Is trespassing a criminal offence in the U.S.? It isn't in the UK.
People need it, shift workers don't get very much of it. Just the bit most get in passing going to & from work helps allot. Without it, people are in general a bit more unhappy & lethargic.
When I worked 12 hour shifts, including nights, I got a lot more sun than I get now I do "9-5" in a windowless office, commuting on undeground rail. In the winter I'm underground before the sun rises, and leave after the sun sets.
Let every other country degrade themselves and their citizens into a police state BUT let _this_ country remain a shining beacon for freedom and democracy. Let them envy us. Let them have one overarching wish - to be a citizen of the United States of America. Naive on my part, perhaps? Sure. The "right" thing to do, regardless? Also sure.
Bugger, I was going to mod you funny, but I've already posted!
Sorry, I'm confused. Did you just say "honorable senator" ?
I hear they use Microsoft Works
The irony is that any terrorist with half a brain is never going to attempt to get a bomb or weapon onto a plane again
Terrorists with half a brain never did. The ringleaders don't get their hands dirty, they want to get the thick and brainwashed.
That said, the ring leaders know that people willing to kill others, let alone blow themselves up are rare (hence you generally don't have people blowing themselves up or going on gun rampages), and any they get will be targeted to get maximum effect. This is pretty much a failure though -- the Glasgow airport attack were a bit of a fizzle, the Intercontinental attack in Kabul recently has made me happier about staying in Kabul. I'm more worried about traffic and road conditions than I am about Mumbai bombings.
When I went through security in London Heathrow, about a week after the Christmas Underwear Bomber attempt, and I accidently set off the metal detector because of a foil-lined wet wipe in my pocket, their security was quick and intelligent. They didn't feel the need to extend their patdown into a bag search, and once they found the wet wipe manually in my shirt pocket they wanded me quickly again, passed me, and gave me back the wet wipe. It took something like a minute for the whole process. Granted, they were smart enough to leave enough space in the airport for security, which is probably triple what we have in the US, but their employees seemed to actually care about what they were doing, didn't joke around in a way that made me uncomfortable, and treated it all as important but routine.
Enought space sounds like T5, were you on BA?
I didn't set the machine off in Heathrow last November, the first time in months I hadn't. I was shocked, and looked at the guard. He obviously didn't like the way I looked at him and frogmarched me over to the backscatter machine. No option for a patdown in the UK.
I asked how it worked, if it was a backscatter or MMW scanner (I knew it was a backscatter). They said it used both. These goons haven't got a clue.
Keep your head down, make sure you don't set the WTMD off, and you should be OK.
I set the metaldetector off in Bangkok yesterday. Was told to remove my shoes (boots, not steel ones though) and walk through again. This is what security used to be about, find the metal and you're fine.
Couple of years ago in Lisbon, they confiscated a butter knife off my 82 yearold grandmother. The type they serve on planes. They don't confiscate large glass bottles from duty free, which make a formidable weapon.
I didn't get the "guilty until proven innocent" feeling that I get in our own airports.
I've heard lots of good things about El Al, as everyone on here talks about. I really wish that our policy makers would stop thinking that the technological approach is the way to go and start thinking about the human interaction approach. I'd bet that we could go back to simple metal detectors again if security actually made conversation with passengers instead of treating them like cattle to be mechanically put through the processes.
Last time I came through Tel Aviv I was interrogated for about an hour before checkin, and story collaborated with a colleague. I Had to boot my laptop up, load eclipse, VPN into our work system to show what I'd been doing for the previous 4 days. I'm just glad my Pakistan/Egypt/Afghan visas are in my "clean" passport, with Israel and the U.S. in my "dirty" passport.
Didn't need to remove my shoes or get rid of my water bottle though. They actually look for real threats (people).
Why is the pilot's union telling them to avoid the machines? (Honest question)
Two simple reasons:
1. They get enough radiation already, thank you
Pilots fly a maximum of 1,000 hours a year, or 20 hours a week. Frequent flyers do a lot more than that. I'm not a frequent flyer but I'm averaging 20 hours/week for the last couple of months.
2. WTF is the point of scanning the guy who is flying the airplane??? If he wanted to kill everybody, he could do it trivially by deliberately crashing the aircraft.
Finding someone sympathetic to your cause (shooting congresswomen, sniping people on the beltway, groping children, and other wholesome all-american activities), who's willing to smuggle a bomb through to airside, is much easier than finding someone willing to blow themselves up.
I assume everyone going airside, from the cleaners to the pilots, from management to baggage handlers, from cops to press, get the radiation booth along with everyone else.
Came through Bangkok airport yesterday. Wihle the passengers were busy with the safety dance, Flight crew waltxed through their line without a glance. No xray, no metal detectors.
to clarify: in the US, fanny is slang for buttocks, in Britain it's slang for vagina
And the TSA grope both. Thoroughly.
By the way, is this true for Chrome, too? It's said to be parallel but by my experience (on a dual-core system) some other busy tab can quite efficiently jam the current one I'm browsing.
I tend to find it's DNS that causes the jam-everything problem. If your DNS is slow to respond, everything grinds to a halt.
I doubt they have to worry about any tree hugging iPhone using New Englanders or Old Englanders for that matter since they have managed to kill their number one industry which was tourism. It's relatively easy getting rid of a government but you should at least try and have some sort of plan to replace the old before you start storming the barricades.
I went on holiday to Cairo in May, wonderful time to go. There's never been any danger to tourists, aside from people unused to checkpoints that went out for a period of about 3 days in the height of the revolution.
There's hardly anyone in the Egyptian museum, rock up to the great pyramid at 12 and walk straight in (normally last ticket is sold at 08:46, 90 second after opening), and a 6 day holiday, staying in 5* accommodation, swanky resturants, etc. with a business class day trip to luxor, cost less than 12 days in Greece in June, staying for free with my parents.
I strongly advise you to go now, before the Muslim Brotherhood take over and it becomes like Saudi.
Is there a policy at Apple stores that doesn't allow the customer to try the computers out? Isn't installation one of the things a prospective customer would want to see? I know as a Mac user, I'd show off the install feature since it's one of the best things about Mac OS X compared to other OSes.
Really? They've got apt?
Mumsnet have removed their advertising from Sky. The latter will hurt, as that's advertisers considering all of News International too toxic to deal with.
Murdoch's pissed off mumsnet? My the lord have mercy on his soul!
And 2 days later, 180 years of "news"paper history comes to an end. Politicians on both sides are scrabbling to rescue their relationship with Lord Murdoch, the question is how high will the falling on swords go
Spamming is an economic problem, and until we employ economic solutions, spamming will never truly be defeated.
Yet here in the real world, spam has been defeated. Spam doesn't include the crap mailing list you signed up to a few years ago and can't be bothered to unsubscribe.
Why was he given a police caution ? He did nothing illegal, nothing that police had previously been asked to be told about, so why a caution ? Yes what he did accidentally caused some disruption; but this was not intended.
Did he get a caution? Or is it some in-experienced beeb hack that's interpreting "The police talked to him [to find out it was innocent]" and linked that to an official police caution.
My bet's on the latter.
Then, what if i entitle myself to $15 worth of pirated microsoft products in return ?
Then microsoft win again, as you're using their product rather than a competitor.
Mumsnet have removed their advertising from Sky. The latter will hurt, as that's advertisers considering all of News International too toxic to deal with.
Murdoch's pissed off mumsnet? My the lord have mercy on his soul!
CNN has over 2 million [twits following]
Lady Gaga has 11 million, Stephen Fry has nearly 3 million. Interesting who people trust for news.
Quite possibly the worst traffic control structure ever invented.
We have them in Canada and they cause more bullshit than they solve.
I was brought up with roundabouts - I hate traffic lights. Roundabouts allow me to navigate a junction at 30mph 5 nights in a row. Traffic lights mean I'll be stopped on 2 or 3 of those nights, burning gas, brakes, and time.
Free-flowing traffic is much better than stop-start.
If a junction is so busy, and the weight of roads so much, that roads back up, then you rely on people leaving a gap for non-stopped traffic flows, which generally does happen.
I can see why introducing roundabouts to people that haven't got experience causes issues, but when society in general knows how to deal they're almost always more efficent than traffic lights.
For UKians reading with scorn, think how alien 4-way stops are.
While motorcycling in England we weren't sure which smaller road to take from the large rotary in Leeds. So we went around again while my wife unfolded the table sized Michelin road map
Hang on, she was sitting on (presumably the back) of a motorbike, at 20mph, and managed to unfold a map and enter into a conversation?
Also be a terrorist attack target.
When did Americans become such pussies?
I agree with what you said, I just want to do some CNN-bashing:
Those damn journalists were trying to be sensational again by saying that the air traffic affects the *climate* while it is obvious that it just affects the *weather*. If the air traffic disappears the *weather* will just roll back to its usual behavior that is dictated by the *climate*. Of course, I am only taking about the condensation wisps that are referred to in the article, not the aircraft emissions, that do have an effect on the *climate*.
But I guess the word weather is out of fashion, and climate sounds so much better... Damned journalists, I hate you guys...
It's a problem with journalists. "Climate" sounds sexier than "Weather" just like "Deficit" is sexier than "Debt". These terms start off being correctly used, but soon fall away and reports gets "sexed up"
You should check out the rat poison window manager.
If you've ever used screen in a console, you'll be right at home. Where screen uses control-a
And it's really annoying. Outside of screen, ctrl-a (by default) jumps to the front of the line (I love vim, but can't get my head arround set -o vi).
In screen, ctrl-a enters command mode, I'm often halfway through editing the line before I realise what's happened. Sure I could remap, on hundereds of servers, but then it becomes non-standard and is more likely to catch me out when I get to a server that doesn't have the remapping.
Has the previous FCP version magically disppeared from their hard drives?
One reseller has told us they've been urged to return FCP7 back to apple, and no longer sell it.
It should also be noted that the IRA struck mainly British armed forces and police officers, even though they had quite a few civilian losses as collateral damage.
Which police were the IRA targeting when they planted a bomb outside McDonalds in Warrington on mothers day?
Which armed forces were they targeting when they blew up Manchester a few years later?
Tim Parry, aged 12 and Johnathan Ball, a 3 year old toddler, were killed in the American-funded murder in Warrington in 1993.
4 years later Tim Parry's parents shared a platform and shook hands with Gerry Adams.
After a terrible terrorist attack, three people do three things.
Person A: Invades one country, then another, looking for the ring leader. Fails to find him, spends trillions on it.
Person B: Sends troops into an ally's country, performs an extra-judicial killing, and buries the body at sea.
Person C: Forms a Foundation for Peace, shares a platform and shakes hands with the ring leader.
Who gets the Nobel Peace prize?
20 minutes fast over the course of a year.
3 seconds a day. But twice a year people manually change the time due to summer time.