I was a bit unclear, sorry - just checked prices earlier today, could get tickets at 43 Euros each way. Admittedly, there is a limited number of tickets at that price, and they are sold out fairly quickly; if you're ordering tickets for the next couple of weeks, you'll be lucky if you get anywhere near that price.
That said, I fully expect that the mentioned "estimated ticket-price" on the Helsinki-Tallinn line would be for a limited number of tickets, with much more costly options available - this is par-for-the-course on all transport services.
Fair enough - I guess I should have written that the average ticket price wouldn't be anywhere near 40 Euros but I agree with you overall:-)
The original question was if they did any privacy assessment report of the impact of using drones. I think by saying that they can't find any such report, the answer seems pretty obvious....
Not obvious at all actually, as it could be that they didn't do such assessments out of incompetence, which is relatively benign, or it could be that they did do the assessments and they don't want anyone to know how invasive they're being (perhaps illegally) which is a very different situation.
Brussels-London, via France, is a 2 hour train-ride, and costs 80 EUR. What in this specific setup of trains going between Helsinki and Tallinn makes you think it would 2.5x more expensive than that?
80 Euros is still twice 40 Euros and in the years I've been going back and forth between the UK and France I have never once had a ticket on the Eurostar as cheap as 80 Euros, though they no doubt exist.
True to a point but incomplete as your total cost of flying has to include travel to/from the airports on either side as the airports are not in the city proper as the train stations are.
It isn't a captive market, competition from the ferries should keep it down. A return ferry ticket is about €50. While you could charge a premium for business class seats, they alone won't fill a train. The Eurostar London-Paris service is a reasonable comparison. Booking in advance, you can usually get a return ticket for that for £100 in off-peak hours. The Dover-Calais ferry is cheaper, but way more inconvenient.
That's exactly my point though (and yes I made the same comparison as I live in France and often travel to England).
Even 100 pounds is way more than the 40 euros nonsense number they've come up with to promote the project.
1) Good luck hitting a quadcopter that's 400+ feet in the air
2) It's illegal to shoot them down, and chances are you are on camera with a live video feed back to the pilots DVR
IANAL but it seems that anything flying over private airspace is probably going to be fair game - at least until drone specific regulations come into effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
There's actually some math to the beer goggle effect, and the beer itself usually isn't the biggest factor. I would say that much of what is attributed to the 'Beer Goggle effect' is really just using booze as a cover for having low standards as opposed to actually having inhibitions.
I was not going to be the first one to say it, but the exact same thought passed through my head.
This guy has a wife with a serious illness AND a two year old child. His solution is to make it possible for his two year old to keep an eye on his wife.
What kind of long term trauma is that going to cause? "Now Sally, keep a close eye on your mom because it is on you to make sure that when she starts convulsing that you make sure daddy is aware of it." What kind of sick person puts that responsibility on a toddler?
Someone who is doing the best he can with what he and his family have to work with.
You of course, having similar challenges in your life, have achieved perfection and thus have the right to criticize someone else.
Show me any company with a non-zero "trustworthiness". Every one of them wants to "monetize" you in any way they can and will screw you over and sell you to the highest bidder in a heartbeat if it raises their quarterlies by a tenth of a percent.
I hate to even appear to be defending a government agency, but the request was for over 13K case files. $1.4mln divided by 13K comes to about $107 per case. If a lawyer has to (carefully) review each one — such as to black-out parts affecting privacy of innocent or other government secrets — the requested fee may even appear too small.
As TFA aknowledges:
This request will have to be narrowed considerably if MuckRock hopes to obtain anything on this subject from the DEA.
I'd rather have my tax money being spent on providing information freely upon request than some of the other ways it is being used.
If the government is allowed to charge for information, information is not being provided freely.
If you're letting children browse the internet without supervision, they're going to be the ones who end up needing professional help.
Raising your kid the way you think is right is your job, not society's. If that includes shielding them from horrifying imagery, then shield them, but don't demand society shield everyone because you are too lazy/incompetent/whatever to rear a child properly with the assistance and cooperation of 7 billion other people.
And if you're worried about them seeing these things while outside your influence, might I suggest you do a better job teaching them right from wrong, so you won't have to worry about them getting their morality from YouTube videos.
Your post is a bit offensive but I'll put that aside and answer it anyway.
You're making the invalid assumption that I don't teach him everything I can about browsing and avoiding seeing what HE doesn't want to see.
I don't want him clicking on something (and this has already happened) that has been deliberately mislabeled to lure children and finding himself watching something that neither he nor I want him to watch at his age - which is something that society should help with (i.e. flagging a video titled 'Snow White' with a picture of the cartoon character that actually leads to a rape video).
If you're a parent and aren't using youtube's free, built in parental controls, that's your bad not society's. Don't be a douche and foist your responsibilities off on everyone else.
I used youtube as an example and the parental controls are far from infallible.
As far as responsibility...I teach my son as well as possible about what he might come across and how to handle it if he does. I have explained to him verbally things that I am sure that he himself does not want to see. I have discussed with him the things that people do to each other, and how lucky he is not to be starving and looking for food in rubbish piles.
And yet still there's the occasional click on something that looks like snow white and the seven dwarves and yet...isn't.
They don't need exposed to it, but at the same time, it's not going to ruin the rest of their life either. Explaining how 'real life' works to children is very important, not hiding it from them. When me and my daughter were walking down a sidewalk beside the road there was some animal that had been rather brutally crushed by a car. I didn't try to shelter her from it. I just told her, this is what happens if you run out in front of cars. Now when she is with other kids and they walk close to the road she does a good job explaining to them that it's a really bad idea to do that.
Sure of course you deal with such things as they come - I do the same thing with my son - but there's a big difference between explaining road kill and trying to explain things that will certainly scar a child's psyche - like people having their genitals cut off or a woman being violently raped. Or a man being violently raped for that matter. Whatever.
Europe is composed of socialist countries and has been for about 60 years or so for the ones that weren't communist and the rest became socialist when the communist regime fell. Germany? Socialist. France? Socialist. Sweden, the land of Ikea, Swedish meatballs, and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Socialist. Britain, that bastion of capitalism? Socialist. That big ass VAT they pay in Britain? That's to support their socialist regime. Take a look at the health care and welfare systems provided by the European countries. They're socialist.
Taking into account things like technology available to the common people, things like internet access and mobile phone technology, I would have to say that things are a hell of lot better than in the U.S.
Somehow I suspect that if you were offered a CEO position that pays 500x more than the office workers, your position would change. There's something about wealth redistribution that is significantly more attractive when you're on the receiving end, or at least on the sidelines.
No doubt true in much the same way that royalty and nobles didn't (and don't) share their wealth with peasants which still doesn't make it a good thing for society as a whole.
The whole point of wealth redistribution is to give the children of the poor (and now the shrinking middle class) to have a chance at a good future instead of it all coming down to how rich one's parents are - which is the way we're heading back to.
Instead he was humiliated and his legacy largely ruined.
I'm guessing you haven't seen the latest Texas school history book where G.W. basically won the war himself...after finding WMDs in Saddam's basement, of course.
Do you have kids? I do. I trust them and teach them right and wrong etc but don't watch them 24/7 and am not keen on young kids coming across ___ online
Fill in for your favourite pet problem. "Porn", "gay porn", "dissident material".
Is it just me or is it becoming terrifyingly common for people to be recommending basic fascist style totalitarianism to deal with anything that causes them slight discomfort?
Having a nine year old accidentally view someone being violently raped (for example) is 'slight discomfort'?
All things being relative I suppose that it is, as opposed to having it actually happen to the child directly.
That being said, there are things that kids just don't need to be exposed to.
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I was a bit unclear, sorry - just checked prices earlier today, could get tickets at 43 Euros each way.
Admittedly, there is a limited number of tickets at that price, and they are sold out fairly quickly; if you're ordering tickets for the next couple of weeks, you'll be lucky if you get anywhere near that price.
That said, I fully expect that the mentioned "estimated ticket-price" on the Helsinki-Tallinn line would be for a limited number of tickets, with much more costly options available - this is par-for-the-course on all transport services.
Fair enough - I guess I should have written that the average ticket price wouldn't be anywhere near 40 Euros but I agree with you overall :-)
The original question was if they did any privacy assessment report of the impact of using drones. I think by saying that they can't find any such report, the answer seems pretty obvious....
Not obvious at all actually, as it could be that they didn't do such assessments out of incompetence, which is relatively benign, or it could be that they did do the assessments and they don't want anyone to know how invasive they're being (perhaps illegally) which is a very different situation.
It's good, that both of them would compete, and ultimately consumer would be supported!
btw, some people live only by copying and finally build the whole economy on it :)
Sounds more like a "We like your idea Uber but fuck you because we're going to block you from the market and do it ourselves"
No doubt the unknown company that they're going to work with will be owned by the transportation minister's uncle's cousin's favorite son.
Brussels-London, via France, is a 2 hour train-ride, and costs 80 EUR.
What in this specific setup of trains going between Helsinki and Tallinn makes you think it would 2.5x more expensive than that?
80 Euros is still twice 40 Euros and in the years I've been going back and forth between the UK and France I have never once had a ticket on the Eurostar as cheap as 80 Euros, though they no doubt exist.
or you could fly there for 45 pounds ...
True to a point but incomplete as your total cost of flying has to include travel to/from the airports on either side as the airports are not in the city proper as the train stations are.
It isn't a captive market, competition from the ferries should keep it down. A return ferry ticket is about €50. While you could charge a premium for business class seats, they alone won't fill a train. The Eurostar London-Paris service is a reasonable comparison. Booking in advance, you can usually get a return ticket for that for £100 in off-peak hours. The Dover-Calais ferry is cheaper, but way more inconvenient.
That's exactly my point though (and yes I made the same comparison as I live in France and often travel to England).
Even 100 pounds is way more than the 40 euros nonsense number they've come up with to promote the project.
"Estimated ticket cost is about 40 euros"
Actual ticket cost will be 200 euros or more.
IANAL but it seems that anything flying over private airspace is probably going to be fair game - at least until drone specific regulations come into effect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
There's actually some math to the beer goggle effect, and the beer itself usually isn't the biggest factor. I would say that much of what is attributed to the 'Beer Goggle effect' is really just using booze as a cover for having low standards as opposed to actually having inhibitions.
Going to have to disagree :-)
Yes, men don't need their inhibitions lowered to consent to sex.
You have obviously never experienced the Beer Goggle effect.
I was not going to be the first one to say it, but the exact same thought passed through my head.
This guy has a wife with a serious illness AND a two year old child. His solution is to make it possible for his two year old to keep an eye on his wife.
What kind of long term trauma is that going to cause? "Now Sally, keep a close eye on your mom because it is on you to make sure that when she starts convulsing that you make sure daddy is aware of it." What kind of sick person puts that responsibility on a toddler?
Someone who is doing the best he can with what he and his family have to work with.
You of course, having similar challenges in your life, have achieved perfection and thus have the right to criticize someone else.
This doesn't seem to be HSBC particularly - rather just the way banking is (and has been) done in Switzerland.
So long as the world has corrupt wealthy people, there will be countries who will be willing to help them hide their wealth...for a fee of course.
I use AdBlock and Ghostery's lists to block ad networks and trackers at the router level.
Sorry, how do you do this at the router level?
Show me any company with a non-zero "trustworthiness". Every one of them wants to "monetize" you in any way they can and will screw you over and sell you to the highest bidder in a heartbeat if it raises their quarterlies by a tenth of a percent.
FTFY
I hate to even appear to be defending a government agency, but the request was for over 13K case files. $1.4mln divided by 13K comes to about $107 per case. If a lawyer has to (carefully) review each one — such as to black-out parts affecting privacy of innocent or other government secrets — the requested fee may even appear too small.
As TFA aknowledges:
I'd rather have my tax money being spent on providing information freely upon request than some of the other ways it is being used.
If the government is allowed to charge for information, information is not being provided freely.
If you're letting children browse the internet without supervision, they're going to be the ones who end up needing professional help.
Raising your kid the way you think is right is your job, not society's. If that includes shielding them from horrifying imagery, then shield them, but don't demand society shield everyone because you are too lazy/incompetent/whatever to rear a child properly with the assistance and cooperation of 7 billion other people.
And if you're worried about them seeing these things while outside your influence, might I suggest you do a better job teaching them right from wrong, so you won't have to worry about them getting their morality from YouTube videos.
Your post is a bit offensive but I'll put that aside and answer it anyway.
You're making the invalid assumption that I don't teach him everything I can about browsing and avoiding seeing what HE doesn't want to see.
I don't want him clicking on something (and this has already happened) that has been deliberately mislabeled to lure children and finding himself watching something that neither he nor I want him to watch at his age - which is something that society should help with (i.e. flagging a video titled 'Snow White' with a picture of the cartoon character that actually leads to a rape video).
If you're a parent and aren't using youtube's free, built in parental controls, that's your bad not society's. Don't be a douche and foist your responsibilities off on everyone else.
I used youtube as an example and the parental controls are far from infallible.
As far as responsibility...I teach my son as well as possible about what he might come across and how to handle it if he does. I have explained to him verbally things that I am sure that he himself does not want to see. I have discussed with him the things that people do to each other, and how lucky he is not to be starving and looking for food in rubbish piles.
And yet still there's the occasional click on something that looks like snow white and the seven dwarves and yet...isn't.
They don't need exposed to it, but at the same time, it's not going to ruin the rest of their life either. Explaining how 'real life' works to children is very important, not hiding it from them. When me and my daughter were walking down a sidewalk beside the road there was some animal that had been rather brutally crushed by a car. I didn't try to shelter her from it. I just told her, this is what happens if you run out in front of cars. Now when she is with other kids and they walk close to the road she does a good job explaining to them that it's a really bad idea to do that.
Sure of course you deal with such things as they come - I do the same thing with my son - but there's a big difference between explaining road kill and trying to explain things that will certainly scar a child's psyche - like people having their genitals cut off or a woman being violently raped. Or a man being violently raped for that matter. Whatever.
He's not claiming to. Which you would know had you read the actual conversation, rather than offering a kneejerk reaction.
He's under the impression that he's qualified to judge that someone else isn't qualified, which makes the assumption that he is qualified to judge.
Europe is composed of socialist countries and has been for about 60 years or so for the ones that weren't communist and the rest became socialist when the communist regime fell. Germany? Socialist. France? Socialist. Sweden, the land of Ikea, Swedish meatballs, and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Socialist. Britain, that bastion of capitalism? Socialist. That big ass VAT they pay in Britain? That's to support their socialist regime. Take a look at the health care and welfare systems provided by the European countries. They're socialist.
Taking into account things like technology available to the common people, things like internet access and mobile phone technology, I would have to say that things are a hell of lot better than in the U.S.
So how exactly have they failed?
Not to mention medical care and education...
Somehow I suspect that if you were offered a CEO position that pays 500x more than the office workers, your position would change. There's something about wealth redistribution that is significantly more attractive when you're on the receiving end, or at least on the sidelines.
No doubt true in much the same way that royalty and nobles didn't (and don't) share their wealth with peasants which still doesn't make it a good thing for society as a whole.
The whole point of wealth redistribution is to give the children of the poor (and now the shrinking middle class) to have a chance at a good future instead of it all coming down to how rich one's parents are - which is the way we're heading back to.
Sounds good to me :-)
-- sociocapitalist
Instead he was humiliated and his legacy largely ruined.
I'm guessing you haven't seen the latest Texas school history book where G.W. basically won the war himself...after finding WMDs in Saddam's basement, of course.
(joking, mostly)
Do you have kids? I do. I trust them and teach them right and wrong etc but don't watch them 24/7 and am not keen on young kids coming across ___ online
Fill in for your favourite pet problem. "Porn", "gay porn", "dissident material".
Is it just me or is it becoming terrifyingly common for people to be recommending basic fascist style totalitarianism to deal with anything that causes them slight discomfort?
Having a nine year old accidentally view someone being violently raped (for example) is 'slight discomfort'?
All things being relative I suppose that it is, as opposed to having it actually happen to the child directly.
That being said, there are things that kids just don't need to be exposed to.