Except even the Federal Reserve has a little bit of a mandate to do what's in the best interest of America and long-term financial stability, whereas these people have no guiding principle but profit. I'm not saying the Federal Reserve is doing a great job with that, but there's a real difference between state-aligned central banks protecting their currencies and this kind of collusion.
Don't put an alarm on your luggage. Please. For the sake of all the other passengers, please don't use one.
I don't have any hard science to back this up, but past experience compels me to guess that you are likely to set it off accidentally many times for every one time it's set off by theft.
It will cause problems if you are separated from your bag by security personnel in the course of routine security measures, and that might subject you to non-routine security measures.
A proximity alarm will not prevent someone from taking just the things they want to steal and leaving the rest. An alarm that activates if the luggage is opened seems to me like a more expensive alternative to a crate.
If I were a thief with your luggage and it started making an alarm noise, I would get rid of it and distance myself from it as fast as possible, without caring about the longevity of the contents. You can see how this might work on a train. Even a loud alarm would be hard to hear when it's sitting on the trestles twenty miles behind you.
I think the most sensible security advice, which has probably been repeated elsewhere here, is that you shouldn't be carrying anything you couldn't stand to lose. If there's some kind of special circumstance here you should just talk to the people at the train station if they have a safe, a cargo cage, or some other secure place so that you aren't wrestling with paranoia the whole time.
Many bicyclists bring up the point that they are so light that they shouldn't have to pay a road tax because they're not damaging the road. Of course, for this theory to hold, we should never have to repair bicycle paths. Yet we do.
Like all paving, bicycle paths develop potholes and cracks due to water erosion and thermal expansion / contraction. The damage done to a bike path by the bicycles that travel over it is infinitesimal compared to wear done by the elements. This is also true for passenger cars, for the most part (except those times when idiots drive around with chains on their tires after the snow has melted). As has been mentioned elsewhere in this comment section, most damage to road is done by large trucks and tractor-trailers.
A lot of people think they can make a theory seem invalid by just saying anything, and then concluding with an air of total authority. Yet they can't.
When I was in Japan I had a chance to turn on the old PS2 they had in the upstairs bedroom. My hosts were amused by my fascination with it and explained that video games are considered to be children's toys.
Keep in mind that Obama took 55% of the popular vote in 2008, but with a 62% turnout, only about 34% of eligible citizens supported him enough to go vote for him. The two major parties simply do not represent majorities in this country.
The computer screen has become the retina of the mind's eye. That's why I refer to post on the internet... except on the internet. Of course, swampfriend was not the name I was born with. That's my internet name. Soon all of us will have special names - names designed to cause the 1080p flatscreen to resonate.
In fact, "we" didn't change the city charter - the city council did in a 29-22 vote, and Bloomberg himself signed it into law. He had previously failed to get term limits extended through popular referendum (as well as other means) and swayed the council by using the financial crisis as a bogeyman. He's made good on his economic promises by turning the city over to realtors, which you can see in the state of the Williamsburg waterfront, or the stadium out by Atlantic Yards. He's enormously unpopular in Brooklyn, but that is beside the point. Even if he were popular, his Stop & Frisk policy isn't. Those who do support it aren't targeted by it - I'm sure it has a lot of advocates in Tudor City, but that's worlds away from Brownsville. Your belief about the "jackboot of authority" isn't just patronizing, it's an oversimplification.
I live in Brooklyn. I didn't live here in 2001, but one of the things I hear frequently from New Yorkers about 9/11 is it was a tragedy of profound local significance that was taken over by the rest of the country. I guess it seems a little blasphemous that guys out in Montana (for instance) are so patriotic over something that they can't really understand and that doesn't belong to them anyway.
I am coming to understand that feeling of the ownership of tragedy by watching our current local issues assume national significance. In this comment section, the majority of the discussion is about nebulous concepts like the role of a police force in a democracy, a public figure's right to privacy, what the law says and is intended to say, and so on. It is good that we can discuss abstracts like what does "unreasonable" in "unreasonable search and seizure" mean. But for us in Brooklyn, the issue is Michael Bloomberg and Ray Kelly and their pet policy. The policy is unpopular and ineffective and could be done away with by the current administration in a single day.
"What will happen if we allow this policy to continue?" is rhetorical - the policy will not lead to the erosion of rights because it already is the erosion of rights. We need to ask, "What can we do to end this policy?" I suppose the first little thing we each could do, if we're actually opposed to Stop & Frisk, is contact the offices of Ray Kelly and Michael Bloomberg on a daily basis to remind them of the racist crime they are committing against the people of this city. That is definitely not something you need to live in New York City to do:)
"Some AEI scholars are considered to be some of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy." And should therefore be taken... seriously?
Okay, car analogy. On a dark night out in the country, look at a distant piece of road and watch for a car. From a mile or two off, its 21W brake light bulb seems pretty tiny and faint. Voyager 1's microwave link puts out about 20W, too.
Now I want you to imagine looking for that brake light when it is 11.3 thousand million miles away.
I appreciate your comment very much, but this analogy is a little off, as the 21W brake light bulb emits on a fairly wide spectrum while the Voyager link is tuned to a specific frequency.
http://www.epa.gov/hiri/
"The term "heat island" describes built up areas that are hotter than nearby rural areas. The annual mean air temperature of a city with 1 million people or more can be 1.8–5.4F (1–3C) warmer than its surroundings. In the evening, the difference can be as high as 22F (12C)."
Great news story, I really feel clued in to the important issues of the day. *kills self*
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There was just a question the other day asking if we were past the age of invention. I believe one of the tags on it was "retarded."
I know this is a little bit like sneering, but how appropriate that this question to the Slashdot community was inspired by Funimation Roku.
Except even the Federal Reserve has a little bit of a mandate to do what's in the best interest of America and long-term financial stability, whereas these people have no guiding principle but profit. I'm not saying the Federal Reserve is doing a great job with that, but there's a real difference between state-aligned central banks protecting their currencies and this kind of collusion.
I don't have any hard science to back this up, but past experience compels me to guess that you are likely to set it off accidentally many times for every one time it's set off by theft.
It will cause problems if you are separated from your bag by security personnel in the course of routine security measures, and that might subject you to non-routine security measures.
A proximity alarm will not prevent someone from taking just the things they want to steal and leaving the rest. An alarm that activates if the luggage is opened seems to me like a more expensive alternative to a crate.
If I were a thief with your luggage and it started making an alarm noise, I would get rid of it and distance myself from it as fast as possible, without caring about the longevity of the contents. You can see how this might work on a train. Even a loud alarm would be hard to hear when it's sitting on the trestles twenty miles behind you.
I think the most sensible security advice, which has probably been repeated elsewhere here, is that you shouldn't be carrying anything you couldn't stand to lose. If there's some kind of special circumstance here you should just talk to the people at the train station if they have a safe, a cargo cage, or some other secure place so that you aren't wrestling with paranoia the whole time.
Are you insane? Why would you build the Death Star to any unit standard EXCEPT the one called "Imperial?"
cownterfeit.
Many bicyclists bring up the point that they are so light that they shouldn't have to pay a road tax because they're not damaging the road. Of course, for this theory to hold, we should never have to repair bicycle paths. Yet we do.
Like all paving, bicycle paths develop potholes and cracks due to water erosion and thermal expansion / contraction. The damage done to a bike path by the bicycles that travel over it is infinitesimal compared to wear done by the elements. This is also true for passenger cars, for the most part (except those times when idiots drive around with chains on their tires after the snow has melted). As has been mentioned elsewhere in this comment section, most damage to road is done by large trucks and tractor-trailers.
A lot of people think they can make a theory seem invalid by just saying anything, and then concluding with an air of total authority. Yet they can't.
When I was in Japan I had a chance to turn on the old PS2 they had in the upstairs bedroom. My hosts were amused by my fascination with it and explained that video games are considered to be children's toys.
Is this another way of saying, "They should be paying us to listen to this crap!"
I think they need to plug the tunnels to prevent them flooding, and the Department of Homeland Security agrees with me: http://www.dhs.gov/35000-gallons-prevention
Keep in mind that Obama took 55% of the popular vote in 2008, but with a 62% turnout, only about 34% of eligible citizens supported him enough to go vote for him. The two major parties simply do not represent majorities in this country.
Ugh - refer should be refuse - i'm an idiot.
The computer screen has become the retina of the mind's eye. That's why I refer to post on the internet... except on the internet. Of course, swampfriend was not the name I was born with. That's my internet name. Soon all of us will have special names - names designed to cause the 1080p flatscreen to resonate.
In fact, "we" didn't change the city charter - the city council did in a 29-22 vote, and Bloomberg himself signed it into law. He had previously failed to get term limits extended through popular referendum (as well as other means) and swayed the council by using the financial crisis as a bogeyman. He's made good on his economic promises by turning the city over to realtors, which you can see in the state of the Williamsburg waterfront, or the stadium out by Atlantic Yards. He's enormously unpopular in Brooklyn, but that is beside the point. Even if he were popular, his Stop & Frisk policy isn't. Those who do support it aren't targeted by it - I'm sure it has a lot of advocates in Tudor City, but that's worlds away from Brownsville. Your belief about the "jackboot of authority" isn't just patronizing, it's an oversimplification.
I am coming to understand that feeling of the ownership of tragedy by watching our current local issues assume national significance. In this comment section, the majority of the discussion is about nebulous concepts like the role of a police force in a democracy, a public figure's right to privacy, what the law says and is intended to say, and so on. It is good that we can discuss abstracts like what does "unreasonable" in "unreasonable search and seizure" mean. But for us in Brooklyn, the issue is Michael Bloomberg and Ray Kelly and their pet policy. The policy is unpopular and ineffective and could be done away with by the current administration in a single day.
"What will happen if we allow this policy to continue?" is rhetorical - the policy will not lead to the erosion of rights because it already is the erosion of rights. We need to ask, "What can we do to end this policy?" I suppose the first little thing we each could do, if we're actually opposed to Stop & Frisk, is contact the offices of Ray Kelly and Michael Bloomberg on a daily basis to remind them of the racist crime they are committing against the people of this city. That is definitely not something you need to live in New York City to do :)
i was making a joke about save points in video games :(
In cities, the usual process is to remove the triggering mechanism, transport the unexploded ordnance to a save location and destroy it.
So that if the explosion is too big and kills you, you can just load and move farther away next time.
"Some AEI scholars are considered to be some of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy." And should therefore be taken... seriously?
Okay, car analogy. On a dark night out in the country, look at a distant piece of road and watch for a car. From a mile or two off, its 21W brake light bulb seems pretty tiny and faint. Voyager 1's microwave link puts out about 20W, too.
Now I want you to imagine looking for that brake light when it is 11.3 thousand million miles away.
I appreciate your comment very much, but this analogy is a little off, as the 21W brake light bulb emits on a fairly wide spectrum while the Voyager link is tuned to a specific frequency.
http://www.epa.gov/hiri/ "The term "heat island" describes built up areas that are hotter than nearby rural areas. The annual mean air temperature of a city with 1 million people or more can be 1.8–5.4F (1–3C) warmer than its surroundings. In the evening, the difference can be as high as 22F (12C)." Great news story, I really feel clued in to the important issues of the day. *kills self*