The way to get back at the US is to require all flights over Canadian airspace by US carriers to stop at a Canadian airport and deplane all passengers and cargo for "security checks" including passing customs.
Are there any flights between Europe and the US which don't pass through Canadian airspace? At least in the Westbond direction.
A lot of flights to and from the US go over Canada right now and going round is impractical and expensive.
Including many flights out of Detroit Metro. The most notable, so far, having been an American Airlines flight on the 12 June 1972
Lets see, I bought an HP printer that had an option to tell it to print B/W only. (Using the B/W cartridge.) The option didn't work. (Pain in the ass since the vast majority of the time I was printing B/W and I didn't want to waste ink on printing color.
I've seen this happen on quite a few ink jets from various manufacturers.
The only way to stop it was to pull out the color cartridge.)
With some printers that just results in a refusal to print anything. Also the combined cartridge as opposed to separate C M Y means that you will always end up throwing quite a bit of very expensive ink away.
Unless they are using tequila to induce this coma, then I'm all for it. "I'm sorry sir this is a 10 drink minimum flight."
If the only worry was Islamic terrorists then you wouldn't be allowed to board until after having your first drink. The US might have to reconsider having such a high drinking age though:)
Most people can probably carry an amount of explosives rectally, and I wouldn't put it outside the realm of possibility that they could learn to trigger it with sphincter muscles.
There's already been a "butt bomber" attack this year. The only person killed was the bomber.
Roughly 16,000 people were killed by automobiles in the first six months of this year. Roughly 22,000 were killed by preventable medical errors. If we crashed two or three 747s per week, we still wouldn't be at that level of deaths. If the money we waste on TSA were spent elsewhere, we'd be ahead of the game.
Even in terms of aviation AA 331 is probably a more important incident to worry about.
The same also applies to second hand books - quote from a UK copyright notice on the inside leaf
"This book shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser"
So if you lend or borrow a book from a friend then you too are a pirate.
Only if it's been rebound. It's probably more aimed at libraries. Though laminating covers appears to be ok.
I'm not very excited about this Bill precisely because we're coming up to a general election which the incumbents are unlikely to win. At that point this Bill will be dropped (because it's associated with the previous administration) and we'll be back to square one, and *everyone* knows it.
Or the incomming government will find a way to put a different spin on it in the hope that nobody will remember by the time the next election comes round.
If said resource with a price tag is not purchased, and the producer of the resource turns to government force to declare that the only reason it did not sell is that the consumers aren't playing fair, then the market force is severely disrupted.
Especially, as in this case, people actually are purchasing the "resource".
They found that their old business model wasn't profitable enough
There "old" business model is highly profitable. Especially given that there's a recession on and plenty of businesses (including some well known ones) are going bankrupt.
so they switched to the far more lucrative business model of convincing the government to subsidize them.
If the British government were sane they'd use this as an excuse to nationalise them. Far better to own profitable businesses than the likes of Northern Rock...
It is actually legal in the Netherlands to copy music or video from another source (neighbour, friend, internet) if it is for personal use. Naturally the recording industry association is trying to change the law, but just a few months a great move was made by our government showing that they will not be easily influenced by the media lobby:
Best check for links between that lobby and security at Schiphol Airport:)
Flight sims are a little better because you body lies to you in the air, so you trust only what your eyes tell you.
Those used by real pilots have the ability to move. There are also audible warnings, most obviously to avoid hitting something. As well as those which are audible and tactile, such as "stick shakers".
They understand that about as well as they understand that banning something is the best way to ensure that several million people who would otherwise not even have heard about it will become very interested in it:)
Probably because there's an awful recession going on and most American Programmers and other IT people won't work for the amount of money, lack of holidays, benefits and hours that those being imported will do.
Wonder what much better paid work these people could be doing instead. Given the current economic situation. Things must be rather dire for those being imported, that they will put up with all the hassle of getting to their new job...
Well... we celebrate his being burned at the stake. I'm not sure that's all that celebratory.
Even though he was hung (the only stake being one for his head to be put on after he was dead.) The date of the 5th of November is also somewhat spurious. In the early 17th century the authorities were able to keep it quiet until a day after Parliment had opened without being blown up. Fawkes was actually caught on the evening of the 3rd IIRC.
Yes, we've not had bins in train stations for a while now - about 20 years. Sadly, unless Al-Quaeda are a radical offshoot of the IRA they can't take credit for that one...
It's just as well they arn't, the IRA being several times more competent in matters of terrorism.
Oddly, they actually started putting bins back on platforms only a few years ago. I guess they realised that unlike the IRA, modern terrorists don't care about blowing themselves up along with their targets.
That's assuming they can even manage to blow themselves up. This guy didn't even manage that, about the only thing he can hope for is to join the rather exclusive club of living Darwin Award winners...
Europe has locked down it's train stations a bit, especially London, and in the UK, largely, you won't find a bin in a train station. In Glasgow Central you have to throw your rubbish on the floor, and someone sweeps it up.
That was after the IRA used litter bins to put bombs in. Thing is that "Al Quada" really a a bunch of wannabes compared with the likes of the IRA. If they had wanted to blow up this plane we'd all be comparing it to AF-447 as the pieces were pulled out of the Atlantic.
Of course, in the real world, what we actually ended up doing is spending 1 trillion dollars fighting two deadly wars with heavy civilian casualties.
As well as plenty of dead and crippled soldiers. With an unknown number of soldiers developing mental illnesses as a result of what they have experienced.
Really? Come on, it was the plot for a TV show just a few months before, and a geek show at that. The Lone Gunmen [http://killtown.911review.org/lonegunmen.html], the X-Files spin off had basically the exact scenario. Hijacked planes being flown into the WTC.
Rather only one plane, which was ment to be flying in that general area anyway. Also within the episode was the idea of the plane crash being blamed on a group not unlike "Al Quada" and being the start of something very much like the "War on Terror".
There's also a much bigger "what if" factor, especially with something deliberate. What if there'd been ten planes hijacked? What if they'd got hold of nuclear or biological weapons?
What if they'd gone for Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) instead of the WTC? What if they'd waited a few hours for there to be more people in the WTC? Similarly what if The Pentagon had been hit anywhere other than the part most recently refurbished and armoured? One of the strangest things about the attacks is that there almost appears to have been a deliberate attempt to not kill as many people as possible.
Steven King did it first in The Running Man, popularised by Arnold "I'll be back" Schwarzenegger in the film that predictably changed the ending to a happy one, and not the original that had an airliner fly into the TV network's HQ.
Thing is that he didn't "do it first". The cover art of the first edition of "The Medusa Touch", published in 1973 has been compared with 9/11. The 1978 film based on the book follows the plot considerably more closely than "The Running Man", including Morlar deliberatly causing the plane crash. Then there's the "pilot" episode of Fox's "The Lone Gunmen", which involves attempting to crash a 727 (same type of plane that King used, IIRC) into WTC2. (If the target had been WTC1 then the plane would have hit the mast projecting from the roof...)
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The way to get back at the US is to require all flights over Canadian airspace by US carriers to stop at a Canadian airport and deplane all passengers and cargo for "security checks" including passing customs.
Are there any flights between Europe and the US which don't pass through Canadian airspace? At least in the Westbond direction.
A lot of flights to and from the US go over Canada right now and going round is impractical and expensive.
Including many flights out of Detroit Metro. The most notable, so far, having been an American Airlines flight on the 12 June 1972
Lets see, I bought an HP printer that had an option to tell it to print B/W only. (Using the B/W cartridge.) The option didn't work. (Pain in the ass since the vast majority of the time I was printing B/W and I didn't want to waste ink on printing color.
I've seen this happen on quite a few ink jets from various manufacturers.
The only way to stop it was to pull out the color cartridge.)
With some printers that just results in a refusal to print anything. Also the combined cartridge as opposed to separate C M Y means that you will always end up throwing quite a bit of very expensive ink away.
Unless they are using tequila to induce this coma, then I'm all for it. "I'm sorry sir this is a 10 drink minimum flight."
:)
If the only worry was Islamic terrorists then you wouldn't be allowed to board until after having your first drink. The US might have to reconsider having such a high drinking age though
Most people can probably carry an amount of explosives rectally, and I wouldn't put it outside the realm of possibility that they could learn to trigger it with sphincter muscles.
There's already been a "butt bomber" attack this year. The only person killed was the bomber.
Roughly 16,000 people were killed by automobiles in the first six months of this year. Roughly 22,000 were killed by preventable medical errors. If we crashed two or three 747s per week, we still wouldn't be at that level of deaths. If the money we waste on TSA were spent elsewhere, we'd be ahead of the game.
Even in terms of aviation AA 331 is probably a more important incident to worry about.
The same also applies to second hand books - quote from a UK copyright notice on the inside leaf
"This book shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser"
So if you lend or borrow a book from a friend then you too are a pirate.
Only if it's been rebound. It's probably more aimed at libraries. Though laminating covers appears to be ok.
I'm not very excited about this Bill precisely because we're coming up to a general election which the incumbents are unlikely to win. At that point this Bill will be dropped (because it's associated with the previous administration) and we'll be back to square one, and *everyone* knows it.
Or the incomming government will find a way to put a different spin on it in the hope that nobody will remember by the time the next election comes round.
If said resource with a price tag is not purchased, and the producer of the resource turns to government force to declare that the only reason it did not sell is that the consumers aren't playing fair, then the market force is severely disrupted.
Especially, as in this case, people actually are purchasing the "resource".
They found that their old business model wasn't profitable enough
There "old" business model is highly profitable. Especially given that there's a recession on and plenty of businesses (including some well known ones) are going bankrupt.
so they switched to the far more lucrative business model of convincing the government to subsidize them.
If the British government were sane they'd use this as an excuse to nationalise them. Far better to own profitable businesses than the likes of Northern Rock...
It is actually legal in the Netherlands to copy music or video from another source (neighbour, friend, internet) if it is for personal use. Naturally the recording industry association is trying to change the law, but just a few months a great move was made by our government showing that they will not be easily influenced by the media lobby:
:)
Best check for links between that lobby and security at Schiphol Airport
Conflicts where people line up and shoot each other in large groups in an area without civilians are more or less gone today.
Most likely battles conducted away from civilians were rare in the past anyways.
But Reality TV sure is fun! Otherwise it wouldn't be on TV, right?
Though it's questionable how much actually is "reality", which was kind of the point of "The Truman Show"...
Flight sims are a little better because you body lies to you in the air, so you trust only what your eyes tell you.
Those used by real pilots have the ability to move. There are also audible warnings, most obviously to avoid hitting something. As well as those which are audible and tactile, such as "stick shakers".
Do people not understand pages are cached?
:)
They understand that about as well as they understand that banning something is the best way to ensure that several million people who would otherwise not even have heard about it will become very interested in it
Probably because there's an awful recession going on and most American Programmers and other IT people won't work for the amount of money, lack of holidays, benefits and hours that those being imported will do.
Wonder what much better paid work these people could be doing instead. Given the current economic situation. Things must be rather dire for those being imported, that they will put up with all the hassle of getting to their new job...
Well ... we celebrate his being burned at the stake. I'm not sure that's all that celebratory.
Even though he was hung (the only stake being one for his head to be put on after he was dead.) The date of the 5th of November is also somewhat spurious. In the early 17th century the authorities were able to keep it quiet until a day after Parliment had opened without being blown up. Fawkes was actually caught on the evening of the 3rd IIRC.
Yes, we've not had bins in train stations for a while now - about 20 years. Sadly, unless Al-Quaeda are a radical offshoot of the IRA they can't take credit for that one...
It's just as well they arn't, the IRA being several times more competent in matters of terrorism.
Oddly, they actually started putting bins back on platforms only a few years ago. I guess they realised that unlike the IRA, modern terrorists don't care about blowing themselves up along with their targets.
That's assuming they can even manage to blow themselves up. This guy didn't even manage that, about the only thing he can hope for is to join the rather exclusive club of living Darwin Award winners...
Europe has locked down it's train stations a bit, especially London, and in the UK, largely, you won't find a bin in a train station. In Glasgow Central you have to throw your rubbish on the floor, and someone sweeps it up.
That was after the IRA used litter bins to put bombs in. Thing is that "Al Quada" really a a bunch of wannabes compared with the likes of the IRA. If they had wanted to blow up this plane we'd all be comparing it to AF-447 as the pieces were pulled out of the Atlantic.
Of course, in the real world, what we actually ended up doing is spending 1 trillion dollars fighting two deadly wars with heavy civilian casualties.
As well as plenty of dead and crippled soldiers. With an unknown number of soldiers developing mental illnesses as a result of what they have experienced.
Really? Come on, it was the plot for a TV show just a few months before, and a geek show at that. The Lone Gunmen [http://killtown.911review.org/lonegunmen.html], the X-Files spin off had basically the exact scenario. Hijacked planes being flown into the WTC.
Rather only one plane, which was ment to be flying in that general area anyway. Also within the episode was the idea of the plane crash being blamed on a group not unlike "Al Quada" and being the start of something very much like the "War on Terror".
There's also a much bigger "what if" factor, especially with something deliberate. What if there'd been ten planes hijacked? What if they'd got hold of nuclear or biological weapons?
What if they'd gone for Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) instead of the WTC? What if they'd waited a few hours for there to be more people in the WTC? Similarly what if The Pentagon had been hit anywhere other than the part most recently refurbished and armoured?
One of the strangest things about the attacks is that there almost appears to have been a deliberate attempt to not kill as many people as possible.
There's also "Storming Heaven" by Dale Brown.
This was also published in 1994. Over a decade after "The Running Man" and nearly 20 years after Peter Van Greenaway's "The Medusa Touch".
Steven King did it first in The Running Man, popularised by Arnold "I'll be back" Schwarzenegger in the film that predictably changed the ending to a happy one, and not the original that had an airliner fly into the TV network's HQ.
Thing is that he didn't "do it first". The cover art of the first edition of "The Medusa Touch", published in 1973 has been compared with 9/11. The 1978 film based on the book follows the plot considerably more closely than "The Running Man", including Morlar deliberatly causing the plane crash.
Then there's the "pilot" episode of Fox's "The Lone Gunmen", which involves attempting to crash a 727 (same type of plane that King used, IIRC) into WTC2. (If the target had been WTC1 then the plane would have hit the mast projecting from the roof...)
Could it be that Mexicans have registered for the purpose of locating the cameras?
:)
Then they could plot the locations on a map. It's not as if these cameras can have overlapping fields of view if there are only 21 of them