Just give away an empty 32 oz cup for each two 16 oz cups purchased. The empty cup comes with lid and straw, which are optional with the 16 oz cups. Then the thirsty ones can pour their 16 oz drinks into the 32 oz cup and be happy.
In other words - this is yet another stupid law that will never work, especially not as intended (to reduce obesity). People will find ways to continue to consume the usual massive amounts of sugar-water with various flavours and additives.
They're also isolationists... According to surveys here in Denmark, most non-western immigrants gets nicely mixed in with the native population in just a few generations - mixed marriages with both male and female immigrants - with the significant exception of Muslim immigrants. Even though they're one of the biggest non-western immigrant group, the number of marriages that does not involve a conversion to Islam by the native part can be counted on one hand. It just almost never happens. The actual numbers are 4-5 between a male immigrant and a female native, and ZERO where the immigrant is female. Even the numbers involving conversion are heavily skewed - while there's hundreds of male immigrants marrying female natives converted to Islam, the number of female immigrants marrying a danish native converted man are still less than a dozen. Most female immigrants basically marry either fellow immigrants or men from the homeland.
This all means that the integration of Muslims is bound to fail. And has failed consistently all over western Europe.
As a nice counterpoint, Asian non-Muslim women married to Danish native men are actually the biggest group by far within the mixed marriage community. And these Asian-Danish families are usually well integrated with higher-than-average income, higher-than-average educational level and zero ghetto issues (gangs etc.). The asian immigrants work and learn the native language. They dress like the natives too, don't make a fuss about weird dietary 'rules' and interact quite normally with everybody else, no matter what gender etc.
So, it's obvious to everyone that what the Muslims are doing is wrong. They either need to do what other immigrants are doing or go somewhere else. It can't continue like it has been. The tensions are getting stronger and it will end badly and then go to worse.
The person mentioned in TFA is 22 year old Bobbi Duncan... That means she's a grown woman and her father has absolutely nothing to say about how she lives her life, including her sexual preferences.
Why does he even care? Why does he check her profile for things like that?
He's clearly a pervert and needs to be outed as such. Perhaps we should start a campaign...
Also, why does she care? - If her father is that prejudiced and retarded in his world view, lose him. Tell him - quite publicly - that if he doesn't approve, he should keep his mouth shut or go fuck himself. That will of course not improve family relations but it will show that she means business and that she is not going to take any bullshit from such narrow-minded people.
If he was any kind of man and father, he'd be concerned wth her happiness and well-being, not her sexual preferences and similar. He's obviously also a bad father.
Build it from ground out so it is protected from 'legal' harassment from the MAFIAA and the US law enforcement authorities who think they own the world, and be sure to place servers etc. so they're completely unreachable and untouchable from those points of view. They should be well-conected network-wise of course and not hide that even the pirates are welcome to share files here.
After all, sharing cam-recordings or various rips just might not be illegal at all if the creator releases them as they're significantly different from the protected product they're derived from. It has long been established that you can write a very detailed summary and even repeat verbatim various quotes from a movie without being infringing in any way. So how much detail can you go into? Where's the limit exactly?
It might be illegal to record a cam in a movie theater, and it is most likely illegal to make a rip of a movie with the intent to distribute. The authorities should concentrate their efforts there instead of the utterly futile combat again file sharing services. At least in the early days of a new product, availability of opportunity to perform these activities is extremely limited; not many theaters are showing it, making it less likely that someone will be able to record it, and the early rips comes from advance copies sent to reviewers etc. which means it should be a piece of cake to trace each pirated rip back to the source and make sure that person never receive an advance copy again. As piracy is mostly due to non-availability of the product in certain areas/formats in its early days, this would be hugely affected by a relatively small effort.
Fighting file sharing in general is a doomed-in-advance futile effort that make enemies of your customers to the tune of huge expenditures that basically only makes the problem worse.
See the Roman Polanski case a couple years back. He's living in France, a fugitive of US justice, having been convicted of drugging and raping an uder-aged girl. He couldn't travel to the UK for fear of extradition to the US, but the UK allowed his lawsuit to proceed, regardless. He was involved via video link, IIRC.
Actually that Polanski-case was a farce as well. The girl never wanted to press charged and she still don't. She wasn't drugged but doing drugs with Polanski, and she had consensual sex with him. No rape ever occurred except of the statutory kind. The statute of limitation has been reached long ago, which means that only the flight to France can be prosecuted, not the case itself. And yet they still waste money on it.
That's bullshit. The Swedish authorities are interested in questioning him about two cases of what you'd call 3. degree rape - consensual sex but unconsensually without a condom. That's not even worth prosecuting. So he forgot the condom. Big deal. If he had given them an STD or made them pregnant it would have been a different story, but he didn't. I was just plain old consensual sex without a condom.
Knowingly facilitating piracy is a crime. This is why rapidshare is not being prosecuted. The moment they come know a file they have has been reported as pirated, they take it down. If any of their employees comes across one, they take it down.
MegaUpload also had this feature, reportedly one of the best in the filelocker community. Fully automated. A rights owner just needed to log in and report the file and it was gone from all the server farms.
Oh, and Rapidshare was hit with an attempted prosecution but they're Switzerland-based and thus extremely hard to hit. So nothing came out of it and Rapidshare is humming along, just like always.
I once told my boss that I would quit if he made me work on a spam engine. He finally gave the product to some of my co-workers, who gladly did it...:-(
What kind of respectable company would want any kind of spam engine?!
... but there are lots of European countries where drivers are fully used to having to watch out for people riding bicycles (and small scooters by the way).
"Watch out" is right. Here in Copenhagen the traffic is a nightmare for everybody else than the cyclists because the cyclists have zero respect for the traffic laws and the other parts of traffic. Red lights are routinely ignored by a majority (95% turn right on red and 50-60% ride straight through intersections on red) and if you're driving a car, expect cyclists from every direction in intersections, regardless of the light. People in buses routinely get hurt due to emergency braking as a result of cyclists doing suicidal stuff in front of the bus.
Oh, and they continue to be a nuisance when parked as well because most bike riders seem deadly afraid of walking which results in huge piles of seemingly discarded bicycles packed tightly around entrances to malls, stations and similar. There will be bikes parked against almost all lamp posts, traffic signs, free-standing trees and walls.
The police did a raid a few months ago at a major intersection. They were in uniform and had marked cars with flashing lights parked nearby, and yet they actually managed to run out of fines, writing up over 500 cyclists in less than an hour, most for running the red light or riding on the pavement or crosswalk. Some actually claimed that it used to be legal to ignore the red light, or that the traffic lights plain and simple didn't apply to bicyclists...
about the bottomless pit of money-waste called the TSA is... that their efforts are a complete waste. Basically, the über-expensive hardware doesn't work.
The checked-in luggage scanners have a detection rate of - at best - no more than 60%. The carry-on luggage scanners have a detection rate of 80%, provided the terrorist doesn't hide this weapons disassembled inside other stuff. Then it drops to near 0%. The old portal metal detectors are quite good - they have a detection rate of near 100%, but both guns and explosives don't need metal parts, which means a total failure of detection. The new body-scanners have a detection rate of less then 25%. It will basically detect only stuff you have in a big lump in a pocket. It will miss thin layers taped to the body and stuff in body cavities. The invasive 'grope-search' offered as an alternative to the body-scanners has a decent detection rate of up to 90%, but it will fail to detect stuff hidden in body cavities and whatever areas the agent 'forgets' to search (tests have shown that almost all agents miss some areas they were supposed to check).
And the TSA knows this.
Basically it nothing but security theater, designed to make ignorant people feel safe.
The best way to catch terrorists is long before they get to the airport - when their evil plans are still just that - plans.
I would recommend http://www.scnsrc.net/ - Started and initially powered by disgruntled mods from rlslog.net. Same content, much less ads and better download links - like working torrent links (rlslog always uses their own torrent tracker/portal and the announced release almost always fails to be available).
Disclaimer: I haven't read TFA - my PDF-reader locks up on this document for some reason.
There is one kind of fraud that can never be detected by any means, and that it to alter each vote as they are placed, i.e. identical in every way to the voter having cast his vote elsewhere. Electronic voting machines are perfect for this. A similar technique would be to point a gun at some of the voters head and make them vote a certain way.
"Suffing the ballot boxes" - reminds me of that Blackadder episode with the "rotten borough" with just one voter: Baldrick of course. When he has cast his vote the result is announced: A completely new candidate wins with over 1.000 write-in votes, and one invalid vote (Baldricks obviously) is disregarded. That was clearly a perfectly fine election with no statistical anormalies.
He never settled down, he simply went through several criminal enterprises without getting caught.
How do you know this? - If he didn't get caught he wasn't convicted and then it basically didn't happen.
Why do you think he moved around all the time, changed citizenship and flipped fingers at the FBI at several occasions?
Well, the FBI are just so stupid that they need any wakeup calls they can get, and flipping fingers at them is a start - as well as the proper response to bottomless stupidity.
Why do they think they can reshape the law to suit their purposes? - In this matter they twisted the civil matter of alleged aiding in copyright infringement into a major criminal conspiracy just so they could abuse Interpol and the police of a foreign country (FBI is only mandated to work in the US) to act on their behalf?
Huh? - Oh, you mean those greedy corporations who created a massive pirating problem through massive geo-discrimination and obscene local prices protected by IP-monopolies and region controls?
But what does that have to do with Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload?
It was a company completely unaffiliated with both the pirate scene and the global media industry. Sure, pirates used it but they also used dozens of other file lockers, not to mention bittorrent and of course the infrastructure below, i.e. operating systems, networks, hardware etc. MegaUpload was nothing special, except in being singled out and illegally prosecuted by FBI and other US law enforcement by inventing am international conspiracy in order to get Interpol and the New Zealand police in on the case.
If the drone strike won't work, he can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial. Considering his war crimes and terroristic actions could we expect any less?
Who the f*ck rated this garbage 'Insightful'?!?!
Whistle-blowing is NOT a terrorist action in any way, shape or form. Information cannot hurt anyone, thus failing to fulfill the fundamental definition of terrorism.
Sure, things and/or people hidden behind 'security by obscurity' can be hurt following information disclosure, as well as being prosecuted if illegalities are revealed, but then they're really not hurt by the disclosure itself but by the stupidities preceding it.
People abusing power to violate laws, like killing innocent people just because they can, fully deserve the punishment they receive as a result of the information disclosure, whether it is through a court of justice or through military retaliation.
In Denmark it has been legal for decades to make copies for personal use. You are even allowed to make copies of copy protected materials if you need to remove copy protection in order to play the material. We also have a "blank disk levy" to compensate for pirating.
Now, as the Canadian Supreme Court ruled, if you pay to compensate for pirating you're allowed to pirate. So the levy works both ways - or it would be a tax benefiting private entities as opposed to the state, which is illegal in itself.
As you pay the levy on the destination media regardless of the legality of the source material, you are of course also entitled to make copies of illegally downloaded materials. Now, the act of downloading is actually identical to making a copy for personal use, so that's actually legal if you paid the levy on the destination media. If this is ruled illegal, then the levy is illegal as well. You cannot force people to for something they don't get. Even taxes are payment for the services of the government. The levy is very specific and thus clearly illegal if downloading is illegal.
Why do government always think that monitoring and surveilance is the key to preventing terror, solve major crimes etc.?
Unless the go all the way and aim for the full Orwellian package with Big Brother, thought police etc. it will give nothing but a false sense of security. It's too easily circumvented, if it works at all. It is basically yet another form of security theater just like the 'security checks' at the airport, and it's just a futile and worthless waste of money.
I think it's a matter of bad advice from greedy 'advisors' on the payroll of businesses provide these futile products. Even politicians cannot be that stupid without help.
The endless arguments on Slashdot seem to go like this: "Muslims are violent because Islam is bad."
"It's no worse than other religions, look at Christianity."
"But Christians don't get all weird about iconography, no rioting over cartoons."
The point is: enough with the Islam/Christian bashing. Or religion in general. It's a red herring, there to distract you from the real problem.
Actually religion is THE problem. As Richard Dawkins so elegantly has pointed out: Religion is a delusion, but as so many suffer from it, it is not recognized as the mental illness it really is. And just as other mental illnesses its sufferers are unpredictable and often tends towards violence when reality fails to meet with the things in their heads. Muslims are born into a very violent culture where beheadings and bloody death are a part of their daily life, either through rhetoric or through television news from the often rather biased stations so many watch, so their reactions are even more extreme.
She got off easy, after a DUI collision she should be in jail for a year or two.
She wasn't a celebrity. Lindsay Lohan got - for a first time DUI with no other people hurt (she broke her own wrist and her car) - both probation, monitoring, random urine checks and mandatory alcohol classes, as well as a driving ban.
Another option is to make a locking mechanism that can only be unlocked when the plane has landed and the proper security codes have been activated. It's hard to get into the cockpit when even the pilot cannot let you in.
That's the time-release safe method. No matter how big a gun you threaten with or how many people you kill, that safe ain't going to open until it's time. Nobody at all can do anything to change this. This way, the number of robberies are cut way down. Sure, you'll still get the small time crooks that just wants the money in the register, but as all larger bills are transferred to the safe through a slot, the loot would be minimal. The big-time crooks know they can't get at the safe and go somewhere else.
Of course there's no accounting for human stupidity... Here in Denmark we had an attempted robbery a few months back where the crooks used explosives to access the safety deposit box in a bank... that worked just fine, but they got nothing for their efforts because that branch was closed and had been for several months. The building was essentially empty - no furniture, no curtains... but the signs on the facade was still there which was probably what fooled the robbers... But a quick look inside would have revealed the emptiness and futility of the attempt... What a fail.
No, there will be no standoff except in very rare cases. The confined space of the cabin works in the passengers favor. If the hijacker is armed with a gun he might be able to kill or incapacitate the first one or two passengers that charge him, but from then on he'll have no room to move (the hurt passengers won't vanish, they'll fall around him and on him) and then the second wave will go for him and he'll be down for good. If the weapon is a knife or similar he'll at best get a few stabs in on the closest of the attackers and then they're on him quite literary and he's down and out.
The same people that bring golf bags the size of a small house, or some stick/pole that's 8 feet long and still loaded as regular luggage so it will mess up the luggage conveyor belts and cause bags to fall off on their way up to the claim area.
OH GREAT. Now we'll have scans to get to the lines for the scanners.
But then those lines can be blown up... So we need scans to get in line for the scans to get in line for the scans to get in the line for scans [...]...
I say we nuke the site from orbit! - It's the only way to be sure...
Banning passengers and crew from all flights is the only effective method.
This will also remove many of the delays, as the planes just sit there. There are where they are and never going anywhere.
Actually, the half-solution will also work. Flying with just the crew will still be a lot safer than today as 99.99999% of all terrorists are passengers, and without the need for bording, luggage handling and cleaning between flights it will be much easier to depart on time. Also, in case of a crash, much less lives are lost.
The TSA is now an institution that will not be eradicated, without the complete dissolution of the USA.
Unless we get a true Tea Party president that wants to slash the public sector massively. Look at TSA's massive budget and ask: Just how many terrorists has it actually caught? - and compare the response to previous efforts in airport security. When the enormous waste of money on nothing comes to light, the TSA will be eradicated faster than if it was nuked from orbit...
It is kind of scary that the TSA was formed in response to 9/11, and yet NONE of the current security measures would have caught the 9/11 hijackers. One of my friends actually brought a huge steak knife with him through the security in THREE international airports and it wasn't discovered. It came from a restaurant in his initial airport (with stamped logo) so if it was found he could always claim that he didn't know it was there (in a bag of duty free stuff, into which it could easily have fallen).
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Just give away an empty 32 oz cup for each two 16 oz cups purchased. The empty cup comes with lid and straw, which are optional with the 16 oz cups. Then the thirsty ones can pour their 16 oz drinks into the 32 oz cup and be happy.
In other words - this is yet another stupid law that will never work, especially not as intended (to reduce obesity). People will find ways to continue to consume the usual massive amounts of sugar-water with various flavours and additives.
They're also isolationists... According to surveys here in Denmark, most non-western immigrants gets nicely mixed in with the native population in just a few generations - mixed marriages with both male and female immigrants - with the significant exception of Muslim immigrants. Even though they're one of the biggest non-western immigrant group, the number of marriages that does not involve a conversion to Islam by the native part can be counted on one hand. It just almost never happens. The actual numbers are 4-5 between a male immigrant and a female native, and ZERO where the immigrant is female. Even the numbers involving conversion are heavily skewed - while there's hundreds of male immigrants marrying female natives converted to Islam, the number of female immigrants marrying a danish native converted man are still less than a dozen. Most female immigrants basically marry either fellow immigrants or men from the homeland.
This all means that the integration of Muslims is bound to fail. And has failed consistently all over western Europe.
As a nice counterpoint, Asian non-Muslim women married to Danish native men are actually the biggest group by far within the mixed marriage community. And these Asian-Danish families are usually well integrated with higher-than-average income, higher-than-average educational level and zero ghetto issues (gangs etc.). The asian immigrants work and learn the native language. They dress like the natives too, don't make a fuss about weird dietary 'rules' and interact quite normally with everybody else, no matter what gender etc.
So, it's obvious to everyone that what the Muslims are doing is wrong. They either need to do what other immigrants are doing or go somewhere else. It can't continue like it has been. The tensions are getting stronger and it will end badly and then go to worse.
The person mentioned in TFA is 22 year old Bobbi Duncan... That means she's a grown woman and her father has absolutely nothing to say about how she lives her life, including her sexual preferences.
Why does he even care?
Why does he check her profile for things like that?
He's clearly a pervert and needs to be outed as such. Perhaps we should start a campaign...
Also, why does she care? - If her father is that prejudiced and retarded in his world view, lose him. Tell him - quite publicly - that if he doesn't approve, he should keep his mouth shut or go fuck himself. That will of course not improve family relations but it will show that she means business and that she is not going to take any bullshit from such narrow-minded people.
If he was any kind of man and father, he'd be concerned wth her happiness and well-being, not her sexual preferences and similar. He's obviously also a bad father.
Can't wait for that.
Build it from ground out so it is protected from 'legal' harassment from the MAFIAA and the US law enforcement authorities who think they own the world, and be sure to place servers etc. so they're completely unreachable and untouchable from those points of view. They should be well-conected network-wise of course and not hide that even the pirates are welcome to share files here.
After all, sharing cam-recordings or various rips just might not be illegal at all if the creator releases them as they're significantly different from the protected product they're derived from. It has long been established that you can write a very detailed summary and even repeat verbatim various quotes from a movie without being infringing in any way. So how much detail can you go into? Where's the limit exactly?
It might be illegal to record a cam in a movie theater, and it is most likely illegal to make a rip of a movie with the intent to distribute. The authorities should concentrate their efforts there instead of the utterly futile combat again file sharing services. At least in the early days of a new product, availability of opportunity to perform these activities is extremely limited; not many theaters are showing it, making it less likely that someone will be able to record it, and the early rips comes from advance copies sent to reviewers etc. which means it should be a piece of cake to trace each pirated rip back to the source and make sure that person never receive an advance copy again. As piracy is mostly due to non-availability of the product in certain areas/formats in its early days, this would be hugely affected by a relatively small effort.
Fighting file sharing in general is a doomed-in-advance futile effort that make enemies of your customers to the tune of huge expenditures that basically only makes the problem worse.
See the Roman Polanski case a couple years back. He's living in France, a fugitive of US justice, having been convicted of drugging and raping an uder-aged girl. He couldn't travel to the UK for fear of extradition to the US, but the UK allowed his lawsuit to proceed, regardless. He was involved via video link, IIRC.
Actually that Polanski-case was a farce as well. The girl never wanted to press charged and she still don't. She wasn't drugged but doing drugs with Polanski, and she had consensual sex with him. No rape ever occurred except of the statutory kind. The statute of limitation has been reached long ago, which means that only the flight to France can be prosecuted, not the case itself. And yet they still waste money on it.
And a rapist.
That's bullshit. The Swedish authorities are interested in questioning him about two cases of what you'd call 3. degree rape - consensual sex but unconsensually without a condom. That's not even worth prosecuting. So he forgot the condom. Big deal. If he had given them an STD or made them pregnant it would have been a different story, but he didn't. I was just plain old consensual sex without a condom.
Knowingly facilitating piracy is a crime. This is why rapidshare is not being prosecuted. The moment they come know a file they have has been reported as pirated, they take it down. If any of their employees comes across one, they take it down.
MegaUpload also had this feature, reportedly one of the best in the filelocker community. Fully automated. A rights owner just needed to log in and report the file and it was gone from all the server farms.
Oh, and Rapidshare was hit with an attempted prosecution but they're Switzerland-based and thus extremely hard to hit. So nothing came out of it and Rapidshare is humming along, just like always.
I once told my boss that I would quit if he made me work on a spam engine. He finally gave the product to some of my co-workers, who gladly did it... :-(
What kind of respectable company would want any kind of spam engine?!
Sounds like a loser with shotty morals...
... but there are lots of European countries where drivers are fully used to having to watch out for people riding bicycles (and small scooters by the way).
"Watch out" is right. Here in Copenhagen the traffic is a nightmare for everybody else than the cyclists because the cyclists have zero respect for the traffic laws and the other parts of traffic. Red lights are routinely ignored by a majority (95% turn right on red and 50-60% ride straight through intersections on red) and if you're driving a car, expect cyclists from every direction in intersections, regardless of the light. People in buses routinely get hurt due to emergency braking as a result of cyclists doing suicidal stuff in front of the bus.
Oh, and they continue to be a nuisance when parked as well because most bike riders seem deadly afraid of walking which results in huge piles of seemingly discarded bicycles packed tightly around entrances to malls, stations and similar. There will be bikes parked against almost all lamp posts, traffic signs, free-standing trees and walls.
The police did a raid a few months ago at a major intersection. They were in uniform and had marked cars with flashing lights parked nearby, and yet they actually managed to run out of fines, writing up over 500 cyclists in less than an hour, most for running the red light or riding on the pavement or crosswalk. Some actually claimed that it used to be legal to ignore the red light, or that the traffic lights plain and simple didn't apply to bicyclists...
about the bottomless pit of money-waste called the TSA is... that their efforts are a complete waste. Basically, the über-expensive hardware doesn't work.
The checked-in luggage scanners have a detection rate of - at best - no more than 60%.
The carry-on luggage scanners have a detection rate of 80%, provided the terrorist doesn't hide this weapons disassembled inside other stuff. Then it drops to near 0%.
The old portal metal detectors are quite good - they have a detection rate of near 100%, but both guns and explosives don't need metal parts, which means a total failure of detection.
The new body-scanners have a detection rate of less then 25%. It will basically detect only stuff you have in a big lump in a pocket. It will miss thin layers taped to the body and stuff in body cavities.
The invasive 'grope-search' offered as an alternative to the body-scanners has a decent detection rate of up to 90%, but it will fail to detect stuff hidden in body cavities and whatever areas the agent 'forgets' to search (tests have shown that almost all agents miss some areas they were supposed to check).
And the TSA knows this.
Basically it nothing but security theater, designed to make ignorant people feel safe.
The best way to catch terrorists is long before they get to the airport - when their evil plans are still just that - plans.
I would recommend http://www.scnsrc.net/ - Started and initially powered by disgruntled mods from rlslog.net. Same content, much less ads and better download links - like working torrent links (rlslog always uses their own torrent tracker/portal and the announced release almost always fails to be available).
Disclaimer: I haven't read TFA - my PDF-reader locks up on this document for some reason.
There is one kind of fraud that can never be detected by any means, and that it to alter each vote as they are placed, i.e. identical in every way to the voter having cast his vote elsewhere. Electronic voting machines are perfect for this. A similar technique would be to point a gun at some of the voters head and make them vote a certain way.
"Suffing the ballot boxes" - reminds me of that Blackadder episode with the "rotten borough" with just one voter: Baldrick of course. When he has cast his vote the result is announced: A completely new candidate wins with over 1.000 write-in votes, and one invalid vote (Baldricks obviously) is disregarded. That was clearly a perfectly fine election with no statistical anormalies.
He never settled down, he simply went through several criminal enterprises without getting caught.
How do you know this? - If he didn't get caught he wasn't convicted and then it basically didn't happen.
Why do you think he moved around all the time, changed citizenship and flipped fingers at the FBI at several occasions?
Well, the FBI are just so stupid that they need any wakeup calls they can get, and flipping fingers at them is a start - as well as the proper response to bottomless stupidity.
Why do they think they can reshape the law to suit their purposes? - In this matter they twisted the civil matter of alleged aiding in copyright infringement into a major criminal conspiracy just so they could abuse Interpol and the police of a foreign country (FBI is only mandated to work in the US) to act on their behalf?
Pirate enablers.
Huh? - Oh, you mean those greedy corporations who created a massive pirating problem through massive geo-discrimination and obscene local prices protected by IP-monopolies and region controls?
But what does that have to do with Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload?
It was a company completely unaffiliated with both the pirate scene and the global media industry. Sure, pirates used it but they also used dozens of other file lockers, not to mention bittorrent and of course the infrastructure below, i.e. operating systems, networks, hardware etc. MegaUpload was nothing special, except in being singled out and illegally prosecuted by FBI and other US law enforcement by inventing am international conspiracy in order to get Interpol and the New Zealand police in on the case.
If the drone strike won't work, he can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial. Considering his war crimes and terroristic actions could we expect any less?
Who the f*ck rated this garbage 'Insightful'?!?!
Whistle-blowing is NOT a terrorist action in any way, shape or form. Information cannot hurt anyone, thus failing to fulfill the fundamental definition of terrorism.
Sure, things and/or people hidden behind 'security by obscurity' can be hurt following information disclosure, as well as being prosecuted if illegalities are revealed, but then they're really not hurt by the disclosure itself but by the stupidities preceding it.
People abusing power to violate laws, like killing innocent people just because they can, fully deserve the punishment they receive as a result of the information disclosure, whether it is through a court of justice or through military retaliation.
In Denmark it has been legal for decades to make copies for personal use. You are even allowed to make copies of copy protected materials if you need to remove copy protection in order to play the material. We also have a "blank disk levy" to compensate for pirating.
Now, as the Canadian Supreme Court ruled, if you pay to compensate for pirating you're allowed to pirate. So the levy works both ways - or it would be a tax benefiting private entities as opposed to the state, which is illegal in itself.
As you pay the levy on the destination media regardless of the legality of the source material, you are of course also entitled to make copies of illegally downloaded materials. Now, the act of downloading is actually identical to making a copy for personal use, so that's actually legal if you paid the levy on the destination media. If this is ruled illegal, then the levy is illegal as well. You cannot force people to for something they don't get. Even taxes are payment for the services of the government. The levy is very specific and thus clearly illegal if downloading is illegal.
Why do government always think that monitoring and surveilance is the key to preventing terror, solve major crimes etc.?
Unless the go all the way and aim for the full Orwellian package with Big Brother, thought police etc. it will give nothing but a false sense of security. It's too easily circumvented, if it works at all. It is basically yet another form of security theater just like the 'security checks' at the airport, and it's just a futile and worthless waste of money.
I think it's a matter of bad advice from greedy 'advisors' on the payroll of businesses provide these futile products. Even politicians cannot be that stupid without help.
The endless arguments on Slashdot seem to go like this: "Muslims are violent because Islam is bad."
"It's no worse than other religions, look at Christianity."
"But Christians don't get all weird about iconography, no rioting over cartoons."
The point is: enough with the Islam/Christian bashing. Or religion in general. It's a red herring, there to distract you from the real problem.
Actually religion is THE problem. As Richard Dawkins so elegantly has pointed out: Religion is a delusion, but as so many suffer from it, it is not recognized as the mental illness it really is. And just as other mental illnesses its sufferers are unpredictable and often tends towards violence when reality fails to meet with the things in their heads. Muslims are born into a very violent culture where beheadings and bloody death are a part of their daily life, either through rhetoric or through television news from the often rather biased stations so many watch, so their reactions are even more extreme.
She got off easy, after a DUI collision she should be in jail for a year or two.
She wasn't a celebrity. Lindsay Lohan got - for a first time DUI with no other people hurt (she broke her own wrist and her car) - both probation, monitoring, random urine checks and mandatory alcohol classes, as well as a driving ban.
Another option is to make a locking mechanism that can only be unlocked when the plane has landed and the proper security codes have been activated. It's hard to get into the cockpit when even the pilot cannot let you in.
That's the time-release safe method. No matter how big a gun you threaten with or how many people you kill, that safe ain't going to open until it's time. Nobody at all can do anything to change this. This way, the number of robberies are cut way down. Sure, you'll still get the small time crooks that just wants the money in the register, but as all larger bills are transferred to the safe through a slot, the loot would be minimal. The big-time crooks know they can't get at the safe and go somewhere else.
Of course there's no accounting for human stupidity... Here in Denmark we had an attempted robbery a few months back where the crooks used explosives to access the safety deposit box in a bank... that worked just fine, but they got nothing for their efforts because that branch was closed and had been for several months. The building was essentially empty - no furniture, no curtains... but the signs on the facade was still there which was probably what fooled the robbers... But a quick look inside would have revealed the emptiness and futility of the attempt... What a fail.
No, there will be no standoff except in very rare cases. The confined space of the cabin works in the passengers favor. If the hijacker is armed with a gun he might be able to kill or incapacitate the first one or two passengers that charge him, but from then on he'll have no room to move (the hurt passengers won't vanish, they'll fall around him and on him) and then the second wave will go for him and he'll be down for good. If the weapon is a knife or similar he'll at best get a few stabs in on the closest of the attackers and then they're on him quite literary and he's down and out.
The same people that bring golf bags the size of a small house, or some stick/pole that's 8 feet long and still loaded as regular luggage so it will mess up the luggage conveyor belts and cause bags to fall off on their way up to the claim area.
OH GREAT. Now we'll have scans to get to the lines for the scanners.
But then those lines can be blown up... So we need scans to get in line for the scans to get in line for the scans to get in the line for scans [...] ...
I say we nuke the site from orbit! - It's the only way to be sure...
Banning passengers and crew from all flights is the only effective method.
This will also remove many of the delays, as the planes just sit there. There are where they are and never going anywhere.
Actually, the half-solution will also work. Flying with just the crew will still be a lot safer than today as 99.99999% of all terrorists are passengers, and without the need for bording, luggage handling and cleaning between flights it will be much easier to depart on time. Also, in case of a crash, much less lives are lost.
The TSA is now an institution that will not be eradicated, without the complete dissolution of the USA.
Unless we get a true Tea Party president that wants to slash the public sector massively. Look at TSA's massive budget and ask: Just how many terrorists has it actually caught? - and compare the response to previous efforts in airport security. When the enormous waste of money on nothing comes to light, the TSA will be eradicated faster than if it was nuked from orbit...
It is kind of scary that the TSA was formed in response to 9/11, and yet NONE of the current security measures would have caught the 9/11 hijackers. One of my friends actually brought a huge steak knife with him through the security in THREE international airports and it wasn't discovered. It came from a restaurant in his initial airport (with stamped logo) so if it was found he could always claim that he didn't know it was there (in a bag of duty free stuff, into which it could easily have fallen).