What exactly is the rational objection to millimeter wave? Just the slow down at the airport? Or the cost not being worth it?
Well, for the ones without the cartoon figure software there is a privacy issue. The problem with the ones with the target detection software is that there are lots of false positives. As high as 50% in some testing. When the machine alarms then you must submit to a grope or not fly. I would choose not to fly in that circumstance at which point I would probably be subject to lots of intimidation and getting put on various lists. In theory I could even be fined up to $10,000. Even if they could get rid of the false positives or just not sexually violate you when the machine alarms there would still be the problem that they are expensive and serve no real purpose. I don't believe plastic knives are a major threat to aviation and even if they were it has been shown that these machines can be fooled.
In some airports security at least tries to prevent you from leaving unless you are willing to go through the scanner. I read one story about a guy arriving in Atlanta who, after hours of negotiating with security was finally escorted by an airport cop to the exit. Unfortunately I can't find a link to the story now. If you want to avoid being scanned before leaving you have to be willing to tough it out for hours with security arguing and arguing with them.
Are you actually claiming that every piece of luggage is opened and tested for explosive residue? Do you have a citation for that? Also, would that detection still work if the explosive material were sealed off from the rest of the luggage, inside the equivalent of a ziploc bag?
Mind if I ask you about your username, blueg? What does "blueg" stand for? Because I have a theory and that is something that you should probably state upfront instead of trying to hide it.
Also, please cite the 'analysis' you are referring to where it is shown how ionizing radiation is harmless no matter how many times you are exposed to it. You would of course understand if the rest of us chose not to trust any sort of internal study by Rapescan themselves where a negative result would put them out of business and a positive result make them all very rich. I would not trust anything they wrote on the subject.
The fact remains that those machines have never been independently tested for their effects on human beings by an unbiased party and they are not professionally maintained or even operated by people with an IQ above that of a hamster.
The health effects were actually a key design criterion for the original product.
Are you saying they intentionally chose to use ionizing radiation because of its proven ability to cause cancer in mammals? That is scandalous! And here we all thought Rapescan had the best interests of the public at heart. Surely their priority is our safety and not their own profits! No corporation would ever put their profits first and I strongly resent your implication that they would.
Actually back in 2002 Osama bin Laden stated publicly that getting the US to waste lots of money and become more of a police state were a part of his mission. Presumably, after seeing what a bunch of cowardly idiots we became after 9/11.
Where in the constitution does it give the FBI the right to spy on any of us without cause? Is the FBI even allowed under the constitution? The constitution was all about telling the government what they are allowed to do. Anything that it doesn't explicitly allow the government to do is forbidden.
Isn't this strategy like searching for your keys under the streetlight because you won't be able to find them anywhere else without a flashlight? Do something utterly useless because there is nothing else you can do? Why not just accept that you are powerless to change national politics on your own? All you can really do is form your own political party which no one will vote for because they think that voting for your candidate would be throwing their vote away, not realizing that their vote is already useless and won't make the slightest difference in who wins or loses. Ironically if more people would accept the uselessness of their one vote they might be more willing to 'throw it away' on a third party candidate allowing for at least the possibility of genuine changes. Unfortunately the masses have been so brainwashed about the incredible importance of their vote that I don't think this will ever happen. They will always vote for what they regard as the lesser evil of the two parties.
I'd bet that most would silently cheer if some of their corrupt/treasonous bosses in the FBI/DoJ/DHS/Administration met a nasty fate.
You watch too many movies. Real FBI agents don't think like that. They are pro-authority. They are no different from the STASI agents that have already been mentioned. They don't want to bring down their bosses. They want to be their bosses. And I bet you'd have a very hard time finding an FBI agent who wasn't 100% enthusiastic about warrantless GPS tracking.
The fact that you don't realize women actually despise nice guys leads me to believe you are still a virgin. I suppose it makes me feel at least a little better that at least one person on earth has seen less action than I have. It's a well known and easily tested fact. Go out with a few girls and treat her poorly and act like a jerk. Then go out with a few girls and be nice. You'll quickly see what they really like. A hint: it isn't what they will tell you they like.
It was where you said you were more sorry about his JSTOR download than his suicide. IOW, his suicide was bad, but his JSTOR download was even worse. This seems to imply that you think justice has been done here. In fact one might even conclude that you think he got off lightly, not having to suffer in jail for the rest of his life and maybe die from HIV after getting assraped too many times. Poor JSTOR will never see true justice now. JSTOR and MIT have missed out on all those years of suffering that would have made them feel so much better.
If the charges were dropped, I wouldn't give a rats ass.
Aren't you contradicting yourself? What about all of the pain and suffering and harm that he caused MIT and JSTOR? Are his poor victims to go unavenged?
Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. The timing was just a big coincidence. Riiight. Meanwhile the rest of his can stay focused on the actual real world that exists outside of our heads. The case against him was obviously not solely to blame for his death, but it is clearly what pushed him over the edge. When you are already unhappy and this kind of thing happens that's all it takes to make life not worth living.
I don't understand why Swartz didn't even try to flee. That's what I would have done. Apparently he had the money. There are lots of better places to live than the US. In fact it would be easier to make the much shorter list of worse places. With the defendant possibly facing 30 years or more in prison (regardless of how trivial the actual 'crime' was), I think it would occur to the prosecutors that he might try to bolt. It seems strange that they let him out on bail. As soon as my attorney told me how serious the charges were against me I would be into survival mode. Sneak across the Mexican or Canadian border if I were prevented from just flying somewhere without an extradition treaty. Like nearby Cuba for instance.
But I don't see why MIT was obliged or inclined to let the whole thing drop.
It's called being nice. Being a good human being. Try it sometime. It can get addictive. If you have a girlfriend you'll have to keep your acts of kindness secret though. They hate that.
He is innocent. Who did he harm or kill? If you want to be a hardass and preach "an eye for an eye" fine. Download lots of files from Schwartz's computer. Throwing him in jail for 30-50 years on the other hand is simply pointless cruelty and sadism. That would not be justice. And neither was this death sentence for downloading files. The US is a barbaric, blood thirsty nation and more and more that is being recognized around the world.
There is an especially strong tendency to find external causes when there actually are external cases as there clearly were in this case. The fact that Schwartz was unhappy (there has been no clinical diagnosis of depression pe se) obviously makes it more likely that he would prefer suicide to being thrown in prison for most of his life. For an unhappy person life is just not worth as much. It wouldn't take much for me to kill myself. Just a 6 months prison sentence would be more than enough if I couldn't flee the country.
I am sorry that he killed himself, I am even more sorry that he chose to comit acts that should have been obviously criminal to him.
This says a lot about you as a person. You would prefer that this man die than he get off without spending half his life in prison. I am an atheist myself. Always have been. But the message about compassion and kindness and forgiveness, enforced by cultural norms and a belief in eternal damnation, is as needed in the world now as it ever was. And it's due to people like you who would rather see this guy dead than him getting away with downloading some files. People like you make me almost physically ill.
He was commiting what he MUST have known was a criminal act. What did he expect?
Obviously death and all the sadistic fucks in these comments cheering him on. Although they would have preferred to see him rotting in prison for most of his so called life. Whatever is most cruel and hurtful that's what Americans love to see. I wonder how many of the pro-authoritarian, pro-state, pro-law-and-order types in these comments likes to jerk off to thoughts of schwartz killing himself. Good riddance they think (although don't actually come right out and say) because he broke the LAW. Gasp! I can't wait to get the hell out of this damned country. Although luckily there still seem to be enough sane, compassionate people who haven't completely lost their humanity weighing in on this issue as well. Probably the majority is glad to see him dead though. They think, "If the choice is him killing himself or him getting away with his crime I'd rather see him dead." They'll never actually say that of course, but that's what they're thinking.
Since only 1-3% of the population is homosexual, I presume you are suggesting that players of Bioware titles are faggier than the general population.
At least post-Dragon Age that does seem to be the case. Maybe as high as 30-40%. They are the official LGBT developer. Half the devs themselves are gay.
I used to be very bothered to be sociable. I would hit up girls in the street even (and no that was not all I did). In at least 30 countries in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, but I never did find a place where attractive girls genuinely don't care about looks. I went to bars, dance clubs, supermarkets, book stores, cafes, various clubs, dating services and personal ads. I worked so hard to get a girlfriend that it was at the expense of everything else in my life including a career. I did absolutely everything humanly possible to get a girlfriend, period. If I saw a pretty girl passing in the street I would go after her like a big cat going after prey. There is nothing I didn't try. I even dabbled in that 'speed seduction' street hypnosis stuff. In the end it was only my face that mattered. I don't blame them. I don't want to go out with an ugly person either. It does make sense. Girls are human beings too.
About the only thing I found truly effective was money. Either a paid girlfriend in a poor third world country or marrying a poor girl in a poor country. Never did marry anyone, but I came close. For me getting an attractive (to me) girlfriend was a project on about the same order as climbing Mount Everest or K2 alone without supplementary oxygen or a guide. I took it very, very seriously. I guess I spent nearly 20 years on The Girlfriend Project until I finally gave up in my late 30s.
So are you ugly yourself or are you a pretty boy just talking shit about shit you don't know the first thing about?
What people confuse is that by going into an extreme low-calorie diet, the rate at which you burn calories goes down: your body lowers the base metabolism to save calories.
You think Schwartz was photogenic? Seriously? I have no idea how much money he had, but in the end it doesn't matter.
He was persecuted by a fucked up sadistic system and sick sadistic bitch and it pushed him over the edge into suicide. Do I blame the DA? Damn right I do. That bitch was at least partially responsible for killing an innocent guy who had done nothing but good for the world. If I were her I would definitely consider suicide to make amends. If she had even an ounce of integrity she would kill herself as soon as possible.
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What exactly is the rational objection to millimeter wave? Just the slow down at the airport? Or the cost not being worth it?
Well, for the ones without the cartoon figure software there is a privacy issue. The problem with the ones with the target detection software is that there are lots of false positives. As high as 50% in some testing. When the machine alarms then you must submit to a grope or not fly. I would choose not to fly in that circumstance at which point I would probably be subject to lots of intimidation and getting put on various lists. In theory I could even be fined up to $10,000. Even if they could get rid of the false positives or just not sexually violate you when the machine alarms there would still be the problem that they are expensive and serve no real purpose. I don't believe plastic knives are a major threat to aviation and even if they were it has been shown that these machines can be fooled.
In some airports security at least tries to prevent you from leaving unless you are willing to go through the scanner. I read one story about a guy arriving in Atlanta who, after hours of negotiating with security was finally escorted by an airport cop to the exit. Unfortunately I can't find a link to the story now. If you want to avoid being scanned before leaving you have to be willing to tough it out for hours with security arguing and arguing with them.
Please link to the publicly available independent, unbiased human testing that you are referring to it. We will wait.
Are you actually claiming that every piece of luggage is opened and tested for explosive residue? Do you have a citation for that? Also, would that detection still work if the explosive material were sealed off from the rest of the luggage, inside the equivalent of a ziploc bag?
Mind if I ask you about your username, blueg? What does "blueg" stand for? Because I have a theory and that is something that you should probably state upfront instead of trying to hide it.
Also, please cite the 'analysis' you are referring to where it is shown how ionizing radiation is harmless no matter how many times you are exposed to it. You would of course understand if the rest of us chose not to trust any sort of internal study by Rapescan themselves where a negative result would put them out of business and a positive result make them all very rich. I would not trust anything they wrote on the subject.
The fact remains that those machines have never been independently tested for their effects on human beings by an unbiased party and they are not professionally maintained or even operated by people with an IQ above that of a hamster.
The health effects were actually a key design criterion for the original product.
Are you saying they intentionally chose to use ionizing radiation because of its proven ability to cause cancer in mammals? That is scandalous! And here we all thought Rapescan had the best interests of the public at heart. Surely their priority is our safety and not their own profits! No corporation would ever put their profits first and I strongly resent your implication that they would.
Actually back in 2002 Osama bin Laden stated publicly that getting the US to waste lots of money and become more of a police state were a part of his mission. Presumably, after seeing what a bunch of cowardly idiots we became after 9/11.
There's a fine balance between the freedom of citizens and impeding enforcement, and finding that balance is an ongoing task.
Riiight. Who is searching for such a balance exactly? You?
Where in the constitution does it give the FBI the right to spy on any of us without cause? Is the FBI even allowed under the constitution? The constitution was all about telling the government what they are allowed to do. Anything that it doesn't explicitly allow the government to do is forbidden.
Isn't this strategy like searching for your keys under the streetlight because you won't be able to find them anywhere else without a flashlight? Do something utterly useless because there is nothing else you can do? Why not just accept that you are powerless to change national politics on your own? All you can really do is form your own political party which no one will vote for because they think that voting for your candidate would be throwing their vote away, not realizing that their vote is already useless and won't make the slightest difference in who wins or loses. Ironically if more people would accept the uselessness of their one vote they might be more willing to 'throw it away' on a third party candidate allowing for at least the possibility of genuine changes. Unfortunately the masses have been so brainwashed about the incredible importance of their vote that I don't think this will ever happen. They will always vote for what they regard as the lesser evil of the two parties.
I'd bet that most would silently cheer if some of their corrupt/treasonous bosses in the FBI/DoJ/DHS/Administration met a nasty fate.
You watch too many movies. Real FBI agents don't think like that. They are pro-authority. They are no different from the STASI agents that have already been mentioned. They don't want to bring down their bosses. They want to be their bosses. And I bet you'd have a very hard time finding an FBI agent who wasn't 100% enthusiastic about warrantless GPS tracking.
The fact that you don't realize women actually despise nice guys leads me to believe you are still a virgin. I suppose it makes me feel at least a little better that at least one person on earth has seen less action than I have. It's a well known and easily tested fact. Go out with a few girls and treat her poorly and act like a jerk. Then go out with a few girls and be nice. You'll quickly see what they really like. A hint: it isn't what they will tell you they like.
It was where you said you were more sorry about his JSTOR download than his suicide. IOW, his suicide was bad, but his JSTOR download was even worse. This seems to imply that you think justice has been done here. In fact one might even conclude that you think he got off lightly, not having to suffer in jail for the rest of his life and maybe die from HIV after getting assraped too many times. Poor JSTOR will never see true justice now. JSTOR and MIT have missed out on all those years of suffering that would have made them feel so much better.
If the charges were dropped, I wouldn't give a rats ass.
Aren't you contradicting yourself? What about all of the pain and suffering and harm that he caused MIT and JSTOR? Are his poor victims to go unavenged?
Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. The timing was just a big coincidence. Riiight. Meanwhile the rest of his can stay focused on the actual real world that exists outside of our heads. The case against him was obviously not solely to blame for his death, but it is clearly what pushed him over the edge. When you are already unhappy and this kind of thing happens that's all it takes to make life not worth living.
I don't understand why Swartz didn't even try to flee. That's what I would have done. Apparently he had the money. There are lots of better places to live than the US. In fact it would be easier to make the much shorter list of worse places. With the defendant possibly facing 30 years or more in prison (regardless of how trivial the actual 'crime' was), I think it would occur to the prosecutors that he might try to bolt. It seems strange that they let him out on bail. As soon as my attorney told me how serious the charges were against me I would be into survival mode. Sneak across the Mexican or Canadian border if I were prevented from just flying somewhere without an extradition treaty. Like nearby Cuba for instance.
But I don't see why MIT was obliged or inclined to let the whole thing drop.
It's called being nice. Being a good human being. Try it sometime. It can get addictive. If you have a girlfriend you'll have to keep your acts of kindness secret though. They hate that.
He is innocent. Who did he harm or kill? If you want to be a hardass and preach "an eye for an eye" fine. Download lots of files from Schwartz's computer. Throwing him in jail for 30-50 years on the other hand is simply pointless cruelty and sadism. That would not be justice. And neither was this death sentence for downloading files. The US is a barbaric, blood thirsty nation and more and more that is being recognized around the world.
There is an especially strong tendency to find external causes when there actually are external cases as there clearly were in this case. The fact that Schwartz was unhappy (there has been no clinical diagnosis of depression pe se) obviously makes it more likely that he would prefer suicide to being thrown in prison for most of his life. For an unhappy person life is just not worth as much. It wouldn't take much for me to kill myself. Just a 6 months prison sentence would be more than enough if I couldn't flee the country.
I am sorry that he killed himself, I am even more sorry that he chose to comit acts that should have been obviously criminal to him.
This says a lot about you as a person. You would prefer that this man die than he get off without spending half his life in prison. I am an atheist myself. Always have been. But the message about compassion and kindness and forgiveness, enforced by cultural norms and a belief in eternal damnation, is as needed in the world now as it ever was. And it's due to people like you who would rather see this guy dead than him getting away with downloading some files. People like you make me almost physically ill.
He was commiting what he MUST have known was a criminal act. What did he expect?
Obviously death and all the sadistic fucks in these comments cheering him on. Although they would have preferred to see him rotting in prison for most of his so called life. Whatever is most cruel and hurtful that's what Americans love to see. I wonder how many of the pro-authoritarian, pro-state, pro-law-and-order types in these comments likes to jerk off to thoughts of schwartz killing himself. Good riddance they think (although don't actually come right out and say) because he broke the LAW. Gasp! I can't wait to get the hell out of this damned country. Although luckily there still seem to be enough sane, compassionate people who haven't completely lost their humanity weighing in on this issue as well. Probably the majority is glad to see him dead though. They think, "If the choice is him killing himself or him getting away with his crime I'd rather see him dead." They'll never actually say that of course, but that's what they're thinking.
Since only 1-3% of the population is homosexual, I presume you are suggesting that players of Bioware titles are faggier than the general population.
At least post-Dragon Age that does seem to be the case. Maybe as high as 30-40%. They are the official LGBT developer. Half the devs themselves are gay.
I used to be very bothered to be sociable. I would hit up girls in the street even (and no that was not all I did). In at least 30 countries in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, but I never did find a place where attractive girls genuinely don't care about looks. I went to bars, dance clubs, supermarkets, book stores, cafes, various clubs, dating services and personal ads. I worked so hard to get a girlfriend that it was at the expense of everything else in my life including a career. I did absolutely everything humanly possible to get a girlfriend, period. If I saw a pretty girl passing in the street I would go after her like a big cat going after prey. There is nothing I didn't try. I even dabbled in that 'speed seduction' street hypnosis stuff. In the end it was only my face that mattered. I don't blame them. I don't want to go out with an ugly person either. It does make sense. Girls are human beings too.
About the only thing I found truly effective was money. Either a paid girlfriend in a poor third world country or marrying a poor girl in a poor country. Never did marry anyone, but I came close. For me getting an attractive (to me) girlfriend was a project on about the same order as climbing Mount Everest or K2 alone without supplementary oxygen or a guide. I took it very, very seriously. I guess I spent nearly 20 years on The Girlfriend Project until I finally gave up in my late 30s.
So are you ugly yourself or are you a pretty boy just talking shit about shit you don't know the first thing about?
What people confuse is that by going into an extreme low-calorie diet, the rate at which you burn calories goes down: your body lowers the base metabolism to save calories.
Citation needed.
You think Schwartz was photogenic? Seriously? I have no idea how much money he had, but in the end it doesn't matter.
He was persecuted by a fucked up sadistic system and sick sadistic bitch and it pushed him over the edge into suicide. Do I blame the DA? Damn right I do. That bitch was at least partially responsible for killing an innocent guy who had done nothing but good for the world. If I were her I would definitely consider suicide to make amends. If she had even an ounce of integrity she would kill herself as soon as possible.
Reminds me of Paul Theroux's novel Millroy the Magician. Millory would stick a tube down his throat and pump out a bit of the food to examine it.