I've traveled a lot in the last 2 years (50+ different airports in multiple countries, mostly the US) and I've never had a security/border experience take more than about 10 minutes. No hassles, no problems. It's easy to smile, be friendly, and give them the answers they want to hear.
Or, you can be disapproving and intolerant and get that reaction back from the person you're dealing with.
Hundreds of thousands of people pass through American airports every year and you see a few dozen reports of TSA misbehavior, and it's always someone who's either being aggressive back at them, or someone in an abnormal situation who is touchy about it. My diabetic friend with an insulin pump needs a pat-down as the scanning machines may damage her pump. Always easy, never a problem.
Not flying because of the TSA or the occasional nasty border guard is like not driving because of he occasional jerk on the road.
Except for the sorting. Sorting on ratings is very important. You can still do it on DVDs but not on streaming video. I was sufficiently irritated that I phoned tech support and asked how I can turn sorting back on. The gal was very nice and promised to forward my views to the developers. She said they'd been taking calls for days complaining about the new interface. It has to cost Netflix oodles of money if their tech support people are constantly dealing with complaints about their broken interface.
FEDEX doesn't bother ringing the doorbell. I've had them basically trip over my car in the driveway so they could walk to the door and stick their sticker on it, when I was inside. Never do they bother to ring the doorbell.
My cell phone provider doesn't send me text alerts after I turned off texting on my account because I was getting $0.20 random crap text. It wouldn't bother me to get the occasional alert from Verizon when there's a legitimate reason, but not at the expense of paying for text spam.
Yawn. I'm an ordinary working person and I have a small (by McMansion standards) house covered with solar panels. And I drive a car that gets 34 mpg. I don't care a bit what gasoline costs ($8-10/gallon would be fine, to encourage SUVs off the roads) and I like not paying for electricity. And the 75% of the cost of my panels covered by various government entities subsidized my panels from other *electric* customers, not gasoline taxes. You too could invest a paltry $15K to avoid electric bills for the rest of your time in your house, ordinary working person though you might be..
Everyone breaks laws every day. It's unavoidable. The fact that what she did is "wrong" is unimportant. Toss her from the trial, perhaps. But anything else is a waste of time.
And in reference to your analogy, I don't get your point. Are you saying that if I kill someone and bury the body and *don't* say anything that it's better? No, you'll say, it's better that you don't kill someone, and you're right. But the woman on the jury already committed the "crime" of making her decision before the defense presentation. It's *way* better for everyone that she made this known than if she'd kept it hidden. In this case she is not being punished for making her decision early, she's being punished for letting it be known that she did so.. And that's stupid, since everyone benefits from that knowledge.
Why should she be punished at all? She had already made up her mind. If she'd not opened her mouth she'd have necessarily influenced the jury with an opinion established before the defense had a chance to present their case.
She did everyone a favor with her posting.
$250 is far too high a fine for this. Kicking her off the Jury - that's OK. All that's happening here is that she's being punished for expressing what she thinks. The judge and defense should be happy she did so in time to get her out of the system.
I don't have children, step-children or any other variation on extended family, so I'm on my own. Technology that allows me to continue to live on my own when/if I become frail would be welcome. I hope, if I become senile, that it happens gradually and/or with lucid phases so I can remove myself from the population and avoid becoming a vegetable.
My rental car had a sticker warning of cancer-causing chemicals last week. In a state where you have to drive if you want to do anything, like get to my meeting, am I supposed to not drive? If you warn against everything, then none of the warnings matter.
What do you suggest? Sonicwall seems to offer what you suggested, but a previous poster had bad things to say about Sonicwall. I've got mixed feelings about Sonicwall, but their new SOHO stuff looks interesting (TZ100 or TZ200)..
I recently took my old Core Duo macbook (not pro) in to the apple store with a swollen battery and they replaced the battery no charge in 5 minutes. And apologized for my trouble.
You can almost always talk them down to $150, and mine works flawlessly. Best $150 I ever spent. My (basement!) office now has great cell service, as does the rest of my house.
this is such a non-issue. Just living in this world you leave DNA behind you willy-nilly doing whatever you do just to survive. Why does it matter at all if anonymous samples of blood from medical waste is saved or has data recorded from it? How is is OK to destroy the samples, but not OK to use them for research?
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I've traveled a lot in the last 2 years (50+ different airports in multiple countries, mostly the US) and I've never had a security/border experience take more than about 10 minutes. No hassles, no problems. It's easy to smile, be friendly, and give them the answers they want to hear. Or, you can be disapproving and intolerant and get that reaction back from the person you're dealing with. Hundreds of thousands of people pass through American airports every year and you see a few dozen reports of TSA misbehavior, and it's always someone who's either being aggressive back at them, or someone in an abnormal situation who is touchy about it. My diabetic friend with an insulin pump needs a pat-down as the scanning machines may damage her pump. Always easy, never a problem. Not flying because of the TSA or the occasional nasty border guard is like not driving because of he occasional jerk on the road.
Sigh. She went to the airport. What did she think would happen if she refused to use the scanners she knew were there? http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/blog/12019-andrea-abbott-revisited.html
A nice long airplane book!
I find a new home elsewhere for every paper book that I replace with a digital copy. Getting rid of unneeded "stuff" makes life so much better!
Except for the sorting. Sorting on ratings is very important. You can still do it on DVDs but not on streaming video. I was sufficiently irritated that I phoned tech support and asked how I can turn sorting back on. The gal was very nice and promised to forward my views to the developers. She said they'd been taking calls for days complaining about the new interface. It has to cost Netflix oodles of money if their tech support people are constantly dealing with complaints about their broken interface.
It's not your problem if someone mis-addresses an email. Eventually, if you keep deleting them, the sender will figure it out.
Still there for me. Not that I need it with Adblock Plus, but still..
What did he spell incorrectly? You're not getting all twisted over the American/British spellings of organi(s|z)e, are you?
FEDEX doesn't bother ringing the doorbell. I've had them basically trip over my car in the driveway so they could walk to the door and stick their sticker on it, when I was inside. Never do they bother to ring the doorbell.
My cell phone provider doesn't send me text alerts after I turned off texting on my account because I was getting $0.20 random crap text. It wouldn't bother me to get the occasional alert from Verizon when there's a legitimate reason, but not at the expense of paying for text spam.
Yawn. I'm an ordinary working person and I have a small (by McMansion standards) house covered with solar panels. And I drive a car that gets 34 mpg. I don't care a bit what gasoline costs ($8-10/gallon would be fine, to encourage SUVs off the roads) and I like not paying for electricity. And the 75% of the cost of my panels covered by various government entities subsidized my panels from other *electric* customers, not gasoline taxes. You too could invest a paltry $15K to avoid electric bills for the rest of your time in your house, ordinary working person though you might be..
Pride is a sin in the context of your special delusional mythology. Don't speak for me, idiot.
Or perhaps Sprouticus discovered *after the trial* that the guy was guilty.
Everyone breaks laws every day. It's unavoidable. The fact that what she did is "wrong" is unimportant. Toss her from the trial, perhaps. But anything else is a waste of time. And in reference to your analogy, I don't get your point. Are you saying that if I kill someone and bury the body and *don't* say anything that it's better? No, you'll say, it's better that you don't kill someone, and you're right. But the woman on the jury already committed the "crime" of making her decision before the defense presentation. It's *way* better for everyone that she made this known than if she'd kept it hidden. In this case she is not being punished for making her decision early, she's being punished for letting it be known that she did so.. And that's stupid, since everyone benefits from that knowledge.
Why should she be punished at all? She had already made up her mind. If she'd not opened her mouth she'd have necessarily influenced the jury with an opinion established before the defense had a chance to present their case. She did everyone a favor with her posting.
$250 is far too high a fine for this. Kicking her off the Jury - that's OK. All that's happening here is that she's being punished for expressing what she thinks. The judge and defense should be happy she did so in time to get her out of the system.
how do you write 5 pages about something like this? 3 words per page?
I can't help but agree. It's our minds that make us human and if mine were going I'd want to have the opportunity to neatly kill myself.
I don't have children, step-children or any other variation on extended family, so I'm on my own. Technology that allows me to continue to live on my own when/if I become frail would be welcome. I hope, if I become senile, that it happens gradually and/or with lucid phases so I can remove myself from the population and avoid becoming a vegetable.
who doesn't have a bank account or a credit card?
My rental car had a sticker warning of cancer-causing chemicals last week. In a state where you have to drive if you want to do anything, like get to my meeting, am I supposed to not drive? If you warn against everything, then none of the warnings matter.
What do you suggest? Sonicwall seems to offer what you suggested, but a previous poster had bad things to say about Sonicwall. I've got mixed feelings about Sonicwall, but their new SOHO stuff looks interesting (TZ100 or TZ200)..
I recently took my old Core Duo macbook (not pro) in to the apple store with a swollen battery and they replaced the battery no charge in 5 minutes. And apologized for my trouble.
You can almost always talk them down to $150, and mine works flawlessly. Best $150 I ever spent. My (basement!) office now has great cell service, as does the rest of my house.
this is such a non-issue. Just living in this world you leave DNA behind you willy-nilly doing whatever you do just to survive. Why does it matter at all if anonymous samples of blood from medical waste is saved or has data recorded from it? How is is OK to destroy the samples, but not OK to use them for research?