I'm on the same list as this guy. He is basically a whining, privileged douche, just like all commercial pilots. He is not on the "no-fly" list (otherwise he would not be allowed to fly, period.)
This guy is not James Robinson. There are two commercial airline pilots, one who is allowed to fly after some checking (that one happens to be called James Robinson), and one who isn't allowed to fly at all. This muslim guy is the commercial pilot who isn't allowed to fly at all. This doesn't seem to be a case of mistaken identity as with the other one, because his wife and his kid are also not allowed to fly as well.
And may be for this other guy, this guy is a different case -- he's a commercial pilot and he has even been authorized by the TSA to carry a weapon on board -- but his name happens to be the same as someone else who happens to be on the list. James Robinson, it does suck to be you. I just checked my white pages, and there seems to be only six of you listed. Hey, I wonder how many James Robinson we have that are reading Slashdot at this very moment? Speak up, don't be shy.
I like that. Only a 'tiny percentage'... Is anybody beginning to understand why I would prefer that these devices not be allowed on airplanes?
Which ones? Paper airplanes? Tiny airplanes? Nano airplanes?
If we have an airplane that can easily catch fire because of a tiny little battery that's on fire inside a tiny little nano player, then perhaps we need to start rethinking our entire aeronautic industry. If a nano can take a plane down, then may be next time it will be a mosquito. And if god forbid we're lucky enough not to have any mosquito collide with any major commercial airplanes, then may be the next time it might just be an overweight flea that takes a Boeing 747 down.
I'm sorry your honor, I only punched fourteen people in the face after taking their money. That's such a tiny percentage of the population.
Yeah, that percentage is even smaller considering the fact that most people don't even glue their nanos to their face. Now if they could just get their R&D Department to find a way to make their nano ear buds spontaneously burst into flames, now that would certainly be something.
Yeah, I don't get this guy. First, he says he wants it for his home computer. Then, he says it has to be multi-platform (Windows and Linux) plus stand-alone that can be run from a portable drive.
And I say why? Let's assume for a moment that this guy has two computers at home, one that runs Linux and one that runs Windows. He doesn't need an app that does everything perfectly on both platforms. He just needs an app that does it perfectly on one, and either one is fine really. If he prefers to use his Linux box to coordinate the secure backup to an untrusted FTP site, then he just needs to have his Windows machine send the data unencrypted over to his Linux box -- then his Linux box can just do the bulk of the job. Or if he prefers to do it the other way around and use his Windows machine to do the secure backup to the untrusted site, he can just use that and have his Linux box send the data unencrypted to his windows machine.
And of course, why does it even need to go onto FTP instead of SFTP? Instead of wasting valuable man-hours reinventing SFTP from scratch, or finding someone else that has, he could just pay a few dollars to a provider who will give him SFTP. And if his current Provider won't do that, get an other additional provider that will do it. If backing up is really as important as he seems to make it, then spending a few extra dollars each month shouldn't be a problem.
After doing something for years and years, changing the way you do something, whether it's a swimming stroke or tennis or golf swing, isn't done instantly. It takes quite a bit of concerted effort and attention to change it. I'd be really interested in how and what the coach does to get the swimmers to change.
In golf, you optimize the golf clubs, in tennis -- it's the rackets, and in swimming -- it's the swimsuits/body-suits. That's how you create the illusion of athletic progress and inject a little bit of excitement at the same time, you don't depend on the athletes for changing/improving their own behaviors -- that's just too hard -- you simply give them better equipment instead.
The IOC retracted the notice and the video was reposted within hours.
Google shouldn't have removed the video in the first place. At least, that's what I refused to do when I received an obviously invalid DMCA request for one of my own customers site.
DMCA requests are being sent out like spam. And when I say spam, I mean that they're being sent out by automated scripts with no human supervision whatsoever. And in many documented cases, DMCA requests are being sent out by people who know damn well the DMCA doesn't apply -- but they just want to have some embarrassing materials taken down as quickly as possible.
So if a human looks at it, like a Google employee must have obviously done to tell the IOC about it, and says 'no', it's obviously an invalid DMCA request, then the video shouldn't be removed -- or if it was removed already -- it should be posted back right away -- before the IOC is even contacted.
Now I realize Google is being sued by copyright holders for not being quick enough to respond to them, but we need to sue Google on the other side of the issue to make sure they don't go too far in complying with the legal threats of these automated DMCA requests. If we don't do this, we'll certainly lose our rights to immediate free speech, and *immediate* free speech is important -- or at least it's gaining more importance every single day -- since sites like YouTube often beat out other traditional outlets in getting fresh same-day footage of armed conflicts, rigged elections, and bloody protests.
This is not TV. This is not even a cable channel that comes as part of a premium package. It's still a game that must be purchased separately. I don't see what the big deal is.
They're a 2-person company. No bank (especially today!) will give them a loan without them personally co-signing.
Unless they take out an SBA loan, if the government is going to pay back most of your loan should you go bankrupt, then most banks would be crazy to refuse such a deal (especially in this climate).
Eh, I don't know if I'd go quite that far. Police can track you in public, but this thing could track you on private land (maybe your own - esp if you're a farmer or rancher).
And once those gps units are small enough, they'll be able to plant them on your person and track you everywhere.
use it. it won't be long before every communication is encrypted and signed
The UK authorities are way ahead of you on that one. If you use encryption in the UK without giving your private key to the authorities, then you're already breaking the law.
it always amazes me how the same people that talk of the federal government in terms of utter incompetence in one sentence, the next sentence they are suggesting a multiorganizational airtight conspiracy has been meticulously arranged
And what about a conspiracy to hide incompetence? Also, there is no reason those conspiracies have to be related to each other either. Some government officials had their own reasons for linking Anthrax to Iraq. While some other different government officials, not even connected to the previous officials, may have had their own different reasons for pinning this on a dead man.
If you ask me, the American system makes it so freakingly difficult to get a criminal conviction, when law enforcement has no great lead, it has no choice but to select the most deranged individuals and the most approval-seeking individuals to put undue pressure on them. Those types of people are everywhere, so it's easy enough to find them among your pool of suspects. And once you apply enough pressure, it's just a matter of time before you get a confession (even if it's not admissible in court, studies have shown that juries would convict anyway), or a suicide, either way -- as a law enforcement official -- it closes the case neatly for you.
For those who don't know, Goodwill will take your CRTs for recycle. At least the one near me did, not too long ago. Not sure about LCD. And, yes, I actually did tell them that the monitor was not functional.:-)
In California at least because of the new law that forces us to pay a disposal fee at the retailer, most recyclers will pay you money for your CRTs (even if your CRT predates that new law). I believe this is only good if you go there as a private individual, not as a business. They're afraid that some businesses might start importing CRTs from other States to resell them to recyclers in California.
I went to dispose of four non-functional CRTs that way. I kind of expected to pay the recycler to get rid of them, but I was pleasantly surprised when the recycler turned around and paid me for them. I think I got $37 for four monitors (they paid by the pound). I don't know if they take LCD screens, but they did say they could take screens as small as 2 or 4 inches in diagonal.
If you're not sure where to go, just call your local waste management office, and tell them what you have (monitors, paint, car batteries, or whatever). They'll be able to refer you to different places you can drop off those things. And if you do need to go to the dump, just go there during their limited office hours (mine is open Saturday mornings), they'll weight your car going in, they'll weight your car going out, and you'll pay a small fee for the weight difference on your way out (just don't dispose of your toxic stuff at the dump, go to the other places, usually they won't be far from the dump itself).
That you felt you needed to inform me that Amway is known as Quixtar in the US tells me that you know a whole lot less about Alticor and its child companies than I do.
Good for you. You seem to know a lot about the different reincarnations/factions of the same scheme.
My message is the same however: Amway/Quixtar is a pyramid scheme. It doesn't matter what name it changed itself to this particular week. Stay away from it. This message is not for you Koiu Lpoi, it's for the benefit of anyone who may not know about Amway/Quixtar yet, and who may not have been entangled in its web yet.
(and I like how that page just says they were sued, not that the suing was successful)
I just love how you seem to know a lot about Amway -- but are feigning to know about this. If you want me to give you links where Amway/Quixtar was officially found to be an illegal pyramid scheme, then please just go ahead and ask me to supply them. I'm willing to put in the time to google for them if that's what you really want.
Apparently Vladimir Putin from Russia got the biggest crowd applause all night when they showed him on the big screen, and the Iraq athletes were given loud BOO's.
Apparently, someone didn't notice that Iraq was barred from participating in the Olympics this year.
This is an awful idea. Amway had a policy on all their goods like that - if you don't like it, return it for a full refund. They lost tremendous amounts of money (mostly in the Asian mainland, but anyways) because people would return a product 90% spent to get their money back.
Of course, Amway (Quixtar in the US) is a pyramid scheme. If you're going to use high pressure sales tactics to sell something, it's obvious that people are going to change their minds as soon as that pressure is removed.
It's not the same. Women are just tired from exertion. For men, "make me sleep" chemicals (I forget the name, shoot me) flood the brain after orgasm.
That was my point exactly. It's common knowledge that men get a flood of chemicals after an orgasm (one of which is called Prolactin and is sleep-inducting). And it's uncommon knowledge that women get the same exact quantity of Prolactin going into their system and get the same exact urge to sleep than men do.
I was just trying to correct this common knowledge myth.
I wrote to my representatives in Congress about the ever lengthening copyright term. The response was that there are copyrighted materials that are still bringing in lots of money to the US economy from overseas. If we allow those copyrights to expire, we will signficantly increase our trade deficit.
A similar argument has been made in countries that do no have trade deficits. Increasing one's national portfolio of patents, copyrighted works, and trademarks, is a good defensive move. It's free money. It adds to your bottom line. And it adds to your asset column. That is why, many countries are following the United States lead, even thought their own official portfolio of Intellectual Portfolio is minuscule compared to the US.
It really doesn't matter if those ownership rights fulfill their original intent. It doesn't matter if those new ownership rights are written on toilet paper. It only matters that it keeps on bringing free money. And who doesn't like free money right? Free money is good. Free money has no cost. Free money gets politician reelected. And nothing bad could ever happen from printing more and more free money -- nothing.
Maybe all that porn watching addled his tiny mind. Maybe he believes he is allowed to do anything he wants to any woman he wants. That's what porn teaches you, isn't it? Porn consumption is all about a power game. This is a natural progression, taking what you learn out into your neighborhood.
You must be a Catholic priest, or an Irish nun, to have such a flawless understanding of the World.
Porn is not a power game, it's a power fantasy. Most comic books, movies, romantic comedies, novels, video games, celebrity shows, are power fantasies of one kind -- or another. Power fantasies are like empty calories. They do not give us real power, they only give us the illusion of power, and by giving us that illusion of power -- they make us passive and keep us from exercising real power in real life.
In my opinion, if porn has any effect, it probably has increased the number of male virgins and decreased the number of male rapists. Do not think that because moral repression was so much higher in the olden days, that there was less violence, or that there were less sexual crimes, or that those crimes were less extreme in nature. My personal theory is that the more repression you have, whether you're a Japanese office man, an Irish nun, a Catholic priest, or a Muslim Mullah, the more deviant and absolute the sexual violence of that group is going to be.
That being said, I won't mind if you do not subscribe to my view. I'm certainly sure it's also flawed in its own way, and not even half as simple as I describe.
Human women do not control men through sexual gratification per se. The only artifact of this I can think of is the compulsion men feel to sleep after orgasm. This is a evolutionary adaptation to keep men closer to women after sex to encourage bonding. This is necessary because women are adapted to have sex with several partners per day.
Both men AND women have the compulsion to fall sleep after an orgasm. If the woman you've having sex with hasn't been falling asleep, then it just means she didn't get to finish.
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This guy is not James Robinson. There are two commercial airline pilots, one who is allowed to fly after some checking (that one happens to be called James Robinson), and one who isn't allowed to fly at all. This muslim guy is the commercial pilot who isn't allowed to fly at all. This doesn't seem to be a case of mistaken identity as with the other one, because his wife and his kid are also not allowed to fly as well.
And may be for this other guy, this guy is a different case -- he's a commercial pilot and he has even been authorized by the TSA to carry a weapon on board -- but his name happens to be the same as someone else who happens to be on the list. James Robinson, it does suck to be you. I just checked my white pages, and there seems to be only six of you listed. Hey, I wonder how many James Robinson we have that are reading Slashdot at this very moment? Speak up, don't be shy.
Hopefully, this will come in time for this commercial pilot, he has 15 days to get off the no-fly-list -- or he's going to lose his job.
Which ones? Paper airplanes? Tiny airplanes? Nano airplanes?
If we have an airplane that can easily catch fire because of a tiny little battery that's on fire inside a tiny little nano player, then perhaps we need to start rethinking our entire aeronautic industry. If a nano can take a plane down, then may be next time it will be a mosquito. And if god forbid we're lucky enough not to have any mosquito collide with any major commercial airplanes, then may be the next time it might just be an overweight flea that takes a Boeing 747 down.
Yeah, that percentage is even smaller considering the fact that most people don't even glue their nanos to their face. Now if they could just get their R&D Department to find a way to make their nano ear buds spontaneously burst into flames, now that would certainly be something.
Yeah, but you still haven't said why you need it to be multi-platform.
Yeah, I don't get this guy. First, he says he wants it for his home computer. Then, he says it has to be multi-platform (Windows and Linux) plus stand-alone that can be run from a portable drive.
And I say why? Let's assume for a moment that this guy has two computers at home, one that runs Linux and one that runs Windows. He doesn't need an app that does everything perfectly on both platforms. He just needs an app that does it perfectly on one, and either one is fine really. If he prefers to use his Linux box to coordinate the secure backup to an untrusted FTP site, then he just needs to have his Windows machine send the data unencrypted over to his Linux box -- then his Linux box can just do the bulk of the job. Or if he prefers to do it the other way around and use his Windows machine to do the secure backup to the untrusted site, he can just use that and have his Linux box send the data unencrypted to his windows machine.
And of course, why does it even need to go onto FTP instead of SFTP? Instead of wasting valuable man-hours reinventing SFTP from scratch, or finding someone else that has, he could just pay a few dollars to a provider who will give him SFTP. And if his current Provider won't do that, get an other additional provider that will do it. If backing up is really as important as he seems to make it, then spending a few extra dollars each month shouldn't be a problem.
In golf, you optimize the golf clubs, in tennis -- it's the rackets, and in swimming -- it's the swimsuits/body-suits. That's how you create the illusion of athletic progress and inject a little bit of excitement at the same time, you don't depend on the athletes for changing/improving their own behaviors -- that's just too hard -- you simply give them better equipment instead.
Google shouldn't have removed the video in the first place. At least, that's what I refused to do when I received an obviously invalid DMCA request for one of my own customers site.
DMCA requests are being sent out like spam. And when I say spam, I mean that they're being sent out by automated scripts with no human supervision whatsoever. And in many documented cases, DMCA requests are being sent out by people who know damn well the DMCA doesn't apply -- but they just want to have some embarrassing materials taken down as quickly as possible.
So if a human looks at it, like a Google employee must have obviously done to tell the IOC about it, and says 'no', it's obviously an invalid DMCA request, then the video shouldn't be removed -- or if it was removed already -- it should be posted back right away -- before the IOC is even contacted.
Now I realize Google is being sued by copyright holders for not being quick enough to respond to them, but we need to sue Google on the other side of the issue to make sure they don't go too far in complying with the legal threats of these automated DMCA requests. If we don't do this, we'll certainly lose our rights to immediate free speech, and *immediate* free speech is important -- or at least it's gaining more importance every single day -- since sites like YouTube often beat out other traditional outlets in getting fresh same-day footage of armed conflicts, rigged elections, and bloody protests.
This is not TV. This is not even a cable channel that comes as part of a premium package. It's still a game that must be purchased separately. I don't see what the big deal is.
Unless they take out an SBA loan, if the government is going to pay back most of your loan should you go bankrupt, then most banks would be crazy to refuse such a deal (especially in this climate).
And what about the NSA? Isn't that their job already? Or is the NSA limited only to spying/defending against Americans?
And once those gps units are small enough, they'll be able to plant them on your person and track you everywhere.
If they're in magazines already, I hope they can use google and just google the answers.
The UK authorities are way ahead of you on that one. If you use encryption in the UK without giving your private key to the authorities, then you're already breaking the law.
And what about a conspiracy to hide incompetence? Also, there is no reason those conspiracies have to be related to each other either. Some government officials had their own reasons for linking Anthrax to Iraq. While some other different government officials, not even connected to the previous officials, may have had their own different reasons for pinning this on a dead man.
If you ask me, the American system makes it so freakingly difficult to get a criminal conviction, when law enforcement has no great lead, it has no choice but to select the most deranged individuals and the most approval-seeking individuals to put undue pressure on them. Those types of people are everywhere, so it's easy enough to find them among your pool of suspects. And once you apply enough pressure, it's just a matter of time before you get a confession (even if it's not admissible in court, studies have shown that juries would convict anyway), or a suicide, either way -- as a law enforcement official -- it closes the case neatly for you.
In California at least because of the new law that forces us to pay a disposal fee at the retailer, most recyclers will pay you money for your CRTs (even if your CRT predates that new law). I believe this is only good if you go there as a private individual, not as a business. They're afraid that some businesses might start importing CRTs from other States to resell them to recyclers in California.
I went to dispose of four non-functional CRTs that way. I kind of expected to pay the recycler to get rid of them, but I was pleasantly surprised when the recycler turned around and paid me for them. I think I got $37 for four monitors (they paid by the pound). I don't know if they take LCD screens, but they did say they could take screens as small as 2 or 4 inches in diagonal.
If you're not sure where to go, just call your local waste management office, and tell them what you have (monitors, paint, car batteries, or whatever). They'll be able to refer you to different places you can drop off those things. And if you do need to go to the dump, just go there during their limited office hours (mine is open Saturday mornings), they'll weight your car going in, they'll weight your car going out, and you'll pay a small fee for the weight difference on your way out (just don't dispose of your toxic stuff at the dump, go to the other places, usually they won't be far from the dump itself).
Good for you. You seem to know a lot about the different reincarnations/factions of the same scheme.
My message is the same however: Amway/Quixtar is a pyramid scheme. It doesn't matter what name it changed itself to this particular week. Stay away from it. This message is not for you Koiu Lpoi, it's for the benefit of anyone who may not know about Amway/Quixtar yet, and who may not have been entangled in its web yet.
I just love how you seem to know a lot about Amway -- but are feigning to know about this. If you want me to give you links where Amway/Quixtar was officially found to be an illegal pyramid scheme, then please just go ahead and ask me to supply them. I'm willing to put in the time to google for them if that's what you really want.
Apparently, someone didn't notice that Iraq was barred from participating in the Olympics this year.
Of course, Amway (Quixtar in the US) is a pyramid scheme. If you're going to use high pressure sales tactics to sell something, it's obvious that people are going to change their minds as soon as that pressure is removed.
I would hope so. If you can't spell "ArthUr AndersEn" correctly, then your resume would be highly suspect.
That was my point exactly. It's common knowledge that men get a flood of chemicals after an orgasm (one of which is called Prolactin and is sleep-inducting). And it's uncommon knowledge that women get the same exact quantity of Prolactin going into their system and get the same exact urge to sleep than men do.
I was just trying to correct this common knowledge myth.
A similar argument has been made in countries that do no have trade deficits. Increasing one's national portfolio of patents, copyrighted works, and trademarks, is a good defensive move. It's free money. It adds to your bottom line. And it adds to your asset column. That is why, many countries are following the United States lead, even thought their own official portfolio of Intellectual Portfolio is minuscule compared to the US.
It really doesn't matter if those ownership rights fulfill their original intent. It doesn't matter if those new ownership rights are written on toilet paper. It only matters that it keeps on bringing free money. And who doesn't like free money right? Free money is good. Free money has no cost. Free money gets politician reelected. And nothing bad could ever happen from printing more and more free money -- nothing.
You must be a Catholic priest, or an Irish nun, to have such a flawless understanding of the World.
Porn is not a power game, it's a power fantasy. Most comic books, movies, romantic comedies, novels, video games, celebrity shows, are power fantasies of one kind -- or another. Power fantasies are like empty calories. They do not give us real power, they only give us the illusion of power, and by giving us that illusion of power -- they make us passive and keep us from exercising real power in real life.
In my opinion, if porn has any effect, it probably has increased the number of male virgins and decreased the number of male rapists. Do not think that because moral repression was so much higher in the olden days, that there was less violence, or that there were less sexual crimes, or that those crimes were less extreme in nature. My personal theory is that the more repression you have, whether you're a Japanese office man, an Irish nun, a Catholic priest, or a Muslim Mullah, the more deviant and absolute the sexual violence of that group is going to be.
That being said, I won't mind if you do not subscribe to my view. I'm certainly sure it's also flawed in its own way, and not even half as simple as I describe.
Both men AND women have the compulsion to fall sleep after an orgasm. If the woman you've having sex with hasn't been falling asleep, then it just means she didn't get to finish.