As military personnel return from Iraq, TSA needs to expand to employ them. If we can quickly grow the number of TSA employees, there will be no unemployment problem by next November.
The next time you are subjected to a search, remember that you are doing your civic duty and contributing to full employment of people who have absolutely no useful skills.
Considering the guy from Ft. Bragg caught with a smoke grenade trying to get on a plane, and later caught in Texas with what appears to be C-4 in a bag he brought back from overseas and forgot about in the garage until he pulled it out for this trip, maybe TSA needs to expand to more thoroughly search military personnel returning from overseas.
As for your assertion that returning military have absolutely no useful skills, however, well, if I were going to say something that at odds with reality, I wouldn't even post it with a screen name (much less a real world name) attached either.
"It's not that surprising, because you have to remember that for one glaring exception, airport security has never failed in the US. That one exception would be in Boston, which proudly let the 9/11 terrorists on every one of their flights."
Only 2 flights out of Logan.
The other 2 were out of Newark International and Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International.
Let's see, the Series 1, standard definition, not high definition (seems to matter to some people), was analog broadcast, not digital, analog cable, not digital, officially couldn't connect to your home network, and you couldn't even officially use TiVo Desktop to back up non-flagged shows to computer with it, nor copy shows from one S1 to another over the network.
I'm not seeing the S1 as the solution.
Of course if you mean the S1 taking no notice of the CCI byte, well that's because it didn't do digital cable.
If it wants to do digital cable, it has to do cable card. If it wants to be able to do cable card, it has to observe the CCI byte.
Being at the disadvantage of having actually worked for a theater chain, I must point out that they are popcorn stores and the movie is a loss leader to get you in the door. The distributors from whom they rent the prints (or digital files or whatever) get almost all of the ticket price for the first few weeks and although it might go down after that they still get the majority of it.
Well, it's kind of like telling a grown woman who was raped that her attacker was convicted and jailed so she has no right to complain that the video of the rape that someone made is online and that that's what she gets for getting raped where a third party could see it, and besides its evidence of the crime so it should be public domain.
Ron Paul doesn't frighten me the way most of the other candidates do, but that doesn't mean he doesn't frighten me, just that he does it in a different way, even if there are a few items on which I think he has a good point.
By all means vote for him in Republican primaries.
I'm urging those who are eligible to vote in Democratic primaries to write in Bernie Sanders.
I don't expect Sanders or anyone else other than Obama to actually get the Democratic nomination, but if enough people write him in in the primaries, maybe Obama will feel safe not to have to keep on being "Republican Lite".
...if it still puts HPAs on hard drives without warning and offers no way to permanently disable this behavior, I don't care if it runs twice as fast as everything else on the market and mixes me a drink at the same time while cooking me a gourmet dinner, I don't want it even if it's free.
You must be using the Republican misunderstanding of the Law of Supply and Demand.
Higher demand for fuel lets fuel producers charge more, as customers compete with each other for that supply, although the greater profit will attract more supply, which will depress prices, which will discourage increases in supply...
Lower demand will mean lower prices as suppliers compete with each other for customers.
How do those suppliers compete?
In the old days you'd get free dishes with a fill-up, or they'd work hard to keep their bathrooms clean, but nowadays it'll be by trying to underprice each other.
Now if demand fell to only a few hundred gallons per year worldwide, then, yes, it would cost more because of the loss of economies of scale, but we aren't in danger of that anytime soon.
"Tell me again why I haven't been able to buy a 100-Watt lightbulb at the supermarket for the last year."
Considering that Lowes (hardware store, not Lowe's Foods) has 100 Watt incandescents on sale right now, I'd say it's 'cause your local supermarket doesn't do enough turns per year on them to justify the shelf space.
Using AC in/under the sea is not basically impossible, it's transmitting it over long distances under the sea that introduces the problems, and being underwater instead of out in the air makes the techniques used on land to use AC over long distances problematic.
As long as you are grouped in with Engineers, you will be seen as useful and productive. The moment you are in a standalone IT group you will be a useless cost center that every fresh MBA will try to cut costs in. Nobody likes it, but the truth is that from the MBA point of view (and they are the ones who will ALWAYS decide your fate) IT is something best outsourced like the WSJ tells them to. You will never in your career be as valued as an Engineer. Don't give up the association that you have with them or you will soon regret it. The number one mistake that I see people in the IT industry make is not reading WSJ, even though it's garbage. The people who make every decision that matters about your job make their decisions based on it like it was the bible. Know your enemies!
You don't understand broadcasting.
Engineers are not seen as useful and productive very much more, if at all, than are the on-air talent. They're all seen as costs.
The people who sell the advertising time are the only ones seen as useful and productive.
As for mixing or unmixing IT with engineering, perhaps it would be better to have no confusion about who actually knows electronics, especially in an environment rich with RF, and who does not.
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As military personnel return from Iraq, TSA needs to expand to employ them.
If we can quickly grow the number of TSA employees, there will be no unemployment
problem by next November.
The next time you are subjected to a search, remember that you are doing your
civic duty and contributing to full employment of people who have absolutely no
useful skills.
Considering the guy from Ft. Bragg caught with a smoke grenade trying to get on a plane, and later caught in Texas with what appears to be C-4 in a bag he brought back from overseas and forgot about in the garage until he pulled it out for this trip, maybe TSA needs to expand to more thoroughly search military personnel returning from overseas.
As for your assertion that returning military have absolutely no useful skills, however, well, if I were going to say something that at odds with reality, I wouldn't even post it with a screen name (much less a real world name) attached either.
"It's not that surprising, because you have to remember that for one glaring exception, airport security has never failed in the US. That one exception would be in Boston, which proudly let the 9/11 terrorists on every one of their flights."
Only 2 flights out of Logan.
The other 2 were out of Newark International and Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International.
I miss the days when /. provided useful information, not just snark and teenage fantasy.
Days? There was more than one day when that happened? Must have been before I got here in Oct. '98.
'Cause everyone knows that our secret global overlords post as AC here and reveal their secret world domination plans all the time.
Let's see, the Series 1, standard definition, not high definition (seems to matter to some people), was analog broadcast, not digital, analog cable, not digital, officially couldn't connect to your home network, and you couldn't even officially use TiVo Desktop to back up non-flagged shows to computer with it, nor copy shows from one S1 to another over the network.
I'm not seeing the S1 as the solution.
Of course if you mean the S1 taking no notice of the CCI byte, well that's because it didn't do digital cable.
If it wants to do digital cable, it has to do cable card. If it wants to be able to do cable card, it has to observe the CCI byte.
I often get mod points here, unfortunately I never get them on TCF.
Being at the disadvantage of having actually worked for a theater chain, I must point out that they are popcorn stores and the movie is a loss leader to get you in the door. The distributors from whom they rent the prints (or digital files or whatever) get almost all of the ticket price for the first few weeks and although it might go down after that they still get the majority of it.
So now we know that when they faked the moon landing they actually did it in Australia!
Well, it's kind of like telling a grown woman who was raped that her attacker was convicted and jailed so she has no right to complain that the video of the rape that someone made is online and that that's what she gets for getting raped where a third party could see it, and besides its evidence of the crime so it should be public domain.
Because the picture is an invasion of the victim's privacy and its existence is an extension of the original molestation.
Ron Paul doesn't frighten me the way most of the other candidates do, but that doesn't mean he doesn't frighten me, just that he does it in a different way, even if there are a few items on which I think he has a good point.
By all means vote for him in Republican primaries.
I'm urging those who are eligible to vote in Democratic primaries to write in Bernie Sanders.
I don't expect Sanders or anyone else other than Obama to actually get the Democratic nomination, but if enough people write him in in the primaries, maybe Obama will feel safe not to have to keep on being "Republican Lite".
...if it still puts HPAs on hard drives without warning and offers no way to permanently disable this behavior, I don't care if it runs twice as fast as everything else on the market and mixes me a drink at the same time while cooking me a gourmet dinner, I don't want it even if it's free.
You must be using the Republican misunderstanding of the Law of Supply and Demand.
Higher demand for fuel lets fuel producers charge more, as customers compete with each other for that supply, although the greater profit will attract more supply, which will depress prices, which will discourage increases in supply...
Lower demand will mean lower prices as suppliers compete with each other for customers.
How do those suppliers compete?
In the old days you'd get free dishes with a fill-up, or they'd work hard to keep their bathrooms clean, but nowadays it'll be by trying to underprice each other.
Now if demand fell to only a few hundred gallons per year worldwide, then, yes, it would cost more because of the loss of economies of scale, but we aren't in danger of that anytime soon.
"The second that dude brought out the 'he was a patriot' my bs detector started screamming..."
Patriot talk is supposed to set off your "scoundrel" detector.
"Tell me again why I haven't been able to buy a 100-Watt lightbulb at the supermarket for the last year."
Considering that Lowes (hardware store, not Lowe's Foods) has 100 Watt incandescents on sale right now, I'd say it's 'cause your local supermarket doesn't do enough turns per year on them to justify the shelf space.
"Property rights would protect you from people polluting your property."
If they come on to your property to do it, then, yeah.
If they put the pollution into the water and/or the air, all of us acting in concert (otherwise known as government) have to stop them.
The way you phrased it implies that LED bulbs can stand neither environment, as well as implying that CFL bulbs can't stand either environment.
Obviously an oven's heat is going to be problematic, but what is it about the cold but above freezing temps of a fridge that CFL can't get along with?
And now that I think of it, is it the light emitting diode itself that can't handle oven heat, or the encapsulation?
This is about the fact that current incandescents only convert about 10% of the incoming electricity into light and throw away the rest as heat.
Bulbs with greater efficiency need less electricity for the same amount of light.
It's about forcing conservation.
Conservation means lowering of demand for electricity, which means less pollution, and less expense building new generation facilities.
Lowering the demand for electricity lowers the demand for the fuel used to generate it.
Lower demand for the fuel makes it harder for them to charge more and more for it.
Using AC in/under the sea is not basically impossible, it's transmitting it over long distances under the sea that introduces the problems, and being underwater instead of out in the air makes the techniques used on land to use AC over long distances problematic.
As long as you are grouped in with Engineers, you will be seen as useful and productive. The moment you are in a standalone IT group you will be a useless cost center that every fresh MBA will try to cut costs in. Nobody likes it, but the truth is that from the MBA point of view (and they are the ones who will ALWAYS decide your fate) IT is something best outsourced like the WSJ tells them to. You will never in your career be as valued as an Engineer. Don't give up the association that you have with them or you will soon regret it.
The number one mistake that I see people in the IT industry make is not reading WSJ, even though it's garbage. The people who make every decision that matters about your job make their decisions based on it like it was the bible. Know your enemies!
You don't understand broadcasting.
Engineers are not seen as useful and productive very much more, if at all, than are the on-air talent. They're all seen as costs.
The people who sell the advertising time are the only ones seen as useful and productive.
As for mixing or unmixing IT with engineering, perhaps it would be better to have no confusion about who actually knows electronics, especially in an environment rich with RF, and who does not.
The first one you print is the expensive one, after that they get progressively cheaper, up to a point.
And bulk mailing is cheaper.
Only after they take out the eSATA guy first!
When you say zero errors in the context of talking about digital...
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I'm so glad to hear that the first responders now have all the spectrum they need and a cushion for unforseen future needs.
They did take care of that first, right?
It must be confusing for you to go through life with no sense of humor.