And that's it, right there - patients would be anybody normally tagged with a plastic bracelet. This includes new-born babies, who get two, one on the wrist, the other on the opposite ankle. In a few generations, any US-born person is carrying a tag...
I generally reckon that any candidate who spends more time talking trash about his opponent than he does talking himself up, probably isn't worth listening to, or voting for. It's like they're saying, "He's a fucking idiot. Only other fucking idiots would vote for him", but they never really concentrate on their own good points. So I have to conclude that there aren't any good points worth mentioning...
Which reminds me, I must get a fresh Union Jack to hang by my front door before the Polling Season starts. It's amazing how fast those local candidates and their supporters vanish when I tell them I'll vote for anyone who'd care to restart the War of Independence, seeing as how I pay taxes and yet am not allowed to vote...
That's where night-vision goggles and a paintball gun come in handy. Arm the projectionist and give him a nice brightly colored paintballs. That would work for the talkers, the persisent SMS users *and* anyone who wouldn't move to the back, or out of the room completely. Or maybe some device to make the seat really uncomfortable...
It's not just the ringing that's the problem. The person with the phone often sits and talks without moving out of the area. Talks real loud, too, because the caller is saying, "What? What? I can't hear you over all that noise. Are you at a party?"
Finally!! A legitimate use for tinfoil hats, except for the whole theatre!!
Just line the walls with foil and ground it - that should fix the phones. Does a PicoCell have two antennas? If so, just put one inside the foil and the other outside. Only allow it to forward emergency calls. As far as the outside world is concerned, any phone inside the foil went out of range of the local cells.
Did anyone patent that idea yet? Heh, Given the state of USPTO, I could probably patent it anyway, prior art/patents notwithstanding...
I appreciate your perspective on this issue, but as an American, the whole idea that a search warrant can be issued and my home searched to verify how I use my television is more than a little disturbing.
The question is, is it illegal to watch broadcast TV without a license?? If so, then a search warrant to verify your TV use is as justifiable as a search warrant to examine that cannabis sativa plant your neighbor reported seeing in your window. Never mind that your potted "pot" plant is plastic...
Sky is now the only satellite broadcaster in the UK.
Is it possible to see any other satellites from the UK?? I think here in the US it's possible to see some European satellites, and I know that my mother was able to get Sky down in the South of France.
None from South America, none from Africa that isn't directly connected to the US or UK. But man, they'll report michael jackson's court case as 'top news' on a world level.
At least they're getting out past their national border. Here in the US, "international news" is stuff happening in adjoining states...
Maybe I would like to own a TV simply so I can play console games or watch DVD's..
As I recall, 20-something years ago there was a court case over exactly that issue, the only difference being that the guy wanted to use a VCR, not a game console. At the time, DVDs hadn't been invented... I believe he was able to prove to the court's satisfaction that he was telling the truth. Or rather, he had a convincing story, and the BBC couldn't prove he was lying so they lost. I'd imagine the BBC had at least one detector van permanently installed outside his house for months. They make a big deal about how the detector vans can see not only the exact location of a TV in your house, but also what channel you're watching, so lack of proof on their part put the BBC in a bad spot. They'd have had to admit he really wasn't watching broadcast TV, or that they'd been lying about the detector van capabilities...
I had a letter from the licensing authority once - bought a TV to use with a Sinclair Spectrum, filled out the registration form at the store, and thought no more about it. Some months later, "you have a TV and didn't pay the licence fee yet. Pay up, or see us in court." I wrote back and told them, "I believe I'm covered by the license paid for the other TV in the house, unless you've changed your rules. Why don't you check and let me know?" Never heard from them again.
You're assuming that actually finding aliens would be serving the public. Suppose SETI finds the kind of aliens that kick the crap out of a world as in the movie Independence Day?? Wouldn't do the public much good if we start beaming back "Hey, over here!!" messages...
But if someone who *can* get in happens to take the papers with him, and makes a loud announcement about it in front of the cameras, any CPD members present could hardly claim not to have heard.
technically you could preside in the White House after doing a stint in the Big House.
You'd have to overcome the incredible smear campaign that your opposition would launch. This time around, the campaigns have focussed on the gaps in Bush's service record and Kerry changing his mind. Imagine the shit storm they'd unleash if there was a felony conviction in your background...
Are the CPD present during these debates?? Suppose one of the cameramen walked out in front of his camera and declare that he was serving papers. Would a court accept that as service??
Make that "the land of the fee" and I'd agree with you. It's been obvious for years that the corporations pretty much run the country by buying votes and legislation. I guess it's a good thing the buggy whip manufacturers mostly went tits up before they could buy legislation to protect their business by outlawing cars...
To a certain extent, this kind of thing is going to be self-levelling - the more stupid restrictions piled on us, the more of us will be infringing. Pretty soon, maybe with this bill, Senators and Congressmen will find their kids, their wives, and even themselves, fall foul of their own legislation. As soon as it gets public and messy, they'll repeal the bill.
Anyone care to bet on how many highly visible politicians have PCs in their households that contain material that's already illegal?? Material that, if they pass this act, would get them a criminal record and jailtime??
How about fighting this with a little Civil Obedience?? The media would find it very difficult to avoid covering hundreds of thousands of people turning themselves in under the newly rewritten copyright laws. The media themselves would probably be infringing:
"Well, Bob, we have this clip from... What? We can't show it? Um, OK. So, there's this guy and another guy... What? We can't even describe what happens? Um, OK. So, folks, stuff happened today, but we can't tell you what. If you want to find out what's going on, you're going to have to jolly well get out and watch it for yourselves."
Because then the Gubmint can use their new found 20/20 hindsight to discover exactly what route the terrorists took (note past tense) through the terminal before boarding the plane. They could probably also discover how many times each one went to Starbucks or took a crap, because ya know, that's just not possible to determine after the wreckage hits the ground...
Driver's licenses are the only uniform photo ID issued in the US.
One of these days, someone's going to ask for photo-id and I'm going to slap down my Green Card and watch the confusion. OK, so only us aliens have those, but it's a valid government issued photo-id... So is a passport, from any country.
Then the PI would discover that the mailing address for the big, flashy, tens/hundreds of employees, multi-thousand dollar company portrayed on the website is actually just a slot at Mailboxes Etc, or a one bedroom apartment in the seedier side of town. Yes, even then it would still be possible to set up a legitimate-looking address, but if the merchant transaction companies would just do a bit of legwork, they could make it much less profitable for the scammers.
[a friend] called the card company and said "I'll give these guys to you with a ribbon tied around them - addresses, names, the works." "Not interested - bu-bye!"
I hope he went on to discuss it with the FBI (assuming he's in the US). They're normally interested if a reasonable amount of money is involved and if someone else has already done the heavy lifting for them, it would look good on their scorecard...
Does that really matter?? Those merchant transaction companies have jus been burned - hopefully they'll learn from the experience and do due diligence in making sure that the companies opening accounts are legitimate. Shouldn't be too hard. If the new account is in the same town, just try to find the address. If they're elsewhere, pick a random Private Investigator out of the phone book to do the same. Gotta be worth a couple of hundred to get a PI to swing by the address and see if it really exists.
Even just using one of those "guaranteed delivery" letters from USPS, FedEx or UPS would show if the address was bogus.
Then, of course, the scammers would start renting actual offices...
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And that's it, right there - patients would be anybody normally tagged with a plastic bracelet. This includes new-born babies, who get two, one on the wrist, the other on the opposite ankle. In a few generations, any US-born person is carrying a tag...
Which reminds me, I must get a fresh Union Jack to hang by my front door before the Polling Season starts. It's amazing how fast those local candidates and their supporters vanish when I tell them I'll vote for anyone who'd care to restart the War of Independence, seeing as how I pay taxes and yet am not allowed to vote...
That's where night-vision goggles and a paintball gun come in handy. Arm the projectionist and give him a nice brightly colored paintballs. That would work for the talkers, the persisent SMS users *and* anyone who wouldn't move to the back, or out of the room completely. Or maybe some device to make the seat really uncomfortable...
It's not just the ringing that's the problem. The person with the phone often sits and talks without moving out of the area. Talks real loud, too, because the caller is saying, "What? What? I can't hear you over all that noise. Are you at a party?"
Don't they watch out for the big searchlight shining their call-symbol on a handy cloud??
Just line the walls with foil and ground it - that should fix the phones. Does a PicoCell have two antennas? If so, just put one inside the foil and the other outside. Only allow it to forward emergency calls. As far as the outside world is concerned, any phone inside the foil went out of range of the local cells.
Did anyone patent that idea yet? Heh, Given the state of USPTO, I could probably patent it anyway, prior art/patents notwithstanding...
The question is, is it illegal to watch broadcast TV without a license?? If so, then a search warrant to verify your TV use is as justifiable as a search warrant to examine that cannabis sativa plant your neighbor reported seeing in your window. Never mind that your potted "pot" plant is plastic...
Is it possible to see any other satellites from the UK?? I think here in the US it's possible to see some European satellites, and I know that my mother was able to get Sky down in the South of France.
At least they're getting out past their national border. Here in the US, "international news" is stuff happening in adjoining states...
As I recall, 20-something years ago there was a court case over exactly that issue, the only difference being that the guy wanted to use a VCR, not a game console. At the time, DVDs hadn't been invented... I believe he was able to prove to the court's satisfaction that he was telling the truth. Or rather, he had a convincing story, and the BBC couldn't prove he was lying so they lost. I'd imagine the BBC had at least one detector van permanently installed outside his house for months. They make a big deal about how the detector vans can see not only the exact location of a TV in your house, but also what channel you're watching, so lack of proof on their part put the BBC in a bad spot. They'd have had to admit he really wasn't watching broadcast TV, or that they'd been lying about the detector van capabilities...
I had a letter from the licensing authority once - bought a TV to use with a Sinclair Spectrum, filled out the registration form at the store, and thought no more about it. Some months later, "you have a TV and didn't pay the licence fee yet. Pay up, or see us in court." I wrote back and told them, "I believe I'm covered by the license paid for the other TV in the house, unless you've changed your rules. Why don't you check and let me know?" Never heard from them again.
You're assuming that actually finding aliens would be serving the public. Suppose SETI finds the kind of aliens that kick the crap out of a world as in the movie Independence Day?? Wouldn't do the public much good if we start beaming back "Hey, over here!!" messages...
But if someone who *can* get in happens to take the papers with him, and makes a loud announcement about it in front of the cameras, any CPD members present could hardly claim not to have heard.
Wonder if the papers could be served on the CPD's attorney?? Would that count??
You'd have to overcome the incredible smear campaign that your opposition would launch. This time around, the campaigns have focussed on the gaps in Bush's service record and Kerry changing his mind. Imagine the shit storm they'd unleash if there was a felony conviction in your background...
Are the CPD present during these debates?? Suppose one of the cameramen walked out in front of his camera and declare that he was serving papers. Would a court accept that as service??
Make that "the land of the fee" and I'd agree with you. It's been obvious for years that the corporations pretty much run the country by buying votes and legislation. I guess it's a good thing the buggy whip manufacturers mostly went tits up before they could buy legislation to protect their business by outlawing cars...
Anyone care to bet on how many highly visible politicians have PCs in their households that contain material that's already illegal?? Material that, if they pass this act, would get them a criminal record and jailtime??
How about fighting this with a little Civil Obedience?? The media would find it very difficult to avoid covering hundreds of thousands of people turning themselves in under the newly rewritten copyright laws. The media themselves would probably be infringing:
"Well, Bob, we have this clip from... What? We can't show it? Um, OK. So, there's this guy and another guy... What? We can't even describe what happens? Um, OK. So, folks, stuff happened today, but we can't tell you what. If you want to find out what's going on, you're going to have to jolly well get out and watch it for yourselves."
That's gonna take an awful lot of solvent...
How much metal is there in duct tape?? Would there be enough in the Duct Tape Wallet to fool an RFID scanner??
Because then the Gubmint can use their new found 20/20 hindsight to discover exactly what route the terrorists took (note past tense) through the terminal before boarding the plane. They could probably also discover how many times each one went to Starbucks or took a crap, because ya know, that's just not possible to determine after the wreckage hits the ground...
One of these days, someone's going to ask for photo-id and I'm going to slap down my Green Card and watch the confusion. OK, so only us aliens have those, but it's a valid government issued photo-id... So is a passport, from any country.
The other two words: "Papers please"...
Then the PI would discover that the mailing address for the big, flashy, tens/hundreds of employees, multi-thousand dollar company portrayed on the website is actually just a slot at Mailboxes Etc, or a one bedroom apartment in the seedier side of town. Yes, even then it would still be possible to set up a legitimate-looking address, but if the merchant transaction companies would just do a bit of legwork, they could make it much less profitable for the scammers.
I hope he went on to discuss it with the FBI (assuming he's in the US). They're normally interested if a reasonable amount of money is involved and if someone else has already done the heavy lifting for them, it would look good on their scorecard...
Even just using one of those "guaranteed delivery" letters from USPS, FedEx or UPS would show if the address was bogus.
Then, of course, the scammers would start renting actual offices...