Full body scanners, on the other hand, don't do shit, terrorism-wise.
That's not entirely true. Unfortunately, they seem to be working towards radicalizing US against all this BULLSHIT, which I am certain was not their desired intent.
Very much this. And while the airline could potentially present you all manner of hurdles to overcome before using their equipment, the government cannot. It was expressly forbidden for them to do so over two hundred years ago.
So what you are you going to do about it? That's right. Nothing except whine on the Internet.
Try and understand that freely, openly whining about it on the internet is a step above whining only about it to your friends, which itself is once above being silently irritated about it.
This. Or imagine a coordinated bombing of every single Wal-Mart in a single city. Repeat it in different cities, different stores or perhaps even venues, for three days in a row. The effect would be chilling to the point of devastating.
Easy to do, but hasn't yet happened.
I'm fairly confident that terrorists, like tooth faeries, simply do not exist. They're mythical constructions designed to get us to act in a certain way and nothing more.
It's not like it's being forced on you. You can always choose not to fly.
Sure can! We have a lot of choices, actually. We could choose to:
A) Move to Zimbabwe. Not a lot of airports there...
B) Commit suicide. No need to fly once dead...
C) Protest this unjust and idiotic behavior of our government, attempting to return it to the semblance of an honorable institution that it was designed to be.
Despite being idiotic, that justification flies with enough people. Same thing with corporations. We'd start throwing molotovs if the president announced privacy was a thing of the past and that their location would be tracked electronically. Facebook does it and people think -I'm- crazy for caring.
The gap in your logic is exactly WHY this flies while flying. There exists a Constitution that governs the behavior of every portion of our government, including the TSA. That is the standard they are to be held against.
Facebook isn't the government.
But somehow, somewhere along the way, we've decided that the TSA isn't the government either. And that's just bizarre.
Oh, do you really think they haven't? Think the economic disasters of the bad lettuce, the bad peanuts, all the other recent disasters, were just unusual accidents?
Infecting a single beef feedlot?
Well, we have only a handful of possibilities:
A) The food-borne illness incidents prior to 2001 and afterwards were accidents.
B) The food-borne illness incidents prior to 2001 and afterwards were terrorist attacks.
C) A mix of A and B, in whatever proportion.
Any of these options are possible, but to B and C are going to require some evidence to overcome the simplicity of A.
That's not a Nazi. No more than Vanilla Ice was a ninja. That's just an example of an asshole, and since there are lots of those we can't exactly go around shaping the world to avoid them.
My advice would be to hold the dreidel in one hand and an outstretched finger on the other.
When's the last time you heard the word "swastika" and didn't immediately think about its role in Nazi Germany?
When's the last time your security was threatened by a 'German Nazi' of any kind, or in any way? Don't you think that perhaps your association is a bit dated by this point, and that perhaps you have some emotional growing up to do?
Are you likewise terrorized by the Jolly Roger? Because THAT symbol over a ship passing by definitely was NOT cool. You were about to be raided, and would probably die - if not from guns and swords, then from infection from shrapnel.
Do they ban the skull and crossbones?
And Ninjas, those are cool, too, right? Well they weren't in their day. They were honor-less fiends assassinating people in the night. Abhorred in their time like we would a demonic cult.
It seems we've gotten over pirates and ninjas. They're historical figures now, and have little to no bearing on our modern reality. Some day we'll see Nazis in this light as well. Maybe that starts today.
You want to come back with a symbol that's not offensive, you are welcome. You want to be an asshole, then it's "buh-bye". That actually sounds like a good way to run an online community.
I rather like this, except I feel that PEOPLE LIKE YOU and the guy from the service are the assholes.
The memo explained that students would be issued a pencil for use in class that would be collected at the end of the school day.
The memo cited behavior problems and said any student found in possession of a pen or mechanical pencil after Nov. 15 would be assumed to have the implement “to build weapons,” or to have stolen it from the classroom art supply basket.
and...
“This was an attempt to by a fairly new sixth-grade teacher to make changes that were not warranted. The student who was found with an altered pen was suspended and as far as administrators were concerned, the matter was put to rest,” Mr. Noseworthy said.
So yeah, the teacher had what she believed was a genuine problem with a certain privilege, and attempted to revoke it. She was overruled. Nothing all that insane here at all...
NO! Not in the least. Tribes was a package deal with all sorts of elements that made it a unique experience. The discs are the easiest example, but they're but one. Anything that wants to be the 'next Tribes' should bring at least as many of these, if not more.
Word is that it was a licensing issue. Same with 006.
Which would make perfect sense considering the rumors that licensing had ensured that the game would never, ever be made. And yet it was. End-run, perhaps?
Um, no, I have to disagree. I hadn't heard of Firefall until today, and after some searching, I dug up this.
You should check out Tribes, because it was way better than what's being described here. We had Heavy, Medium, and Light armor types, each with a set of customizable pre-load kits that you tailored. You could mix and match your combat needs extensively, and swap them out at any station that had power. Aside from the toon itself, there were several vehicles, each with its own pros and cons. The matches weren't persistent, and there wasn't any leveling to be done. You'd hop into a match on equal footing with everyone else, the battle would materialize and you'd be expected to adapt to what was needed to pull out a win.
In short, Tribes differs because:
1) It was a match game, not an MMO 2) It had a LOT more options available to every player (as opposed to just those that buy them via micro-transactions) 3) There isn't any notion of persistence/leveling/etc. Everything was balanced around zero-cost, equal opportunity and the game as a whole was a lot more dynamic. 4) Discs (Check it out, you'll see what I mean)
You know what, though - I almost, almost liked Vengeance. It was so very close to the Tribes-Single-Player that I wanted it to be. If the bots had been only a teeny, tiny bit better it would have been a stellar title.
I said this up above as well, but you're not facing a lack of interest so much as a divestment of the rights. Per Lucasfilm, if you want to play a space combat multiplayer, you need to buy the MMO. It's been this way since SWG's expansion pack.
So the problem lies where....? Jedi Knight was an excellent game that mixed in weapons, force powers, and the light sabre in which your use of weapons/powers changed throughout the game as your character evolved. Yeah, sounds like crap.
I agree fully, and even with Jedi Academy (3? maybe) I remember using a sniper rifle to take out enemies from far, far away... It was just less risky, and worked really, really well.
...and you'lll never see it. Why? Because the 'rights' to depict Star Wars space combat are now exclusive to the MMO's under the franchise. Thank Sony for that...
It seems like the simple solution, then, would be to stop requiring such classes that the students do not want to take. Allow them to select from a wide list instead.
Apart from that - this is a university you are talking about. You are supposed to be an adult, who takes responsibility for what you learn
And this would be the 1810 part that Parent is referring to...
You could say the exact same thing about high school today that you can say about college, because they serve the exact same purpose.
Further, nearly no one, including the US government (e.g. healthcare reform,) considers people of college age as 'responsible adults' anymore. College is the new high school now.
Most people are probably in college to get a degree. The HR guy reading your resume can't see what you learned, only what's written on that piece of paper.
This, and further they likely wouldn't care even if they could see. Nobody likes the know-it-all kid who's coming in fresh from school with a plan to change everything. They just want you to do what you're told with just enough accuracy to keep them from being out-shined or embarrassed.
Like it or not, successful cheaters meet that metric.
In my own collegiate days, there was little-if-any emphasis on actual tests for reasons such as these. Nearly every midterm and final was centered around a paper of some sort. Either it was the entire grade, or more than half of it. Certain exceptions existed for the memorization classes, like Zoology, but these were pretty rare, and even those had essay questions attached.
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Body scanners before I can use a cab? Screw that, I'll just walk instead!
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Body scanners on the streets? Screw that, I'll just - um...
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Full body scanners, on the other hand, don't do shit, terrorism-wise.
That's not entirely true. Unfortunately, they seem to be working towards radicalizing US against all this BULLSHIT, which I am certain was not their desired intent.
Very much this. And while the airline could potentially present you all manner of hurdles to overcome before using their equipment, the government cannot. It was expressly forbidden for them to do so over two hundred years ago.
To use the required car analogy, that is like dealing with drunk driving by banning all driving instead of arresting the drunk drivers.
Close, but no. It would be like turn your keys in to the host of the party and not getting them back unless they're certain you're still sober.
Which happens, by the way.
So what you are you going to do about it? That's right. Nothing except whine on the Internet.
Try and understand that freely, openly whining about it on the internet is a step above whining only about it to your friends, which itself is once above being silently irritated about it.
We're getting there. Be patient.
This. Or imagine a coordinated bombing of every single Wal-Mart in a single city. Repeat it in different cities, different stores or perhaps even venues, for three days in a row. The effect would be chilling to the point of devastating.
Easy to do, but hasn't yet happened.
I'm fairly confident that terrorists, like tooth faeries, simply do not exist. They're mythical constructions designed to get us to act in a certain way and nothing more.
It's not like it's being forced on you. You can always choose not to fly.
Sure can! We have a lot of choices, actually. We could choose to:
A) Move to Zimbabwe. Not a lot of airports there...
B) Commit suicide. No need to fly once dead...
C) Protest this unjust and idiotic behavior of our government, attempting to return it to the semblance of an honorable institution that it was designed to be.
Lots of choices, some better than others.
Despite being idiotic, that justification flies with enough people. Same thing with corporations. We'd start throwing molotovs if the president announced privacy was a thing of the past and that their location would be tracked electronically. Facebook does it and people think -I'm- crazy for caring.
The gap in your logic is exactly WHY this flies while flying. There exists a Constitution that governs the behavior of every portion of our government, including the TSA. That is the standard they are to be held against.
Facebook isn't the government.
But somehow, somewhere along the way, we've decided that the TSA isn't the government either. And that's just bizarre.
Oh, do you really think they haven't? Think the economic disasters of the bad lettuce, the bad peanuts, all the other recent disasters, were just unusual accidents?
Well, we have only a handful of possibilities:
A) The food-borne illness incidents prior to 2001 and afterwards were accidents.
B) The food-borne illness incidents prior to 2001 and afterwards were terrorist attacks.
C) A mix of A and B, in whatever proportion.
Any of these options are possible, but to B and C are going to require some evidence to overcome the simplicity of A.
That's not a Nazi. No more than Vanilla Ice was a ninja. That's just an example of an asshole, and since there are lots of those we can't exactly go around shaping the world to avoid them.
My advice would be to hold the dreidel in one hand and an outstretched finger on the other.
When's the last time you heard the word "swastika" and didn't immediately think about its role in Nazi Germany?
When's the last time your security was threatened by a 'German Nazi' of any kind, or in any way? Don't you think that perhaps your association is a bit dated by this point, and that perhaps you have some emotional growing up to do?
Are you likewise terrorized by the Jolly Roger? Because THAT symbol over a ship passing by definitely was NOT cool. You were about to be raided, and would probably die - if not from guns and swords, then from infection from shrapnel.
Do they ban the skull and crossbones?
And Ninjas, those are cool, too, right? Well they weren't in their day. They were honor-less fiends assassinating people in the night. Abhorred in their time like we would a demonic cult.
It seems we've gotten over pirates and ninjas. They're historical figures now, and have little to no bearing on our modern reality. Some day we'll see Nazis in this light as well. Maybe that starts today.
You want to come back with a symbol that's not offensive, you are welcome. You want to be an asshole, then it's "buh-bye". That actually sounds like a good way to run an online community.
I rather like this, except I feel that PEOPLE LIKE YOU and the guy from the service are the assholes.
What happens now?
Sure enough, it wasn't: http://www.telegram.com/article/20101116/NEWS/101119746
The memo explained that students would be issued a pencil for use in class that would be collected at the end of the school day.
The memo cited behavior problems and said any student found in possession of a pen or mechanical pencil after Nov. 15 would be assumed to have the implement “to build weapons,” or to have stolen it from the classroom art supply basket.
and...
“This was an attempt to by a fairly new sixth-grade teacher to make changes that were not warranted. The student who was found with an altered pen was suspended and as far as administrators were concerned, the matter was put to rest,” Mr. Noseworthy said.
So yeah, the teacher had what she believed was a genuine problem with a certain privilege, and attempted to revoke it. She was overruled. Nothing all that insane here at all...
NO! Not in the least. Tribes was a package deal with all sorts of elements that made it a unique experience. The discs are the easiest example, but they're but one. Anything that wants to be the 'next Tribes' should bring at least as many of these, if not more.
Anyone who thinks the disc launcher was just a rocket launcher is apparently lacking a sensor for 'cool'.
Word is that it was a licensing issue. Same with 006.
Which would make perfect sense considering the rumors that licensing had ensured that the game would never, ever be made. And yet it was. End-run, perhaps?
It's called Firefall sir. Look it up. :D
Um, no, I have to disagree. I hadn't heard of Firefall until today, and after some searching, I dug up this.
You should check out Tribes, because it was way better than what's being described here. We had Heavy, Medium, and Light armor types, each with a set of customizable pre-load kits that you tailored. You could mix and match your combat needs extensively, and swap them out at any station that had power. Aside from the toon itself, there were several vehicles, each with its own pros and cons. The matches weren't persistent, and there wasn't any leveling to be done. You'd hop into a match on equal footing with everyone else, the battle would materialize and you'd be expected to adapt to what was needed to pull out a win.
In short, Tribes differs because:
1) It was a match game, not an MMO
2) It had a LOT more options available to every player (as opposed to just those that buy them via micro-transactions)
3) There isn't any notion of persistence/leveling/etc. Everything was balanced around zero-cost, equal opportunity and the game as a whole was a lot more dynamic.
4) Discs (Check it out, you'll see what I mean)
At least no one mentioned Vengeance, lol.
You know what, though - I almost, almost liked Vengeance. It was so very close to the Tribes-Single-Player that I wanted it to be. If the bots had been only a teeny, tiny bit better it would have been a stellar title.
Anyway, I found it a much better value than T2.
I said this up above as well, but you're not facing a lack of interest so much as a divestment of the rights. Per Lucasfilm, if you want to play a space combat multiplayer, you need to buy the MMO. It's been this way since SWG's expansion pack.
So the problem lies where....? Jedi Knight was an excellent game that mixed in weapons, force powers, and the light sabre in which your use of weapons/powers changed throughout the game as your character evolved. Yeah, sounds like crap.
I agree fully, and even with Jedi Academy (3? maybe) I remember using a sniper rifle to take out enemies from far, far away... It was just less risky, and worked really, really well.
...and you'lll never see it. Why? Because the 'rights' to depict Star Wars space combat are now exclusive to the MMO's under the franchise. Thank Sony for that...
It seems like the simple solution, then, would be to stop requiring such classes that the students do not want to take. Allow them to select from a wide list instead.
Apart from that - this is a university you are talking about. You are supposed to be an adult, who takes responsibility for what you learn
And this would be the 1810 part that Parent is referring to...
You could say the exact same thing about high school today that you can say about college, because they serve the exact same purpose.
Further, nearly no one, including the US government (e.g. healthcare reform,) considers people of college age as 'responsible adults' anymore. College is the new high school now.
Most people are probably in college to get a degree. The HR guy reading your resume can't see what you learned, only what's written on that piece of paper.
This, and further they likely wouldn't care even if they could see. Nobody likes the know-it-all kid who's coming in fresh from school with a plan to change everything. They just want you to do what you're told with just enough accuracy to keep them from being out-shined or embarrassed.
Like it or not, successful cheaters meet that metric.
In my own collegiate days, there was little-if-any emphasis on actual tests for reasons such as these. Nearly every midterm and final was centered around a paper of some sort. Either it was the entire grade, or more than half of it. Certain exceptions existed for the memorization classes, like Zoology, but these were pretty rare, and even those had essay questions attached.