The thing is, this really is a freak occurance. So many flights, every single day, over every single city. People need to piss and shit, its simple biology. Every time someone goes for a piss break, someone else needs to be called in? That is just silly and insulting to the people involved.
In the grand scheme of things to worry about, this isn't really one of them. Its ridiculous to feel we need new regulations every time something happens...the next tragedy will always happen. It is inevitable.
There are daipers for this kind of thing. They are good enough for astronauts, should be good enough for airline pilots.
In the long run, it can definitely make Canada safer. Prohibiting this behavior means that we won't do stupid shit that will cause even more enemies.to appear. The number of threats that the Anglosphere faces that we didn't create ourselves is incredibly small.
I've lived in 3 Anglosphere countries and 2 non-Anglosphere countries. I'm a native English speaker from the UK.
Having experienced life outside the Anglosphere I'm puzzled why it is that virtually all the English speaking nations are so fucking retarded in so many ways. Its not just the dumbass self-defeating 'espionage' its also the amazing pedantry, prudishness, squeamishness etc, the obsession with poop jokes. Almost all the adults in these cultures seem, by external standards, to be like large schoolchildren.
I've also lived outside the angloshpere, every single nation has huge glaring problems that people simply ignore because it's part of their culture.
There's no real way to say which one is better, both have their advantages and drawbacks. You may be able to get away with more things in Thailand than the UK, but in Thailand you'll always be a second class citizen, accepted only because you have enough money to live there without working. Any fight between you and a Thai will result in the Thai winning regardless of what actually happens. If you want to live in Asia, you'll have to get used to the corruption, nepotism, tiered society, face, blood money and a lot of other things we would consider uncivilised in Anglo countries.
Believe me, I know all that and have experienced it first hand.
What seems strange to me is the way that its so consistent across English speaking cultures. Maybe its an emergent property of the English language?
In the long run, it can definitely make Canada safer. Prohibiting this behavior means that we won't do stupid shit that will cause even more enemies.to appear. The number of threats that the Anglosphere faces that we didn't create ourselves is incredibly small.
I've lived in 3 Anglosphere countries and 2 non-Anglosphere countries. I'm a native English speaker from the UK.
Having experienced life outside the Anglosphere I'm puzzled why it is that virtually all the English speaking nations are so fucking retarded in so many ways. Its not just the dumbass self-defeating 'espionage' its also the amazing pedantry, prudishness, squeamishness etc, the obsession with poop jokes. Almost all the adults in these cultures seem, by external standards, to be like large schoolchildren.
you really hold an organization like ISIS and the US Govt on the same moral equivalency?
i don't care how much you hate the USA, you fail the ability of coherent thought if you think the USA and ISIS are morally the same
I wasn't claiming moral equivalence, just behavioral equivalence. The USA is run by a completely amoral group of people for whom human life has little value. I'll say the same about ISIS. Since I'm talking about amoral people its hardly a matter of 'moral equivalence'. Its not like I'm giving it a number and saying they are both at the same level of morality. They don't even have NO morality. They see themselves as operating at a meta-level above morality.
If your enemy is in an unassailable position you have two choices; infiltrate and kill them in their sleep or attack something outside their fortress which they must come out to defend. Though I would think that the most obvious targets for the infiltration would be the drone 'pilots' families, people they do business with, people who make them burgers, people they owe money to, people who owe them money.
Those with smaller incomes must use a larger proportion of it on consumption.
10% is 10% no matter what the purchase price is, the Proportions are the same.
The only way where they get out of balance is where corporations can purchase larger quantity and get a lower sale price per unit then the smaller consumer for a given item.. So you will not be removing the buying power element, but even then you are capturing the taxes and doing it based on money changing hands.
What they could do is like in some 3rd world countries where 'rich people' (usually foreigners) pay more when they go to the shops!
The 'white face tax' really does exist; I'd get my wife (a local) to go get prices then I'd go along to the shop for the same product and be asked 10x the price she was asked. (Then I'd set her on them and she'd tear them a new orifice where no orifice existed before.)
Look, it is one of those apple fans who talk about apple's "war chest" like it is a badge of honour to overpay for a device to fund said war chest (which by the way is overseas to avoid taxes).
I'm such an Apple fanboi that I can't wait for the Apple game console whose controller will have one button.
I see, so it IS okay for Apple to strong arm banks into doing things Apple's way, provided Apple's way meets your standard. Funny that.
I mean obviously this is a foul up and both the banks and Apple should work to fix it, they're BOTH responsible. The idea that banks are just helpless ninnies at the mercy of Apple, forced to conduct their business exactly as Apple demands, is dumbass.
Geez, if Apple told you to jump off a cliff, you have to, right? I mean they have "such a large war chest."
At a certain point surely the responsibility of bankers to keep their customers' accounts secure entails-- it's the very basis of their profession.
and anyway, what exactly are they afraid of? Did they even ask to implement the necessary security features? Did they ask, and did Apple refuse? Has Apple threatened any sort of sanctions against banks that don't comply? It's all very amorphous, and again, seems to rely on the idea that bankers have minimal accountability or responsibility, and may respond to undefined, mysterious, and unsubstantiated "fears" without basis.
I would have hoped that a company as prestigious as Apple would have demanded a higher standard of security from the credit card companies and banks and forced them to be more scrupulous. After all Apple customers have so much more to lose from fraud, being so much more wealthy than the rest of us unwashed masses who must make do with PCs and Android phones.
In the states, we current use magnetic stripe for physical transactions. The "security" offered is in signature. I hate it, it's dumb, it's getting fixed supposedly, but it is what it is for now.
For us, Apple Pay means not having to extract a card, and with Touch ID it offers a somewhat real level of physical security as well.
There was a guy documenting how he was signing with things like "transaction invalid" and "no not honor" and the shops weren't even checking.
Apple Pay is simply going to get too expensive for all but the most clueless merchants to use, both from the fraud and from Apple's eventual fees.
Anything Apple might charge will be a rounding error compared to the 3-5% the credit card companies charge merchants. Furthermore those fees get passed on to the customers so merchants only give a shit if their competition doesn't have to pay the same fees.
Regarding the fraud, it sounds like the banks aren't following their own security procedures which results in... duh, fraud.
Apple supporters were right to call out Mr. Abraham - he is biased and attempting to create FUD against Apple and Apple Pay. The real fault and finger pointing needs to be directed to the banks and they need to get their houses in order.
Indeed.
If the banks had the courage to confront Apple and demand that Apple Pay include more information then this wouldn't have happened. Its entirely the banks fault for being scared of Apple (which probably has a larger war chest than all those banks combined).
Someone from Canada is Canadian. Someone from the USA is USAian. Get used to it, it'll become common usage soon enough.
I'm from the US, fairly well traveled, and unlike you I do not live in my mother's basement. I lived in Europe for awhile (Turkey, Germany, UK).. they call us Americans.. I've screwed a couple of women from Chile and Argentina down in South America.. they call us Americans.
The only, and I mean ONLY fucking place I've heard the idiotic term USian is here, so fuck your 'it'll be common usage soon enough' remark. You're just another term of SJW... (oh no mommy, it's the big bad cultural imperialists!)
FYI I've lived in 5 different countries on 4 different continents, first second and third world countries among them, and am about as far from my parents basement as its possible to get.
I'm hoping that 'Americans' will stop being used for people from the USA. Its just a dream I have. USAian is great suck it up, it'll become a meme real soon now.
I'm not sure why you would need to distinguish like that. Canadians are not american, they are north american just like the mexicans even though there is the artificial central america designation for the area. Or do south americans somehow fail to qualify for your quirk in reasoning? America is not the continent, its North America. There is also a South America, and an invented Central America if you want to jump from continental designation to a useful geographic distinction.
What you essentially are doing is trying say that heard looks like a flock so you will create a term like dogian to distinguish a pack of dogs. The problem is, theee are already valid names and terms that achieve the goal and it is pure ignorance when other terms are invented and substituted.
Canadians and people from the USA are in a matching category to French and people from Germany.
To refer to people from Germany as 'Europeans' while, in the same context, referring to people from France as 'French' makes no sense.
And actually, thinking about it, someone from Chile is also an American just as much as someone from Monaco is European.
Someone from Canada is Canadian. Someone from the USA is USAian. Get used to it, it'll become common usage soon enough.
Whatever word you want to use. We have people here in the USA who namecall that way. They use terms like 'Commie' to refer to those foreign people they don't like. Welcome to the same league, dude.
Funnily enough, the original 'USAian' is a term I use myself when wanting to distinguish between eg people from Canada and people from the USA (and I'm not the AC who used it above).
It just feels wrong to refer to 'people from the usa' as 'Americans' when there are Canadians present. It would be like referring to Germans as 'Europeans' in the same context as referring to French people as 'French'.
I don't think its got anything to do with the name of the country ending in 'America'; 'America' is the continent not the country (until they annex Canada and Mexico).
Referring to them as 'Americans' degrades the American-ness of the entire rest of the continent.
As it is, people from the USA are mostly outside my monkeysphere anyway, its like they are all just instances of the same domesticated primate.
Wow.. If using fucktarded repeatedly didn't show how fucking stupid you are, using USian as if it was an actual word most certainly does.
Here is a hint, the accepted term- even internationally is American. It is because the country is the United States of America and is the only country in north or south America that ends it's country name with America. Other countries have America in their official names, but they do not end it with America in neither their official language or the English version of the name so no other country has claim to the usage.
If you could fluctuate the luminosity of a star to announce your presence, then it would make more sense to make it flash prime numbers. Or encode such a message by varying the frequency, or by stopping and starting the device that produces the effect. Well, maybe they are doing just that, and I suppose that a pulsing star or the machine that makes it pulse doesn't exactly stop on a dime, so it may be worth keeping an eye on that thing for a couple of years, and watch for changes.
If it flipped between primes and golden mean, THEN we'd have something undeniably artificial.
More ports is not universally better. If you tried to sell me a laptop that had a full-sized parallel port, for example, I'd say, that's dumb, it's making the laptop way bigger than it needs to be, and I'll never use it.
Apple may have gone too far in that direction (personally I think two USB-C ports and a headphone jack would have been the optimal place), but less ports *can* be better than more ports, depending on the circumstances.
So you'd take samples from sewage outlet pipes, get the dogs to sniff them. Keep following upstream from positive samples until you have street addresses. Invite anyone at that address to get tested.
If this could work in the early stages of cancer it could save a fortune in lives as well as money.
100 people can rouse 100 more and they another 100 more and so on until you have an army that can overthrow an empire.
At this time the 'Stans are not very radical, heck Kazakhs will do a vodka toast and prayers right after! And Kazakh women don't seem to have any problem marrying infidel men. They are very chill about their Islam. But that could change if the right seeds are sewn. I hope not but I could see it unfolding. I have heard that many young people in the 'Stans are turning against their parents and grandparents because they feel that they don't follow the religion closely enough. That'd be a disturbing trend.
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Wouldn't be the first time that Mark had blatantly stolen someone else's idea.
... of having a flight attendant stay in the cockpit when one of the pilots goes to the bathroom.
I would have previously said that was too paranoid but apparently not.
An armed flight attendant?
The thing is, this really is a freak occurance. So many flights, every single day, over every single city. People need to piss and shit, its simple biology. Every time someone goes for a piss break, someone else needs to be called in? That is just silly and insulting to the people involved.
In the grand scheme of things to worry about, this isn't really one of them. Its ridiculous to feel we need new regulations every time something happens...the next tragedy will always happen. It is inevitable.
There are daipers for this kind of thing. They are good enough for astronauts, should be good enough for airline pilots.
In the long run, it can definitely make Canada safer. Prohibiting this behavior means that we won't do stupid shit that will cause even more enemies.to appear. The number of threats that the Anglosphere faces that we didn't create ourselves is incredibly small.
I've lived in 3 Anglosphere countries and 2 non-Anglosphere countries. I'm a native English speaker from the UK.
Having experienced life outside the Anglosphere I'm puzzled why it is that virtually all the English speaking nations are so fucking retarded in so many ways. Its not just the dumbass self-defeating 'espionage' its also the amazing pedantry, prudishness, squeamishness etc, the obsession with poop jokes. Almost all the adults in these cultures seem, by external standards, to be like large schoolchildren.
I've also lived outside the angloshpere, every single nation has huge glaring problems that people simply ignore because it's part of their culture.
There's no real way to say which one is better, both have their advantages and drawbacks. You may be able to get away with more things in Thailand than the UK, but in Thailand you'll always be a second class citizen, accepted only because you have enough money to live there without working. Any fight between you and a Thai will result in the Thai winning regardless of what actually happens. If you want to live in Asia, you'll have to get used to the corruption, nepotism, tiered society, face, blood money and a lot of other things we would consider uncivilised in Anglo countries.
Believe me, I know all that and have experienced it first hand.
What seems strange to me is the way that its so consistent across English speaking cultures. Maybe its an emergent property of the English language?
In the long run, it can definitely make Canada safer. Prohibiting this behavior means that we won't do stupid shit that will cause even more enemies.to appear. The number of threats that the Anglosphere faces that we didn't create ourselves is incredibly small.
I've lived in 3 Anglosphere countries and 2 non-Anglosphere countries. I'm a native English speaker from the UK.
Having experienced life outside the Anglosphere I'm puzzled why it is that virtually all the English speaking nations are so fucking retarded in so many ways. Its not just the dumbass self-defeating 'espionage' its also the amazing pedantry, prudishness, squeamishness etc, the obsession with poop jokes. Almost all the adults in these cultures seem, by external standards, to be like large schoolchildren.
you really hold an organization like ISIS and the US Govt on the same moral equivalency?
i don't care how much you hate the USA, you fail the ability of coherent thought if you think the USA and ISIS are morally the same
I wasn't claiming moral equivalence, just behavioral equivalence. The USA is run by a completely amoral group of people for whom human life has little value. I'll say the same about ISIS. Since I'm talking about amoral people its hardly a matter of 'moral equivalence'. Its not like I'm giving it a number and saying they are both at the same level of morality. They don't even have NO morality. They see themselves as operating at a meta-level above morality.
If your enemy is in an unassailable position you have two choices; infiltrate and kill them in their sleep or attack something outside their fortress which they must come out to defend. Though I would think that the most obvious targets for the infiltration would be the drone 'pilots' families, people they do business with, people who make them burgers, people they owe money to, people who owe them money.
From a group that made its name slaughtering helpless civilians, I wouldn't expect a whole lot of guile.
I'm confused and not properly following this thread. Are you saying ISIS or the US military have made their names slaughtering helpless civilians?
Or both?
Don't be silly - incitement to murder is still illegal. Your link about a public pedophile registry case has NOTHING to do with this.
Many governments, the USA included, incite to murder ALL THE TIME. Is it really illegal?
Those with smaller incomes must use a larger proportion of it on consumption.
10% is 10% no matter what the purchase price is, the Proportions are the same.
The only way where they get out of balance is where corporations can purchase larger quantity and get a lower sale price per unit then the smaller consumer for a given item.. So you will not be removing the buying power element, but even then you are capturing the taxes and doing it based on money changing hands.
What they could do is like in some 3rd world countries where 'rich people' (usually foreigners) pay more when they go to the shops!
The 'white face tax' really does exist; I'd get my wife (a local) to go get prices then I'd go along to the shop for the same product and be asked 10x the price she was asked. (Then I'd set her on them and she'd tear them a new orifice where no orifice existed before.)
Look, it is one of those apple fans who talk about apple's "war chest" like it is a badge of honour to overpay for a device to fund said war chest (which by the way is overseas to avoid taxes).
I'm such an Apple fanboi that I can't wait for the Apple game console whose controller will have one button.
I see, so it IS okay for Apple to strong arm banks into doing things Apple's way, provided Apple's way meets your standard. Funny that.
I mean obviously this is a foul up and both the banks and Apple should work to fix it, they're BOTH responsible. The idea that banks are just helpless ninnies at the mercy of Apple, forced to conduct their business exactly as Apple demands, is dumbass.
Wait... Apple is responsible?!?!?
Geez, if Apple told you to jump off a cliff, you have to, right? I mean they have "such a large war chest."
At a certain point surely the responsibility of bankers to keep their customers' accounts secure entails-- it's the very basis of their profession.
and anyway, what exactly are they afraid of? Did they even ask to implement the necessary security features? Did they ask, and did Apple refuse? Has Apple threatened any sort of sanctions against banks that don't comply? It's all very amorphous, and again, seems to rely on the idea that bankers have minimal accountability or responsibility, and may respond to undefined, mysterious, and unsubstantiated "fears" without basis.
I would have hoped that a company as prestigious as Apple would have demanded a higher standard of security from the credit card companies and banks and forced them to be more scrupulous. After all Apple customers have so much more to lose from fraud, being so much more wealthy than the rest of us unwashed masses who must make do with PCs and Android phones.
In the states, we current use magnetic stripe for physical transactions. The "security" offered is in signature. I hate it, it's dumb, it's getting fixed supposedly, but it is what it is for now.
For us, Apple Pay means not having to extract a card, and with Touch ID it offers a somewhat real level of physical security as well.
There was a guy documenting how he was signing with things like "transaction invalid" and "no not honor" and the shops weren't even checking.
Apple Pay is simply going to get too expensive for all but the most clueless merchants to use, both from the fraud and from Apple's eventual fees.
Anything Apple might charge will be a rounding error compared to the 3-5% the credit card companies charge merchants. Furthermore those fees get passed on to the customers so merchants only give a shit if their competition doesn't have to pay the same fees.
Regarding the fraud, it sounds like the banks aren't following their own security procedures which results in... duh, fraud.
Apple will probably charge 30%
Apple supporters were right to call out Mr. Abraham - he is biased and attempting to create FUD against Apple and Apple Pay. The real fault and finger pointing needs to be directed to the banks and they need to get their houses in order.
Indeed.
If the banks had the courage to confront Apple and demand that Apple Pay include more information then this wouldn't have happened. Its entirely the banks fault for being scared of Apple (which probably has a larger war chest than all those banks combined).
I'm from the US, fairly well traveled, and unlike you I do not live in my mother's basement. I lived in Europe for awhile (Turkey, Germany, UK).. they call us Americans.. I've screwed a couple of women from Chile and Argentina down in South America.. they call us Americans.
The only, and I mean ONLY fucking place I've heard the idiotic term USian is here, so fuck your 'it'll be common usage soon enough' remark. You're just another term of SJW... (oh no mommy, it's the big bad cultural imperialists!)
FYI I've lived in 5 different countries on 4 different continents, first second and third world countries among them, and am about as far from my parents basement as its possible to get.
I'm hoping that 'Americans' will stop being used for people from the USA. Its just a dream I have. USAian is great suck it up, it'll become a meme real soon now.
I'm not sure why you would need to distinguish like that. Canadians are not american, they are north american just like the mexicans even though there is the artificial central america designation for the area. Or do south americans somehow fail to qualify for your quirk in reasoning? America is not the continent, its North America. There is also a South America, and an invented Central America if you want to jump from continental designation to a useful geographic distinction.
What you essentially are doing is trying say that heard looks like a flock so you will create a term like dogian to distinguish a pack of dogs. The problem is, theee are already valid names and terms that achieve the goal and it is pure ignorance when other terms are invented and substituted.
Canadians and people from the USA are in a matching category to French and people from Germany.
To refer to people from Germany as 'Europeans' while, in the same context, referring to people from France as 'French' makes no sense.
And actually, thinking about it, someone from Chile is also an American just as much as someone from Monaco is European.
Someone from Canada is Canadian. Someone from the USA is USAian. Get used to it, it'll become common usage soon enough.
Whatever word you want to use. We have people here in the USA who namecall that way. They use terms like 'Commie' to refer to those foreign people they don't like. Welcome to the same league, dude.
Funnily enough, the original 'USAian' is a term I use myself when wanting to distinguish between eg people from Canada and people from the USA (and I'm not the AC who used it above).
It just feels wrong to refer to 'people from the usa' as 'Americans' when there are Canadians present. It would be like referring to Germans as 'Europeans' in the same context as referring to French people as 'French'.
I don't think its got anything to do with the name of the country ending in 'America'; 'America' is the continent not the country (until they annex Canada and Mexico).
Referring to them as 'Americans' degrades the American-ness of the entire rest of the continent.
As it is, people from the USA are mostly outside my monkeysphere anyway, its like they are all just instances of the same domesticated primate.
Wow.. If using fucktarded repeatedly didn't show how fucking stupid you are, using USian as if it was an actual word most certainly does.
Here is a hint, the accepted term- even internationally is American. It is because the country is the United States of America and is the only country in north or south America that ends it's country name with America. Other countries have America in their official names, but they do not end it with America in neither their official language or the English version of the name so no other country has claim to the usage.
Would you prefer 'Yank'?
If you could fluctuate the luminosity of a star to announce your presence, then it would make more sense to make it flash prime numbers. Or encode such a message by varying the frequency, or by stopping and starting the device that produces the effect. Well, maybe they are doing just that, and I suppose that a pulsing star or the machine that makes it pulse doesn't exactly stop on a dime, so it may be worth keeping an eye on that thing for a couple of years, and watch for changes.
If it flipped between primes and golden mean, THEN we'd have something undeniably artificial.
More ports is not universally better. If you tried to sell me a laptop that had a full-sized parallel port, for example, I'd say, that's dumb, it's making the laptop way bigger than it needs to be, and I'll never use it.
Apple may have gone too far in that direction (personally I think two USB-C ports and a headphone jack would have been the optimal place), but less ports *can* be better than more ports, depending on the circumstances.
Microphone jack would be nice too...
Very early in the research, but man would this be a cool alternative to education. Take a nap, ready to start your PhD Thesis.
Or, alternatively, plant memories of sexual abuse in children so you can do away with your political opponents (the premise of Blake's 7 btw).
So you'd take samples from sewage outlet pipes, get the dogs to sniff them. Keep following upstream from positive samples until you have street addresses. Invite anyone at that address to get tested.
If this could work in the early stages of cancer it could save a fortune in lives as well as money.
Yes, because 100 people can do that.
100 people can rouse 100 more and they another 100 more and so on until you have an army that can overthrow an empire.
At this time the 'Stans are not very radical, heck Kazakhs will do a vodka toast and prayers right after! And Kazakh women don't seem to have any problem marrying infidel men. They are very chill about their Islam. But that could change if the right seeds are sewn. I hope not but I could see it unfolding. I have heard that many young people in the 'Stans are turning against their parents and grandparents because they feel that they don't follow the religion closely enough. That'd be a disturbing trend.