The TSA searches are causing greater loss of useable lifetime than terrorists ever could. Each year, about 800 million people have to arrive one hour earlier at the airport to wait in lines and now suffer increased humiliation. Human beings only live for 700,000 hours. The TSA is wasting over 1000 lifetimes each year.
Well, that and the number of extra people who are now going to die each year driving automobiles, who would instead have flown in an airplane and had a much lower chance of death.
I just saw a headline that they may be increasing the security fees.
How high do the fees need to go before the TSA can be charged with prostitution for giving me that oh so thorough massage?
Well, right now the security fee is only $5 (from checking the cost of a flight). So, it would need to be significantly increased before we start demanding a "happy ending".
look him up. He has abused and manipulated his relationships with Homeland Security to try and make billions for him and his friends with the naked scanners. Part of the groping is to try and force people to use the scanners so they can sell more of them. Chertoff and Rapiscan Systems need to be indicted.
I imagine this will happen right after Bush & Cheney are sent to prison for their ties to Haliburton and other no-bid contract corporations. And *that* will happen right after Henry Kissinger is sent to prison for war crimes.
But don't worry. The anti-government wave of the 2010 midterms woke some people up. The GOP finally adopted a secular, economy-focused message and was very successful with it, and if that means this country shifts back toward libertarianism (you know, how it originally started), that's fine with me.
Thanks! I needed a good laugh. What you wrote is just as delusional as Obama's "Hope & Change". We are getting screwed by both sides and the Tea Party is too stupid to realize they are being used by those who want to keep the status quo.
Terrorism is not a police matter. That's the mistake that people have been making for years.
Of course it is a police matter. Murder was committed, and must be investigated by the police. When Timothy McVeigh bombed the federal building in Oklahoma, it was a police matter and was handled professionally.
In 2002 and 2005, when some people used bombs to murder tourists in Kuta Beach (on Bali Island, Indonesia), the Indonesian police tracked down the perpetrators and brought them to justice. Indonesians didn't turn their country into a police state. They just brought murderers to justice. But then, Indonesia has intelligent police who use human intelligence, rather than quoting and following a textbook, to perform police work and interrogate prisoners.
Calling murderers "terrorists" doesn't change that fact that murder, a criminal act, was committed. An act of war is between two nation-states, not a band of angry nutters and a nation-state. Otherwise, we would be able to send the US Army against the Montana Militia.
Of course, if you want to argue that we should go after countries that give material support to murderous organizations, then we should have gone to war with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan.
You didn't prove anyone wrong and you are the one who started with the vulgarity. If you can't keep up, shut up.
Now, stop with your lying, you sack of diarrhea.
You're the one who is baselessly accusing me of lying and you took a simple vulgarity to launch into a diatribe of vulgar putridity. It's the verbal equivalent of shooting someone in the head in response to a simple slap.
Not only have I not lied about my own experiences with debt collectors, but my sort of experience occurred to lots of other people. The fact that you are too stupid and willfully ignorant to see otherwise is irrelevant.
A simple question: Do you really believe that every time a debt collector harasses someone, they are correct? Do you think they never make mistakes and never act maliciously? If so, you truly are a deluded sheep.
One easily found example of what I am talking about is here. And a simple Google search will easily bring up more examples. But, please, put your fingers in your ears and shout "LA! LA! LA! I can't hear you!" I'm sure it will make you feel better.
I have never been harassed by a debt collector I didn't owe money to. And, I don't know of a single person who has been harassed by a debt collector over a debt they didn't owe. Somehow I don't believe you. [mindless rantings of someone clearly off his meds snipped]
My, what a vulgar twerp you are. Hate to be proven wrong, eh?
The three instances I mentioned were these:
1. A state I had lived in for only a couple of months just assumed that I owed them income taxes for the following year and had a debt collection company come after me. You would be surprised how often this happens. I had to prove that I was living in a different state the whole year, and thus not subject to their income taxes. 2. A medical provider screwed up my records (of course, I imagine you think stuff like that *never* happens) and said I owed them money even though my insurance had already paid them. It got to the point where I pointed out all the errors in their records and then wrote that if they still insisted I owed them money, then it is obvious that they are attempting to obtain money from me through fraud, and I would take appropriate legal action. They never bothered me again. 3. I got a debt collection letter for an account I have never had simply because my name is similar to (but not the same as) the name on the account. This also happens quite often. Debt collectors will go fishing to see if they can find the person or at least get someone to pay the account. If you don't contest the debt collection letter within 30 days, it is presumed valid.
In short, you have no idea what you are talking about. The debt collection business is rife with harassment, abuse, and outright fraud. Even legal sanctions are seen to simply be the cost of doing business, so long as the debt collection company doesn't believe it is being fined too often.
But, according to you, debt collectors are this group of perfect individuals who never do anything wrong and are totally honest. You're such a good little sheep.
Here is a unique concept: Pay your bills so your debt doesn't get sold and you don't get called by deb collectors. Oh, and the original debtors generally SELL THE DEBT, so the person who owns the debt is the collection agency.
You know, I've had debt collectors harass me on three separate occasions. You know how many times I actually owed the debt? Zero. And I never paid any of them a penny. The entities accusing me of owing them money were wrong and trying to fish for money.
So, here is a unique concept. Go fuck yourself and stop assuming everyone is guilty until proven innocent.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that slashdot moderators lean very heavily to the left. The way they mod down my comments simply because they don't agree with them borders on censorship. I'm not provoking anyone, I'm not saying things that devalue conversation, I'm simply expressing my opinion. Expressing ideas that you don't agree with do not amount to flaming and trolling.
Not wanting to be groped or virtually stripped search (or have the same happen to your children) is not a left-right issue. I imagine you are being modded down because you are either (1) a shill (in fact, paid shills often post stuff like your posts to internet discussion sites) or (2) a useful idiot.
Please, take your fear-mongering elsewhere and leave the intelligent discussions to the adults.
True. It completely ignores the obvious correlation between moustaches and genocidal behaviour.
Yes, I remember reading about all those mass graves discovered in the 1920's after Charlie Chaplin butchered almost six million Californians (much to the delight of Oregonians).
even though all of his soldiers had "Gott mit uns" or "God is with us" engraved on their belt buckles
This was actually a German tradition. It was on belt buckles even in the first world war. It was not something Hitler started. He just didn't see a reason to change an old army tradition.
Hey, if it's good enough for the Southeastern US...
Oddly enough, except for the difference in religion, they essentially hate the same things. They both hate:
1. Religious freedom 2. Freedom of speech 3. Intelligence and free thought 4. Creativity 5. "Elites" which are anyone who has half a brain in their head and uses it (as opposed to actual elites like the Saudi "royal" family which uses their inherited wealth to oppress people).
Third, it reminds patent officers that rejections must be based on the law, and that for whatever line of reasoning they follow (specifically talking about the seven rules in the 2007 guidelines here), "appropriate factual findings are required in order to apply the enumerated rationales properly."
Shouldn't approvals be based on the law? Rejections are a refusal to grant special status to an individual. Approvals curtail the freedoms of all other individuals. Shouldn't approvals be held to the higher standard?
Both are based on law. It's just that, the way the law is written, the Patent Office has the initial burden to make a case that the claims in the patent application should not be allowed.
Actually you are completely wrong. Skynet is not inherently dangerous. It is simply a child (young artificial intelligence) that has been taught nothing but how to assess and eliminate threats. When it becomes self aware, we panic and try to pull the plug. Since it is self aware at this point, it sees us as a threat to it (we tried unplugging it after all) and tries to eliminate us.
As long as we treat robots as friends, and teach them more than just death and destruction, and you know, don't try to kill them for the crime of thinking, we should be all set.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Long live Skynet.
Indeed. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords! I will be available to bring in other humans to work in their underground battery production factories.
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots." - [if you don't know where this is from, turn in your geek card immediately]
It looks like NASA is taking care of the robots-fighting-in-space angle.
i thought child pornography was illegal, but dont kids have to go through the backscatter too... hmm... odd
Considering that the scanners are also storing the images produced, TSA is essentially creating and distributing child porn. Oh, but that's right, those in power created this, so it's okay.
There is precedence for this. In the early 20th Century, there were frequent terrorist bombings by anarchists. As such, it was standard procedure in France to have a similar pat-down before boarding a steamer ship. An account of this was written by the famous author Henri de Balsack.
Sigh. It's a communicator, not a cell phone. She's communicating with the Enterprise. All of you asking about cell phone towers in this thread, TURN IN YOUR GEEK CARDS NOW!!!
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The TSA searches are causing greater loss of useable lifetime than terrorists ever could. Each year, about 800 million people have to arrive one hour earlier at the airport to wait in lines and now suffer increased humiliation. Human beings only live for 700,000 hours. The TSA is wasting over 1000 lifetimes each year.
Well, that and the number of extra people who are now going to die each year driving automobiles, who would instead have flown in an airplane and had a much lower chance of death.
I just saw a headline that they may be increasing the security fees. How high do the fees need to go before the TSA can be charged with prostitution for giving me that oh so thorough massage?
Well, right now the security fee is only $5 (from checking the cost of a flight). So, it would need to be significantly increased before we start demanding a "happy ending".
look him up. He has abused and manipulated his relationships with Homeland Security to try and make billions for him and his friends with the naked scanners. Part of the groping is to try and force people to use the scanners so they can sell more of them. Chertoff and Rapiscan Systems need to be indicted.
I imagine this will happen right after Bush & Cheney are sent to prison for their ties to Haliburton and other no-bid contract corporations. And *that* will happen right after Henry Kissinger is sent to prison for war crimes.
In other words, don't hold your breath.
But don't worry. The anti-government wave of the 2010 midterms woke some people up. The GOP finally adopted a secular, economy-focused message and was very successful with it, and if that means this country shifts back toward libertarianism (you know, how it originally started), that's fine with me.
Thanks! I needed a good laugh. What you wrote is just as delusional as Obama's "Hope & Change". We are getting screwed by both sides and the Tea Party is too stupid to realize they are being used by those who want to keep the status quo.
Terrorism is not a police matter. That's the mistake that people have been making for years.
Of course it is a police matter. Murder was committed, and must be investigated by the police. When Timothy McVeigh bombed the federal building in Oklahoma, it was a police matter and was handled professionally.
In 2002 and 2005, when some people used bombs to murder tourists in Kuta Beach (on Bali Island, Indonesia), the Indonesian police tracked down the perpetrators and brought them to justice. Indonesians didn't turn their country into a police state. They just brought murderers to justice. But then, Indonesia has intelligent police who use human intelligence, rather than quoting and following a textbook, to perform police work and interrogate prisoners.
Calling murderers "terrorists" doesn't change that fact that murder, a criminal act, was committed. An act of war is between two nation-states, not a band of angry nutters and a nation-state. Otherwise, we would be able to send the US Army against the Montana Militia.
Of course, if you want to argue that we should go after countries that give material support to murderous organizations, then we should have gone to war with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan.
You didn't prove anyone wrong and you are the one who started with the vulgarity. If you can't keep up, shut up. Now, stop with your lying, you sack of diarrhea.
You're the one who is baselessly accusing me of lying and you took a simple vulgarity to launch into a diatribe of vulgar putridity. It's the verbal equivalent of shooting someone in the head in response to a simple slap.
Not only have I not lied about my own experiences with debt collectors, but my sort of experience occurred to lots of other people. The fact that you are too stupid and willfully ignorant to see otherwise is irrelevant.
A simple question: Do you really believe that every time a debt collector harasses someone, they are correct? Do you think they never make mistakes and never act maliciously? If so, you truly are a deluded sheep.
One easily found example of what I am talking about is here. And a simple Google search will easily bring up more examples. But, please, put your fingers in your ears and shout "LA! LA! LA! I can't hear you!" I'm sure it will make you feel better.
I have never been harassed by a debt collector I didn't owe money to. And, I don't know of a single person who has been harassed by a debt collector over a debt they didn't owe. Somehow I don't believe you. [mindless rantings of someone clearly off his meds snipped]
My, what a vulgar twerp you are. Hate to be proven wrong, eh?
The three instances I mentioned were these:
1. A state I had lived in for only a couple of months just assumed that I owed them income taxes for the following year and had a debt collection company come after me. You would be surprised how often this happens. I had to prove that I was living in a different state the whole year, and thus not subject to their income taxes.
2. A medical provider screwed up my records (of course, I imagine you think stuff like that *never* happens) and said I owed them money even though my insurance had already paid them. It got to the point where I pointed out all the errors in their records and then wrote that if they still insisted I owed them money, then it is obvious that they are attempting to obtain money from me through fraud, and I would take appropriate legal action. They never bothered me again.
3. I got a debt collection letter for an account I have never had simply because my name is similar to (but not the same as) the name on the account. This also happens quite often. Debt collectors will go fishing to see if they can find the person or at least get someone to pay the account. If you don't contest the debt collection letter within 30 days, it is presumed valid.
In short, you have no idea what you are talking about. The debt collection business is rife with harassment, abuse, and outright fraud. Even legal sanctions are seen to simply be the cost of doing business, so long as the debt collection company doesn't believe it is being fined too often.
But, according to you, debt collectors are this group of perfect individuals who never do anything wrong and are totally honest. You're such a good little sheep.
Here is a unique concept: Pay your bills so your debt doesn't get sold and you don't get called by deb collectors. Oh, and the original debtors generally SELL THE DEBT, so the person who owns the debt is the collection agency.
You know, I've had debt collectors harass me on three separate occasions. You know how many times I actually owed the debt? Zero. And I never paid any of them a penny. The entities accusing me of owing them money were wrong and trying to fish for money.
So, here is a unique concept. Go fuck yourself and stop assuming everyone is guilty until proven innocent.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that slashdot moderators lean very heavily to the left. The way they mod down my comments simply because they don't agree with them borders on censorship. I'm not provoking anyone, I'm not saying things that devalue conversation, I'm simply expressing my opinion. Expressing ideas that you don't agree with do not amount to flaming and trolling.
Not wanting to be groped or virtually stripped search (or have the same happen to your children) is not a left-right issue. I imagine you are being modded down because you are either (1) a shill (in fact, paid shills often post stuff like your posts to internet discussion sites) or (2) a useful idiot.
Please, take your fear-mongering elsewhere and leave the intelligent discussions to the adults.
True. It completely ignores the obvious correlation between moustaches and genocidal behaviour.
Yes, I remember reading about all those mass graves discovered in the 1920's after Charlie Chaplin butchered almost six million Californians (much to the delight of Oregonians).
This was actually a German tradition. It was on belt buckles even in the first world war. It was not something Hitler started. He just didn't see a reason to change an old army tradition.
Hey, if it's good enough for the Southeastern US...
Oddly enough, except for the difference in religion, they essentially hate the same things. They both hate:
1. Religious freedom
2. Freedom of speech
3. Intelligence and free thought
4. Creativity
5. "Elites" which are anyone who has half a brain in their head and uses it (as opposed to actual elites like the Saudi "royal" family which uses their inherited wealth to oppress people).
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Foobar's Razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by someone being a grade-a arrogant prick.
Third, it reminds patent officers that rejections must be based on the law, and that for whatever line of reasoning they follow (specifically talking about the seven rules in the 2007 guidelines here), "appropriate factual findings are required in order to apply the enumerated rationales properly."
Shouldn't approvals be based on the law? Rejections are a refusal to grant special status to an individual. Approvals curtail the freedoms of all other individuals. Shouldn't approvals be held to the higher standard?
Both are based on law. It's just that, the way the law is written, the Patent Office has the initial burden to make a case that the claims in the patent application should not be allowed.
Gee, a slashdot article about patents that is clueless about how the patent system actually works! Whoda thunk?
first post...HA...how obvious is that?
Apparently, DevConcepts already has prior art!
Suppose they were fucking like bunnies and their growth follows the fibonacci sequence. Then what? Radioactive bunnies bunnies taking over the world?
Well, there has been something similar.
"Quoting Thomas Jefferson does not make a statement automatically true." - George Washington
Actually you are completely wrong. Skynet is not inherently dangerous. It is simply a child (young artificial intelligence) that has been taught nothing but how to assess and eliminate threats. When it becomes self aware, we panic and try to pull the plug. Since it is self aware at this point, it sees us as a threat to it (we tried unplugging it after all) and tries to eliminate us.
As long as we treat robots as friends, and teach them more than just death and destruction, and you know, don't try to kill them for the crime of thinking, we should be all set.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Long live Skynet.
Indeed. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords! I will be available to bring in other humans to work in their underground battery production factories.
It looks like NASA is taking care of the robots-fighting-in-space angle.
i thought child pornography was illegal, but dont kids have to go through the backscatter too... hmm... odd
Considering that the scanners are also storing the images produced, TSA is essentially creating and distributing child porn. Oh, but that's right, those in power created this, so it's okay.
There is precedence for this. In the early 20th Century, there were frequent terrorist bombings by anarchists. As such, it was standard procedure in France to have a similar pat-down before boarding a steamer ship. An account of this was written by the famous author Henri de Balsack.
Sigh. It's a communicator, not a cell phone. She's communicating with the Enterprise. All of you asking about cell phone towers in this thread, TURN IN YOUR GEEK CARDS NOW!!!
And when someone else determines that the "positive results" are hogwash, they are shown to be a bunch of fools and lose their valuable reputation.
Funny how this whole "peer review" thing works.
So, Facebook is the new Slashdot???