I fly with no id when the lines are long. All that happens is you are a "selectee" never been a problem so how will this be any different?
How do you get into the secure area then? Last time I looked, you needed to show a photo ID and your ticket to get to the departure gate. Don't have one? You don't get through...
Considering that I hired a lady who handles poisonous snakes due to the fact she is damd good at her job, I wouldn't have a problem with it. Beliefs that don't directly affect the job do not matter. Congratulations, you're a bigot. *golf clap*
That's nice. Did she invite you to church on Sunday yet?
Oh, btw, it's 'damned' not 'damd'. I'm not a bigot, I'm a spelling nazi, you insensitive clod!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a stupid-ass Amendment written by drooling illiterates, as far as you can tell by reading it. It ought to be rewritten to explicitly endorse a right to self-defense of an individual's life and property with weapons suited for use by individuals.
Who defines 'weapons suited for use by individuals'?
Leave the definitition to the government, we'll all be packin Nerf guns.
he line is basically at the point where your arms become ordinance; in other words, too big to serve as a personal defense against armed individuals. I'm fine with you owning a.50 cal browning, but I have an issue with mortars and heavy artillery.
I can see you've never been to my old neighborhood. Mortars & heavy artillery are necessities for defense against the roach infestation...
Using 'molecules' to erase memory isn't new, it's been done for thousands of years. You drink enough alcohol, your memory shuts down. They have a technical term for it, called a 'blackout'.
Independent review (of the leaked source code) concluded that the code base was of shockingly low quality, lacking in many basic principles of secure and defensive design, most likely written by programmers with very little training. Unfortunately this didn't stop it from being election-ready certified, which I imagine is where the real value was for Diebold.
Unfortunately, as any decent coder knows, a huge mess of spaghetti code is nearly impossible to fix short of a complete rewrite, which is probably why the system hasn't gotten any better since then.
Just goes to show you really don't wanna hire your brother in law to work on important stuff...
Just pass the word to the Administration and its Congressional allies that those satellites are good enough to show nekkid women sunbathing.
I was thinking you could tell them they can use the sats to scope out gay marriages, but they'd probably go for it soon as they can figure a way to make gay sex a crime again...
But IN 10 YEARS, AMERICA WILL BE VULNERABLE TO TERRORIST ATTACKS!!! OMGWTF! This is laughable because we are actually, at any given time, vulnerable to attacks. The summary implies that these back doors will provide unfettered access to all sorts of high value communications and that the terrorists and other evil countries will use these systems to ATTACK US! OMG!
Telephone switches are just computers. In 10 years they'll be obsolete. 10 years ago, Windows 95 was the Big Thing. The PC-AT was a big thing. Breaking into a 10-year old computer is a piece of cake.
Automatic sunset laws (with a super-majority vote required to extend -- if it's a good law, why isn't 2/3 or 3/4 or 4/5 majority a reasonable idea) and a requirement that lawmakers actually prove they read the bills before they are allowed to vote YEA on them would work for me. Of course, this would slow down the amount of new things government would be allowed to do, that is, in my opinion, a _good_ thing.
IIRC, the People's Bureaucratic Republic of Colorado used to have a nifty sunset law. And, IIRC, it got sunsetted. It required all state government bodies to appear before the legislature and justify their existence once every four years or get closed down.
Of course, as soon as it got sunsetted, the bureaucrats came back in force, like a mold you didn't quite get rid of.
Our current administration is NOTHING like Reagan's, outside the label.
Actually, there were a lot of the same faces back then as there are in the last few years. The difference was, Wolfowitz, Rove, Rummy, et al didn't have 1/100th the power they scammed up with this administration. Back then, they were paying their dues...
Expect to see this as part of the upcoming Vista Service Pack.
And in other news, Microsoft sponsors 5,000 Thai programmers with H1B visas. Microsoft also announced today the 'temporary layoff' of 7,500 current programmers. Company accountants claim this move will save the Company approximately 25 million dollars per quarter, allowing it to further aquire intellectual properties ranging from 'the wheel' to 'the zipper' to 'velcro', products that should increase the Company's bottom line to ludacrous profit margins...
first saw mention of this several weeks ago and it was a red herring then; I suspect it is still a red herring. The law does not punish possession of "hacking tools" unless they are used in the commission of a crime, much like many US laws that increase the penalty of a crime of violence if it is committed using a firearm.
Except that possession of 'criminal tools' such as lock picks, bump keys, etc if one is not a licensed locksmith is a criminal offense. What can be described as a 'criminal tool'? Why, anything that can be used in the commission of a crime. Say, for instance, I got convicted of 'uttering', that is to say, writing checks with no bank account to draw on them (419 phishers, anyone?). Legally, for me to possess an ink pen after my parole would be a violation of said parole, if they cared to push it. After all, ink pens are used to sign checks...
Are you kidding? Many states have a problem with voting fraud because they can't get laws passed that force you to show a valid ID at the voting booth.
Those are state laws. RealID and other such intrusive things are on the federal level. What makes you think this technology won't be implemented on the federal level and pushed off onto the states with the simple expedient of Da Prezz picking up the phone and saying "Governor Whozzits? You want your matching Federal funding this year for your roads, schools & welfare plans, implement this NOW"?
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How do you get into the secure area then? Last time I looked, you needed to show a photo ID and your ticket to get to the departure gate. Don't have one? You don't get through...
If he's a US citizen, he will, on April 15th, just like the rest of us.
With or without hand puppets?
That's nice. Did she invite you to church on Sunday yet?
Oh, btw, it's 'damned' not 'damd'. I'm not a bigot, I'm a spelling nazi, you insensitive clod!!!!!!!!!!!
It's also highly against the law.
Who defines 'weapons suited for use by individuals'?
Leave the definitition to the government, we'll all be packin Nerf guns.
I can see you've never been to my old neighborhood. Mortars & heavy artillery are necessities for defense against the roach infestation...
Using 'molecules' to erase memory isn't new, it's been done for thousands of years. You drink enough alcohol, your memory shuts down. They have a technical term for it, called a 'blackout'.
Just goes to show you really don't wanna hire your brother in law to work on important stuff...
My fiance' LOVES my beard. It's long enough to be soft to tickle her in all the right spots.
Think of it as comic relief in a humor-starved environment.
I was thinking you could tell them they can use the sats to scope out gay marriages, but they'd probably go for it soon as they can figure a way to make gay sex a crime again...
Telephone switches are just computers. In 10 years they'll be obsolete. 10 years ago, Windows 95 was the Big Thing. The PC-AT was a big thing. Breaking into a 10-year old computer is a piece of cake.
IIRC, the People's Bureaucratic Republic of Colorado used to have a nifty sunset law. And, IIRC, it got sunsetted. It required all state government bodies to appear before the legislature and justify their existence once every four years or get closed down.
Of course, as soon as it got sunsetted, the bureaucrats came back in force, like a mold you didn't quite get rid of.
Actually, there were a lot of the same faces back then as there are in the last few years. The difference was, Wolfowitz, Rove, Rummy, et al didn't have 1/100th the power they scammed up with this administration. Back then, they were paying their dues...
They help create a market for tinfoil hats, of course.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aa Alcoa up 1 cent...
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys...
And in other news, Microsoft sponsors 5,000 Thai programmers with H1B visas. Microsoft also announced today the 'temporary layoff' of 7,500 current programmers. Company accountants claim this move will save the Company approximately 25 million dollars per quarter, allowing it to further aquire intellectual properties ranging from 'the wheel' to 'the zipper' to 'velcro', products that should increase the Company's bottom line to ludacrous profit margins...
German version does. Brit version got neutered a bit and gives some leeway.
Except that possession of 'criminal tools' such as lock picks, bump keys, etc if one is not a licensed locksmith is a criminal offense. What can be described as a 'criminal tool'? Why, anything that can be used in the commission of a crime. Say, for instance, I got convicted of 'uttering', that is to say, writing checks with no bank account to draw on them (419 phishers, anyone?). Legally, for me to possess an ink pen after my parole would be a violation of said parole, if they cared to push it. After all, ink pens are used to sign checks...
Don't you mean 'double sided double density hacker tool'?
(thanxx to Jerry Pournelle for that one...)
Those are state laws. RealID and other such intrusive things are on the federal level. What makes you think this technology won't be implemented on the federal level and pushed off onto the states with the simple expedient of Da Prezz picking up the phone and saying "Governor Whozzits? You want your matching Federal funding this year for your roads, schools & welfare plans, implement this NOW"?
Only if they get up on IRC & pretend to be 14/f looking for 'older'.
Looks like I'm a criminal in Germany then. Wonder when they're gonna demand my extradition...