You are begging to have speech outlawed. So if you open your mouth to say "Hi" to your wife or "Lets Play" to your kids, you are a terrorist. Expect that soon and expect a BBC interview quoting Brown: Brown: "Statistics have proven that 100% of the time terrorists opened their mouths to talk, it resulted in deaths of innocents. So outlawing speech by non-permitted citizens will result in the Crown Prosecuting violators as terrorists subject to 48 days detention." Reporter: "But sir, how does everyone speak?" Brown: "Mr.Commisioner, arrest this reporter for opening his mouth without written permission and incarcerate him."
Perfect, just state calmly that a laptop containing such videos was "lost" in train and contained videos of minors... she would be in a froth over this... ask her if the person should be jailed indefinitely until the laptop is found, once she says yes, reveal that a high powered labor minister was responsible and ask the court to jail him... Case solved... Dealing with these kind of fear-mongering is easy: silently make it reciprocal: You would see all arguments melt away. Pit your enemy against his enemy.
Which is why Canada and Germany are considered beacons of freedom and are zealous in protecting citizens rights, while your neighbor south pisses all over it being led by a prez who chokes on a pretzel, and your queen's own country is busy watching every citizen bathe, take a dump, have s3x, while losing those tapes regularly... I don't know which is ironical: A former Gestapo ruled state which now has highest personal respect and is averse to trampling upon its citizens rights, or the Lady of Liberty whose light is growing darker every day because her single-digit-IQ president thinks every non-american is a terrorist.
Agree to everything and reciprocate it. Apply it to government officials and ministers as well. So if i can be put in preventive detention for 48 days, so can the communication minsister be for losing laptops of confidential information. Put this clause in small letters, silently and make it a law. Activate it once a sufficiently powerful guy loses another laptop. (Like a minister or a General). Watch the shouts of glee from citizens and cry if alarm from officials.
You can't download TrueCrypt in UK. Try it...The web page times out. You need to download the same from rapidshare or elsewhere. Denial of access to tools which can protect your privacy is the first steps towards 1984.
18th century political tracts can get you hanged. Our beloved Labor thinks we live under King George and his Monarchy. So if they see something like Declaration of Independence, or Common Sense or Federalist Papers they will automatically assume you are a secceionist and seditionist and hang you first before bringing you to court. They will even claim you were hanged because you resisted arrest. And this comes from a paranoid government that doesn't lose a heartbeat when its officials regularly lose laptops full of citizens private information or even state secrets. Probably someone should lose a laptop containing all the secret bank accounts and money owned by Labor officials, it would be fun to read them in Punch or Sunday times.
Its time the citizens pushed back. File multiple cases against the governments in courts for various precedents: like camera while urinating, spying on my child's phone by an adult giving rise to serious "issues"... use the same laws against the Government: child pr.n, lewdness, the government official's loss of citizens private info, the failure to investigate bribery at highest levels... file millions of small such cases. The government does not have infinite resources to fight all these. At some point, you either become a Star Wars Empire with the State absorbing ALL power, or you become free. Our politicians are not brilliant like the Emperor, so we shd be free.
Exactly! This is what i was writing about earlier. Pretty Dangerous is the right word: If the Government can establish ONE precedent of keeping you in prison because you "forgot" the key, it sets a terrifying precedence, it brings SS and Gestapo and the brownshirts in one swoop. Once they imprison, then can torture, and once you torture you cross the line... It is very very dangerous. Why can't the same courts who are so intent in trampling upon our rights, order Scotland Yard to complete its investigation into the bribery case against a certain arabic state? I guess courts are afraid of the State: I can recall the 1935 ruling by Prussian court which exempted Gestapo from scruity of laws...
Well, if the Government can invoke such defense, then so can i. More often we see the Government refusing to reveal any information to courts to convict people, but demand their conviction neverthless stating that revealing proof will make it more dangerous for citizens! They neither trust the courts, nor the defendant. But we are expected to blindly trust the Supreme Government to give away our personal lives so that some old, bald, a$$ can lose this information on a train home with no fear of reprecussions of any kind. Hell, if the government can get away with a defense like "Pursuing this bribery case will result in serious oil supply disruptions", then so can i. let them prove i committed perjury. I tend to forget a lot: including the exact time i took a dump yesterday, so am safe.
The Gestapo was different from SS, which was different from SA. Although Gestapo was "owned" by SS, it was administered by the Reich Security Service. Similar to all other dual-control organisations which Hitler in his inherent supreme paranoia wanted to be: fighting amongst each other. The fact of German V-men has been a myth. Even in 1939, Gestapo employed only about 60-90 informers in Saar-Brucken area. Iam not justifying Gestapo or Hitler's atrocities. Am just stating facts: yes in wartime people do get shot for stealing maps. The same way iraqis are "collaterally killed" by US troops. What Britain is doing is very very frightful. This kind of ALL-Seeing information falling into the hands of a paranoid like Hitler is enough to throw the country into chaos and war easily. Plus why can't the government become more transparent? They seek to x-ray me, but stall investigations into their own incompetency or outright bribery allegations. How come the State is more important than me? Am the State, and this is a Government for the people. In every way this ruling is more dangerous.
Great! Got enough evidence to get a warrant? No? Oh well, you're SOL then. Sorry, thanks for playing.
The Scotland Yard had enough evidence to nail everyone involved, until such time the PM intervened and stopped the investigation forcefully after the Prince threatened diplomatic retaliation. My argument is why the courts where silent on this one: Why didn't they order scotland yard to continue? Can i get the same lenience from the courts?
It is interesting to note than while section 53 states criminal penalties for non-disclosure on part of defendant, section 55 does NOT state any criminal penalties against misuse/abuse of such information. The Government has covered its shiny metal a$$ well with this section. So the courts can sentence you to 6 months imprisonment for NOT revealing the key, but if you reveal the key and some government official loses it in the next train (which happens monthly), the CP or the government official cannot be imprisoned for the loss or any such loss caused to you by that loss. Brilliant! All the more reason for me to NOT give out my key. Until such time i see a CP or a minister sentenced to jail for loss of residents' confidential information, am not comfortable with providing ANY information to this orwellian government. I WILL claim memory loss for this. let them prove am lying
Its NOT illegal to say i forgot. The government uses it all the time to justify its continuous laptop losses... So cite that in court. Plus add that the Government thinks the court is stupid. That will rile the judges enough to judge in your favor. Nothing irritates a judge more than the Government arrogantly claiming they are bigger than the court.
It really *is* no different to being forced to hand over the key to the basement dungeon where you keep your step-daughter - chances are that they already know what they're looking for and where to look for it.
Chances are i know exactly the illegal bribes were paid to S.Arabia prince for arms and oil, so i can go knocking at 10, Downing street, enter the specific room and compel Brown to testify? Hurts doesn't it? Your kind of logic was already used by Goebbels and Himmler. Fear-mongering. Take an excellent example: logical real one: like finding who bribed the prince, who killed the scientist who opposed the Iraq war, etc. Now once the cops have solved all those crimes, they can come to my house, break open my door and seize my books and the beer my 17-year old drinks. Why don't the courts FORCE the government to continue the bribes investigation? Are they afraid of the Government? Now that would be interesting isn't it?
Not like US. It appears to be bad, but the immigration is not that bad like US. If you are from a commonwealth country you really have less to worry. Once inside, i learnt to ride the Tube in just a day. I visited the British Museum, Naval Observatory, the Greenwich stuff, all by myself. I mean they are not that paranoid like in US where they strip-search you for visiting the USS Constitution and refuse any pics to be taken. Secondly their intelligence is amazing. So if you don't have a record, you really don't have to be afraid of the orwellian eyes.
Why these jokers didn't say i forgot i will never know. I mean how hard is it to NOT self-incriminate oneself: Say you forgot. Just like every other government official says after losing a laptop full of Witness Protection persons or intelligence officers, etc. They can't compel you to recall something you don't remember. Simply say "iam sorry i can't remember: my memory is a bit hazy from all the manhandling the cops did, your honor." What's the worst? Gitmo? I don't think so (although Britain has a track record of renditioning suspects to US). At a time when courts and the government make a combined assault on our privacy and rights, while being more secretive themselves, it is up to us protect ourselves. Call me paranoid, but am the Burt Gummer type. The Government has NO right to force me to divulge my self-secrets just like i can't force a government of the people, by the people and for the people to divulge its dirty secrets. I can't be transparent when the Government wants to be opaque. After all it has been proven that the Government cannot be trusted even with the most basic secrets. What is the criminal penalty for jokers who lost various laptops holding government secrets and OUR data? NONE. What is the financial and criminal penalty the Government will pay if it causes me harm by leaking my secrets? NONE. Until the Government pays for its mistakes(and heavily), am not going to divulge anything more to it. After all the Government am not trusty enough to know about its secrets, so why should i trust Government. Ben Franklin, Hamilton and Mark Twain were absolutely right: You CANNOT and SHOULD NOT trust the government, if it doesn't trust you.
It is ironical that a nation that Churchill once claimed to be a beacon of freedom is now worse than the Gestapo ever was. At least the Gestapo monitored only resistant fighters and their radios in occupied France. They did not curtail the activities of all citizens and in fact were scrupulous in maintaining privacy of those citizens. Papers were necessary, like today, but tapping of telephones, steaming open ALL mail, and getting into people's bedrooms is something even Himmler abhorred and was careful to avoid. Churchill would be turning in his grave...and Hitler would be laughing at him...
My case was similar. In my case my DVD Drive (Sony-never buy that), refused to read Spore disc. However hard i tried, i could not get it to read it. I had bought a package deal: Spore+Sims2=$45 I had installed Sims 2 without issues. (I also installed Crysis without issues). I tried it on my Mac which was able to read, but not copy files off the disc. Emailed EA about this and they asked me to try it elsewhere: did the same got the same result. They then asked me to exchange it with the vendor. Obviously vendors don't take back opened game packages; a fact lost on EA. Came back to EA crying, and all EA could say was "Sorry!". Meaning they are sorry am a loser and am out $45. But they can't refund the amount. I downloaded the image from torrents, burned it on to a DVD, installed it with my original key and today am playing. I mailed EA that i was "helping" them obey laws by forcing to perform their end of the contract by downloading and installing Spore. Look EA: Your support is fast, and your games are good. But if you have DRM, we WILL pirate it. Look at Stardock: No DRM, and i bought original games BECAUSE i liked them: Heck i don;t even play their SoSolar Empire or other games: But i still bought them to show them my support. Spore is GREAT, avoid DRM and you are Great too!
In reality that IS true. The Very Large bank where i was employed earlier had a special agreement with Microsoft. They got a customized version of XP meant specially for the bank's hardened network. Yeah i know the Admin kit allows customization, but i mean at a lower level: the NSA hookups in the system DLLs were not present! As soon as a Dell entered the bank, it was wiped out, and this OS was installed. It was a weird mix of little Linux bootup code and XP. You had all rights of an admin EXCEPT when it comes to modifying system32 or adding hookups to startup. Guess they had a different code base, because my laptop came with the bank's logo'ed recovery disc which had its bootup code and OS made from XP.
Don't forget Quantas tried to blame passenger electronics for this and tried to shift blame off them. According to Quantas Corporate Policy, passengers are pests and hassels for their "Safe Flying" policy. So they are trying to "that guy" passengers from flying with them. You know what? They succeeded! I will never fly quantas: Ever! Their award-winning bad-service, shitty gum-chewing airhostesses, their aussie-time-mentality and now unsafe aircraft are NOT the places where i rest my hairy ass.
What i can't understand is that: 1) Europe has the most liberal laws (relating to detention) anywhere in the World, but the most conservative set of people. 2) US has the most restrictive laws (same category) anywhere in the world, but has the most liberal of all peoples. In Germany if you are arrested and DNA-swapped, and the court frees you, this record of arrest including DNA is wiped O-U-T. I mean there is NO record of your arrest, mugshots, etc. That is not the case in US. In France they have the most restrictive laws for immigration, yet it is the only country in EU to allow so much immigration. US has the statue of liberty, yet cannot grant residency or citizenship even to ex-es of Soldiers inspite of laws. and yet about 250 years ago people fled EU persecution and fled into the waiting arms of the smiling lady across the atlantic ocean.
The idiot who hacked her account should have "implanted" the evidence, and instead of publicizing his exploit, he should have 'accidentally' forwarded the same from her account to PBS or Newyorker. Dumb ass. He shd have acted the same way Rove quashed the records of Bush as Air National Guard leakage. Silent and deadly.
Nothing cuts through the red tape and lines more effectively than a cranky baby screaming at 160 dB.
Very true... When i took my family to Singapore in 2005 my son was 1.5 yrs old. His ear drums were painful i guess, so he was making everyone deaf with his adorable screaming. The visa people called us out of turn (from behind 20 other guys) stamped our passports quickly (without even seeing it carefully) and was intent on sending us away. It was 6 AM in morning, guess she was upset her first duty in morning involved getting partially deaf. Unfortunately the same thing didn't work when we exited from Singapore. Our baby was very happy, smiling and clean: so much that the attendants were playing with him all the time,and delayed our boarding as a result...
Hey! That is true. It did happen with me once, but not exactly as you say: The customs guy was more interested in the pics of the office women (stock pics) seen in our corp presentation. He wanted to know who the beautiful ladies were(!?!) For a second i was flummoxed (they were stock images you see on web sites), but i recognized he was serious. So i pointed to each one of those ladies and told him one was our CFO, the other hottie was our CTO, and the 3rd and 4th were our computer technicians repairing their PCs. He looked me up with envious eyes and sighed before sending me away... Damn, i wish what i said was true... But in London it didn't work: I had dropped my laptop when i took it from my bag, and they were clearly upset about it. But they were least interested in seeing what i was having in it and sent me on my way when i offered to show it to them...
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You are begging to have speech outlawed. So if you open your mouth to say "Hi" to your wife or "Lets Play" to your kids, you are a terrorist.
Expect that soon and expect a BBC interview quoting Brown:
Brown: "Statistics have proven that 100% of the time terrorists opened their mouths to talk, it resulted in deaths of innocents. So outlawing speech by non-permitted citizens will result in the Crown Prosecuting violators as terrorists subject to 48 days detention."
Reporter: "But sir, how does everyone speak?"
Brown: "Mr.Commisioner, arrest this reporter for opening his mouth without written permission and incarcerate him."
Perfect, just state calmly that a laptop containing such videos was "lost" in train and contained videos of minors... she would be in a froth over this... ask her if the person should be jailed indefinitely until the laptop is found, once she says yes, reveal that a high powered labor minister was responsible and ask the court to jail him...
Case solved...
Dealing with these kind of fear-mongering is easy: silently make it reciprocal: You would see all arguments melt away.
Pit your enemy against his enemy.
Which is why Canada and Germany are considered beacons of freedom and are zealous in protecting citizens rights, while your neighbor south pisses all over it being led by a prez who chokes on a pretzel, and your queen's own country is busy watching every citizen bathe, take a dump, have s3x, while losing those tapes regularly...
I don't know which is ironical: A former Gestapo ruled state which now has highest personal respect and is averse to trampling upon its citizens rights, or the Lady of Liberty whose light is growing darker every day because her single-digit-IQ president thinks every non-american is a terrorist.
Agree to everything and reciprocate it. Apply it to government officials and ministers as well.
So if i can be put in preventive detention for 48 days, so can the communication minsister be for losing laptops of confidential information.
Put this clause in small letters, silently and make it a law.
Activate it once a sufficiently powerful guy loses another laptop. (Like a minister or a General). Watch the shouts of glee from citizens and cry if alarm from officials.
You can't download TrueCrypt in UK.
Try it...The web page times out.
You need to download the same from rapidshare or elsewhere.
Denial of access to tools which can protect your privacy is the first steps towards 1984.
18th century political tracts can get you hanged.
Our beloved Labor thinks we live under King George and his Monarchy.
So if they see something like Declaration of Independence, or Common Sense or Federalist Papers they will automatically assume you are a secceionist and seditionist and hang you first before bringing you to court.
They will even claim you were hanged because you resisted arrest.
And this comes from a paranoid government that doesn't lose a heartbeat when its officials regularly lose laptops full of citizens private information or even state secrets.
Probably someone should lose a laptop containing all the secret bank accounts and money owned by Labor officials, it would be fun to read them in Punch or Sunday times.
Its time the citizens pushed back.
File multiple cases against the governments in courts for various precedents: like camera while urinating, spying on my child's phone by an adult giving rise to serious "issues"... use the same laws against the Government: child pr.n, lewdness, the government official's loss of citizens private info, the failure to investigate bribery at highest levels... file millions of small such cases.
The government does not have infinite resources to fight all these.
At some point, you either become a Star Wars Empire with the State absorbing ALL power, or you become free.
Our politicians are not brilliant like the Emperor, so we shd be free.
Exactly! This is what i was writing about earlier.
Pretty Dangerous is the right word: If the Government can establish ONE precedent of keeping you in prison because you "forgot" the key, it sets a terrifying precedence, it brings SS and Gestapo and the brownshirts in one swoop.
Once they imprison, then can torture, and once you torture you cross the line...
It is very very dangerous.
Why can't the same courts who are so intent in trampling upon our rights, order Scotland Yard to complete its investigation into the bribery case against a certain arabic state?
I guess courts are afraid of the State: I can recall the 1935 ruling by Prussian court which exempted Gestapo from scruity of laws...
Well, if the Government can invoke such defense, then so can i.
More often we see the Government refusing to reveal any information to courts to convict people, but demand their conviction neverthless stating that revealing proof will make it more dangerous for citizens! They neither trust the courts, nor the defendant. But we are expected to blindly trust the Supreme Government to give away our personal lives so that some old, bald, a$$ can lose this information on a train home with no fear of reprecussions of any kind.
Hell, if the government can get away with a defense like "Pursuing this bribery case will result in serious oil supply disruptions", then so can i.
let them prove i committed perjury. I tend to forget a lot: including the exact time i took a dump yesterday, so am safe.
The Gestapo was different from SS, which was different from SA.
Although Gestapo was "owned" by SS, it was administered by the Reich Security Service. Similar to all other dual-control organisations which Hitler in his inherent supreme paranoia wanted to be: fighting amongst each other.
The fact of German V-men has been a myth. Even in 1939, Gestapo employed only about 60-90 informers in Saar-Brucken area.
Iam not justifying Gestapo or Hitler's atrocities.
Am just stating facts: yes in wartime people do get shot for stealing maps. The same way iraqis are "collaterally killed" by US troops.
What Britain is doing is very very frightful. This kind of ALL-Seeing information falling into the hands of a paranoid like Hitler is enough to throw the country into chaos and war easily.
Plus why can't the government become more transparent? They seek to x-ray me, but stall investigations into their own incompetency or outright bribery allegations.
How come the State is more important than me? Am the State, and this is a Government for the people.
In every way this ruling is more dangerous.
Great! Got enough evidence to get a warrant? No? Oh well, you're SOL then. Sorry, thanks for playing.
The Scotland Yard had enough evidence to nail everyone involved, until such time the PM intervened and stopped the investigation forcefully after the Prince threatened diplomatic retaliation.
My argument is why the courts where silent on this one: Why didn't they order scotland yard to continue? Can i get the same lenience from the courts?
It is interesting to note than while section 53 states criminal penalties for non-disclosure on part of defendant, section 55 does NOT state any criminal penalties against misuse/abuse of such information.
The Government has covered its shiny metal a$$ well with this section.
So the courts can sentence you to 6 months imprisonment for NOT revealing the key, but if you reveal the key and some government official loses it in the next train (which happens monthly), the CP or the government official cannot be imprisoned for the loss or any such loss caused to you by that loss.
Brilliant!
All the more reason for me to NOT give out my key.
Until such time i see a CP or a minister sentenced to jail for loss of residents' confidential information, am not comfortable with providing ANY information to this orwellian government.
I WILL claim memory loss for this. let them prove am lying
Its NOT illegal to say i forgot. The government uses it all the time to justify its continuous laptop losses...
So cite that in court. Plus add that the Government thinks the court is stupid. That will rile the judges enough to judge in your favor.
Nothing irritates a judge more than the Government arrogantly claiming they are bigger than the court.
It really *is* no different to being forced to hand over the key to the basement dungeon where you keep your step-daughter - chances are that they already know what they're looking for and where to look for it.
Chances are i know exactly the illegal bribes were paid to S.Arabia prince for arms and oil, so i can go knocking at 10, Downing street, enter the specific room and compel Brown to testify?
Hurts doesn't it?
Your kind of logic was already used by Goebbels and Himmler. Fear-mongering.
Take an excellent example: logical real one: like finding who bribed the prince, who killed the scientist who opposed the Iraq war, etc.
Now once the cops have solved all those crimes, they can come to my house, break open my door and seize my books and the beer my 17-year old drinks.
Why don't the courts FORCE the government to continue the bribes investigation? Are they afraid of the Government? Now that would be interesting isn't it?
Not like US. It appears to be bad, but the immigration is not that bad like US. If you are from a commonwealth country you really have less to worry.
Once inside, i learnt to ride the Tube in just a day. I visited the British Museum, Naval Observatory, the Greenwich stuff, all by myself.
I mean they are not that paranoid like in US where they strip-search you for visiting the USS Constitution and refuse any pics to be taken.
Secondly their intelligence is amazing. So if you don't have a record, you really don't have to be afraid of the orwellian eyes.
Why these jokers didn't say i forgot i will never know.
I mean how hard is it to NOT self-incriminate oneself: Say you forgot. Just like every other government official says after losing a laptop full of Witness Protection persons or intelligence officers, etc.
They can't compel you to recall something you don't remember.
Simply say "iam sorry i can't remember: my memory is a bit hazy from all the manhandling the cops did, your honor."
What's the worst? Gitmo? I don't think so (although Britain has a track record of renditioning suspects to US).
At a time when courts and the government make a combined assault on our privacy and rights, while being more secretive themselves, it is up to us protect ourselves. Call me paranoid, but am the Burt Gummer type.
The Government has NO right to force me to divulge my self-secrets just like i can't force a government of the people, by the people and for the people to divulge its dirty secrets.
I can't be transparent when the Government wants to be opaque.
After all it has been proven that the Government cannot be trusted even with the most basic secrets.
What is the criminal penalty for jokers who lost various laptops holding government secrets and OUR data? NONE.
What is the financial and criminal penalty the Government will pay if it causes me harm by leaking my secrets? NONE.
Until the Government pays for its mistakes(and heavily), am not going to divulge anything more to it. After all the Government am not trusty enough to know about its secrets, so why should i trust Government.
Ben Franklin, Hamilton and Mark Twain were absolutely right: You CANNOT and SHOULD NOT trust the government, if it doesn't trust you.
You can take my keys from my cold dead hands.
It is ironical that a nation that Churchill once claimed to be a beacon of freedom is now worse than the Gestapo ever was.
At least the Gestapo monitored only resistant fighters and their radios in occupied France.
They did not curtail the activities of all citizens and in fact were scrupulous in maintaining privacy of those citizens.
Papers were necessary, like today, but tapping of telephones, steaming open ALL mail, and getting into people's bedrooms is something even Himmler abhorred and was careful to avoid.
Churchill would be turning in his grave...and Hitler would be laughing at him...
My case was similar.
In my case my DVD Drive (Sony-never buy that), refused to read Spore disc. However hard i tried, i could not get it to read it.
I had bought a package deal: Spore+Sims2=$45 I had installed Sims 2 without issues. (I also installed Crysis without issues).
I tried it on my Mac which was able to read, but not copy files off the disc.
Emailed EA about this and they asked me to try it elsewhere: did the same got the same result. They then asked me to exchange it with the vendor. Obviously vendors don't take back opened game packages; a fact lost on EA.
Came back to EA crying, and all EA could say was "Sorry!".
Meaning they are sorry am a loser and am out $45. But they can't refund the amount.
I downloaded the image from torrents, burned it on to a DVD, installed it with my original key and today am playing.
I mailed EA that i was "helping" them obey laws by forcing to perform their end of the contract by downloading and installing Spore.
Look EA: Your support is fast, and your games are good. But if you have DRM, we WILL pirate it.
Look at Stardock: No DRM, and i bought original games BECAUSE i liked them: Heck i don;t even play their SoSolar Empire or other games: But i still bought them to show them my support.
Spore is GREAT, avoid DRM and you are Great too!
In reality that IS true.
The Very Large bank where i was employed earlier had a special agreement with Microsoft.
They got a customized version of XP meant specially for the bank's hardened network. Yeah i know the Admin kit allows customization, but i mean at a lower level: the NSA hookups in the system DLLs were not present!
As soon as a Dell entered the bank, it was wiped out, and this OS was installed. It was a weird mix of little Linux bootup code and XP.
You had all rights of an admin EXCEPT when it comes to modifying system32 or adding hookups to startup.
Guess they had a different code base, because my laptop came with the bank's logo'ed recovery disc which had its bootup code and OS made from XP.
Don't forget Quantas tried to blame passenger electronics for this and tried to shift blame off them.
According to Quantas Corporate Policy, passengers are pests and hassels for their "Safe Flying" policy.
So they are trying to "that guy" passengers from flying with them.
You know what? They succeeded!
I will never fly quantas: Ever!
Their award-winning bad-service, shitty gum-chewing airhostesses, their aussie-time-mentality and now unsafe aircraft are NOT the places where i rest my hairy ass.
What i can't understand is that:
1) Europe has the most liberal laws (relating to detention) anywhere in the World, but the most conservative set of people.
2) US has the most restrictive laws (same category) anywhere in the world, but has the most liberal of all peoples.
In Germany if you are arrested and DNA-swapped, and the court frees you, this record of arrest including DNA is wiped O-U-T. I mean there is NO record of your arrest, mugshots, etc.
That is not the case in US.
In France they have the most restrictive laws for immigration, yet it is the only country in EU to allow so much immigration.
US has the statue of liberty, yet cannot grant residency or citizenship even to ex-es of Soldiers inspite of laws.
and yet about 250 years ago people fled EU persecution and fled into the waiting arms of the smiling lady across the atlantic ocean.
She wasn't trading...
The idiot who hacked her account should have "implanted" the evidence, and instead of publicizing his exploit, he should have 'accidentally' forwarded the same from her account to PBS or Newyorker.
Dumb ass.
He shd have acted the same way Rove quashed the records of Bush as Air National Guard leakage.
Silent and deadly.
So?
Nothing cuts through the red tape and lines more effectively than a cranky baby screaming at 160 dB.
Very true...
When i took my family to Singapore in 2005 my son was 1.5 yrs old.
His ear drums were painful i guess, so he was making everyone deaf with his adorable screaming.
The visa people called us out of turn (from behind 20 other guys) stamped our passports quickly (without even seeing it carefully) and was intent on sending us away.
It was 6 AM in morning, guess she was upset her first duty in morning involved getting partially deaf.
Unfortunately the same thing didn't work when we exited from Singapore.
Our baby was very happy, smiling and clean: so much that the attendants were playing with him all the time,and delayed our boarding as a result...
Hey!
That is true.
It did happen with me once, but not exactly as you say:
The customs guy was more interested in the pics of the office women (stock pics) seen in our corp presentation.
He wanted to know who the beautiful ladies were(!?!)
For a second i was flummoxed (they were stock images you see on web sites), but i recognized he was serious.
So i pointed to each one of those ladies and told him one was our CFO, the other hottie was our CTO, and the 3rd and 4th were our computer technicians repairing their PCs.
He looked me up with envious eyes and sighed before sending me away...
Damn, i wish what i said was true...
But in London it didn't work: I had dropped my laptop when i took it from my bag, and they were clearly upset about it. But they were least interested in seeing what i was having in it and sent me on my way when i offered to show it to them...