Even if you should be able to carry box cutters on to a flight, what reaction do you think other passengers will have?
I certainly would be very suspicious of someone carrying one on to a flight. In fact, I would be sleeping with one eye open.
My point is, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone getting detained by police if they happen to be doing something that can be remotely linked to something that people are paranoid about at the time. I'm not saying it's right, but how far are you willing to go to ignore behaviour like that?
Dangerous people are still dangerous. How do you filter those people out at check in? Or on the street? Many terrorists do a pretty good job hiding the fact they are terrorists, (it's part of their job requirements), so how can you tell? Ignore it and hope for the best?
If box cutters aren't a big deal, let's see you try to get on a commercial flight with a set or two. In this day and age, box cutters on a flight are just as dangerous as a stick of dynamite. I'd like to think that we should focus on the person wielding these tools moreso than the tools itself, but really, we don't have enough time to do background checks on everyone who tries to board a plane with these items.
It's much more efficient to take that person aside, confiscate the offending item and be off with it. It's just the way it's going to be. What other way is there?
This whole thing is just like the saying "Once bitten, twice shy". The guy taking pictures of buses as an action on its own is not illegal or suspicious, but put into context with the London bus bombings and you can see where people's minds are going.
By the way you sound, it seems like you're ok with letting box cutters back onto flights now?
Well, before 9/11 apparently it was acceptable to carry box cutters on to a flight. Never thought it to be a problem before, but now it's a huge deal.
Security has to evolve with the methods that criminals use. Which explains why the cop is all suspicious.
Much like if you were to park your exotic car in a parking lot. Lots of people are going to walk by and look at it, and into it. Now if someone told you, you had just parked in a lot known for car thefts, would you not then be suspicious of everyone that walked by your car then? Same thing. It's not illegal to look at cars.
It's not flawed - the problem is you cannot count. Anything multiplied with zero is zero. For the other issue: consider the sentence "a is b smaller than c". To find out the value of a, you subtract b from c. I.e. a = c-b. In the example above, there is just the added multiplication.
Offtopic: I hope you're happy to get your undeserved mod points just because you are a registered user. I'm staying happily anonymous.
No, the sentence referred to is not "a is b smaller than c", it is "a is b times smaller than c". In which case your explaination does not work.
"Times" is the key word, as it indicates multiple. So a = c/b.
How is my mod points undeserved? If mods didn't feel I deserve them, they'll take it away. Hiding in anonymity only serves to give you an excuse "Oh, that wasn't me. That's some OTHER Anonymous Coward."
While donations are great and I hate to find ulterior motives for everything, corporations rarely do anything out of the goodness of their hearts. Most "charitable foudations" created by corporations or extremely wealthy individuals exist as a way to create tax deductions for the individuals or corporations in question. They get the tax break and also get to spend the money in a way that may directly or indirectly benefit them. It's mostly a win for everyone involved, but don't chalk it up to altruism or anything like that.
So basically when I donate to charitable foundations such as the Breast Cancer Society, or the Heart and Stroke Foundation I'm really doing so to save my OWN ass? Get real! Altruism exists whether you choose to believe it or not.
Be glad that you are not living in America. I have about 20 credit cards and several bank accounts. I'll need a backpack for all the keyfobs...
What does living in America and having 20 credit cards have to do with each other?
As far as I know, there really isn't any need to carry more than a few, either VISA or MC incase a place takes one and not the other. Other than that, you've got a wallet full of redundancy.
I imagine if you're trying to apply for a loan, each card and its credit limit are going to count heavily against you being a successful applicant.
I've often wanted to send a Nigerian an email that goes a little something like this:
Hello Sir/Madam,
I am writing to you in request for some assistance. My name is John Smith and I work for the US Treasury Department as a Foreign Aid Director. A few years ago there was a government plan to hold aside some money to help poorer nations in Africa, particularly Nigeria. Over the years, this fund has grown to nearly $300 Million US dollars. Unfortunately the money cannot be released due to bureaucratic red tape. It seems in order to release the money, a release tax must be paid to the US taxpayers.
The reason I come to you is that the man in charge of this fund Mike Hunt has recently died, and this account has come under my control. It is to the best of my knowledge that no one else knows about this money. All I ask is that you help me with the release tax and act as the Nigerian Foreign Aid representative. Of the $300 Million US Dollars, you will receive 25% for your assistance.
Please contact me as soon as you can, as I am worried the accountants are getting close to finding this money. If you cannot help, please forward this request to your friends.
if you were a citizen in a country that decided to "break off" from the rest of the Internet, wouldn't you prefer to keep your access to the old one rather than start over from scratch?
Start all over from scratch?!
You mean I have to endure again all of the horribly coded HTML pages with the blinking tag and nested frames used without discretion? Or the hamster dance song once again mass forwarded by friends who think it is original? Does this mean I have to revert my browser back to Netscape 4 and buy an internet directory printed like yellow pages?
Oh for the love [insert name of favourite deity here] won't someone think of me! ME!!!!
Would you say gravity is just the best explanation for why things fall that doesn't involve a God? Is thermodynamics just the best non-God explanation for why things get cold?
I read an article that said gravity doesn't exist and the only reason why we don't all float away is because God is willing us to be stuck to the ground.
Planes and balloons float because God allows them to.
Don't have the link, but it's found on The Onion if you're curious.
My "back to school" dreams revolve around having to go back to complete grade 8 to validate my degree and my career all because I had questionable grades that year.
I report to class mid year and am forced to sit in the back in kiddie a sized desk and chair. My knees are up to my chest and the teacher won't let me use a pen, giving me a pencil instead.
I get in trouble for not paying attention to the math lesson which consisted of learning +/- fractions. I subsequently fail the following math quiz.
From TFA:He used to spend hours online each day, often going without food or sleep. His face is drawn and sallow.
Could someone explain the difference between the above statement, and those used by Comp Sci, and Engineering students nearing assignment due dates and exams?
I remember taking two courses in the same semester that everyone warned me about not taking in the same semester. That resulted in me "often going without food or sleep" in an effort to make deadlines. I entered the semester a healthy student, came out looking like I went to war.
They should have clinics for people like me filled with young nurse hotness.
So am I going to have to get a third DVD player for my home theatre exclusively to watch Chinese Cinema? Crap, so in stead of watching good foreign films I will be stuck watching the effed-up American remakes. If anyone thinks that The Departed will be anything like Infernal Affairs, theyve got another thing coming...
You're not going to have to buy another DVD player. A Chinese player will probably just stuff all the formats into one unit.
Infernal Affairs... one of my all time favourites.
Not to sound jingoistic by any means, but 'made in China' and 'quality product' rarely appear in the same paragraph (with the exception of this one...)
Having friends with factories in China, I can tell you that quality can be adjusted any way you want.
You want cheap products, they can make it cheap, they skimp on QA to save dollars. However, if you want them to produce high quality goods, they can do that too, just add some extra $$$ to the bottom line and they can make it to whatever quality standard you want.
Who? The aliens? FYI, they know what you're going to say before you've even said it. Your brainwaves give your thoughts away!
Fortunately, I have this produce which blocks it. Made from an alloy. I can't tell you what it is until after you've put it on in case they are listening.
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Even if you should be able to carry box cutters on to a flight, what reaction do you think other passengers will have?
I certainly would be very suspicious of someone carrying one on to a flight. In fact, I would be sleeping with one eye open.
My point is, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone getting detained by police if they happen to be doing something that can be remotely linked to something that people are paranoid about at the time. I'm not saying it's right, but how far are you willing to go to ignore behaviour like that?
Dangerous people are still dangerous. How do you filter those people out at check in? Or on the street? Many terrorists do a pretty good job hiding the fact they are terrorists, (it's part of their job requirements), so how can you tell? Ignore it and hope for the best?
If box cutters aren't a big deal, let's see you try to get on a commercial flight with a set or two. In this day and age, box cutters on a flight are just as dangerous as a stick of dynamite. I'd like to think that we should focus on the person wielding these tools moreso than the tools itself, but really, we don't have enough time to do background checks on everyone who tries to board a plane with these items.
It's much more efficient to take that person aside, confiscate the offending item and be off with it. It's just the way it's going to be. What other way is there?
This whole thing is just like the saying "Once bitten, twice shy". The guy taking pictures of buses as an action on its own is not illegal or suspicious, but put into context with the London bus bombings and you can see where people's minds are going.
By the way you sound, it seems like you're ok with letting box cutters back onto flights now?
Well, before 9/11 apparently it was acceptable to carry box cutters on to a flight. Never thought it to be a problem before, but now it's a huge deal.
Security has to evolve with the methods that criminals use. Which explains why the cop is all suspicious.
Much like if you were to park your exotic car in a parking lot. Lots of people are going to walk by and look at it, and into it. Now if someone told you, you had just parked in a lot known for car thefts, would you not then be suspicious of everyone that walked by your car then? Same thing. It's not illegal to look at cars.
Why does it matter?
It matters because before the London bus bombings, no one cared.
After the London bus bombings, everyone was all paranoid.
Which is the same as FAA banning nail clippers on flights after 9/11.
Hrm, wonder how many hundreds of people with that name there must be.
Yea, the shirt is a little much.
Can you imagine the endless wrong numbers?
"Hello?"
"Yes, is this Jack Thompson the lawyer?"
"Oh jeez, NO, for the last time this is not Jack Thompson the lawyer. This is Jack Thompson the baker. The master baker!!"
You really think that photographing buses counts as suspicious behaviour?
You did this BEFORE, or AFTER the London bus and subway bombings?
It's not flawed - the problem is you cannot count. Anything multiplied with zero is zero. For the other issue: consider the sentence "a is b smaller than c". To find out the value of a, you subtract b from c. I.e. a = c-b. In the example above, there is just the added multiplication.
Offtopic: I hope you're happy to get your undeserved mod points just because you are a registered user. I'm staying happily anonymous.
No, the sentence referred to is not "a is b smaller than c", it is "a is b times smaller than c". In which case your explaination does not work.
"Times" is the key word, as it indicates multiple. So a = c/b.
How is my mod points undeserved? If mods didn't feel I deserve them, they'll take it away. Hiding in anonymity only serves to give you an excuse "Oh, that wasn't me. That's some OTHER Anonymous Coward."
While donations are great and I hate to find ulterior motives for everything, corporations rarely do anything out of the goodness of their hearts. Most "charitable foudations" created by corporations or extremely wealthy individuals exist as a way to create tax deductions for the individuals or corporations in question. They get the tax break and also get to spend the money in a way that may directly or indirectly benefit them. It's mostly a win for everyone involved, but don't chalk it up to altruism or anything like that.
So basically when I donate to charitable foundations such as the Breast Cancer Society, or the Heart and Stroke Foundation I'm really doing so to save my OWN ass? Get real! Altruism exists whether you choose to believe it or not.
So by your math, if I had a 0 MHz machine, and I wanted 400 times the power, I would have to do this.
0MHz x 400 = 0MHz???? Whaaaat???? Umm... I think your math is flawed.
Could I patent just that pattern? Or does it have to be a complete gene?
How is it fair to patent a human gene? Does somebody owe royalties on the patent for the eyelash, too? Maybe I'll go patent helium, while we're at it.
Helium? Why are you being half-assed about it? Patenting Carbon would be the way to go!
Be glad that you are not living in America. I have about 20 credit cards and several bank accounts. I'll need a backpack for all the keyfobs...
What does living in America and having 20 credit cards have to do with each other?
As far as I know, there really isn't any need to carry more than a few, either VISA or MC incase a place takes one and not the other. Other than that, you've got a wallet full of redundancy.
I imagine if you're trying to apply for a loan, each card and its credit limit are going to count heavily against you being a successful applicant.
I've often wanted to send a Nigerian an email that goes a little something like this:
Hello Sir/Madam,
I am writing to you in request for some assistance. My name is John Smith and I work for the US Treasury Department as a Foreign Aid Director. A few years ago there was a government plan to hold aside some money to help poorer nations in Africa, particularly Nigeria. Over the years, this fund has grown to nearly $300 Million US dollars. Unfortunately the money cannot be released due to bureaucratic red tape. It seems in order to release the money, a release tax must be paid to the US taxpayers.
The reason I come to you is that the man in charge of this fund Mike Hunt has recently died, and this account has come under my control. It is to the best of my knowledge that no one else knows about this money. All I ask is that you help me with the release tax and act as the Nigerian Foreign Aid representative. Of the $300 Million US Dollars, you will receive 25% for your assistance.
Please contact me as soon as you can, as I am worried the accountants are getting close to finding this money. If you cannot help, please forward this request to your friends.
Sincerely yours,
John Smith
if you were a citizen in a country that decided to "break off" from the rest of the Internet, wouldn't you prefer to keep your access to the old one rather than start over from scratch?
Start all over from scratch?!
You mean I have to endure again all of the horribly coded HTML pages with the blinking tag and nested frames used without discretion? Or the hamster dance song once again mass forwarded by friends who think it is original? Does this mean I have to revert my browser back to Netscape 4 and buy an internet directory printed like yellow pages?
Oh for the love [insert name of favourite deity here] won't someone think of me! ME!!!!
Would you say gravity is just the best explanation for why things fall that doesn't involve a God? Is thermodynamics just the best non-God explanation for why things get cold?
I read an article that said gravity doesn't exist and the only reason why we don't all float away is because God is willing us to be stuck to the ground.
Planes and balloons float because God allows them to.
Don't have the link, but it's found on The Onion if you're curious.
I was tempted to, but they only give me plastic scissors.
My "back to school" dreams revolve around having to go back to complete grade 8 to validate my degree and my career all because I had questionable grades that year.
I report to class mid year and am forced to sit in the back in kiddie a sized desk and chair. My knees are up to my chest and the teacher won't let me use a pen, giving me a pencil instead.
I get in trouble for not paying attention to the math lesson which consisted of learning +/- fractions. I subsequently fail the following math quiz.
What does this dream mean?
I'm in space. You're in space. We're all in space.
Look! I'm launching myself into space *jumps up and down*
Somebody FUND me!!!
"Los Lobos kick your ass.
Los Lobos kick your face.
Los Lobos kick your balls into OUTER SPACE!"
Shuttup and think of the children.
Thoughtcrime will be punished.
WHAT?!?! You're thinking of children? You dirty paedophile! You should be put away for thinking such thoughts.
Someone give me a +5 Awesome!
I'm packing my bags and moving to -- oh sh*t!
*ahem...puts on movie commercial voice*
"There's nowhere to run. There's nowhere to hide. Coming to a government near you, Widespread Tap Access! In lawbooks winter 2005."
From TFA:He used to spend hours online each day, often going without food or sleep. His face is drawn and sallow.
Could someone explain the difference between the above statement, and those used by Comp Sci, and Engineering students nearing assignment due dates and exams?
I remember taking two courses in the same semester that everyone warned me about not taking in the same semester. That resulted in me "often going without food or sleep" in an effort to make deadlines. I entered the semester a healthy student, came out looking like I went to war.
They should have clinics for people like me filled with young nurse hotness.
5. not sell a single movie because all chinese movies suck
Nice... you've probably seen like 2 movies from the 70s to make this statement declaring your stupidity.
There have been some awesome movies made from China which were blockbusters around the world.
Need I say "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "House of Flying Daggers" to name just two.
You can probably crawl back under your bridge now.
So am I going to have to get a third DVD player for my home theatre exclusively to watch Chinese Cinema?
Crap, so in stead of watching good foreign films I will be stuck watching the effed-up American remakes. If anyone thinks that The Departed will be anything like Infernal Affairs, theyve got another thing coming...
You're not going to have to buy another DVD player. A Chinese player will probably just stuff all the formats into one unit.
Infernal Affairs... one of my all time favourites.
Not to sound jingoistic by any means, but 'made in China' and 'quality product' rarely appear in the same paragraph (with the exception of this one...)
Having friends with factories in China, I can tell you that quality can be adjusted any way you want.
You want cheap products, they can make it cheap, they skimp on QA to save dollars. However, if you want them to produce high quality goods, they can do that too, just add some extra $$$ to the bottom line and they can make it to whatever quality standard you want.
It's all about how much you want to spend.
Who? The aliens? FYI, they know what you're going to say before you've even said it. Your brainwaves give your thoughts away!
Fortunately, I have this produce which blocks it. Made from an alloy. I can't tell you what it is until after you've put it on in case they are listening.