"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!"
Yeah, that's pretty bad. It will take cases like this for people to realize that anything they say online is instantly public and viewable by the entire world.
Speech has consequences. If you threaten to blow up airports, you will probably be prosecuted.
It's parody, but it's in fairly poor taste when you're in a flying aluminum can with hundreds of people, many of whom are extremely apprehensive about flying at all, let alone with a guy wearing a shirt talking about bombs and terrorists.
Fact is that wearing a shirt talking about bombs and terrorists in an airport while getting onto a plane is going to make a significant number of people very uncomfortable. Many of these people are already quite uncomfortable already without having to deal with jokes about bombs.
The guy wasn't prevented from flying because he made fun of the TSA. He was prevented from flying because he was wearing a shirt joking about bombs and terrorists.
Or carpet bombing. Having your cities all mostly destroyed by warfare is a pretty good excuse to rebuild. Unlike much of Europe, that hasn't happened in the northeast US in quite a while.
The NE neighborhoods are so old they predate power lines. Tearing up all the streets and sidewalks in the entire northeastern US would have cost ridiculous amounts of money.
False registration information isn't going to help when they have a full record of IP addresses you accessed the site from. Most Twitter users also either log in from their phone or use SMS to post tweets, which both result in Twitter having your phone number.
When there's a sound occurring off-screen, like an explosion or helicopter, how do you intend to handle that? Just have the sound come from the exact same place as the on-screen dialog, even though that doesn't make any logical sense?
How about environmental sounds like rain, airplane cabin drone, echoes, etc?
You can go to Best Buy right now and pick up a hundred Blu-ray discs that already have 8 channels of lossless audio (7.1) on them.
With the move to 4K looking like it's going to happen this decade, don't be surprised when the successor to BD will have 9.1 or even 11.2 audio, with support for 1-4 overhead channels.
That's true, but either way I don't want the capabilities available to me for my properly set-up home theater to be limited by what morons do in their own homes;)
1) It will be astonishingly awesome in a professional theater.
2) No matter how many independent channels you've recorded or mixed for a pro theater, you can always downmix them to fit your personal theater layout. It's not as possible to as effectively upmix from fewer to more channels.
So by all means mix movies in 62.2 sound! Then give us Blu-ray discs with 7 surround channels, four ceiling channels, and two sub channels.
I guess I didn't realize that Al Qeada was the official world terrorist group and that terrorism began with them. I also didn't realize that their sole continued reason for existence is US presence in Saudi Arabia.
Because of our involvement and activism in the middle east. We have steadfastly supported Israel since its creation, we invaded Iraq and toppled its government, we have participated in the overthrow of Iran's government, etc etc. We've messed with and in many cases toppled with the national governments in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and others.
We've been dicking around in their business for 70 years. It's easy for the US to send some troops and equipment over and have a massive influence by installing dictators, killing people, etc. - all while pretending it's perfectly acceptable. They don't have the resources to do that, so we get car bombs.
The idea behind suppressing undesirable or illegal videos is the same idea behind advertising. Companies spend money on advertising because advertising works. Deleting or otherwise suppressing what amounts to "terrorist advertising" is helpful to suppressing terrorism itself (or at least active recruitment/incitement to terrorism).
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By linking to people who illegally distribute the Google binaries. They used to provide them directly before Google threatened a lawsuit.
Here is his tweet:
"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!"
Yeah, that's pretty bad. It will take cases like this for people to realize that anything they say online is instantly public and viewable by the entire world.
Speech has consequences. If you threaten to blow up airports, you will probably be prosecuted.
Next time you're on a plane, stand up and say "ZOMG BOMBS ZOMG TERRORISTS STUPID TSA! SECURITY THEATER!" and see if you disrupt anything.
You do have the freedom to express yourself.
Delta pilots also have the freedom to kick you off their planes if you do so in a disruptive way.
It's parody, but it's in fairly poor taste when you're in a flying aluminum can with hundreds of people, many of whom are extremely apprehensive about flying at all, let alone with a guy wearing a shirt talking about bombs and terrorists.
Fact is that wearing a shirt talking about bombs and terrorists in an airport while getting onto a plane is going to make a significant number of people very uncomfortable. Many of these people are already quite uncomfortable already without having to deal with jokes about bombs.
The guy wasn't prevented from flying because he made fun of the TSA. He was prevented from flying because he was wearing a shirt joking about bombs and terrorists.
What kind of idiot wears a shirt that says "bombs" and "terrorists" and "gonna kill us all" onto a plane?
They're fanboys of Apple products but have largely been highly critical of the company itself.
Interestingly, Verizon's new plans saved me about $20 a month over three phones.
Or carpet bombing. Having your cities all mostly destroyed by warfare is a pretty good excuse to rebuild. Unlike much of Europe, that hasn't happened in the northeast US in quite a while.
The NE neighborhoods are so old they predate power lines. Tearing up all the streets and sidewalks in the entire northeastern US would have cost ridiculous amounts of money.
False registration information isn't going to help when they have a full record of IP addresses you accessed the site from. Most Twitter users also either log in from their phone or use SMS to post tweets, which both result in Twitter having your phone number.
I agree with your points. Minor niggle: 4k is 3996 x 2160, or 2160p. At least, that's one of the 4k formats. All the others are rather close to that.
The difference between BD and DVD is obvious on a 32" 1080p screen, let alone a 50-70" one which is now commonplace.
The difference between 1080p and 4k is obvious on a 60" 1080p plasma. It's blindingly apparent on the increasingly common 100-130" projection screens.
I can fill a room with a fart. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make things better than farts.
When there's a sound occurring off-screen, like an explosion or helicopter, how do you intend to handle that? Just have the sound come from the exact same place as the on-screen dialog, even though that doesn't make any logical sense?
How about environmental sounds like rain, airplane cabin drone, echoes, etc?
Surround sound exists for a reason.
You can go to Best Buy right now and pick up a hundred Blu-ray discs that already have 8 channels of lossless audio (7.1) on them.
With the move to 4K looking like it's going to happen this decade, don't be surprised when the successor to BD will have 9.1 or even 11.2 audio, with support for 1-4 overhead channels.
That's true, but either way I don't want the capabilities available to me for my properly set-up home theater to be limited by what morons do in their own homes ;)
It certainly is, but two points:
1) It will be astonishingly awesome in a professional theater.
2) No matter how many independent channels you've recorded or mixed for a pro theater, you can always downmix them to fit your personal theater layout. It's not as possible to as effectively upmix from fewer to more channels.
So by all means mix movies in 62.2 sound! Then give us Blu-ray discs with 7 surround channels, four ceiling channels, and two sub channels.
I guess I didn't realize that Al Qeada was the official world terrorist group and that terrorism began with them. I also didn't realize that their sole continued reason for existence is US presence in Saudi Arabia.
I believe that some aircraft have a mechanism that intentionally vibrates the stick as a means to alert the pilot to such a warning.
Because of our involvement and activism in the middle east. We have steadfastly supported Israel since its creation, we invaded Iraq and toppled its government, we have participated in the overthrow of Iran's government, etc etc. We've messed with and in many cases toppled with the national governments in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and others.
We've been dicking around in their business for 70 years. It's easy for the US to send some troops and equipment over and have a massive influence by installing dictators, killing people, etc. - all while pretending it's perfectly acceptable. They don't have the resources to do that, so we get car bombs.
The idea behind suppressing undesirable or illegal videos is the same idea behind advertising. Companies spend money on advertising because advertising works. Deleting or otherwise suppressing what amounts to "terrorist advertising" is helpful to suppressing terrorism itself (or at least active recruitment/incitement to terrorism).
If Monsanto can't patent the GM crop you created, Monsanto is not going to create any GM crops.
IT investigator? What does that even mean? The IT guys don't do interrogations.
This was just some guy who obviously didn't know much about computers bullshitting.
That's reasonable. What's not really reasonable is having to blur out faces, license plates, and a billion other things.