development of fine motor skills comes later--four years olds are still working on gross motor skills (large movements with even the fingers). This alone is reason to encourage continued outdoor activity as without it, there might never be appropriate development for the kid and it could affect a variety of areas in his life.
If your friend really had a disruptor pistol, I think he could have gotten on the plane just fine without breaking it down. All he'd have to do would be to wave his hands and say, "There is no pistol" to the TSA agents.
Maybe this explains the news last week about a gamma ray halo around the galaxy - though honestly, science news is so often old hat, there's probably been an explanation for it for years (like the recent "discovery" of a new language that has been in the database for the last decade).
If everyone on the plane had an 18" combat knife, I think I would feel much safer in general.
News at 11, a man successfully smuggled explosives onto flight Q and was stopped from detonating the device when his seatmate rammed a knife through him. This sounds like a good reason to change security policy to me. After all, they are letting metal pointy scissors and screwdrivers on board, so why not "sharps"?
I don't see his idea working for a number of reasons.
1. There are perfectly good bluetooth connection kits coming even as standard packages on new cars today.
2. Many phones are used now as GPS map systems with voiced directions (mapquest for free on the iphone, garmin, etc. for money). These make you a safer driver than someone trying to read a map while driving (albeit not safer than someone who knows where he's going).
3. Streamed radio via phone (napster, pandora, etc.). This is possibly the weakest argument but is helpful when taken with the others.
4. navigators in the passenger seat using the gps phone stuff are perfectly safe.
5. The most important of all--congressmen who use phones while driving.
Except that the only reason GPS is inaccurate is because of client-side limits (that can easily be overcome--even legally--look at the iphone cell tower/GPS combo).
I am in favor of "unfunded mandates" and "public service" announcement requirements - if the government can require television broadcasters to carry public service announcements without paying them and requiring no payment be billed to viewers (and they can - the FCC governs the bandwidth allotment of individual towers and channels), then I see no reason to think they will be unable to require ATT / Sprint / etc. to carry free messages (ATT already does for Amber alerts on a voluntary basis).
This is not necessarily new - they have had opt-in free text messaging services in different areas of the country for at least two years now. Will the carriers start charging if it becomes nationwide? Yes. Have they up to now? Not where I used to live.
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through the xray - the knife was placed in line with the metal ribbing on the shoes and the shoes were placed next to each other to increase the amount of metal the xray "saw"
FTA (in case countSudoku's post requires too much effort;)):
The BacillaFilla spores start germinating only when they make contact with concrete — triggered by the very specific pH of the material — and they have a built-in self-destruct gene that prevents them from proliferating away from the concrete target.
I would like to buy some--the city is doing a <sarcasm> wonderful </sarcasm> job of taking care of the sidewalk in front of my house.
or perhaps we simply give those with bad memories earwigs and avoid close shots on their ear canals.
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Unpleasant... yes, effective? No. I was recently made aware of someone taking a hunting knife (not a $20 swiss army, but an actual knife) through security with the help of steel-toed boots. They were stopped on their return trip and thought the jig was up only to be told they couldn't take aerosol deodorant through the checkpoint. Both checks failed to catch the knife.
In related news, another friend, working for the coast guard, routinely made it through security (as part of his job to infiltrate and notify the chief of security inside the line) with explosives, guns, etc.
As near as I can figure, the entire point of airport security is to catch idiots and pacify the masses through some sort of fear / control response.
honestly, it probably is somewhat trollish, but really--scuba has stated his opinion (common slashdot) and expressed his potential solution to the problem noted in the article (also common on slashdot) while backing this up with his personal experience (pretty much universal on/.).
87 million shares is only a quarter of what he owns in the company (I know, he has a ridiculous amount of money in MSFT stock). Is it a lot? probably so, but he owns the third highest number of MSFT shares (second highest individual owner) and is unlikely to want to rock the boat. As a case in point, his announcement to sell was not something that did much to the price of the shares over the long term. People are unconcerned. Further, selling from time to time is expected - if the company is doing badly, he might sell, but if it is doing well, he will sell some shares for precisely the reason he has claimed--diversity. Gates owns only ~15 billion dollars' worth of MSFT shares and yet has a net worth over 40 billion.
Admittedly, some cooking magazines (Food & Wine) are more about things besides the cooking, but the recipes in it are quite fantastic if you are selective enough.
The Bible was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Latin came later (along with various other translations--Syriac, Coptic, etc.). If you look here, about an 8th of the way down, there is a heading "What is the NET Bible?" that looks at where the original texts came from (I figured an actual Bible translation's site might be better than wikipedia in this case).
Right - by the time the prohibition came, it was an attempt to maintain control of the political arm of a body that its members increasingly felt should be focused on the religious side... supporting the secular political authority (be it independently or through direct interaction--this last reflecting the early Lutheran, Reformed, and Anglican positions, the former looking towards more modern expressions).
um... I'll admit they've not been doing as well as they used to, but their stock would seem to indicate that they are not losing money. Individual divisions might be (they did get in the news yesterday for playing games with sales figures in one division--but not in a way that the money didn't come from somewhere in the company), but as a whole, their P/E is better than Apple's (even if they do have a lower market cap).
This brings up another reason for these services. I remember back in grad school a number of students writing their papers, turning them in, and then submitting the same prompts to paper writing companies to see how they could have done the same work differently (helpful when dealing with a largely commuter school where inter-student interaction is lower). Other students would write their papers and then buy a second paper before submission in order to evaluate their work before submission (Is that cheating or peer review--kind of a fuzzy line there if they still turned in their original work).
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development of fine motor skills comes later--four years olds are still working on gross motor skills (large movements with even the fingers). This alone is reason to encourage continued outdoor activity as without it, there might never be appropriate development for the kid and it could affect a variety of areas in his life.
insanely enough, "toiletry" aerosols are now allowed again.
um... not just thanks to the Supreme Court--this was a reasonable interpretation of Amendment 14 (the "Equal Protection Clause," specifically).
If your friend really had a disruptor pistol, I think he could have gotten on the plane just fine without breaking it down. All he'd have to do would be to wave his hands and say, "There is no pistol" to the TSA agents.
Maybe this explains the news last week about a gamma ray halo around the galaxy - though honestly, science news is so often old hat, there's probably been an explanation for it for years (like the recent "discovery" of a new language that has been in the database for the last decade).
If everyone on the plane had an 18" combat knife, I think I would feel much safer in general.
News at 11, a man successfully smuggled explosives onto flight Q and was stopped from detonating the device when his seatmate rammed a knife through him. This sounds like a good reason to change security policy to me. After all, they are letting metal pointy scissors and screwdrivers on board, so why not "sharps"?
1. There are perfectly good bluetooth connection kits coming even as standard packages on new cars today.
2. Many phones are used now as GPS map systems with voiced directions (mapquest for free on the iphone, garmin, etc. for money). These make you a safer driver than someone trying to read a map while driving (albeit not safer than someone who knows where he's going).
3. Streamed radio via phone (napster, pandora, etc.). This is possibly the weakest argument but is helpful when taken with the others.
4. navigators in the passenger seat using the gps phone stuff are perfectly safe.
5. The most important of all--congressmen who use phones while driving.
Except that the only reason GPS is inaccurate is because of client-side limits (that can easily be overcome--even legally--look at the iphone cell tower/GPS combo).
I am in favor of "unfunded mandates" and "public service" announcement requirements - if the government can require television broadcasters to carry public service announcements without paying them and requiring no payment be billed to viewers (and they can - the FCC governs the bandwidth allotment of individual towers and channels), then I see no reason to think they will be unable to require ATT / Sprint / etc. to carry free messages (ATT already does for Amber alerts on a voluntary basis).
This is not necessarily new - they have had opt-in free text messaging services in different areas of the country for at least two years now. Will the carriers start charging if it becomes nationwide? Yes. Have they up to now? Not where I used to live.
through the xray - the knife was placed in line with the metal ribbing on the shoes and the shoes were placed next to each other to increase the amount of metal the xray "saw"
The BacillaFilla spores start germinating only when they make contact with concrete — triggered by the very specific pH of the material — and they have a built-in self-destruct gene that prevents them from proliferating away from the concrete target.
I would like to buy some--the city is doing a <sarcasm> wonderful </sarcasm> job of taking care of the sidewalk in front of my house.
or perhaps we simply give those with bad memories earwigs and avoid close shots on their ear canals.
Unpleasant... yes, effective? No. I was recently made aware of someone taking a hunting knife (not a $20 swiss army, but an actual knife) through security with the help of steel-toed boots. They were stopped on their return trip and thought the jig was up only to be told they couldn't take aerosol deodorant through the checkpoint. Both checks failed to catch the knife.
In related news, another friend, working for the coast guard, routinely made it through security (as part of his job to infiltrate and notify the chief of security inside the line) with explosives, guns, etc.
As near as I can figure, the entire point of airport security is to catch idiots and pacify the masses through some sort of fear / control response.
honestly, it probably is somewhat trollish, but really--scuba has stated his opinion (common slashdot) and expressed his potential solution to the problem noted in the article (also common on slashdot) while backing this up with his personal experience (pretty much universal on /.).
and it is now even easier for those of us who otherwise have to pay a fee to block numbers--Google Voice FTW.
87 million shares is only a quarter of what he owns in the company (I know, he has a ridiculous amount of money in MSFT stock). Is it a lot? probably so, but he owns the third highest number of MSFT shares (second highest individual owner) and is unlikely to want to rock the boat. As a case in point, his announcement to sell was not something that did much to the price of the shares over the long term. People are unconcerned. Further, selling from time to time is expected - if the company is doing badly, he might sell, but if it is doing well, he will sell some shares for precisely the reason he has claimed--diversity. Gates owns only ~15 billion dollars' worth of MSFT shares and yet has a net worth over 40 billion.
There has to be a reason ants like to eat circuit boards after all.
Admittedly, some cooking magazines (Food & Wine) are more about things besides the cooking, but the recipes in it are quite fantastic if you are selective enough.
The Bible was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Latin came later (along with various other translations--Syriac, Coptic, etc.). If you look here, about an 8th of the way down, there is a heading "What is the NET Bible?" that looks at where the original texts came from (I figured an actual Bible translation's site might be better than wikipedia in this case).
Right - by the time the prohibition came, it was an attempt to maintain control of the political arm of a body that its members increasingly felt should be focused on the religious side... supporting the secular political authority (be it independently or through direct interaction--this last reflecting the early Lutheran, Reformed, and Anglican positions, the former looking towards more modern expressions).
He's conflating the two. Luther was buried and not later exhumed (the ruling powers in the area stayed Lutheran).
um... I'll admit they've not been doing as well as they used to, but their stock would seem to indicate that they are not losing money. Individual divisions might be (they did get in the news yesterday for playing games with sales figures in one division--but not in a way that the money didn't come from somewhere in the company), but as a whole, their P/E is better than Apple's (even if they do have a lower market cap).
This brings up another reason for these services. I remember back in grad school a number of students writing their papers, turning them in, and then submitting the same prompts to paper writing companies to see how they could have done the same work differently (helpful when dealing with a largely commuter school where inter-student interaction is lower). Other students would write their papers and then buy a second paper before submission in order to evaluate their work before submission (Is that cheating or peer review--kind of a fuzzy line there if they still turned in their original work).
... this is also the more fun way to do things in terms of grading and for the students as well.