You don't understand: Americans need their own house with home theater, man cave, and 10,000 feet for all their electrical appliances and weekend parties. And a triple garage for their cars/ATVs.
And they need it all from working a few hours a day without getting their hands dirty.
Look at it from a criminal's point of view: The very best place to commit a crime is a place where you're certain that nobody has the means to stop you.
Most criminals also prefer places with no witnesses and an escape route.
Committing a crime in front of 200 people while locked in a metal tube which is headed straight for the nearest SWAT team? Even the average dumbass criminal can figure that one out by himself...
I can't imagine any sane person thinks preventing guns on plans is a bad thing.
No, a sane person knows that: a) Penetration testers regularly get guns past the TSA b) Guns/knives aren't very useful to terrorists since they started locking the cockpit door. c) If a person pulls out a gun on a plane he's instantly going to be jumped by the other passengers. d) If a person does something bad on a plane he's got no escape route. When it lands there'll be a whole bunch of people with M16s waiting for him. You'd have to be a complete idiot to try anything on a plane. Even a suicidal crazy only has a small chance of success (see point c).
So...what's the incentive for people to try to commit gun crimes on a plane? What sort of crime can they even commit? Robbery? Mugging?
Having armed people on a 'plane is really no dangerous than, say, having armed people in a restaurant. Driving to the airport is probably more risky than allowing guns on planes.
America needs to get it out of their collective skulls that airports are somehow special places which need massive extra protection. All you need is old fashioned metal detectors (with sensible policies for people who forget to check in their weapons) and smart, well trained people watching for troublemakers in the queues. More than that is counter-productive.
I'm actually feeling pretty encouraged this morning. It has been a while since I felt that way.
Won't make any difference...it'll just resurface in 2012 attached to the back of the "True Patriotic Americans against Pedophiles and Terrorists" bill.
Yep, and in the long term all these lawsuits are giving an amazing amount of free publicity to Samsung...can you even name another Android tablet maker any more?
More than likely though they just find other sources of copper to steal from or just steal more of it in more sophisticated operations.
You overestimate the intelligence of thieves. The word is out that cable is valuable so the average thief will carry right on stealing it.
The fact that he doesn't get paid much just means he won't take the day off to spend money. He'll be out stealing cable next day instead. Net result: even more cable being stolen than before.
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While you probably won't get jailed for saying such...
...you can still get the Christian mob to lynch you, eg. Jessica Ahlquist
You don't understand: Americans need their own house with home theater, man cave, and 10,000 feet for all their electrical appliances and weekend parties. And a triple garage for their cars/ATVs.
And they need it all from working a few hours a day without getting their hands dirty.
FYI - American workers are the most productive workers in the world. You have no argument for laziness.
LOL!
Yeah, "multi million" divided by 37 isn't an awful lot to a Murdoch.
Maybe it's worth money...
...and who chose Poland as the place to do it?
I can see the meeting now:
"Which country will be the easiest to bribe our way into?"
"It's close, between Spain and Poland ... but we think Polish politicians drink the most over dinner. We'd go with them."
Joking aside...this is how it's done.
I want to know if the actual crime he's being charged with is "Piracy".
they can't decide for sure who is guilty just by looking at them.
That doesn't stop them trying, though, does it...?
They've been stopped before takeoff - by the reinforced barrier between them and the important stuff.
I'm not saying we should allow guns on flights, but the old fashioned metal detectors worked just fine for that. Everything else is a waste of time.
PS: If I want to get a bomb on board I can stick it up my ass. It's no secret ... and even the TSA can't search there.
Do you really think someone (such as the TSA) won't start using this for random scans?
Honestly? It would be way better than what they're doing right now.
Look at it from a criminal's point of view: The very best place to commit a crime is a place where you're certain that nobody has the means to stop you.
Most criminals also prefer places with no witnesses and an escape route.
Committing a crime in front of 200 people while locked in a metal tube which is headed straight for the nearest SWAT team? Even the average dumbass criminal can figure that one out by himself...
I can't imagine any sane person thinks preventing guns on plans is a bad thing.
No, a sane person knows that:
a) Penetration testers regularly get guns past the TSA
b) Guns/knives aren't very useful to terrorists since they started locking the cockpit door.
c) If a person pulls out a gun on a plane he's instantly going to be jumped by the other passengers.
d) If a person does something bad on a plane he's got no escape route. When it lands there'll be a whole bunch of people with M16s waiting for him. You'd have to be a complete idiot to try anything on a plane. Even a suicidal crazy only has a small chance of success (see point c).
So...what's the incentive for people to try to commit gun crimes on a plane? What sort of crime can they even commit? Robbery? Mugging?
Having armed people on a 'plane is really no dangerous than, say, having armed people in a restaurant. Driving to the airport is probably more risky than allowing guns on planes.
America needs to get it out of their collective skulls that airports are somehow special places which need massive extra protection. All you need is old fashioned metal detectors (with sensible policies for people who forget to check in their weapons) and smart, well trained people watching for troublemakers in the queues. More than that is counter-productive.
Ummm...if you've arrested somebody then you already entered in contact.
If you haven't got the cuffs on them yet, telling them to stand 20 feet away while you scan them is just asking for them to run away.
The next version of the bill is already under way...
http://judiciary.house.gov/news/01172012.html
It won't make the slightest difference to piracy.
Piracy will continue unabated so long as binary data can be transferred between people's computers.
I'm actually feeling pretty encouraged this morning. It has been a while since I felt that way.
Won't make any difference...it'll just resurface in 2012 attached to the back of the "True Patriotic Americans against Pedophiles and Terrorists" bill.
the fact that this doesn't hold true in modern society doesn't magically undo 20,000 years of evolution.
It might be a few more years than that.
their freedom of expression trumps my personal likes and dislikes.
So racism is ok...?
Yep, and in the long term all these lawsuits are giving an amazing amount of free publicity to Samsung...can you even name another Android tablet maker any more?
That's what you have with the Pi - a full GNU/Linux system.
I don't know about "full"...I suspect that having limited RAM and running off an SD card will blunt the user experience a bit.
Apart from the price, the overlap with Arduino is pretty small.
More likely is that the price of copper has gone up massively over the last few years.
It didn't happen NEARLY as much a few years back and I doubt the number of meth heads has increased that much since then.
No, but the price of copper has ... duh!
Very clever...
More than likely though they just find other sources of copper to steal from or just steal more of it in more sophisticated operations.
You overestimate the intelligence of thieves. The word is out that cable is valuable so the average thief will carry right on stealing it.
The fact that he doesn't get paid much just means he won't take the day off to spend money. He'll be out stealing cable next day instead. Net result: even more cable being stolen than before.