Crap.. thats nothing.. Back in the 80s, I worked for a US defense contractor, and to be able to work there, you had to join the machinists union.. Which is odd, as I was an electronic technician. When the Carter/Reagan election got down to the nittygritty, the shopstewards came around with large sheets which looked like ballots with all dems checked off and pretty much said that we were expected to vote for Carter and all the other dems on the ballot. This being California, there were a LOT of them, even in the 80s.. Since I (and quite a few others in my department) realized Carter was a VERY bad joke and was destroying America, we kinda went against the union.. I halfway expected them to ask after the election how we voted, but I guess since Carter lost in such a big way, they figured it wasn't worth it.. Looking back after four years of Oblowme, Carter was a pussycat/sweetheart...
I tend to agree, except with this caveat.. All laws created by man are corrupt.. LAWS laid down by God, ie: the Ten Commandments, are not.. If people were to live strictly according to the Ten Commandments, the world would be INFINITELY better. Of course, the progressives on Slashdot are gonna disagree vehemently.. So be it...
I signed up for a 90 day demo Azure account, just to see how it compares to Amazon AWS, and was surprised as hell to see them offering Linux vms.. So just for giggles, spun one up, and sure enough, it was CentOS. They're pretty darn cheap on the demo though, I left the vm running and set a reminder to kill it before the 90 days was up, and about 30 days into the demo, I get an email telling me the account was getting close to running out of the "free" specs and I'd need to add a credit card for charges to continue.. This, mind you, on a vm thats just the os/normal services, nothing else running.. I went ahead and cancelled the demo.. Will stick to AWS and their free tier... I've had both a Win2003 AND an Ubuntu vm running there on the free tier for nearly six months, and both are actually runnning some remote services that I had been running on my home servers..
They can protest all they want, but good luck with getting the 100k Euro/day fines lifted.
Holy S**T.. a WHOLE whopping 100K Euro/day?? For Apple, that amount is chicken-feed.. The fine *should* be 100% of Apple's UK sales per day.. I suspect THAT would wake them up.. I love these tiny little fines that seem to be the standard everywhere nowadays when a corporation steps on its dick.. If you're gonna fine them make it HURT!! otherwise what good is it? Oh, WHO am I kidding? Any judge who levied such a fine would be sent to a "judicial retraining camp" run by his corporate "masters".....
*I say "hypothetical" because it seems pretty rare that a CxO actually ever goes to prison... but it does happen [wikipedia.org]
Needs to happen FAR more often, but this being United Corporate States Of America, you and I *know* it will happen approximately *never*.. I guess Ken Lay and Bernie Madoff were so completely egregious that it was decided to make them an "example" to show the peons (us) that CEO's/high-ups *do* go to jail.....
Since corporations think they're people, then they should be treated *like* people.. You or I, as plebes, give the finger to a judge, he cites you for contempt and you go into a cell for a certain period of time.. Its only fair (yeah I know.. there IS no "fair" in business) that these corporations that *want* to be "people" have the same thing happen to them... As far as I'm concerned, were it to happen to Apple, I'd be ecstatic. Never owned an Apple product, and no longer *use* any Apple product.. now that Amazon's MP3 store has as good a selection as iTunes.. Bottom line: F**K Apple....
I have several 512mb vps I run several services on, which cost me a whopping $6/mo. The services are non-critical, and if not for this price-point, would not be running on a vps. I was having a problem with one of them where the vps os would randomly reboot itself. I asked the vendor to check the vps host to make sure there wasn't something amiss. They claimed there wasn't, and I could find nothing amiss on the Debian slice OS. I finally came to the realization that since these vps are OpenVZ, it was likely something one of the other slices was doing, since its well-known that OpenVZ containers are very susceptable to other slices taking more than their share of resources. I therefore began to look for a Xen-based host, as these reboots were hair-pulling annoying. With a bit of searching, I came across a vendor advertising 512MB Xen vps either in LA or Kansas City for.... get this.. $5/mo.. Am in the process of migrating the nasty rebooting OpenVZ services over to a nice Xen instance.. I'd been with the OpenVZ vendor for nearly two years and have had zero issues with them, up to this issue, which I don't believe is their "fault" vs just the nature of the OpenVZ "beast".. This vendor does have Xen vps, but they're quite a bit more than the newly discovered host..
Not gonna provide links to the vendors, but, for the OpenVZ vendor, "ThrustVPS" and for the Xen vendor, "Virpus"..
From what I've read about and seen in the previews, I'd gladly upgrade to 8 IF it wasn't such a pain in the ass to get RID of that brain-dead Metro crap... The better dual-screen support is VERY welcome, but its excruciatingly WEIRD that you have to buy/download a 3rd party add-in to restore functionality that Microsoft in their infinite "we know whats best for you" attitude removed from Win8... I'd thought perhaps they might have heard all of the screaming/gnashing of teeth by a large percentage of the people who downloaded the RC/Previews that they might have put a little "Metro/Classic" switch during the install... But noooo, apparently not... I do believe I'll stay right here on good ole Windows 7, till the replacement for the Windows8 bugfuck is released....
When I was stationed in Yuma Arizona back in the late70s, I got pulled over for doing... get this.. 56mph in a 55mph zone.. Since I was in the military, I was able to keep my California license and plates. When the cop walked up to the car, all mirror shades and swagger, and asked me "Do you know how fast you were going?" and I said "Yes, under 55mph".. The guy says "I clocked you at 56...".. I realized if I called him an idiot, things would not go well for me... So I simply said, "I'll see you in court, Officer".. THEN he looked at the address on my license, which said Yuma, Arizona, and saw my military ID, and realized he WOULD see me in court, since I was not a California tourist who would just pay the fine and skip driving all the way back to Arizona for court. And yes, the judge chewed this cop out quite nicely in open court... Was a joy to behold....
Thanks, but no thanks.. More than happy to stick with 12.04LTS till after 14.04LTS is released.. Been on that schedule since going from 6.06 to 8.04.. I usually wait till at least the.1 update on each LTS before I migrate to it, as I have better things to do then upgrade every damn six months... When Canonical announced that Unity was going to be the default WM in 12.04, and after I tried it out for a couple of weeks and damned near tore my hair out by the roots, I began looking for a replacement for my soon-to-be-EX-favorite distro.. Fortuantly I found Cinnamon, and with it installed on Ubuntu 12.04, it makes Ubuntu usable again, and its again my favorite distro.. Sure hope the Unity fiasco is a one-time burst of insanity and not a precursor of more insanity at Canonical/Ubuntu...
why not just install gnome or mate if you're unhappy with unity?
OR Cinnamon.. I'm of the "Unity-haters", and am using Cinnamon on Ubuntu 12.04.. If you liked/were used to Gnome2, Cinnamon is there.. It seems to have a few burps/hiccups occasionally, but I suspect thats because its under heavy development by the Mint-devs...
I should be able to use what I was using before. The "new hotness" does not require ripping out what was there before. This is why Unity gets grief. It really has nothing to do with "being different".
Canonical pulled a Microsoft.
If Canonical really believes that Unity is the new "hot thing", it would have been trivial to add a choice during install... New (Unity) or Classic (Gnome2), and let the user-base decide, but nooooooooooo, they know whats best for EVERYONE... I tried Unity for a week, I really did.. With all the new weird shite it does, and stuff that I was used to with Gnome2 that no longer is there/works the same way, I started tearing my hair out by the roots. Since, God Help Me, I still love Ubuntu, I installed Cinnamon, which brought me back to familiar territory... I've also tried Windows 8, and parent is absolutely right.. Talk about different.. Windows 7 vs Windows 8.. Trying to run a tablet OS on a dual screen desktop is enough to drive you batty...
THIS!! I love Ubuntu, have been using it since 7.04, but I'm in the "Detest Unity" group here.. I recently upgraded my laptop and desktop from 10.04 to 12.04 and figured I'd give Unity an honest try vs listening to all the pissing/moaning about what a piece of shite it is... After a week of nearly tearing my already thinning hair out, I decided to get with the program and installed Cinnamon. Except for a couple of red "kaboom" icons right after installing, I feel like I'm back on 10.04 with Gnone2.. As far as I'm concerned I agree 100% with the crowd who says Unity is shite...
Here in America we are still waiting for Obama to apologize for murdering American citizens, and putting us in concentration camps.
Murdering American citizens, Check.... Putting us in concentration camps.. Coming up!! Watch and see what happens when Obama gets handed his ass on a plate in November.. He's then a lame duck with nearly 3 months to do all sorts of mischief, armed with the NDAA and all of his EO's... Just watch and see what kind of even MORE blatantly un-constitutional stuff he can come up with in that time,
That term "Enemy Of The State" gives me the creeps.. I'm old enough to remember clearly the old USSR and all of the behavior that went on in that country during that time. That term, enemy of the state, was used a LOT back then.. When I hear *my* country using it, I become very upset. Of course, the US government could care less what one 62 year old Vietnam vet thinks.. Clearly it seems the USA is well on its way down the road to being a replay of the old USSR, without the Russian language..
Wow! I sure remember those days.. I didn't start *quite* as early as you, but in 1993'ish, I started playing with Slackware and Yggdrasil, and loved (NOT) the endless floppy disk installs.. At the time I started, I think the kernel was like 1.13 or something like that.. The company I was working for at the time wanted to get on the fledgling Internet, so since I was the one IT guy at the company who knew something about this "Internet", I got tasked to put together a package to get us there.. Since we were a Novell 3.11 shop at the time, the other IT guy wanted to buy the Netware Loadable Module (NLM) based webserver to run on one of our Novell servers. I prevailed and we wound up doing a Slackware install with httpd and ftpd to a brand new system, one of the first Pentiums in our shop, everything else at the time being 486DX systems. We brought in a T1, which as I recall cost like about a grand/month.. Ah memories....
1994-1995-Slackware 1995-2007-Redhat, until Redhat went "Enterprise" then switched to Fedora 2007-Now-Ubuntu.. Since Shuttleworth saw fit to shove Unity down our throats, I'm moving from plain-jane Ubuntu to either Xubuntu or Lubuntu. Kinda leaning towards LXDE.. Works fantastic on 12.04 on the older Dell D620 laptop....
Geez.. Slashdot is *just* now finding out about these? There's been an info page over on Reddit regarding these for literally months. Darned thing work fine for ham radio 2m and 440 repeater monitoring, plus covers like 64-1700mhz.. http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR.. Sure, they have their problems, but for $20-$25, WHO THE HELL CARES??
I'm gonna go out on a limb and state they're VERY rarely, if EVER, on your side... I've read too many cases where a homeowner calls the police to report a prowler and the police show up, guns a blazin'.. put the homeowner on the floor, shoot the homeowners dog.. Which is why I do my own policing of my property.. A nice double-barreled shotgun.. Of course if I lived in the "People's Democratic Republic Of California" like I used to, instead of Nevada, I'd be looking at jailtime if I blew away a prowler in my house.. Fortunantly Nevada is more like Texas in this respect.. We had a case here recently where the homeowner was accosted in his home by a burgler and was able to get his home defense weapon and give the miscreant a nice dirtnap.. No charges pressed against the homeowner.. The BIG thing to remember, make SURE the crook is DEAD.. a wounded burgler is deadly.. he attracts low-life slime lawyers who just LOVE to sue for injuries to their poor misguided client.. Even if he doesn't sue you, once he's healed, he may come back for a re-match.. Making him DEAD rules that one out...
If the TSA keeps running amok like they are, I daresay jobs requiring "I need you in Hong Kong on Monday" may very well go unfilled.. When I was looking for a job, I interviewed at one which after about 2 hours, when it was a pretty sure thing I'd be offered the position, and I asked about travel and they dropped the bomb, telling me the position was 50% travel.. I told them at that point this was a dealbreaker.. Due to government interference, I do not fly commercial airlines.. period.. I asked them before leaving why they didn't make that requirement up front, like in the JOB DESCRIPTION? Interviewer said HR nixxed it.. He also said they were having a hell of a time filling the position.. I wished him good luck and left.. Glad I turned it down, found a MUCH better job a few days later...
Hey, sparky.. in case you hadn't noticed, the terrorists HAVE won.. I can just see what remains of OBL's guys sitting over there in Afgan-land laughing their asses off at how those stupid ass Americans are chasing their tails.. No matter WHAT precautions TSA or ANY other three-letter-agency does, they CANNOT completely 100% PREVENT any terrorist attack.. I gar-ron-tee if you think the bozos at TSA are good at security theater now, wait till they get what their drooling for.. 100% surveillance of EVERYBODY.. EVEN with that, a determined OBL-wanna-be can easily cause big kaboom, since by definition he WANTS to die, and have sex with his 72 virgins.... So, whats next after 100% surveillance? Use your imagination.... (shudder)
I'm FAR FAR FAR more afraid of the US goverment and its security theater than I am the remote chance of my being killed by some OBL-wanna-be... I'm quite sure I'm NOT the only one who feels this way...
Last time I drove from Las Vegas to LA, just outside Baker California, on the long Halloran grade, there was a big column of black smoke going up, that we began noticing once we started down the west side into Baker.. As we got closer, it became apparent it was a large vehicle on fire. As we passed it, it turned out to be one of those huge 40ft bus-chassis motorhomes, fully engulfed in flames.. A couple minutes later the Baker FD arrived with a fire crew.. There wasn't much left when they got there... Guess that kinda ruined the owners trip...
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Crap.. thats nothing.. Back in the 80s, I worked for a US defense contractor, and to be able to work there, you had to join the machinists union.. Which is odd, as I was an electronic technician. When the Carter/Reagan election got down to the nittygritty, the shopstewards came around with large sheets which looked like ballots with all dems checked off and pretty much said that we were expected to vote for Carter and all the other dems on the ballot. This being California, there were a LOT of them, even in the 80s.. Since I (and quite a few others in my department) realized Carter was a VERY bad joke and was destroying America, we kinda went against the union.. I halfway expected them to ask after the election how we voted, but I guess since Carter lost in such a big way, they figured it wasn't worth it.. Looking back after four years of Oblowme, Carter was a pussycat/sweetheart...
I tend to agree, except with this caveat.. All laws created by man are corrupt.. LAWS laid down by God, ie: the Ten Commandments, are not.. If people were to live strictly according to the Ten Commandments, the world would be INFINITELY better. Of course, the progressives on Slashdot are gonna disagree vehemently.. So be it...
I signed up for a 90 day demo Azure account, just to see how it compares to Amazon AWS, and was surprised as hell to see them offering Linux vms.. So just for giggles, spun one up, and sure enough, it was CentOS. They're pretty darn cheap on the demo though, I left the vm running and set a reminder to kill it before the 90 days was up, and about 30 days into the demo, I get an email telling me the account was getting close to running out of the "free" specs and I'd need to add a credit card for charges to continue.. This, mind you, on a vm thats just the os/normal services, nothing else running.. I went ahead and cancelled the demo.. Will stick to AWS and their free tier... I've had both a Win2003 AND an Ubuntu vm running there on the free tier for nearly six months, and both are actually runnning some remote services that I had been running on my home servers..
They can protest all they want, but good luck with getting the 100k Euro/day fines lifted.
Holy S**T.. a WHOLE whopping 100K Euro/day?? For Apple, that amount is chicken-feed.. The fine *should*
be 100% of Apple's UK sales per day.. I suspect THAT would wake them up.. I love these tiny little fines that
seem to be the standard everywhere nowadays when a corporation steps on its dick.. If you're gonna fine them
make it HURT!! otherwise what good is it? Oh, WHO am I kidding? Any judge who levied such a fine would be
sent to a "judicial retraining camp" run by his corporate "masters".....
*I say "hypothetical" because it seems pretty rare that a CxO actually ever goes to prison... but it does happen [wikipedia.org]
Needs to happen FAR more often, but this being United Corporate States Of America, you and I *know* it will happen approximately *never* ..
I guess Ken Lay and Bernie Madoff were so completely egregious that it was decided to make them an "example" to show the peons (us) that
CEO's/high-ups *do* go to jail.....
Since corporations think they're people, then they should be treated *like* people.. You or I, as plebes, give the finger to a judge, he cites you for contempt and you go into a cell for a certain period of time.. Its only fair (yeah I know.. there IS no "fair" in business) that these corporations that *want* to be "people" have the same thing happen to them... As far as I'm concerned, were it to happen to Apple, I'd be ecstatic. Never owned an Apple product, and no longer *use* any Apple product.. now that Amazon's MP3 store has as good a selection as iTunes.. Bottom line: F**K Apple....
I have several 512mb vps I run several services on, which cost me a whopping $6/mo. The services are non-critical, and if not for this price-point, would not be running on a vps. I was having a problem with one of them where the vps os would randomly reboot itself. I asked the vendor to check the vps host to make sure there wasn't something amiss. They claimed there wasn't, and I could find nothing amiss on the Debian slice OS. I finally came to the realization that since these vps are OpenVZ, it was likely something one of the other slices was doing, since its well-known that OpenVZ containers are very susceptable to other slices taking more than their share of resources. I therefore began to look for a Xen-based host, as these reboots were hair-pulling annoying. With a bit of searching, I came across a vendor advertising 512MB Xen vps either in LA or Kansas City for .... get this.. $5/mo.. Am in the process of migrating the nasty rebooting OpenVZ services over to a nice Xen instance.. I'd been with the OpenVZ vendor for nearly two years and have had zero issues with them, up to this issue, which I don't believe is their "fault" vs just the nature of the OpenVZ "beast".. This vendor does have Xen vps, but they're quite a bit more than the newly discovered host..
Not gonna provide links to the vendors, but, for the OpenVZ vendor, "ThrustVPS" and for the Xen vendor, "Virpus"..
From what I've read about and seen in the previews, I'd gladly upgrade to 8 IF it wasn't such a pain in the ass to get RID of that brain-dead Metro crap... The better dual-screen support is VERY welcome, but its excruciatingly WEIRD that you have to buy/download a 3rd party add-in to restore functionality that Microsoft in their infinite "we know whats best for you" attitude removed from Win8... I'd thought perhaps they might have heard all of the screaming/gnashing of teeth by a large percentage of the people who downloaded the RC/Previews that they might have put a little "Metro/Classic" switch during the install... But noooo, apparently not... I do believe I'll stay right here on good ole Windows 7, till the replacement for the Windows8 bugfuck is released....
When I was stationed in Yuma Arizona back in the late70s, I got pulled over for doing ... get this.. 56mph in a 55mph zone.. Since I was in the military, I was able to keep my California license and plates. When the cop walked up to the car, all mirror shades and swagger, and asked me "Do you know how fast you were going?" and I said "Yes, under 55mph".. The guy says "I clocked you at 56..." .. I realized if I called him an idiot, things would not go well for me... So I simply said, "I'll see you in court, Officer".. THEN he looked at the address on my license, which said Yuma, Arizona, and saw my military ID, and realized he WOULD see me in court, since I was not a California tourist who would just pay the fine and skip driving all the way back to Arizona for court. And yes, the judge chewed this cop out quite nicely in open court... Was a joy to behold....
What worries me more are the people that vote for her.
You know, your name really fits you perfectly.. You ARE an idiot..
What worries *ME* more are the people who *DON'T* vote for her...
Thanks, but no thanks.. More than happy to stick with 12.04LTS till after 14.04LTS is released.. Been on that schedule since going from 6.06 to 8.04.. I usually wait till at least the .1 update on each LTS before I migrate to it, as I have better things to do then upgrade every damn six months... When Canonical announced that Unity was going to be the default WM in 12.04, and after I tried it out for a couple of weeks and damned near tore my hair out by the roots, I began looking for a replacement for my soon-to-be-EX-favorite distro.. Fortuantly I found Cinnamon, and with it installed on Ubuntu 12.04, it makes Ubuntu usable again, and its again my favorite distro.. Sure hope the Unity fiasco is a one-time burst of insanity and not a precursor of more insanity at Canonical/Ubuntu...
why not just install gnome or mate if you're unhappy with unity?
OR Cinnamon.. I'm of the "Unity-haters", and am using Cinnamon on Ubuntu 12.04.. If you liked/were used to Gnome2, Cinnamon is there.. It seems to have a few burps/hiccups occasionally, but I suspect thats because its under heavy development by the Mint-devs...
The question is entirely irrelevant.
I should be able to use what I was using before. The "new hotness" does not require ripping out what was there before. This is why Unity gets grief. It really has nothing to do with "being different".
Canonical pulled a Microsoft.
If Canonical really believes that Unity is the new "hot thing", it would have been trivial to add a choice during install... New (Unity) or Classic (Gnome2), and let the user-base decide, but nooooooooooo, they know whats best for EVERYONE... I tried Unity for a week, I really did.. With all the new weird shite it does, and stuff that I was used to with Gnome2 that no longer is there/works the same way, I started tearing my hair out by the roots. Since, God Help Me, I still love Ubuntu, I installed Cinnamon, which brought me back to familiar territory... I've also tried Windows 8, and parent is absolutely right.. Talk about different.. Windows 7 vs Windows 8.. Trying to run a tablet OS on a dual screen desktop is enough to drive you batty...
THIS!! I love Ubuntu, have been using it since 7.04, but I'm in the "Detest Unity" group here.. I recently upgraded my laptop and desktop from 10.04 to 12.04 and figured I'd give Unity an honest try vs listening to all the pissing/moaning about what a piece of shite it is... After a week of nearly tearing my already thinning hair out, I decided to get with the program and installed Cinnamon. Except for a couple of red "kaboom" icons right after installing, I feel like I'm back on 10.04 with Gnone2.. As far as I'm concerned I agree 100% with the crowd who says Unity is shite...
Here in America we are still waiting for Obama to apologize for murdering American citizens, and putting us in concentration camps.
Murdering American citizens, Check.... Putting us in concentration camps.. Coming up!! Watch and see what happens when Obama gets handed his ass
on a plate in November.. He's then a lame duck with nearly 3 months to do all sorts of mischief, armed with the NDAA and all of his EO's... Just watch and see what kind of even MORE blatantly un-constitutional stuff he can come up with in that time,
That term "Enemy Of The State" gives me the creeps.. I'm old enough to remember clearly the old USSR and all of the behavior that went on in that country during that time. That term, enemy of the state, was used a LOT back then.. When I hear *my* country using it, I become very upset. Of course, the US government could care less what one 62 year old Vietnam vet thinks.. Clearly it seems the USA is well on its way down the road to being a replay of the old USSR, without the Russian language..
Wow! I sure remember those days.. I didn't start *quite* as early as you, but in 1993'ish, I started playing with Slackware and Yggdrasil, and loved (NOT) the endless floppy disk installs.. At the time I started, I think the kernel was like 1.13 or something like that.. The company I was working for at the time wanted to get on the fledgling Internet, so since I was the one IT guy at the company who knew something about this "Internet", I got tasked to put together a package to get us there.. Since we were a Novell 3.11 shop at the time, the other IT guy wanted to buy the Netware Loadable Module (NLM) based webserver to run on one of our Novell servers. I prevailed and we wound up doing a Slackware install with httpd and ftpd to a brand new system, one of the first Pentiums in our shop, everything else at the time being 486DX systems. We brought in a T1, which as I recall cost like about a grand/month.. Ah memories....
1994-1995-Slackware
1995-2007-Redhat, until Redhat went "Enterprise" then switched to Fedora
2007-Now-Ubuntu.. Since Shuttleworth saw fit to shove Unity down our throats, I'm moving from plain-jane Ubuntu to either Xubuntu or Lubuntu. Kinda leaning towards
LXDE.. Works fantastic on 12.04 on the older Dell D620 laptop....
Geez.. Slashdot is *just* now finding out about these? There's been an info page over on Reddit regarding these for literally months. Darned thing work fine for ham radio 2m and 440 repeater monitoring, plus covers like 64-1700mhz.. http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR.. Sure, they have their problems, but for $20-$25, WHO THE HELL CARES??
They are not always on your side.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and state they're VERY rarely, if EVER, on your side... I've read too many cases where a homeowner calls the police to report a prowler and the police show up, guns a blazin' .. put the homeowner on the floor, shoot the homeowners dog.. Which is why I do my own policing of my property.. A nice double-barreled shotgun.. Of course if I lived in the "People's Democratic Republic Of California" like I used to, instead of Nevada, I'd be looking at jailtime if I blew away a prowler in my house.. Fortunantly Nevada is more like Texas in this respect.. We had a case here recently where the homeowner was accosted in his home by a burgler and was able to get his home defense weapon and give the miscreant a nice dirtnap.. No charges pressed against the homeowner.. The BIG thing to remember, make SURE the crook is DEAD.. a wounded burgler is deadly.. he attracts low-life slime lawyers who just LOVE to sue for injuries to their poor misguided client.. Even if he doesn't sue you, once he's healed, he may come back for a re-match.. Making him DEAD rules that one out...
Or to put up a show.
Ding Ding Ding.. We have a winner!!!
I suspect if Mr Soetero is re-elected, the name of the country will suddenly change from the USA to the USSA, or USSR version 2...
If the TSA keeps running amok like they are, I daresay jobs requiring "I need you in Hong Kong on Monday" may very well go unfilled.. When I was looking for a job, I interviewed at one which after about 2 hours, when it was a pretty sure thing I'd be offered the position, and I asked about travel and they dropped the bomb, telling me the position was 50% travel.. I told them at that point this was a dealbreaker.. Due to government interference, I do not fly commercial airlines.. period.. I asked them before leaving why they didn't make that requirement up front, like in the JOB DESCRIPTION? Interviewer said HR nixxed it.. He also said they were having a hell of a time filling the position.. I wished him good luck and left.. Glad I turned it down, found a MUCH better job a few days later...
Hey, sparky.. in case you hadn't noticed, the terrorists HAVE won.. I can just see what remains of OBL's guys sitting over there in Afgan-land laughing their asses off at how those stupid ass Americans are chasing their tails.. No matter WHAT precautions TSA or ANY other three-letter-agency does, they CANNOT completely 100% PREVENT any terrorist attack.. I gar-ron-tee if you think the bozos at TSA are good at security theater now, wait till they get what their drooling for.. 100% surveillance of EVERYBODY.. EVEN with that, a determined OBL-wanna-be can easily cause big kaboom, since by definition he WANTS to die, and have sex with his 72 virgins.... So, whats next after 100% surveillance? Use your imagination.... (shudder)
I'm FAR FAR FAR more afraid of the US goverment and its security theater than I am the remote chance of my being killed by some OBL-wanna-be... I'm quite sure I'm NOT the only one who feels this way...
Last time I drove from Las Vegas to LA, just outside Baker California, on the long Halloran grade, there was a big column of black smoke going up, that we began noticing once we started down the west side into Baker.. As we got closer, it became apparent it was a large vehicle on fire. As we passed it, it turned out to be one of those huge 40ft bus-chassis motorhomes, fully engulfed in flames.. A couple minutes later the Baker FD arrived with a fire crew.. There wasn't much left when they got there... Guess that kinda ruined the owners trip...