You aren't supposed to be doing business with them in an attempt to influence policy change.
Interesting hypothesis. Can you cite any instances of sanctions being credited with successfully influencing policy change? It is my observation that increased trade benefits both parties, and sanctions are a bullying tactic used to punish innocent foreign populations in weaker nations, as well as harm domestic workers and businesses with no tangible benefit or compensation.
Usain Bolt won the 100m dash in the Olympics, can you tell me the name of the person who finished #7? No, because he ended up not mattering.
Give me a break, anyone with half a brain knows that 27-year-old Richard Thompson of Trinidad and Tobago came in 7th place in lane 2 with a time of 9.98s, following a 160ms reaction time.
What next, "What's the 9th most populous city in Turkmenistan?" Come on man, everybody knows this.
No countries with McDonalds in them have ever gone to war with each other.
Why not? Is McDonald's a peacekeeping organization, or might there be other factors at play? I'm not in the habit of insulting people (as I've noticed you do frequently), but implying that McDonald's is responsible for preventing war is pretty damn stupid.
A calling Google an abusive megacorp is just pretty damn stupid.
Google is the world leader in web advertising, and has been fined in multiple nations for privacy violations; (you can Google that). That, in my opinion, is sufficient for calling it an abusive mega-corp.
I'm going to leave it at that, as I merely provided my opinion and two alternatives that I feel are more respectful of their users, and this is completely off-topic.
I'm sure you didn't mean it literally, but in no context do I consider abusive mega-corps anything positive. Among search engines, ixquick and DuckDuckGo are far "friendlier."
Same here. Except substitute human being for citizen. A person's nationality shouldn't matter.
I agree, I should have said that instead. I probably wrote "citizen" in order to highlight that these were Americans getting/allowing another American kicked off for exercising a "guaranteed" US right in an harmless and lawful manner. My apologies if I came off as nationalistic; I'm not.
what really pisses me off is the retroactive removal of works from public domain.
Just proves who is really in charge of the country, since otherwise that would have been slammed out the door as an ex post facto violation.
It also proves who the real pirating thieves are. File-sharers, spreading culture and knowledge to a "region-free," global audience for free, or the wealthy robber barons taking away public property (and in many instances, denying public access to those works indefinitely) in the name of self-interested greed?
Unless there is also 3D-pritable bullets and gunpowder, I'm not sure how this is useful.
I wonder if plasticized nitrocellulose could be "printed" (not necessarily by a 3D printer) (or at least spray-formed) into a serviceable propellant. Plastic bullets sound feasible, but I have grave doubts about plastic shell casings and primers.
Rifling helps out a lot more than you know. Sure they worked in the past but they were not accurate at all. You can shoot at something 20 ft away and miss the target by a mile.
Only if you're firing a smoothbore that can land a bullet 5,260+ feet from where you're standing.;o)
Sure. Do you want to pay the $50 mil to the congresscritter or shall I?
Maybe we should have a non-profit consumer protection lobby that accepts charitable donations with which to bribe- I mean, "lobby" to protect us from bloodsucking corporations?
Never link a bank account to paypal, ever. Linking a credit card for payment gives you some small legal recourse in disputing the charges. Your bank is not required to do so. On second thought. Just never use paypal. They are a wretched hive of scum and villainy that blatantly flaunt the law and abuse their customers.
Absolutely correct on all counts. I've only used them to make donations to non-profits, until I started hearing horror stories about them cleaning out both entrepreneurs and consumers without so much as a reach-around. Though, I'd be willing to bet that any corporation placed into an equally unique position of power would be just as abusive.
I just want to add: For additional financial protection and happiness, ditch your bank altogether and switch to a credit union. They're.orgs, not.coms; they don't have a profit motive (i.e., a motive to fuck you out of your money), and if you don't like how things are going, you can vote out the officers in charge when your election ballot comes in the mail.
Thanks for posting; my knowledge of Israel's airline security isn't much more than I posted. If you're up to writing it, I'm curious about the interviews and would be very interested to read more about that from a passenger's first-hand experience. I'm guessing that the preliminary/extended interview model is employed to increase queue throughput... If you've ever been bumped up, how does the extended interview differ from the prelim? I also welcome any interesting anecdotes you'd care to share.:o)
... but this passenger was thrown off the plane by a Delta Airlines pilot.
Yes, by a Delta Airlines Pilot who has the responsibility to ensure that everyone has as safe and pleasant and timely* flight as possible. The pilot has the right to deny anyone access to the plane if they feel that person will be the source of in-flight difficulties.
"In-flight difficulties?" Like what, a couple being lynched by a mob of unruly, cowardly passengers who "feel uncomfortable" about a brown man wearing a satirical t-shirt? Give me a break. There's zero indication that this guy was unpleasant to be around, let alone harmful. I'd rather fly with that guy and his wife than the un-American, "uncomfortable" assholes who should have been coming to the defense of their fellow citizen instead of causing trouble.
Isreal actually trains thier security to look for suspicious behavior instead of assuming everyone is a suspect. Profiling doesn't neccessarily mean "assume all blacks/arabs/hispanics/whater are guilty." I can also mean "the suspicious looking guy might be guilty so lets go talk to him."
I mentioned behavioral profiling (the details of which I am not very familiar with) in my second paragraph; perhaps you didn't see it?
You will also notice that countries that are actually afraid of terrorist bombings don't have long lines outside security checkpoints because terrorists like to bomb the checkpoints. If you care about security you get everyone through the check point as quickly as possible.
Yes. It makes me wonder if our government, through a plethora of distasteful, ineffective, and even harmful practices, in combination with a failure to implement at least some of Israel/El Al's cheaper/scalable practices, are intentionally leaving us vulnerable in order to implement additional authoritarian measures in response to future incidents.
We just like harrassing innocent citizens.
That much is clear. I know people like to bemoan those who "feel sorry for themselves," but I can't help but feel bad for how far we're falling as a nation.
What kind of idiot wears a shirt that says "bombs" and "terrorists" and "gonna kill us all" onto a plane?
The kind of "idiot" who attended an elementary school's social studies class and was led to believe we have the freedom to express ourselves in this country.
The pilot who threw this passenger off and the other authoritarians who harassed him claimed that the other passengers were "uncomfortable" with him being on the plane. I'm not sure what what the hell is wrong with them, but I feel pretty uncomfortable having such cowardly dolts living in my state, never mind being stuck on a plane with them.
I suppose it's one more benefit of my ongoing boycott of airline security theater and their disregard for the first and fourth amendments of the Constitution: not being stuck for hours with a bunch of assholes.
If the Miss Universe pageant had been boarding that plane, the TSA would have been to busy putting them through the body scanner to even notice this guy's shirt.
I despise the TSA as much as the next informed citizen that values liberty, but this passenger was thrown off the plane by a Delta Airlines pilot.
America is the only country that gropes It's passengers. Israel profiles, & has no hijackings.
Profiling by ethnicity doesn't work; for one thing, it's vulnerable to proxy bomb attacks. I've posted links on this many times before; search for the "Carnival Booth" paper from MIT. I recommend Schneier's site or DuckDuckGo.
El Al's security apparatus (behavioral profiling, interviews, luggage depressurization, and tarmac security, off the top of my head) have been said to be infeasible due to scalability in a country of over 300 million. However, I haven't seen an data to back up this claim, nor have I done the math.
I'm not saying I support the current system; I find it deplorable and refuse to fly, going on six years. I'd like to see a return to sane, pre-2001-09 security procedures. At least, that's what it'd take to get me to voluntarily set foot on a commercial airliner again.
Things Tesla invented/discovered that were subsequently stolen by -- and credited to -- mere mortals:
The incandescent light bulb, Morse code, the Van der Graaf generator, the Zener and laser diodes, Pluto, Plutonium, the Teller-Ulam hydrogen bomb, the Oort cloud, the IBM PCjr, the ATX PSU and form-factor, and the Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS).
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Fuck the cloud. All my data is in Heaven administered by God! Nothing can go wrong. Everything is where it should be. Simply perfect.
Rationalizing disk failure won't bring your data back.
You aren't supposed to be doing business with them in an attempt to influence policy change.
Interesting hypothesis. Can you cite any instances of sanctions being credited with successfully influencing policy change? It is my observation that increased trade benefits both parties, and sanctions are a bullying tactic used to punish innocent foreign populations in weaker nations, as well as harm domestic workers and businesses with no tangible benefit or compensation.
Usain Bolt won the 100m dash in the Olympics, can you tell me the name of the person who finished #7? No, because he ended up not mattering.
Give me a break, anyone with half a brain knows that 27-year-old Richard Thompson of Trinidad and Tobago came in 7th place in lane 2 with a time of 9.98s, following a 160ms reaction time.
What next, "What's the 9th most populous city in Turkmenistan?" Come on man, everybody knows this.
Check this out: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/five-disk-floppy-raid-4mb-of-blistering-fast-storage/
No countries with McDonalds in them have ever gone to war with each other.
Why not? Is McDonald's a peacekeeping organization, or might there be other factors at play? I'm not in the habit of insulting people (as I've noticed you do frequently), but implying that McDonald's is responsible for preventing war is pretty damn stupid.
A calling Google an abusive megacorp is just pretty damn stupid.
Google is the world leader in web advertising, and has been fined in multiple nations for privacy violations; (you can Google that). That, in my opinion, is sufficient for calling it an abusive mega-corp.
I'm going to leave it at that, as I merely provided my opinion and two alternatives that I feel are more respectful of their users, and this is completely off-topic.
Have a pleasant day, Dad in Portland. ~ ;o)
I'm in agreement with most of your post, except:
[G]oogle is your friend.
I'm sure you didn't mean it literally, but in no context do I consider abusive mega-corps anything positive. Among search engines, ixquick and DuckDuckGo are far "friendlier."
yeah, look how the homeopathic therapy worked for Jobs.
It just worked.
Working on it... See for yourself: http://par-anoia.net/midasbank/midas.rar It's 2MB, 21MB text.
Same here. Except substitute human being for citizen. A person's nationality shouldn't matter.
I agree, I should have said that instead. I probably wrote "citizen" in order to highlight that these were Americans getting/allowing another American kicked off for exercising a "guaranteed" US right in an harmless and lawful manner. My apologies if I came off as nationalistic; I'm not.
what really pisses me off is the retroactive removal of works from public domain.
Just proves who is really in charge of the country, since otherwise that would have been slammed out the door as an ex post facto violation.
It also proves who the real pirating thieves are. File-sharers, spreading culture and knowledge to a "region-free," global audience for free, or the wealthy robber barons taking away public property (and in many instances, denying public access to those works indefinitely) in the name of self-interested greed?
I don't think you understand the role of courts. If you disagree with a law, it is congress (i.e. voters) you should blame, not the courts.
I don't think you understand politics. If you disagree with a law, it is corporate lobbyists (i.e., congress) you should blame.
Thanks, I just spent 10 minutes reading about vomiting.
Don't feel too bad... Think of it as reading a chapter from your hardware/wetware operations & specifications manual.
Unless there is also 3D-pritable bullets and gunpowder, I'm not sure how this is useful.
I wonder if plasticized nitrocellulose could be "printed" (not necessarily by a 3D printer) (or at least spray-formed) into a serviceable propellant. Plastic bullets sound feasible, but I have grave doubts about plastic shell casings and primers.
Rifling helps out a lot more than you know. Sure they worked in the past but they were not accurate at all. You can shoot at something 20 ft away and miss the target by a mile.
Only if you're firing a smoothbore that can land a bullet 5,260+ feet from where you're standing. ;o)
Sure. Do you want to pay the $50 mil to the congresscritter or shall I?
Maybe we should have a non-profit consumer protection lobby that accepts charitable donations with which to bribe- I mean, "lobby" to protect us from bloodsucking corporations?
Never link a bank account to paypal, ever. Linking a credit card for payment gives you some small legal recourse in disputing the charges. Your bank is not required to do so. On second thought. Just never use paypal. They are a wretched hive of scum and villainy that blatantly flaunt the law and abuse their customers.
Absolutely correct on all counts. I've only used them to make donations to non-profits, until I started hearing horror stories about them cleaning out both entrepreneurs and consumers without so much as a reach-around. Though, I'd be willing to bet that any corporation placed into an equally unique position of power would be just as abusive.
I just want to add: For additional financial protection and happiness, ditch your bank altogether and switch to a credit union. They're .orgs, not .coms; they don't have a profit motive (i.e., a motive to fuck you out of your money), and if you don't like how things are going, you can vote out the officers in charge when your election ballot comes in the mail.
Thanks for posting; my knowledge of Israel's airline security isn't much more than I posted. If you're up to writing it, I'm curious about the interviews and would be very interested to read more about that from a passenger's first-hand experience. I'm guessing that the preliminary/extended interview model is employed to increase queue throughput... If you've ever been bumped up, how does the extended interview differ from the prelim? I also welcome any interesting anecdotes you'd care to share. :o)
If you only had one eye, a 1:1 monitor would make a bit more sense.
They should make those. Surely there's a marrrrket for monitors specially made for pirates.
... but this passenger was thrown off the plane by a Delta Airlines pilot.
Yes, by a Delta Airlines Pilot who has the responsibility to ensure that everyone has as safe and pleasant and timely* flight as possible. The pilot has the right to deny anyone access to the plane if they feel that person will be the source of in-flight difficulties.
"In-flight difficulties?" Like what, a couple being lynched by a mob of unruly, cowardly passengers who "feel uncomfortable" about a brown man wearing a satirical t-shirt? Give me a break. There's zero indication that this guy was unpleasant to be around, let alone harmful. I'd rather fly with that guy and his wife than the un-American, "uncomfortable" assholes who should have been coming to the defense of their fellow citizen instead of causing trouble.
Isreal actually trains thier security to look for suspicious behavior instead of assuming everyone is a suspect. Profiling doesn't neccessarily mean "assume all blacks/arabs/hispanics/whater are guilty." I can also mean "the suspicious looking guy might be guilty so lets go talk to him."
I mentioned behavioral profiling (the details of which I am not very familiar with) in my second paragraph; perhaps you didn't see it?
You will also notice that countries that are actually afraid of terrorist bombings don't have long lines outside security checkpoints because terrorists like to bomb the checkpoints. If you care about security you get everyone through the check point as quickly as possible.
Yes. It makes me wonder if our government, through a plethora of distasteful, ineffective, and even harmful practices, in combination with a failure to implement at least some of Israel/El Al's cheaper/scalable practices, are intentionally leaving us vulnerable in order to implement additional authoritarian measures in response to future incidents.
We just like harrassing innocent citizens.
That much is clear. I know people like to bemoan those who "feel sorry for themselves," but I can't help but feel bad for how far we're falling as a nation.
What kind of idiot wears a shirt that says "bombs" and "terrorists" and "gonna kill us all" onto a plane?
The kind of "idiot" who attended an elementary school's social studies class and was led to believe we have the freedom to express ourselves in this country.
The pilot who threw this passenger off and the other authoritarians who harassed him claimed that the other passengers were "uncomfortable" with him being on the plane. I'm not sure what what the hell is wrong with them, but I feel pretty uncomfortable having such cowardly dolts living in my state, never mind being stuck on a plane with them.
I suppose it's one more benefit of my ongoing boycott of airline security theater and their disregard for the first and fourth amendments of the Constitution: not being stuck for hours with a bunch of assholes.
If the Miss Universe pageant had been boarding that plane, the TSA would have been to busy putting them through the body scanner to even notice this guy's shirt.
I despise the TSA as much as the next informed citizen that values liberty, but this passenger was thrown off the plane by a Delta Airlines pilot.
America is the only country that gropes It's passengers. Israel profiles, & has no hijackings.
Profiling by ethnicity doesn't work; for one thing, it's vulnerable to proxy bomb attacks. I've posted links on this many times before; search for the "Carnival Booth" paper from MIT. I recommend Schneier's site or DuckDuckGo.
El Al's security apparatus (behavioral profiling, interviews, luggage depressurization, and tarmac security, off the top of my head) have been said to be infeasible due to scalability in a country of over 300 million. However, I haven't seen an data to back up this claim, nor have I done the math.
I'm not saying I support the current system; I find it deplorable and refuse to fly, going on six years. I'd like to see a return to sane, pre-2001-09 security procedures. At least, that's what it'd take to get me to voluntarily set foot on a commercial airliner again.
Things Tesla invented/discovered that were subsequently stolen by -- and credited to -- mere mortals:
The incandescent light bulb, Morse code, the Van der Graaf generator, the Zener and laser diodes, Pluto, Plutonium, the Teller-Ulam hydrogen bomb, the Oort cloud, the IBM PCjr, the ATX PSU and form-factor, and the Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS).