The constitution doesn't say anything about it being illegal to travel in a vehicle greater than 30mph, but try it in a school zone and that can also land you in jail.
"Take it to your states AG, and start a criminal investigation"
Do you really believe a state AG or anyone will really care that an Apple store replaced a couple of tiny screws with slightly different tiny screws? All that costing you possibly less than $10 in damages if you could even call that damages?
With that logic they could find your wallet, take a $10 out, put in a different $10, and be guilty of stealing your original $10.
Why are you posting as a coward? Do you not stand behind your statements? Perhaps this is why many HONEST people distrust police. Right or wrong, you can't deny it is true.
"And that's why I will never fly Southwest- they cram you in like sardines. They are the least comfortable carrier by a long shot. I'd pay double to any other airline on principle rather than buy from them"
I'd rather suck it up for 2 hours and save $500-$1000. I've always wondered who exactly is out there paying $2000 for first class seats for some flights. I guess it is those people with principles who want to teach the smaller airlines a lesson.
"You didn't know the pics of your kids in the bathtub is considered child porn"... "I could care less what you have on your computer. Not my business, and your paying me cash to keep it not my business."
#1 Bathtub pics of kids is almost neveer likely to be consifered child porn
#2 Are you saying if you see child porn on someone's computer you will look the other way because they are paying you in cash?
#3 Why don't you accept other forms of payment? Are you trying to avoid paying taxes?
It seems unlikely that 99.99% of users would move more than 36GB/month and therefore not unreasonable to charge extra for them to have to provide and support an infrastructure to move that kind of traffic.
I bet the average user doesn't move over 2GB/month. Most people read email and surf the internet at home. They want fast surfing and don't need any more. Netflix surely adds to the traffic, but again, I suspect most people don't stream more than 1 movie per week.
"Registrations must be made within 60 days of publication, and Shirokov claims they lied to the USCO by stating the movie was released in April, 2009."
I'm pretty sure you don't have to register something to be protected by copyright in the US.
- Wear a cup. What are they going to do if they "touch your junk" and find you are wearing a jock strap? - Ladies, here's your chance to wear that coconut bra you've been saving from halloween - Stand silently until they touch you and then scream in agony saying "the bad man touched me" - Pull your pants down so everyone gets a good look - Claim you are not homosexual and feel uncomfortable having someone of the same sex pat you down and demand someone of a different gender do it. - If possible, have a giant visible erection - Literally put a banana in your pants. It doesn't violate any rules I can think of but would have interesting results - Be sure to take video of anything that happens - Claim you believe the TSA agent tried to place something on your person and them stuck it down their pants and require them to be patted down to determine what that item was - Moan loudly while you are being patted down. - Wear wet pants - Faint when they go for your privates - No matter what, don't blow bubbles on the TSA agents
"Let's hope for their sake that they're retaining their logs; I'd hate to have to have them brought up on charges of destroying evidence."
Just because something may potentially be evidence doesn't mean you can't destroy it. Otherwise every bit of trash would need to be preserved just in case. As long as they follow their log retention policy they don't need to keep them forever until a court orders them to.
"I almost considered looking into getting a WiMo7 phone, but after this sort of anti-consumer crap, fuck those guys."
People may agree or disagree with your points, but do you really expect the average slash dotter to believe that you were considering buying a WinMo7 phone until you heard about this travesty of justice?
You do realize the US wasn't exactly perfect before 30 years ago don't you?
We are the country who funded giving syphilis to Guatemalans by having infected prosititues have sex with prisioners to investigate the use of penicillin to treat and prevent syphilis infection. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/10/01/130266301/u-s-apologizes-for-medical-research-that-infected-guatemalans-with-syphilis)
The first director of the FBI (Hoover) was known to abuse his power by having celebrities followed for no legitimate reason.
Slavery was allowed and written into the Constitution so that slaves were counted appropiately (Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3)
American citizens were placed in internment camps during WWII because they were of foreign descent but had done nothing wrong.
Native Americans were systematically eliminated by force and legislation whenever they were in the way of white progress. This happened into the 20th century.
McCarthy wasn't exactly a friend of liberty or privacy in the 1950s.
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service studied infected patients but they were never told they had syphilis, nor were they ever treated for it.
All these and more happened 30+ years ago. America is a great place, but don't think prior to the 1980's that Leave it to Beaver and Andy Griffith was the norm.
Does anyone here actually use stenography for more than fun or school or some side project? Other than spy vs spy stuff I can't imagine using it on a regular basis.
To use it properly you would need to have your decryption software installed on a totally different computer, otherwise when they look for the secret encrypted stuff they will see your stego encryption/decryption software and be tipped off. Also, since you can't hide much data using stenography without tipping someone off it seems to be of limited use for nearly all real world applications. I particularly can't see a business or even a government using this to protect their data.
Don't get me wrong. It seems like a cool thing to do. So, if you are using it regularly for a reasonable purpose, what exactly is that?
Are you actually saying that someone who makes over 200k/year is not "rich". They definately aren't poor and I think it would be a stretch to call them middle class.
What percentage of jobs pay $200k or more? I would guess less than 1%. Assuming that is true, are you suggesting that the highest 1% of income earners in the US are not rich?
Even at 1-2%, if this could be printed onto shingles for nearly no cost, perhaps the energy it could provide may help heat/cool our homes rather than having to let all that energy go to waste.
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Mr Slate called. He wants his joke back.
The constitution doesn't say anything about it being illegal to travel in a vehicle greater than 30mph, but try it in a school zone and that can also land you in jail.
"Take it to your states AG, and start a criminal investigation"
Do you really believe a state AG or anyone will really care that an Apple store replaced a couple of tiny screws with slightly different tiny screws? All that costing you possibly less than $10 in damages if you could even call that damages?
With that logic they could find your wallet, take a $10 out, put in a different $10, and be guilty of stealing your original $10.
Why are you posting as a coward? Do you not stand behind your statements? Perhaps this is why many HONEST people distrust police. Right or wrong, you can't deny it is true.
"And that's why I will never fly Southwest- they cram you in like sardines. They are the least comfortable carrier by a long shot. I'd pay double to any other airline on principle rather than buy from them"
I'd rather suck it up for 2 hours and save $500-$1000. I've always wondered who exactly is out there paying $2000 for first class seats for some flights. I guess it is those people with principles who want to teach the smaller airlines a lesson.
That's all well and good, but what are the side effects for the placebos? I bet you are addicted to them now!
"You didn't know the pics of your kids in the bathtub is considered child porn" ...
"I could care less what you have on your computer. Not my business, and your paying me cash to keep it not my business."
#1 Bathtub pics of kids is almost neveer likely to be consifered child porn
#2 Are you saying if you see child porn on someone's computer you will look the other way because they are paying you in cash?
#3 Why don't you accept other forms of payment? Are you trying to avoid paying taxes?
It seems unlikely that 99.99% of users would move more than 36GB/month and therefore not unreasonable to charge extra for them to have to provide and support an infrastructure to move that kind of traffic.
I bet the average user doesn't move over 2GB/month. Most people read email and surf the internet at home. They want fast surfing and don't need any more. Netflix surely adds to the traffic, but again, I suspect most people don't stream more than 1 movie per week.
"Registrations must be made within 60 days of publication, and Shirokov claims they lied to the USCO by stating the movie was released in April, 2009."
I'm pretty sure you don't have to register something to be protected by copyright in the US.
I've had a few ideas to complicate the matter...
- Wear a cup. What are they going to do if they "touch your junk" and find you are wearing a jock strap?
- Ladies, here's your chance to wear that coconut bra you've been saving from halloween
- Stand silently until they touch you and then scream in agony saying "the bad man touched me"
- Pull your pants down so everyone gets a good look
- Claim you are not homosexual and feel uncomfortable having someone of the same sex pat you down and demand someone of a different gender do it.
- If possible, have a giant visible erection
- Literally put a banana in your pants. It doesn't violate any rules I can think of but would have interesting results
- Be sure to take video of anything that happens
- Claim you believe the TSA agent tried to place something on your person and them stuck it down their pants and require them to be patted down to determine what that item was
- Moan loudly while you are being patted down.
- Wear wet pants
- Faint when they go for your privates
- No matter what, don't blow bubbles on the TSA agents
I think you should wear a cup. Then when they go for the groin they will get a big plastic blob.
"Let's hope for their sake that they're retaining their logs; I'd hate to have to have them brought up on charges of destroying evidence."
Just because something may potentially be evidence doesn't mean you can't destroy it. Otherwise every bit of trash would need to be preserved just in case. As long as they follow their log retention policy they don't need to keep them forever until a court orders them to.
"I almost considered looking into getting a WiMo7 phone, but after this sort of anti-consumer crap, fuck those guys."
People may agree or disagree with your points, but do you really expect the average slash dotter to believe that you were considering buying a WinMo7 phone until you heard about this travesty of justice?
As I recall, Steve was hanging out with a Blue dog around 1993 looking for clues.
You do realize the US wasn't exactly perfect before 30 years ago don't you?
We are the country who funded giving syphilis to Guatemalans by having infected prosititues have sex with prisioners to investigate the use of penicillin to treat and prevent syphilis infection.
(http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/10/01/130266301/u-s-apologizes-for-medical-research-that-infected-guatemalans-with-syphilis)
The first director of the FBI (Hoover) was known to abuse his power by having celebrities followed for no legitimate reason.
Slavery was allowed and written into the Constitution so that slaves were counted appropiately (Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3)
American citizens were placed in internment camps during WWII because they were of foreign descent but had done nothing wrong.
Native Americans were systematically eliminated by force and legislation whenever they were in the way of white progress. This happened into the 20th century.
McCarthy wasn't exactly a friend of liberty or privacy in the 1950s.
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service studied infected patients but they were never told they had syphilis, nor were they ever treated for it.
All these and more happened 30+ years ago. America is a great place, but don't think prior to the 1980's that Leave it to Beaver and Andy Griffith was the norm.
I can't believe an article about space, biology, and methane has no comments about Uranus. Slashdot has let me down again.
Again, provide me 2 different salary amounts where the higher one will take home less money due to taxes with all other variables being the same.
Does anyone here actually use stenography for more than fun or school or some side project? Other than spy vs spy stuff I can't imagine using it on a regular basis.
To use it properly you would need to have your decryption software installed on a totally different computer, otherwise when they look for the secret encrypted stuff they will see your stego encryption/decryption software and be tipped off. Also, since you can't hide much data using stenography without tipping someone off it seems to be of limited use for nearly all real world applications. I particularly can't see a business or even a government using this to protect their data.
Don't get me wrong. It seems like a cool thing to do. So, if you are using it regularly for a reasonable purpose, what exactly is that?
Tax brackets are gradual. Show me ANY income amount you can make with US tax code where making more money will have you taking home less money?
No one makes $99,999 and pays x amout of taxes, then makes $100,001 and pays x+50 in taxes just for making another 2 bucks.
Are you actually saying that someone who makes over 200k/year is not "rich". They definately aren't poor and I think it would be a stretch to call them middle class.
What percentage of jobs pay $200k or more? I would guess less than 1%. Assuming that is true, are you suggesting that the highest 1% of income earners in the US are not rich?
I wonder how much of that he blamed on you and how much they believed it.
maybe they will force convicted texters to have their car be converted to a Faraday cage to not allow texts from within the vehicle
I like your ideas. Flights would go by so much faster if I was unconscious the whole time!
Who says we can't park solar collecters in the ocean?
Even at 1-2%, if this could be printed onto shingles for nearly no cost, perhaps the energy it could provide may help heat/cool our homes rather than having to let all that energy go to waste.