You find it odd that an Egyptian speaks Arabic and calls home every few days, then takes his phone to a phone shop after he mysteriously gets remote credit where the phone is evidently wiped?
to be fair though I think they probably don't want us installing an adblocker on our parents/childrens/friends browsers. While you may not be vulnerable you've probably helped out people who are.
Maybe those particularly violent should be in jail?
That may be possible now that we know who they are. I'm concerned about my privacy as well but head out to Hindley St, Adelaide on a Saturday night and you'll start to see why these measures are necessary. Too many people walk around looking for a fight, too many bloody assaults and too many people getting away with it. Having said all that I do think taking your fingerprints is going a little too far; Let's just limit it to scanning patrons' drivers licenses.
I seriously doubt you didn't just make that up. As annoying as it is to be +1 Troll, my experience tells me that people who make outlandish claims like you just did are usually full of shit. To be fair, you might actually have had an incident where you felt your union rep was telling you off for working too hard, but more than likely you misunderstood the whole situation or deliberately misinterpreted it through your anti-union prejudices. Interestingly enough you do go on to make a rather reasonable point about working for a meritocracy, but it was completely unnecessary to start with such a unbelievable cliche.
Bullshit! I have serious doubts that your "union representative" in your "not unionized" role has spoken to you (a seemingly anti-union but evidently paying union member) about working too hard. The cliche just seems a little too convenient and hardly at all plausible.
I'm guessing that they're assuming we've learned a lot more from what happened to their neighbouring country & that's only after we assume that the initial success we saw in Iraq could even be mirrored...
The beauty is that you don't really have to trust PayPal. I usually transfer money out of my PayPal account within minutes of it arriving there, and I have made sure never to authorize PayPal to withdraw from any bank account I have.
Just make sure you have a backup plan so that if / when PayPal suspends your account for some stupid reason you have somewhere else for customers to go.
My sister sold some concert tickets on ebay paid for in full on PayPal. The guy came to her house & picked up the tickets and my sister withdrew the much needed money from PayPal.
About 4 weeks later my sister started receiving many e-mails from PayPal which, as she had no further business with PayPal, she assumed was spam and just ignored them. About 2 weeks ago she received a letter informing her PayPal has listed her with a credit reporting agency (yes, that means no credit cards, phone plans, mortgages for 5+ years) because she failed to pay them back $500 --- the guy had collected the tickets from my sister and saw the concert but then the bastard called PayPal to say he never received the tickets! PayPal simply put my sisters account into negative and started collections proceedings. When my sister finally figured out what had happened she explained the situation to PayPal & they just said too bad she didn't have proof that she gave him the tickets.
So yes, if you withdraw your money it makes it harder for PayPal to take it away from you, but that doesn't mean they can't screw you financially just for using their services
His conclusions were that ARMA was (very) far from being realistic, but that it was OK because it would have been boring and tedious to act exactly like a real soldier in a real war.
haha. If there were two words that I'd use to describe ARMA II they'd be "boring" and "tedious"...
Hah well honestly if you cant hold it in for *one hour* then maybe you shouldn't be flying anyway.
Yeah, lets see you try that. I'm not talking about a little squirt either. You try holding in a good piss for even 30 minutes confined to your chair with nothing to do but fidget.
You must be the worst person to go to the cinema with!
And even if it that were possible, telling people who couldn't do it that they don't deserve to fly? Man that horse must be at least 20 hands tall.
Didn't your mother ever tell you that you'd better go to the bathroom before you leave the house because she aint stopping on the way? Is it impossible for you to go to the bathroom before you're making that final hour-long descent?
Your solution is for the entire contingent of passengers to use the bathroom on the plane one hour out from landing just in case they have to urinate in half an hour? Yeah, that's some good goosesteppin right there.
Some can go 65 minutes before, some can go 70, some can go 75, etc. Most of us don't need to piss every hour...
No, you can punish the big faceless organisation by not purchasing tickets from them in the first place, but urinating on the floor of the plane will only punish the FAs who already have a very hard and sometimes dangerous job, and might not be in a position to "look for a new job".
Gee, does your high horse come with a urinary catheter? Because I'm not seeing you giving any alternative to the person who really has to go but isn't permitted to do it in the bathroom.
Hah well honestly if you cant hold it in for *one hour* then maybe you shouldn't be flying anyway. Didn't your mother ever tell you that you'd better go to the bathroom before you leave the house because she aint stopping on the way? Is it impossible for you to go to the bathroom before you're making that final hour-long descent?
Unless your are literally medically incontinent, with a doctor's note to boot, then I'd take great pleasure in watching you pay the cleaning bill & probably be banned from that airline for life.
I have trouble keeping my son in his high chair with his hands in plain site in a high chair. Good luck getting infants to sit still.
I don't know who's stupider: The idiots at the TSA who come up with the rules, the politicians that give them this power, or the dickheads that allow the politicians to be elected.
I'll stay well out of your country. I only wish your fucked up rules didn't get copied by our own government and idiotic organisations. We just had some ridiculous security restrictions lifted in Australia. What's the bet that all gets reversed thanks to you crazy as fuck yanks?
The Australian government relaxed airplane security measures, which came into affect on Friday.
Items including nail clippers and knitting needles are no longer prohibited.
Mr Albanese said those changes would remain in effect for good reason.
“To take security personnel away from worrying about whether nail clippers are on board or not and worry about firearms and high-risk dangerous items,” he said.
I can understand where you're coming from but it's neither the fault of the flight attendants nor the cleaning crew that your country has such shitty regulations, but they're the only people who will suffer from your protest...
That's the "they are just doing their job" cop-out. If they aren't happy with the consequences of working for an organization that denies people their basic human dignities, then they should be looking for a new job. To give them a pass because they are just little people in the machinery of a big faceless organization is to give the big faceless organization a pass.
No, you can punish the big faceless organisation by not purchasing tickets from them in the first place, but urinating on the floor of the plane will only punish the FAs who already have a very hard and sometimes dangerous job, and might not be in a position to "look for a new job".
The cop-out is you claiming that you can treat people in such a disgusting manner because of your assumption that they're able find a less degrading job at their whim.
Furthermore, the "consequences" you're advocating fail on both a moral and a pragmatic level. Morally for the reasons I've stated above, but pragmatically too since it wont change the TSA regulations, it won't make the airlines fight on your side & the only real result will be pissing off your fellow passengers as well as making life a harder for some people trying to make a living. If you want to complain then complain to your government, rather than take out your frustration on some low-level employee who has very little decision making power in the organisation they work for.
I can understand where you're coming from but it's neither the fault of the flight attendants nor the cleaning crew that your country has such shitty regulations, but they're the only people who will suffer from your protest...
That's the "they are just doing their job" cop-out. If they aren't happy with the consequences of working for an organization that denies people their basic human dignities, then they should be looking for a new job. To give them a pass because they are just little people in the machinery of a big faceless organization is to give the big faceless organization a pass.
No, you can punish the big faceless organisation by not purchasing tickets from them in the first place, but urinating on the floor of the plane will only punish the FAs who already have a very hard and sometimes dangerous job, and might not be in a position to "look for a new job".
The cop-out is you claiming that you can treat people in such a disgusting manner because of your assumption that they're able find a less degrading job at their whim.
Once could argue though that the FAs have a choice in exercising common sense... which dictates that when a guy/gal [or a baby/toddler] has to go, you let them go.
I very much doubt that FAs have any choice when it comes to application of TSA regulations. More likely they'd be punished or even fired if they did.
Well, next step is to physically restrain and drug passengers as they take their seats - all in the interests of safety.:-)
I wouldn't mind at all if they pumped me full of tranquilizers for the 25-35 hours flight from Australia. If not for the accompanied risks of DVT and the like, I'd very much prefer it!
With all due respect on the aisle thing, if I'm on a long-ish flight, fall asleep after eating whatever, and I have to pee badly enough, stand aside and let me use the lav, or I'll just piss in my paints in the aisle and let the cleaning crew on the ground deal with it...
I can understand where you're coming from but it's neither the fault of the flight attendants nor the cleaning crew that your country has such shitty regulations, but they're the only people who will suffer from your protest...
Satire of a political figure that we don't like is legitimate use of a domain.
What would happen if the domain in question was called "Obama: Fascist President" or some such? I mean, disregarding the obvious racism aspect for a moment.
My thinking wouldn't change (& thank you very much for you false assumption about me).
Of course I've changed my mind someone bothered to lookup auDA requirements for.com.au & personal use isn't included.
I'm no fan of Stephen Conroy's Great Wall of Australia, but the owners of the site in question can't have any claim to legitimacy if they fraudulently use someone else's name to register it.
Normally I'd agree with you but a satire of a political figure is, imo, legitimate use of a domain.
Why is everyone referring to this as a copyright? It sounds more like the Vatican is protecting their trademark (the Pope).
I actually agree with their reasoning too -- they don't want people leveraging their symbols for politcal, social or economical reasons unless they really do have the support of the church. Sounds fair enough to me...
I have a laptop and I've only used my optical drive to load software. How do people normally get around that with netbooks that come without optical drives?
With a usb stick, a lot of spare time and a load of pain...
That was until I got sick of trying to transmute the Ubuntu ISO to a bootable USB stick and purchased a $40 external dvd-writer
Sounds like a typical college twit with a chip on their shoulder who saw nothing wrong with purposely baiting authorities. We only have her side so of course she wants to come off as clean and pristine, yet the items and such on her point to either someone incredibly stupid or someone intentionally trying to cause a scene.
The problem is, you don't cause scenes where people put their lives on the line every day. I don't care what stupid tripe you think you know or learned at home. The real world is a whole different place and it don't care what you think. In some areas of the world the last thing you want to do is bring notice to yourself. Check points are the last place in the world I would want to screw up.
I'm sorry but since when is written Arabic "purposely baiting authorities"? It's the most populous language of that region, has been for hundreds of years, and is still spoken by a large minority of Israel. Sure bigots like yourself might find that particular foreign language somehow offensive, but just having written Arabic doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong.
Furthermore, she just came from Egypt, at an Egypt border crossing nonetheless. I'd be surprised if she didn't have Arabic stamps in her passport & some kind of Arabic text somewhere on her person. The worst thing she had on her was some anti-war photos criticising Israel & yes, that could raise some flags. Of course I'm sure all terrorists go in to battle carrying photos condemning Israeli military action in Gaza -- they like to draw attention to themselves like that!
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You find it odd that an Egyptian speaks Arabic and calls home every few days, then takes his phone to a phone shop after he mysteriously gets remote credit where the phone is evidently wiped?
to be fair though I think they probably don't want us installing an adblocker on our parents/childrens/friends browsers. While you may not be vulnerable you've probably helped out people who are.
Maybe those particularly violent should be in jail?
That may be possible now that we know who they are. I'm concerned about my privacy as well but head out to Hindley St, Adelaide on a Saturday night and you'll start to see why these measures are necessary. Too many people walk around looking for a fight, too many bloody assaults and too many people getting away with it. Having said all that I do think taking your fingerprints is going a little too far; Let's just limit it to scanning patrons' drivers licenses.
I seriously doubt you didn't just make that up. As annoying as it is to be +1 Troll, my experience tells me that people who make outlandish claims like you just did are usually full of shit. To be fair, you might actually have had an incident where you felt your union rep was telling you off for working too hard, but more than likely you misunderstood the whole situation or deliberately misinterpreted it through your anti-union prejudices. Interestingly enough you do go on to make a rather reasonable point about working for a meritocracy, but it was completely unnecessary to start with such a unbelievable cliche.
Bullshit! I have serious doubts that your "union representative" in your "not unionized" role has spoken to you (a seemingly anti-union but evidently paying union member) about working too hard. The cliche just seems a little too convenient and hardly at all plausible.
The folks who signed this petition can't really say they know what they are talking about.
That's quite a brazen accusation to make about "9000 PhD's" you've probably never met.
I'm guessing that they're assuming we've learned a lot more from what happened to their neighbouring country & that's only after we assume that the initial success we saw in Iraq could even be mirrored...
Well we're in Australia so we dont have SSNs. But tbh I'm surprised anything more than name, dob & address is required, even in the USA.
The beauty is that you don't really have to trust PayPal. I usually transfer money out of my PayPal account within minutes of it arriving there, and I have made sure never to authorize PayPal to withdraw from any bank account I have.
Just make sure you have a backup plan so that if / when PayPal suspends your account for some stupid reason you have somewhere else for customers to go.
My sister sold some concert tickets on ebay paid for in full on PayPal. The guy came to her house & picked up the tickets and my sister withdrew the much needed money from PayPal.
About 4 weeks later my sister started receiving many e-mails from PayPal which, as she had no further business with PayPal, she assumed was spam and just ignored them. About 2 weeks ago she received a letter informing her PayPal has listed her with a credit reporting agency (yes, that means no credit cards, phone plans, mortgages for 5+ years) because she failed to pay them back $500 --- the guy had collected the tickets from my sister and saw the concert but then the bastard called PayPal to say he never received the tickets! PayPal simply put my sisters account into negative and started collections proceedings. When my sister finally figured out what had happened she explained the situation to PayPal & they just said too bad she didn't have proof that she gave him the tickets.
So yes, if you withdraw your money it makes it harder for PayPal to take it away from you, but that doesn't mean they can't screw you financially just for using their services
His conclusions were that ARMA was (very) far from being realistic, but that it was OK because it would have been boring and tedious to act exactly like a real soldier in a real war.
haha. If there were two words that I'd use to describe ARMA II they'd be "boring" and "tedious"...
Hah well honestly if you cant hold it in for *one hour* then maybe you shouldn't be flying anyway.
Yeah, lets see you try that. I'm not talking about a little squirt either. You try holding in a good piss for even 30 minutes confined to your chair with nothing to do but fidget.
You must be the worst person to go to the cinema with!
And even if it that were possible, telling people who couldn't do it that they don't deserve to fly? Man that horse must be at least 20 hands tall.
Didn't your mother ever tell you that you'd better go to the bathroom before you leave the house because she aint stopping on the way? Is it impossible for you to go to the bathroom before you're making that final hour-long descent?
Your solution is for the entire contingent of passengers to use the bathroom on the plane one hour out from landing just in case they have to urinate in half an hour? Yeah, that's some good goosesteppin right there.
Some can go 65 minutes before, some can go 70, some can go 75, etc. Most of us don't need to piss every hour...
It gets worse when they say "I am just doing my job". Sounds to close to "Befehl ist befehl!"
right, because this is directly comparable to being systematically enslaved & murdered...
No, you can punish the big faceless organisation by not purchasing tickets from them in the first place, but urinating on the floor of the plane will only punish the FAs who already have a very hard and sometimes dangerous job, and might not be in a position to "look for a new job".
Gee, does your high horse come with a urinary catheter? Because I'm not seeing you giving any alternative to the person who really has to go but isn't permitted to do it in the bathroom.
Hah well honestly if you cant hold it in for *one hour* then maybe you shouldn't be flying anyway. Didn't your mother ever tell you that you'd better go to the bathroom before you leave the house because she aint stopping on the way? Is it impossible for you to go to the bathroom before you're making that final hour-long descent?
Unless your are literally medically incontinent, with a doctor's note to boot, then I'd take great pleasure in watching you pay the cleaning bill & probably be banned from that airline for life.
I have trouble keeping my son in his high chair with his hands in plain site in a high chair. Good luck getting infants to sit still.
I don't know who's stupider: The idiots at the TSA who come up with the rules, the politicians that give them this power, or the dickheads that allow the politicians to be elected.
I'll stay well out of your country. I only wish your fucked up rules didn't get copied by our own government and idiotic organisations. We just had some ridiculous security restrictions lifted in Australia. What's the bet that all gets reversed thanks to you crazy as fuck yanks?
Not likely: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/us-bound-passengers-in-for-tightened-security/story-e6frg6n6-1225813969830
I can understand where you're coming from but it's neither the fault of the flight attendants nor the cleaning crew that your country has such shitty regulations, but they're the only people who will suffer from your protest...
That's the "they are just doing their job" cop-out. If they aren't happy with the consequences of working for an organization that denies people their basic human dignities, then they should be looking for a new job. To give them a pass because they are just little people in the machinery of a big faceless organization is to give the big faceless organization a pass.
No, you can punish the big faceless organisation by not purchasing tickets from them in the first place, but urinating on the floor of the plane will only punish the FAs who already have a very hard and sometimes dangerous job, and might not be in a position to "look for a new job".
The cop-out is you claiming that you can treat people in such a disgusting manner because of your assumption that they're able find a less degrading job at their whim.
Furthermore, the "consequences" you're advocating fail on both a moral and a pragmatic level. Morally for the reasons I've stated above, but pragmatically too since it wont change the TSA regulations, it won't make the airlines fight on your side & the only real result will be pissing off your fellow passengers as well as making life a harder for some people trying to make a living. If you want to complain then complain to your government, rather than take out your frustration on some low-level employee who has very little decision making power in the organisation they work for.
I can understand where you're coming from but it's neither the fault of the flight attendants nor the cleaning crew that your country has such shitty regulations, but they're the only people who will suffer from your protest...
That's the "they are just doing their job" cop-out. If they aren't happy with the consequences of working for an organization that denies people their basic human dignities, then they should be looking for a new job. To give them a pass because they are just little people in the machinery of a big faceless organization is to give the big faceless organization a pass.
No, you can punish the big faceless organisation by not purchasing tickets from them in the first place, but urinating on the floor of the plane will only punish the FAs who already have a very hard and sometimes dangerous job, and might not be in a position to "look for a new job".
The cop-out is you claiming that you can treat people in such a disgusting manner because of your assumption that they're able find a less degrading job at their whim.
Once could argue though that the FAs have a choice in exercising common sense... which dictates that when a guy/gal [or a baby/toddler] has to go, you let them go.
I very much doubt that FAs have any choice when it comes to application of TSA regulations. More likely they'd be punished or even fired if they did.
Well, next step is to physically restrain and drug passengers as they take their seats - all in the interests of safety. :-)
I wouldn't mind at all if they pumped me full of tranquilizers for the 25-35 hours flight from Australia. If not for the accompanied risks of DVT and the like, I'd very much prefer it!
With all due respect on the aisle thing, if I'm on a long-ish flight, fall asleep after eating whatever, and I have to pee badly enough, stand aside and let me use the lav, or I'll just piss in my paints in the aisle and let the cleaning crew on the ground deal with it...
I can understand where you're coming from but it's neither the fault of the flight attendants nor the cleaning crew that your country has such shitty regulations, but they're the only people who will suffer from your protest...
If it works, why not? Are you going to claim some kind of Bacon allergy?
Surely people on Slashdot won't dismiss a functional idea because it makes you laugh?
No, people are dismissing that "functional idea" because it's born out of the most disgusting type of xenophobia.
Let me fix that for you:
Satire of a political figure that we don't like is legitimate use of a domain.
What would happen if the domain in question was called "Obama: Fascist President" or some such? I mean, disregarding the obvious racism aspect for a moment.
My thinking wouldn't change (& thank you very much for you false assumption about me).
Of course I've changed my mind someone bothered to lookup auDA requirements for .com.au & personal use isn't included.
I'm no fan of Stephen Conroy's Great Wall of Australia, but the owners of the site in question can't have any claim to legitimacy if they fraudulently use someone else's name to register it.
Normally I'd agree with you but a satire of a political figure is, imo, legitimate use of a domain.
Why is everyone referring to this as a copyright? It sounds more like the Vatican is protecting their trademark (the Pope).
I actually agree with their reasoning too -- they don't want people leveraging their symbols for politcal, social or economical reasons unless they really do have the support of the church. Sounds fair enough to me...
I have a laptop and I've only used my optical drive to load software. How do people normally get around that with netbooks that come without optical drives?
With a usb stick, a lot of spare time and a load of pain...
That was until I got sick of trying to transmute the Ubuntu ISO to a bootable USB stick and purchased a $40 external dvd-writer
Sounds like a typical college twit with a chip on their shoulder who saw nothing wrong with purposely baiting authorities. We only have her side so of course she wants to come off as clean and pristine, yet the items and such on her point to either someone incredibly stupid or someone intentionally trying to cause a scene.
The problem is, you don't cause scenes where people put their lives on the line every day. I don't care what stupid tripe you think you know or learned at home. The real world is a whole different place and it don't care what you think. In some areas of the world the last thing you want to do is bring notice to yourself. Check points are the last place in the world I would want to screw up.
I'm sorry but since when is written Arabic "purposely baiting authorities"? It's the most populous language of that region, has been for hundreds of years, and is still spoken by a large minority of Israel. Sure bigots like yourself might find that particular foreign language somehow offensive, but just having written Arabic doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong.
Furthermore, she just came from Egypt, at an Egypt border crossing nonetheless. I'd be surprised if she didn't have Arabic stamps in her passport & some kind of Arabic text somewhere on her person. The worst thing she had on her was some anti-war photos criticising Israel & yes, that could raise some flags. Of course I'm sure all terrorists go in to battle carrying photos condemning Israeli military action in Gaza -- they like to draw attention to themselves like that!