But you'll have a fine audit trail to give to the apathetic FBI, who will assure you everything will be done... Before promptly putting it into the circular filing cabinet.
i found the solution to that particular problem. They can do the same thing I did when I got broken into last night. Called DHS, told them someone broke in and stole my computer with the Anarchist's Cookbook, Terrorist's Handbook, and plans for a nuclear missile on it.
I feel very confident that they'll get the culprit...
1.
Yeah, it's a shame that a lot of people think this way. Nuff said.
2.
Pollen from GM crops is a HUGE problem for organic farmers. Planting GM crops freely in an area can destroy the market for organic crops at home as well as for selling to Europe and other parts of the world where GM crops are disdained by customers. You simply cannot protect your crop against contamination in many cases. (Also, besides market concerns, there's the infamous Canadian patents case, Monsanto v. Schmeiser [wikipedia.org].)
Agreed. You cannot protect your crop. The only reasons this is a problem are the first point ('frankencrops', to which I say, 'too bad', with roads, we also have 'frankengeography', live with it), and protecting existing markets. Why should they be protected? Because they were there first? I'm glad the farriers didn't quash the tyre manufacturers with a similar line of thinking. To my mind, anything essential shouldn't be a market, and a specifically "organic" agricutural market isn't essential, so let market forces deal with people's fringe rationalities. I have no problem letting a sand-boxed capitalism market deal with selling people $1000 speaker cables, just as I have no problem letting a similar market deal with selling people organic food. At the same time, if the environment or other markets prevent the cable manufacturer from acquiring copper (and therefore generating their cables) or the organic farmer from acquiring non-GMO seed (and therefore...), I have no problem with either market being entirely destroyed.
3.
The third point is one that really cheeses of a lot of environmentalists.
Yep. And this is exactly the point they're mostly wrong about.
You hear a lot of awesome things in the news about how scientists have invented rice with extra vitamin A or tomatoes with longer shelf life. The truth is that there are really only two major types of changes which companies have fought to get onto the market -- crops that come with their own built-in Bt insecticide and crops that let you liberally sprinkle around the herbicide RoundUp...
Well, the truth is, the Vitamin A issue is accurate. I was talking with a chick I know last summer and found myself defending Monsanto as not-entirely-evil over this point. Unable to admit that the-devil-itself (Monsanto) may actually do some good, I saw her a few days later and was told "We don't need Monsanto, we need people to grow more Yams".
As far as the two points, though, I entirely agree. ENTIRELY. And that is exactly the value of these crops. Far fewer chemicals are used because of these technologies, and the chemicals used are largely innocuous. Glyphosate (Round-Up) breaks down a hell of a lot quicker into non-toxic compounds than anything else we used on broadleafs. Certainly the two most common universal (more-or-less) broadleaf chemicals (2-4D and MCPA) break down a lot slower, and are initially much more toxic. (FWIW, herbicides can generally be broken down into ones which kill everything green, and ones which only kill broadleafs.) What we end up with when using Round-Up resistant seed are the following:
A. Less cultivation required to condition a field for planting, since fewer generations of weed seed growth have to be destroyed mechanically when a pass of the sprayer can deal with yield-competing weeds post-emergence. I grew up on a farm that was considered large in the 70s and 80s, but would now be considered a smallish medium sized farm, and the fuel usage on cultivation alone counteracts any ten people deciding to ride a bike to work for the environment as opposed to driving their car. (It wouldn't surprise me if it were true for a hundred people; a large tractor can burn through three hundred gallons of diesel a day easily.) Besides this, cultivation is hard on the soil. Too much cultivation (really all cultivation) destroys a great deal of
I guess for 95% of all common searchterms, there is an informative Wiki-article
My initial thought to that was:
"Maybe common for everyone else, but I must make a lot more uncommon searches. I mean, Wikipedia doesn't have a 'disney ass sluts' category, while Google returned 119 results."
But then I realized it does have an article on Britney Spears, so you may have a point.
They are only trying to do this route because there is NO law on the books against what she did. And allowing them to bend this law to get her would set an ominous precedent.
Are we sure about that?
I know in Canada we have a "sexual interference with a minor" law, maybe Missouri has something applicable. She certainly carried on a courtship with the girl. And it's pretty obvious that Megan was interested romantically. as well, one of the topics of discussion was sex.
If Lori Drew were a guy (other than a congressman, of course), I have little doubt he'd be in jail now, and on a sex-offender registry as well. I agree that the statutes they are using are rubbish, but I wouldn't be surprised if some sex-crime statute has been violated.
At the risk of having a "what about the children" moment... The amount of callous comments here are ridiculous (not directed at P). An adult psychologically manipulated and abused a kid, and it gets responded to by blaming the kid ("she would have done it anyways..." etc.).
I decided to see if I could check the same filtering mechanism with Canada and the US. The only obvious thing that struck me to search for is 'lolicon', since I'm pretty sure it's illegal in Canada but not the states.
You're probably also at the point where all you see is blonde, brunette, redhead...
After all these years of looking at machine code and thinking "That's an a$$hole place for a jmp instruction" I'm very happy to finally access the pornucopia with my custom-built trinary system (zeros, ones, and ironing boards), using little more than a network protocol layer based on the works of Groucho Marx.
Fscking amateurs, that's what I call the rest of them.
Every rose has its thoorrrrrrrn!
Just like every night has its dawwwwwwn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad sonnnng
Every rose has its thorrrrrn!
That would be mildly disturbing. "Evil Grows" by the Poppy Family would also be pretty twisted:
Evil grows in the dark where the sun it never shines
Evil grows in cracks and holes and lives in people's minds
Evil grew, it's part of you, and now it seems to be
That every time I look at you, evil grows in me
I'd be much more tempted to have a flower that danced to that than the Talking Heads fish.
The NDP have never left less government debt in their terms of office.
Of course, Gary Doer in Manitoba has had a balanced budget every year for the last decade, as well as creating a rainy-day fund of hundreds of millions, but don't let that stop you from making black and white statements.
Laytoon[sic] would say anything to get elected [whether] he mean[t] it or not. World readers need to know it is routine that Canadian candidates lie often.
AFAICT, that's par for the course in Canada, the US, and the UK, and I suspect pretty much every other democracy. The Liberals did fairly well during the election a few years ago in part due to Sheila Copps promising to do away with the GST, and we all know how well that turned out. The Conservatives have a similar history, such as this, or these. Federally speaking, we have a lot more reason to distrust Conservative or Liberal election promises, since they have both actually formed the government and then broken those promises, while the NDP have never been in that position. That's not to say that they wouldn't, but it seems strange you'd single out Layton, since his party is the only one of the three that have never actually done what you suggest he would do.
I couldn't sense any difference between the two pictures for most of the guys, but the pictures of the women seemed significantly different. Maybe I'm just weird, or maybe, as a guy, I recognize the subtleties of women's faces better, or maybe I recognize the differences more readily because I look at a lot more women than men.
Anyone else notice the same thing? As well, did any women notice the differences in the men a lot easier than in the women?
Re:I don't know if I fully agree with that
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Fire Your IT Boss
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Incompetent programmers can often put out ten lines of code that should require one.
Now, now. Just because they don't know the glories of Perl, doesn't mean they're incompetent programmers.
Re:An advantage of 64-bit Linux?
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I don't remember for sure, but IIRC, issuing a 'killall npviewer.bin' from the console deals with it. Hardly graceful (and far from ideal), but you don't need to kill the browser at least.
Arrest:
You have the right to remain quiet
Though, really, I wouldn't try it.
Whatever you say
We'll give you your day,
I hope you know no-one will buy it.
The applicable law:
If she looks like a Britney Spear
You'd better find out her real year
For if you're wrong
And not very strong
The next ten to fifteen's on your rear.
Judge's comments:
There once was a law violated
When you and that young girl dated.
It wasn't just that
Mr. "It's Hasselblad",
It's also the pictures you traded.
Kendo-snooker would be pretty good. Full kendo gear, using the shinai as a pool cue, and everybody smoking and drinking scotch. The commercial tie-ins would be invaluable: "You've entered Marlboro prefecture", or "Single malt for the discerning Samurai"
It might as well read: "A Cautionary Tale of Closed Source Social Technology". Go check ten random sites with nationality registration. Chances are, "Israel" is on the list, but "Palestinian Territory" isn't. They are no more indicative of the failure of closed source than this is of a failure of open source.
I wonder how many times they've bitched about the omission of Palestine... gee, none? What a surprise. Hypocrites.
I'm a little bitchy, but one can't play the anti-semitic card every time Israel is omitted/criticised. It devalues everybody.
But the hostile subtext in the Canadian niceness and politeness is hard for machines to render into American. Quite. That is exactly the sort of comment I'd expect from our oh-so-interesting neighbours to the South.
The further you get from the border, the harder it is to understand. Of course Canadians will deny it. But they'll do it politely. Furthermore, in case you are harbouring suspicions that I'm pulling your [non-Canadian] goose in some fashion, I cordially invite you to cosh yourself in the noggin with a tyre iron.* Thank you, neighbour, for your time.
*I don't really suggest this, since I have no desire to face the possibility of gaol.
That's exactly the failure point, IMO: a transformer. Years ago I worked for an electrical company, and we did a major service on a pharmaceutical plant. The garbage can sized ones are nothing. There were 10 sub-panels with transformers ranging from refrigerator sized to 2-3x refrigerator sized (that's 0.00439 Libraries of Congress, FYI), and another 7 of roughly garbage can to range size.
I really don't know the power requirements of a DC this size, but I have my doubts it's measurably more (and probably less). The wall of input electricity monitoring/conditioning and breakers in the "power feed" room was huge (probably 30ft long, 7ft high, 3ft deep. Some of the sub-panels (with transformers) were hundreds of yards away. The building had several "power rooms".
In the "power feed" room, though, there was one transformer, separated from the rest of the room by a stub wall, which was the feed to the mechanical room (which is where you do all the building related control (HVAC, enviromental logic, pumps, etc)).
I've witnessed the results of a smallish transformer blowing up. It was under the street, and it blew a manhole cover off. It took about 6-8 seconds for the manhole cover to land after the transformer exploded. That's a lot of power. In the place I worked in, I suspect the transformer would have smeared $1+ million worth of equipment into the walls, knocked over the one wall that wasn't buried in the earth, and forced someone to dig up the feed and re-lay it from the service point.
If it was a small enough place to only require a couple of transformers, I suspect they would have landed them in the power feed room, if bigger, they may easily have put one or more in the vicinity of the room.
Anybody know the wattage requirements for a DC this size? It would be interesting to get a feel of the scale of this...
...cut out the multi-billion dollar toy trade and China's toast. Are you on glue?
From this site it lists 2007 total imports from China at 321.5 b$, Imports of "toys and games" as 26.1 b$. While significant, I really don't think an 8% change in China->US imports is going to make China close up shop. (This leaves aside the ridiculousness of getting consumers and businesses to collectively say "We're willing to do without or pay more just to shave a few percent off of China's trade." Good luck.)
As far as the EMP nonsense is concerned, it's possible that such a thing could be done without the Chinese having enough evidence to bring the US to court, but do you really think they wouldn't be able to gather enough evidence to consider that the likely origin and be able to retaliate in kind? Hell, if it's that that easy to avoid being legally busted, they might just do the same in Tokyo or Moscow as well, on the outside chance it was them. I suspect they would more or less ignore it, though. Anything that small (costing a few tens or hundreds of million, or whatever, and causing slight, temporary destabilization) probably wouldn't be worth bothering with in any publicly noticeable way. Maybe an excuse to disappear a few more dissidents, but that's about all that would reach the public radar.
Just the other day, I had a fast food burger, and the terrorists left out the pickle. Then I went to get gas, but the pump had been broken by terrorists. After finally getting gas, I discovered the terrorists have been jacking up fuel prices so I didn't have enough cash. The terrorists must have been disrupting the banking system, because it took several minutes to access my funds by debit card. The terrorists had been messing with the stop lights as well, since they were completely out of sync.
Finally, I got home and discovered my wife must be a terrorist, since she overcooked the roast. Then I tried watching the news, but terrorists kept interrupting it with ads for things I didn't want to buy. Disillusioned, I decided to go throw a ball around with my son Billy. It's one of the few pleasures I can still find in this dangerous, terror-infested world. You wouldn't believe what happened! My son threw the ball badly, and I got a grass stain on my slacks when diving for it. I'm afraid I'll have to call DHS and get them to start a dossier on Billy now.
I hope the terrorists don't turn off my alarm clock in the night again. If I'm late for one more day of work, I'm pretty sure the terrorists in human resources are going to fire me.
As a possible exception, I'd mention A Clockwork Orange. In the movie, Alex ends up being rewarded and pampered by the state. There's no sense of justice or of Alex actually learning anything. Sure the old writer makes him suffer, but that's revenge and doesn't feel like justice (to me at least).
In the book, he ends up forming another gang, but grows tired of it, as he's growing up and wants a better life. It leaves me with a sense of the redeem-ability of even the worst humans.
In neither book or film does he really learn anything up to the deconditioning. Only in the book does he understand that he ultimately wants life to be different. Granted, that movie was made a while ago. If someone tried to make it today, they'd probably turn it into a romantic comedy with Tom Cruise, Kristin Dunst, and Eugene Levy.
Slashdot Mirror
January: Obama becomes president.
:P
One month later: Flying cars.
What's next?
Thanksgiving: Immortality.
Christmas: Girlfriend!
Clearly, all this fuss about Obama has been well placed! He's not even in power yet and the flying cars are already on the way!
But you'll have a fine audit trail to give to the apathetic FBI, who will assure you everything will be done... Before promptly putting it into the circular filing cabinet.
i found the solution to that particular problem. They can do the same thing I did when I got broken into last night. Called DHS, told them someone broke in and stole my computer with the Anarchist's Cookbook, Terrorist's Handbook, and plans for a nuclear missile on it.
I feel very confident that they'll get the culprit...
[...]
Uh-oh, I've just come to a horrible realisati
[NO CARRIER]
1.
Yeah, it's a shame that a lot of people think this way. Nuff said.
2.
Pollen from GM crops is a HUGE problem for organic farmers. Planting GM crops freely in an area can destroy the market for organic crops at home as well as for selling to Europe and other parts of the world where GM crops are disdained by customers. You simply cannot protect your crop against contamination in many cases. (Also, besides market concerns, there's the infamous Canadian patents case, Monsanto v. Schmeiser [wikipedia.org].)
Agreed. You cannot protect your crop. The only reasons this is a problem are the first point ('frankencrops', to which I say, 'too bad', with roads, we also have 'frankengeography', live with it), and protecting existing markets. Why should they be protected? Because they were there first? I'm glad the farriers didn't quash the tyre manufacturers with a similar line of thinking. To my mind, anything essential shouldn't be a market, and a specifically "organic" agricutural market isn't essential, so let market forces deal with people's fringe rationalities. I have no problem letting a sand-boxed capitalism market deal with selling people $1000 speaker cables, just as I have no problem letting a similar market deal with selling people organic food. At the same time, if the environment or other markets prevent the cable manufacturer from acquiring copper (and therefore generating their cables) or the organic farmer from acquiring non-GMO seed (and therefore...), I have no problem with either market being entirely destroyed.
3.
The third point is one that really cheeses of a lot of environmentalists.
Yep. And this is exactly the point they're mostly wrong about.
You hear a lot of awesome things in the news about how scientists have invented rice with extra vitamin A or tomatoes with longer shelf life. The truth is that there are really only two major types of changes which companies have fought to get onto the market -- crops that come with their own built-in Bt insecticide and crops that let you liberally sprinkle around the herbicide RoundUp...
Well, the truth is, the Vitamin A issue is accurate. I was talking with a chick I know last summer and found myself defending Monsanto as not-entirely-evil over this point. Unable to admit that the-devil-itself (Monsanto) may actually do some good, I saw her a few days later and was told "We don't need Monsanto, we need people to grow more Yams".
As far as the two points, though, I entirely agree. ENTIRELY. And that is exactly the value of these crops. Far fewer chemicals are used because of these technologies, and the chemicals used are largely innocuous. Glyphosate (Round-Up) breaks down a hell of a lot quicker into non-toxic compounds than anything else we used on broadleafs. Certainly the two most common universal (more-or-less) broadleaf chemicals (2-4D and MCPA) break down a lot slower, and are initially much more toxic. (FWIW, herbicides can generally be broken down into ones which kill everything green, and ones which only kill broadleafs.) What we end up with when using Round-Up resistant seed are the following:
A. Less cultivation required to condition a field for planting, since fewer generations of weed seed growth have to be destroyed mechanically when a pass of the sprayer can deal with yield-competing weeds post-emergence. I grew up on a farm that was considered large in the 70s and 80s, but would now be considered a smallish medium sized farm, and the fuel usage on cultivation alone counteracts any ten people deciding to ride a bike to work for the environment as opposed to driving their car. (It wouldn't surprise me if it were true for a hundred people; a large tractor can burn through three hundred gallons of diesel a day easily.) Besides this, cultivation is hard on the soil. Too much cultivation (really all cultivation) destroys a great deal of
I guess for 95% of all common searchterms, there is an informative Wiki-article
My initial thought to that was:
"Maybe common for everyone else, but I must make a lot more uncommon searches. I mean, Wikipedia doesn't have a 'disney ass sluts' category, while Google returned 119 results."
But then I realized it does have an article on Britney Spears, so you may have a point.
They are only trying to do this route because there is NO law on the books against what she did. And allowing them to bend this law to get her would set an ominous precedent.
Are we sure about that?
I know in Canada we have a "sexual interference with a minor" law, maybe Missouri has something applicable. She certainly carried on a courtship with the girl. And it's pretty obvious that Megan was interested romantically. as well, one of the topics of discussion was sex.
If Lori Drew were a guy (other than a congressman, of course), I have little doubt he'd be in jail now, and on a sex-offender registry as well. I agree that the statutes they are using are rubbish, but I wouldn't be surprised if some sex-crime statute has been violated.
At the risk of having a "what about the children" moment... The amount of callous comments here are ridiculous (not directed at P). An adult psychologically manipulated and abused a kid, and it gets responded to by blaming the kid ("she would have done it anyways..." etc.).
I decided to see if I could check the same filtering mechanism with Canada and the US. The only obvious thing that struck me to search for is 'lolicon', since I'm pretty sure it's illegal in Canada but not the states.
The US results (1,350,000 results)
The Canadian results (1,230,000)
Or am I missing some incredibly obvious other reason that these results are different?
Exactly!
You're probably also at the point where all you see is blonde, brunette, redhead...
After all these years of looking at machine code and thinking "That's an a$$hole place for a jmp instruction" I'm very happy to finally access the pornucopia with my custom-built trinary system (zeros, ones, and ironing boards), using little more than a network protocol layer based on the works of Groucho Marx.
Fscking amateurs, that's what I call the rest of them.
The flowers should also have songs.
Every rose has its thoorrrrrrrn!
Just like every night has its dawwwwwwn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad sonnnng
Every rose has its thorrrrrn!
That would be mildly disturbing. "Evil Grows" by the Poppy Family would also be pretty twisted:
Evil grows in the dark where the sun it never shines
Evil grows in cracks and holes and lives in people's minds
Evil grew, it's part of you, and now it seems to be
That every time I look at you, evil grows in me
I'd be much more tempted to have a flower that danced to that than the Talking Heads fish.
The NDP have never left less government debt in their terms of office.
Of course, Gary Doer in Manitoba has had a balanced budget every year for the last decade, as well as creating a rainy-day fund of hundreds of millions, but don't let that stop you from making black and white statements.
Laytoon[sic] would say anything to get elected [whether] he mean[t] it or not. World readers need to know it is routine that Canadian candidates lie often.
AFAICT, that's par for the course in Canada, the US, and the UK, and I suspect pretty much every other democracy. The Liberals did fairly well during the election a few years ago in part due to Sheila Copps promising to do away with the GST, and we all know how well that turned out. The Conservatives have a similar history, such as this, or these. Federally speaking, we have a lot more reason to distrust Conservative or Liberal election promises, since they have both actually formed the government and then broken those promises, while the NDP have never been in that position. That's not to say that they wouldn't, but it seems strange you'd single out Layton, since his party is the only one of the three that have never actually done what you suggest he would do.
I couldn't sense any difference between the two pictures for most of the guys, but the pictures of the women seemed significantly different. Maybe I'm just weird, or maybe, as a guy, I recognize the subtleties of women's faces better, or maybe I recognize the differences more readily because I look at a lot more women than men.
Anyone else notice the same thing? As well, did any women notice the differences in the men a lot easier than in the women?
Incompetent programmers can often put out ten lines of code that should require one.
Now, now. Just because they don't know the glories of Perl, doesn't mean they're incompetent programmers.
I don't remember for sure, but IIRC, issuing a 'killall npviewer.bin' from the console deals with it. Hardly graceful (and far from ideal), but you don't need to kill the browser at least.
It could be used through the whole process:
Arrest:
You have the right to remain quiet
Though, really, I wouldn't try it.
Whatever you say
We'll give you your day,
I hope you know no-one will buy it.
The applicable law:
If she looks like a Britney Spear
You'd better find out her real year
For if you're wrong
And not very strong
The next ten to fifteen's on your rear.
Judge's comments:
There once was a law violated
When you and that young girl dated.
It wasn't just that
Mr. "It's Hasselblad",
It's also the pictures you traded.
Kendo-snooker would be pretty good. Full kendo gear, using the shinai as a pool cue, and everybody smoking and drinking scotch. The commercial tie-ins would be invaluable: "You've entered Marlboro prefecture", or "Single malt for the discerning Samurai"
Here
They're both pretty well equally excitable, at least...
And he didn't even give us a link to his Geocities page!!! The nerve.
It might as well read: "A Cautionary Tale of Closed Source Social Technology". Go check ten random sites with nationality registration. Chances are, "Israel" is on the list, but "Palestinian Territory" isn't. They are no more indicative of the failure of closed source than this is of a failure of open source.
I wonder how many times they've bitched about the omission of Palestine... gee, none? What a surprise. Hypocrites.
I'm a little bitchy, but one can't play the anti-semitic card every time Israel is omitted/criticised. It devalues everybody.
*I don't really suggest this, since I have no desire to face the possibility of gaol.
I'm a little late on this thread, but...
That's exactly the failure point, IMO: a transformer. Years ago I worked for an electrical company, and we did a major service on a pharmaceutical plant. The garbage can sized ones are nothing. There were 10 sub-panels with transformers ranging from refrigerator sized to 2-3x refrigerator sized (that's 0.00439 Libraries of Congress, FYI), and another 7 of roughly garbage can to range size.
I really don't know the power requirements of a DC this size, but I have my doubts it's measurably more (and probably less). The wall of input electricity monitoring/conditioning and breakers in the "power feed" room was huge (probably 30ft long, 7ft high, 3ft deep. Some of the sub-panels (with transformers) were hundreds of yards away. The building had several "power rooms".
In the "power feed" room, though, there was one transformer, separated from the rest of the room by a stub wall, which was the feed to the mechanical room (which is where you do all the building related control (HVAC, enviromental logic, pumps, etc)).
I've witnessed the results of a smallish transformer blowing up. It was under the street, and it blew a manhole cover off. It took about 6-8 seconds for the manhole cover to land after the transformer exploded. That's a lot of power. In the place I worked in, I suspect the transformer would have smeared $1+ million worth of equipment into the walls, knocked over the one wall that wasn't buried in the earth, and forced someone to dig up the feed and re-lay it from the service point.
If it was a small enough place to only require a couple of transformers, I suspect they would have landed them in the power feed room, if bigger, they may easily have put one or more in the vicinity of the room. Anybody know the wattage requirements for a DC this size? It would be interesting to get a feel of the scale of this...
Now would be the perfect time to release my latest invention! I call it the "Finglonger"!!!
No more trouble dealing with those pesky Pringles cans, and they also come in a stylish mauve colour.
Or: [ :|_o ]$1 million [/ :|_o ]
That's the best emoticon/tag I can come up with at the moment...
...cut out the multi-billion dollar toy trade and China's toast. Are you on glue?From this site it lists 2007 total imports from China at 321.5 b$, Imports of "toys and games" as 26.1 b$. While significant, I really don't think an 8% change in China->US imports is going to make China close up shop. (This leaves aside the ridiculousness of getting consumers and businesses to collectively say "We're willing to do without or pay more just to shave a few percent off of China's trade." Good luck.)
As far as the EMP nonsense is concerned, it's possible that such a thing could be done without the Chinese having enough evidence to bring the US to court, but do you really think they wouldn't be able to gather enough evidence to consider that the likely origin and be able to retaliate in kind? Hell, if it's that that easy to avoid being legally busted, they might just do the same in Tokyo or Moscow as well, on the outside chance it was them. I suspect they would more or less ignore it, though. Anything that small (costing a few tens or hundreds of million, or whatever, and causing slight, temporary destabilization) probably wouldn't be worth bothering with in any publicly noticeable way. Maybe an excuse to disappear a few more dissidents, but that's about all that would reach the public radar.
Note to self: See about getting invited to jcgf's parties more often.
Further note to self: Remain sober, or spike own punch!
Exactly.
Just the other day, I had a fast food burger, and the terrorists left out the pickle. Then I went to get gas, but the pump had been broken by terrorists. After finally getting gas, I discovered the terrorists have been jacking up fuel prices so I didn't have enough cash. The terrorists must have been disrupting the banking system, because it took several minutes to access my funds by debit card. The terrorists had been messing with the stop lights as well, since they were completely out of sync.
Finally, I got home and discovered my wife must be a terrorist, since she overcooked the roast. Then I tried watching the news, but terrorists kept interrupting it with ads for things I didn't want to buy. Disillusioned, I decided to go throw a ball around with my son Billy. It's one of the few pleasures I can still find in this dangerous, terror-infested world. You wouldn't believe what happened! My son threw the ball badly, and I got a grass stain on my slacks when diving for it. I'm afraid I'll have to call DHS and get them to start a dossier on Billy now.
I hope the terrorists don't turn off my alarm clock in the night again. If I'm late for one more day of work, I'm pretty sure the terrorists in human resources are going to fire me.
As a possible exception, I'd mention A Clockwork Orange. In the movie, Alex ends up being rewarded and pampered by the state. There's no sense of justice or of Alex actually learning anything. Sure the old writer makes him suffer, but that's revenge and doesn't feel like justice (to me at least).
In the book, he ends up forming another gang, but grows tired of it, as he's growing up and wants a better life. It leaves me with a sense of the redeem-ability of even the worst humans.
In neither book or film does he really learn anything up to the deconditioning. Only in the book does he understand that he ultimately wants life to be different. Granted, that movie was made a while ago. If someone tried to make it today, they'd probably turn it into a romantic comedy with Tom Cruise, Kristin Dunst, and Eugene Levy.