"You're assuming that it would be used as a weapon (delivering explosives or some other payload.) As a surveillance/spy device it would be very useful indeed."
-----No, I'm assuming that it would be used at all. Whether or not it is being used as a weapons system or surveillance/recon system, it can *still* be brought down by wayyy cheaper methods, from a shotgun to an electromagnetic pulse, that can easily be either requisitioned or built.
Its usefulness is heavily negated by its monumental vulnerabilities.
Sitting on the couch is also better for the environment, since carbon is stored in fat. When you exercise, your body generates heat and expells more carbon dioxide from rapid breathing.
BTW, who on earth gives a rats ass about how much carbon a stupid browser search generates?!
Seeing as how *no* skills are required to execute the first two of the aforementioned items, I'd say that those are the biggest things to watch out for.
Being someone who sees merit and common sense in racial profiling, even *I* think that this was complete idiocy/stupidity/lunacy (though I still can't quite communicate how enraged I feel just by typing!).
Making a comment about how close you are to a jet engine IN NO WAY communicates ANYTHING about terroristic, hostile, or malicious intent.
Also, being one who hates to see frivolous and baseless/remotely baseless lawsuits, I think that they family should beat AirTran into the next decade with the fattest lawsuit they can get away with.
If I was US Airways, however, I would have given them free round-trip tickets (first class) and apologized for the inconvenience caused by AirTran, even though it wasn't my doing.
How stupid does a captain have to be to:
a) Feel so threatened that he has to kick a family of 9 off the plane,
b) Keep them off the plane even after the *FBI* tells them there is absolutely no problem.
If I was the FBI supervisor in charge, I would have yelled to the pilot how much of an idiot he was, in full view of the other passengers.
"coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has issued another cracking challenge for a new cipher on their site. Tens of thousands responded to a similar challenge last year. In addition to the challenge, the FBI is also offering a few primers on the subject. There are a number of sites offering cipher challenges, but it's funny to see the FBI encouraging such behavior."
-.....so they can know who to declare a threat to national security and round up. What's next? Lawrence Livermore and Sandia having a contest on who can develop the next generation of explosives?
Now that I think of it, a truly high-speed rail line running from the california valley would be able to rocket across neighboring Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. The latter three states are quite flat, and that flatness would be appealing with a high-speed rail line linking the West Coast with the Midwest.
If a tunnel were to be bored through the Rocky Mountains (provided some liberal tree-humping group doesn't blndly throw a wrench into the works), even more territory could be linked together.
"William Robinson writes with news that the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an instrument developed by NASA and sent aboard India's Chandrayaan-1, has confirmed the presence of iron-bearing minerals on the moon. This marks the beginning of an extensive examination of the composition of the lunar surface."
-As if actually analyzing the actual lunar samples brought back by earlier moon missions wasn't enough.....
This idea is pretty useless, since it have been confirmed that cellular companies do not truthfully report the amount of battery life left, so people will make shorter calls and not take up the valuable bandwidth of theirs that they oversold.....
Why not just put Duct Tape over the mouths and asses of Congress? Not only would it reduce the amount of useless hot gasses being expelled into the atmosphere, but it would also save everyone t he headache of having to put up with them!
""Dubai is like a bubble world where the things that are worrying the rest of the world, like climate change, are simply ignored so that people can continue their destructive lifestyles," she said. "
-Good for them. Here in The People's Republik Of Kalifornia, people's lifestyles are restricted by people who think they should be able to force people to live the way environmentalists want, and be forced to care about issues that people don't want to care about.
Funny how those hypocrites in Berzerkely ("Berkeley") talk about freedom, yet create laws and restrictions to force those of us who don't share their environmental or political agenda to conform to their beliefs.
"Beagle 2 team leader Professor Colin Pillinger has responded saying that the figures are far from conclusive, while another chief Beagle engineer has said 'We still think we got it right.'"
-So they really *did* intend to burn the craft up on re-entry? If they did, what's all the hubbub about?
Scientists find, at the same time, no relation between global warming.
Keep in mind, that regardless of the 'discoveries', this study against the cosmic ray/global warming relationship theory is absolutely no more conclusive that the studies that found a relationship.
"Researchers at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic."
-I guess this means that most cops are suffering from dementia.
This handy dandy little piece of information would have been helpful to know a while ago, especially before I told that Highway Patrolwomen she could put me in handcuffs anytime she wanted to.
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"You're assuming that it would be used as a weapon (delivering explosives or some other payload.) As a surveillance/spy device it would be very useful indeed."
-----No, I'm assuming that it would be used at all. Whether or not it is being used as a weapons system or surveillance/recon system, it can *still* be brought down by wayyy cheaper methods, from a shotgun to an electromagnetic pulse, that can easily be either requisitioned or built.
Its usefulness is heavily negated by its monumental vulnerabilities.
The robotic bat-based UAV sounds like a load of eGuano to me.....
Multi-million dollar project that can be defeated by a $100 shotgun and a $.50 shell. Real clever.....
Leave it to the Democrats and their Nanny Government to save us from ourselves.
I wonder if "Mamma Obama" will subscribe to the same conrol-freak logic as his fellow party members.....
The *REALLY* sad part is that I already can tell some vindictive prick will mod this down.
Sitting on the couch is also better for the environment, since carbon is stored in fat. When you exercise, your body generates heat and expells more carbon dioxide from rapid breathing.
BTW, who on earth gives a rats ass about how much carbon a stupid browser search generates?!
If it can't make me a decent Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, then its a waste of money.
"Tooth Regeneration Coming Soon - Millions of Rednecks Rejoice!"
AOL offered something FREE?! Did you look for the asterisk that came after the word 'FREE'? Hmmmmm..... me thinks not.....
The TEN COMMANDMANTS OF AOL:
1) THOU SHALT NOT OFFER ANYTHING FREE, UNLESS IN CONJUNCTION WITH #3 AND/OR #4
2) THOU SHALT BONE THY CUSTOMER FOR EVERY PENNY THOU CAN GET.
3) THOU SHALT DROWN THY CUSTOMER IN ADVERTISING, PROMOS, AND PRODUCT TIE-INS.
4) THOU SHALT COVER THY EARTH WITH AOL DISKS.
5) THOU SHALT PROVIDE CUSTOMER SERVICE AS HORRIBLY AS THY CAN IMAGINE.
6) THOU SHALT DISAPPOINT THY STOCKHOLDERS.
7) THOU SHALT HOLD DATA FOR RANSOM.
8) THOU SHALT NOT PRACTICE BUSINESS ETHICS.
9) THOU SHALT COLLABORATE WITH BIG BROTHER FOR LIFE-SUSTAINING CASH.
10) THOU SHALT PLACE EMPHASIS ON THE MEANING OF THE PHRASE "Caveat Emptor").
If you take the bait of a 'free' (or ANY) service from AOL, then you shouldn't be using the internet. Or running a web site.
Even bigger threats:
1) Undersea cable cuts
2) Hub Power Outages
3) Botnets
Seeing as how *no* skills are required to execute the first two of the aforementioned items, I'd say that those are the biggest things to watch out for.
Being someone who sees merit and common sense in racial profiling, even *I* think that this was complete idiocy/stupidity/lunacy (though I still can't quite communicate how enraged I feel just by typing!).
Making a comment about how close you are to a jet engine IN NO WAY communicates ANYTHING about terroristic, hostile, or malicious intent.
Also, being one who hates to see frivolous and baseless/remotely baseless lawsuits, I think that they family should beat AirTran into the next decade with the fattest lawsuit they can get away with.
If I was US Airways, however, I would have given them free round-trip tickets (first class) and apologized for the inconvenience caused by AirTran, even though it wasn't my doing.
How stupid does a captain have to be to:
a) Feel so threatened that he has to kick a family of 9 off the plane,
b) Keep them off the plane even after the *FBI* tells them there is absolutely no problem.
If I was the FBI supervisor in charge, I would have yelled to the pilot how much of an idiot he was, in full view of the other passengers.
Here is my 'Survival Report'..... .....Start Of Report.....
"No Survivors". .....End Of Report.....
"coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has issued another cracking challenge for a new cipher on their site. Tens of thousands responded to a similar challenge last year. In addition to the challenge, the FBI is also offering a few primers on the subject. There are a number of sites offering cipher challenges, but it's funny to see the FBI encouraging such behavior."
-.....so they can know who to declare a threat to national security and round up. What's next? Lawrence Livermore and Sandia having a contest on who can develop the next generation of explosives?
Now, if only t hey could explain the "Balk Rule".....
"It was reported back in June that Paul Laudanski, founder of CastleCops and its parent Computer Cops LLC, was taking a full-time job with Microsoft"
-And this turncoat joins *MICROSOFT"?!
I though he was *ANTI-* malware!
Now already substandard educators will have an excuse for not assigning homework.....
If it becomes an accepted excuse, then my excuse of "My dog ate my homework" is just as valid.
Now that I think of it, a truly high-speed rail line running from the california valley would be able to rocket across neighboring Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. The latter three states are quite flat, and that flatness would be appealing with a high-speed rail line linking the West Coast with the Midwest.
If a tunnel were to be bored through the Rocky Mountains (provided some liberal tree-humping group doesn't blndly throw a wrench into the works), even more territory could be linked together.
"William Robinson writes with news that the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an instrument developed by NASA and sent aboard India's Chandrayaan-1, has confirmed the presence of iron-bearing minerals on the moon. This marks the beginning of an extensive examination of the composition of the lunar surface."
-As if actually analyzing the actual lunar samples brought back by earlier moon missions wasn't enough.....
This idea is pretty useless, since it have been confirmed that cellular companies do not truthfully report the amount of battery life left, so people will make shorter calls and not take up the valuable bandwidth of theirs that they oversold.....
Why not just put Duct Tape over the mouths and asses of Congress? Not only would it reduce the amount of useless hot gasses being expelled into the atmosphere, but it would also save everyone t he headache of having to put up with them!
Now some politician is going to start making us enter CAPTCHAs every time we want to make a call..... To protect us.....
""Dubai is like a bubble world where the things that are worrying the rest of the world, like climate change, are simply ignored so that people can continue their destructive lifestyles," she said. "
-Good for them. Here in The People's Republik Of Kalifornia, people's lifestyles are restricted by people who think they should be able to force people to live the way environmentalists want, and be forced to care about issues that people don't want to care about.
Funny how those hypocrites in Berzerkely ("Berkeley") talk about freedom, yet create laws and restrictions to force those of us who don't share their environmental or political agenda to conform to their beliefs.
"Beagle 2 team leader Professor Colin Pillinger has responded saying that the figures are far from conclusive, while another chief Beagle engineer has said 'We still think we got it right.'"
-So they really *did* intend to burn the craft up on re-entry? If they did, what's all the hubbub about?
Scientists find relation between global warming.
Scientists find, at the same time, no relation between global warming.
Keep in mind, that regardless of the 'discoveries', this study against the cosmic ray/global warming relationship theory is absolutely no more conclusive that the studies that found a relationship.
"Researchers at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic."
-I guess this means that most cops are suffering from dementia.
This handy dandy little piece of information would have been helpful to know a while ago, especially before I told that Highway Patrolwomen she could put me in handcuffs anytime she wanted to.
1) Tetris
2) Missile Command
3) Space Invaders
4) Asteroid
5) RISK
6) Donkey Kong
7) N+
"already place protesters in fenced-in cages"
-Considering that protesters have already demonstrated a clear lack of self-control (Ever been to a G8/WTO meeting?)