Dry Ice and pop bottles. Cap guns. (I had a metal and wood 'revolver'-model one that used the old school paper-tape caps. Potato guns. BB guns. Slingshots. Laser pointers. Swiss Army knives. Chemistry sets. Squirt guns.
I'll bet X-Ray Specs are banned next. The DHS may consider them a potent terrorist weapon or "Dual Use" because they could be used to look into restricted Government/Military areas OR through the clothing of attractive women.
Why don't they pull their heads out of their asses and ACTUALLY PROTECT US FROM:
Nuclear materials in the hands of nutjob regimes. Drug cartels. Organized crime. Domestic Terrorism (KKK, Black Panthers, Eco-Terrorists). Safety of American citizens abroad. Terrorist Cells Terrorist "Front Companies" Groups who try to stop nuclear fuel/waste shipments from reaching their destinations. (Like its *MUCH* safer stuck on the side of the road.) Illegal Aliens streaming over the border.
Additionally banned but NOT by the DHS,
Books. (Yes, some books are banned from schools. "Where's Waldo?" is actually among them. God forbid I read something someone somewhere finds offensive.).....I wonder if it is still legal to put baseball cards in the spokes of my bicycle wheels.....
That is why I pay with a credit Card. If the store decides to fuck something up, I can always call the bank and have it listed as a fraudulent transaction.
This has *NOTHING* to do with brain evolution. Period. It has everything to do with modern attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs, as influenced by modern events, cultures, and happenings.
This is a prime exmaple of someone trying to sound smart about something they obviously aren't.
IT security has nothing to do, even remotely, with brain development OR evolution (other than the fact we had to develop the skills necessary to use/develop computers/machines/technology).
Humans *ARE* evolved for these types of thing, just hardly anybody wants to spend the amount of time necessary to counter every security threat that gets thrown at them.
I'll bet that not too long after they start putting these chipsets in laptops, some idiot will sue IBM saying that the chip signal radiation made him impotent.
Hey, it's AMERICA..... People actually do stuff like that.
However, for those that want protection from the signal radiation, I *do* carry lead underwear. If you are worried about overheating/exploding batteries, check out my line of asestos/kevlar-blend undergarments.
I take it you don't like Lysol commercials either?
I, for one, enjoy killing some things for entertainment.....Like letting my dog piss on the lawn of the jerk down the street just to watch the dead spots inexplicably multiply.
If Brazil is going to hold the execs until 820M is paid, then Cisco should just pull everything out of Brazil and let their data infrastructure fall apart, and not pay the exhorbitant "fine" that Brazil is imposing. ) Where else was Cisco supposed to get their machines from without importing?!) Cisco should just let the infrastructure fall apart by either removing all of their hardware, disabling their software, or blocking (Tech support, software blocks, sales, maintenance, service, etc.). Then, after their infrastructure falls apart and becomes totally crippled and unusable, offer to restore service *AFTER* the charges hav been dropped and the execs freed.
If Brazil is going to be a dick, then refuse service. If Brazil is going to complain about "import taxes", then solve the problem by pulling all of your equipment back out of the country, along with your services.
If Cisco did that, I'd like to see the change of attitude from Brazil when they do it.
If they even manage to win, I'll bet it'll be overturned of the grounds that it was frivolous litigation to begin with.
I will NEVER make my web site ADA compliant. The ADA has nothing to do with giving equal acess to the disabled, but has everything to do with making money for people.
The ADA needs to be rewritten- fast. There needs to be some language that prevents people abusing it as a source of cash. The ADA should be called to "American Who Want Money" Act.
The other thing that disabled people need to get throught their thick skulls is that LIFE SUCKS. DISABILITIES SUCK. JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN UNFORTUNATE DISABILITY DOES *NOT* MEAN THAT YOU HAVE TO GIVE EVERYBODY WHO ISN'T DISABLED A HARD TIME!!!!!
EA has a horrible reputation for Customer Service. It is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get a straight answer from anyone, mainly because the process needed to actually get to a human being has been made by EA to be as twisted and complicated as possible.
EA loves to sweep problems out of sight by telling customers to use their "Knowledge Base", which is pretty much useless as it is, or to "contact" them by filling out a Bug Report/Complaint form, where they say they will "get back to you."
It took me forever to get the internet gaming part of Battlefield 1942 to work, and it STILL won't work at all. I spent a day trying to find a Tech Support phone number, which was supposed to be included in the manual (the text actually referred to the number to call in case of continuing problems), but the U.S.A. number wasn't given, only the website ant the Canadian number. I ended up calling 411 and asking for the n umber to their Redwood City office, and called that to get the Tech Support number. After calling that number, I got stuck in a phone tree offering Cheat servies and other junk, and an option for Tech Support. After choosing the tech support option, I got a recording referring me to their "Knowledge Base", to which I had already been to and found useless. After calling the Redwood City office, and asking to be referred to a person, I finally got a number for live Tech Support. I spoke to 2 differnt "Techs", on 2 separate occaisions, and both of them kept telling me to go to the EA website and download patches and updates. I downloaded 2 or three of them and none worked, or did anything for that matter.
EA can rot in hell for all I care. All they do is sell games, and nothing more. No service, no help, no functionality, nothing. They make it as hard as possible to take up any of their "precious" time by asking them to make their products actually work. I know BF1942 has a funtioning internet multiplayer component.
I kept getting an error message "UDATE NEEDED!" How can you call yourself a gaming company if you don't even know what your own error messages mean?
He got what he deserved. Hopefully, it was a slow, painful death.
Spammers like him make their money by harassing and annoying everyday people, clogging inboxes, and taking work time away from people trying to make a legitimate honest buck, simply to hawk bogus products and/or services.
It's like decking the kid who bullied you in elementary school. Wrong, but WELL-DESERVED.
If you don't want to suffer the possible consequnces of your actions, then don't commit those actions. Plain and simple.
Would you like someone ringing your doorbell every 5 seconds trying to sell you crap or hawk services? People are eventually going to fight back. Apparently, the Russian Mob got done what courts in the U.S. and abroad don't have the will to do - STOP SPAMMERS.
If you push someone, expect them to have a breaking point, don't sit and complain about what they did to you - you asked for, and deserved it.
At least he'll never spam again.
If spammers get caught spamming, ALL of their assests should be seized and given to schools, while they are shoved out onto the street and prohibited from touching a computer ever again.
OK... Let's see how law enforcement has managed to keep their salaries while not doing work.....
1. Camera-linked speed traps. 2. Cameras mounted at intersections to look for "stolen" plates. 3. Face-recogition cameras to look for "criminals". 4. Cameras at intersections to catch red-light runners. 5. Cameras on sidewalks to look for trouble to happen. 6. Cameras that "monitor suspicious behavior" in subway stations and airports. 7. Microphones mounted on roof-tops that triangulate loud noises, such as gunshots.(yes, a city by me *DID* put these up).....And Now.....
8. Cameras to make sure people don't cheat the HOV lanes (GOD FORBID!)
Every time law enforcement tries to justify putting in a camera for some mundane task that could be done by anyone with half a brain, ( like having a cop walk down a street, instead of having a camera scan the faces of people and watch them go about their normal business and wait for the one off-chance that someone will break the law ), they claim that is will free up officers for more serious calls.
Calls like what? A Buy 1 Get One Free promo at Dunkin' Donuts?!
How much more time to they need?! Where the hell do we live, if the cops need to free up this much time?? BOSNIA???
The idea of HOV lanes was a half-finished turd that sounded good and politically-correct, but wasn't. The only thing it did was force people to pay for something they either couldn't use or didn't use through fuel and highways taxes that could have instead gone to despertely needed things like fixing potholes, retrofitting/reinforcing bridges, spans, and overpasses, and widening roads in towns that have far outgrown the capacity of their current roads.
Instead of wasting money for a reason as stupid as this, how about:
1. Higher fines for speeding. 2. Higher fines for people who go to slow. 3. Higher fines for seatbelts. 4. Higher fines for DUIs and reckless driving. 5. Higher fines for red light runners 6. Higher fines for drugs. 7. Higher fines for those idiots who think driving while yakking on the phoe is a good idea (hands-free OK) 8. No more warnings. 9. Making sure that money that was originally intended for highway maintenance actually GOES TO HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE! 10. Higher fees for transnational freight (CAN/MEX or MEX/CAN, goods that cross the United States, but are not sold in the U.S.) 11. Higer fines for weight violations. 12. Higher fines for bicyclists who use the roads but don't follow the same traffic laws that apply to them, are a hazard.
The money generated from this would definitely pay for additional cops to do the work, and more!
Someone ought to put up the names of Patent Clerks who approve these idiotic patents and publicly humiliate them.
Seriously, I would LOVE to see a site go up dedicated to the absent minded idiots who think this stuff is innovative. It would be easy too. Just find the name of the clerk (public information), and post the name of the clerk and the bad decision on the internet for all to see. If they found out that their stupid decisions we being publicly and openly shown, I think that they would take there jobs more seriously. Plus the backlash and furor that would arise out of the posting of the names and decisions would bring massive attention to both the sheer, staggering ineptitude of the USPTO and patent abuse by companies.
The baseless lawsuits from the clerks (public posting of public information IS LEGAL. Period.) and backlash from the USPTO would make this a self-promoting issue, and the only ones who could lose would be the clerks, USPTO, and the companies who abuse the patent system.
It would be a cheap shot, but what have the clerks, USPTO, and companies been doing for years?
Now I have to listen to the idiots next door in Berkeley whine about the "Horrendous and tragic mass extinction" of some obscure language that I could give a rat's ass about.
What's next? A Michael Moore/Al Gore film blaming the Republicans for it?
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Only an idiot thinks that line works in real life.
Hmmmmm.....
.....I wonder if it is still legal to put baseball cards in the spokes of my bicycle wheels.....
Dry Ice and pop bottles.
Cap guns. (I had a metal and wood 'revolver'-model one that used the old school paper-tape caps.
Potato guns.
BB guns.
Slingshots.
Laser pointers.
Swiss Army knives.
Chemistry sets.
Squirt guns.
I'll bet X-Ray Specs are banned next. The DHS may consider them a potent terrorist weapon or "Dual Use" because they could be used to look into restricted Government/Military areas OR through the clothing of attractive women.
Why don't they pull their heads out of their asses and ACTUALLY PROTECT US FROM:
Nuclear materials in the hands of nutjob regimes.
Drug cartels.
Organized crime.
Domestic Terrorism (KKK, Black Panthers, Eco-Terrorists).
Safety of American citizens abroad.
Terrorist Cells
Terrorist "Front Companies"
Groups who try to stop nuclear fuel/waste shipments from reaching their destinations. (Like its *MUCH* safer stuck on the side of the road.)
Illegal Aliens streaming over the border.
Additionally banned but NOT by the DHS,
Books. (Yes, some books are banned from schools. "Where's Waldo?" is actually among them. God forbid I read something someone somewhere finds offensive.)
Just when you thought that a surgical wound couldn't possibly hurt any more.....
That is why I pay with a credit Card. If the store decides to fuck something up, I can always call the bank and have it listed as a fraudulent transaction.
I think "Cosmic Ray's" would be a great name for a futuristic bar. That, or the "Space Bar".
This has *NOTHING* to do with brain evolution. Period. It has everything to do with modern attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs, as influenced by modern events, cultures, and happenings.
This is a prime exmaple of someone trying to sound smart about something they obviously aren't.
IT security has nothing to do, even remotely, with brain development OR evolution (other than the fact we had to develop the skills necessary to use/develop computers/machines/technology).
Humans *ARE* evolved for these types of thing, just hardly anybody wants to spend the amount of time necessary to counter every security threat that gets thrown at them.
Idiot.
Chipsets emitting wireless signals?
I'll bet that not too long after they start putting these chipsets in laptops, some idiot will sue IBM saying that the chip signal radiation made him impotent.
Hey, it's AMERICA..... People actually do stuff like that.
However, for those that want protection from the signal radiation, I *do* carry lead underwear. If you are worried about overheating/exploding batteries, check out my line of asestos/kevlar-blend undergarments.
So.....
I take it you don't like Lysol commercials either?
I, for one, enjoy killing some things for entertainment.....Like letting my dog piss on the lawn of the jerk down the street just to watch the dead spots inexplicably multiply.
The *REAL* cause of the malfunction was Global Warming.
The Idiot's Guide To Getting Around Chinese Internet Censors, Vol. 1
Step 1: Get out of China.
I thought the biggest black hole was was Congress.....
I mean, look at all the tax dollars that get sucked into it and never seen again!
If Brazil is going to hold the execs until 820M is paid, then Cisco should just pull everything out of Brazil and let their data infrastructure fall apart, and not pay the exhorbitant "fine" that Brazil is imposing. ) Where else was Cisco supposed to get their machines from without importing?!) Cisco should just let the infrastructure fall apart by either removing all of their hardware, disabling their software, or blocking (Tech support, software blocks, sales, maintenance, service, etc.). Then, after their infrastructure falls apart and becomes totally crippled and unusable, offer to restore service *AFTER* the charges hav been dropped and the execs freed.
If Brazil is going to be a dick, then refuse service. If Brazil is going to complain about "import taxes", then solve the problem by pulling all of your equipment back out of the country, along with your services.
If Cisco did that, I'd like to see the change of attitude from Brazil when they do it.
I wonder if Ciquatoxin can make bad sex feel good.....
If they even manage to win, I'll bet it'll be overturned of the grounds that it was frivolous litigation to begin with.
I will NEVER make my web site ADA compliant. The ADA has nothing to do with giving equal acess to the disabled, but has everything to do with making money for people.
The ADA needs to be rewritten- fast. There needs to be some language that prevents people abusing it as a source of cash. The ADA should be called to "American Who Want Money" Act.
The other thing that disabled people need to get throught their thick skulls is that LIFE SUCKS. DISABILITIES SUCK. JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN UNFORTUNATE DISABILITY DOES *NOT* MEAN THAT YOU HAVE TO GIVE EVERYBODY WHO ISN'T DISABLED A HARD TIME!!!!!
EA has a horrible reputation for Customer Service. It is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get a straight answer from anyone, mainly because the process needed to actually get to a human being has been made by EA to be as twisted and complicated as possible.
EA loves to sweep problems out of sight by telling customers to use their "Knowledge Base", which is pretty much useless as it is, or to "contact" them by filling out a Bug Report/Complaint form, where they say they will "get back to you."
It took me forever to get the internet gaming part of Battlefield 1942 to work, and it STILL won't work at all. I spent a day trying to find a Tech Support phone number, which was supposed to be included in the manual (the text actually referred to the number to call in case of continuing problems), but the U.S.A. number wasn't given, only the website ant the Canadian number. I ended up calling 411 and asking for the n umber to their Redwood City office, and called that to get the Tech Support number. After calling that number, I got stuck in a phone tree offering Cheat servies and other junk, and an option for Tech Support. After choosing the tech support option, I got a recording referring me to their "Knowledge Base", to which I had already been to and found useless. After calling the Redwood City office, and asking to be referred to a person, I finally got a number for live Tech Support. I spoke to 2 differnt "Techs", on 2 separate occaisions, and both of them kept telling me to go to the EA website and download patches and updates. I downloaded 2 or three of them and none worked, or did anything for that matter.
EA can rot in hell for all I care. All they do is sell games, and nothing more. No service, no help, no functionality, nothing. They make it as hard as possible to take up any of their "precious" time by asking them to make their products actually work. I know BF1942 has a funtioning internet multiplayer component.
I kept getting an error message "UDATE NEEDED!" How can you call yourself a gaming company if you don't even know what your own error messages mean?
But I digress.....
He got what he deserved. Hopefully, it was a slow, painful death.
Spammers like him make their money by harassing and annoying everyday people, clogging inboxes, and taking work time away from people trying to make a legitimate honest buck, simply to hawk bogus products and/or services.
It's like decking the kid who bullied you in elementary school. Wrong, but WELL-DESERVED.
If you don't want to suffer the possible consequnces of your actions, then don't commit those actions. Plain and simple.
Would you like someone ringing your doorbell every 5 seconds trying to sell you crap or hawk services? People are eventually going to fight back. Apparently, the Russian Mob got done what courts in the U.S. and abroad don't have the will to do - STOP SPAMMERS.
If you push someone, expect them to have a breaking point, don't sit and complain about what they did to you - you asked for, and deserved it.
At least he'll never spam again.
If spammers get caught spamming, ALL of their assests should be seized and given to schools, while they are shoved out onto the street and prohibited from touching a computer ever again.
I guess Big Brother is a backseat driver.....
If it is, I CLAIM PRIOR ART!
That wouldn't happen be a "Purple Helmet" would it?
Problem: IPod causes pants to catch fire.
Soultion: Turn porn off.
He seems to be the perfect candidate for the nickname "Mr. Hot Pants"
Human-Animal hybrids are banned?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't humans.....animals?
Hmmmmm.....
I'll bet that "Unnamed Customers" means Big Brother and his minions.
OK... Let's see how law enforcement has managed to keep their salaries while not doing work.....
.....And Now.....
1. Camera-linked speed traps.
2. Cameras mounted at intersections to look for "stolen" plates.
3. Face-recogition cameras to look for "criminals".
4. Cameras at intersections to catch red-light runners.
5. Cameras on sidewalks to look for trouble to happen.
6. Cameras that "monitor suspicious behavior" in subway stations and airports.
7. Microphones mounted on roof-tops that triangulate loud noises, such as gunshots.(yes, a city by me *DID* put these up)
8. Cameras to make sure people don't cheat the HOV lanes (GOD FORBID!)
Every time law enforcement tries to justify putting in a camera for some mundane task that could be done by anyone with half a brain, ( like having a cop walk down a street, instead of having a camera scan the faces of people and watch them go about their normal business and wait for the one off-chance that someone will break the law ), they claim that is will free up officers for more serious calls.
Calls like what? A Buy 1 Get One Free promo at Dunkin' Donuts?!
How much more time to they need?! Where the hell do we live, if the cops need to free up this much time?? BOSNIA???
The idea of HOV lanes was a half-finished turd that sounded good and politically-correct, but wasn't. The only thing it did was force people to pay for something they either couldn't use or didn't use through fuel and highways taxes that could have instead gone to despertely needed things like fixing potholes, retrofitting/reinforcing bridges, spans, and overpasses, and widening roads in towns that have far outgrown the capacity of their current roads.
Instead of wasting money for a reason as stupid as this, how about:
1. Higher fines for speeding.
2. Higher fines for people who go to slow.
3. Higher fines for seatbelts.
4. Higher fines for DUIs and reckless driving.
5. Higher fines for red light runners
6. Higher fines for drugs.
7. Higher fines for those idiots who think driving while yakking on the phoe is a good idea (hands-free OK)
8. No more warnings.
9. Making sure that money that was originally intended for highway maintenance actually GOES TO HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE!
10. Higher fees for transnational freight (CAN/MEX or MEX/CAN, goods that cross the United States, but are not sold in the U.S.)
11. Higer fines for weight violations.
12. Higher fines for bicyclists who use the roads but don't follow the same traffic laws that apply to them, are a hazard.
The money generated from this would definitely pay for additional cops to do the work, and more!
Someone ought to put up the names of Patent Clerks who approve these idiotic patents and publicly humiliate them.
Seriously, I would LOVE to see a site go up dedicated to the absent minded idiots who think this stuff is innovative. It would be easy too. Just find the name of the clerk (public information), and post the name of the clerk and the bad decision on the internet for all to see. If they found out that their stupid decisions we being publicly and openly shown, I think that they would take there jobs more seriously. Plus the backlash and furor that would arise out of the posting of the names and decisions would bring massive attention to both the sheer, staggering ineptitude of the USPTO and patent abuse by companies.
The baseless lawsuits from the clerks (public posting of public information IS LEGAL. Period.) and backlash from the USPTO would make this a self-promoting issue, and the only ones who could lose would be the clerks, USPTO, and the companies who abuse the patent system.
It would be a cheap shot, but what have the clerks, USPTO, and companies been doing for years?
I think it would be WELL worth it.
Great.....just great.
Now I have to listen to the idiots next door in Berkeley whine about the "Horrendous and tragic mass extinction" of some obscure language that I could give a rat's ass about.
What's next? A Michael Moore/Al Gore film blaming the Republicans for it?
Hmmmmm..... Must be a slow news day on SlashDot.