I couldn't disagree more with this. If someone has just had a miscarriage or been diagnosed with cancer or just won a million dollars, I'd use the same method to layoff each one. Business is full of cold decisions, especially when layoffs come around, and there is no "tact" when this happens. People that complain about this stuff would still be complaining even if they rolled out the red carpet and handed them a honey baked ham on the way out. Furthermore, this is America, if you handle the layoff of a woman with a miscarriage differently than you do a man, you could have a lawsuit on your hand. The only thing to be pissed off about getting laid off is them drawing it out and preventing you from entering the interview environment sooner rather than later before more of America gets laid off and you have more competition. I'd rather know now than a week from now. btw, i'm not a manager, I'm a level 1 worker bee.
congratulations those who know the exceptions to a rule cause every rule has one. Give yourself a cookie. But you actually proved my point. Profiling would also have caught those you just mentioned also. Everyone ya'll just mentioned either had a criminal record or were on a secret service "watch" list at one point in time. So their tickets would have popped up with a red flag and they would have been stopped. Don't be so stupid to think that these people just wake up one day and suddenly want to kill people. These terrorists are usually deep into certain organizations or criminal activities well before they carry out their acts.
I don't understand why people can't admit that profiling is a smart thing. The reason I picked on muslims is because they are the flavor of the day and extremist muslims have basically declared war on america and other free states. But next year it may be middle american caucasian males from 65-80. I don't know, but a system that isn't flexible and refuses to learn and adapt is terribly flawed.
.... is exactly what we need. America is the only country stupid enough not to do this. Let's review what we know: Terrorists are 1) usually middle eastern 2) always Muslim 3) aged 15-35. I'm not saying do away with security checks for everyone else, but come on, quit wasting my time by pulling aside an 80 year old couple to once them over with the metal detect wand. His hemroid medicine isn't a bomb, let him go.
I can't wait till we all have bar codes on our forheads and wear uniforms. It's going to be great!!!!!!! (sarcasm)
I actually think doing the opposite of what we're doing now would work better. We should give every adult who boards a plane a gun, that way the first terrorist to stand up and yell "allah ackbar" would get his brains splattered on the cabin ceiling and that would be the end of that. It's just like the Texas mentality, if everyone has guns and everyone knows it, no thief would be dumb enough to break into a house. (and despite what Penn and Teller's BullS*$T says, there is actually less crime in texas and that's why)
How come there seems to be an anti-Nintendo agenda of late. This is like the 3-4 story like this totally bashing the Revolution. I understand news is news, but how come there were no stories totally bashing the 360 before it came out. There were some articles about questionable sentiment toward the system but nothing outlandish like the articles about the Revolution. I want to know everyone's thoughts about the existence of an "agenda" here on slashdot. Frankly, it's pissing me off cause I love gaming and only someone who would apparently know nothing about gaming would say "I don't think a controller should have that much influence on the enjoyment of games". That's about the dumbest statement I've ever heard and we all know why. This article is a waste of my wasted time at work reading the news.
The controller is only the single way that a person inputs their abilities into a console. (Sarcastic Response) Yeah, there's no way that's important. What's way more important is if it's wireless or not cause everyone knows that 95% of the enjoyment of a game comes from maneauverability around the room while your playing the game.
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I couldn't disagree more with this. If someone has just had a miscarriage or been diagnosed with cancer or just won a million dollars, I'd use the same method to layoff each one. Business is full of cold decisions, especially when layoffs come around, and there is no "tact" when this happens. People that complain about this stuff would still be complaining even if they rolled out the red carpet and handed them a honey baked ham on the way out. Furthermore, this is America, if you handle the layoff of a woman with a miscarriage differently than you do a man, you could have a lawsuit on your hand. The only thing to be pissed off about getting laid off is them drawing it out and preventing you from entering the interview environment sooner rather than later before more of America gets laid off and you have more competition. I'd rather know now than a week from now. btw, i'm not a manager, I'm a level 1 worker bee.
congratulations those who know the exceptions to a rule cause every rule has one. Give yourself a cookie. But you actually proved my point. Profiling would also have caught those you just mentioned also. Everyone ya'll just mentioned either had a criminal record or were on a secret service "watch" list at one point in time. So their tickets would have popped up with a red flag and they would have been stopped. Don't be so stupid to think that these people just wake up one day and suddenly want to kill people. These terrorists are usually deep into certain organizations or criminal activities well before they carry out their acts.
I don't understand why people can't admit that profiling is a smart thing. The reason I picked on muslims is because they are the flavor of the day and extremist muslims have basically declared war on america and other free states. But next year it may be middle american caucasian males from 65-80. I don't know, but a system that isn't flexible and refuses to learn and adapt is terribly flawed.
.... is exactly what we need. America is the only country stupid enough not to do this. Let's review what we know: Terrorists are 1) usually middle eastern 2) always Muslim 3) aged 15-35. I'm not saying do away with security checks for everyone else, but come on, quit wasting my time by pulling aside an 80 year old couple to once them over with the metal detect wand. His hemroid medicine isn't a bomb, let him go.
I can't wait till we all have bar codes on our forheads and wear uniforms. It's going to be great!!!!!!! (sarcasm)
I actually think doing the opposite of what we're doing now would work better. We should give every adult who boards a plane a gun, that way the first terrorist to stand up and yell "allah ackbar" would get his brains splattered on the cabin ceiling and that would be the end of that. It's just like the Texas mentality, if everyone has guns and everyone knows it, no thief would be dumb enough to break into a house. (and despite what Penn and Teller's BullS*$T says, there is actually less crime in texas and that's why)
How come there seems to be an anti-Nintendo agenda of late. This is like the 3-4 story like this totally bashing the Revolution. I understand news is news, but how come there were no stories totally bashing the 360 before it came out. There were some articles about questionable sentiment toward the system but nothing outlandish like the articles about the Revolution. I want to know everyone's thoughts about the existence of an "agenda" here on slashdot. Frankly, it's pissing me off cause I love gaming and only someone who would apparently know nothing about gaming would say "I don't think a controller should have that much influence on the enjoyment of games". That's about the dumbest statement I've ever heard and we all know why. This article is a waste of my wasted time at work reading the news. The controller is only the single way that a person inputs their abilities into a console. (Sarcastic Response) Yeah, there's no way that's important. What's way more important is if it's wireless or not cause everyone knows that 95% of the enjoyment of a game comes from maneauverability around the room while your playing the game.