To everyone who thinks this is "funny" or "stupid": If there had been a bomb, not necessarily a pipe-bomb but an explosive of some type capable of doing some damage or spreading a chemical or biological agent, and security noticed it but ignored it, and somebody did die, would you let security off the hook? Say it wasn't their fault, and they did the right thing by ignoring the clearly labeled, if very unusual threat?
Let's say I'm a terrorist who lives a clearly labeled bomb in an airport.
What would my objective be?
Obviously not to kill the optimum number of people, as it would be more efficient to leave the bomb unlabeled.
The only sensible motivation I would have for doing so would be to alert the authorities, resulting in a major disruption of the activities of the airport and costing who knows how much money to the airport, airlines, and air travelers. And I might be able to utilize a possible side effect of distracting the authorities from a real, unmarked bomb I might leave in an evacuation area.
In other words, had that actually been a bomb, then the authorities did exactly what the terrorists wanted them to. So... the terrorists won?
When we outlaw stickers only outlaws will have stickers. This will make them much easier to pick out.
How about we only ban stickers that say "Skating is not a crime"?
Elevate the threat-level to the album-cover from Rush's Moving Pictures.
The sensible reaction from the authorities would have been to quietly investigate it. It takes 10 seconds for a dog to determine whether an object contains explosives. So let the dog sniff it, return negative, then move on.
Except that it takes a lot longer to evacuate an entire an entire airport. It has already been mentioned that such a sign could be used as a distraction to draw authorities away from an actual bomb or other disruptive event. That's why they cleared the whole area, rather than just checking the bike and moving on. Did it turn out to be a wild goose chase? Yep. Was it a waste of resources? Yep. Was the guy with the bike a dumbass for not realizing that his sticker might arouse attention? Kinda. Fire in a crowded theater, and all.
There are plenty of times that airport security is completely useless, inept, and more disruptive than helpful. The no-fly list is bullshit, the "random" screenings do nothing, and I remember not long after 9/11 Al Gore was fucking hauled out of line and asked to take off his shoes.
In this particular case, I think the authorities acted properly. I don't fear terrorism. I've got a better chance of dying from repeated lightning strikes to the scrotum. What I do fear is people's overreaction to a relatively insignificant threat. If there had been some kind of explosive in or around that bike, even if some asshole just filled his water bottle with gunpowder and didn't bother putting in a fuse, and nobody did anything about it? People would have gone fucking ballistic. It would have been a hell of a lot more disruptive than just one airport for one day.
Airport security doesn't actually provide security. I know that. Anybody with half a brain knows that. But it provides the illusion of security, which is necessary to convince people that air travel is safe.
It's a sick joke, but it is what it is. They did the right thing by letting the kid go. Let's leave it at that.
Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
Flew away in a balloon
Had sex with polar bears
While sitting in a reclining chair
Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
Running around and clawing eyelids
Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
Man, that's not really fair. They're using credit card purchases for that.
The reason it looks like the red states consume the most pornography is that they're rednecked yokels who don't know how to find free porn on the internet, because they don't know how to use a computer.
Evacuating airports provides the illusion of security? It seems it more provides the illusion of imminent danger to me, but then I'm not very good at moon-logic.
"The true sense of each judgment – for example, that “A is B” – can only be the following: THAT which is = A IS THAT which is =B, or: THAT which is A and THAT which is B are as one. Thus, a doubling lies at the ground of even the simple concept: A in this judgment is not A, but rather is X, which is A; B is not B, but rather is X, which is B, and it is not the case that A and B are as one, either for themselves or as such: but rather, the X which is A and the X which is B are as one. The proposition cited above [“A is B”] in fact contains three propositions: first, A =X; second, B=X; and only from these follows a third, A and B are the same – to wit, both are the same X."
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8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
Man, that's not really fair. They're using credit card purchases for that.
The reason it looks like the red states consume the most pornography is that they're rednecked yokels who don't know how to find free porn on the internet, because they don't know how to use a computer.
If it weren't for them rednecks actually paying for porn there'd be no porn for us to get for free.
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8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
Man, that's not really fair. They're using credit card purchases for that.
The reason it looks like the red states consume the most pornography is that they're rednecked yokels who don't know how to find free porn on the internet, because they don't know how to use a computer.
If it weren't for them rednecks actually paying for porn there'd be no porn for us to get for free.
Goddamn, it is the worst feeling in the world when the boss walks in and I'm on the Penny Arcade forums. We talk about work stuff and don't mention it, but my face is growing redder and I'm waiting for him to ask "what are you looking at? That isn't work related!"
8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
Man, that's not really fair. They're using credit card purchases for that.
The reason it looks like the red states consume the most pornography is that they're rednecked yokels who don't know how to find free porn on the internet, because they don't know how to use a computer.
If it weren't for them rednecks actually paying for porn there'd be no porn for us to get for free.
Amateur porn is the best porn.
Yeah
Nature abhors a porn vacuum
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I heart everyone who made Starfox references. I love those so much I make them in person.
VC: I have to retract what I was saying about your sarcastic posts starting to suck. Some of the ones on the last couple pages were great. Moon-logic, in particular.
Zimmy: <3s even though you're wrong. If people overreact to stupid shit, the solution is to remove the overreaction, not the stupid shit. Removing the stupid shit is easier, but wrong, because people mostly have the right to do stupid shit that isn't dangerous.
Goddamn, it is the worst feeling in the world when the boss walks in and I'm on the Penny Arcade forums. We talk about work stuff and don't mention it, but my face is growing redder and I'm waiting for him to ask "what are you looking at? That isn't work related!"
Goddamn, it is the worst feeling in the world when the boss walks in and I'm on the Penny Arcade forums. We talk about work stuff and don't mention it, but my face is growing redder and I'm waiting for him to ask "what are you looking at? That isn't work related!"
Alt+Tab
Holy crap. I feel I have just found the holy grail of poor employee practices!
Goddamn, it is the worst feeling in the world when the boss walks in and I'm on the Penny Arcade forums. We talk about work stuff and don't mention it, but my face is growing redder and I'm waiting for him to ask "what are you looking at? That isn't work related!"
Alt+Tab
Holy crap. I feel I have just found the holy grail of poor employee practices!
Also there is Windows+D, which minimizes everything on your screen.
Goddamn, it is the worst feeling in the world when the boss walks in and I'm on the Penny Arcade forums. We talk about work stuff and don't mention it, but my face is growing redder and I'm waiting for him to ask "what are you looking at? That isn't work related!"
Alt+Tab
Holy crap. I feel I have just found the holy grail of poor employee practices!
Also there is Windows+D, which minimizes everything on your screen.
I've got you beat. control + -> takes me from the Space with Firefox and Adium to the Space where PDFs and OpenOffice open.
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I got you all beat.
I do my JOB. OHHHHHHHHHHHH!
All lies.
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edited March 2009
Is DUE around?
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I use backwards super logic and keep a maximized picture of a 'gina up at work and tab to it, and then the boss is all, "is that a 'gina" and I am all "that's what the terrorists want you to think" and then he nods solemnly and walks out.
Unfortunately with the suspension of Labias Corpus I could get fucked, even with no Bush to speak of.
A dude on my team sold me his old pair of paintball pants, they were amazing. Really nice padding on the knees, bounced so many cross field shots, and they breathed very well. So yay there.
Also, there were two guys with cameras there today, so hopefully they got some photographs of me and my friends, I'll be sure to share them with you all (even if you don't want me to share them with you :P ) Hopefully he got the one where I ran up the left side of the field and got out three guys, and not the ones where I got blasted.
It wasn't all good news however, one of guys on my team was working on the regulator on his gun, but forgot to vent all the air in it first... Yeah, the allen shot out and hit him right in the eye, luckily he blinked. He's not a nasty cut on his eyelid, but, one of the other guys is driving him to the hospital right now and everything should be good, his vision was already starting to come back...
So, how have you guys been?
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8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
Man, that's not really fair. They're using credit card purchases for that.
The reason it looks like the red states consume the most pornography is that they're rednecked yokels who don't know how to find free porn on the internet, because they don't know how to use a computer.
If it weren't for them rednecks actually paying for porn there'd be no porn for us to get for free.
Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
Flew away in a balloon
Had sex with polar bears
While sitting in a reclining chair
Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
Running around and clawing eyelids
Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
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Elevate the threat-level to the album-cover from Rush's Moving Pictures.
*BUUUUUUURRRRRRPPP*
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Except that it takes a lot longer to evacuate an entire an entire airport. It has already been mentioned that such a sign could be used as a distraction to draw authorities away from an actual bomb or other disruptive event. That's why they cleared the whole area, rather than just checking the bike and moving on. Did it turn out to be a wild goose chase? Yep. Was it a waste of resources? Yep. Was the guy with the bike a dumbass for not realizing that his sticker might arouse attention? Kinda. Fire in a crowded theater, and all.
There are plenty of times that airport security is completely useless, inept, and more disruptive than helpful. The no-fly list is bullshit, the "random" screenings do nothing, and I remember not long after 9/11 Al Gore was fucking hauled out of line and asked to take off his shoes.
In this particular case, I think the authorities acted properly. I don't fear terrorism. I've got a better chance of dying from repeated lightning strikes to the scrotum. What I do fear is people's overreaction to a relatively insignificant threat. If there had been some kind of explosive in or around that bike, even if some asshole just filled his water bottle with gunpowder and didn't bother putting in a fuse, and nobody did anything about it? People would have gone fucking ballistic. It would have been a hell of a lot more disruptive than just one airport for one day.
Airport security doesn't actually provide security. I know that. Anybody with half a brain knows that. But it provides the illusion of security, which is necessary to convince people that air travel is safe.
It's a sick joke, but it is what it is. They did the right thing by letting the kid go. Let's leave it at that.
No, it just means you get off work early.
AhahahahahAHAHAHAHAHahahahhHaHaHaHa
The reason it looks like the red states consume the most pornography is that they're rednecked yokels who don't know how to find free porn on the internet, because they don't know how to use a computer.
That means you win.
"The true sense of each judgment – for example, that “A is B” – can only be the following: THAT which is = A IS THAT which is =B, or: THAT which is A and THAT which is B are as one. Thus, a doubling lies at the ground of even the simple concept: A in this judgment is not A, but rather is X, which is A; B is not B, but rather is X, which is B, and it is not the case that A and B are as one, either for themselves or as such: but rather, the X which is A and the X which is B are as one. The proposition cited above [“A is B”] in fact contains three propositions: first, A =X; second, B=X; and only from these follows a third, A and B are the same – to wit, both are the same X."
If it weren't for them rednecks actually paying for porn there'd be no porn for us to get for free.
Amateur porn is the best porn.
3DS: 2852-6809-9411
Nature abhors a porn vacuum
Fool, amateur porn has horrible cinematography.
VC: I have to retract what I was saying about your sarcastic posts starting to suck. Some of the ones on the last couple pages were great. Moon-logic, in particular.
Zimmy: <3s even though you're wrong. If people overreact to stupid shit, the solution is to remove the overreaction, not the stupid shit. Removing the stupid shit is easier, but wrong, because people mostly have the right to do stupid shit that isn't dangerous.
Alt+Tab
For the stories, yes.
It depends on what you define as professional.
If you are talking about Vivid or any of the Top 5-10 porn companies then no, I don't watch them.
If you're talking Girlfriend Films, Triangle Films, or Sweetheart Videos then yes I watch them.
Because they ROCK...
Holy crap. I feel I have just found the holy grail of poor employee practices!
Also there is Windows+D, which minimizes everything on your screen.
It knows that you want to make your signature something stupid.
I've got you beat. control + -> takes me from the Space with Firefox and Adium to the Space where PDFs and OpenOffice open.
I do my JOB. OHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Unfortunately with the suspension of Labias Corpus I could get fucked, even with no Bush to speak of.
... Clitoris.
A dude on my team sold me his old pair of paintball pants, they were amazing. Really nice padding on the knees, bounced so many cross field shots, and they breathed very well. So yay there.
Also, there were two guys with cameras there today, so hopefully they got some photographs of me and my friends, I'll be sure to share them with you all (even if you don't want me to share them with you :P ) Hopefully he got the one where I ran up the left side of the field and got out three guys, and not the ones where I got blasted.
It wasn't all good news however, one of guys on my team was working on the regulator on his gun, but forgot to vent all the air in it first... Yeah, the allen shot out and hit him right in the eye, luckily he blinked. He's not a nasty cut on his eyelid, but, one of the other guys is driving him to the hospital right now and everything should be good, his vision was already starting to come back...
So, how have you guys been?
Utah sure is a confusing place.
Sex. Let's have some.