Comment Re: Give firefighters shotguns (Score 2) 176
Obviously, "geese and other flying things" are smarter than some drone owners.
Obviously, "geese and other flying things" are smarter than some drone owners.
in The Washingtonian probably inspired the Guardian's article.
The real problem is that the pool of people willing to work horrible hours for shit pay is too damned big.
People need to learn some self-value.
Meh, it's not that bad. Just put down "Independent Contractor."
Cynicism is easy-both for you and the people that want to take your freedom away. What's difficult is getting off your ass and doing something about it.
Is power supplies, because of the fire hazard.
His education is as useless as a Women's Studies degree.
Obviously writing doesn't pay him much, or he wouldn't be advocating bankruptcy as a debt solution.
If you can afford rent, you can afford a mortgage. Hell, mortgages can be cheaper - it would cost over 200\mo more to rent my house than it costs to buy it.
Until they do, anyway.
Like cell phone carriers.
I would personally love to be the guy that takes that call:
"sir, you realize if we put an IR filter in, your night vision cameras won't have night vision anymore, right?"
Which is why the IR LED trick only works on cameras with night vision.
Here in Missouri we have "you fuck up, you pay," since the way we see it, it would be bullshit to expect society to cover the costs of individual negligence.
I do like the idea of everyone who actually uses the roads paying for medical expenses, though. if nothing else it's something to throw back at the dickhead cyclists who brag about using the roads without having to pay for their maintenance.
People have been fleeing game development for years.
So in other words. giving every passenger a cudgel on the way to their seat and locking the damned cabin door would be a cheaper, more effective means of on-plane security.
Slashdot fails to find links to grammar of headlines.
How about "TSA Fails to Find Airport Workers' Links to Terrorism" instead? Unless the TSA was investigating the terrorism of airport workers, that headline is a little bit off.
Well, to be fair, it's not like they're edited before hitting the front page.
If I can build a rudimentary 3D scanner with decent resolution out of a cheap laser pointer, a wine glass, and a 480px resolution webcam, surely a fleet of expensive drones sporting modern, HD cameras could do the same thing a few orders of magnitude more efficiently.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.