a lot of taggers are the lowest rank in a gang, or are trying to be initiated into the gang. that doesn't mean they wont' be armed, but that they are likely to be newbs. but newbs with guns, running around scared as they try to impress the higher ups is a combination for wildly unpredictable results.

I was wondering that myself. soft x-rays my ass. These scanners look through metal shipping containers. That requires a hell of a lot more power than just going through cotton.

multiply that by how many vans could eventually be in a city, and depending on your commute, soon the US public will be getting a few chest x-rays a week.

bingo. if some security camera at an oblique angle (or a backscatter scanner at the checkout aisle) finds the carry, and police / security stop you and tell you to drop your weapon, I'd tell them to walk their lazy ass over and do a proper search if they want it but my hands aren't moving.

I officially propose my intent to create a new business selling selling fake bundles of drugs, plugged AK-47 rifles, rubber banded stacks of fake money, and realistic dummy's stuffed into trunks.

No easier way to find out where these are used than to plant false positives on the public at large and draw out the authorities with illegal 4th amendment Search & Seizures stops that tip their hand.

dang dude. wait to make me hate this government even more. I didn't think that was even possible. But as a father with a 7month old daughter I guess I would have to choose family time over jail time until she gets old enough to know who are the villains and why.

Thanks for the job! I work in SW QA at (big company).

There is NOTHING that will make manual testing suck less. It just does. I have written many a test plan for the manual test monkeys (both stateside and offshore) and I have performed many a manual test. It just sucks. There is no way around it.

I suggest heavy stimulant use or psychoactive drugs (warning, your employer might not be as friendly to my suggestions).

references to Tea party bigots, though in retrospect it appears as though you aren't tossing all Tea Party peeps in the same bucket. My apologies for the knee jerk. I'll have a doc check that out. heh.

hummm NSFW site? better wait till at home. hehe.

exactly. higher stock price generally affects long term positions and longer term options, so short dumps are that great of a benefit to persons paid in options.

I knew some doofus would bring out that line. lol. and it isn't even Tuesday!

exactly. Hurd is on the board of Yahoo, and it is likely that other CEOs are board members at HP, or that HP board members are board members at other companies.

It is corporate incest.

The problem isn't that the money was given after the termination, but that it was agreed upon PRIOR to hiring Hurd and that the contract didn't stipulate a zero bonus clause if the termination was due to misconduct. Even then, boards can do stupid things like allow a "consensus" resignation which technically skirts the definition of a "termination" allowing the CEO to make off with the contractually guaranteed severance bonus despite the malfeasance.