Comment Re:I'm totally in favor of this (Score 1) 1219
Statistically speaking, we need to get the sober people off the road. Sober people are involved in far more vehicle accidents than drunkards.
Comment Re:Thats not bad in British Columbia (Score 1) 1219
and yet curiously we're not at the mercy of warlords or jackbooted thugs or what have you.
Sure you are, you just don't realize it yet.
Comment Re:It's theater... (Score 1) 342
How else are you supposed to cut your cold, rubbery filet mignon?
Comment Re:Umbrella Shaft (Score 1) 342
And wtf would you do with a sword anyway?
The Indiana Jones scene comes to mind.
Comment Re:The next generation... (Score 1, Insightful) 342
Do you think the TSA is going to make a scene every time they successfully stop a terrorist attack?
Without a doubt.
Comment Re:Regardless (Score 1) 742
Social Engineering 101, you have been burned...
Comment Re:TSA Security Theater (Score 1) 609
What airline are you flying? I don't think I have ever seen proper dinnerware on the lesser side of the curtain.
Comment Re:Creepiness. (Score 1) 446
Or a terrorist.
FTFY
Comment Re:London (City) does this too... (Score 1) 446
Occasionally, I prefer "intensive purposes" myself.
New Bill Would Put DHS In Charge of 'Critical' Private Networks 193
GovTechGuy writes "A new bill unveiled Wednesday by House Homeland Security chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority to enforce federal cybersecurity standards on private sector companies deemed critical to national security. The Homeland Security Cyber and Physical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2010 authorizes DHS to establish and enforce risk and performance-based cybersecurity standards on federal agencies and private sector companies considered part of the country's critical infrastructure. Such firms include utilities, communications providers and financial institutions."
Comment Re:email snafu (Score 1) 44
Hm, and all this time I thought I was the only one. Do all 10th grade English teachers infuse whiskey into their coffee?
Comment Re:Obama should just call for elections (Score 1) 1530
Yeah, I should have replied yesterday. I suppose that voting thing got me all in a tizzy and I thought that we were free people for a while.
Silly me, sorry about that!
This citizen is back in line!
Comment Re:Obama should just call for elections (Score 1) 1530
In what manner is this comment supposed to help me grasp the health care as a right position?
Comment Re:Gridlock FTW (Score 2, Insightful) 1530
As a pro-Idon'tgiveafuckwhatyoudoorbelivein, I voted entirely against the two-party system remembering that Einstein said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".
Now that the show is over, they will all go to their lavish back rooms, have drinks and laugh at what fools we are for buying their bullshit. On us...
Comment Re:Obama should just call for elections (Score 2, Insightful) 1530
I am all for helping others and what not but I just can not grasp this whole health care as a right position.
Forcing another to perform labor and / or commit resources is a direct violation of your actual rights.
