Comment Re:Yahoo knew fine was a bluff (Score 2) 223
How can you fine someone for not cooperating in activities that the government refused to even admit existed?
You send the shadow court a shadow check?
How can you fine someone for not cooperating in activities that the government refused to even admit existed?
You send the shadow court a shadow check?
...we give China most favored nation status.
WTF?
...2 factor authentication for your accounts, too. Google makes it easy.
Not a bank + Not a currency = Not a chance.
Much as I'm disliking the Hitlerian Russian government now, I can't believe a) anyone wouldn't have reported it (the pilot) or b) not talked about it loudly for 25+ years.
It doesn't add up.
It does if you know anything about Finnish history. Pissing off the Soviets was may have been an American national sport during the cold war period but for the Finns it was not at the top of their agenda. Finland spent the cold war balancing on a razor's edge they were bound by post WWII treaties to have a military of a fixed (and rather small) size and of course to remain neutral. For this reason the Finns painstakingly split their military procurement exactly down the middle. Half the air force jets, half the army's tanks and half the navy's ships were bought in the Soviet bloc and the other half in the West and it was a very successful strategy (which is why its now being suggested as a solution to the Ukraine crisis). The Finns may have wiped the floor with the Soviet army during the Winter War but it was still not an experience the Finns cared to repeat in the nuclear era. Since the aircraft wasn't actually harmed no purpose would have been served by deliberately embarrassing the bad tempered 16 foot tall, 3000 pound grizzly bear sitting on their eastern border by advertising the ineptitude of the Soviet air defenses so the sensible strategy was just to play it down.
No, that was exactly why I read TFA expecting to see that the Finnish government was the one who buried it. They weren't. Seems to...defy credulity that 2 ordinary citizens would be making a political decision like that. The government yes, 2 copilots no.
Don't get me wrong.... I hate video autoplay.
But I feel that things like this will ultimately result on pressure on carriers to correct the real problem:
The dataplan allowances are way too low, AND
1 Gigabyte of data is priced way too high.
So by having autoplay..... ordinary folks will be using more data, BUT they're not going to want to pay a lot,
so there is going to be pressure on carriers to increase data allowances
Or pressure on the customers to pay more. Guess which one is automatic?
Data plans have an immediate cost at the end of the month.
Not everyone has a data cap. Does that invalidate the parent's point? Nope, didn't think so.
Damn those Finnish Republicans!
Probably a US sub-launched ICBM.
1. There is no such thing as a "sub-launched ICBM". Subs carry SLBMs and SLCMs.
2. Any kind of BM would follow a completely different trajectory than the one described.
3. The "B" in ICBM/SLBM means "ballistic". That means that after the initial burn, it is guided by inertia, and would have no ability to track a moving target.
Damn pesky facts.
Here's something I don't know the answer to: Do air-to-airs or ground-to-airs have any sort of range safety feature like rockets, or do they just automatically blow up at the end of their runs? Or both? Or neither (in which case why did it blow up?)?
Much as I'm disliking the Hitlerian Russian government now, I can't believe a) anyone wouldn't have reported it (the pilot) or b) not talked about it loudly for 25+ years.
It doesn't add up.
and this is what happens. Survival 101: you do not violate my personal space. EVER.
What's your "personal space" in this context? Having a button to recline your seat conveys permission to use said button. That said, one uses it judiciously and slowly...and you have the right to do the same.
It's when idiots use something like Knee Defender that the system falls apart.
Remember steel soda cans? Those could be stacked to make tennis ball cannons, fueled by lighter fluid. You could also soak the tennis balls in lighter fluid, ignite them, and play fireball hockey.
We smarter kids used tennis ball cans as they were the perfect diameter AND had fewer seams.
...when we have more information about arrests in the Soviet Uni...err, Russia, than we do in the People's Republic of Maryland.
But amid all the despair and hopelessness, people were working indefatigably to stabilise the nation and alleviate the prevalent tumult; and on 28 August 2298, the sedulousness of these committed inidividual was recompensed.
Zow. This guy was supposed to be a "language-arts" teacher. I think we can clear the Sherifs department of any charges of overreacting, Patrick McLaw is obviously a danger to himself and society.
"It was a dark and stormy night...."
To do nothing is to be nothing.
