TSA is another colossal failure of Obama's administration, and another reason to not re-elect him.
P.S. the TSA was created by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act and signed into law by President Bush. I'll save you the one-word search:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration
Citation needed. What are you talking about here? I'm sorry, but you can't look for hidden weapons in peoples' cars with today's technology just by driving by them in a van. X-rays don't penetrate steel unless they're extremely high power, and at that power, you'd kill the people inside the car.
did you even look? http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/08/24/full-body-scan-technology-deployed-in-street-roving-vans/.
hell, even https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=x-ray+van would do it.
"citation needed" does not mean "I'm too lazy to type 2 words into a search box"
It's part of a greater "war on curiosity" that's a fear-based initiative to stamp out any and all behaviors that even slightly deviate from a prescribed norm.
It's deeper than that; I think there's a large contingent of the population here that would agree with Tertullian:
"Now, pray tell me, what wisdom is there in this hankering after conjectural speculations? What proof is afforded to us, notwithstanding the strong confidence of its assertions, by the useless affectation of a scrupulous curiosity, which is tricked out with an artful show of language? It therefore served Thales of Miletus quite right, when, star-gazing as he walked with all the eyes he had, he had the mortification of falling into a well... His fall, therefore, is a figurative picture of the philosophers; of those, I mean, who persist in applying their studies to a vain purpose, since they indulge a stupid curiosity on natural objects, which they ought rather (intelligently to direct) to their Creator and Governor." -- Tertullian, Ad Nationes II:4
The problem is, the powers that be over there decided to arbitrarily apply their “noteworthy” filter on everything, and so they’ve collapsed the infinite array of human knowledge down into a decidedly finite set of “relevant” human knowledge. Of course, they alone are the arbiters of what is and isn’t relevant, and wield the delete hammer often. Under these circumstances, yes you’ll eventually come to the end of what is “appropriate” for Wikipedia.
There’s another word for that. Starts with “c”, and ends with “ensorship”. I think they can ask China for it. ^^
"PS. The harshest measures so far were against US companies. Does Intel and Microsoft mean anything to you?"
Might this have something to do with the fact that US companies have different strategies and simply do not want to change their ways for the European market but do want the benefits of that same market? Said in a different way: if they don't like the European rules they could choose to not compete in the European market.
Anyway, The good news (to you) is, that ms Kroes is leaving office for another post real soon now. The bad news (to you), is that she's leaving it for the post of foreign trade, which deals with ict, e-commerce en telecom, among other things. I wouldn't count her out just yet. In Europe, things will get better, as far as I'm concerned. I'm quite certain that the wave of ever bigger companies because of 'economies of scale' were bad for society at large and I hope the trend will be reversed.
The new consoles started about $599
You mean the highest end PS3 retailed for $599. And it was endlessly ridiculed for being so expensive. The highest end 360 retailed for $399 at launch. $700 will hardly get you anything even close to being considered a higher end gaming rig.
No... I never said you had the freedom to force me to listen. I can walk away. If you insist on following me, I'll go to my private property (or someone else's private property that I know). If you still follow me after being asked to leave, you're trespassing.
Seems spam filters are basically putting up gates to my private property, in a very vague way.
And either way, I have every right to plug my ears and close my eyes while you try to sell me something. Freedom of speech doesn't imply you are guaranteed and audience
Just a month ago Greenbaum wrote an article and tweeted about hoaxes in the media. What motivates people to do them, etc.
Now, it sounds like all the details come straight from Greenbaum.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/leaving_a_vulgar_comment_online_might_cost_you_your_job.php#comment-169438 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/leaving_a_vulgar_comment_online_might_cost_you_your_job.php#comment-169602
With your bare hands?!?
