His conclusions were that ARMA was (very) far from being realistic, but that it was OK because it would have been boring and tedious to act exactly like a real soldier in a real war.
haha. If there were two words that I'd use to describe ARMA II they'd be "boring" and "tedious"...
Hah well honestly if you cant hold it in for *one hour* then maybe you shouldn't be flying anyway.
Yeah, lets see you try that. I'm not talking about a little squirt either. You try holding in a good piss for even 30 minutes confined to your chair with nothing to do but fidget.
You must be the worst person to go to the cinema with!
And even if it that were possible, telling people who couldn't do it that they don't deserve to fly? Man that horse must be at least 20 hands tall.
Didn't your mother ever tell you that you'd better go to the bathroom before you leave the house because she aint stopping on the way? Is it impossible for you to go to the bathroom before you're making that final hour-long descent?
Your solution is for the entire contingent of passengers to use the bathroom on the plane one hour out from landing just in case they have to urinate in half an hour? Yeah, that's some good goosesteppin right there.
Some can go 65 minutes before, some can go 70, some can go 75, etc. Most of us don't need to piss every hour...
It gets worse when they say "I am just doing my job". Sounds to close to "Befehl ist befehl!"
right, because this is directly comparable to being systematically enslaved & murdered...
No, you can punish the big faceless organisation by not purchasing tickets from them in the first place, but urinating on the floor of the plane will only punish the FAs who already have a very hard and sometimes dangerous job, and might not be in a position to "look for a new job".
Gee, does your high horse come with a urinary catheter? Because I'm not seeing you giving any alternative to the person who really has to go but isn't permitted to do it in the bathroom.
Hah well honestly if you cant hold it in for *one hour* then maybe you shouldn't be flying anyway. Didn't your mother ever tell you that you'd better go to the bathroom before you leave the house because she aint stopping on the way? Is it impossible for you to go to the bathroom before you're making that final hour-long descent?
Unless your are literally medically incontinent, with a doctor's note to boot, then I'd take great pleasure in watching you pay the cleaning bill & probably be banned from that airline for life.
I have trouble keeping my son in his high chair with his hands in plain site in a high chair. Good luck getting infants to sit still.
I don't know who's stupider: The idiots at the TSA who come up with the rules, the politicians that give them this power, or the dickheads that allow the politicians to be elected.
I'll stay well out of your country. I only wish your fucked up rules didn't get copied by our own government and idiotic organisations. We just had some ridiculous security restrictions lifted in Australia. What's the bet that all gets reversed thanks to you crazy as fuck yanks?
The Australian government relaxed airplane security measures, which came into affect on Friday.
Items including nail clippers and knitting needles are no longer prohibited.
Mr Albanese said those changes would remain in effect for good reason.
“To take security personnel away from worrying about whether nail clippers are on board or not and worry about firearms and high-risk dangerous items,” he said.
I can understand where you're coming from but it's neither the fault of the flight attendants nor the cleaning crew that your country has such shitty regulations, but they're the only people who will suffer from your protest...
That's the "they are just doing their job" cop-out. If they aren't happy with the consequences of working for an organization that denies people their basic human dignities, then they should be looking for a new job. To give them a pass because they are just little people in the machinery of a big faceless organization is to give the big faceless organization a pass.
No, you can punish the big faceless organisation by not purchasing tickets from them in the first place, but urinating on the floor of the plane will only punish the FAs who already have a very hard and sometimes dangerous job, and might not be in a position to "look for a new job".
The cop-out is you claiming that you can treat people in such a disgusting manner because of your assumption that they're able find a less degrading job at their whim.
Furthermore, the "consequences" you're advocating fail on both a moral and a pragmatic level. Morally for the reasons I've stated above, but pragmatically too since it wont change the TSA regulations, it won't make the airlines fight on your side & the only real result will be pissing off your fellow passengers as well as making life a harder for some people trying to make a living. If you want to complain then complain to your government, rather than take out your frustration on some low-level employee who has very little decision making power in the organisation they work for.
I can understand where you're coming from but it's neither the fault of the flight attendants nor the cleaning crew that your country has such shitty regulations, but they're the only people who will suffer from your protest...
That's the "they are just doing their job" cop-out. If they aren't happy with the consequences of working for an organization that denies people their basic human dignities, then they should be looking for a new job. To give them a pass because they are just little people in the machinery of a big faceless organization is to give the big faceless organization a pass.
No, you can punish the big faceless organisation by not purchasing tickets from them in the first place, but urinating on the floor of the plane will only punish the FAs who already have a very hard and sometimes dangerous job, and might not be in a position to "look for a new job".
The cop-out is you claiming that you can treat people in such a disgusting manner because of your assumption that they're able find a less degrading job at their whim.
Once could argue though that the FAs have a choice in exercising common sense... which dictates that when a guy/gal [or a baby/toddler] has to go, you let them go.
I very much doubt that FAs have any choice when it comes to application of TSA regulations. More likely they'd be punished or even fired if they did.
Well, next step is to physically restrain and drug passengers as they take their seats - all in the interests of safety.
I wouldn't mind at all if they pumped me full of tranquilizers for the 25-35 hours flight from Australia. If not for the accompanied risks of DVT and the like, I'd very much prefer it!
With all due respect on the aisle thing, if I'm on a long-ish flight, fall asleep after eating whatever, and I have to pee badly enough, stand aside and let me use the lav, or I'll just piss in my paints in the aisle and let the cleaning crew on the ground deal with it...
I can understand where you're coming from but it's neither the fault of the flight attendants nor the cleaning crew that your country has such shitty regulations, but they're the only people who will suffer from your protest...
If it works, why not? Are you going to claim some kind of Bacon allergy?
Surely people on Slashdot won't dismiss a functional idea because it makes you laugh?
No, people are dismissing that "functional idea" because it's born out of the most disgusting type of xenophobia.
Let me fix that for you:
Satire of a political figure that we don't like is legitimate use of a domain.
What would happen if the domain in question was called "Obama: Fascist President" or some such? I mean, disregarding the obvious racism aspect for a moment.
My thinking wouldn't change (& thank you very much for you false assumption about me).
Of course I've changed my mind someone bothered to lookup auDA requirements for
I'm no fan of Stephen Conroy's Great Wall of Australia, but the owners of the site in question can't have any claim to legitimacy if they fraudulently use someone else's name to register it.
Normally I'd agree with you but a satire of a political figure is, imo, legitimate use of a domain.
Why is everyone referring to this as a copyright? It sounds more like the Vatican is protecting their trademark (the Pope).
I actually agree with their reasoning too -- they don't want people leveraging their symbols for politcal, social or economical reasons unless they really do have the support of the church. Sounds fair enough to me...
I have a laptop and I've only used my optical drive to load software. How do people normally get around that with netbooks that come without optical drives?
With a usb stick, a lot of spare time and a load of pain...
That was until I got sick of trying to transmute the Ubuntu ISO to a bootable USB stick and purchased a $40 external dvd-writer
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
