Didn't see that one coming?

http://tsanewsblog.com/112/news/tsa-expands-beyond-airport-screening/

Underwear bomber, shoe bomber. Both were able to detonate their devices but the devices failed fully detonate. The devices were set alight, just poorly designed. Which speaks volumes of the intelligence required to bypass the TSA. I'm not sure what we had to do with stopping the events from occurring. Only dumb luck, or a dumb fuck, saved the lives of the people on either flight.

Underwear bomber, shoe bomber. Both were able to detonate their devices but the devices failed.

transplanted rednecks

Ya, you sound like a real tolerant open minded guy.

Police in every state in the union are required to act if they have "probable cause" that a crime is being committed. Last time I checked, it's illegal to be in the country illegally. Because you obviously cannot cope with that little fact we can't have a regular discussion.

The real problem with people like you is that you believe that it is not raciest to treat people based on the color of their skin but it somehow is racist to treat everyone exactly the same regardless of their skin color.

Twelfth generation Hispanic Arizona native? Fair game.

Even though the Arizona law explicitly prohibits the use of race to identify illegals, you just gota bring it up, becuase just like a good little Democrat, all you can see is race. Everything to you is a chance to "play the race card". I think you would be well served to read up on your history. Democrats were the slave owners prior to the civil war. Abe Lincoln was the first Republican president. Democrats are responsible for the segregation of the army. Democrats are responsible for "Jim Crow" laws. Democrats voted against every single civil rights act down party lines. Democrat Governors literally stood in the way of black kids trying to attend school in the 60's - that's less than a lifetime ago, many older people still remember that. Democrats were the a huge driving part of the KKK. The once oldest living senator Robert Bird - a Democrat - was a high ranking KKK member and in the senate up till just a year or two ago when he died. Did I mention that the Democrats were the slave owners and were willing to destroy the union to keep their right to keep slaves? The racist Republicans were willing to destory the union to take that "right" away. I want to make sure you remember who the Democrats are. And you know what sucks for you? You can go look up every single thing I just said in Wikipedia! It's all true. I'll let you decide if you want to keep your cognitive dissonance or not.

Now today, the same Democrats tell everyone "the 'African-American' is too dumb to get a job without special help" and I'm supposed to view that as anything but racist? There's only one group of racists here and it's the group that judges absolutely everything by race. That is by definition racist.

Maybe you can show me why the Republicans are so racist. I'm sure it's much worse than the list I just gave you. What do they do? Hide racist innuendo in what most people view as normal speech? Please, do tell. I can't wait to hear the long terrible history of the racist Republicans. By the way you sound, it must be far worse than the history of the Democrat party.


Lincoln explained the difference between Democrats and Republicans best when he said this:

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same name—liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable names—liberty and tyranny.

You are less than human. You are like the dog shit that gets stuck between the ridges on the bottom of my shoe. Read the damn article. The TSA agent was yelling at the little kid causing the problem in the first place. People like you make me sick. You think that just because there's a security protocol people stop being human beings? I guess your plan would be to explain to the 4 year old about the birds and the bees with a nice little pedobear patdown? Get a life scumbag.

Ya all the conservative/libertarians are totally for a huge authoritarian state. Give me a break. Read a book.

The Law by Frédéric Bastiat [1850]

The only agency with a well known 100% failure rate. 100% of the terrorist that we know of that tried to get through TSA security were able to get through and detonate their devices. The TSA's response is to add proven useless and potentially deadly scanners, and create new checkpoints at highway and post offices. These people are worse than useless. They take from the tax payers on so many levels that the monetary loss is the least of our concern. Give us our freedom back you assholes.

From The Law by Fredric Bastiat


The Vicious Circle of Socialism

We shall never escape from this circle: the idea of passive mankind, and the power of the law being used by a great man to propel the people.

Once on this incline, will society enjoy some liberty? (Certainly.) And what is liberty, Mr. Louis Blanc?

Once and for all, liberty is not only a mere granted right; it is also the power granted to a person to use and to develop his faculties under a reign of justice and under the protection of the law.

And this is no pointless distinction; its meaning is deep and its consequences are difficult to estimate. For once it is agreed that a person, to be truly free, must have the power to use and develop his faculties, then it follows that every person has a claim on society for such education as will permit him to develop himself. It also follows that every person has a claim on society for tools of production, without which human activity cannot be fully effective. Now by what action can society give to every person the necessary education and the necessary tools of production, if not by the action of the state?

Thus, again, liberty is power. Of what does this power consist? (Of being educated and of being given the tools of production.) Who is to give the education and the tools of production? (Society, which owes them to everyone.) By what action is society to give tools of production to those who do not own them? (Why, by the action of the state.) And from whom will the state take them?

Let the reader answer that question. Let him also notice the direction in which this is taking us.

Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
-Mark Twain

That said, there are also situations where a joystick (not a thumbstick) are better - flight sims and spaceship games, for instance. You can't really do a steady banking turn for a few seconds straight with a mouse.

That is true, however even then it is a sorry substitute for a flight stick or a yoke, or when racing a racing wheel. Mouse/keyboard is the racing wheel of FPS games. Until a better control surface comes out that will remain the best. A pad is best for platform games and maybe street fighter type games (perhaps a full size joystick is better).

As far as the "science" of keyboard/mouse vs. thumbstick in FPS, besides establishing the quantitative difference it would really be telling us something we already know. Sort of like studying "why skunks smell worse than roses". They do smell worse, that's not the question, people just want to find out how much worse.