Comment Re:In Russia,,, (Score 1, Redundant) 304
On reddit, someone said this days ago. Read reddit much?
Comment Re:Bogus (Score 1) 353
Presumably, in a country where the will of the people is what the government enforces, the guarding of the chicken coop is by will of the chickens, so no harm, no fowl.
In our country, on the other hand, what you said.
Comment Re:convenience over quality (Score 1) 360
Historically, most American's have cared less about quality than they have about convenience and cost. "Good enough" is usually all we care about. "Let the geeks and specialists have their Betamax videos and loss-less digital audio formats. Give me a cheap VHS or 128 MP3 any day!" It's a shame because it means most of us don't get to experience the state of the art. We're limited more by apathy than by technology.
Comment Re:Do I get to say... (Score 2) 521
What could possibly go wrong?
Maybe we get to scratch our heads next year and wonder where all the frogs and spiders went...
Comment Re:And? (Score 2) 658
Look, honestly, what are you going to do about it? Complaining doesn't matter. The TSA will be here forever, and, as much as we hate to admit it, there is nothing that can be done about it. There is too much money involved, and contractors have vast amounts of power, much more so than any collection of outraged stories and messages on the internet does.
Seriously, I hope the TSA is abolished tomorrow, or hell even five years from now. But honestly without fundamental, almost revolutionary changes to the way the US government works this simply will not happen. Money talks, national security lobbyists have TONS of money, and that's pretty much the end of it.
I'm sorry, but I couldn't help reading this in Bill Pullman's voice from Aliens. Fact: Politicians want more than anything else to keep their jobs. If they honestly feel like they need to throw the TSA under a bus to do that they won't bat an eye. As long as their job comes down to voter approval, "we the people" still hold all the cards. It's just a matter of us getting our shit together and letting them know what they HAVE to do.
Comment Re:I have to wonder... (Score 1) 462
Agreed. I call BS. I accidentally and stupidly left a box full of neodymium magnets sitting right on top of my portable 500GB external hard drive for about a week. When I discovered it I thought for sure my drive was toast but when I plugged it in it worked just fine and all of the data was intact. I was dumbfounded, to say the least. If my hard drive could survive the immediate proximity of such a strong field there is no way a few magnetic joists are going to harm a hard drive from yards away.
Comment Re:Will Invite (Score 1) 1223
I would like an invite please. Thanks! schillingenator@gmail.com
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