blakeja

I accidentally left some throwing knives (I am a martial artist and have an interesting these types of things) in my backpack and ran into a similar situation. I was appalled when TSA found the knives, as this was just a few years after 9/11, and pretty earnest in my rapid apology. Well, unfortunately for me, not only was the TSA having a "bad day", but the police officer they called over was having a worse one.

I could waste a lot of space with details, ultimately he made threats my way and I responded poorly as I do not care much for authority of any kind. The end result was me spending thousands of dollars on a lawyer and travel fees only to have the judge immediately dismiss the case when it went to court, as the whole situation was ludicrous when looked at from the outside. It seriously hurt my finances to defend myself, I was no architect and I was pretty much outraged over the entire ordeal.

My point is these TSA / LE type positions know they can wreck your world with essentially the wave of a wand. Stories like this poor guy sicken me. I would personally like to see private agencies running the show again, the TSA has too much power and situations like mine and this poor guy are really just inexcusable.

Glad to see someone post this. I laughed when I saw this article and some of the comments here. I laugh at most games which think they are "complex" or "challenging", whatever. Go play a MUD, one of the hard ones, get back to me.

BS, link bait / blogspam are any one of the numerous nautil.us or medium.com articles that seem to consistently make it onto the front page of hackernews.

Whereas, this article reflects the same sentiments I have been hearing from close friends over the past years who are public school teachers. And it boils down to two facts that I have taken particular note of after listening to their grievances:

1. Government interference with education has been a huge mistake. 2. We do not pay our teachers nearly enough.

You cannot legislate education, especially when trying to create a universal adapter for all education across the country.

You cannot get quality teachers in the education system without adequate compensation, period.

This whole subject is a source of never ending amusement to me. I am a book lover and still read paper books and each year that goes by I feel increasingly like some kind of rebel.

Ragweed grows rampantly where I live and at certain times of the year looks quite a bit like cannabis. So now I have to worry that the DEA will come smash down my door over weeds? Terrible Times.

Easy battle to win - http://shop.wbu.com/p/wbu-fundamentals-squirrel-proof-bird-f...

I have been using this feeder for something like 7 years and barring really weird circumstances, it is 99% effective. And no they cannot chew through it.

Combine this with a baffle - http://shop.wbu.com/p/wbu-aps-squirrel-baffle and you will be as close to 100% effective as possible. Barring squirrels suicide leaping from trees, which I would not put past them.

So people with a different set of beliefs from your own are "trolls and kooks". Man I get tired of seeing this kind intolerance, lack of respect, call it what you will.

Regardless of your feelings about the rest of the site, I do not think the doctor's points are in any way invalidated if you actually read what he has to say, as some others here have already pointed out.

This has been going on for what, 100+ years? Is there any newspaper that is not owned by some rich company or individual with their own motivations? I'm still waiting to see how far Bezos plans to go with the Post.

You should and I would not be surprised if you did not like it. The meat taste completely different to me, and not necessarily in a good way due to my life long acclimation to the industrial chicken meat we get from the store.

The eggs also taste different, much richer and a different color yolk from what I remember.

This may be the best explanation I have ever seen.

Does anyone else living outside of San Fran read this and go "San Fran blah blah blah". Seriously not trying to be rude, I just do not think any of the models presented in this article represent real life much outside of SF or maybe NYC.

So is this article saying that trying to quantify what makes a wine "good" or "bad" is a matter of perspective and lacks any kind scientific method? I mean, do we need a scientific method if it is something we collectively can pretty much agree upon? They can do all the studies they want and criticize this all to the finest minutiae, but in my own personal experience I can say with certainty that wine recommended me to by trusted experts is generally better than just blindly picking a bottle. (Well not quite blind, but with a really limited knowledge of regions and vintages). At the end of the day for all us casual wine drinkers, I would think that is all that really matters. It may be interesting to see some statistics on casual vs serious wine drinkers, could help clarify a lot of this.

I would also say getting to know an expert to the point where they know your own individual tastes really helps. Perhaps it is this aspect that people are getting hung up, everyone will have their own tastes, enter the expert who can categorize this for you, etc.

I do have direct and extensive experience with government email systems. Caveat, mostly with other agencies but a pretty wide variety of them. Post 9/11 there were broad government initiatives to ensure systems like this were definitely backed up, backups stored offsite and usually along with some type of COOP initiative on top of all that. Maybe the IRS did not participate in that initiative, but I highly doubt it.

That they "lost" this data is highly unlikely in my book.

I have pretty extensive experience with government email systems and you can bet "poorly". So I would not be surprised if their entire email infrastructure is horribly out of date (think Exchange 2000). That said, government organizations tend to have good backups, retention, offsite storage of tapes via some service like Iron Mountain, etc. So yea, I agree, I am not buying it either.

This is a good question. What are the odds that someone on the flight had a sat cell? If so, would it have worked in those conditions?

That is how it always starts, right?

Thank you for taking the time to scope this out. Out of all the posts on this thread, very few people have taken the time to do the research, could be the language barrier of course.

Thanks daanlo. I understand and appreciate the concern that others have for this issue, but I wish there was less of a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to these stories. I feel like there many assumptions being made here, as responsible citizens we should be doing our own due diligence to verify the accuracy of articles like this before jumping to conclusions.

That said, we need to keep a sharp eye on the government. No doubt.

Thank you, those were my thoughts exactly when I saw the headline. Those kinds of problems lead me steer wide and clear.