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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
HowTo: Use Fear of Terrorists to your Benefit
If you are sitting next to someone who irritates you on a plane or trainor bus.............simply need more space around you......
1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case. 2. Remove your laptop. 3. Boot it. 4. Make sure the person who won't leave you alone can see the screen. 5. Open your email client to this message. 6. Close your eyes and tilt your head up to the sky. 7. Then hit this link: http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf
1) Laptop ~200 euro (second hand one will do) 2) Plane ticket ~30euro(?) 3) Conviction for opening laptop in mid air ~3years(?) 4) The look on the irritating bastard's face - priceless. :P
PS: If you are in a plane, over international waters, depending on the destination and home country of the plane, you can kill him without concern... you cannot be charged because there is no jurisdiction for anyone... (does not count for ships, they run under a certain flag, being "territory" of their home coutry, or land...)
All numbers (except for the laptop) were guesstimated as I have no idea what the price for a plane ticket is for example, and google wouldn't tell me fast enough. :D
Netboy, you sure about ships? I remember seeing a scary documentary about the number of people who go missing on cruise ships. There was something about cruise ships in international waters not being required by law to report a crime.
Just quickly Google'd and found this: http://www.cruisebruise.com/overboard_deaths_by_cruise_line.html
Andy, ships run under flags, and from the little I know ship captains are the law while on their ship, so any crimes commited in international waters would be their decision to report or not, on a ship the law is a mix between civil and martial... you can also get killed on ambassy grounds on land and no one can do anything about it...
Netboy, yeah, I believe the term is "flag of convenience" where ships are registered in countries with liberal labour/tax laws to make life easier for the ship operators. I'd guess this probably affects all laws that are applied to the ship and her passengers.
It's a dodgy business when you dig into it a bit. Thar be pirates!
That was really funny!...In this post 9-11 era, if we can't make fun of the ridiculous prejudices and biases, what can we do? This is the only way to keep one's sanity and from buying into the paranoia
Omer, I am not as good at this as you are, but still, I try to keep a funny perspective on the whole situation. It is recommended in order to prevent a severe depression.
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That would be funny, if it wasn't so tragic. In this day and age, opening that on a laptop in a plane could result in you being arrested.
Welcome to the "security theatre" society. It's ridiculous.