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Dad embezzled $275,000 from Disney ship
Disney is using a service call "Fast-Pass" to collect mobile phone numbers and link them to individual names and profiles. Disney is careful ho they roll out their programs, but someday the face recognition will probably alarm a lot of people. Because sooner or later, almost half of Americans and most Southern California tourists cycle through DisneyLand.— November 2, 2017 6:24 p.m.
Dad embezzled $275,000 from Disney ship
I understand about 30% of the cartoon characters are security and loss prevention. All have radios they can use to call for help.— November 2, 2017 6:21 p.m.
Dad embezzled $275,000 from Disney ship
I have been in IT spanning a career of 37 years so far. Disney collects all kinds of questionable data, and now they collect facial imaging. They collect information on your children, their likes, their social networks and whatever else they can gleen from the data. Disney makes Google and Facebook seem like simpletons. Disney has been an expert at data collection and exploitation before the era of the internet. One final thought. Disney identifies and collect cell phone numbers of minors. They use those numbers to build their big data cloud. Imagine a future where your child gets an instagram message generated by Disney because their face recognition software identified one our your friends on the Matterhorn? "She's having fun at DisneyLand, when are you returning to The World's Happiest Place?" (Click here for 25% off pass child pass) That is what is going to happen because that is what's being worked on. Even the NFL is too dumb to ever deploy what diabolical revenue generators Disney has planned.— November 1, 2017 9:19 p.m.
Dad embezzled $275,000 from Disney ship
I think Walt would roll over in his grave if he saw what Disney is today. I feel Disney is in the same league as the NFL when it comes to greed.— November 1, 2017 9:01 a.m.
Dad embezzled $275,000 from Disney ship
Admiralty law is extremely complicated. At the end of the day, the captain is the law regardless of flag. In this case, it's a mere financial crime and will be sorted out in extradition, criminal (perhaps) and civil courts. Putting the perp in jail means he can't make a living or work on restitution. Disney is such a snotty, inbred, nasty, evil company that kneels at the altar of greed that I could only wish more people could rip them off. Mic drop.— October 31, 2017 8:53 p.m.
Tiny homes for the homeless and your backyard
I lived in a tiny house one summer. But other people call them sailboats. Living in small spaces is not for everyone.— October 30, 2017 12:25 p.m.
Bicyclists vs. Civita residents re road
Colin Parent, a current La Mesa City Council member. I wonder if he if the genius behind the transformation going on in La Mesa on Spring Street? What a mess they have created to make a bike lane; eliminating two lanes of car traffic (to one), lowering the speed limit from 35 to 25, and making deadly head-on collisions more likely to happen. I have always tried to avoid Spring Street because of its time-wasting, unsynchronized, schizophrenic traffic lights. Now I am avoiding the mess altogether and finding businesses in San Diego and Coronado to patronize. As far as Civita goes, if this lobbying Trojan horse “Circulate San Diego” were legit, they would just support a bike trail from Serra Mesa into Civita.— October 27, 2017 5:54 p.m.
Tackled in the stands at Qualcomm
Maybe they wanted it to sound like LASER. LASER is actually an acronym for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.” Taser is not an acronym, just a brand name for the device. “Don’t tase me bro!”— October 21, 2017 8:05 p.m.
Tackled in the stands at Qualcomm
Sometimes they get arrested for their own protection. It's kind of a Catch-22 for the officers. If they leave him alone, while he is intoxicated and he hurts himself or another party, then the police can be blamed because they contacted an intoxicated individual and did not detain him. This is where the police cannot win, if they leave him be and he hurts himself or someone else, the police are considered negligent. If they arrest him (basically to let him sober up, whether in the back of a police car, County Detox or a jail cell, then he was arrested "without cause." How the story and context changes once the drunk obnoxious fan is now a nice sober young man talking to a lawyer about how he was mistreated, it was only a football game. The police were sober, Walker was "high-spiritedness" or without the doublespeak simply "high" and now he thinks he and whatever legal eagle who has swooped in for a payday think they can convince a jury it was police brutality. The body slams and taser were non-lethal responses the police used to subdue an uncooperative and inebriated individual.— October 19, 2017 10 p.m.
Golden Rule crashes Fleet Week, peacefully
The M-16 replaced the M-14. The M-16 would not have a woodstock or bayonet. The M-16 was designed for jungle warfare. It was mostly resin components/plastic and was very easy to disassemble and assemble, to get the mud and bamboo out. There were competitions at one time (back in the 1980’s) of how fast one could dissemble and reassemble an M-16. It was an interchangeability weapon; you could make a good one out of two bad ones. They were lightweight without the wood, the aluminum also lightened the weight. So guess what, the magazines could be much bigger. New technology created a way an M-16 could automatically fire hundreds of rounds per minute with only a small modification to the M-16 barrel and flash-suppressor.— October 17, 2017 9:41 p.m.