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Signs that you have come to a fun place
 If sport were a drug, there would be no option but to institute a mandatory death penalty for people partaking in it, and nobody would want thatMy apologies for the blurriness of the first picture. I find that people in uniforms in secure areas of airports can lack a sense of humor when I start taking photographs, so I try to do it surreptitiously. This can sometimes detract from the quality of the photographs.
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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The woman in the first picture is way cute!
‘Liquor Registration’? We Australians are so advanced that we have places called ‘Liquor Banks’! they look like shops, but it sounds as though you could put in a can or bottle, wait a while, and get back a 6-pack!
how’s that for an advanced society? (I have not actually tried this out, because all my cans are allocated, but it sounds great!)
“The woman in the first picture” is invisible except for her hair, her purse, and her heavy wool sweater (and a sliver of her right cheek).
BTW, why is someone in a tropical, nay, equatorial country wearing a sweater?
Rich Rostrom – the answer may be air conditioning.
For example, right now, at the end of a long hot day, it’s 68F outdoors in our part of Texas and, due to my wife’s preferred AC setting (something in the low Kelvins, I believe) I’m wearing a sweater.
Truly, I kid ye not.
The lady in the sweater had just disembarked from a flight from somewhere – quite possibly the same flight from London I had arrived on – and was at that point still in the air-conditioned airport terminal. The weather outside was indeed equatorial and I doubt her tsweater stayed on for more than a few seconds after she encountered said weather.
Alcohol sales and public consumption of alcohol are completely illegal in Brunei. Non-Muslims entering the country are allowed to bring a small amount (12 cans of beer and two bottles of wine or spirits, I believe) for personal consumption, but must register it with the government when entering the country.
I wonder how the poor Bruneinans cope. Surely, if alcohol had been invented in the southwestern pacific region 10,000 years ago, I don’t think their “priests” would have forbidden its possession and use. What exactly is it with the fellows who say they interpret the words of Mohammed sent from God as they (we are told) are, that people can’t get sloshed if they want to? If God had not intended us to get smashed, then He would not have given us Yeast.
Indeed, many of my more creative moments have been inluenced by the products of sugar and yeast. however, my recent grappling with the vagaries of dhcp, hostapd and wlan settings-up have severely suffered…
No wonder that most of the linux help pages i have been reading have originated in the middle east…