I am soooo going home after this.
So Mneme no accent for her in foreign climes, has got a job. And more power to her. Bring them down from the inside I say. And I went and had a look at the site of her employers. And I wanted a map. But I looked at the security info, because, well I guess you need to know your enemy.
And what do I find? Under "Item not permitted" but:
Other items, such as sharp implements like scissors and knives, are not permitted to be brought into the building by members of the public. They are be cloaked by security officers and a receipt issued. These items may be collected from the security cloaking area when visitors leave the building, by presenting the receipt.
"They are be cloaked"? They are be cloaked indeed.
They get it right later on with:
Mobile phones and cameras are not permitted in either Chamber. These must be cloaked at the cloaking area in the central public gallery on the first floor.
But still. Where can I get a cloaking area, and how much do they cost?
Whilst looking at Cloaking (I am bored, did I mention that?) I found me some good old fashioned geekiness. Behold Star Trek vs Star Wars (.net), speciffically in this case the ST v SW cloaking debate. (Do we see any cloaked ships in SW ever?)
Posted by luther at October 7, 2003 02:50 AM | TrackBackWithout clicking on your links yet to see if they go on to explain this, no we don't see one. But they are used in the Expanded Uinverse by Admiral Thrawn and some others, and in TESB we have the lines (from memory):
Track them! They might come round for another pass.
Captain Needa, the ship no longer appears on our scopes!
That's impossible! No ship that small has a cloaking device.
Aha.
I have a nice pair of sharp scissors in my desk.
Posted by: mneme on October 7, 2003 11:24 PM(Do we see any cloaked ships in SW ever?)
I'd like you to think about that last sentance for a while. Take all day if need be. Then pay me $5.
Posted by: Dan on October 8, 2003 05:55 AMI always thought those ads about being able to spot differences meaning you've "got what it takes" to join the NZ army were a sham but Dan has just proved that it takes a special, perceptive type of person to being able to kill a man with your bare hands.
Posted by: heq on October 8, 2003 09:01 AMDan, I did have it written as "Do we see any cloaked ships in SW ever?"
So I'm going to keep my $5. KEEP IT.
Posted by: Luther on October 8, 2003 02:34 PMThe bit about the cloaking and the giving me money were independant. Send it. Seeeend Iiiit. SEND IT!
Posted by: Dan on October 9, 2003 02:53 AM