stifle867

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[–] stifle867 8 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Great, then declare it and there shouldn't be any problem. Where the problem comes in is people not declaring it. If it's hidden somewhere in their luggage or on their person how is anyone supposed to know that?

Granted it is harsh in this case which I already said but customs has no interest in letting people skirt the rules just because.

[–] stifle867 1 points 1 year ago

Best practices for minimizing complexity:

  1. Try out “stacking”
  2. Simplify software design

I didn't say there wasn't information in there but the above paraphrased quote goes to the heart of what my comment was about.

Firstly, how is purchasing their product considered a "best practice"? It's not generally accepted or the standard superior option by any stretch of the imagination.

Secondly, the option they give to minimizing complexity is to simplify your software design. Ignoring a couple problems with this statement, if they're being honest this should be above the recommendation to "try out stacking".

It doesn't have to be that deep. You can give it a quick read and take from it what you will, but it is an ad for their product more so than it is an article that contains broadly useful information. They have every right to do so and maybe their product really is tremendously great but I'm just calling it how I see it.

[–] stifle867 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was probably a lack of attention combined with a genuine mistake. She claims she slept through the flight. Lots of people are also unaware how strictly we deal with it and think they'll be fine instead of fined. We have an entire TV show about it.

I don't want to be too harsh on her as it's relatively minor and the fine amounted to 10% of their combined remaining life savings. It was her mistake.

[–] stifle867 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

We do. There's announcements on the flight and there's signs everywhere.

The department spokeswoman pointed to biosecurity announcements on flights which told travellers what their declaration obligations were, as well as signage about it around arrivals areas in Australian airports.

[–] stifle867 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the fact that there is no extradition treaty in place that would give a legal basis to get him back making it not so easy. Also, the justice department only agreed on letting him out on bail only because they could thought they could manage the flight risk by imposing travel restrictions. It says all this in the article.

This part is my opinion but seeing as he helped launder money for terrorist groups, many of which are based in that region of the world, combined with the other resources at his disposal, there is a definite risk that he has a "change of heart" and attempts to evade his sentence.

Knowingly and willfully laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for Iran, Syria, North Korea, Russia, and people engaging in the exploitation of children is definitely villainous. More so than Trump.

[–] stifle867 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (40 children)

“Chicken meat poses a significant biosecurity risk to Australia, particularly the risk of highly pathogenic notifiable avian influenza (HPNAI) virus which can cause severe disease and mortality across Australia’s poultry industry, and may also affect wild bird populations.”

We do have a reputation for taking these things very seriously, as we should. We were even going to kill Johnny Depp's dogs at one point but settled for the "hostage video". Despite that, it does seem excessive in this case and should have been overturned on appeal at the very least.

Thankfully someone stepped up and ended up paying the fine on their behalf.

[–] stifle867 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's an official commentary you can usually find them via torrents if you download the disc rips. It's usually not the most popular torrent for that movie as the file sizes tend to be much larger.

[–] stifle867 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it was just a joke about the cliches of the true crime category. To be fair I don't watch true crime myself.

[–] stifle867 7 points 1 year ago

I'm not. I don't plan to speed run it. It's just a fun activity and part of that fun is just figuring out as I go along.

[–] stifle867 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

She would have left a strand of hair at the scene that they DNA test then the whole case gets busted upon. That's how it works in the shows anyway

[–] stifle867 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the classic Australian tribal war dance

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