Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune
Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut
I wish. But Obama isn't reversing the Patriot Act and pushes for more government power in court cases.
Plus there's the 'Do it for the children!' brigade, the safety worriers, or those who would give up anything just to possibly save one person's life. Any risk is to much for these cretins.
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
I thought those were the ones that were being sent to Iraq?! Wasn't that the recruitment strategy?
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
However, there is another point there somewhere. The 'do it for the children' (from now referred to as the 'diftch') crowd should really be thinking about how all that cash would be better invested in their children: school buses, schools, books, healthcare. No?
Is it possible to get Sarah Palin to push this? I understand she is currently jobless, and perhaps needs a new pants-suit. I'm positive the 'diftch' brigade would be at least split by such a turn of events.
Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune
Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut
They've no concept of weighing risk - only of hysterical fear at the latest sensationalized risk.
Heh, likely not flashly (or timely, in terms of current political happenings) for her.Is it possible to get Sarah Palin to push this? I understand she is currently jobless, and perhaps needs a new pants-suit. I'm positive the 'diftch' brigade would be at least split by such a turn of events.
Here's something interesting:
Apparently the TSA, in a bid to get some good press because everyone rightly hates their guts, has started a blog. Here, they respond to an XKCD cartoon that points out the ridiculousness of their existence.
The cartoonist responds in the comments:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Here is a thorough essay proving that the TSA and airport security are completely useless;
“The whole system is designed to catch stupid terrorists,” Schneier told me. A smart terrorist, he says, won’t try to bring a knife aboard a plane, as I had been doing; he’ll make his own, in the airplane bathroom. Schneier told me the recipe: “Get some steel epoxy glue at a hardware store. It comes in two tubes, one with steel dust and then a hardener. You make the mold by folding a piece of cardboard in two, and then you mix the two tubes together. You can use a metal spoon for the handle. It hardens in 15 minutes.”
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Those knotty, teeming security lines are the most dangerous places in airports: terrorists could paralyze U.S. aviation merely by detonating a bomb at any security checkpoint, all of which are, of course, entirely unsecured.
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(Later, Schneier would carry two bottles labeled saline solution—24 ounces in total—through security. An officer asked him why he needed two bottles. “Two eyes,” he said. He was allowed to keep the bottles.)
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To slip through the only check against the no-fly list, the terrorist uses a stolen credit card to buy a ticket under a fake name. “Then you print a fake boarding pass with your real name on it and go to the airport. You give your real ID, and the fake boarding pass with your real name on it, to security. They’re checking the documents against each other. They’re not checking your name against the no-fly list—that was done on the airline’s computers. Once you’re through security, you rip up the fake boarding pass, and use the real boarding pass that has the name from the stolen credit card. Then you board the plane, because they’re not checking your name against your ID at boarding.
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
Well, if they weren't before that was published, they definitely are now!Here is a thorough essay proving that the TSA and airport security are completely useless;![]()
Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune
Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut
Swordsmaster, I can assure you that in most places, answering "no" to the question about packing only begets another question or two about who did. One can then indicate one's valet standing in line at the economy class check-in.
Unfortunately, this is not the case in the United States, where officialdom has allowed power to go to its head. As I have difficulty avoiding condescension when queried by jobsworths, whilst lacking a concomitant enjoyment of invasive procedures, I no longer travel to that country.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
Originally Posted by CR's article
I thought this exact same thing standing in a huge security line at SFO. Easily three hundred people, packed into a back-and-forth tensa-line maze. Reach the middle without any security checks, detonate, and chaos ensues. Are they going to put security checks on the security line? One instance, and the airline industry would cease to be. Security theater.
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