Re: Seems the TSA are the instillers of terror this time..
"...it is well know that some parents will use their kids for that (drug smuggling) reason."
Since the TSA has instituted these security procedures in 2001 not one search has yielded anything. Drugs, bombs, guns, anything. And I'm not exactly sure how well-known it is. I don't recall hearing of drug smuggling using children very much lately, even at all.
There have been a handful of incidents that have still occurred (drunks getting out of control and one or two would-be terrorists) and all were handled by passengers and air marshals after the plane was in the air.
I was listening to an NPR report on this the other day and the reporter let loose some facts figures, among them was that since the these procedures have been started the number of potential in-flight threats uncovered by them is zero. Even so, there have been a handful of incidents; all have been stopped by other passengers in-flight. Ain't nothing going to stop in-flight terrorism like an air marshal and a few pissed-off passengers.
I don't know whose fault it is, perhaps the usual "you and me", but as a society we've either somehow agreed or had taken away our responsibility to ourselves to defend ourselves from those who would harm us. I frankly don't look at the phone and feel safe after hearing about recent home invasions that have happened around the city I live in.
Re: It gets better than that, and we've had it for years...
You're... not... allowed... to... tell... your... lawyer... you have been served with a search warrant? Isn't that the same as denying a suspect a lawyer? Or is that not a right down under? So I get hauled in, do I not get to call him? Or if I do, what do we talk about? The weather? Oh, I get it, if I've been hauled in for possession, that'd be after the warrant... or...?
Yeah, the film COULD just plain suck. Doubtful though, I mean unless they blew it this time and hired a useless new pack of morons to produce it... sitting here as a jaded middle-aged man who has little interest in such things as magic wands and flying broom sticks, in general the series isn't that bad. Of course, its not hard when you have an original story to work from and not the usual schlocky nonsense Hollywood writers crap out.
How jaded would you be if you created a recipe, published it on the web, then I took it, republished it on my website, didn't credit you, and then when you protested I told you to eff-off? Pretty darn jaded I bet.
"Imagine how dumb the average person is..." Yeah, its popular to say things like that, but how accurate are these numbers? Do you know anyone who is actually stupid, and is of voting age? I can tell you I don't actually know very many. Most of the people I choose to associate with are intelligent, thinking adults. Its easy to point at the unwashed masses and say "50% of those people are stupid", its another matter to actually decide who is in fact stupid and who isn't.
"It is actually illegal in the EU and the UK to lie about someone....ruin their reputation..."
Sticks and stones. People who know you and your reputation won't be swayed by anything the opposition can say about your anyway. People who don't are fools to listen to anyone with an axe to grind against you.
You start telling people what they can say with the color of authority and those same people pretty soon start telling you that you can't say anything about people in power even if they are stealing children and eating them. History is a good teacher, read about it. This issue about making certain speech illegal is a slippery slope, I find it amusing when I read about it there, I get really pissed off when I read when I read about it here. Thank god we have it, otherwise I'd never read about it and be able to do anything about it, would I?
I'm glad Huffington is being sued for something, even if the merits of the case arn't exactly up to snuff. The damn, lie-spewing witch needs to be brought down a peg or two by any means.
The TSA officers aren't really the problem, and I think "touch my junk" guy is aware of this throughout the whole situation. Its the feds who give these people license to do what they do. They are the only people who are granted authority to break the usual penal codes on assault. Its bs and I don't really care if it give people that false sense of security they seems to think they need. I'm with this guy. I've resolved not to fly again until something changes.
All google can do is not index the information, it would be up to individual isps to actually "block" the site hosting it. I hope these Brazilian courts understand that.
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Re: Seems the TSA are the instillers of terror this time..
Since the TSA has instituted these security procedures in 2001 not one search has yielded anything. Drugs, bombs, guns, anything. And I'm not exactly sure how well-known it is. I don't recall hearing of drug smuggling using children very much lately, even at all.
There have been a handful of incidents that have still occurred (drunks getting out of control and one or two would-be terrorists) and all were handled by passengers and air marshals after the plane was in the air.
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Not one, according to NPR
I don't know whose fault it is, perhaps the usual "you and me", but as a society we've either somehow agreed or had taken away our responsibility to ourselves to defend ourselves from those who would harm us. I frankly don't look at the phone and feel safe after hearing about recent home invasions that have happened around the city I live in.
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How jaded would you be if you created a recipe, published it on the web, then I took it, republished it on my website, didn't credit you, and then when you protested I told you to eff-off? Pretty darn jaded I bet.
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Sticks and stones. People who know you and your reputation won't be swayed by anything the opposition can say about your anyway. People who don't are fools to listen to anyone with an axe to grind against you.
You start telling people what they can say with the color of authority and those same people pretty soon start telling you that you can't say anything about people in power even if they are stealing children and eating them. History is a good teacher, read about it. This issue about making certain speech illegal is a slippery slope, I find it amusing when I read about it there, I get really pissed off when I read when I read about it here. Thank god we have it, otherwise I'd never read about it and be able to do anything about it, would I?
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