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http://www.myfoxny.com/story/19578206/fake-gold-bars-turn-up-in-manhattan Already happening... For crying out loud, how long does it take to post a link...

The only way to make currency impossible to counterfeit is to not have fiat currency in the first place, which means the people would choose something real to be money, I am talking about gold, and you can't really counterfeit that.

Care to place a wager on that?

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/10/08/0033233/uk-man-arrested-for-offensive-joke-posted-on-facebook
http://godfatherpolitics.com/8114/thousands-jailed-in-uk-for-online-rants-trend-continues-to-us/
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/20104567/in-uk-twitter-facebook-rants-land-some-in-jail
Just google "great britain jailed offensive online post". It's not that hard.

The Cora-Ann?

Italy has decided to dump the full body scanners because they are slow and ineffective.

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/international/italy-to-abandon-airport-body-scanner-project
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/italy-to-abandon-airport-body-scanners-20100924-15pgu.html
http://www.euronews.net/2010/09/23/italian-airport-security-axing-body-scanners/

Seems to me that ought be a clear signal that they are just security theater.

That has not been demonstrated, but I trust that you sincerely believe so.

I agree it's not been demonstrated beyond doubt, but it has been demonstrated enough for me personally that there's a problem with the integrity of Climate Science, if not with individuals then with the establishments and institutions keen to continue receiving millions of pounds in grant funding from public bodies. That is to say, everyone is a Climate Scientist today given that in order to receive funding your proposal simply has to include "effects on climate". Doing so allows you to study the consequences for global sea level of Camels farting in the Australian outback. Was there ever a more idiotic waste of public money? And Scientists are complaining about cuts in funding!

With respect to what Physicists think about it, I find this resignation letter (from the APS) instructive. I post it below so you don't have to soil your browser cache with a visit to Watts.

Dear Curt:

When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).

Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence--it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d'être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford's book organizes the facts very well.) I don't believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:

1. About a year ago a few of us sent an e-mail on the subject to a fraction of the membership. APS ignored the issues, but the then President immediately launched a hostile investigation of where we got the e-mail addresses. In its better days, APS used to encourage discussion of i

I hope you find out that your God isn't quite so accepting of hateful actions like that.

The Vatican already spoke out against this. So, short of God himself coming out and telling this asshat to quit, I don't think the pastor will listen.

Hah! Try this: go to Google images and type in FBI seal. Guess how many frigging seals you will get? Hundreds, and some of them are really high quality. Consider, for example, this one. What are they going to do? Going after wikipedia / commons for this is insane.

The TSA is a component of the Department of Homeland Security. With state, local and regional partners, the TSA oversees security for highways, railroads, buses, mass transit systems, pipelines, ports, and 450 U.S. airports.

Emphasis mine

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