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Comdex Bans Bags From Show Floor
ckd writes: "CNET is reporting that COMDEX organizers have a new security policy--no bags except vendor supplied plastic bags will allowed on the show floor. "While on-site, you should CARRY A PHOTO ID (DRIVER'S LICENSE OR PASSPORT) ON YOU AT ALL TIMES." They want you to leave your laptop in your hotel room, too! Oh, and no cameras at the keynotes, either. But they haven't announced that they're planning to strip search people ... yet."
Farooq, what will we do now that the American-infadels have stopped allowing us to take box-cutters on their planes?
I don't know, Achmed... perhaps we can go to COMDEX with box-cutters in paper bags?
Alla be praised, they will never suspect!
"CNET is reporting that COMDEX organizers have a new security policy--no bags except vendor supplied plastic bags will allowed on the show floor. "While on-site, you should CARRY A PHOTO ID (DRIVER'S LICENSE OR PASSPORT) ON YOU AT ALL TIMES." They want you to leave your laptop in your hotel room, too! Oh, and no cameras at the keynotes, either. But they haven't announced that they're planning to strip search people ... yet."
Go ahead and bitch about the extra security measures, 'cause God knows you'll probably be the first person to start screaming about how irresponsible they were if something happens. You want to know you're safe at a large gathering of Americans? Then you should be prepared to deal with simple, common-sense security provisions, even if it makes it a wee bit harder to carry all your lame IBM-hearts-Linux tchochkes home with you.
Not all security is an instant breach of your rights, people. If you can't handle COMDEX adding some extra measures to keep their visitors secure, don't go. It's a free country.
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Bull. Which one of these terrorists were Palestinians? None. Which one of these terrorists had any direct claim against the US? None. Most of these terrorists led relatively middle class life styles and can't reasonably claim to have suffered at the hands of the US.
What's more, why should I believe that US action, or in action, will make a damn bit of difference when they believe blatantly untrue lies printed in their media and from the various religious zealots. 95% of the propaganda that these terrorists hear is simply untrue.
If they're really going against their suppossed oppressors, why the US of all places? It's totally disproportionate. The Soviet Union and many European powers did VASTLY more damage to the middle east than the US has ever done, in whole or in part.
This has far more to do with pride, or lack thereof. They believe they are the chosen people. The United States, being the most visible superpower, must be cheating them somehow, because why else are they still living in poverty, by and large, and us infidels are living it large? The United States and the Jews are generally being used as a scapegoat.
Furthermore, if these terrorist and sympathetic Arabs are really concerned for the plight of their fellow Arabs (generally not themselves), why is it that they have done so little to help as a group?
Suck up and deal, cry-baby.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou