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American Airlines Information Gathering
matt-fu writes "Cory Doctorow posted a story on boingboing.net this morning describing a recent hassle while flying American Airlines. It seems that since he was traveling from the UK to the US with a Canadian passport, he was actually asked to give out the names and addresses of everyone he would be staying with in the US! He has written an open letter to AA in response. Has anyone else had something like this happen to them?"
They need to followup with the families to make sure none of them get mad cow disease.
Yeah, something like this happened to me last time I was flying to Nigeria. They made me stay in the country, and I never did get that money I was supposed to get from Prince Nanawobob Jones...
I will be, uh, staying at 123 Fake St.
Wait a second, if the letter 'n' where the letter 'm' and you moved all the other letters around 'insulin' becomes 'i muslium'.
YOUR ONE OF THEM AREN'T YOU!
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
For you English Speakers.
probable -> probably
fillign -> filling
costums -> customs
dont' -> don't
coudl -> could
yoru -> your
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
I signed my parents up with passport, because I was afraid they would not be able to fly without one. Turns out I was wrong.
I guess Micro$oft does not run all of the world.
And if my parents and the banks like M$ maybe it is only 1% evil.
System V rules the world!
Peace.
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muslium? Is this some sort of new metal? Is it radioactive?
Only in its ground state, meta-muslium.
"Is this Winkhorst a nova criminal?" "No just a technical sergeant wanted for interrogation."
The first and only time I ever knowingly met an FBI agent is when I had to deliver something to their local office. It took them 45 minutes to investigate their office and fine out who was responsible for the material.
Good, inexpensive web hosting
Yeah, right.
If you need to list an address in Chicago this one is quite popular:
1060 W. Addison
Chicago, IL 60613
(It worked for Jake and Elwood)
Invalid Checksum. Retrying.
Just tell them:
1060 West Addison
Chicago, IL
...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
We US-uns do that all the time. See, it's not hard to get *in* to the US, it's hard to get *out* of Canada.
That is how we spin things like "Sadam tells Bin Laden 'hell no, I won't give you money'" into "a real and palpable connection between Iraq and Al Queda".
And once every random idea is automatically presumed to be a federal policy, we are hoping that nobody will notice when we come to take all your toys in the name of that policy.
It is The _New_ Carte Blanche, so I guess not every french idea is a bad one to this regeme...
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
Yes. Its decay product is Mausolium. This is an isotope of the more common Mausoleum, but because it only naturally occurs as a decay product, it is only found in unstable regions.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Dude! She was, like, soooo trying to hit on you! She just wanted your info so she could do a credit check on you, and if you were a good prospect, show up naked in your bed later that week. Honest. I saw it on a show once.