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Body Scanners for the London Underground
Ronald Dumsfeld writes "In a report in the TimesOnline, it is alleged that those lovely see-through-your-clothes scanners are to be installed in London's Tube stations. Part of the UK's Military-industrial complex, QinetiQ stands to make £150,000 to £2 million per station ($260,000 - $3.4 million) with their
Millimetre Wave Imagers."
You know, pay me a tenth of what is being charge and I will set up a few of these Sony cameras for them that will do the same trick! Although I would hate to give them up from my collection. What else will I do at the beach each weekend now?
What you can't do, in either case, is touch.
On the Underground? At the right time of day you'll be worrying more about the risk of being crushed by the bodies around you than thinking about who's touching whom.
To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem. ~ h2g2
I hope they factored in the cost of assembly. People are always forgetting little additional expenses like that.
If bombs are illegal...then only the terrorists will have bombs. We need to legalise them for everyone. That way, the next time someone plans on blowing something up, they'll think twice, 'cause they'll know that everyone else has a bomb just waiting for them.
It'll keep the generally rude and indifferent London Underground staff attentive for a change with exclamations like "Phwoar! Get that camera-fingy on err!".
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
You could always just eat them.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
because they have locked themselves safely in their parent's basements.
Do you vote for somebody who has lied to you? The Spanisch didn't.
I'am an American, you insensitive clod!
I am just so sick of people saying that the United States is irrationally aggressive and paranoid. And if you don't stop calling us aggressive and fearful, I'm gonna break every goddamn bone in your freakin' hands and then strangle a whole litter of puppies. Just as soon as Homeland Security tells me its OK to go outside.
Police? Protect and serve? Ha.
I was hit over a month ago by a hit and run driver. I called the cops, and the old man showed up at the station. I had his plate number, he DID NOT have mine.
He says I cut him off, slammed into him when he tried to pass, and then got ahead of him.
Hmm, then I couldn't have his plate number unless I was telepathic. Guess who the moron cop believed? Not me.
This is one example of many (On the other side of the pond). I don't waste my time with the bastards anymore.
That means they can resolve features as small as two millimetres. Phew, I was worried they'd be able to see my willy.