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US–EU Flight Talks Collapse
fantomas writes, "The BBC is reporting that the current US-EU talks over data collected from people flying to the USA collapsed last night. US Customs and Border Protection is insisting on access to the airlines' records and 34 pieces of data to be collected from each passenger. This data has been gathered since 2004, but only as a temporary measure. The European Court of Justice threw out the temporary agreement and set a deadline of Sept. 30 to arrive at a new one. Airlines that refuse to hand over information to US authorities may be fined up to $6,000 per passenger, and the passengers themselves held up in immigration for hours. Good for the EU on protecting the privacy of their citizens? Or are they hindering the War on Terror?" An EU official said that the EU wanted to give away less data, while the US wanted more.
They left out the most important one..
[arnold]
"Who is your daddy, and what does he do?"
[/arnold]
You should prepare ahead of time.
Can you touch your toes?
(although it could've been the other way round =)
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
Wow, good thing they dont do this to people crossing the US\Mexico border or my porch would have never gotten built.
and one set of contact lenses (liquid)
Expect to drink your contact lens solution.
Actually, I think they may have stopped with that little piece of madness.
It's clearly part of the War on Tourism that we're hearing so much about...
Fucking orthography nazis.
...on the visa card (green one) they pretty much ask you just that.
But the best one is...
"Do you intend to partake in any illegal or immoral activities while in the United States? (y/n)"
What counts as immoral anyway? And where's the "hopefully" option?
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