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Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror
yoyoq writes "Homeland Security is looking for suggestions from sci-fi writers. "Looking to prevent the next terrorist attack, the Homeland Security Department is tapping into the wild imaginations of a group of self-described "deviant" thinkers: science-fiction writers."
Here's a suggestion: 9-11 could have been prevented with locks on the cockpit door."
Your shit doesn't smell like roses either.
Instead of being a coward, why don't you tell us what country you're from and set an example by telling us good things you and your countrymen do?
Nice ideas :)
Knockout gas could be interesting but wat if the terrorisrs have a device that requires an input every 5 minutes?
But keep the ideas flowing.
It's only a few years from now that planes can fly unmanned or are controlled from the ground. Army-killers have unmanned spyplanes, so why not in a normal plane. Hmm. Those systems will probably be hacked too.
Privacy is terrorism.
> i know this may sound stupid to americans
It's not just Americans it sounds stupid to.
> and i like that law - i could be the one inside.
Then you're an idiot, because although you could be the one inside, the odds are that you're 3000/250:1 (assuming 250 people on the plane) more likely to be in the building it would hit.
I think, post September 11th, most countries would shoot down a plane full of civilians if they thought it would prevent greater loss of life.
Yes, let's be nice to the Iranians. I'm sure they'll never seek to hurt us with the nuclear weapons they're building.
Moron.
(As to us being a 'colonial power by fiat' - what nonsense. If the US were to go completely isolationist and withdraw entirely within our borders, another country or countries would rush to fill the power vacuum. I prefer to have the US run things internationally, not Russia or China, thank you very much. If they did, we'd be screwed economically soon enough, and most likely militarily as well.)
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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I'm sure there are plenty of non-Muslim people who object to the foreign policies of Islamic countries/groups, and yet you don't see suicide bombings happening against them.
No, the answer is not appeasement, otherwise then everyone will be threatening suicide bombings anytime they want something.
Go rent this movie and STFU.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395169/
How many people died on 9/11? 3000? Whoopie-doo. Probably more people die each day from other kinds of assaults in the USA.
After watching Hotel Rwanda, go and rent this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424435/
This story is a troll but then again Slashdot is run by Bush hating trolls.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
Oh wait...that's right...six years out and the vast majority of goods shipped to the USA do not get checked!
Maybe if our shitty economy turned arround and we started exporting more than we import...this task would get done?
Blar.