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TSA Opens Blog — You Can Finally Complain
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The TSA has opened their own blog. According to Ars Technica, it's beginning to attract complaints from people who are sick of removing their shoes and having to forfeit their drinks. 'The blog's first post has 131 comments so far, almost all of which fall into one of two categories: TSA employees who got the internal memo about the blog launch and dropped by to post positive things, and citizens who are really mad about the liquids screening policy.'"
that this is just a clever move to find people that disagree with them and put them on the no-fly list.
(Anonymous for obvious reasons, I like flying)
Why chase them? Let them come to you...
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
...and they will listen.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
I wish your flight would have been on 9/11. Imagine how airport security would be different today if the story had been "4 terrorists, armed with box-cutters, attempted to hijack an airliner, only to have their limbs removed by a gang of Canadian college students armed with machetes".
The categories are actually:
1) TSA employees who got the internal memo about the blog launch and dropped by to post positive things, and citizens who are really mad about the liquids screening policy and
2) people about to added to the no-fly list.
Who is RTFM and when will he help me with Unix?
Can't remember who said it, but why did he have to try and be a shoe bomber - couldn't it have been a bra bomber or a panty bomber?
A dude with a Katana fucking some terrorists up would've been hella cool.
It might put off potential tourists from visiting the USA.
But the falling dollar keeps 'em coming.
What?
Flight 93 was shot down by an AAM fired by a U.S. F-16. I can personally guarantee this. Of course, you'll have to take the word of an AC for this, because I'm not stupid enough to attach my name to that particular disclosure.
Last time I travelled through the US, I had to throw out 50ml of cough syrup.
They didn't force you to drink it?
So who is going to post a goatse ASCII post on the TSA site? It's just demonstrating the proper screening procedure ;-)
Libertas in infinitum
Personally I think they should do like they do with the seat cushions in case of a water landing.
In case of a terrorist highjacking your armrest converts into a blunt weapon. To use just raise it above your head and with a swift downward motion bash the highjacker in the head. Repeat as necessary.
Or worse. When that fungus gets in and under the tonenails, it's not just Lotramin time. No. You have to see the doctor and get a sample of tonenail sent to the toenail lab to confirm that your spongified nails aren't normal just to get insurance (if you have it) to cover the $200-$600/month, 2-6 month course of drug treatment needed to clear that up.
As a medical student, my wife has had to perform the sawing off a sample of toenail procedure on patients -- using gloves, mask and goggles, of course. She explained that to the TSA morons, and asked that since they wanted her shoes off, where were the booties? They told her that since she wasn't guaranteed to get foot or toenail infection from contact with the same carpet that thousands of bare- and sock-footed people walked over each day, they couldn't provide those. After all, they said, just a possibility of something happening isn't sufficient reason to take that kind of preventative measure.
If it were a cartoon, the entire security checkpoint, including all the guards, equipment, and nifty bins would have vanished at the moment that phrase was uttered, accompanied only by the "pop" as air rushed in to fill the now vacant space.
I am not a crackpot.