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TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight
An anonymous reader excerpts from an AP story as carried by Yahoo News about changes stemming from yesterday's foiled bombing attempt of a Northwest Airlines flight: "Some airlines were telling passengers on Saturday that new government security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats beginning an hour before landing. The regulations are a response to a suspected terrorism incident on Christmas Day. Air Canada said in a statement that new rules imposed by the Transportation Security Administration limit on-board activities by passengers and crew in US airspace. ... Flight attendants on some domestic flights are informing passengers of similar rules. Passengers on a flight from New York to Tampa Saturday morning were also told they must remain in their seats and couldn't have items in their laps, including laptops and pillows." The TSA's list of prohibited items doesn't seem to have changed in the last day, though.
not to say that, by feednig that 1 million, you get "you're nice" points on the world, and thus reduce the amount of hate against the country. the result: reduced terrorism-chance.
don't fight the symtoms, fight the roots. it's cheaper.
Dead's dead.
And we all die anyway, so why not just kill you now?
So there is a difference?
Is THAT why all the rubber-neckers slow down? Respect? I thought it was morbid curiosity. If drivers respected each other, car collisions/fatalities would be almost zero.
There are no security screenings for civilian flights or authorities resembling the TSA in Star Trek. There are also no Muslims in Star Trek and I'm starting to guess this is not a coincidence with a series set in the distant future.
If Roddenberry's future included http://images.google.com/images?q=ground+zero+ocean he must have had prophetic visions.