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Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery!
mcgrew writes "The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the TSA is now worried about surgically implanted bombs. Are they trying to get everyone to stop flying entirely? I know there's no way they'd get me in an airliner these days. I'll drive, even though it is far, far more dangerous."
This was from some B movie? any have a name?
I think it was on the scifi channel I don't think the airplane part was in it but the surgically implanted bombs was.
The next logical measure is to conceal contraband internally, be it through surgery, or more probable, up the butt. I can't wait for someone to be detained with explosives in their bum so we can get our mandatory anal probes.
...the backscatter machines will be replaced with full-body MRIs
Well the security goons already have the gloves - Just give 'em a box of scalpels and a bottle of iodine and let 'em do their inspections! Make sure you allow a few extra hours in your travel plans and don't eat or drink anything for at least twelve hours before arriving at the airport.
=Smidge=
This was the logical end of this stupidity. Face it folks, you can't be 100% safe, no matter how many liberties you give up.
...a bomb in the 80s that was left aboard by a woman who snuck it on...um..."internally"?
We should thank the TSA for spot checking the Dr.'s did not leave anything behind during the surgery.
Especially those trans-continental trips!
We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are.
-- Anais Nin
People chemically altered slightly to become human bombs. No, wait, that was a B-movie also.
-- Prepared at the direction of, or to be sent to Legal Counsel, in anticipation of litigation. Attorney Client Pri
TSA is a czar and needs to be shut down!
All you tough and manly Americans with your guns and SUVs just shiver and quake at the slightest hint of a ghost. Boo! Bunch of pussies.
"CNN is reporting, via Chicago Tribune" is the correct way to attribute the link in the story.
Here is the Chicago Tribune version: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/la-pn-tsa-implants-20110706,0,1632570.story
From the basement of Trib Tower...
My brother's dog is already a crotch rocket, so it's just an extension of their natural behavior to go for the groin.
I mean, your chance of death from crash is lower sure, but thats a pretty narrow definition of "danger".
What about the "Danger" of being detained and missing your flight? The "Danger" of irradiation from newfangled machines that the TSA lied to the public about wrt safety and safety testing? How about the danger of having property taken from you? Forgot that little credit card tool with the knife in your wallet? fuck you, gone.
The danger that you will run afoul of some new secret rule?
I suspect the danger of being a victim of the TSA tips the scales in favor of driving.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Hisself !! Then says it was a mistake !! Right you are !!
The TSA operation manual is actually Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Whoever mods me Funny, please don't. It's not a joke.
Somebody over at TSA just got wise that $1million backscatter machines just push the problem internally.
Next stop: "Sleeper Cells" where the C4 is implanted in the pacemaker, just waiting for the right time and place... The person wouldn't even be aware.
I've got a metal box in my chest for a nerve stimulator, TSA is going to have fun with me when I fly next week.
Anyone's who's seen "DeathRace 2000", would know how this works.
All ideas^H^H^H^H^Hprocesses in this post are Patent Pending. (as well as the process of patenting all postings)
If this is the level of security paranoia they're pushing for, all passengers will be required to travel while naked, bound, and with a bag over their head.
I realize for some people, that's the sign of a really hopping Saturday night ... but for the rest of us, it means that security has reached a level where commercial air travel involving the US is impossible.
Quite frankly, I can't see the rest of the world being willing to accept any more "enhanced tools" ... as it is, I have no intention of getting into one of those scanners.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Harvey Dent :
he said "Twice as big as you can imagne"
Tell me that 9/11 isn't just a cheap ripoff of a comic book from 1986.
Why does the Joker hate our freedumbs?!!!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
They've been ignoring the threat of butt-bombs for years now, even though a terrorist actually used that technique in 2009: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6862247.ece
They also continue to ignore the fact that a liquid ban is ineffective when several travelers could combine their 3oz containers past the security checkpoint.
We reinforced the cabin doors, and that's all we ever needed to do to prevent another 9/11. The fact that we've allowed our government to waste billions while molesting innocent citizens is just sickening.
http://www.masturbateforpeace.com/
For you to be afraid. Be VERY AFRAID.
Your friends at the TSA
"We're going to have to inspect those breasts. To make sure they're real, of course. I'm going to have several of my colleagues provide their opinions as well."
"Hey guys! Cop a feel on aisle 4!"
Have gnu, will travel.
So what are they going to do with all these microwave and X-Ray-scatter body scanners that were installed all around the place? Anything that is surgically implanted will not be visible to them, because they have very little penetration. Are going to get 'upgrades' for another couple of billion $$?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104743/
Live Wire, with Pierce Brosnan
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Maybe they shouldn't allow people on aircraft. Too dangerous.
And publicly-funded colonoscopy exams by the TSA. Rawr, the terrorists must be really scared now!
We're going to need to give you a cavity search.
*straps passenger to table, puts on gloves, grabs scalpel*
A deep cavity search.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
Que Sam Jackson shouting "I am sick of these muthaf'ing bombs on this mothaf'ing plane!"
Alternate joke: After just having watched some anime, the TSA is worried about Psyonic attacks on planes, so they will be detaining and searching cute, underage girls with long wavy hair and large eyes.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
There are some surgeries that leave objects they cannot reliably distinguish from bombs without removal. Now that the TSA seems to slowly begin to understand what it takes for the to actually provide security, they may discover that they cannot.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I used to work in the airline business in Minneapolis. Rochester, MN, home to the Mayo Clinic, is just a small commuter flight away. A lot of people would fly there for hospitalization from around the country and around the world. We regularly had trouble with people on their way home from Mayo who would get to Minneapolis then require an ambulance upon arrival because of problems with blood clots, lung function and other issues resulting from flying in a small seat on an airplane in a lower-pressure atmosphere.
If you have surgery for some reason wait until you go flying.
... that you can't introduce foreign objects into the human body without leaving obvious surgical wounds.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
TSA is just trying to justify their existence, and keep the funds flowing. Just wait, once they finally figure out that the body scanners dont work and that terrorists aren't really stupid enough to walk through security with easily detectable weapons, it will be "Cavity searches for everyone."
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Of course, the surgically implanted bomb could have a timer that would go off even if the terrorist is sedated. IT WON'T WORK!
*sigh*
Put every single passenger into their own kevlar-sack, then stack them in those bomb proof freight containers.
It's the only way to be sure.
This seems to be a pretty blatant attempt by a very unpopular organization to scare people into accepting restrictions on personal freedoms.
The TSA is going to eventually get to the point where they determine that passengers are too dangerous to let on planes, but people have to fly, so the only solution (without having everyone fly naked) is to drug all passengers.
Airlines will love this idea, no more water, peanuts, or stewardesses needed. They will save a fortune, and the drugs to put everyone to sleep will be funded by your tax dollars. Profit!
And of course, the drug will be manufactured in the home state of whatever Senator proposes this idea, and it will turn out that he's a major shareholder or on the Board.
Meantime, since the drug is being administered by below-minimum-wage illegal immigrant workers (i.e, the TSA), there will be a flurry of overdose deaths, particularly concerning kids, but, as the Supreme Court has ruled, you can no longer sue the government for wrongful death. What an "interesting" time we live in.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
if you are too scared to leave your house then stay home. People don't need naked scanners or to be groped at the airport.
because the trillion dollars we've spent on our adventures in the middle east sure isn't going to.
Only a retarded terrorist will try another plane bombing. It's ineffective.
A smart one would strap a few hundred pounds on themselves and go to the airport, when they hit the scanner, "for ALLAH!" and BOOM! take out more people, cause far more panic plus you make people afraid of the security checkpoints so you will cripple air travel overnight. Far easier to get to your target with no security at all because you are blowing up the security checkpoint. Side benefit you will also destroy the terminal building so that airport is out of commission for a while. Do this at LAX or Ohare and you will effectively cripple the entire network.
Honestly, TSA is worthless and only there for another reason, to foster complacency in the populace of invasive searches. Or are we banking on that terrorists are really, really stupid and will try the same thing over and over and over again?
Heck you dont even have to enter the building. 99% of all airports let buses pull up to the gate building. a stolen greyhound full of explosives would level nearly all the airport buildings.. Yet they are not checking every vehicle that pulls in. there is ZERO security at airports that is there for the sake of security.
I though up this stuff in 10 minutes and I'm not even clever about tactics. Honeslty, what gives?
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Terrorist A: Surgically implanted detonator in penis...
Terrorist B: 2 pounds of C4 in his rectum...
But would they get their virgins after what they had to do to detonate the bomb...
OMG... I have a sig?
I think the TSA is one big social experiment to see just exactly how much crap we'll put up with.
We should just bite the bullet : http://www.forward.com/articles/122781/
Eventually a boy will say he has a fart bomb which will cause girls to scream and run away, which will cause panic all around.
Measures may include interaction with passengers, in addition to the use of other screening methods such as pat-downs and the use of enhanced tools and technologies, he said.
We're talking about implanted bombs. Pat-downs won't help.
I'll be honest, we're throwing science against the wall to see what sticks. -Cave Johnson
So, anyone with half a brain has realized by now that there are ways to get around these backscatter devices, whether it's with surgically implanted devices, sticking devices up an orifice, or simply being in the other line at the checkpoint. If we go down the rabbit hole a bit, the TSA will doubtless try to push things further over time in order to "protect" our security against additional threats (let's pretend that there isn't popular outrage for a moment), meaning that they'll start rolling out ideas like having passengers disrobe, doing body cavity searches, or bringing in full-power x-ray devices so that internals can be seen. Let's think about this a bit.
Logically:
1) The TSA has demonstrated that, left to itself and its own ways, it will attempt to enact policies that are as draconian as possible.
2) Surgically implanted devices cannot reliably be detected except with full-power x-rays of a passenger's internals.
3) Full-power x-rays will never be permitted for use on everyone, due to radiation exposure concerns.
4) As a result, the TSA can never hope to detect all devices, and is thus incapable of defending against all attacks.
Any intelligent person should then be able to see that none of the flights are safe because the TSA cannot stop a dedicated terrorist from accomplishing his or her task once they are in the airport already. Therefore, the question shouldn't be, "how do we stop them from getting in once they're at the gate?" Instead, it should be, "what's the most effective way to identify them before they get anywhere close to the gate?" We all have heard the ironic fact that the TSA has never actually stopped a single terrorist, but rumors seem to indicate that the various three-letter government groups have managed to stop several plots in the last few years. Why not double-down on something that works and is flexible enough to adapt to new threats, and ditch the useless security theater that can only react to threats we've already seen?
Y'know what, fuck it. If the "terrorists" are willing to go to such great lengths to blow up a plane, then let them have it. At that point they deserve it. Downing an airliner would cause no more collateral damage than bombing a bus at rush hour or a restaurant around dinner time. Just to make sure there's no confusion: I'm advocating less security at airports, not free peepee touches at the chinese buffet.
When I read this it made me very happy to live in Texas, the TSA's power has been greatly decreased here and this is why http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/06/28/137474796/texas-legislature-approves-anti-pat-down-bill
terrorism, hijacking, or suicide bombings at all...but after experiencing something like the TSA, i can understand why people do it.
Good people go to bed earlier.
It isn't TSA's fault that they can't keep us safe, just that they keep chasing after an impossible goal.
Remember to always take the manual search. Don't forget to wear loose pants and no underwear. Give that pat down guy a suprise.
--- Always remember. 99.36% of all statistics are inaccurate.
I said her ass was "da bomb", not...(facepalm)
(also relevant - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORwMq9MG-c&feature=player_detailpage#t=55s)
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Prisencolinensinainciusol. Ol Rait!
And always about your compliance with the nanny state. For all the wild-ass right-wingers chanting about 'Obama wanting to form a civilian defense force--one as powerful as our military' -- this is a little too close to that once far out mark. But I will qualify that statement with the fact that it was Bush and company who allowed for these sort of bureaucratic atrocities to begin with.
For those who fly frequently, I don't know how you do it. The last time I flew it was the first time in about 2 years, and I was blown away at how militaristic those TSA goons are. Goose stepping around in their little blue uniforms with their big scary DHS logo's. WTF USA. Terrorist 1. USA -65535 and counting. I requested the enhanced patdown in lieu of the rad-machine, and was basically coerced into the scanner because 'they didn't have the time'.
Not the America I grew up in...
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
You are the one millionth customer to post this exact same comment.
It pains me to say this, but as much as I hate the TSA, I think this summary, especially its title, was a misleading pile of trash.
First off, TFA itself very reasonably states that the TSA is simply worried about this, due to recent intelligence from U.S. officials. Anyone remember the Bin Laden hard drives full of data? Honestly, this is probably the most credible source of anything yet.
Furthermore, the only thing thing at all in the article, that mentions any tangible implementation by the TSA that we'd notice and be encumbered by, consists of:
"As a precaution, passengers flying from international locations to U.S. destinations may notice additional security measures in place. These measures are designed to be unpredictable, so passengers should not expect to see the same activity at every international airport," Kimball said.
Sanity check? Pass.
Why point this out? Because the summary headline is dumb enough to say something to the effect that we will not be able to fly if we've had an official surgery from a US hospital because TSA is reacting to a common sense threat. Well they're not, it was simply an article reporting on an official briefing, and TSA stepping up their current (albeit often distasteful) methods.
Look they don't actually have to do anything. Just say it and win the war. The enemy just jumps off a cliff while pissing his pants. This is what the the TSA is all about. We just piss and jump.
When they find a person who recently had surgery what do they do?
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
However, it's not really even necessary to do that much. A woman who has recently given full-term birth has quite a bit of uterine capacity and a well-stretched cervix, plus all of the other indications of advanced pregnancy. Room in there for a LOT of HE.
So now the TSA can get really suspicious of every woman with a bulging tummy.
Next on the list: apple pies.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Ben Franklin Man... The TSA folks need to get laid off so that they can lay off us all. If people want to feel 100% safe about flying then they should just not fly.
This is nothing but outlandish scaremongering that sounds *great* in the media. There is however, a far more down to earth method of doing it; just swallow it instead. There's plenty of space in your stomach and guts without having to resort to invasive surgery to produce a usable cavity. Plus it's easy to detonate it using a timer or a more sophisticated phone setup. ... also, if you need to postpone your martyrdom it's easy (relatively) to pass it naturally.
I mean, this ridiculous level of absurd paranoia they exhibit is consistent with the symptoms of meth abuse.
Pat down all D cups or greater. Palpate for wires or external triggers hidden in brassiere.
The terrorists didn't give a rat's ass about our way of life. They hated us for our foreign exchange policies and abuse of our position of dominance in various global markets. THESE things were causing real pain to their lands and families....not our freedoms.
You drink up the propoganda like a sponge. They had good reason to be pissed at us, and many of the people they killed were in fact responsible for some of their pain.
...totalitarian.
For extra credit, give three examples from yesterday's newspaper.
(Jon Stewart references not accepted)
KGB - Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti. English translation: Committee for State Security.
Notice any similarities?
"Mamn, are those boobs real?"
No, the logical end is to give everyone who flies a sedative.
That has also been done before in a movie: The fifth element. Interesting to note the movie depicted other elements of a police state, such as the 'multi pass', and 'police controls' I AM A MEAT POPCICLE!
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
How are we telling them how to lead thier lives?
That is going to be one invasive TSA search... oh well I guess they already got the gloves...
I understand that on average driving is more dangerous than flying. However, there are two factors that make me wonder how accurate this is for long trips.
First, on a long trip you spend most of your time on the freeways outside of crowded urban areas. The accident rate on the interstates outside of urban areas is much lower than the urban accident rate, and it is the former that should be compare to the flying accident rate, not the later in this case.
Second, you have much more control over the time and route of a car trip. That is, you can specifically chose routes that are safer, and you can chose times to drive when accidents are less likely. This should let you ensure that on your particular trip, your chances of a safe trip are much better than average. With flying on the other hand, you have much less control, so you risk is much closer to the average risk.
It would not surprise me if these two factors were sufficient to make it possible to arrange for a drive of a few hundred miles or more to actually be safer than commercial air travel.
this is not a lame movie plot rip off from "the dark knight" or "total recall"
this is real:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_al-Asiri
i do think the TSA is overreacting, but we really do live in a world where people will stick bombs up their ass
most of the derision in the posts here really should be in the form of depression that we have to worry about this kind of thing in the world. not worry about to the extent the TSA is, they are overreacting, but anal cavity bombers are a genuine threat to high profile targets
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You know, this is yet another reason that I refuse to fly... you have the goddamn monkeys running the zoo here. The TSA gets some hairbrained idea as to how someone could blow up a fucking plane, they put in NEW rules to remove civil rights of the paying customers, and poof. Another video hits YouTube. If/when I travel cross country, I use alternate methods. I drive, take a bus, take a train, etc. About the ONLY way I will fly, is if I'm flying myself. If I have to deal with the TSA in any form, I'm not travelling that way.
Here's another thing to consider... honestly, how many actual BOMBS has the TSA caught? And I mean by an independent count, not their own skewed numbers? Less than half a dozen? In a DECADE? Yeh, they're fighting off those horrible terrorists at every turn, 24/7, aren't they?
Fuck TSA.
Anyone who remembers the Star Trek: TNG episode "Reunion" (season 4, episode 7) knows that surgically implanted bombs are an actual threat. The old "bomb in the bodyguard's forearm" technique would have worked perfectly for Duras, except that he made two mistakes: he used Romulan technology that was traceable back to him, and he then beat Worf's girlfriend to death. Think of the chilling implications. Worf' s girlfriend is already dead, so the terrorists can't screw up on that count, and they don't even have access to Romulan tech, do they?
We're doomed.
Personally, I won't feel safe on an airplane with anything less than full-body MRIs for all passengers and crew! Before flights and during layovers!
Hey guys, this might be "out there", but how about we try to act in such a way that no one would want to try and blow us up? That would only leave crazy people to worry about and they're usually not that resourceful.
People shat their pants and bent over like sissies after 9/11 killed a paltry ew thousand people. Rage for revenge and demand for perfect safety seemed to rules the public discourse at the time. Those who pointed out that we had been attacking these peoples' countries for decades, and that two drawn-out unwinable wars were not the answer were regarded as traitors and troop-haters.
The flag-waving cowards cleared the way for the TSA we have today.
Or we will be getting an anal probing every time we try to board a craft. In fact, "Board a Craft" will probably be what the kids call anal sex.
But the TSA itself is a pastiche of bad comic book plots, and their no-fly database was adapted from a bad imitation of Kafka.
Bill Stewart
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It was the pants-pissing pussies from the conservative fly-over states who demanded these insane forms of action. 9/11 did not merit two endless wars, nor did it merit the absurd level of "security" we have. But if you spoke up against the war or the security, plenty of Real Americans would shout you down.
No son, the government did what the loudest crybabies demanded. And now the crybabies are upset. Go figure!
Blar.
The fingers on the white rubber gloves just keep getting longer and longer....
Table-ized A.I.
-- but anal cavity bombers are a genuine threat to high profile targets The problem is that we're NOT talking high profile targets. High profile targets should fly on private planes - NOT public aircraft (Got that Boehner? All of Congress should fly on private aircraft....or you go through security like the rest of us...right now you're putting us in danger) Any time you talk about security, it's a risk vs reward type thing. We've made flying more difficult....spent billions (trillions?), and haven't caught anybody....demanded diapers....and allowed people with fake boarding passes to get onto planes.
When do we just say that there's always some acceptable risk in any form of transportation and stop being so freakin' paranoid about every possibility?
my point was more that it is depressing that we live in a world where someone will voluntarily stick a bomb up their ass, for whatever cause
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
It look like the TSA is trying to distract the public from their failure of allow a Nigerian to sneak onto a plane with expire boarding pass and fake IDs.
Do you know *anything* about the abuses our government has heaped upon them and theirs?
They have very good reasons to hate us apart from us being different than they are.
That's hardly practical if you travel a lot -
Is there any more stringent checks on the airlines, themselves for stricter maintenance and who is overseeing that? It seems that there are far more accidental crashes than terror related crashes in the friendly skies, am I hearing an Amen out there?
It's already been done.
Bomb in the Rectum? Sounds like the name of a good Mexican Restaurant.
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"They hated us for our way of life"
Well, technically, even though people tend to say:
"They hated us because we were free",
the truth seems to be closer to:
"They hated us because we supported their oppressors",
so, ironically, just the reverse of what many people try suggest about what has been going on.
If by "way of life" you meant "democracy at home, imperialism abroad", then, yes, I guess there would be a lot of truth to that.
According to a long ago New Yorker article, almost all the hijackers were Saudi males who were disenchanted with the Saudi regime the USA helps keep in power (to keep oil profits flowing to the right people).
Related:
"Bush Admits 'Majority' of 9/11 Hijackers Were Saudis"
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/01/16/bush-admits-majority-of-911-hijackers-were-saudis/
"The breakdown was 15 Saudis, one Egyptian, one Lebanese and two from the Union of Arab Emirates (UAE).
None were from Iraq. Despite this fact -- and the fact that Saddam Hussein was a secular despot who was despised by Osama bin Laden, a right-wing religious fanatic -- a poll two years after the attacks, and six months after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Iraq was responsible for the 9/11 attacks."
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Center_for_Democracy_and_Human_Rights_in_Saudi_Arabia
"The Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia (CDHR) is a (501)(c)3 non-profit organization established to promote timely and irreversible transformation of the existing Saudi autocratic institutions to a system whereby all Saudi citizens are empowered to chart a peaceful, prosperous, tolerant and safe future for themselves and for their religiously and economically influential country. CDHR was founded by Dr. Ali Alyami, executive director, in May 2004.[1] [2]"
I'm not saying the hijackers were for democracy; I'm just saying they were unhappy about their prospects in that society. You can ask how people like that get radicalized, and an oppressive environment (one the USA helped sustain) contributes to that.
See also:
"Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire"
http://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Second-Consequences-American-Empire/dp/0805075593
And:
"War is a Racket" by by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, Retired
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
I agree what is going on in airports is degrading security theater. Here is how we can create real security:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/recognizing-irony-is-a-key-to-transcending-militarism.html
"We the people need to redefine security in a sustainable and resilient way. Much current US military doctrine is based around unilateral security ("I'm safe because you are nervous") and extrinsic security ("I'm safe despite long supply lines because I have a bunch of soldiers to defend them"), which both lead to expensive arms races. We need as a society to move to other paradigms like Morton Deutsch's mutual security ("We're all looking out for each other's safety") and Amory Lovin's intrinsic security ("Our redundant decentralized local systems can take a lot of pounding whether from storm, earthquake, or bombs and would still would keep working"). "
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
Actually, it does take a fairly big boom to bring a modern plane down. Even an explosive decompression doesn't bring the plane down.
The funny thing is that the guys who design and build planes would prefer they not fall out of the sky, so they tend to be big believers in redundancy. The sort of bombs you could smuggle on planes -- grenades, exploding shoes and underwear, binary explosives mixed up in the bathroom and other assorted nonsense -- don't pose much of a threat. You can relax. The sound you'll hear as your plane falls out of the sky is not going to be "Allahu Akbar" with incredibly annoying ululation.
Nope, the sound you'll hear in dramatic time-shifted voiceover as your plane falls out of the sky will be "Well, Bill, I'm not really seeing the ROI justification for this maintenance schedule. I think a more reasonable approach would be to set the maintenance schedule to what the vendor certified as MTBF. The engineers are paranoid, and that's what we pay them for, but they don't really understand the real-world business impact..."
You want a thought to make you break out in a cold sweat as you sit crammed between the fat guy and the screaming kid?
Here's one. The same sort of guys guys who decided to blow up the Space Shuttle Challenger and the Deepwater Horizon set the maintenance schedule on your plane and also decided just how much fuel your plane should be loaded with before takeoff.
You're not going to die because Achmed the terrorist got to sit down on your plane. You're going to die because the airline lobbyists got to sit down with your senator.
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
I guess someone in the TSA finally caught up on their Heinlein reading. "If I can just arch my shoulder blade back in the right position to hit the detonation switch . . ."
So now what . . . X-Raying to see through our cloths isn't enough. Now we'll be required to have MRI's before boarding for internal scans as well?
(sigh) . . .
No, I don't remember your name. But the memory mapped screen on a TRS80 from 1977 is from 15360 to 16383 if that helps.
Quite clearly if it was in a Hollywood movie then it must be true :-)
Aren't breast implants suppose to explode when planes undergo decompression? At least the in plane video should be interesting.
Better not to fear others for being different. Mostly people aren't interested in hurting you just because they're different.
And you might read up some on the motivations for things like 9/11.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatawÄ_of_Osama_bin_Laden
Bin Laden's 1996 fatwÄ is entitled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_the_September_11_attacks
Most people understand that just because another person is different doesn't mean that that other person is evil and needs to be fought. It's kind of ironic, actually... See, if you fear others, it makes you more suspicious, more likely to "protect" yourself by gearing up for a fight, more likely to condemn them, more likely to attack them. If you fear people who are different, you become the thing that you fear.
Quit being so afraid. It makes trouble for us all.
Yes, they -are- trying to get everyone to stop flying completely. It's too simple for people to move around the country/world. "Control the movement of the populace." Shades of 1941 Germany: no movement without proper papers.
I think* the terrorists are going to start smuggling explosives into the safe zone in the anal cavities of TSA agents. We cant have these unsecured rectums wandering around in a secure area. Its for the children.
There, its out there, did my part. Spread the word.
This sig is not paradoxical or ironic.
Someone who KNOWS they have a bomb in them will have to train hard or be a total psychopath not to seem suspicious.
Implant a bomb in a seeing-eye dog or an innocent, ignorant child and they won't seem suspicious.
Double-bonus points if the people the animal or child is traveling with are also in the dark about the bomb.
Eventually we'll all get screened before travel like in Total Recall.
problem is that you can only fly twice a year.
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And I doubt I will have to deal with any of the bullshit you idiots predict. I've flown plenty of times and never once had an issue. Try being polite and helpful instead of whatever attitude you think you have a right to in the security line. All you're doing is being a nigger and annoying travelers.
Like you ever leave your parents' basement anyway.
Obviously, the TSA is slipping, because there are several threats they missed in the current warning. For example, I heard that the bad guys are planning to kidnap the President, replace him with a robot, and hide a nuke inside. If that doesn't work, they're going to hijack a rocket, land on an asteroid, and divert it to crash into New York City. Expect porno scanners for astronauts to be announced in the next few days.
Also, check out P. K. Dick's "Impostor".
"The blast was visible all the way to Alpha Centauri."
We already have instances of TSA workers pulling women for additional screening by the "nude photo scanner" (for our safety, of course). Are they now going to claim that any large chested woman be "examined in detail" to make sure her breasts aren't hiding bombs? "Ma'am you can either take off your shirt and bra and let us feel up your boobs... for safety... or you are confirming that you are a terrorist that hates America. Which is it?"
I just wish I was joking. I wouldn't put it past some TSA folks to do this.
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Yes, doctor take out one of my lungs, and a kidney please, i got to make room for all this c4...dont worry ...i know i wont be able to play sports ever again, but then again i wont be living that long either...
come on.....who at the FAA would have thought of this crap???
The bomb wasn't hidden well, but it was under the skin. The hiding of drugs in body cavities is old news, was this obvious concern just held to spread out the fear to add more government welfare for corporations like the company that makes the scanners?
I bet the bombproof cargo containers are a lot cheaper than the TSA body scanners.
And that's why strong cargo containers and flight deck door locks don't get implemented. They don't make the right people rich.
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