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Congress Wants Your TSA Stories
McGruber writes "Transportation Security Administration (TSA) program challenges and failures will be the focus of a joint hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, on Monday, March 26, 2012. The Hearing is titled 'TSA Oversight Part III: Effective Security or Security Theater?' Bruce Schneier is scheduled to be a witness at this hearing. Additional information on the hearing is posted on the oversight committee's website. The Congressmen who serve on these committees are soliciting questions from the public to ask TSA officials at the hearing ... provided the public is willing to submit their questions via Facebook."
News flash: technology and the way people communicate changes over time. There are a bunch of old people around scared to death of the internet. Now, increasingly, there are a bunch of middle aged people around scared of Facebook, though it's how everyone under about 30 communicates. Facebook is the standard way to communicate online now. Don't be afraid. Realize that whether you kick and scream or not, the one constant of the world since the beginning of time, is that things change.
Indeed. It's aol all over again. For someone that doesn't have a facebook account it becomes more and more difficult to access parts of the internet.
Yes, how sad that someone who refuses to use facebook for any reason won't get to participate in anything that happens on facebook. Almost as sad as that AOL thing you refer to, where a commercial information vendor would only let customers access AOL's data via AOL.
This problem is much cheaper to solve: get a facebook account. The only tie back to you is an email address, and you can buffer that through a throwaway gmail account.
"... it's how everyone under about 30 communicates."
No, it is how everyone who is stupid communicates.
You are obviously in that set of people.
Not all of us are.
You will learn to call those who are not "sir" and "boss" and
in the end you will call all of them "master", because they will BE
your master, motherfucker.
Now get down on your knees and lick my boots.
There's the first complaint, right there...
According to the NDAA, bad-mouthing a government department can get you sent to Gitmo or neutralized because Barry Soetoro said so.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
People will get up and defend themselves so unless would-be attackers come heavily armed there won't be a repeat.
The last few attempts have been bombs. When a terrorist gets up and goes into the lavatory, there is nobody else around him to notice that he's assembling and detonating a bomb. Yes, for aircraft takeover attempts, the passengers will use what few defensive and offensive weapons they can make to stop the takeover, but bombs are a different story. Had the shoe bomber been smart enough to go to the bathroom before trying to light his shoes off, he might have been successful.
What I want to know is why the TSA isn't installing anti-aircraft guns around airports to take care of the bird menace!
Because birds aren't aircraft?
But I understand what you are trying to say. Airports with bird problems do. Like this, or this. The problem is talked about here, for just one example.
Even so, the conservationists are often opposed to such things, saying the birds have the right to be there and yada yada yada and if a plane runs into one it's the planes fault.
I think the complaint was that Facebook was the ONLY option.
Facebook isn't the only option.
In your analogy... Why would you have a problem if you could ONLY vote at Walmart?
Personally, I wouldn't. My analogy was correct, however, by saying "one of the polling places", because facebook isn't the only way people have of communicating with their congressmen.
what if it were ONLY via walmart? that's what's being discussed.
Maybe it would be bad if it were "facebook only". I won't waste time arguing something that isn't happening. Why are you?
I believe the problem is that you are forced to use a single company,
How so? You can use your telephone to call your congressman, that's a different company than facebook. You can send a letter via USPS. I know USPS isn't facebook. You can FAX him. You can take the bus over to his local office and chat with staff, if they are there. You can send him email (if he has it) or use the congressional web interface to send messages to your congressman. Facebook can't censor any of that.
Also, Facebook still gets benefit of being validated as a proper communication channel for constituents, therefore entrenching their position of control over everyone's communications.
Facebook controls communications made using their system. That isn't "everyone's communications" by a long shot.
I'm just going to poke my head in here...You understand that you're being retarded, right?