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TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance
rwise2112 writes "The General Accounting Office (GAO) has completed a study of the TSAs SPOT (Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques) program and found the program is only slightly better than chance at finding criminals. Given that the TSA has spent almost a billion dollars on the program, that's a pretty poor record. As a result, the GAO is requesting that both Congress and the president withhold funding from the program until the TSA can demonstrate its effectiveness."
We know what works.
What works is:
1. Spying on the Middle East and Pakistan/Afghanistan.
2. Police interrogation techniques (not torture, that never works - ever)
3. Not harassing American citizens other than domestic terrorists like the Tea Party.
4. Defunding overseas wars of adventure we can't afford that have very long logistics chains and letting people solve their own problems and China lose their ships and oil facilities if need be.
That works.
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Ah yes... meta-analysis. You can't take that junk seriously. It is double rounding nonsense. Statistical analysis casts out anomalous data (data that seems to be erroneous for some reason or another), and the criteria of determining what data is anomalous is an exercise of the person doing the analysis. Now you are doing analysis on those analyses, casting out more data. One more step removed than should be comfortable for anybody to take seriously
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
It's on Wikipedia so it must be true!
You can't make a cell phone call from an airliner at cruising altitude. Period. I challenge you to look at pictures of every airliner crash site you can find on the internet and then look at "flight 93" crash site.
Come on Slashdotter, don't let Wikipedia do your thinking for you. Think for yourself.
No Inflation Taxation without Representation
Sure buddy. And WTC 7 just fell down all by itself, didn't it?
It's kind of sad, and weird, that Slashdotters, from whom you would expect a higher level of scientific inquiry, especially with all their lamenting about mainstream media, will not apply the same scientific skepticism to 9/11. Rather than rigorous intellectual analysis, any deviation from the established story is met with the kneejerk slurs of "conspiracy" or the doublespeak pejorative of "truther".
No Inflation Taxation without Representation