I assumed gasoline would give a positive result on the test, you mean it doesn't? So I guess a gasoline fuel-air bomb would be easier to smuggle on board?
Without that evidence you are racist yourself for typing it. Sorry, but fuck racists, you included.
Really, just for typing it? Well in that case:
"terr'ist sand-cracker"?
We're even, RACIST! Fuck you. Let's move on.
It's not hard to innocently get evidence of explosives on you. If they run this test regularly, this would have been far from their first false/innocent positive. And if you RTFA'd, you'd see that an FBI agent admitted that he was singled out because of his "background." Unless you think he just made that up to make the news.
Spacesuits are a lot more complicated than they look, NASA's suits have a lot of sealed bearings and straps and bellows below the surface to allow easy movement and reduce the ballooning effect:
Guess you didn't see my sig, I'm about as far from an Apple fanboy as you can get. I agree that Apple is worse...but that doesn't change the fact that MS is bad.
Sure, a person from a mostly Muslim country with explosive residue on their clothes is barely any more likely to be a terrorist than a person from any other country with explosive residue on their clothes. And there are all kinds of ways to get explosive residue on your clothes without building bombs.
They surely get many false positives or positives for innocent reasons, yet they treated this guy like Bin Laden reincarnated for hours on end. If you RTFA'd you'd see that one of the agents even admitted the treatment was because of his "background." Is that clear-cut enough?
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Oh it's not hard, you just have to opt-out of the millimeter wave scanners while acting belligerent or even just wearing a T-shirt that quotes part of the US constitution about searches, then they'll start to caress you EVERYWHERE. You can get as big of a hardon as you want and they can't do anything...and in front of all those people! If you make even more of a fuss during the search, they might even take you into the back room where the really naughty stuff happens!;-)
The market-based solution of boycott isn't always the solution! Sometimes you need laws to protect minorities.
THIS
This demonstrates the problem with boycotts. If it's something that's important enough, you either have to be complicit or take "the unabomber option," where you can't hold a job or otherwise participate normally in society. What kind of choice is that?
I'd say there's at least a 50/50 chance I'll be questioned next time I enter the USA, from the things I've said online at the very least (they stopped that Pakistani politician for way less). I thought about wiping my electronics and sending the encrypted data to go back on, but now I'm thinking that sending another phone of the same model to my destination and restoring the data to it may be the only safe way.
This is bad news, having Ballmer in charge of MS is a good thing as he was slowly mismanaging the company into the ground. A successor could be more competent.
The guy's Indian, and to your average dimwitted, racist TSA goon that's just another variety of "terr'ist sand-nigger." They're not even smart enough to be racist properly.
This led to him getting an enhanced pat-down with an explosive swab test on his pants which came back positive for some unknown reason, and everything snowballed from there like some kind of comedy skit, where everything he did and said was interpreted as matching the profile of a terrorist.
Now this raises the question, is this how they treat anyone who they think is a Muslim? Explosive swab test and then run them through the wringer if it tests positive, complete with searching their home?
This is why I don't fly in clothes that I've handled gasoline or worked on cars in, you never know what might have been absorbed into the fibers.
For non-techies it should be a genuine surprise that spies aren't just spying on military targets, but every single one of us, and spying on foreign governments they are not at war with for economic and political purporses.
You couldn't make a big deal about it until recently because there was no hard proof, you'd be treading into tinfoil hat territory. The Snowden leaks are that hard proof.
Switch from a muscle car to a sport compact, problem solved!
I'd be happy to have an autonomous car do my driving for me on the street, I could still take my sports car to the track if I want to drive for fun, I'd just have to get a trailer.
Gang-bangers aren't geeks (or the Talibn) and won't start fabbing their own guns if they can't get them easily, they'll switch to bladed weapons and bludgeons instead, making them far less dangerous. This has been demonstrated in other countries before.
Oh I don't want to take the guns away. I just think it would make sense for them to be more tightly controlled, so that it's not meaningfully harder for law-abiding citizens to get them but it's much harder for the gang-bangers to get them.
Good idea. If a UAV could clip a safety line to the railing at the top (a hexacopter or octocopter should have enough payload capacity), and then the worker could tie their harness to a ratcheting fitting on the safety line, that could allow the worker to safely climb straight to the top without having to move tie points.
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I assumed gasoline would give a positive result on the test, you mean it doesn't? So I guess a gasoline fuel-air bomb would be easier to smuggle on board?
Without that evidence you are racist yourself for typing it. Sorry, but fuck racists, you included.
Really, just for typing it? Well in that case:
"terr'ist sand-cracker"?
We're even, RACIST! Fuck you. Let's move on.
It's not hard to innocently get evidence of explosives on you. If they run this test regularly, this would have been far from their first false/innocent positive. And if you RTFA'd, you'd see that an FBI agent admitted that he was singled out because of his "background." Unless you think he just made that up to make the news.
Spacesuits are a lot more complicated than they look, NASA's suits have a lot of sealed bearings and straps and bellows below the surface to allow easy movement and reduce the ballooning effect:
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/an-insane-look-at-the-inside-of-space-suits/?viewall=true
Guess you didn't see my sig, I'm about as far from an Apple fanboy as you can get. I agree that Apple is worse...but that doesn't change the fact that MS is bad.
Sure, a person from a mostly Muslim country with explosive residue on their clothes is barely any more likely to be a terrorist than a person from any other country with explosive residue on their clothes. And there are all kinds of ways to get explosive residue on your clothes without building bombs.
Actually yes, that's much more useful, thanks.
They're a very bad influence on the industry and are still trying to regain their monopoly (see: UEFI secure boot).
They surely get many false positives or positives for innocent reasons, yet they treated this guy like Bin Laden reincarnated for hours on end. If you RTFA'd you'd see that one of the agents even admitted the treatment was because of his "background." Is that clear-cut enough?
I know! That's why we never heard of Constitution on Chest Guy, Little White Boy with Terrorist's Name & Friends, Veteran with Too Much Implanted Metal or TSA Pen. Tester Guy. The media just isn't interested in the plight of the white man.
Oh it's not hard, you just have to opt-out of the millimeter wave scanners while acting belligerent or even just wearing a T-shirt that quotes part of the US constitution about searches, then they'll start to caress you EVERYWHERE. You can get as big of a hardon as you want and they can't do anything...and in front of all those people! If you make even more of a fuss during the search, they might even take you into the back room where the really naughty stuff happens! ;-)
Aw come on you know how we geeks love technological workarounds to institutional problems...party pooper :-P
The market-based solution of boycott isn't always the solution! Sometimes you need laws to protect minorities.
THIS
This demonstrates the problem with boycotts. If it's something that's important enough, you either have to be complicit or take "the unabomber option," where you can't hold a job or otherwise participate normally in society. What kind of choice is that?
I'd say there's at least a 50/50 chance I'll be questioned next time I enter the USA, from the things I've said online at the very least (they stopped that Pakistani politician for way less). I thought about wiping my electronics and sending the encrypted data to go back on, but now I'm thinking that sending another phone of the same model to my destination and restoring the data to it may be the only safe way.
Hey now pigs are unclean to them, they do donkeys (search for video on Liveleak at your own peril).
This is bad news, having Ballmer in charge of MS is a good thing as he was slowly mismanaging the company into the ground. A successor could be more competent.
Why did this happen?
The guy's Indian, and to your average dimwitted, racist TSA goon that's just another variety of "terr'ist sand-nigger." They're not even smart enough to be racist properly.
This led to him getting an enhanced pat-down with an explosive swab test on his pants which came back positive for some unknown reason, and everything snowballed from there like some kind of comedy skit, where everything he did and said was interpreted as matching the profile of a terrorist.
Now this raises the question, is this how they treat anyone who they think is a Muslim? Explosive swab test and then run them through the wringer if it tests positive, complete with searching their home?
This is why I don't fly in clothes that I've handled gasoline or worked on cars in, you never know what might have been absorbed into the fibers.
For non-techies it should be a genuine surprise that spies aren't just spying on military targets, but every single one of us, and spying on foreign governments they are not at war with for economic and political purporses.
It exists because they could sell the massive load of oil the country was sitting on. That counts as a business.
You couldn't make a big deal about it until recently because there was no hard proof, you'd be treading into tinfoil hat territory. The Snowden leaks are that hard proof.
Who modded this "troll?" It's absolutely true. Same old perverse relationship between the DoD and "defense" contractors, new technology.
Switch from a muscle car to a sport compact, problem solved!
I'd be happy to have an autonomous car do my driving for me on the street, I could still take my sports car to the track if I want to drive for fun, I'd just have to get a trailer.
Gang-bangers aren't geeks (or the Talibn) and won't start fabbing their own guns if they can't get them easily, they'll switch to bladed weapons and bludgeons instead, making them far less dangerous. This has been demonstrated in other countries before.
Oh I don't want to take the guns away. I just think it would make sense for them to be more tightly controlled, so that it's not meaningfully harder for law-abiding citizens to get them but it's much harder for the gang-bangers to get them.
Between hunting
Recreational and therefore no more useful than ball-and-cup game. We were talking non-recreational.
and range shooting
Recreational again.
Only 31k people died from gun injuries in the U.S. in 2011 - of those many were criminals shot, and 19k were suicides!
Oh ok. Not too bad for things that are mostly only used safely and non-criminally as toys right?
Good idea. If a UAV could clip a safety line to the railing at the top (a hexacopter or octocopter should have enough payload capacity), and then the worker could tie their harness to a ratcheting fitting on the safety line, that could allow the worker to safely climb straight to the top without having to move tie points.