To your last point: Yes, if space is sparse you could just put in a stop sign. OR, what I have considered seen often is a 'fake' roundabout that will use the topology of the streets around an intersection to reduce the load on the one intersection.
Also, you might just redirect traffic. Far to often, it is not the people driving straight or turning right that will cause a jam, it is people turning left. What you could do is direct left turners off to a side road that will lead to a less congested part of the road where turning left can be easier. And at the same time removing the congestion at the intersection.
Maybe it would have been better to make one large multi-laned roundabout out of the southern one. Often some of the roundabouts will have dedicated routes (or tunnels) that will bypass them if you only want to take the next exit anyway.
Here in Germany the roundabouts have also been quickly increasing and I personally like them, as they really do reduce traffic jams and allow quicker transit times. Most of the jams I have seen usually happen at the lights when cars flood the intersection or on single lane roads where the obligatory person wants to turn left into a busy street. Any lorry that tried to do similar, as this was a strategic intersection between, would take forever and completely block the road. Also to mention it was a 5 way intersection and also prone to accidents (I personally got rear-ended once). People would often take to driving through the 'residents only' roads just to bypass it. After it was transformed to a roundabout, jams have become a thing of the past and it is no longer an intersection one should avoid.
Also if people have problem with single lane roundabouts, my hometown had a 3-ring roundabout, with the outer lane also being a 'tangent' lane where it would be interrupted because of heavily used routes. Any driving instructor and tester enjoyed sending their students through that sucker. It was often very chaotic and confusing. And the most interesting thing was, I had NEVER seen an accident there. Maybe because people did not force their rights 'do or die'-style?
One thing that should also be mentioned next do UHC is the unemployment insurance and poverty support, as well as employee protection laws which go hand in hand with each other. F.i. maternity leave before and after giving birth, state support for children. Also a total lack of the concept of 'sick days', if you are sick, you go to the doctors and they will write you off sick. For the first n-days (dunno exact time, could be around 6 months) the employee has to pay, after that the health insurance takes over, but then you only get a reduced income. During the first days you are also protected from most kind of contract terminations (i.e. getting fired).
You might become sick, but the government won't let you hit rock bottom and will protect you.
Not to mention it is a slippery slope down to rock bottom. You get sick, you not only have to pay for the treatment, you might even lose your job. After you lose your job, you have less money for treatment and other necessities. Thus you become MORE sick and less likely to get a new job. In the end you are on the street.
Not to mention that the medication is WAY to expensive, anywhere from 50% - 200% then outside of Germany. Thanks to the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Lobbies they basically dictate to the government what will be done.
FWIW I could do the private insurance thing but it does have major drawbacks. F.i. you have to pay for everything up front and then YOU have to get it back from your insurance. Also your family is NOT covered (it is in the public system, though let's not go into details) and (IIRC don't nail me on it) the parent with the most income MUST carry the children.
Not to mention the biggest drawback: The community paid into the public system and it covered me for most of my life, so I feel it is an obligation to do equal. Dumb or not, that is just the way I am wired.
Being a Buddhist I know what when my life is over, *I* will be forever gone. No heaven, no hell and I won't be smiling down at anyone. Sorry, no front row seats for me. And while I do not look forward to that day, I accept it and cherish this life and hope to bring joy to others as well. But when my time has come, they can take me apart and use every part of me as they (doctors) see fit. I will no longer need this shell and happily donate it to (hopefully) allow others to live longer and possibly enjoy some of the highlights life can offer.
I honestly find it contradictory when those that claim to be 'pro life' only do so when it suits their needs. If you have the misfortune of being born in poverty and/or with some horrible health problems, well then that is somehow your own fault. Guess when some God helps people, it is only for sporting events or lotteries...
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Is the system possibly broken? We constantly hear of such actions, so It makes me wonder if this is 'unofficially supported' by the system? If you know you can get by with stuff, you would tend to be more likely to do things, even if they were illegal.
Your chances of getting a slap on the wrist (aka 'lack of training' BS) or worse getting fired is slim because it is often the word of a cop (authority) vs that of a 'trouble maker' (public eye).
I agree. If you look at all the species you will see that if there was a creator, he either was not good or had a real bad sense of humor. F.i. why give bats eyes, or why the fundamental flaw in the human throat where you can either breath or swallow? There are cases like this in each and every animal out there.
Also the typical 'half an eye' example will come up, but if you look at the multitude of different types and development of eyes, it clearly shows
Now I am no biologist or anything, but I can see that there are imperfections in everything, and this leads me to believe in evolution (no one says it was perfect) rather in one superduper perfect god that seems to have gotten his 'education' the same way as George W Bush. In fact it goes for any 'god'.
And if others will not or cannot critically evaluate everything and think on their own there is nothing you can do and trying is a waste of time.
I personally have no doubt that games can influence people, but just as many other things. To simply single out 'violent games' is a little to simple. I have known all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds and with vastly different outcomes. I'd say the environment you grow up with will affect you more then anything.
Also the black-white view of 'violent games' is crap as well. While we today are virtually gunning each other down, in my day we payed cops-and-robbers and used or fingers to 'shoot' each other What is worse? Clicking a mouse or holding an imaginary gun and shooting at living people? I'd say the latter. But in the end, instead of a violent person, I came out quite the opposite.
Not just that, but can you imagine the amount of data you have to go through? And if they are all in csv format? You would have to have a programm that can do it and if the public would find out about that, it would be stopped dead.
You do not need an app to do this. Even for regular telephone services your mobile needs to sync up with the masts in your area and thus they can track you. Even without his emai app the phones will connect to the masts and create a connection. For us Euros, it is mostly visible when you come near the border and a foreign carrier sends you an SMS about their services. Hell I even got one once in the Alps along the German / Austrian border of which I was about 30m away from.
I think what caught most players in the WoW trap was that they did not want their investments to be for nothing. Think about it, they spent a lot of time any money on virtually nothing and if they quit, they will lose it. The hype lured them in, by the time they had noticed it was 'rinse&repeat' gameplay, they had already invested so much time and money. Then they went for the raids, hoping it will bring back the enthusiasm, but that wears off quickly and their last resorts are trying to get the super-duper-epic-drops.
I really loved GW1 and it was a great game and I will definitely stay true. Not only the game itself really was fun and always a challenge, but the love for detail and the creativity really won my heart. After lvl 20, it no longer became a question of grinding and what armor you had, it became about your skill with your specialized char and your team play. The class, skill and specializations were phenomenal. You not only had to create a character, you had to 'learn' the character style, as each had their own flow. And just when you think you had mastered them, you get whipped in the arena by a better team. Plus the fact that you only had to buy the game and NO monthly subscription crap really helped it also.
From what I hear GW2 will also have no subscriptions.
I never said that. But that does seem to be YOUR position when it comes to most other countries. Fact is, you would not dare piss off the wrong countries, so you only go after 'common enemies'. You do shit elsewhere, but in this oil rich country with your on and off-again relationship to their dictator you know you go ahead. And when all is over, the next puppet will be inserted and it is business as usual.
You did not give a shit in Egypt because if the rebellion failed, you wanted to keep your good connections. Same with Yemen, Bahrain or Belarus. Nah, let's not piss off the Oppressors that give us oil or allow us bases to attack other countries.
So maybe next time, why not support the rebellion in a country because they want democracy, and not just the next 'bad guy with oil you want to secure for your own companies'.
Seriously? Have you checked the other countries? in Bahrain the surrounding Gulf states have even sent in troops to 'secure the infrastructure' which basically frees up the military and police from such work so that they can fully focus on the rebellious civilians. Here the civilians are not violent and are getting killed.
In Libya the rebells also have military equipment! And the Libyans are using their military against these armed rebels. Same shit the US & UK are doing in Iraq & Afghanistan.
I honestly wonder where people are getting their news from.
Don't get me wrong, I'd rather get rid of Gaddahfi sooner then later, but let's be realistic pls. These on and off again relationships with dictators is a flipping joke. He was bad before, then he was good, now he is bad again. Did HE change in any way? No. Where are the interventions when people in middle or south Africa are killing each other? Where are they in middle and south America?
Fact is, we want the oil to flow. And while we can piss off Libya (a country the other oil countries also do not like) we would not dare doing the same in certain other countries. That make *US* the hypocrites.
We surely did not give a flying crap before. And if we look at how we are doing NOTHING when it is happening in Bahrain or Yemen, it simply makes us hypocrits. Same was with Egypt. Maybe in Bahrain or in Yemen's case, we were unsure who might come out on top and we did not want to spoil our good relations with the local despots. Hell in Haiti we even supported the rebels against a democratically elected government with arms and when the rebels took over, we helped them take away everyone's weapons again. (would not want our new puppet Government to fall again)
Fact is, we don't care who is in charge of a country as long as we get what we want.
Yup, I also was surprised to see Addidas, who was known to have made the 2006 World Cup ball, which turns out was made with child labor in India. Really ethical list there.
I always have my doubts when I read these kind of reports because far to often after reading more details it usually is the parent that often pushes their super 'protégé' children and amazingly in the same field as they themselves work.
Instinctively I'd call it a ploy to use the child's age to create public interest in the product they are selling. If it were not for the 'child wonder', would it have raised this level of interest? Follow the money!
There are naturally exceptions but often enough it is not so crystal clear.
Reread my post. I mention they are not tried for the same things that foreigners would be tried for.
The example was: Foreigner: torture American: 'Dereliction of duty' or some other BS
As were show in many (no I have not researched ALL of them) trials of US military personnel.
Also as shown by my mention the 'taxi cab to hell' kangaroo trial where the victim was NEVER mentioned. They were not tried for what they did to the poor man, but other crap.
It is like trying a rapist for 'sex with a superior officer'.
But you do not get it. Foreigners are tried for torture and punished. Americans are tried for 'Dereliction of duty' or some other BS and punished for that. Slap on the hand for the bad press and not GTF out.
Americans trying an American soldier? Are you kidding?
I remember a docu about the taxi driver that got sacked and tortured and murdered. You think they even MENTIONED him during the trial? Do you think 'torture' or 'murder' was even brought up? Nope!
I think any mob film shows one simple truth: if someone wanted you dead, you will die. End of. You can hide, you can defend yourself, you can armour up. It might delay them, but it will not stop them from trying. They have greater patience then you. And they know you, but you do not know who they are.
Uhm, just because they were not hit does not mean they are somehow safe thanks to their security measures. I have not been burglarized so that means my security measures must be world class.
The 9/11 attackers were going for a single shot-big event kind of thing with a lot of symbolic meaning. Had they wanted to, sure they could have each attacked trains and with much larger scale, but the symbolic meaning would not have been that great. They wanted the sucker punch in the gut.
One final note, you do not need to hit one specific train. Heck you could plant explosives on ALL tracks that could be triggered by a train driving over them. And you could be long gone before they actually explode, making finding you really hard.
What would be the effect of them finding out that EVERY inch of the train-infrastructure could be booby-trapped? Yep, total shutdown! And that diversion is great to plan your next step against something else, especially since everyone is now avoiding the trains.
Everything 'in the open' can never be safe. You do not even need a suicide bomber for buses. Just drive along side and attach it to the bus. Or drive next to it and at a light, bail and then trigger the bomb. What about IEDs? Any mailbox could be a bomb. Any trash can, Any bump in the road. Also applies for subways. You'd have to cover every inch. And the scanners would have to be installed EVERYWHERE. You could not miss one single entry point. You would also have to completely rebuild every single bus stop in order to isolate those already checked. You would have to GREATLY expand your security personnel. You'd also have to cover the support and logistics parts as well.
Thus you would have to take all the expenses and overheads of what is being done for the flights and add it to mass transit, which is an incredibly larger operations.
But then you are vulnerable from regular traffic. The Oklahoma bombers and the 1st WTC bombers just drove up in trucks filled with explosives. Will you then start checking every car?
Also what many are missing is that sleeper cells are called that way because you never know who they are until they act. They might have been preparing for a long time.
And do not think the colour of the skin or the origins are imporant. Before 9/11 the biggest attack was done by white 'patriots' (Oklahoma). Before that it was the Unabomber.
Strange thing was, as long as it was white people doing it, there was no call for all this crap.
One thing to remember: the US still does not have 'widespread' terror. In these cases ANYTHING can be a target. Shopping malls, public buildings, cinemas... anything that would leave the populace in constant fear and doubt what might be safe. Their goal is to just incite utter fear.
You also need to remember that the 'public' terror of the IRA and ETA is not comparable. They often warned the public about their plots and where the bombs are located. Had they wanted to hurt massive amounts of people, they would not have done that. Though this was not always the case.
Slashdot Mirror
To your last point: Yes, if space is sparse you could just put in a stop sign.
OR, what I have considered seen often is a 'fake' roundabout that will use the topology of the streets around an intersection to reduce the load on the one intersection.
Also, you might just redirect traffic. Far to often, it is not the people driving straight or turning right that will cause a jam, it is people turning left.
What you could do is direct left turners off to a side road that will lead to a less congested part of the road where turning left can be easier. And at the same time removing the congestion at the intersection.
Maybe it would have been better to make one large multi-laned roundabout out of the southern one.
Often some of the roundabouts will have dedicated routes (or tunnels) that will bypass them if you only want to take the next exit anyway.
Here in Germany the roundabouts have also been quickly increasing and I personally like them, as they really do reduce traffic jams and allow quicker transit times.
Most of the jams I have seen usually happen at the lights when cars flood the intersection or on single lane roads where the obligatory person wants to turn left into a busy street. Any lorry that tried to do similar, as this was a strategic intersection between, would take forever and completely block the road. Also to mention it was a 5 way intersection and also prone to accidents (I personally got rear-ended once). People would often take to driving through the 'residents only' roads just to bypass it. After it was transformed to a roundabout, jams have become a thing of the past and it is no longer an intersection one should avoid.
Also if people have problem with single lane roundabouts, my hometown had a 3-ring roundabout, with the outer lane also being a 'tangent' lane where it would be interrupted because of heavily used routes. Any driving instructor and tester enjoyed sending their students through that sucker. It was often very chaotic and confusing. And the most interesting thing was, I had NEVER seen an accident there. Maybe because people did not force their rights 'do or die'-style?
One thing that should also be mentioned next do UHC is the unemployment insurance and poverty support, as well as employee protection laws which go hand in hand with each other. F.i. maternity leave before and after giving birth, state support for children. Also a total lack of the concept of 'sick days', if you are sick, you go to the doctors and they will write you off sick. For the first n-days (dunno exact time, could be around 6 months) the employee has to pay, after that the health insurance takes over, but then you only get a reduced income. During the first days you are also protected from most kind of contract terminations (i.e. getting fired).
You might become sick, but the government won't let you hit rock bottom and will protect you.
Not to mention it is a slippery slope down to rock bottom.
You get sick, you not only have to pay for the treatment, you might even lose your job.
After you lose your job, you have less money for treatment and other necessities.
Thus you become MORE sick and less likely to get a new job.
In the end you are on the street.
Not to mention that the medication is WAY to expensive, anywhere from 50% - 200% then outside of Germany.
Thanks to the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Lobbies they basically dictate to the government what will be done.
FWIW I could do the private insurance thing but it does have major drawbacks. F.i. you have to pay for everything up front and then YOU have to get it back from your insurance. Also your family is NOT covered (it is in the public system, though let's not go into details) and (IIRC don't nail me on it) the parent with the most income MUST carry the children.
Not to mention the biggest drawback: The community paid into the public system and it covered me for most of my life, so I feel it is an obligation to do equal.
Dumb or not, that is just the way I am wired.
My body, my life, my choice!
Being a Buddhist I know what when my life is over, *I* will be forever gone. No heaven, no hell and I won't be smiling down at anyone. Sorry, no front row seats for me.
And while I do not look forward to that day, I accept it and cherish this life and hope to bring joy to others as well.
But when my time has come, they can take me apart and use every part of me as they (doctors) see fit.
I will no longer need this shell and happily donate it to (hopefully) allow others to live longer and possibly enjoy some of the highlights life can offer.
I honestly find it contradictory when those that claim to be 'pro life' only do so when it suits their needs. If you have the misfortune of being born in poverty and/or with some horrible health problems, well then that is somehow your own fault. ...
Guess when some God helps people, it is only for sporting events or lotteries
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Is the system possibly broken? We constantly hear of such actions, so It makes me wonder if this is 'unofficially supported' by the system?
If you know you can get by with stuff, you would tend to be more likely to do things, even if they were illegal.
Your chances of getting a slap on the wrist (aka 'lack of training' BS) or worse getting fired is slim because it is often the word of a cop (authority) vs that of a 'trouble maker' (public eye).
I agree. If you look at all the species you will see that if there was a creator, he either was not good or had a real bad sense of humor.
F.i. why give bats eyes, or why the fundamental flaw in the human throat where you can either breath or swallow?
There are cases like this in each and every animal out there.
Also the typical 'half an eye' example will come up, but if you look at the multitude of different types and development of eyes, it clearly shows
Now I am no biologist or anything, but I can see that there are imperfections in everything, and this leads me to believe in evolution (no one says it was perfect) rather in one superduper perfect god that seems to have gotten his 'education' the same way as George W Bush.
In fact it goes for any 'god'.
And if others will not or cannot critically evaluate everything and think on their own there is nothing you can do and trying is a waste of time.
I personally have no doubt that games can influence people, but just as many other things. To simply single out 'violent games' is a little to simple.
I have known all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds and with vastly different outcomes.
I'd say the environment you grow up with will affect you more then anything.
Also the black-white view of 'violent games' is crap as well. While we today are virtually gunning each other down, in my day we payed cops-and-robbers and used or fingers to 'shoot' each other
What is worse? Clicking a mouse or holding an imaginary gun and shooting at living people?
I'd say the latter.
But in the end, instead of a violent person, I came out quite the opposite.
Not just that, but can you imagine the amount of data you have to go through?
And if they are all in csv format? You would have to have a programm that can do it and if the public would find out about that, it would be stopped dead.
You do not need an app to do this. Even for regular telephone services your mobile needs to sync up with the masts in your area and thus they can track you.
Even without his emai app the phones will connect to the masts and create a connection. For us Euros, it is mostly visible when you come near the border and a foreign carrier sends you an SMS about their services.
Hell I even got one once in the Alps along the German / Austrian border of which I was about 30m away from.
I think what caught most players in the WoW trap was that they did not want their investments to be for nothing.
Think about it, they spent a lot of time any money on virtually nothing and if they quit, they will lose it.
The hype lured them in, by the time they had noticed it was 'rinse&repeat' gameplay, they had already invested so much time and money.
Then they went for the raids, hoping it will bring back the enthusiasm, but that wears off quickly and their last resorts are trying to get the super-duper-epic-drops.
I really loved GW1 and it was a great game and I will definitely stay true.
Not only the game itself really was fun and always a challenge, but the love for detail and the creativity really won my heart.
After lvl 20, it no longer became a question of grinding and what armor you had, it became about your skill with your specialized char and your team play.
The class, skill and specializations were phenomenal. You not only had to create a character, you had to 'learn' the character style, as each had their own flow.
And just when you think you had mastered them, you get whipped in the arena by a better team.
Plus the fact that you only had to buy the game and NO monthly subscription crap really helped it also.
From what I hear GW2 will also have no subscriptions.
I never said that. But that does seem to be YOUR position when it comes to most other countries.
Fact is, you would not dare piss off the wrong countries, so you only go after 'common enemies'.
You do shit elsewhere, but in this oil rich country with your on and off-again relationship to their dictator you know you go ahead.
And when all is over, the next puppet will be inserted and it is business as usual.
You did not give a shit in Egypt because if the rebellion failed, you wanted to keep your good connections.
Same with Yemen, Bahrain or Belarus.
Nah, let's not piss off the Oppressors that give us oil or allow us bases to attack other countries.
So maybe next time, why not support the rebellion in a country because they want democracy, and not just the next 'bad guy with oil you want to secure for your own companies'.
Seriously? Have you checked the other countries?
in Bahrain the surrounding Gulf states have even sent in troops to 'secure the infrastructure' which basically frees up the military and police from such work so that they can fully focus on the rebellious civilians. Here the civilians are not violent and are getting killed.
In Libya the rebells also have military equipment! And the Libyans are using their military against these armed rebels.
Same shit the US & UK are doing in Iraq & Afghanistan.
I honestly wonder where people are getting their news from.
Don't get me wrong, I'd rather get rid of Gaddahfi sooner then later, but let's be realistic pls.
These on and off again relationships with dictators is a flipping joke. He was bad before, then he was good, now he is bad again.
Did HE change in any way? No.
Where are the interventions when people in middle or south Africa are killing each other? Where are they in middle and south America?
Fact is, we want the oil to flow. And while we can piss off Libya (a country the other oil countries also do not like) we would not dare doing the same in certain other countries.
That make *US* the hypocrites.
This is the Iraq BS all over again.
We surely did not give a flying crap before.
And if we look at how we are doing NOTHING when it is happening in Bahrain or Yemen, it simply makes us hypocrits. Same was with Egypt.
Maybe in Bahrain or in Yemen's case, we were unsure who might come out on top and we did not want to spoil our good relations with the local despots.
Hell in Haiti we even supported the rebels against a democratically elected government with arms and when the rebels took over, we helped them take away everyone's weapons again. (would not want our new puppet Government to fall again)
Fact is, we don't care who is in charge of a country as long as we get what we want.
Yup, I also was surprised to see Addidas, who was known to have made the 2006 World Cup ball, which turns out was made with child labor in India.
Really ethical list there.
Yes, this stinks to high heaven.
As soon as someone wants money for something, it is no longer about justice.
Being pragmatic here: why should we change the time?
Are our biological clocks more influenced by actual clocks or rather the day/night?
Summary: no need to crate a technological solution, just get up and go to work earlier!
I always have my doubts when I read these kind of reports because far to often after reading more details it usually is the parent that often pushes their super 'protégé' children and amazingly in the same field as they themselves work.
Instinctively I'd call it a ploy to use the child's age to create public interest in the product they are selling.
If it were not for the 'child wonder', would it have raised this level of interest?
Follow the money!
There are naturally exceptions but often enough it is not so crystal clear.
Reread my post.
I mention they are not tried for the same things that foreigners would be tried for.
The example was:
Foreigner: torture
American: 'Dereliction of duty' or some other BS
As were show in many (no I have not researched ALL of them) trials of US military personnel.
Also as shown by my mention the 'taxi cab to hell' kangaroo trial where the victim was NEVER mentioned.
They were not tried for what they did to the poor man, but other crap.
It is like trying a rapist for 'sex with a superior officer'.
But you do not get it.
Foreigners are tried for torture and punished.
Americans are tried for 'Dereliction of duty' or some other BS and punished for that. Slap on the hand for the bad press and not GTF out.
Americans trying an American soldier?
Are you kidding?
I remember a docu about the taxi driver that got sacked and tortured and murdered.
You think they even MENTIONED him during the trial?
Do you think 'torture' or 'murder' was even brought up?
Nope!
I think any mob film shows one simple truth: if someone wanted you dead, you will die. End of.
You can hide, you can defend yourself, you can armour up.
It might delay them, but it will not stop them from trying.
They have greater patience then you.
And they know you, but you do not know who they are.
Uhm, just because they were not hit does not mean they are somehow safe thanks to their security measures.
I have not been burglarized so that means my security measures must be world class.
The 9/11 attackers were going for a single shot-big event kind of thing with a lot of symbolic meaning.
Had they wanted to, sure they could have each attacked trains and with much larger scale, but the symbolic meaning would not have been that great.
They wanted the sucker punch in the gut.
One final note, you do not need to hit one specific train. Heck you could plant explosives on ALL tracks that could be triggered by a train driving over them.
And you could be long gone before they actually explode, making finding you really hard.
What would be the effect of them finding out that EVERY inch of the train-infrastructure could be booby-trapped?
Yep, total shutdown!
And that diversion is great to plan your next step against something else, especially since everyone is now avoiding the trains.
Everything 'in the open' can never be safe.
You do not even need a suicide bomber for buses. Just drive along side and attach it to the bus. Or drive next to it and at a light, bail and then trigger the bomb.
What about IEDs? Any mailbox could be a bomb. Any trash can, Any bump in the road.
Also applies for subways. You'd have to cover every inch.
And the scanners would have to be installed EVERYWHERE. You could not miss one single entry point.
You would also have to completely rebuild every single bus stop in order to isolate those already checked.
You would have to GREATLY expand your security personnel.
You'd also have to cover the support and logistics parts as well.
Thus you would have to take all the expenses and overheads of what is being done for the flights and add it to mass transit, which is an incredibly larger operations.
But then you are vulnerable from regular traffic. The Oklahoma bombers and the 1st WTC bombers just drove up in trucks filled with explosives.
Will you then start checking every car?
Also what many are missing is that sleeper cells are called that way because you never know who they are until they act.
They might have been preparing for a long time.
And do not think the colour of the skin or the origins are imporant.
Before 9/11 the biggest attack was done by white 'patriots' (Oklahoma).
Before that it was the Unabomber.
Strange thing was, as long as it was white people doing it, there was no call for all this crap.
One thing to remember: the US still does not have 'widespread' terror. In these cases ANYTHING can be a target. ... anything that would leave the populace in constant fear and doubt what might be safe.
Shopping malls, public buildings, cinemas
Their goal is to just incite utter fear.
You also need to remember that the 'public' terror of the IRA and ETA is not comparable.
They often warned the public about their plots and where the bombs are located.
Had they wanted to hurt massive amounts of people, they would not have done that.
Though this was not always the case.