nVidia has a video card and glasses you can buy that give you 3d on your computer screen. Another option is www.iz3d.com They sell a monitor, with glasses, that let you see 3d. They include that it works on games and include a list of games. I was thinking the iz3d and buying it - but it requires i use both my video ports, which means I have to buy a second video card to run my second monitor. So spending about $600 on that, or buying a drysuit for scuba diving...well I like scuba diving more then playing Warhammer online in 3d:)
[quote]So you are "a pretty smart guy" but failed to read the bit that said:
" Feschotte said this virally transmitted DNA may be a cause of mutation and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and mood disorders."
Oh well done, well done indeed.[/quote]
Missing a line does not negate the argument, just negates where it can be applied to. Well done - i bet your one of those guys who can follow a recipe but can never make your own?
1) The article is a copy/paste of the cnet article (kind of a fail for aviran's place).
2) More importantly, from the article, I inferred these god mode settings were just (basically) command lines to initiate control panel activities? Not a big deal if that is the case. It is shortcuts of a way I guess. Or is there something more to this?
This is where a lot of research scientists fail - they don't tell you what a potential (even a far-fetched) real-life application of this knowledge will give us. They don't break it down to "by knowing this we may be able to...". I am a pretty smart guy but reading that article was painful, and all I wanted to know - by the end - was what this information can do for us. It didn't do that - so I am left to say "who cares?" - well i know that this research may lead to other research which may give us benefit, but not everyone will realize that.
What I am saying leads to this - if you want people to care about your work. if you want people to invest more money in your work. then you need to give people a reason they can understand, a reason that is "tangible". Leave the heavy research dialect for experts-only conferences, papers, etc...when someone is interviewing you for an artcle, smarten up a bit and give information that a large audience would appreciate...an audience that may be interested in parting with their money for your research.
Yea most of the times it is some guy who accidentally went to the wrong area - but if a guy can accidentally do this, imagine if a terrorist deliberately does this? Especially if it is a flaw in our security that was stumbled upon.
It may be costly - but put it this way - how much is your mothers life worth? Your wife? Child? yourself? If a terrorist managed to bypass security and blow something up that killed someone you loved - would you say "well i understand they didn't want to spend 1 million dollars to fix the flaw, so i don't blame them for a known issue that ended up allowing my loved one to die". Security issues, once identified need to be fixed - unless you plan to use them as a trap.
OK I admit I can be totally wrong on how the technology works - but it should be possible to see 3d on regular tv sets. Back in the late 80s, early 90s there was a movie made (for TV) that was in 3d. It was black and white, and you used the red/blue 3d lenses. They showed the camera used to make the movie and it was a camera with four lenses. If it was possible then, why is not possible now? The TVs of today have got to be better then the ones from 2 decades ago.
type of 3d movie process that gets rid of the horrible blurry/eyestrain polarized glasses technique
Do you wear glasses? Some people, depending on their eye specifications, will always suffer 3d movie strain. It's a small portion of the population and not the fault of the movie makers....your eyes just can't handle it.
Anyhow, give it a try. Even without the 3d, however, the world designed was gorgeous so that may entice you if you like nice visuals. 3d just makes it 3d.
So the way they make these movies 3d is putting in blurry backgrounds and forgrounds and the glasses make them clear - so you get a 3d image. The theatre screen is just a flat surface. Given that - what is preventing this movie from being released, in 3d, for your plasma/LCD screen? It would come with 2-4 glasses (the ones at the theatre were of nice construction) and you can get a 3d experience at home.
Anyone, with tech knowledge, can give a laymens answer?
And yet Sherlock Holmes and the Chipmunks are both more original than Avatar. Its just a very old story with a few pretty visuals.
THe visuals were amazing. Story was ripped for a bunch of other movies. Sherlock holmes original????? I haven't seen the chipmunks movie yet but I doubt it is original either.
Instead of spending $430million making one bloated FX crap-test they could have made 10 regular films. Even if only one of those was
really good it would beat a poor film that has been hidden by obscene overspending on visuals.
So you want 10 movies made, one of which will be good...as opposed to one movie that is made which is good? I don't follow. Either way 430 million was spent and there is only one good movie. Nobody tauted this movie as an oscar nomination for best story, or hell best movie. It was tauted as best visuals - and it delivered.
Why is this a troll? He/She is entitled to think the movie sucks.
Hmm...welcome to/. Where mod points = "i agree/disagree with you and will assign points to help promote my viewpoint" as opposed to what they were actually intended for. Given that is it a surprise that politicians twist the law to their own benefit? Hell we do it here - and the benefit is nil compared to getting power/money.
No the Titanic didn't suck, it sunked. Get it right AC.
I liked Avatar - was even willing to see it twice (didn't pan out due to holidays). The movie was very well done. I thought the dialogue would have been much worse - i mean painfully bad. It was pretty good (except the colonol, his dialogue sucked). The characters were amazingly rendered.
Also, she should sue him for civil rights violations; specifically, her first amendment rights. This man has no place in government (TFA didn't say if he's a federal congresscritter or a state guy)
How did the congressman prevent her from her first amendment right? She got to give her opinion. He didn't stop it - so there is no lawsuit.
With regards to your title - please tell me you are not one of those idiots who says "impeachment" anytime they don't like what someone does? Impeachment, in this country, only happens when someone breaks a very serious law. Speeding won't qualify...selling national secrets will qualify. This is closer to speeding ticket then national secrets.
I would say that yuo need to learn the law before you type, but in reality your comments are just nonsense and make no sense.
If anything, the blog poster lied (she is not a constituant), she did so with the intent to make him lose votes (and thusly his job), and she is a member of the opposing party which helps to show her intent. He just may have legal cause against this blogger - though in the end he will suffer more then she will.
If we are going to treat lying as a crime (and IMHO breaking campaign promises is clearly lying) then there are going to be a whole lot of people going to jail. I foresee lots of openings in Washington. I won't name any names, but there would be 435 vacancies in the House of Representatives, 100 in the Senate and 2 in the Executive Branch.
Again - lying is not a crime. Lying with the intent to cause harm is a crime. Breaking campaign promises is not a crime. There is not law that says "break your promise and go to jail". Now you can create a contract, but that is civil, and the contract HAS to state the penalty for breaking your promise (there also has to be consideration). For the contract check out (google) the three requirements of a contract. Campaign promises are promises, and even if willfull breaking of a promise is a crime, I doubt it would go so far as to someone who tries to fulfill the promise but can't because there is something preventing them. "Yes I promised to do X....but john doe is preventing me from doing X...Sorry". Nobody is going to jail for that.
Is lying, in a political context, a crime? If the Vice President lies about wmd in Iraq, is that a crime? If Monsanto lies about their political contributions, is that a crime? If a blogger lies about her relationship with a Congressman, is that crime?
Lying, is not a crime. Lying, with the intent to hurt someone is slander and that is a crime. You then have to prove that 1) the person lied, and 2) the person lied with the intent to hurt.
With respect to WMD and Iraq - it wasn't considered a lie, it was considered of being mistaken - and there is a world of difference.
You got modded a troll, what a shame. Your statement is correct. Fox News is anything but fair and balanced...well unless you are a republican. If Fox news says anything nice about a liberal then it's probably that the liberal just resigned office - and even then...
BTW - for the 323,325 commenters - yes democrats have their own media sources - CNN. CNN went from the really good news start up, to a liberal news group, to the liberal insanity group (and I'm a democrat). It's gotten to the point that watching CNN makes me want to puke, though in all honesty watching Fox News makes me puke...
So if I start telling lies, that is intended to (and presumably does) affect you in a negative manner you should just shut up and take it? You shouldn't fight back? That is what the congressman is doing - fighting back with the law.
Some people may think it is childish, but in the world of politics, even the smallest phrases, statements, actions, etc can spell doom for a politician - because, we the people, are finicky and just flat out retarded when it comes to what matters and doesn't matter, what is real and what is fake, consequences, the bigger picture, and a whole slew of other things.
This is where I have to disagree. He went on to make 2 more movies, and their associated toys, video games, books, etc. He went on to make a stupid amount of money. While the person who created this entire thread said he didn't see the last two movies (and I doubt this very much) most people, even the ones who complained about TPM, did. We went to the theatres, we saw the movies, and cheered during the movie. After the movie we became the typical fanboys who tried to equate the last three movies to something from our childhood.
Right there that is the equivelant of what I did to myself by watching Transformers cartoon (the original cartoon) when I was 30 years old. I f'd up my memory. Back when I was 8 y/o Transformers was top notch graphics...now it is like reading a comic book - except not drawn as well. Same thing with these movies; we are trying to compare what our childhood memories (fantasies) represent and compare it to this -- it ain't going to fly.
Anyhow - many of us have gone to see movies for their graphics and not their stories (avatar anyone)
Hmm, so that realistic bombing game app I bought for my Droid was really killing people in Afghanistan? Thank god I didn't spend my points on the Thermonuclear upgrade.
107 billion spam messages sent around the world every single day this year
Remember when the post office rumors went around? You know the ones where they wanted to charge 1 cent per e-mail sent? Man - if they did that I think the post office would be the biggest, most profitable company in the world. That comes out to 1.07 billion dollars per day.
For this alone I am rethinking my stance. Too bad it would be "impossible" to implement, track, and let alone charge.
You give 3 options, but you forgot the most obvious one:
Let *her* walk up to her laptop and follow instructions to demonstrate that it's not a bomb.
It's really simple.
Unless the bomb requires more then opening the lid to activate it....not that simple. It could be activated by entering a code, by opening the lid, by typing in the wrong password three times, popping open the cd drive, etc. The bomb could be hidden in the hard drive, the cd rom drive, etc. I would wager someone could make a fully functional laptop, that for all intents and purposes does everything a regular laptop does, with an additional bomb component. It may not be big, but if you are in a plane, nightclub, bus, etc you don't need much of an explosive to do damage in a small area.
I find it rather concerning how much hate and misogyny is expressed towards her. That's not "her side", that's yours. Is this style of thinking the norm in Israel?
I don't hate her - i don't know her. I definitely think she knew what she was doing and wanted to provoke so she could increase her journalism status. Being 21 and having your blog posted on newspapers around the world is a great resume' booster. As for the comments on/. 1) We have hate towards everyone, and 2) look at the posts - some are against her, some are for her.
As for the thinking style the norm in Israel. I don't know. 1) I don't live in Israel, and 2) I haven't done a study in Israel to determine what the "norm" is.
Her complaint was that, in spite of complying with *all* demands, her belongings were *still* destroyed.
Because they suspected her belongings was a bomb. So here are the options 1) Let the girl go with her laptop -which MAY have a bomb. 2) Shoot the laptop and potentially disarm a bomb. The downside is the girl loses her laptop - they buy her a new one. 3) They have a person, trained in opening/testing laptops, walk up to the laptop to open it and make sure it isn't a bomb. If it isn't a bomb no sweat. If it is a bomb, said person may be dead said person. So which is more important to me $500-$1000 laptop...or someones life.
Her story was given from her perspective, and nothing from the other side - it was done so on purpose so people can not subtly infer her meaning of how israel is bad and she is a sweet innocent.
I'm sure it makes sense, that wasn't my point. My original point was disbelief that they were complaining about something relatively very minor as bags being shot, and portraying this as being part of their long-suffering victim status. In the grand scheme of things, it might be an inconvenience, but it's not something to add to the "look how we suffer" list considering what's going on on THEIR side.
When I was a little kid I spent my summers (1980's) in Israel. I remember seeing, in between cartoons, commercials where kids in a playground see a plastic bag laying around. The commercial basically said - stop what you are doing, evacuate the scene, call the cops. There is a reason for this - terrorists would drop timed bombs in playgrounds..where there are 8 year olds running around. I think any rational person can agree that an 8 year old playing in a playground shouldn't be the target of terrorists? A bag may be nothing, but it could have a bomb...it could have a grenade - it doesn't take much to cause a lot of damage.
It is definitely a "look how we suffer"...imagine everytime you walked down the street and saw a bag left alone you walked the other way and called the cops in fear it might be a bomb? Hell go to most urban places in the US, which have plenty of trash, and going by that detail we would have bomb alerts every 5 minutes. At least here in the US we don't worry about that - in Israel they do...all the time.
What I'm criticizing here is the irony of X-ray machines and metal detectors, only to allow soldiers that the employees don't know in
You are going to x-ray someone who is blatently carrying a weapon to see if they are carrying a weapon....
For the record, I'm actually not a muslim nor am I Palestinian. I'm one of those average secular/Jewish caucasian Israelis.
When it's one of your family members who is blown up, because he happend to be eating at a restaurant in downtown Nethanya, then you may decide to re-evaluate your views.
Not in person. I'm going off on a tangent here, but speaking of airports... I happen to work in the airfreight business and I know for a fact that our clients have constant run-ins with airport security for absolutely no good reason.
We're talking major exporters whose cargo is held for days. Terminal security doesn't care about how urgent your shipment is or how some hospital in Europe really needs this certain piece of medical equipment.
Major exporters can ship illegal (be it bombs or black market CDs). They can do it knowingly and unknowingly. As a person in the freigh industry you should realize this. To label it "hospital" to bypass security would be an invitation for every criminal to label their goods as "hospital". If you want to bypass security, at least in the US, you can get special permission and any large/reputable company should easily be able to get it.
As a person who flies on a regular basis, and who is engaged to someone who flies on a VERY regular basis, I can tell you every single run in I had with airport security was time consuming and came away with nothing - well because I am not breaking the law. I at no point was every upset with those security details. It's called random searches, and sometimes profiling (which I have no problem with).
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[quote]It's also better to expect the 240Hz TVs that are scheduled to release.[/quote] You only need 120hz tvs
nVidia has a video card and glasses you can buy that give you 3d on your computer screen. Another option is www.iz3d.com They sell a monitor, with glasses, that let you see 3d. They include that it works on games and include a list of games. I was thinking the iz3d and buying it - but it requires i use both my video ports, which means I have to buy a second video card to run my second monitor. So spending about $600 on that, or buying a drysuit for scuba diving...well I like scuba diving more then playing Warhammer online in 3d :)
[quote]wheres the 3d porn?[/quote] You mean 3d amateur porn.
[quote]So you are "a pretty smart guy" but failed to read the bit that said: " Feschotte said this virally transmitted DNA may be a cause of mutation and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and mood disorders." Oh well done, well done indeed.[/quote] Missing a line does not negate the argument, just negates where it can be applied to. Well done - i bet your one of those guys who can follow a recipe but can never make your own?
1) The article is a copy/paste of the cnet article (kind of a fail for aviran's place).
2) More importantly, from the article, I inferred these god mode settings were just (basically) command lines to initiate control panel activities? Not a big deal if that is the case. It is shortcuts of a way I guess. Or is there something more to this?
This is where a lot of research scientists fail - they don't tell you what a potential (even a far-fetched) real-life application of this knowledge will give us. They don't break it down to "by knowing this we may be able to...". I am a pretty smart guy but reading that article was painful, and all I wanted to know - by the end - was what this information can do for us. It didn't do that - so I am left to say "who cares?" - well i know that this research may lead to other research which may give us benefit, but not everyone will realize that.
What I am saying leads to this - if you want people to care about your work. if you want people to invest more money in your work. then you need to give people a reason they can understand, a reason that is "tangible". Leave the heavy research dialect for experts-only conferences, papers, etc...when someone is interviewing you for an artcle, smarten up a bit and give information that a large audience would appreciate...an audience that may be interested in parting with their money for your research.
Yea most of the times it is some guy who accidentally went to the wrong area - but if a guy can accidentally do this, imagine if a terrorist deliberately does this? Especially if it is a flaw in our security that was stumbled upon.
It may be costly - but put it this way - how much is your mothers life worth? Your wife? Child? yourself? If a terrorist managed to bypass security and blow something up that killed someone you loved - would you say "well i understand they didn't want to spend 1 million dollars to fix the flaw, so i don't blame them for a known issue that ended up allowing my loved one to die". Security issues, once identified need to be fixed - unless you plan to use them as a trap.
OK I admit I can be totally wrong on how the technology works - but it should be possible to see 3d on regular tv sets. Back in the late 80s, early 90s there was a movie made (for TV) that was in 3d. It was black and white, and you used the red/blue 3d lenses. They showed the camera used to make the movie and it was a camera with four lenses. If it was possible then, why is not possible now? The TVs of today have got to be better then the ones from 2 decades ago.
type of 3d movie process that gets rid of the horrible blurry/eyestrain polarized glasses technique
Do you wear glasses? Some people, depending on their eye specifications, will always suffer 3d movie strain. It's a small portion of the population and not the fault of the movie makers....your eyes just can't handle it.
Anyhow, give it a try. Even without the 3d, however, the world designed was gorgeous so that may entice you if you like nice visuals. 3d just makes it 3d.
So the way they make these movies 3d is putting in blurry backgrounds and forgrounds and the glasses make them clear - so you get a 3d image. The theatre screen is just a flat surface. Given that - what is preventing this movie from being released, in 3d, for your plasma/LCD screen? It would come with 2-4 glasses (the ones at the theatre were of nice construction) and you can get a 3d experience at home.
Anyone, with tech knowledge, can give a laymens answer?
And yet Sherlock Holmes and the Chipmunks are both more original than Avatar. Its just a very old story with a few pretty visuals.
THe visuals were amazing. Story was ripped for a bunch of other movies. Sherlock holmes original????? I haven't seen the chipmunks movie yet but I doubt it is original either.
Instead of spending $430million making one bloated FX crap-test they could have made 10 regular films. Even if only one of those was really good it would beat a poor film that has been hidden by obscene overspending on visuals.
So you want 10 movies made, one of which will be good...as opposed to one movie that is made which is good? I don't follow. Either way 430 million was spent and there is only one good movie. Nobody tauted this movie as an oscar nomination for best story, or hell best movie. It was tauted as best visuals - and it delivered.
Why is this a troll? He/She is entitled to think the movie sucks.
Hmm...welcome to /. Where mod points = "i agree/disagree with you and will assign points to help promote my viewpoint" as opposed to what they were actually intended for. Given that is it a surprise that politicians twist the law to their own benefit? Hell we do it here - and the benefit is nil compared to getting power/money.
No the Titanic didn't suck, it sunked. Get it right AC.
I liked Avatar - was even willing to see it twice (didn't pan out due to holidays). The movie was very well done. I thought the dialogue would have been much worse - i mean painfully bad. It was pretty good (except the colonol, his dialogue sucked). The characters were amazingly rendered.
Also, she should sue him for civil rights violations; specifically, her first amendment rights. This man has no place in government (TFA didn't say if he's a federal congresscritter or a state guy)
How did the congressman prevent her from her first amendment right? She got to give her opinion. He didn't stop it - so there is no lawsuit.
With regards to your title - please tell me you are not one of those idiots who says "impeachment" anytime they don't like what someone does? Impeachment, in this country, only happens when someone breaks a very serious law. Speeding won't qualify...selling national secrets will qualify. This is closer to speeding ticket then national secrets.
I would say that yuo need to learn the law before you type, but in reality your comments are just nonsense and make no sense.
If anything, the blog poster lied (she is not a constituant), she did so with the intent to make him lose votes (and thusly his job), and she is a member of the opposing party which helps to show her intent. He just may have legal cause against this blogger - though in the end he will suffer more then she will.
If we are going to treat lying as a crime (and IMHO breaking campaign promises is clearly lying) then there are going to be a whole lot of people going to jail. I foresee lots of openings in Washington. I won't name any names, but there would be 435 vacancies in the House of Representatives, 100 in the Senate and 2 in the Executive Branch.
Again - lying is not a crime. Lying with the intent to cause harm is a crime. Breaking campaign promises is not a crime. There is not law that says "break your promise and go to jail". Now you can create a contract, but that is civil, and the contract HAS to state the penalty for breaking your promise (there also has to be consideration). For the contract check out (google) the three requirements of a contract. Campaign promises are promises, and even if willfull breaking of a promise is a crime, I doubt it would go so far as to someone who tries to fulfill the promise but can't because there is something preventing them. "Yes I promised to do X....but john doe is preventing me from doing X...Sorry". Nobody is going to jail for that.
Is lying, in a political context, a crime? If the Vice President lies about wmd in Iraq, is that a crime? If Monsanto lies about their political contributions, is that a crime? If a blogger lies about her relationship with a Congressman, is that crime?
Lying, is not a crime. Lying, with the intent to hurt someone is slander and that is a crime. You then have to prove that 1) the person lied, and 2) the person lied with the intent to hurt.
With respect to WMD and Iraq - it wasn't considered a lie, it was considered of being mistaken - and there is a world of difference.
You got modded a troll, what a shame. Your statement is correct. Fox News is anything but fair and balanced...well unless you are a republican. If Fox news says anything nice about a liberal then it's probably that the liberal just resigned office - and even then...
BTW - for the 323,325 commenters - yes democrats have their own media sources - CNN. CNN went from the really good news start up, to a liberal news group, to the liberal insanity group (and I'm a democrat). It's gotten to the point that watching CNN makes me want to puke, though in all honesty watching Fox News makes me puke...
So if I start telling lies, that is intended to (and presumably does) affect you in a negative manner you should just shut up and take it? You shouldn't fight back? That is what the congressman is doing - fighting back with the law.
Some people may think it is childish, but in the world of politics, even the smallest phrases, statements, actions, etc can spell doom for a politician - because, we the people, are finicky and just flat out retarded when it comes to what matters and doesn't matter, what is real and what is fake, consequences, the bigger picture, and a whole slew of other things.
Lucas gambled and he lost. He lost everything.
This is where I have to disagree. He went on to make 2 more movies, and their associated toys, video games, books, etc. He went on to make a stupid amount of money. While the person who created this entire thread said he didn't see the last two movies (and I doubt this very much) most people, even the ones who complained about TPM, did. We went to the theatres, we saw the movies, and cheered during the movie. After the movie we became the typical fanboys who tried to equate the last three movies to something from our childhood.
Right there that is the equivelant of what I did to myself by watching Transformers cartoon (the original cartoon) when I was 30 years old. I f'd up my memory. Back when I was 8 y/o Transformers was top notch graphics...now it is like reading a comic book - except not drawn as well. Same thing with these movies; we are trying to compare what our childhood memories (fantasies) represent and compare it to this -- it ain't going to fly.
Anyhow - many of us have gone to see movies for their graphics and not their stories (avatar anyone)
Hmm, so that realistic bombing game app I bought for my Droid was really killing people in Afghanistan? Thank god I didn't spend my points on the Thermonuclear upgrade.
107 billion spam messages sent around the world every single day this year
Remember when the post office rumors went around? You know the ones where they wanted to charge 1 cent per e-mail sent? Man - if they did that I think the post office would be the biggest, most profitable company in the world. That comes out to 1.07 billion dollars per day.
For this alone I am rethinking my stance. Too bad it would be "impossible" to implement, track, and let alone charge.
You give 3 options, but you forgot the most obvious one: Let *her* walk up to her laptop and follow instructions to demonstrate that it's not a bomb. It's really simple.
Unless the bomb requires more then opening the lid to activate it....not that simple. It could be activated by entering a code, by opening the lid, by typing in the wrong password three times, popping open the cd drive, etc. The bomb could be hidden in the hard drive, the cd rom drive, etc. I would wager someone could make a fully functional laptop, that for all intents and purposes does everything a regular laptop does, with an additional bomb component. It may not be big, but if you are in a plane, nightclub, bus, etc you don't need much of an explosive to do damage in a small area.
I find it rather concerning how much hate and misogyny is expressed towards her. That's not "her side", that's yours. Is this style of thinking the norm in Israel?
I don't hate her - i don't know her. I definitely think she knew what she was doing and wanted to provoke so she could increase her journalism status. Being 21 and having your blog posted on newspapers around the world is a great resume' booster. As for the comments on /. 1) We have hate towards everyone, and 2) look at the posts - some are against her, some are for her.
As for the thinking style the norm in Israel. I don't know. 1) I don't live in Israel, and 2) I haven't done a study in Israel to determine what the "norm" is.
Her complaint was that, in spite of complying with *all* demands, her belongings were *still* destroyed.
Because they suspected her belongings was a bomb. So here are the options 1) Let the girl go with her laptop -which MAY have a bomb. 2) Shoot the laptop and potentially disarm a bomb. The downside is the girl loses her laptop - they buy her a new one. 3) They have a person, trained in opening/testing laptops, walk up to the laptop to open it and make sure it isn't a bomb. If it isn't a bomb no sweat. If it is a bomb, said person may be dead said person. So which is more important to me $500-$1000 laptop...or someones life.
Her story was given from her perspective, and nothing from the other side - it was done so on purpose so people can not subtly infer her meaning of how israel is bad and she is a sweet innocent.
I'm sure it makes sense, that wasn't my point. My original point was disbelief that they were complaining about something relatively very minor as bags being shot, and portraying this as being part of their long-suffering victim status. In the grand scheme of things, it might be an inconvenience, but it's not something to add to the "look how we suffer" list considering what's going on on THEIR side.
When I was a little kid I spent my summers (1980's) in Israel. I remember seeing, in between cartoons, commercials where kids in a playground see a plastic bag laying around. The commercial basically said - stop what you are doing, evacuate the scene, call the cops. There is a reason for this - terrorists would drop timed bombs in playgrounds..where there are 8 year olds running around. I think any rational person can agree that an 8 year old playing in a playground shouldn't be the target of terrorists? A bag may be nothing, but it could have a bomb...it could have a grenade - it doesn't take much to cause a lot of damage.
It is definitely a "look how we suffer"...imagine everytime you walked down the street and saw a bag left alone you walked the other way and called the cops in fear it might be a bomb? Hell go to most urban places in the US, which have plenty of trash, and going by that detail we would have bomb alerts every 5 minutes. At least here in the US we don't worry about that - in Israel they do...all the time.
What I'm criticizing here is the irony of X-ray machines and metal detectors, only to allow soldiers that the employees don't know in
You are going to x-ray someone who is blatently carrying a weapon to see if they are carrying a weapon....
For the record, I'm actually not a muslim nor am I Palestinian. I'm one of those average secular/Jewish caucasian Israelis.
When it's one of your family members who is blown up, because he happend to be eating at a restaurant in downtown Nethanya, then you may decide to re-evaluate your views.
Not in person. I'm going off on a tangent here, but speaking of airports... I happen to work in the airfreight business and I know for a fact that our clients have constant run-ins with airport security for absolutely no good reason.
We're talking major exporters whose cargo is held for days. Terminal security doesn't care about how urgent your shipment is or how some hospital in Europe really needs this certain piece of medical equipment.
Major exporters can ship illegal (be it bombs or black market CDs). They can do it knowingly and unknowingly. As a person in the freigh industry you should realize this. To label it "hospital" to bypass security would be an invitation for every criminal to label their goods as "hospital". If you want to bypass security, at least in the US, you can get special permission and any large/reputable company should easily be able to get it.
As a person who flies on a regular basis, and who is engaged to someone who flies on a VERY regular basis, I can tell you every single run in I had with airport security was time consuming and came away with nothing - well because I am not breaking the law. I at no point was every upset with those security details. It's called random searches, and sometimes profiling (which I have no problem with).