There is more proof that Israel assasinated Haniya than Bin Laden planned 9/11. That didnt prevent USA from invading two countries (now 3 with Somalia invaded by US proxy Ethiopia). Compared to the hundreds of thousands of deaths in these three wars whats a few Israeli civilians (who are anyway reservists out of uniform waiting for callup) See an argument can be made that the rocket attacks are justified. Hell just about anything could be justified. Hitler probably justified locking up the Jews in camps because they were considered a fifth column sympathetic to the allies. Similarly Israel justifies locking up the Palestinians in Gaza which is just a ghetto and not a very big one at that. Justifications, Justifications. At the end of the day you have to ask yourself would I like somebody to do this to me or my family and if the answer is no dont do it even if you think the other guy is a suicide bomber/ Jewish capitalist/ Zionist Land grabber or whatever else is your pet peeve.
As an outside observor I would have to say most of the Jews who stayed in Israel converted to Christianity or Islam and Judaism mostly survived in the diaspora. So even if we assume Jehovah promised the land to the Jews of old the Arabs are the descendents of those Jews who stayed back and would seem to have a prior claim to those Jews who left and came back recently. Kind of like how the Israeli arabs are citizens coz they didnt leave and the Palestinians are not coz they left.
The key point in your rant was "Refugee Camp" You expect the Arabs to love people who made them refugees and not even ashamed about it? At least the Germans apologize repeatedly at every opportunity.
Not every ship carrying containers is the same size either. They just carry more of them if they are larger and less if they are smaller. We could have a container carried by teh PSLV and maybe ten of the same carried by the Ariane. Frankly the shuttle would be the wrong vehicle to carry cargo as it needs to be man rated and a cargo vehicle doesnt need to be.
You may not like the war but every cent the US spends on the Iraq war is worth it. The world simply has to know that the US will back up its talk with the required walk. Think about it. The US hardly produces anything nowadays except software, movies, weapons and food. It imports everything else and runs a huge deficit. Now there are two issues to look at. Firstly people all over the world buy US movies because the US is considered the king of the world and everyone wants to be like the king . No world domination ergo no Hollywood domination of the World mind space. Next the software - the US is at the front of the technical race mostly because of the huge amount poured into all kinds of esoteric research and hence no world domination no money for research and noone will buy US software in 10 years. Next weapons . Well unless you have regular wars where you can demonstrate the effectiveness of your weapons why would some other country buy them. So without world domination all the US would end up exporting is Wheat and Soya but that cant afford a 1st world lifestyle. Next lets look at how the US pays for all these weapons and foreign wars. The US runs a huge trade and revenue deficit. How does it close the deficit it just prints more money. Now why doesnt every other government in the world do just that? Well because if they did that they would have runaway inflation and collapse like Weimar Germany. But the US is a special case as the US currency is also the world reserve currency as international trade and especially the oil trade is carried out in dollars. So as soon as the US govt prints more dollars they are sucked out by the Chinese, Japanese and other Central Banks for their reserves hence preventing runaway inflation while giving the US govt a blank cheque to spend as much as it wants on its military and social programs like Welfare and Social Security. Now you must be thinking are the rst of the countries in the world nuts to allow such a meal ticket to the US. No they are not and they resent it like hell but they have no choice. This dollar system of international trade was set up at the end of WW2 when except for the US and the USSR all major economies were in ruin so the only choice was to accept the Dollar or Rouble as the reserve currency. The West (but including US allies in very eastern places like Australia) chose the dollar and the Warsaw pact countries chose the ruble and hence the world was divided into two zones and the cold war reigned (Funny how Communist China and Yugoslavia were considered on the US side as they traded in dollars and not rubles). Now it has been more than 60 years since WW2 and most western economies have rebuilt so you may ask why does Europe still give the US a free ride? Because its not a free ride because in exchange for this economic dominance the US has to act as the Global cop and use the military paid for via the Dollar subsidy to keep the peace. Ergo if the US had not gone to Iraq sooner or later international trade including the oil trade would have shifted away from Dollars. In that scenario everyone would dump dollars and the US govt could no longer carry a deficit without huge inflation and that means no more money for the huge US military machine. Think thats an unlikely scenario? Its exactly what happened to Great Britain. Till the World Wars Great Britain had the largest fleet in the world and arguably the largest army. It was all paid by deficit funding and the deficit funding could be done because the Pound Sterling was the currency of foreign trade. BTW dont fret about the trade deficit with China. You always carry a trade deficit with your colonies. The UK always carried a trade deficit with India and other colonies. All it meant was the Indians would ship real goods to the UK and in return get back Pound Sterlings which were just pieces of paper and the only thing to do with them was invest them back in the London Stock market. Reminds you of US and China doesnt it? In all the US has a pretty cushy ride right now and it is their just rewards for winning WW2 an
I guess the GP is a closet communist and associates anything good like Universal Health Care with Communism. Actually democracies like Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries do a pretty good job of Universal Health Care but that could be due to cultural issues. But then again the US is more of a Republic than a Democracy - e.g. Everyone's vote does not count the same in the US due to the electoral college system and Americans living in offshore territories(like Guam) do not get the vote unlike French living in say French Guyana. So people in the US dont really have that communal feeling created by true Democracy as those in Scandinavia so a Republican mindset is more prevalent than a Democratic one. (Please note here I am using the words Republican and Democratic in their original sense and not to refer to the major political parties of the US) And Republics are always more elitist than democracies ; and may the barbarians take the hindmost (or the one without health insurance)
Sometimes single use just makes sense. The dockyards and land ports of the world are full of containers which were used one wy and abandoned as it does not make sense to ship them back empty and this is on earth, the costs for space travel are an order of magnitude higher. For manned vessels we should be trying for reusable vehicles but for Cargo? I think not.
When will we shift to containerization of space cargo. Containers have already changed the game in air, sea and land cargo transport. Why not Space? If we could develop a standard cargo space container which could be handled by the soyuz rocket , the Ariane rocket, the space shuttle, the Japanese HTV, the Chinese Long March or the Indian GSLV we would have come a long way in moving towards commercialization of space. Yes we need multiple suppliers of cargo vessels to avoid single point failures but why do they all have to be different designs?
Well it could just be that they were trying to put in taps and made mistakes and cut the cables by mistake. What with the Iraq war and the US military not being able to recruit anything but retards it wouldnt surprise me if the navy divers being used nowadays are incompetent too.
Thats bullshit. India actually has an open border policy. If you show an offer letter from an Indian company you and your family get resident permits. As long as you have a job you can stay as long as you want. You only have to renew the permit each year by showing current employment
Indians actually like being clean so they use water instead of paper which just smears it around without really cleaning. Still if you like paper you can get it in most supermarkets . It will probably be expensive as it does not sell much and there are no economies of scale
No the point is once the TARGET market gets revolutionazised it will BE the WORLD market and the North Am market will be a small piece of the pie relatively speaking. Even if just the Indian middle class - 300 million buy one NANO each its more than the entire NORTH AM market . So since this car will change the world market - from one dominated by North AM to one where North AM is a niche market so yeah I woul say it changes the entire nature of the worldwide market.
Europe and North America actually dont even have half of the target market. In fact they are exactly 0% of the sub 3000 dollar car market. This market is entirely in Asia,Africa and Latin America. Since most of the population lives there and the ENTIRE market exists there North Am and Europa are kind of irrelevant for this car. BTW this car does meet Euro 4 emission ratings and also has a steel cage like the Smart car so it will meet US crash test ratings too. What it does not have is air bags , ABS, power steering, power brakes, power windows, AC, radio in short the creature comforts which is why it wont be sold in North Am. But remember the target market is those upgrading from bikes and no bike I know has AC, power windows/brakes/steering, airbags, radio or AC so its not like the people buying this car will be missing the creature comforts. Also there is a deluxe model where all of these features are available but that one will work out to around 4000 dollars and will be North Am street legal without modifications. That car will very probably be exported to the US - the Tatas have even put the entire instrument cluster in the center of the dashboard and used the same locks on right hand and left hand doors so as to create a right hand drive vehicle you have to only shift the steering wheel so definitely they have plans to export to right hand drive markets.
You might be interested to know that one of the key ways the cost has been kept down is by deciding to not only manufacture in the factory but also assemble at neighbourhood mechanic shops. in order to allow this a number of features like the MPFI have been dumbed down and the entire car has been designed from ground up to be assembled from kits without a lot of equipment (e.g. New generation glues have been used instead of expensive welds). So yes this car is definitely suited for playing around - basically its the automobile version of Lego except it looks better than lego. The idea behind this mode of delivery is part profit and part social - employment generation and wealth distribution into the countryside where Tata does not want to set up dedicated dealerships but would like to sell the car.
The thing is given the traffic in Indian cities nobody drives at high speeds so it doesnt have to be built to withstand highway crashes. I dont think anyone who is thinking of buying one of these is planning to take it out on the highways ; and no - Indians dont get on highways to go to work as most people live inside the cities - the high cost of gas (12 dollars a gallon PPP) means there has not been a flight to suburbia so this car is perfectly fine for commuting to work and back.
Simple we cut emmissions by getting the Americans to walk. After all they are mostly 6 feet tall and a lot fitter than Indians so it shouldn't be a big deal for them to jog to work. It would even cut health insurance rates as everyone will be getting their exercise. This would work in American cities as the air is clean and jogging is not a health hazard like it is in Delhi and Mumbai.
Regarding speed 40mph is more than enough in fact you would be lucky to maintain that speed on the road in downtown New York. Thats the reason I mentioned the population density as this only makes sense where a lot of people live close together and work pretty close to where they work. While this description also applies to third world slums the exception about New York is that while it may have the population density of a slum it is extremely rich as a city (mostly because of the financial industry being headquartered in New York and London) so New York is the perfect test case - it has the density to justify people mover belts as well as the money to build them. Obviously a place like Texas which is wide open and spread out this would not make sense but for east coast cities especially where the downtown is still viable and everyone has not fled to the suburbs this makes sense. And as gas becomes more expensive it will make more and more sense.
The only challenge I see is to harden the existing belts for outdoor usage. Alternatively the belts could be covered with clear plastic walkways which would protect both the machinery and the people moving on them from the weather.
Given the population density of New York isnt it time to setup city wide (or at least the financial district wide) people mover belts like you find at the nicer International Airports (Dubai and Frankfurt spring to mind). These would be hyper efficient as only the thing which needs to be moved i.e. a person weighing 200 pounds instead of moving a big iron box weighing tons aka a car. These used to be a staple of futuristic SF stories - wonder why it never caught on - the technology is definitely there(in airports)
On a side note if people are using conveyor belts the cops dont need motorcycles to catch perps - just get on the hyperfast conveyor belt lane reserved for emergencies.
According to this Wikipedia entry it comes close with Israel getting 2 billion and Egypt getting 1.3 Billion. When you factor in the 800 million Pakistan got for fighting the Taliban (which is like aiding Pablo Escobar to fight the drug business but I digress) aid to Muslim countries is more than that to Israel. And out of the last two wars USA has fought one has been to help Muslims against Orthodox Christians (Kosovo) and the other to help Shia Muslim fundamenntalists against secular (Baath) party members (Iraq) so its not as if USA is biased against Muslims or even Muslim fundamentalists.
Its dangerous to make such comments lest you be labelled anti-semite. You can make the same points by talking about US military aid to Egypt or Pakistan without inviting the wrath of the Anti-defamation league
What odds do you want to give me that Bush wont do an FDR and stay in office because the country is at war? At least Putin tries political ways instead of going out and destroying countries.
If you could put a bomb on a plane without boarding yourself you dont need wifi to set it off. A 2 dollar digital watch is good enough as a detonator. In countries which have faced terrorist problems (like India where at least 2 flights were blown up by unaccompanied luggage) a common security measure is after security every passenger has to go and reidentify their luggage and any luggage not identified is not loaded. Also at all Indian airports even check in luggage is xrayed with separate high power x ray machines and then sealed with a strap. You do this before checking in with the airline and the airlines will not take your luggage without the security strapping and the luggage handlers will not load the luggage if the strap seems to have been tampered with. Further if someone does not board (the airhostesses do a name check) the plane does not take off till their luggage is tracked down and offloaded. Inefficient like hell and probably the reason Indian and Israeli state airlines always run at a loss but necessary when you are a target. US airlines may need to start doing the same if they continue to be targets and the flying experience would get worse. Oh and I forget about Indian Airlines doing its own separate security checks and frisking at the boarding stairs in Nepal as they dont trust Nepal airport officials to do a proper job ever since IC 814 got hijacked from Kathmandu after Pakistani terrorists managed to get AK 47s through Nepali security. (very easily bribable security it seems)
The next generation of kids will need to play video games to earn their living - from doctors using robotic surgery to pilots flying UAVs most jobs will be done through a video game like interface. Saying teaching to read is more important than teaching to play video games is like saying memorizing multiplacation tables is more important than algebra in the age of the pocket calculator
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There is more proof that Israel assasinated Haniya than Bin Laden planned 9/11. That didnt prevent USA from invading two countries (now 3 with Somalia invaded by US proxy Ethiopia). Compared to the hundreds of thousands of deaths in these three wars whats a few Israeli civilians (who are anyway reservists out of uniform waiting for callup) See an argument can be made that the rocket attacks are justified. Hell just about anything could be justified. Hitler probably justified locking up the Jews in camps because they were considered a fifth column sympathetic to the allies. Similarly Israel justifies locking up the Palestinians in Gaza which is just a ghetto and not a very big one at that. Justifications, Justifications. At the end of the day you have to ask yourself would I like somebody to do this to me or my family and if the answer is no dont do it even if you think the other guy is a suicide bomber/ Jewish capitalist/ Zionist Land grabber or whatever else is your pet peeve.
As an outside observor I would have to say most of the Jews who stayed in Israel converted to Christianity or Islam and Judaism mostly survived in the diaspora. So even if we assume Jehovah promised the land to the Jews of old the Arabs are the descendents of those Jews who stayed back and would seem to have a prior claim to those Jews who left and came back recently. Kind of like how the Israeli arabs are citizens coz they didnt leave and the Palestinians are not coz they left.
The key point in your rant was "Refugee Camp" You expect the Arabs to love people who made them refugees and not even ashamed about it? At least the Germans apologize repeatedly at every opportunity.
Not every ship carrying containers is the same size either. They just carry more of them if they are larger and less if they are smaller. We could have a container carried by teh PSLV and maybe ten of the same carried by the Ariane. Frankly the shuttle would be the wrong vehicle to carry cargo as it needs to be man rated and a cargo vehicle doesnt need to be.
You may not like the war but every cent the US spends on the Iraq war is worth it. The world simply has to know that the US will back up its talk with the required walk. Think about it. The US hardly produces anything nowadays except software, movies, weapons and food. It imports everything else and runs a huge deficit. Now there are two issues to look at. Firstly people all over the world buy US movies because the US is considered the king of the world and everyone wants to be like the king . No world domination ergo no Hollywood domination of the World mind space. Next the software - the US is at the front of the technical race mostly because of the huge amount poured into all kinds of esoteric research and hence no world domination no money for research and noone will buy US software in 10 years. Next weapons . Well unless you have regular wars where you can demonstrate the effectiveness of your weapons why would some other country buy them. So without world domination all the US would end up exporting is Wheat and Soya but that cant afford a 1st world lifestyle. Next lets look at how the US pays for all these weapons and foreign wars. The US runs a huge trade and revenue deficit. How does it close the deficit it just prints more money. Now why doesnt every other government in the world do just that? Well because if they did that they would have runaway inflation and collapse like Weimar Germany. But the US is a special case as the US currency is also the world reserve currency as international trade and especially the oil trade is carried out in dollars. So as soon as the US govt prints more dollars they are sucked out by the Chinese, Japanese and other Central Banks for their reserves hence preventing runaway inflation while giving the US govt a blank cheque to spend as much as it wants on its military and social programs like Welfare and Social Security. Now you must be thinking are the rst of the countries in the world nuts to allow such a meal ticket to the US. No they are not and they resent it like hell but they have no choice. This dollar system of international trade was set up at the end of WW2 when except for the US and the USSR all major economies were in ruin so the only choice was to accept the Dollar or Rouble as the reserve currency. The West (but including US allies in very eastern places like Australia) chose the dollar and the Warsaw pact countries chose the ruble and hence the world was divided into two zones and the cold war reigned (Funny how Communist China and Yugoslavia were considered on the US side as they traded in dollars and not rubles). Now it has been more than 60 years since WW2 and most western economies have rebuilt so you may ask why does Europe still give the US a free ride? Because its not a free ride because in exchange for this economic dominance the US has to act as the Global cop and use the military paid for via the Dollar subsidy to keep the peace. Ergo if the US had not gone to Iraq sooner or later international trade including the oil trade would have shifted away from Dollars. In that scenario everyone would dump dollars and the US govt could no longer carry a deficit without huge inflation and that means no more money for the huge US military machine. Think thats an unlikely scenario? Its exactly what happened to Great Britain. Till the World Wars Great Britain had the largest fleet in the world and arguably the largest army. It was all paid by deficit funding and the deficit funding could be done because the Pound Sterling was the currency of foreign trade. BTW dont fret about the trade deficit with China. You always carry a trade deficit with your colonies. The UK always carried a trade deficit with India and other colonies. All it meant was the Indians would ship real goods to the UK and in return get back Pound Sterlings which were just pieces of paper and the only thing to do with them was invest them back in the London Stock market. Reminds you of US and China doesnt it? In all the US has a pretty cushy ride right now and it is their just rewards for winning WW2 an
I guess the GP is a closet communist and associates anything good like Universal Health Care with Communism. Actually democracies like Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries do a pretty good job of Universal Health Care but that could be due to cultural issues. But then again the US is more of a Republic than a Democracy - e.g. Everyone's vote does not count the same in the US due to the electoral college system and Americans living in offshore territories(like Guam) do not get the vote unlike French living in say French Guyana. So people in the US dont really have that communal feeling created by true Democracy as those in Scandinavia so a Republican mindset is more prevalent than a Democratic one. (Please note here I am using the words Republican and Democratic in their original sense and not to refer to the major political parties of the US) And Republics are always more elitist than democracies ; and may the barbarians take the hindmost (or the one without health insurance)
Sometimes single use just makes sense. The dockyards and land ports of the world are full of containers which were used one wy and abandoned as it does not make sense to ship them back empty and this is on earth, the costs for space travel are an order of magnitude higher. For manned vessels we should be trying for reusable vehicles but for Cargo? I think not.
When will we shift to containerization of space cargo. Containers have already changed the game in air, sea and land cargo transport. Why not Space? If we could develop a standard cargo space container which could be handled by the soyuz rocket , the Ariane rocket, the space shuttle, the Japanese HTV, the Chinese Long March or the Indian GSLV we would have come a long way in moving towards commercialization of space. Yes we need multiple suppliers of cargo vessels to avoid single point failures but why do they all have to be different designs?
Well it could just be that they were trying to put in taps and made mistakes and cut the cables by mistake. What with the Iraq war and the US military not being able to recruit anything but retards it wouldnt surprise me if the navy divers being used nowadays are incompetent too.
Thats bullshit. India actually has an open border policy. If you show an offer letter from an Indian company you and your family get resident permits. As long as you have a job you can stay as long as you want. You only have to renew the permit each year by showing current employment
Indians actually like being clean so they use water instead of paper which just smears it around without really cleaning. Still if you like paper you can get it in most supermarkets . It will probably be expensive as it does not sell much and there are no economies of scale
No the point is once the TARGET market gets revolutionazised it will BE the WORLD market and the North Am market will be a small piece of the pie relatively speaking. Even if just the Indian middle class - 300 million buy one NANO each its more than the entire NORTH AM market . So since this car will change the world market - from one dominated by North AM to one where North AM is a niche market so yeah I woul say it changes the entire nature of the worldwide market.
Europe and North America actually dont even have half of the target market. In fact they are exactly 0% of the sub 3000 dollar car market. This market is entirely in Asia,Africa and Latin America. Since most of the population lives there and the ENTIRE market exists there North Am and Europa are kind of irrelevant for this car. BTW this car does meet Euro 4 emission ratings and also has a steel cage like the Smart car so it will meet US crash test ratings too. What it does not have is air bags , ABS, power steering, power brakes, power windows, AC, radio in short the creature comforts which is why it wont be sold in North Am. But remember the target market is those upgrading from bikes and no bike I know has AC, power windows/brakes/steering, airbags, radio or AC so its not like the people buying this car will be missing the creature comforts. Also there is a deluxe model where all of these features are available but that one will work out to around 4000 dollars and will be North Am street legal without modifications. That car will very probably be exported to the US - the Tatas have even put the entire instrument cluster in the center of the dashboard and used the same locks on right hand and left hand doors so as to create a right hand drive vehicle you have to only shift the steering wheel so definitely they have plans to export to right hand drive markets.
You might be interested to know that one of the key ways the cost has been kept down is by deciding to not only manufacture in the factory but also assemble at neighbourhood mechanic shops. in order to allow this a number of features like the MPFI have been dumbed down and the entire car has been designed from ground up to be assembled from kits without a lot of equipment (e.g. New generation glues have been used instead of expensive welds). So yes this car is definitely suited for playing around - basically its the automobile version of Lego except it looks better than lego. The idea behind this mode of delivery is part profit and part social - employment generation and wealth distribution into the countryside where Tata does not want to set up dedicated dealerships but would like to sell the car.
The thing is given the traffic in Indian cities nobody drives at high speeds so it doesnt have to be built to withstand highway crashes. I dont think anyone who is thinking of buying one of these is planning to take it out on the highways ; and no - Indians dont get on highways to go to work as most people live inside the cities - the high cost of gas (12 dollars a gallon PPP) means there has not been a flight to suburbia so this car is perfectly fine for commuting to work and back.
Simple we cut emmissions by getting the Americans to walk. After all they are mostly 6 feet tall and a lot fitter than Indians so it shouldn't be a big deal for them to jog to work. It would even cut health insurance rates as everyone will be getting their exercise. This would work in American cities as the air is clean and jogging is not a health hazard like it is in Delhi and Mumbai.
And you could be arrested for drunken striping. (note the single p)
Regarding speed 40mph is more than enough in fact you would be lucky to maintain that speed on the road in downtown New York. Thats the reason I mentioned the population density as this only makes sense where a lot of people live close together and work pretty close to where they work. While this description also applies to third world slums the exception about New York is that while it may have the population density of a slum it is extremely rich as a city (mostly because of the financial industry being headquartered in New York and London) so New York is the perfect test case - it has the density to justify people mover belts as well as the money to build them. Obviously a place like Texas which is wide open and spread out this would not make sense but for east coast cities especially where the downtown is still viable and everyone has not fled to the suburbs this makes sense. And as gas becomes more expensive it will make more and more sense.
The only challenge I see is to harden the existing belts for outdoor usage. Alternatively the belts could be covered with clear plastic walkways which would protect both the machinery and the people moving on them from the weather.
Given the population density of New York isnt it time to setup city wide (or at least the financial district wide) people mover belts like you find at the nicer International Airports (Dubai and Frankfurt spring to mind). These would be hyper efficient as only the thing which needs to be moved i.e. a person weighing 200 pounds instead of moving a big iron box weighing tons aka a car.
These used to be a staple of futuristic SF stories - wonder why it never caught on - the technology is definitely there(in airports)
On a side note if people are using conveyor belts the cops dont need motorcycles to catch perps - just get on the hyperfast conveyor belt lane reserved for emergencies.
According to this Wikipedia entry it comes close with Israel getting 2 billion and Egypt getting 1.3 Billion. When you factor in the 800 million Pakistan got for fighting the Taliban (which is like aiding Pablo Escobar to fight the drug business but I digress) aid to Muslim countries is more than that to Israel. And out of the last two wars USA has fought one has been to help Muslims against Orthodox Christians (Kosovo) and the other to help Shia Muslim fundamenntalists against secular (Baath) party members (Iraq) so its not as if USA is biased against Muslims or even Muslim fundamentalists.
Its dangerous to make such comments lest you be labelled anti-semite. You can make the same points by talking about US military aid to Egypt or Pakistan without inviting the wrath of the Anti-defamation league
What odds do you want to give me that Bush wont do an FDR and stay in office because the country is at war? At least Putin tries political ways instead of going out and destroying countries.
how about parents calling small kids who dont use computers yet?
If you could put a bomb on a plane without boarding yourself you dont need wifi to set it off. A 2 dollar digital watch is good enough as a detonator. In countries which have faced terrorist problems (like India where at least 2 flights were blown up by unaccompanied luggage) a common security measure is after security every passenger has to go and reidentify their luggage and any luggage not identified is not loaded. Also at all Indian airports even check in luggage is xrayed with separate high power x ray machines and then sealed with a strap. You do this before checking in with the airline and the airlines will not take your luggage without the security strapping and the luggage handlers will not load the luggage if the strap seems to have been tampered with. Further if someone does not board (the airhostesses do a name check) the plane does not take off till their luggage is tracked down and offloaded. Inefficient like hell and probably the reason Indian and Israeli state airlines always run at a loss but necessary when you are a target. US airlines may need to start doing the same if they continue to be targets and the flying experience would get worse. Oh and I forget about Indian Airlines doing its own separate security checks and frisking at the boarding stairs in Nepal as they dont trust Nepal airport officials to do a proper job ever since IC 814 got hijacked from Kathmandu after Pakistani terrorists managed to get AK 47s through Nepali security. (very easily bribable security it seems)
The next generation of kids will need to play video games to earn their living - from doctors using robotic surgery to pilots flying UAVs most jobs will be done through a video game like interface. Saying teaching to read is more important than teaching to play video games is like saying memorizing multiplacation tables is more important than algebra in the age of the pocket calculator