Watermarks, of whatever kind are ridiculously easy to crack. Even a small child could do it. That's perhaps why most professional software doesn't use it. Pretty much anyone who has ever written even a small computer program can just search for the relevant text and delete it from the binary. It gets a bit tougher if you add checking code to see if the text has been changed. That takes a bit more cracking experience to edit out, but I still doubt it would be very difficult.
But crackers are able to figure out unknown algorithms when they create key generators. Why would this be any different? In one case a unique key of some kind is created by a CPU attached to your USB port. In another it is created by a secret software program that only the developer or publisher has. Either way the cracker is left guessing what the algorithm is. Anyway, all of this ignores the possibility that the cracker could just remove the dongle checks entirely from the binary.
Verizon land lines already have a whitelisting system. I use it. In fact I wouldn't keep a land line at all without it. Unfortunately the whitelist only allows 10 numbers. They have a blacklist system too and both can be active. Now I only ever get calls from people I know. Occasionally I have to turn it off because I am expecting some commercial oriented call and that's when I am reminded about why I use whitelisting 100% of the time. Cell providers should have the same system. Whitelisting and blacklisting should be standard features in the modern world.
Have you ever taken Adderall? It sounds like you haven't. I used to take it. I could always stop taking it without any major problem. I used to take large doses of ephedra on a daily basis as well and that was also easy to stop taking. I think getting off of most anti-depressants is more difficult.
Opiates OTOH really are addictive. If you take them daily for 2-4 weeks you willhave at least some withdrawal symptoms. You will feel anywhere from slightly unwell to very, very sick for 2-3 days minimum depending on your dose.
Not that I think opiates should be illegal. Stealing to get money to buy them should be illegal, but they shouldn't be illegal themselves. There's nothing wrong with them. They are natural antidepressants and the best painkiller ever discovered. And if legal they would be cheap. There would be no need to commit crimes to buy it.
Aside from opiates and maybe benzodiazipines and certain anti-depressants I think "addiction" has a lot more to do with the person taking the drug than with the drug itself.
You are referring to the wrong amendment. The 9th amendment, the enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, is more targeted to the matter at hand. The people who wrote the constitution pretty much assumed that people had the right to travel. Probably governments in those days never tried to seriously restrict horse and buggy travel.
There actually is some part of the constitution that does mention the right to travel, but I don't have the reference at the moment. The Founders shouldn't have been so lazy. They should have enumerated all the hundreds or even thousands of things that a government is not allowed to do to its citizens. Restricting freedom of travel should have been among them. Then they could also have had the equivalent of a ninth amendment, but only under the assumption that the government of the distant future would find it convenient to ignore that pesky little amendment.
BTW your point is well taken. The logical end of all of this is that we are all prisoners in our own homes. We are all under house arrest. Without the right to freedom of movement the government could even confine us to a single room of our house any time they want. After all that was also not mentioned in the bill of rights. It's not as if they have said, "Travel is a privilege, granted to you by the government and it can be revoked at any time for any reason. However we are only restricting your ability to travel by means of x (flying) and we promise not to restrict any other means of travel." They are not promising anything. They could require cavity searches any time you leave your house and there is no defense because the right to walk outside of your house was not specifically mentioned in the bill of rights. When you give the government the right to restrict any single form of travel, you give them the right to restrict all forms of travel.
Are you an LEO of some kind? You certainly seem to love them or at least jack of to pictures of them. I'd say we should fire most of the FBI field agent thugs. Restrict them to bank robberies and serial killers and leave it at that. They should not be involved with foreign governments in any way. Since there aren't all that many bank robberies which cross state lines or serial killers that do the same I don't think we need that many of them. They can just sit inside their cubicles and play some video game where they get to massacre innocent civilians while they stroke each other's dicks. That's much preferable to letting them outside so they can hurt real people.
To point out that Internet access is not mandatory for any legal defense, but merely convenient.
How convenient that is for the prosecution. I think it's only fair that you deny the prosecution and police involved in the case access to the internet as well. After all, it is not mandatory for them to develop their case and they might use it to unfairly influence public opinion.
Could the accused not also use the telephone or even his own voice to influence public opinion? Let's take away his right to use a telephone and gag him until trial too. We could even bind his hands so he can't write in to newspaper editorials. Of course we won't restrict the prosecution in that manner as that would be unfair.
By what mechanism could the court control the speech of the accused in such a way as to ensure that they don't tain tthe jury pool or otherwise contaminate the right to a fair trial?
By the same mechanism you are implying keeps the prosecution and police in line. It would be 'sanctionable' behavior.
OTOH, you don't necessarily have the right to travel in a particular privately-owned aircraft at a particular time either.
I'm not sure if you are referring to stealing an airplane or not, but I think the parent poster's point about the founders not specifically and explicitly enumerating the right to travel by any means that doesn't restrict the rights of others (such as a vehicle that emits nuclear waste) is well taken. Unfortunately our government has completely misinterpreted the bill of rights to be the only human rights which US citizens possess. The ninth amendment was intended to stress the point that the constitution was a limit on the behavior of the government and is not meant to imply that the government can do whatever it wants as long as it doesn't violate the first 8 amendments.
If the right to travel freely had been specifically mentioned in the bill of rights, we might not be in this mess now. OTOH, maybe we would be. The current band of freedom hating justices could still claim that they couldn't possibly have had aircraft in mind when referring to 'travel', because that mode of travel had yet to be invented. I could easily see them claiming that too. And with a straight face.
You are aware that there are still plenty of nudoscopes that use actual ionizing radiation, aka x-rays, to do the virtual strip searches, right? We haven't switched over to 100% millimeter wave scanners just yet, and there are no plans to do so. Your argument is more appropriate to the mmw scanners. Ionizing radiation is cumulative. Even relatively small doses increase your cancer risk. I agree that the 27-30 Ghz 'radiation' is likely to be harmless at low levels. It's about the same as getting shot with Ka band police radar from half a mile away. The x-ray scanners are another matter entirely.
There are no trains to Mexico anymore unfortunately. You can take trains most of the way though from the Northern US and then take a bus across the border. I much prefer trains to buses, but US trains tend to suck and be overpriced compared to buses, and so far, bus terminals have been less infested with the TSA than train stations. Eventually of course train stations will be like our airports are now and bus terminals will be like the train stations used to be. It will all shift down until you get to private cars and even bicycles. Horse and buggy transportation might hold out a bit longer because, along with walking, it was actually around when the constitution was written.
It's almost pointless to argue against this kind of disinformation. The x-ray scans are about as good as a digital black-and-white photograph. I would definitely enjoy looking at those images of hot girls all day long and so would my right hand. The millimeter wave scans are not quite so good, but I'd still consider them in the titillating category. As far as the x-ray images the TSA themselves have finally admitted that they are pretty explicit, after having denied it for so long.
Think about it for a second. If the images were not explicit they could publicly release a whole bunch of them to prove it. Of course they haven't done that and the few images that have been released based on the original machine testing have been altered to reduce their resolution or even blur the genital area. The x-ray images are in fact really, really good. Good enough to detect small plastic blades or whatever underneath clothing. If the images were as low quality as some people claim the machines wouldn't be of much use.
Nice. What about: All in all you're just another dick and some balls'?
Come to think of it Pink Floyd is great for anti-TSA songs. How about Mother?
Mother, do you think they'll plant a bomb? Mother, do you think they'll like this song? Mother, do you think they'll try to stroke my balls? Oooh, Mother, should I build a wall? Mother, should I run for president? Mother, should I trust the government? Mother, will they put me in a firing squad? Oohah, is it just a waste of time? Hush now baby baby don't you cry. Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true. Mama's gonna put all her fears into you. Mama's gonna keep you under her wing. She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing. Mama's gonna keep baby cozy and warm. Ooh, baby. Ooh, baby. Ooh baby, Mamas gonna help build a wall...
Some of the song doesn't even need to be touched. Mama could equal Nappy or the DHS/TSA or the government in general. And 'they' of course refers to the TSA goons.
I have a better idea. Instead of allowing ourselves to be sexually violated in the name of freedom, let's start acting in the manner that the founders of this country would expect us to when the government tries to take away our right to travel (without being sexually molested). We start killing off every TSA officer in the country until anyone who takes that job is terrified for themselves and their families. We also assassinate TSA officers starting from the very top. We treat this as a war. A war against one of the most basic freedoms possible: our freedom of movement. Even a mouse would fight rather than be caged. We don't we?
BTW, I think any genuine tough guy would react suddenly and very violently to anyone not female and beautiful trying to touch his man-sausage without his consent and he wouldn't give his consent to anyone who is not a hot female. He wouldn't just sit back and relax while some guy was running his fingers down his ass crack, pausing to investigate his anus, and then moving up across his scrotum and penis and sensually running his fingers through your hair for a last little violation. Anyone who tried that would be on the ground with several bones broken in seconds.
I'm not a tough guy, but if any guy tried to touch me all inappropriately I would definitely knee them in the groin with every ounce of strength I've got, and then start throwing punches to his face and neck until he was down. His shiny badge doesn't make the sexual molestation okay. He's still committing a crime against me and should have to deal with the consequences.
I gotta believe that if that doesn't bother you at least a little you've got to be not just metrosexual, but a metrosexual bootlicker. And a 'real man' you aint. And, no, bootlicking doesn't buy you freedom. Allowing yourself to be sexually molested for a cause isn't what Gandhi had in mind. Surrounding John Pistole's home with hundreds of thousands of civilians with banners is more like it. Personally I think surrounding John Pistole's home with hundreds of thousands of heavily armed and body armoured civilians would get the message across a lot more clearly and effectively. The ballot box clearly hasn't worked. It's time to look hard at other options.
They scare the bejeesus out of quite a few of us as well. And it's not just at airports. The TSA has expanded to trains and buses and are trying to expand onto our highways as well. Also our cops are the most violent, angry, and aggressive in the world. They are very dangerous to be around. They will beat you up and throw you in jail on trumped up charges if they don't like the look of you. We also have roadblocks on our highways. So you can't just avoid the cops by keeping your distance.
The only valid reason I can think of to come here is if you already happen to live in North Korea or you just want to see the beautiful southwest part of the country. The Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Death Valley are amazing. Not worth getting raped for, but amazing. For that I would recommend flying into Mexico and taking a bus north across the border. You can then rent a car/SUV and drive all over that part of the country. Just stay at least 100 miles from the border with Mexico (and Canada) and don't drive after midnight in general or after 10 pm on Friday or Saturday nights or at any time during a major holiday and you probably won't encounter any police or CBP roadblocks.
Another option is to fly through Canada and take a bus across the border, but obviously you have a much larger distance to get to the southwest US and Canada uses the millimeter wave scanners without the autodetection software at their airports. They don't fondle your gentleman sausage or karate chop you in the goolies or investigate your ass crack with their curious fingers in Canada if you opt out though and their selection process really is random since it is done by machine and supposedly doesn't select nearly as many people as the US system. If you opt-out in Canada you get more of a cursory, non-genital, police frisk. Still not acceptable to me though, but you do have a good chance of avoiding it. And you don't get arrested or persecuted or treated like a terrorist or threatened with $10,000 fines if you opt-out of both the scanner and the patdown in Canada. You can just come back and try again on another flight. Although you might have to wait for the next day.
I know. It does put my bullshit detector on high alert. It sounds like they are just spouting whatever it is they think we want to hear. They have been caught in lies before. How can we trust or believe anything they say?
One problem with the newer mmw + autodetection software is that we have to trust that they really have gotten rid of the perv booth. that comforting stick figure display may just be to appease the public. A sort of decoy.
The false positives and inevitable TSA sex / heavy petting that results is also a problem for some.
Why do you think it is low resolution? Have you actually seen the images yourself? Do you really think the government would be stupid enough to buy scanners that don't work for their intended purpose? A low resolution image would not be able to detect a well concealed plastic knife. You need high resolution for that.
Also, why do you pretend that homosexuals don't exist? They do exist, and most of the time they are not flamboyant. Ten percent of the population I guess or either bi or homosexual? You wouldn't know from just looking at them or hearing them talk either. Some percentage of TSA goons are definitely homosexuals. So, for the people who are only uncomfortable with the scans when the perv in the perv booth is actually getting a chubby from viewing it, same sex guarantees exactly nothing. You'd have to screen for homosexuals in the hiring process and illegally weed them out and even then some would get through. Basically anyone who doesn't admit to it.
Some of us don't particularly care whether the perv in the booth is getting off on our images or not. It is still a violation, and one I will not voluntarily subject myself to. Neither will I voluntarily agree to be gate-raped either. If this means I can't fly out of US airports then so be it.
Some of the newer millimeter wave (microwave) scanners use software to scan your image for anomalies and just display a stick figure cartoon image on a publicly viewable screen. I don't have a problem going through those (although you have to hope that they really have gotten rid of the perv booth as they claim), but they false positive about 50% of the time and then you have to endure a same-sex genital exploration anyway. And my home airport doesn't have any in any case. We're 100% x-ray + perv-in-a-booth here, baby! So not flying really is my best option unfortunately. The only reason I have to fly is to leave this repressive country and never come back. A true one way trip out of this mess. It would be like fleeing pre-WWII Germany. Definitely a smart thing to do if you have the option.
Coasties are thugs too, and they enforce unjust laws, but at least their job does not involve raping little boys, and occasionally they really do help people in trouble at sea.
I have been arrested a few times and thrown in jail briefly and neither the initial frisk during arrest, nor the cursory search before jail involved having my genitals or ass crack or anus fondled. The only time you get that are when entering long term prison or flying out of a US airport.
I just don't think most macho, tough guy, thuggish LEOs are into that sort of thing. Maybe some, but most prefer to avoid it and do. They get their kicks by beating the shit out of (or just shooting) anyone who so much as looks at them the wrong way. Not by stroking other guy's dicks. That's definitely more of a TSA thing.
Just because you enjoy having your genitals fondled enthusiastically by (most likely homosexual or bi) drooling pervs with a badge and a constant hard-on doesn't mean that everyone is into that sort of thing. Personally I think getting scanned, even by x-rays, really is the better option. Unfortunately my nearest major airport uses the x-ray scanners. Fortunately I don't need to fly for work, which means I don't need to fly at all and I don't. I have stopped flying completely since this insanity began and I will continue to boycott the airlines until it stops. The airlines have the financial power to make this all disappear. What they lack is the motivation to spend the money.
Also, who cares whether the molester is enjoying it? If a rapist doesn't enjoy a particular rape experience will that make things all better for the victim? Maybe it would in your case. I can just imagine you consoling a rape victim as follows. "You're not that hot. Do you really think he enjoyed fucking you? He did it to put you in your place and because it had to be done. Not because he was really enjoying it."
If you happen to be homosexual and you find the TSA goon attractive you might actually enjoy getting your frank and beans and shithole massage. How is that relevant for the rest of us who experience it as the sexual violation that it is?
If the pictures are blurry I guess they had better spend more money on better scanners. The pictures aren't blurry even for the MMW scanners and the x-ray scanners are pure porn. Also the male apes manning the checkpoints don't typically get to pat down the females, as much as they would love it. Especially with those pre-teen girls that they so long for.
Climate change denialists can pick all the nits they want, but the fact is that climate change is real.
Climate change is definitely 100% real. The climate is always changing and it always will. Right up until our sun goes red giant. Is anyone claiming that the climate is 100% static and unchanging for all time? Is anyone hoping that the climate will stop changing if everyone buys a Prius?
Citation desperately needed. Nuclear is expensive, but not as expensive as photovoltaics. Hydro is cheaper but most rivers have already been dammed up. Nuclear is the only even remotely viable alternative to burning things to generate power, at least on a planetary scale. Not that it matters anyway because you would never get the whole planet to agree to stop burning stuff. Not even if you could prove that it would destroy all life on earth in 5,000 years if fossil fuels didn't run out or get too expensive in that time.
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Watermarks, of whatever kind are ridiculously easy to crack. Even a small child could do it. That's perhaps why most professional software doesn't use it. Pretty much anyone who has ever written even a small computer program can just search for the relevant text and delete it from the binary. It gets a bit tougher if you add checking code to see if the text has been changed. That takes a bit more cracking experience to edit out, but I still doubt it would be very difficult.
But crackers are able to figure out unknown algorithms when they create key generators. Why would this be any different? In one case a unique key of some kind is created by a CPU attached to your USB port. In another it is created by a secret software program that only the developer or publisher has. Either way the cracker is left guessing what the algorithm is. Anyway, all of this ignores the possibility that the cracker could just remove the dongle checks entirely from the binary.
Or maybe it will make some of those people think twice before they do it in the first place...
Or maybe it won't. Putting people in jail for victimless crimes doesn't have any positive benefits for society. Only negative ones.
Verizon land lines already have a whitelisting system. I use it. In fact I wouldn't keep a land line at all without it. Unfortunately the whitelist only allows 10 numbers. They have a blacklist system too and both can be active. Now I only ever get calls from people I know. Occasionally I have to turn it off because I am expecting some commercial oriented call and that's when I am reminded about why I use whitelisting 100% of the time. Cell providers should have the same system. Whitelisting and blacklisting should be standard features in the modern world.
Have you ever taken Adderall? It sounds like you haven't. I used to take it. I could always stop taking it without any major problem. I used to take large doses of ephedra on a daily basis as well and that was also easy to stop taking. I think getting off of most anti-depressants is more difficult.
Opiates OTOH really are addictive. If you take them daily for 2-4 weeks you willhave at least some withdrawal symptoms. You will feel anywhere from slightly unwell to very, very sick for 2-3 days minimum depending on your dose.
Not that I think opiates should be illegal. Stealing to get money to buy them should be illegal, but they shouldn't be illegal themselves. There's nothing wrong with them. They are natural antidepressants and the best painkiller ever discovered. And if legal they would be cheap. There would be no need to commit crimes to buy it.
Aside from opiates and maybe benzodiazipines and certain anti-depressants I think "addiction" has a lot more to do with the person taking the drug than with the drug itself.
Usually it's both. And there are many such people. Unfortunately some of them are doctors.
You are referring to the wrong amendment. The 9th amendment, the enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, is more targeted to the matter at hand. The people who wrote the constitution pretty much assumed that people had the right to travel. Probably governments in those days never tried to seriously restrict horse and buggy travel.
There actually is some part of the constitution that does mention the right to travel, but I don't have the reference at the moment. The Founders shouldn't have been so lazy. They should have enumerated all the hundreds or even thousands of things that a government is not allowed to do to its citizens. Restricting freedom of travel should have been among them. Then they could also have had the equivalent of a ninth amendment, but only under the assumption that the government of the distant future would find it convenient to ignore that pesky little amendment.
BTW your point is well taken. The logical end of all of this is that we are all prisoners in our own homes. We are all under house arrest. Without the right to freedom of movement the government could even confine us to a single room of our house any time they want. After all that was also not mentioned in the bill of rights. It's not as if they have said, "Travel is a privilege, granted to you by the government and it can be revoked at any time for any reason. However we are only restricting your ability to travel by means of x (flying) and we promise not to restrict any other means of travel." They are not promising anything. They could require cavity searches any time you leave your house and there is no defense because the right to walk outside of your house was not specifically mentioned in the bill of rights. When you give the government the right to restrict any single form of travel, you give them the right to restrict all forms of travel.
Are you an LEO of some kind? You certainly seem to love them or at least jack of to pictures of them. I'd say we should fire most of the FBI field agent thugs. Restrict them to bank robberies and serial killers and leave it at that. They should not be involved with foreign governments in any way. Since there aren't all that many bank robberies which cross state lines or serial killers that do the same I don't think we need that many of them. They can just sit inside their cubicles and play some video game where they get to massacre innocent civilians while they stroke each other's dicks. That's much preferable to letting them outside so they can hurt real people.
To point out that Internet access is not mandatory for any legal defense, but merely convenient.
How convenient that is for the prosecution. I think it's only fair that you deny the prosecution and police involved in the case access to the internet as well. After all, it is not mandatory for them to develop their case and they might use it to unfairly influence public opinion.
Could the accused not also use the telephone or even his own voice to influence public opinion? Let's take away his right to use a telephone and gag him until trial too. We could even bind his hands so he can't write in to newspaper editorials. Of course we won't restrict the prosecution in that manner as that would be unfair.
By what mechanism could the court control the speech of the accused in such a way as to ensure that they don't tain tthe jury pool or otherwise contaminate the right to a fair trial?
By the same mechanism you are implying keeps the prosecution and police in line. It would be 'sanctionable' behavior.
most cops are trying to do what's right
Something tells me you haven't dealt much with actual real life policemen. Your comment is only true for the ones played by actors on TV.
OTOH, you don't necessarily have the right to travel in a particular privately-owned aircraft at a particular time either.
I'm not sure if you are referring to stealing an airplane or not, but I think the parent poster's point about the founders not specifically and explicitly enumerating the right to travel by any means that doesn't restrict the rights of others (such as a vehicle that emits nuclear waste) is well taken. Unfortunately our government has completely misinterpreted the bill of rights to be the only human rights which US citizens possess. The ninth amendment was intended to stress the point that the constitution was a limit on the behavior of the government and is not meant to imply that the government can do whatever it wants as long as it doesn't violate the first 8 amendments.
If the right to travel freely had been specifically mentioned in the bill of rights, we might not be in this mess now. OTOH, maybe we would be. The current band of freedom hating justices could still claim that they couldn't possibly have had aircraft in mind when referring to 'travel', because that mode of travel had yet to be invented. I could easily see them claiming that too. And with a straight face.
You are aware that there are still plenty of nudoscopes that use actual ionizing radiation, aka x-rays, to do the virtual strip searches, right? We haven't switched over to 100% millimeter wave scanners just yet, and there are no plans to do so. Your argument is more appropriate to the mmw scanners. Ionizing radiation is cumulative. Even relatively small doses increase your cancer risk. I agree that the 27-30 Ghz 'radiation' is likely to be harmless at low levels. It's about the same as getting shot with Ka band police radar from half a mile away. The x-ray scanners are another matter entirely.
There are no trains to Mexico anymore unfortunately. You can take trains most of the way though from the Northern US and then take a bus across the border. I much prefer trains to buses, but US trains tend to suck and be overpriced compared to buses, and so far, bus terminals have been less infested with the TSA than train stations. Eventually of course train stations will be like our airports are now and bus terminals will be like the train stations used to be. It will all shift down until you get to private cars and even bicycles. Horse and buggy transportation might hold out a bit longer because, along with walking, it was actually around when the constitution was written.
It's almost pointless to argue against this kind of disinformation. The x-ray scans are about as good as a digital black-and-white photograph. I would definitely enjoy looking at those images of hot girls all day long and so would my right hand. The millimeter wave scans are not quite so good, but I'd still consider them in the titillating category. As far as the x-ray images the TSA themselves have finally admitted that they are pretty explicit, after having denied it for so long.
Think about it for a second. If the images were not explicit they could publicly release a whole bunch of them to prove it. Of course they haven't done that and the few images that have been released based on the original machine testing have been altered to reduce their resolution or even blur the genital area. The x-ray images are in fact really, really good. Good enough to detect small plastic blades or whatever underneath clothing. If the images were as low quality as some people claim the machines wouldn't be of much use.
Nice. What about:
All in all you're just another dick and some balls'?
Come to think of it Pink Floyd is great for anti-TSA songs. How about Mother?
Mother, do you think they'll plant a bomb?
Mother, do you think they'll like this song?
Mother, do you think they'll try to stroke my balls?
Oooh, Mother, should I build a wall?
Mother, should I run for president?
Mother, should I trust the government?
Mother, will they put me in a firing squad?
Oohah, is it just a waste of time?
Hush now baby baby don't you cry.
Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true.
Mama's gonna put all her fears into you.
Mama's gonna keep you under her wing.
She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing.
Mama's gonna keep baby cozy and warm.
Ooh, baby. Ooh, baby. Ooh baby, Mamas gonna help build a wall...
Some of the song doesn't even need to be touched. Mama could equal Nappy or the DHS/TSA or the government in general. And 'they' of course refers to the TSA goons.
I have a better idea. Instead of allowing ourselves to be sexually violated in the name of freedom, let's start acting in the manner that the founders of this country would expect us to when the government tries to take away our right to travel (without being sexually molested). We start killing off every TSA officer in the country until anyone who takes that job is terrified for themselves and their families. We also assassinate TSA officers starting from the very top. We treat this as a war. A war against one of the most basic freedoms possible: our freedom of movement. Even a mouse would fight rather than be caged. We don't we?
BTW, I think any genuine tough guy would react suddenly and very violently to anyone not female and beautiful trying to touch his man-sausage without his consent and he wouldn't give his consent to anyone who is not a hot female. He wouldn't just sit back and relax while some guy was running his fingers down his ass crack, pausing to investigate his anus, and then moving up across his scrotum and penis and sensually running his fingers through your hair for a last little violation. Anyone who tried that would be on the ground with several bones broken in seconds.
I'm not a tough guy, but if any guy tried to touch me all inappropriately I would definitely knee them in the groin with every ounce of strength I've got, and then start throwing punches to his face and neck until he was down. His shiny badge doesn't make the sexual molestation okay. He's still committing a crime against me and should have to deal with the consequences.
I gotta believe that if that doesn't bother you at least a little you've got to be not just metrosexual, but a metrosexual bootlicker. And a 'real man' you aint. And, no, bootlicking doesn't buy you freedom. Allowing yourself to be sexually molested for a cause isn't what Gandhi had in mind. Surrounding John Pistole's home with hundreds of thousands of civilians with banners is more like it. Personally I think surrounding John Pistole's home with hundreds of thousands of heavily armed and body armoured civilians would get the message across a lot more clearly and effectively. The ballot box clearly hasn't worked. It's time to look hard at other options.
They scare the bejeesus out of quite a few of us as well. And it's not just at airports. The TSA has expanded to trains and buses and are trying to expand onto our highways as well. Also our cops are the most violent, angry, and aggressive in the world. They are very dangerous to be around. They will beat you up and throw you in jail on trumped up charges if they don't like the look of you. We also have roadblocks on our highways. So you can't just avoid the cops by keeping your distance.
The only valid reason I can think of to come here is if you already happen to live in North Korea or you just want to see the beautiful southwest part of the country. The Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Death Valley are amazing. Not worth getting raped for, but amazing. For that I would recommend flying into Mexico and taking a bus north across the border. You can then rent a car/SUV and drive all over that part of the country. Just stay at least 100 miles from the border with Mexico (and Canada) and don't drive after midnight in general or after 10 pm on Friday or Saturday nights or at any time during a major holiday and you probably won't encounter any police or CBP roadblocks.
Another option is to fly through Canada and take a bus across the border, but obviously you have a much larger distance to get to the southwest US and Canada uses the millimeter wave scanners without the autodetection software at their airports. They don't fondle your gentleman sausage or karate chop you in the goolies or investigate your ass crack with their curious fingers in Canada if you opt out though and their selection process really is random since it is done by machine and supposedly doesn't select nearly as many people as the US system. If you opt-out in Canada you get more of a cursory, non-genital, police frisk. Still not acceptable to me though, but you do have a good chance of avoiding it. And you don't get arrested or persecuted or treated like a terrorist or threatened with $10,000 fines if you opt-out of both the scanner and the patdown in Canada. You can just come back and try again on another flight. Although you might have to wait for the next day.
I know. It does put my bullshit detector on high alert. It sounds like they are just spouting whatever it is they think we want to hear. They have been caught in lies before. How can we trust or believe anything they say?
One problem with the newer mmw + autodetection software is that we have to trust that they really have gotten rid of the perv booth. that comforting stick figure display may just be to appease the public. A sort of decoy.
The false positives and inevitable TSA sex / heavy petting that results is also a problem for some.
Why do you think it is low resolution? Have you actually seen the images yourself? Do you really think the government would be stupid enough to buy scanners that don't work for their intended purpose? A low resolution image would not be able to detect a well concealed plastic knife. You need high resolution for that.
Also, why do you pretend that homosexuals don't exist? They do exist, and most of the time they are not flamboyant. Ten percent of the population I guess or either bi or homosexual? You wouldn't know from just looking at them or hearing them talk either. Some percentage of TSA goons are definitely homosexuals. So, for the people who are only uncomfortable with the scans when the perv in the perv booth is actually getting a chubby from viewing it, same sex guarantees exactly nothing. You'd have to screen for homosexuals in the hiring process and illegally weed them out and even then some would get through. Basically anyone who doesn't admit to it.
Some of us don't particularly care whether the perv in the booth is getting off on our images or not. It is still a violation, and one I will not voluntarily subject myself to. Neither will I voluntarily agree to be gate-raped either. If this means I can't fly out of US airports then so be it.
Some of the newer millimeter wave (microwave) scanners use software to scan your image for anomalies and just display a stick figure cartoon image on a publicly viewable screen. I don't have a problem going through those (although you have to hope that they really have gotten rid of the perv booth as they claim), but they false positive about 50% of the time and then you have to endure a same-sex genital exploration anyway. And my home airport doesn't have any in any case. We're 100% x-ray + perv-in-a-booth here, baby! So not flying really is my best option unfortunately. The only reason I have to fly is to leave this repressive country and never come back. A true one way trip out of this mess. It would be like fleeing pre-WWII Germany. Definitely a smart thing to do if you have the option.
Coasties are thugs too, and they enforce unjust laws, but at least their job does not involve raping little boys, and occasionally they really do help people in trouble at sea.
I have been arrested a few times and thrown in jail briefly and neither the initial frisk during arrest, nor the cursory search before jail involved having my genitals or ass crack or anus fondled. The only time you get that are when entering long term prison or flying out of a US airport.
I just don't think most macho, tough guy, thuggish LEOs are into that sort of thing. Maybe some, but most prefer to avoid it and do. They get their kicks by beating the shit out of (or just shooting) anyone who so much as looks at them the wrong way. Not by stroking other guy's dicks. That's definitely more of a TSA thing.
Just because you enjoy having your genitals fondled enthusiastically by (most likely homosexual or bi) drooling pervs with a badge and a constant hard-on doesn't mean that everyone is into that sort of thing. Personally I think getting scanned, even by x-rays, really is the better option. Unfortunately my nearest major airport uses the x-ray scanners. Fortunately I don't need to fly for work, which means I don't need to fly at all and I don't. I have stopped flying completely since this insanity began and I will continue to boycott the airlines until it stops. The airlines have the financial power to make this all disappear. What they lack is the motivation to spend the money.
Also, who cares whether the molester is enjoying it? If a rapist doesn't enjoy a particular rape experience will that make things all better for the victim? Maybe it would in your case. I can just imagine you consoling a rape victim as follows. "You're not that hot. Do you really think he enjoyed fucking you? He did it to put you in your place and because it had to be done. Not because he was really enjoying it."
If you happen to be homosexual and you find the TSA goon attractive you might actually enjoy getting your frank and beans and shithole massage. How is that relevant for the rest of us who experience it as the sexual violation that it is?
If the pictures are blurry I guess they had better spend more money on better scanners. The pictures aren't blurry even for the MMW scanners and the x-ray scanners are pure porn. Also the male apes manning the checkpoints don't typically get to pat down the females, as much as they would love it. Especially with those pre-teen girls that they so long for.
Climate change denialists can pick all the nits they want, but the fact is that climate change is real.
Climate change is definitely 100% real. The climate is always changing and it always will. Right up until our sun goes red giant. Is anyone claiming that the climate is 100% static and unchanging for all time? Is anyone hoping that the climate will stop changing if everyone buys a Prius?
Citation desperately needed. Nuclear is expensive, but not as expensive as photovoltaics. Hydro is cheaper but most rivers have already been dammed up. Nuclear is the only even remotely viable alternative to burning things to generate power, at least on a planetary scale. Not that it matters anyway because you would never get the whole planet to agree to stop burning stuff. Not even if you could prove that it would destroy all life on earth in 5,000 years if fossil fuels didn't run out or get too expensive in that time.