The unspoken intention of the airport security is that it's better to have a few hundred people killed at the security checkpoint than have someone get control of an airplane and fly it into a building. The security isn't to protect the passengers, that's just a PR campaign.
Buildings can be destroyed though means other than airplanes. This obsession with subjecting airline passengers to harassment, sexual molestation, and taking away their drinks does very little for security as a whole.
Do you really think any terrorist is thinking of using a liquid bomb since the liquid-size limitation rules came in force?
I don't know about where you are but in Europe these rules don't actually prevent people bringing on enough liquid to make a decent explosion. They don't really do anything except force lot of travelers to throw away perfectly good bottles of water. There is no security in this system, just the illusion of security.
Have you actually read the rules? They were clearly written by a committee of people who know nothing about chemistry and have zero common sense.
The EU rules state you can bring one bag of max capacity 1 litre, in that you can bring as many 100ml bottles of liquid as you like. I'm guessing you could fit 600ml of any liquid you like in separate bottles, more if you spent time finding the right bottles. Once you get past security you can mingle with other passengers, each could have brought in another 600ml of liquid to give to you. You can even buy large bottles too if you want to pour all your small bottles into a bigger one.
The whole liquid nonsense makes about as much sense as scanning for metal objects even though plastic diving knives are available and about as dangerous.
We shouldn't fear every time some new technology is employed to fight evil. Don't just have a knee jerk reaction to this. I know people who have worked on this project and I trust them and their work.
I know governments that have worked on much more serious projects and I don't trust them or their work.
Fight evil? Don't make me laugh. Keep contractors in jobs and bureaucrats in bribes more like.
Now we all know it picks on Arabs who pay cash all the bad guys have to do is legally change their name from Mohammed to Hank, apply for a bank card, and order the standard in-flight meal.
If anyone praises Linux, it's because of liberty and choice. If anyone praises Windows, it's because they're a paid Microsoft shill. Is that right?
If someone praises a product that has been hammered by review after review it's likely a paid marketing attempt.
If someone praises a product within seconds of a new story being posted they are either the world's fastest typist or they are copy and pasting something.
The Microsoft astroturfers are all over slashdot and we all know it, but as you point out not everything pro Microsoft is a paid astroturfer.
Has Oprah seriously influenced your life? Other than this story, I can't think of the last time Oprah even came up in my life. She was totally a thing back in like the mid 90s, though.
She influences the lives of a large number of the kind of people who watch Oprah's TV trash. They are the target audience of this deception, not You and I.
The news is the Microsoft astroturfing trolls that have so flooded slashdot are not just on slashdot, they are everywhere. They include TV personalities that the unwashed masses idealize.
Anyone that watches Oprah will believe anything, even that Microsoft products are worth buying.
I stopped working with recruiters entirely. They are useless middlemen, and I'm not shy about telling them so.
Any company that hires exclusively through recruiters is likely to be dysfunctional anyway. Stop wasting your time and only speak to people who work for the company with the job opening.
I agree although I can't afford to take the risk that recruiters have a job that I can't find myself. Dysfunctional companies pay the bills too.
All the good companies I've worked for don't use recruiters exclusively or in a few cases don't use them at all.
Yeah, the whole system is just completely biased against white males. I mean, just look at how few CEOs of large companies are white males. Oh, wait...
'the whole system' isn't one system. There are a bunch of connected systems all with their own biases.
I'm replying late so maybe you will never read this. You make a good point.
Could you explain and give examples of racism that is okay because it's "anti-white"?
In most school, employment, or social situations anti-white racism is pretty common. In the UK football league there have been countless cases of players banned for calling another player a 'monkey' or some other mildly insulting language and the punishment is always out of proportion of the damage caused by these words. Yet if a black man abuses a white man with any language he chooses it's never considered racist and the punishment is always minor.
Do you remember when they called Bush a monkey? Or that website with a monkey pulling a face next to Bush pulling the same face? That was abusive yet somehow accepted. Call Obama a monkey and you are in deep shit even though it's the same word. Blacks get superior rights even though they should be treated equally.
My school was the same, it's like they tried to tell everyone that Indians ( and in my school it was always Indians, not the black people who never seemed to play the race card ) were to be treated better because if they took the slighted offense to you they would just tell the teachers you called them a 'paki' and you would be in trouble. There was never proof needed, the accusation was enough.
Also race quotas never work in favor of white men although they often work in favor of black men, or women.
The world is biased and most attempts to create equality just create more injustice.
The UK has been trying to be America for some time now. We're like that scrawny kid who leans out from behind the bully, pathetically supporting everything the bully does.
As someone who was brought up in the UK, and has spent many years there I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment. The UK politicians call what you describe a 'special relationship', most call it subservience.
Do remember though that it's the UK government that's bowing to US whims, not the UK population.
You need only look at one bad webpage and your Windows computer is spewing out cialis spam. Clicking on one wrong link or misspelling a single URL could bring you to one of those pages.
Linux - You actually need a serious user error like a guessable password to let the bad guys in.
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So you assume the bad guys have a first name of Mohammed? :)
I assume that they assume that the bad guys have Mohammed somewhere in their name.
Best answer evar!
The unspoken intention of the airport security is that it's better to have a few hundred people killed at the security checkpoint than have someone get control of an airplane and fly it into a building. The security isn't to protect the passengers, that's just a PR campaign.
Buildings can be destroyed though means other than airplanes. This obsession with subjecting airline passengers to harassment, sexual molestation, and taking away their drinks does very little for security as a whole.
Remind me again why we're spending so much on airport security...?
So the TSA goons have jobs and also so the dumb people believe they are more secure.
The system is transparently stupid to smart people but remember the biggest voting block is very dumb people.
Do you really think any terrorist is thinking of using a liquid bomb since the liquid-size limitation rules came in force?
I don't know about where you are but in Europe these rules don't actually prevent people bringing on enough liquid to make a decent explosion. They don't really do anything except force lot of travelers to throw away perfectly good bottles of water. There is no security in this system, just the illusion of security.
Have you actually read the rules? They were clearly written by a committee of people who know nothing about chemistry and have zero common sense.
The EU rules state you can bring one bag of max capacity 1 litre, in that you can bring as many 100ml bottles of liquid as you like. I'm guessing you could fit 600ml of any liquid you like in separate bottles, more if you spent time finding the right bottles.
Once you get past security you can mingle with other passengers, each could have brought in another 600ml of liquid to give to you. You can even buy large bottles too if you want to pour all your small bottles into a bigger one.
The whole liquid nonsense makes about as much sense as scanning for metal objects even though plastic diving knives are available and about as dangerous.
We shouldn't fear every time some new technology is employed to fight evil. Don't just have a knee jerk reaction to this. I know people who have worked on this project and I trust them and their work.
I know governments that have worked on much more serious projects and I don't trust them or their work.
Fight evil? Don't make me laugh. Keep contractors in jobs and bureaucrats in bribes more like.
Now we all know it picks on Arabs who pay cash all the bad guys have to do is legally change their name from Mohammed to Hank, apply for a bank card, and order the standard in-flight meal.
If anyone praises Linux, it's because of liberty and choice. If anyone praises Windows, it's because they're a paid Microsoft shill. Is that right?
If someone praises a product that has been hammered by review after review it's likely a paid marketing attempt.
If someone praises a product within seconds of a new story being posted they are either the world's fastest typist or they are copy and pasting something.
The Microsoft astroturfers are all over slashdot and we all know it, but as you point out not everything pro Microsoft is a paid astroturfer.
Minor correction:
"Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony" - Morpheus
Alanis Morissette doesn't even know what irony is and wrote a whole song proving this.
..and only one person over 35.
Hey! I know plenty of people over 35 who read slashdot and have productive careers in IT.
Troll Oprah not us 35+ year olds you whipper-snapper and get the hell off my lawn.
Has Oprah seriously influenced your life? Other than this story, I can't think of the last time Oprah even came up in my life. She was totally a thing back in like the mid 90s, though.
She influences the lives of a large number of the kind of people who watch Oprah's TV trash. They are the target audience of this deception, not You and I.
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The news is the Microsoft astroturfing trolls that have so flooded slashdot are not just on slashdot, they are everywhere. They include TV personalities that the unwashed masses idealize.
Anyone that watches Oprah will believe anything, even that Microsoft products are worth buying.
These are the people who go public proclaiming love for MS products, people who are paid to, people who don't use the stuff themselves.
I stopped working with recruiters entirely. They are useless middlemen, and I'm not shy about telling them so.
Any company that hires exclusively through recruiters is likely to be dysfunctional anyway. Stop wasting your time and only speak to people who work for the company with the job opening.
I agree although I can't afford to take the risk that recruiters have a job that I can't find myself. Dysfunctional companies pay the bills too.
All the good companies I've worked for don't use recruiters exclusively or in a few cases don't use them at all.
For Pete's sake, people! It's not "cut and paste"; it's "copy and paste"!! The two operations are not the same thing.
http://www.vincentchow.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/copypaste.jpg
Yeah, the whole system is just completely biased against white males. I mean, just look at how few CEOs of large companies are white males. Oh, wait...
'the whole system' isn't one system. There are a bunch of connected systems all with their own biases.
I'm replying late so maybe you will never read this. You make a good point.
Could you explain and give examples of racism that is okay because it's "anti-white"?
In most school, employment, or social situations anti-white racism is pretty common. In the UK football league there have been countless cases of players banned for calling another player a 'monkey' or some other mildly insulting language and the punishment is always out of proportion of the damage caused by these words. Yet if a black man abuses a white man with any language he chooses it's never considered racist and the punishment is always minor.
Do you remember when they called Bush a monkey? Or that website with a monkey pulling a face next to Bush pulling the same face? That was abusive yet somehow accepted. Call Obama a monkey and you are in deep shit even though it's the same word. Blacks get superior rights even though they should be treated equally.
My school was the same, it's like they tried to tell everyone that Indians ( and in my school it was always Indians, not the black people who never seemed to play the race card ) were to be treated better because if they took the slighted offense to you they would just tell the teachers you called them a 'paki' and you would be in trouble. There was never proof needed, the accusation was enough.
Also race quotas never work in favor of white men although they often work in favor of black men, or women.
The world is biased and most attempts to create equality just create more injustice.
So is the government saying that Asians are in fact better at math then us pale guys? I'm pretty good at math...
Plus they taught you pretty good English in that Chinese school you went to in China.
Thank you government for pointing us in the complete wrong direction. This is absolutely going to encourage racism.
Encourage racism? It is racism.
But then racism was always OK as long as it's anti-white.
It is, under certain circumstances, a federal felony to possess a lobster. Or a fish.
Unless the given fish is being used as a deadly weapon that doesn't appear to make any sense.
Can you explain under what circumstances possession of a lobster or a fish is a felony?
on average, in the US, 3 felonies a day
I'm curious as to where you got that number from. Is this mostly speeding offensives or are there a lot of laws I don't know about?
That only happens in the US and this guy would be going to a UK jail if any at all.
Male on male prison rape isn't so common outside the US.
The UK has been trying to be America for some time now. We're like that scrawny kid who leans out from behind the bully, pathetically supporting everything the bully does.
As someone who was brought up in the UK, and has spent many years there I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment. The UK politicians call what you describe a 'special relationship', most call it subservience.
Do remember though that it's the UK government that's bowing to US whims, not the UK population.
House for sale. 85% of the roof doesn't leak.
Boat for sale. 85% of the hull has no holes in it.
Car for sale. Brakes work 85% of the time.
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The world has moved to iMoble devices which are mostly locked down.
Funny.. You are joking I hope..
You need only look at one bad webpage and your Windows computer is spewing out cialis spam. Clicking on one wrong link or misspelling a single URL could bring you to one of those pages.
Linux - You actually need a serious user error like a guessable password to let the bad guys in.