I'd venture to say people are just as unlikely to clean and oil their gun and install fresh ammunition..
Au contraire! Every year, thousands (thousands!) of good responsible gun owners unintentionally shoot themselves or their buddies in the hand, or foot, or ass, or crotch, or head (that last one seldom turns out well!).
In about 2/3 of those cases, guess what they were doing? Wait for it.... they were CLEANING THEIR GUN AND IT JUST WENT OFF! So there are gun cleaners everywhere, I tell you, and my hat is off to them, having the courage to clean their gun when it is (apparently) such a risky activity.
Condoleezza Rice is profoundly corrupt and has the ethics of a hyena.
I suppose that *does* make her a perfect American corporate board member; it certainly seems to have pleased the cute little righties on Slashdot...
1: If you really want to get through as fast as possible, then at most airports (you'll have to check the airports you use), you want to buy a first-class ticket (or be in your favorite airline's top-tier frequent-flyer program, Delta Medallion Gold/Platinum/Diamond or the equivalent), PLUS sign up for TSA Pre (http://www.tsa.gov/tsa-precheck). The combination of those two things means that at MOST airports MOST of the time you'll bypass the main queue, which is the real-world biggest delay.
2 Well, believe it or not, no TSO wants to pat you down.: If you want to avoid pat-downs, then first you need to not be a brown-skinned male with a beard and an Islamic-sounding name. That sucks, but it's true. Second, don't be a PITA. Don't have weird shit in your carry-on, have your pockets really empty, be polite, pleasant and attentive to everyone you see (just like you do every day, right?).
Oh, also, don't be a heavy sweater. Sorry, but sweat-soaked clothing is an excellent reflector of mm-wave, and those spots will yellow-flag and often get you a quick hand-check.:-)
Normal disposable lighters (Bic or whatever), Zippo lighters, and book matches are all explicitly allowed in US carry-ons. Quantity=1, I think. High-powered cigar "torches" are forbidden.
http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-in...
Zohydro is 10mg time-release hydrocodone. 10/325 hydrocodone/acetaminophen (often brand name Norco) or 10/300 (Vicodin HP) are commonly prescribed in the US for post-op pain.
I'm in the US, and was prescribed 10/325 Norco after outpatient hernia surgery last year. Hated that shit; nausea, impenetrable constipation, pain relief using max dosage was slightly less effective than max dosage OTC ibuprofen, and absolutely no trace of anything even vaguely resembling a high.
The difference with Zohydro is no contaminant acetaminophen, so no risk of liver damage.
As long as a nuclear plant has US standards for quality and testing instead of Japanese standards, we're all set.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but every single commercial nuclear power plant in the US (30+ of which are US-designed GE boiling water plants just like the Daiichi facility) are susceptible to exactly the same failure. A failure of outside electrical feed followed by failure of your onsite diesel generators means catastrophic destruction of the reactor core in a very short time.
Some of the US plants are located right on the banks of the Mississippi River, which is famous for NEVER flooding, of course.
There are zero, that is ZERO passive-safe commercial nuclear power plants operating anywhere in the world. Something like a grand total of 4 in very early construction world wide (none in the US, of course). This is a shame and a scandal, but it's true.
If you were actually concerned about expense to taxpayers, you would be complaining about the cop wasting police department time and money, and the court's time and money, and you would have a point.
As it it is though, you're just being silly.
-Jay-
When a single unit in a rack fails, you just power it off. You don't bother draining the rack until some percentage of the units (5/10/15%, whatever) have failed, then you do them all at once (or more likely by that point, replace the entire rack). They're just interchangeable widgets...
I'm not sure what you're talking about. *All* of my examples were found by x-ray, either in checked luggage or in carry-on. Only a tiny fraction of passengers go through sniffers and swabbing.
"US soldiers usually aren't terrorists"? That's a useless observation. Mathematicians usually aren't terrorists. Men usually aren't terrorists. Musicians usually aren't terrorists. What does that have to do with anything? Sheesh.
And I'm sure the 13 people killed at Ft. Hood are glad to know that you have determined that US soldiers with guns are of no danger to anybody.
You were wrong sonny, be a man and own up to it.:-)
Oh, they've found them all right. There's been more than one US soldier that apparently wanted to take home some C4 as a souvenir, and TSA has found a tape-wrapped water bottle full of flash power (i.e, a plastic pipe bomb).
I'm not surprised they catch the C4 My wife frequently travels with chocolate fudge in her carry-on (she has co-workers that *really* like this one particular fudge), and unfrozen gel icepacks in checked baggage (post half-marathon icedown). Both almost always get handchecked. We know to pack both of those at the *top* of the bag for easy access.
You're a little short on reading comprehension, there, cupcake. Go back and RTFA.
TSA had no problem with Arijit and his wife, and properly passed them right through the checkpoint and on to their gate. It was an idiot Delta gate agent, most likely aided by one or more idiot Delta passengers that decided that Arijit was the wrong color errr, I mean, a threat to safety.
Thereafter, like-minded idiots where found from many different organizations (if you were there, *you* could have volunteered!), but TSA behaved professionally throughout from Arijit's description.
The radiation dose from a properly functioning backscatter xray full-body scanner is about 0.6 Sv. The dose from a properly functioning chest CT scan is about 7mSv, 10000x larger.
(Doesn't change my opinion that all full-body airport scanners are a waste of money, and xray backscatter scanners in particular should be banned.)
But the FDA is right to focus on over-prescribed medical xray procedures.
They bring farm-raised pigeons out to the "hunting site" in cages. Now, they could just stand around the cages and blow the shit out of the pigeons and be done with it, but instead, they consider it "sporting" to stand around the cages, then open the cage doors, and *then* blow the shit out of the pigeons. These people are sick little fucks.
Not only that, but the mighty hunters in question knew exactly how fucked-up their little party was, and were so ashamed of what they were doing that they A) stopped just because some PETA folks were watching, and B) took pot-shots at the RC helicopter. Manly men, to be sure.
-Jay-
Yes, I get the feeling that TSA and/or the airports and/or ??? are realizing that using backscatter x-ray scanners is a bad idea.
My home airport, PDX, just announced they'll be fully deploying new scanners just in time for the holiday travel season (joy), and they are mm-wave RF. The waste of time and money still pisses me off, but at least I don't have to go through the PITA of opting out for safety reasons now.
Your friends' argument is bogus; they don't need to worry (much) about what happens the the damn thing is working correctly; what matters is what happens when it is broken.
I go ahead and use the millimeter wave scanners and opt out of the backscatter x-ray scanners.
That's based not on civil liberty, but on safety. There's really not much the mm-wave scanners can do to you if they fail; the hardware just isn't there to give you the microwave popcorn treatment no matter what breaks. On the other hand, a broken backscatter x-ray scanner could hit you with an x-ray hot-spot and do serious damage.
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I'd venture to say people are just as unlikely to clean and oil their gun and install fresh ammunition..
Au contraire! Every year, thousands (thousands!) of good responsible gun owners unintentionally shoot themselves or their buddies in the hand, or foot, or ass, or crotch, or head (that last one seldom turns out well!).
In about 2/3 of those cases, guess what they were doing? Wait for it.... they were CLEANING THEIR GUN AND IT JUST WENT OFF! So there are gun cleaners everywhere, I tell you, and my hat is off to them, having the courage to clean their gun when it is (apparently) such a risky activity.
Jay
Condoleezza Rice is profoundly corrupt and has the ethics of a hyena. I suppose that *does* make her a perfect American corporate board member; it certainly seems to have pleased the cute little righties on Slashdot...
2 Well, believe it or not, no TSO wants to pat you down.: If you want to avoid pat-downs, then first you need to not be a brown-skinned male with a beard and an Islamic-sounding name. That sucks, but it's true. Second, don't be a PITA. Don't have weird shit in your carry-on, have your pockets really empty, be polite, pleasant and attentive to everyone you see (just like you do every day, right?).
Oh, also, don't be a heavy sweater. Sorry, but sweat-soaked clothing is an excellent reflector of mm-wave, and those spots will yellow-flag and often get you a quick hand-check. :-)
-Jay-
Normal disposable lighters (Bic or whatever), Zippo lighters, and book matches are all explicitly allowed in US carry-ons. Quantity=1, I think. High-powered cigar "torches" are forbidden. http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-in...
Ah, I didn't look hard enough; made in dosages from 10-50mg per capsule.
Exactly right. -Jay-
Bingo. -Jay-
So it's much like 10/325 Norco or 10/300 Vicodin HP, but without the acetaminophen.
I'm in the US, and was prescribed 10/325 Norco after outpatient hernia surgery last year. Hated that shit; nausea, impenetrable constipation, pain relief using max dosage was slightly less effective than max dosage OTC ibuprofen, and absolutely no trace of anything even vaguely resembling a high.
The difference with Zohydro is no contaminant acetaminophen, so no risk of liver damage.
As long as a nuclear plant has US standards for quality and testing instead of Japanese standards, we're all set.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but every single commercial nuclear power plant in the US (30+ of which are US-designed GE boiling water plants just like the Daiichi facility) are susceptible to exactly the same failure. A failure of outside electrical feed followed by failure of your onsite diesel generators means catastrophic destruction of the reactor core in a very short time.
Some of the US plants are located right on the banks of the Mississippi River, which is famous for NEVER flooding, of course.
There are zero, that is ZERO passive-safe commercial nuclear power plants operating anywhere in the world. Something like a grand total of 4 in very early construction world wide (none in the US, of course). This is a shame and a scandal, but it's true.
That's "the lamestream media" to you, racist.
If you were actually concerned about expense to taxpayers, you would be complaining about the cop wasting police department time and money, and the court's time and money, and you would have a point. As it it is though, you're just being silly. -Jay-
Yup, if I'm the local fire department with one of these compute farms in my city, I really want to know what the decomposition products are...
When a single unit in a rack fails, you just power it off. You don't bother draining the rack until some percentage of the units (5/10/15%, whatever) have failed, then you do them all at once (or more likely by that point, replace the entire rack). They're just interchangeable widgets...
"US soldiers usually aren't terrorists"? That's a useless observation. Mathematicians usually aren't terrorists. Men usually aren't terrorists. Musicians usually aren't terrorists. What does that have to do with anything? Sheesh.
And I'm sure the 13 people killed at Ft. Hood are glad to know that you have determined that US soldiers with guns are of no danger to anybody.
You were wrong sonny, be a man and own up to it. :-)
I'm not surprised they catch the C4 My wife frequently travels with chocolate fudge in her carry-on (she has co-workers that *really* like this one particular fudge), and unfrozen gel icepacks in checked baggage (post half-marathon icedown). Both almost always get handchecked. We know to pack both of those at the *top* of the bag for easy access.
-Jay-
TSA had no problem with Arijit and his wife, and properly passed them right through the checkpoint and on to their gate. It was an idiot Delta gate agent, most likely aided by one or more idiot Delta passengers that decided that Arijit was the wrong color errr, I mean, a threat to safety.
Thereafter, like-minded idiots where found from many different organizations (if you were there, *you* could have volunteered!), but TSA behaved professionally throughout from Arijit's description.
Heh, Slashdot silently swallowed my carefully crafted "mu". That should be 0.6e-06 Sv.
(Doesn't change my opinion that all full-body airport scanners are a waste of money, and xray backscatter scanners in particular should be banned.)
But the FDA is right to focus on over-prescribed medical xray procedures.
They bring farm-raised pigeons out to the "hunting site" in cages. Now, they could just stand around the cages and blow the shit out of the pigeons and be done with it, but instead, they consider it "sporting" to stand around the cages, then open the cage doors, and *then* blow the shit out of the pigeons. These people are sick little fucks.
Not only that, but the mighty hunters in question knew exactly how fucked-up their little party was, and were so ashamed of what they were doing that they A) stopped just because some PETA folks were watching, and B) took pot-shots at the RC helicopter. Manly men, to be sure. -Jay-
My home airport, PDX, just announced they'll be fully deploying new scanners just in time for the holiday travel season (joy), and they are mm-wave RF. The waste of time and money still pisses me off, but at least I don't have to go through the PITA of opting out for safety reasons now.
I go ahead and use the millimeter wave scanners and opt out of the backscatter x-ray scanners.
That's based not on civil liberty, but on safety. There's really not much the mm-wave scanners can do to you if they fail; the hardware just isn't there to give you the microwave popcorn treatment no matter what breaks. On the other hand, a broken backscatter x-ray scanner could hit you with an x-ray hot-spot and do serious damage.
-Jay-
that I am totally in love with your wife. Hope you don't mind! -Jay-
Look around. See any typewriters?.
Gawd, it must be nice to be so entirely irony-free. :-)