"Note that the First Amendment itself does not differentiate between commercial and non-commercial speech, and thus the courts have tended to err on the side of freedom in commercial speech. There are of course exceptions for things that are deceptive, defamatory, libelous, and harmful; however, for the most part, if what you have to say, even in a commercial enterprise, if it's true, it's pretty much fair game."
Wow, some politicians are _REALLY_ missing the big one then... they should tax Deceptive, Defamatory, Libelous and Harmful speech, since this is not covered by the first ammendment __AND__ is incredibly prevalent both online and in the "Real World", they would RAKE it in big time. And as an "unintended side-effect" they would cause people to clean up their acts. Only the truly wealthy would be able to call someone a dirty, low-life mother-fucker... and afford it.
"but describes one recently at a high school where the presenter showed a social-networking profile of a convicted sex offender posing as a 15 year-old girl. "
As opposed to the undercover police officer doing the same thing... ?
I think there's an equal reason to be concerned about the health hazards associated with the pinheads on the city council, and whomever the incumbent ilec is who is undoubtedly the one behind the scare.
Let's all just get together and put together an online payment system that's based on Peer-to-Peer communication (and we'll throw in some DRM just for spite). Then we'll send our Comcast payments through the new Peer-to-Peer DRM'ized Payment system and we'll see how quick they are to fuck with the packets then... Also, we'll add specific requirements as to how they can spend the money, how much they can pay their Board and CEO, how often they can jack up their rates, and other fun things-- isn't DRM grand??? Its a terrific system-- especially when its applied EQUALLY in BOTH directions!
1) It requires getting up off your ass and at least writing a letter
2) It requires being able to contact other people to get the word out, meet other like-minded folks, and to organize a group of people to follow some particular action (good luck). This generally means you have to post/appear somewhere that matters-- for example, Slashdot is a bad example, their editors are arbitrary and capricious assholes, it is rare that anyone actually is able to submit anything to Slashdot and get it posted. Newspapers, Magazines, TV, etc are even harder, though you can probably get the occasional letter-to-the-editor published in your hometown newspaper.
3) In order to back up your words (assuming you got past items #1 & #2) you have to figure out what other providers there are that are better (good luck there too) and get your group to agree to transfer services there (or at least threaten to) as a block. Individual people aren't likely to have much luck here-- the telcos today have so many subscribers they don't really give a rat's ass about any few of them.
4) It helps if you can whip up some media attention (as in step #2) but good luck there too since most of the reporter types I've met are generally jaded assholes too (but there are exceptions now and again). It helps a lot if you can points to gallons of blood gushing from a router or something like that. Reporters like blood (unless its their own), it sells papers. You can also use a cute animal like a puppy or a kitten. Reporters are suckers for puppies and kittens. And just think of the publicity you could drum up with a BLOODY puppy or kitten! And for extra credit its good to get a celebrity figure like maybe Charleton Heston or Ted Nugent-- they could probably help you with the bloody puppies and kittens too.
5) Then you need to figure out some way to get your ISP to care-- like taking your reporter to the back of their building to show them the pipe spewing bloody puppies and kittens might be a good way to start-- companies don't like that sort of negative publicity-- but they'll deny it was them in any case and hire lawyers and PR people to smile and deny it on camera and sue anybody who doesn't believe them.
Wonder how good Apple would be at making a world-class sports car?
Sure it has a pretty touch-screen interface you can poke with your finger... too bad it only goes 47.6 miles an hour and Apple is the only place you can get fuel for it. On the other hand, it is nice that it comes in all those different colors... Red and Black were getting a little boring.
Because Microsoft is dead. It died years ago. And like the big festering lumbering dinosaur it is, it will take it awhile to realize it and keel over. They have enough cash that they could probably coast along for many more years. But their focus is gone, their software is shittier than it ever was, their strong-arm monopolistic practices have slowly over time built-up a resistance and resentment in practically every quarter of the computer industry, and their sheer money-grubbing greed has resulted in them torquing the EULA tighter and tighter into a noose they're strangling their customers AND themselves with. I am constantly amazed at how corporate America continues to go along with it.
That's because its painfully obvious that the only speech that matters is that of whomever is the "authority". For example, the Bushit administration and the Repugnicant party go out of their way to coral and herd political dissent off-camera and out-of-the-way. They do this under the banner of "protecting the president" or some other bullshit. Of course any moron with even a single neuron can quickly grasp that the fastest way to actually not protect the president would be to carry an "I love Bushit" banner. Then you get to be front and center and can more easily accomplish whatever your objective is. When he's heckled at speeches, rallies and whatnot, he just stares into the camera, gives that goofy fucking grin, whilst whomever it was is carried-out bodily by big men with guns, and says "I just love free speech." and the crowd has to do their obligatory chuckle. Dissent of those in-power in this country is quickly and easily turned aside with a witticism after which they turn right back around and continue fucking us over. And people in this country keep electing these douche-bags over and over for the stupidest of reasons. Repugnicant, Demoflat-- what difference does it actually make when anybody who actually tries to combat and take on the system is brushed aside while the rest line up like pigs at the trough? Don't misunderstand, I'm not advocating simply rolling over and expiring-- its important to continue to fight and challenge these practices. But its a lot like watching a strong, well-financed, well-practiced and well-seasoned football team take on and beat the holy crap out of a weaker, junior rival. Even when the junior team has heart and tenacity, the stronger team still tends to win out if only because of their greater familiarity and practice of the game. So the junior team wins a game or two, or makes a good play-- what difference does that generally tend to make in the long run? And the well-entrenched stronger team knows it. Its not because their position is superior or their motives more pure, its because they are more practiced at the techniques of corruption, political backstabbing and general dirty-tricks. They know what to say and when to say it to laughingly dismiss the typical dissenter-- and if that doesn't work, they bury them in lawyers, call in cops with tear gas and riot gear, or claim "national security" and make them "disappear". That's why speech is free in America. What was once a healthy and important commentary and call to action is now laugh-fodder for savvy political players. Why not let the rabble say what's on their mind? Its extremely rare that any particular one can actually roust up the rest long enough to do any harm. And giving them the "right" makes them feel better about themselves and their illusory ability to "challenge government". Each of them think-- "Yup, this freedom of speech thing is a pretty good idea. I know that I can challenge my government any time and they would listen-- if I wanted to... Ooops, I'm about to miss American Idol!" In truth the issues that bind us are generally far greater than the issues that divide us. The problem is that in our modern world it is ever increasingly difficult to pull enough of us together to matter. So why would Bushit care if someone heckles him with God's own truth? He'll laugh it off, nobody else can (public ally, on-the-spot and in-the-moment) refute him, so the whole thing is diffused and not worthy of further action. The REAL channels of communication are all but locked-away from the average citizen. Sure you can write a letter to the editor, or get your "15-minutes of fame"-- but unless you're just incredibly lucky AND have a camera presence to back it up (ie. you can naturally get ratings so can sell toothpaste and tampons) that's your shot. Everybody who's in the game longer than that very quickly wises up to the reality that there is only so much you can ACTUALLY SAY in a REAL communication channel-- only so far you can push it-- before the dirty-tricks committee comes gunning for you to take you out one way or th
This is just proof that those sycophantic Repugnicant fat slobs with microphones are just moronic idiots lacking even the meager technical prowess of a used Kleenex.
The article is assuming that people are actually _concerned_ about security, as opposed to the _illusion_ and _game_ (read: commerce surrounding) security.
So many of the things that organizations (particularly government organizations) do to "improve security" are really exercises in "security theater" to make management and certain "nervous nellie" types feel better about the complex machines and complex processes they oversee but don't have a prayer in hell of ever really understanding.
Real security begins as a culture of accountability and responsibility, along with the understanding that anything is only ever as secure as the awareness of the people managing it and their physical ability to secure and defend it. It is an ongoing, top-down set of procedures and processes along with a community (constituency) oriented communication and education effort designed to teach _and_ engage the user community about security awareness and the various procedures.
You can't buy a one-size-fits all security thingy and expect to turn it on and have it to work forever in all cases all of the time. And yet that is exactly the mentality of so many people I encounter on a routine basis-- particularly where I work at a large govt agency-- and MOST particularly the _security people themselves_ !! I suppose the closer you are to an issue the harder it is to really see it maybe.
You missed the point. The whole idea is to limit the amount of liquids that could potentially be explosive or mixed together to be explosives because they CANNOT or DO NOT actually test for actual explosives. What other reason could there be?
The whole screening for liquids thing is ludicrous. And if taking down an airplane with liquids, even a binary liquid, it would be TRIVIAL for a terrorist to accomplish.
To wit, that big-bosomed woman who just waltzed past security might be carrying the explosive liquid in her BOOBS. Those 44DD's could be filled with explosive liquid and detonated on the plane. They more than exceed the 3-1-1 designation (by a large margin).
Are you forcing women with large mammeries to choose one or the other to toss out before getting on the plane? Are you checking to make sure those implants are still filled with saline? Just what ARE the TSA procedures for inspecting women with large gazoombas anyway?
Considering that terrorists are employing women more and more as suicide bombers, the case I'm proposing is not as jocular as might at first be presupposed.
My suggestion to the TSA regarding "Security Theater" -- remember that the first job of the actor is to convince the audience to "suspend their disbelief."
I doubt however that you will actually post this letter though since it actually makes sense and points out the absurdities that have been foisted upon the American people in the name of "fighting terrorism".
For that matter, you could always store your sensitive stuff on a second hard drive and then just unhook it before coming home. Then they only see one drive and its not the main one. Are they going to open every computer to see what else is inside? Or you could mount a USB drive inside the case and wire it up internally with a switch.
But those are all subversive tactics. In fact, most of the tactics described here, from mailing it home ahead of time to uploading it to your home server and then wiping the laptop version-- are all subversive tactics. By employing any of these tactics you are essentially saying, "Yeah, I know what I'm doing is an attempt to foil the search by the customs/border agents." Which is tantamount to agreeing that you have something to hide when the REAL issue is that they ARE searching electronic data and COPYING IT TOO, which should be screaming constitutional class-action lawsuit and bringing corrupt officials up on charges.
What they are doing is re-creating the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany here in America. And we're all a bunch of pussies letting them get away with it.
How many people here wonder how and why the German people sat back and let the Nazis take over? Wonder why nobody stood up and did anything to stop it? Or the Russians let people like Lenin and Stalin take over-- or the Tsars before them?
Same reason as you and me are allowing it to happen here in the United States, today, now, in our own backyards.
How can you stop it? I don't know-- banding together is the only way I can think of. But people today have too many petty self-interests and the politicos know that all they have to do is wave a red flag in front of some set of groups and we're all busy fighting amongst ourselves. Or play the terrorism card. Or the drugs card. Or say its "in the name of the children". Or some such asinine thing. And they'll have us so busy pointing fingers at each other that we won't think to point those fingers at them.
The things that unite ALL of us are FAR GREATER than the things that divide us. And yet we allow ourselves to get bogged-down by the merest mention of race or gender, or scared silly of the terrorist boogeymen. And if that doesn't work, they rock our economy so we have to worry about things at home.
There are forces that are actively taking over our country, whether there is a defined plot to do so or not. And in the end it wont matter whether it was declared or not, it will just be gone.
Remember those immmortal words spoken by that great American patriot-- George W Bush (ugh, I can't believe I even wrote that):
"If we change the way we do things, then the Terrorists have won."
I believe that was right before he started us down a completely unprecedented path of... changing things.
Remember how he vowed to catch Osama Bin Ladin "Dead or Alive"?
How's that coming?
Bin Ladin is a perfect Snowball in great Orwellian tradition.
When inspectors look in your suitcase they can (presumably) take all the time they need/want, but when its done, unless they are specifically confiscating something, you walk away with your suitcase and all your contents intact.
When inspectors look into your hard drive, cell phone or other electronic device, its the same thing-- UNTIL they copy it-- and then its not the same.
They can THEN use that data at their leisure, for as long as they like and however they like, and combine it, shape it, roll it and smoke it into any form they want forever afterwards. They can't do that with your suitcase.
That's the difference. You just can't do that kind of thing in the United States...
Slashdot Mirror
"Note that the First Amendment itself does not differentiate between commercial and non-commercial speech, and thus the courts have tended to err on the side of freedom in commercial speech. There are of course exceptions for things that are deceptive, defamatory, libelous, and harmful; however, for the most part, if what you have to say, even in a commercial enterprise, if it's true, it's pretty much fair game."
Wow, some politicians are _REALLY_ missing the big one then... they should tax Deceptive, Defamatory, Libelous and Harmful speech, since this is not covered by the first ammendment __AND__ is incredibly prevalent both online and in the "Real World", they would RAKE it in big time. And as an "unintended side-effect" they would cause people to clean up their acts. Only the truly wealthy would be able to call someone a dirty, low-life mother-fucker... and afford it.
"but describes one recently at a high school where the presenter showed a social-networking profile of a convicted sex offender posing as a 15 year-old girl. "
As opposed to the undercover police officer doing the same thing... ?
"Low doses of hydrogen sulfide, the toxic gas responsible for the unpleasant odor of rotten eggs"
Hey Dude, smell my fart for like 20 or 30 years man!"
I think there's an equal reason to be concerned about the health hazards associated with the pinheads on the city council, and whomever the incumbent ilec is who is undoubtedly the one behind the scare.
Tell him to read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". There's a digital candidacy for you.
morons. confusing opposing opinion for flamebait.
Let's all just get together and put together an online payment system that's based on Peer-to-Peer communication (and we'll throw in some DRM just for spite). Then we'll send our Comcast payments through the new Peer-to-Peer DRM'ized Payment system and we'll see how quick they are to fuck with the packets then... Also, we'll add specific requirements as to how they can spend the money, how much they can pay their Board and CEO, how often they can jack up their rates, and other fun things-- isn't DRM grand??? Its a terrific system-- especially when its applied EQUALLY in BOTH directions!
1) It requires getting up off your ass and at least writing a letter
2) It requires being able to contact other people to get the word out, meet other like-minded folks, and to organize a group of people to follow some particular action (good luck). This generally means you have to post/appear somewhere that matters-- for example, Slashdot is a bad example, their editors are arbitrary and capricious assholes, it is rare that anyone actually is able to submit anything to Slashdot and get it posted. Newspapers, Magazines, TV, etc are even harder, though you can probably get the occasional letter-to-the-editor published in your hometown newspaper.
3) In order to back up your words (assuming you got past items #1 & #2) you have to figure out what other providers there are that are better (good luck there too) and get your group to agree to transfer services there (or at least threaten to) as a block. Individual people aren't likely to have much luck here-- the telcos today have so many subscribers they don't really give a rat's ass about any few of them.
4) It helps if you can whip up some media attention (as in step #2) but good luck there too since most of the reporter types I've met are generally jaded assholes too (but there are exceptions now and again). It helps a lot if you can points to gallons of blood gushing from a router or something like that. Reporters like blood (unless its their own), it sells papers. You can also use a cute animal like a puppy or a kitten. Reporters are suckers for puppies and kittens. And just think of the publicity you could drum up with a BLOODY puppy or kitten! And for extra credit its good to get a celebrity figure like maybe Charleton Heston or Ted Nugent-- they could probably help you with the bloody puppies and kittens too.
5) Then you need to figure out some way to get your ISP to care-- like taking your reporter to the back of their building to show them the pipe spewing bloody puppies and kittens might be a good way to start-- companies don't like that sort of negative publicity-- but they'll deny it was them in any case and hire lawyers and PR people to smile and deny it on camera and sue anybody who doesn't believe them.
Wonder how good Apple would be at making a world-class sports car?
Sure it has a pretty touch-screen interface you can poke with your finger... too bad it only goes 47.6 miles an hour and Apple is the only place you can get fuel for it. On the other hand, it is nice that it comes in all those different colors... Red and Black were getting a little boring.
SCO == Slimy Conniving Obfuscators
or if you prefer:
Smelly Cumwad Onanists
Smarmy Cretinous Organization
Scat Consuming Organisms
Smoke Casting Operators
Sue-happy Criminal Operation
Silly Craven Oblocutors
Sullen Crooked Obscurators
Seed Capital Obliterators
Silly Corporate Odditorium
Shit Casting Odibles
Saccadic Cacogenic Onomancers
Sacculiformed Coprolithic Oschealopaths
Salacious Contumacious Ophidians
Sanctimonious Contemptuous Opisthosomes
Why is this any worse or better than the big corporations and wealthy fat-cat elites do it to us?
Because Microsoft is dead. It died years ago. And like the big festering lumbering dinosaur it is, it will take it awhile to realize it and keel over. They have enough cash that they could probably coast along for many more years. But their focus is gone, their software is shittier than it ever was, their strong-arm monopolistic practices have slowly over time built-up a resistance and resentment in practically every quarter of the computer industry, and their sheer money-grubbing greed has resulted in them torquing the EULA tighter and tighter into a noose they're strangling their customers AND themselves with. I am constantly amazed at how corporate America continues to go along with it.
That's because its painfully obvious that the only speech that matters is that of whomever is the "authority". For example, the Bushit administration and the Repugnicant party go out of their way to coral and herd political dissent off-camera and out-of-the-way. They do this under the banner of "protecting the president" or some other bullshit. Of course any moron with even a single neuron can quickly grasp that the fastest way to actually not protect the president would be to carry an "I love Bushit" banner. Then you get to be front and center and can more easily accomplish whatever your objective is. When he's heckled at speeches, rallies and whatnot, he just stares into the camera, gives that goofy fucking grin, whilst whomever it was is carried-out bodily by big men with guns, and says "I just love free speech." and the crowd has to do their obligatory chuckle. Dissent of those in-power in this country is quickly and easily turned aside with a witticism after which they turn right back around and continue fucking us over. And people in this country keep electing these douche-bags over and over for the stupidest of reasons. Repugnicant, Demoflat-- what difference does it actually make when anybody who actually tries to combat and take on the system is brushed aside while the rest line up like pigs at the trough? Don't misunderstand, I'm not advocating simply rolling over and expiring-- its important to continue to fight and challenge these practices. But its a lot like watching a strong, well-financed, well-practiced and well-seasoned football team take on and beat the holy crap out of a weaker, junior rival. Even when the junior team has heart and tenacity, the stronger team still tends to win out if only because of their greater familiarity and practice of the game. So the junior team wins a game or two, or makes a good play-- what difference does that generally tend to make in the long run? And the well-entrenched stronger team knows it. Its not because their position is superior or their motives more pure, its because they are more practiced at the techniques of corruption, political backstabbing and general dirty-tricks. They know what to say and when to say it to laughingly dismiss the typical dissenter-- and if that doesn't work, they bury them in lawyers, call in cops with tear gas and riot gear, or claim "national security" and make them "disappear". That's why speech is free in America. What was once a healthy and important commentary and call to action is now laugh-fodder for savvy political players. Why not let the rabble say what's on their mind? Its extremely rare that any particular one can actually roust up the rest long enough to do any harm. And giving them the "right" makes them feel better about themselves and their illusory ability to "challenge government". Each of them think-- "Yup, this freedom of speech thing is a pretty good idea. I know that I can challenge my government any time and they would listen-- if I wanted to... Ooops, I'm about to miss American Idol!" In truth the issues that bind us are generally far greater than the issues that divide us. The problem is that in our modern world it is ever increasingly difficult to pull enough of us together to matter. So why would Bushit care if someone heckles him with God's own truth? He'll laugh it off, nobody else can (public ally, on-the-spot and in-the-moment) refute him, so the whole thing is diffused and not worthy of further action. The REAL channels of communication are all but locked-away from the average citizen. Sure you can write a letter to the editor, or get your "15-minutes of fame"-- but unless you're just incredibly lucky AND have a camera presence to back it up (ie. you can naturally get ratings so can sell toothpaste and tampons) that's your shot. Everybody who's in the game longer than that very quickly wises up to the reality that there is only so much you can ACTUALLY SAY in a REAL communication channel-- only so far you can push it-- before the dirty-tricks committee comes gunning for you to take you out one way or th
This is just proof that those sycophantic Repugnicant fat slobs with microphones are just moronic idiots lacking even the meager technical prowess of a used Kleenex.
Come-on, gimme some Dittos.
Good riddance. The air smells better already. Okay, everybody can relax and loosen-up the grip on their valuables, the crooks have left the building.
And just think, all it took was the rest of the house to have some backbone to get it done.
Ah, stagnation. Where would we be without the good, old predictable Demoflats?
The article is assuming that people are actually _concerned_ about security, as opposed to the _illusion_ and _game_ (read: commerce surrounding) security.
So many of the things that organizations (particularly government organizations) do to "improve security" are really exercises in "security theater" to make management and certain "nervous nellie" types feel better about the complex machines and complex processes they oversee but don't have a prayer in hell of ever really understanding.
Real security begins as a culture of accountability and responsibility, along with the understanding that anything is only ever as secure as the awareness of the people managing it and their physical ability to secure and defend it. It is an ongoing, top-down set of procedures and processes along with a community (constituency) oriented communication and education effort designed to teach _and_ engage the user community about security awareness and the various procedures.
You can't buy a one-size-fits all security thingy and expect to turn it on and have it to work forever in all cases all of the time. And yet that is exactly the mentality of so many people I encounter on a routine basis-- particularly where I work at a large govt agency-- and MOST particularly the _security people themselves_ !! I suppose the closer you are to an issue the harder it is to really see it maybe.
Nah, no worries, the government never lies.
You missed the point. The whole idea is to limit the amount of liquids that could potentially be explosive or mixed together to be explosives because they CANNOT or DO NOT actually test for actual explosives. What other reason could there be?
You wouldn't have to worry about the 3-1-1 liquid limit though since he doesn't have enough brain matter to be an issue.
The whole screening for liquids thing is ludicrous. And if taking down an airplane with liquids, even a binary liquid, it would be TRIVIAL for a terrorist to accomplish.
To wit, that big-bosomed woman who just waltzed past security might be carrying the explosive liquid in her BOOBS. Those 44DD's could be filled with explosive liquid and detonated on the plane. They more than exceed the 3-1-1 designation (by a large margin).
Are you forcing women with large mammeries to choose one or the other to toss out before getting on the plane? Are you checking to make sure those implants are still filled with saline? Just what ARE the TSA procedures for inspecting women with large gazoombas anyway?
Considering that terrorists are employing women more and more as suicide bombers, the case I'm proposing is not as jocular as might at first be presupposed.
My suggestion to the TSA regarding "Security Theater" -- remember that the first job of the actor is to convince the audience to "suspend their disbelief."
I doubt however that you will actually post this letter though since it actually makes sense and points out the absurdities that have been foisted upon the American people in the name of "fighting terrorism".
For that matter, you could always store your sensitive stuff on a second hard drive and then just unhook it before coming home. Then they only see one drive and its not the main one. Are they going to open every computer to see what else is inside? Or you could mount a USB drive inside the case and wire it up internally with a switch.
But those are all subversive tactics. In fact, most of the tactics described here, from mailing it home ahead of time to uploading it to your home server and then wiping the laptop version-- are all subversive tactics. By employing any of these tactics you are essentially saying, "Yeah, I know what I'm doing is an attempt to foil the search by the customs/border agents." Which is tantamount to agreeing that you have something to hide when the REAL issue is that they ARE searching electronic data and COPYING IT TOO, which should be screaming constitutional class-action lawsuit and bringing corrupt officials up on charges.
What they are doing is re-creating the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany here in America. And we're all a bunch of pussies letting them get away with it.
How many people here wonder how and why the German people sat back and let the Nazis take over? Wonder why nobody stood up and did anything to stop it? Or the Russians let people like Lenin and Stalin take over-- or the Tsars before them?
Same reason as you and me are allowing it to happen here in the United States, today, now, in our own backyards.
How can you stop it? I don't know-- banding together is the only way I can think of. But people today have too many petty self-interests and the politicos know that all they have to do is wave a red flag in front of some set of groups and we're all busy fighting amongst ourselves. Or play the terrorism card. Or the drugs card. Or say its "in the name of the children". Or some such asinine thing. And they'll have us so busy pointing fingers at each other that we won't think to point those fingers at them.
The things that unite ALL of us are FAR GREATER than the things that divide us. And yet we allow ourselves to get bogged-down by the merest mention of race or gender, or scared silly of the terrorist boogeymen. And if that doesn't work, they rock our economy so we have to worry about things at home.
There are forces that are actively taking over our country, whether there is a defined plot to do so or not. And in the end it wont matter whether it was declared or not, it will just be gone.
Remember those immmortal words spoken by that great American patriot-- George W Bush (ugh, I can't believe I even wrote that):
"If we change the way we do things, then the Terrorists have won."
I believe that was right before he started us down a completely unprecedented path of... changing things.
Remember how he vowed to catch Osama Bin Ladin "Dead or Alive"?
How's that coming?
Bin Ladin is a perfect Snowball in great Orwellian tradition.
Just remember, two legs good, four legs bad.
When inspectors look in your suitcase they can (presumably) take all the time they need/want, but when its done, unless they are specifically confiscating something, you walk away with your suitcase and all your contents intact.
When inspectors look into your hard drive, cell phone or other electronic device, its the same thing-- UNTIL they copy it-- and then its not the same.
They can THEN use that data at their leisure, for as long as they like and however they like, and combine it, shape it, roll it and smoke it into any form they want forever afterwards. They can't do that with your suitcase.
That's the difference. You just can't do that kind of thing in the United States...
of Nazi Germany...???
Oh right then, Carry on.
Oh wait, I've never watched it before in the first place.
My bad.
You can go back to being ignorant, greedy, moronic mother-fuckers now.
What do you mean NEXT??? That was FIRST!
E-Postal-- you know, put a little BLAM in that SPAM!