An explosive-sniffing dog can detect a suicide bomber. Of course, this assumes that the bomber wants to bother with an aircraft vs just targeting the security lines themselves.
ID checks for hotels are at least understandable since they wanted to know whom to bill for damage to a room if it happened. ID checks on airlines prior to 9/11 were a bit of a joke -- they'd accept a university ID or anything with a photo that vaguely looked like you.
I'm not worried about TSA -- the real security measures are things like reinforced flight deck doors + 2-person rule, non-cooperation with hijackers, etc. None of those are controlled by TSA. If you're worried about bombs, you can have airport police sweep a line with explosive-sniffing dogs and hand-search any luggage that they alert on.
I'm worried about air traffic control. Stressful as hell job that's made more stressful by worries about money, and consequences of failure can be a disaster.
A scam, and they're not even particularly good at finding large knives, guns, and other things that are actually dangerous on board an aircraft. For a while, they were good at finding cash and turning the owners over to authorities (even when flying domestically where any amount of cash is legal). Checkers were basically bribed by police and DEA to look for cash. This actually reduced security, since they were biased to look for lucrative vs actually dangerous items.
FDA, Air Traffic Control, Parks Service, etc are all needed. But yet the media chooses to harp on the plight of the poor TSA smurfs. You know, the people who say "papers please" before you're boarding a flight in your own country and make you pass through a nudie-scanner or get your crotch groped by them. Yeah, yeah, they're "just doing their jobs." Guess what? If no one was willing to do the job, the job wouldn't be so obnoxious.
Keep everything else, but if TSA were all fired (but we kept real security measures like armed crew, air marshals, reinforced/locked flight deck doors, and a policy of non-cooperation with hijackers), and replaced with private security, it would be a net gain for freedom in the USA.
As it is, the TSA was mostly created as corporate welfare for airlines. It took security out of their hands, thus washed their hands of liability. Strict ID checks also make re-sale of tickets more difficult, thus protect airlines' revenue stream from change fees.
The French actually did better than that. They're not cowards, so they continued to build nuclear power plants through the present -- 75% of their electrical power is electrical, and most of their railroads (for freight as well) are electrified. They're far ahead of other countries in squashing CO2 production.
Out of curiosity, what does London use for work/construction trains in the Tube? NYC uses diesel locomotives. Probably not as bad as a coal-burning steam engine, but if a work train with a locomotive or two passes through a station, the air gets pretty foul Fortunately, diesel engines don't produce much carbon monoxide, but it can't be healthy for the crews who work near the work trains for hours every day.
Yep, here's something to start with. The DEA thugs that murdered innocent people in Honduras should have been put on trial over there and ended up in front of a firing squad.
Easy enough to disable the sensors once your car is inspected. Then just re-enable them for the next inspection in two years (assuming you live in a state that gives a fuck).
You tax all electricity -- a kWh is a kWh and makes the same amount of CO2 (depending on source) regardless of where it is used. Give a tax credit for the poor below a certain income.
As far as having one's own solar system, the obvious solution is not to tax it -- that would encourage installation of solar systems.
If you want to tax mileage, tax tires and require annual inspections to check for safe tires. Tire wear correlates pretty well to miles traveled and vehicle weight.
Ideally by public flogging, I may add. Unless it's in an apartment building with common structure, I'd never want to own a home in an HOA-infested area.
Ecosystems aren't "isolated" -- pollution and toxins blow in with the winds. Insect breeding sites outside the area being damaged may affect populations outside the immediate area. Ecology ain't simple -- we still have a lot to learn about it. In the meantime, best not to f**k with Mother Gaia.
Brings to mind this quote, possibly by Alanis Obomsawin... "When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money."
Also, crops are one thing, but I'm fine with banning frivolous uses of pesticides and herbicides. Nope, you don't get to have a perfect, green, dandelion-free lawn to impress Mr. and Mrs. Stepford next door. Mother Gaia is more important than the fuckin' Stepfords.
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An explosive-sniffing dog can detect a suicide bomber. Of course, this assumes that the bomber wants to bother with an aircraft vs just targeting the security lines themselves.
ID checks for hotels are at least understandable since they wanted to know whom to bill for damage to a room if it happened. ID checks on airlines prior to 9/11 were a bit of a joke -- they'd accept a university ID or anything with a photo that vaguely looked like you.
I'm not worried about TSA -- the real security measures are things like reinforced flight deck doors + 2-person rule, non-cooperation with hijackers, etc. None of those are controlled by TSA. If you're worried about bombs, you can have airport police sweep a line with explosive-sniffing dogs and hand-search any luggage that they alert on.
I'm worried about air traffic control. Stressful as hell job that's made more stressful by worries about money, and consequences of failure can be a disaster.
A scam, and they're not even particularly good at finding large knives, guns, and other things that are actually dangerous on board an aircraft. For a while, they were good at finding cash and turning the owners over to authorities (even when flying domestically where any amount of cash is legal). Checkers were basically bribed by police and DEA to look for cash. This actually reduced security, since they were biased to look for lucrative vs actually dangerous items.
FDA, Air Traffic Control, Parks Service, etc are all needed. But yet the media chooses to harp on the plight of the poor TSA smurfs. You know, the people who say "papers please" before you're boarding a flight in your own country and make you pass through a nudie-scanner or get your crotch groped by them. Yeah, yeah, they're "just doing their jobs." Guess what? If no one was willing to do the job, the job wouldn't be so obnoxious.
Keep everything else, but if TSA were all fired (but we kept real security measures like armed crew, air marshals, reinforced/locked flight deck doors, and a policy of non-cooperation with hijackers), and replaced with private security, it would be a net gain for freedom in the USA.
As it is, the TSA was mostly created as corporate welfare for airlines. It took security out of their hands, thus washed their hands of liability. Strict ID checks also make re-sale of tickets more difficult, thus protect airlines' revenue stream from change fees.
The French actually did better than that. They're not cowards, so they continued to build nuclear power plants through the present -- 75% of their electrical power is electrical, and most of their railroads (for freight as well) are electrified. They're far ahead of other countries in squashing CO2 production.
Out of curiosity, what does London use for work/construction trains in the Tube? NYC uses diesel locomotives. Probably not as bad as a coal-burning steam engine, but if a work train with a locomotive or two passes through a station, the air gets pretty foul Fortunately, diesel engines don't produce much carbon monoxide, but it can't be healthy for the crews who work near the work trains for hours every day.
When you're driving, you're RIGHT BEHIND the last car in line's exhaust pipe. Concentration probably goes as the inverse square or cube of distance.
Better to subsidize nuclear power than subsidize our military scum and their homicide sprees for oil in the Middle East.
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Yep, here's something to start with. The DEA thugs that murdered innocent people in Honduras should have been put on trial over there and ended up in front of a firing squad.
A document written 200+ years ago by a bunch of dead men isn't gospel.
Federal tax, doled out to states proportionally to population.
Easy enough to disable the sensors once your car is inspected. Then just re-enable them for the next inspection in two years (assuming you live in a state that gives a fuck).
You tax all electricity -- a kWh is a kWh and makes the same amount of CO2 (depending on source) regardless of where it is used. Give a tax credit for the poor below a certain income.
As far as having one's own solar system, the obvious solution is not to tax it -- that would encourage installation of solar systems.
If you want to tax mileage, tax tires and require annual inspections to check for safe tires. Tire wear correlates pretty well to miles traveled and vehicle weight.
Require signs in stores and beach entrances to educate beachgoers -- I don't think anyone WANTS to be part of damaging something beautiful.
Sounds like you haven't found the courage to come out yet ... you need a Grindr account.
I remember Facebook ad preferences thinking that I was of African-American ancestry even though I wasn't (to my knowledge, anyway).
Fuck the US military -- the world would be a better place if it were slashed to 1/10th of its size. War is murder, soldiers are hired killers.
Fertility reduction virus that only affects humans and doesn't affect health in other ways. There now, I said it.
Isn't population reduction the goal? :D
Ideally by public flogging, I may add. Unless it's in an apartment building with common structure, I'd never want to own a home in an HOA-infested area.
Ecosystems aren't "isolated" -- pollution and toxins blow in with the winds. Insect breeding sites outside the area being damaged may affect populations outside the immediate area. Ecology ain't simple -- we still have a lot to learn about it. In the meantime, best not to f**k with Mother Gaia.
Brings to mind this quote, possibly by Alanis Obomsawin... "When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money."
Also, crops are one thing, but I'm fine with banning frivolous uses of pesticides and herbicides. Nope, you don't get to have a perfect, green, dandelion-free lawn to impress Mr. and Mrs. Stepford next door. Mother Gaia is more important than the fuckin' Stepfords.