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I've got no problem with the scanners, but people are welcome to object Isaac Send a noteboard - 24/11/2010 02:20:25 AM
I can't help but imagine that there is a measurable cost difference between a scan and an equally thorough pat down, I would think that just adding the cost difference to the tickets would be easiest, or jack all the tickets up for the adjusted cost and hand those who go through the scanners a coupon for a 'free drink or headphones' or some such thing. We're a consumer society, might as well avoid the bitching and concerns by letting people vote with their wallets, if someone really feels their privacy/health is being horribly violated by the scanners then let them pay the difference and we can avoid all the complaints. We hardly pay TSA guys min wage but its still not like a pat down takes that long, and its hard for people to summon righteous fury at privacy invasion when its 'Or pay an extra $1 for pat down'
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So, people travelling in the US tomorrow: are you opting out? - 23/11/2010 10:45:03 PM 957 Views
Meh. - 23/11/2010 11:23:17 PM 923 Views
How did the NYTimes phrase this again... oh yes. - 23/11/2010 11:42:29 PM 932 Views
This article about "Isrealification" is interesting - 24/11/2010 12:54:59 AM 995 Views
We have that saying here, too. - 24/11/2010 01:50:03 AM 931 Views
Re: We have that saying here, too. - 24/11/2010 02:05:09 AM 838 Views
a loaded gun clip was found left on a plane by an off-duty cop just today in fact.... - 24/11/2010 05:06:15 AM 734 Views
Yeah, but he was allowed to take his gun with him - 24/11/2010 05:22:05 AM 801 Views
Security is worse than before 911? - 24/11/2010 02:03:21 PM 791 Views
You're missing the point - 24/11/2010 09:48:42 AM 822 Views
No, I got the point, I'm just not sure it's that cut and dried. - 24/11/2010 01:41:40 PM 892 Views
Wrong spot. *NM* - 24/11/2010 02:00:05 PM 324 Views
The thing about the gun just proves how good the behavioural profiling is. - 25/11/2010 09:49:55 AM 636 Views
Good point. - 25/11/2010 02:08:57 PM 1013 Views
If all goes as they say it does, it sounds like a very good system *NM* - 24/11/2010 04:23:42 AM 314 Views
supposedly the israel model "does not scale" - 24/11/2010 05:14:53 AM 916 Views
Which is pretty much what I figured. - 24/11/2010 01:56:24 PM 822 Views
Sounds about right *NM* - 24/11/2010 02:26:43 PM 260 Views
No, US air traffic controllers don't go on strike. - 24/11/2010 01:37:30 AM 836 Views
Re: No, US air traffic controllers don't go on strike. - 24/11/2010 01:48:30 PM 814 Views
The long term effects are unknown? - 24/11/2010 02:23:24 PM 701 Views
They should be prepared enough to do mass pat-downs - 24/11/2010 02:00:07 AM 604 Views
If I was travelling, I would not opt out. - 24/11/2010 12:32:06 AM 740 Views
I would - 24/11/2010 01:56:56 AM 788 Views
I've got no problem with the scanners, but people are welcome to object - 24/11/2010 02:20:25 AM 1059 Views
Nice idea, but . . . - 24/11/2010 05:38:11 PM 675 Views
I'm not sure, but its not a big obstacle - 24/11/2010 07:39:22 PM 786 Views
I see some sheep have replied to your post. *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:17:00 AM 283 Views
I assume you are less than fond of the situation, then? *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:25:45 AM 416 Views
You assume correctly. - 24/11/2010 03:44:23 AM 970 Views
Not saying this applies in reality... - 24/11/2010 04:25:25 AM 806 Views
If grandmas aren't getting groped at the airport... - 24/11/2010 04:38:50 AM 809 Views
just out of curiousity, do either you or litdog have any solutions? - 24/11/2010 04:59:07 AM 720 Views
Stop adding useless and invasive procedures. *NM* - 24/11/2010 05:19:23 AM 325 Views
yes that's all well and good. - 24/11/2010 05:37:01 AM 649 Views
It would be the same as it was before this nonsense. EDITED - 24/11/2010 06:18:57 AM 881 Views
if that's what your comfortable with, then. Fair enough *NM* - 24/11/2010 06:22:46 AM 294 Views
Read my edit for what I think is a bit more balanced. *NM* - 24/11/2010 06:29:11 AM 279 Views
read And yah, it sounds like you're a bit like me. - 24/11/2010 06:54:15 AM 769 Views
Re: read And yah, it sounds like you're a bit like me. - 24/11/2010 07:24:59 PM 745 Views
Become the enemy and they win, but is this is really a Civil Rights issue? - 24/11/2010 02:16:43 PM 927 Views
It doesn't grant interstate CAR travel either. - 24/11/2010 04:29:30 PM 650 Views
Very simple: - 24/11/2010 07:28:45 PM 896 Views
I fully support the protest, by the way. - 24/11/2010 03:45:43 AM 703 Views
I doubt it. - 24/11/2010 04:35:03 AM 925 Views
I'm considering doing it. - 24/11/2010 05:17:43 AM 592 Views
At least have the decency to refer to us as 'sheeple' *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:39:47 AM 285 Views
You didn't seem to be among the sheep. *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:45:06 AM 288 Views
Well, yeah. - 24/11/2010 03:51:03 AM 696 Views
Probably true! *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:51:53 AM 248 Views
Whiners - 24/11/2010 11:26:22 AM 782 Views
Well, I opted out. - 24/11/2010 02:00:49 PM 918 Views
in january im going for the pat down *NM* - 24/11/2010 05:17:32 PM 250 Views
Only morons fly in the U.S. on Thanksgiving day. *NM* - 24/11/2010 05:42:04 PM 379 Views
Very few people do. The day before Thanksgiving, however... - 24/11/2010 06:43:32 PM 640 Views
Of course. I mixed my days up. I apologize. - 26/11/2010 06:27:49 PM 785 Views
Re: Is it weird that I just want to be touched? - 24/11/2010 05:59:50 PM 730 Views
Ma'am, in your case, unless you "present as" male. *NM* - 24/11/2010 06:44:51 PM 333 Views
Here's a report on the scanners, that you might just want to get felt up. - 24/11/2010 08:56:09 PM 842 Views

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