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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 852 Views
Meh. - 23/11/2010 11:23:17 PM 827 Views
How did the NYTimes phrase this again... oh yes. - 23/11/2010 11:42:29 PM 844 Views
This article about "Isrealification" is interesting - 24/11/2010 12:54:59 AM 879 Views
We have that saying here, too. - 24/11/2010 01:50:03 AM 805 Views
Re: We have that saying here, too. - 24/11/2010 02:05:09 AM 734 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 631 Views
Yeah, but he was allowed to take his gun with him - 24/11/2010 05:22:05 AM 702 Views
Security is worse than before 911? - 24/11/2010 02:03:21 PM 676 Views
You're missing the point - 24/11/2010 09:48:42 AM 717 Views
No, I got the point, I'm just not sure it's that cut and dried. - 24/11/2010 01:41:40 PM 780 Views
Wrong spot. *NM* - 24/11/2010 02:00:05 PM 277 Views
The thing about the gun just proves how good the behavioural profiling is. - 25/11/2010 09:49:55 AM 535 Views
Good point. - 25/11/2010 02:08:57 PM 914 Views
If all goes as they say it does, it sounds like a very good system *NM* - 24/11/2010 04:23:42 AM 272 Views
supposedly the israel model "does not scale" - 24/11/2010 05:14:53 AM 813 Views
Which is pretty much what I figured. - 24/11/2010 01:56:24 PM 713 Views
Sounds about right *NM* - 24/11/2010 02:26:43 PM 230 Views
No, US air traffic controllers don't go on strike. - 24/11/2010 01:37:30 AM 755 Views
Re: No, US air traffic controllers don't go on strike. - 24/11/2010 01:48:30 PM 675 Views
The long term effects are unknown? - 24/11/2010 02:23:24 PM 611 Views
They should be prepared enough to do mass pat-downs - 24/11/2010 02:00:07 AM 499 Views
If I was travelling, I would not opt out. - 24/11/2010 12:32:06 AM 638 Views
I would - 24/11/2010 01:56:56 AM 696 Views
I've got no problem with the scanners, but people are welcome to object - 24/11/2010 02:20:25 AM 957 Views
Nice idea, but . . . - 24/11/2010 05:38:11 PM 583 Views
I'm not sure, but its not a big obstacle - 24/11/2010 07:39:22 PM 695 Views
I see some sheep have replied to your post. *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:17:00 AM 248 Views
I assume you are less than fond of the situation, then? *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:25:45 AM 368 Views
You assume correctly. - 24/11/2010 03:44:23 AM 869 Views
Not saying this applies in reality... - 24/11/2010 04:25:25 AM 710 Views
If grandmas aren't getting groped at the airport... - 24/11/2010 04:38:50 AM 722 Views
just out of curiousity, do either you or litdog have any solutions? - 24/11/2010 04:59:07 AM 619 Views
Stop adding useless and invasive procedures. *NM* - 24/11/2010 05:19:23 AM 273 Views
yes that's all well and good. - 24/11/2010 05:37:01 AM 540 Views
It would be the same as it was before this nonsense. EDITED - 24/11/2010 06:18:57 AM 781 Views
if that's what your comfortable with, then. Fair enough *NM* - 24/11/2010 06:22:46 AM 253 Views
Read my edit for what I think is a bit more balanced. *NM* - 24/11/2010 06:29:11 AM 236 Views
read And yah, it sounds like you're a bit like me. - 24/11/2010 06:54:15 AM 655 Views
Re: read And yah, it sounds like you're a bit like me. - 24/11/2010 07:24:59 PM 656 Views
Become the enemy and they win, but is this is really a Civil Rights issue? - 24/11/2010 02:16:43 PM 815 Views
It doesn't grant interstate CAR travel either. - 24/11/2010 04:29:30 PM 542 Views
Very simple: - 24/11/2010 07:28:45 PM 775 Views
I fully support the protest, by the way. - 24/11/2010 03:45:43 AM 598 Views
I doubt it. - 24/11/2010 04:35:03 AM 836 Views
I'm considering doing it. - 24/11/2010 05:17:43 AM 496 Views
At least have the decency to refer to us as 'sheeple' *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:39:47 AM 244 Views
You didn't seem to be among the sheep. *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:45:06 AM 252 Views
Well, yeah. - 24/11/2010 03:51:03 AM 593 Views
Probably true! *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:51:53 AM 211 Views
Whiners - 24/11/2010 11:26:22 AM 679 Views
Well, I opted out. - 24/11/2010 02:00:49 PM 818 Views
in january im going for the pat down *NM* - 24/11/2010 05:17:32 PM 212 Views
Only morons fly in the U.S. on Thanksgiving day. *NM* - 24/11/2010 05:42:04 PM 330 Views
Very few people do. The day before Thanksgiving, however... - 24/11/2010 06:43:32 PM 557 Views
Of course. I mixed my days up. I apologize. - 26/11/2010 06:27:49 PM 668 Views
Re: Is it weird that I just want to be touched? - 24/11/2010 05:59:50 PM 625 Views
Ma'am, in your case, unless you "present as" male. *NM* - 24/11/2010 06:44:51 PM 287 Views
Here's a report on the scanners, that you might just want to get felt up. - 24/11/2010 08:56:09 PM 754 Views

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