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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 898 Views
Meh. - 23/11/2010 11:23:17 PM 860 Views
How did the NYTimes phrase this again... oh yes. - 23/11/2010 11:42:29 PM 875 Views
This article about "Isrealification" is interesting - 24/11/2010 12:54:59 AM 916 Views
We have that saying here, too. - 24/11/2010 01:50:03 AM 837 Views
Re: We have that saying here, too. - 24/11/2010 02:05:09 AM 771 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 668 Views
Yeah, but he was allowed to take his gun with him - 24/11/2010 05:22:05 AM 736 Views
Security is worse than before 911? - 24/11/2010 02:03:21 PM 717 Views
You're missing the point - 24/11/2010 09:48:42 AM 751 Views
No, I got the point, I'm just not sure it's that cut and dried. - 24/11/2010 01:41:40 PM 823 Views
Wrong spot. *NM* - 24/11/2010 02:00:05 PM 292 Views
The thing about the gun just proves how good the behavioural profiling is. - 25/11/2010 09:49:55 AM 563 Views
Good point. - 25/11/2010 02:08:57 PM 941 Views
If all goes as they say it does, it sounds like a very good system *NM* - 24/11/2010 04:23:42 AM 287 Views
supposedly the israel model "does not scale" - 24/11/2010 05:14:53 AM 842 Views
Which is pretty much what I figured. - 24/11/2010 01:56:24 PM 743 Views
Sounds about right *NM* - 24/11/2010 02:26:43 PM 240 Views
No, US air traffic controllers don't go on strike. - 24/11/2010 01:37:30 AM 788 Views
Re: No, US air traffic controllers don't go on strike. - 24/11/2010 01:48:30 PM 722 Views
The long term effects are unknown? - 24/11/2010 02:23:24 PM 649 Views
They should be prepared enough to do mass pat-downs - 24/11/2010 02:00:07 AM 536 Views
If I was travelling, I would not opt out. - 24/11/2010 12:32:06 AM 670 Views
I would - 24/11/2010 01:56:56 AM 728 Views
I've got no problem with the scanners, but people are welcome to object - 24/11/2010 02:20:25 AM 990 Views
Nice idea, but . . . - 24/11/2010 05:38:11 PM 624 Views
I'm not sure, but its not a big obstacle - 24/11/2010 07:39:22 PM 734 Views
I see some sheep have replied to your post. *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:17:00 AM 257 Views
I assume you are less than fond of the situation, then? *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:25:45 AM 384 Views
You assume correctly. - 24/11/2010 03:44:23 AM 909 Views
Not saying this applies in reality... - 24/11/2010 04:25:25 AM 746 Views
If grandmas aren't getting groped at the airport... - 24/11/2010 04:38:50 AM 753 Views
just out of curiousity, do either you or litdog have any solutions? - 24/11/2010 04:59:07 AM 653 Views
Stop adding useless and invasive procedures. *NM* - 24/11/2010 05:19:23 AM 286 Views
yes that's all well and good. - 24/11/2010 05:37:01 AM 575 Views
It would be the same as it was before this nonsense. EDITED - 24/11/2010 06:18:57 AM 814 Views
if that's what your comfortable with, then. Fair enough *NM* - 24/11/2010 06:22:46 AM 262 Views
Read my edit for what I think is a bit more balanced. *NM* - 24/11/2010 06:29:11 AM 255 Views
read And yah, it sounds like you're a bit like me. - 24/11/2010 06:54:15 AM 681 Views
Re: read And yah, it sounds like you're a bit like me. - 24/11/2010 07:24:59 PM 686 Views
Become the enemy and they win, but is this is really a Civil Rights issue? - 24/11/2010 02:16:43 PM 847 Views
It doesn't grant interstate CAR travel either. - 24/11/2010 04:29:30 PM 577 Views
Very simple: - 24/11/2010 07:28:45 PM 816 Views
I fully support the protest, by the way. - 24/11/2010 03:45:43 AM 627 Views
I doubt it. - 24/11/2010 04:35:03 AM 867 Views
I'm considering doing it. - 24/11/2010 05:17:43 AM 523 Views
At least have the decency to refer to us as 'sheeple' *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:39:47 AM 256 Views
You didn't seem to be among the sheep. *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:45:06 AM 263 Views
Well, yeah. - 24/11/2010 03:51:03 AM 625 Views
Probably true! *NM* - 24/11/2010 03:51:53 AM 221 Views
Whiners - 24/11/2010 11:26:22 AM 714 Views
Well, I opted out. - 24/11/2010 02:00:49 PM 854 Views
in january im going for the pat down *NM* - 24/11/2010 05:17:32 PM 228 Views
Only morons fly in the U.S. on Thanksgiving day. *NM* - 24/11/2010 05:42:04 PM 347 Views
Very few people do. The day before Thanksgiving, however... - 24/11/2010 06:43:32 PM 586 Views
Of course. I mixed my days up. I apologize. - 26/11/2010 06:27:49 PM 704 Views
Re: Is it weird that I just want to be touched? - 24/11/2010 05:59:50 PM 658 Views
Ma'am, in your case, unless you "present as" male. *NM* - 24/11/2010 06:44:51 PM 302 Views
Here's a report on the scanners, that you might just want to get felt up. - 24/11/2010 08:56:09 PM 785 Views

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