On Jun 2, 2010, at 10:25 PM, Henry McGilton wrote: > > As I joined the herd going through the Cattle Chutes---no, wait, wrong > story---the security checkpoint > at San Francisco International last Sunday, the standard complement of > nonsense pretending to be > balderdash was heaped upon me. Remove your shoes. Remove your jacket. > Take everything > out of your pockets. > > Put your laptop computer and mobile phone in the plastic tray that could > otherwise be employed in > the Food Court for clearing dirty dishes and cutlery . . . > > Wait a second, I said to the officious official--- I have two computers. > Where's the other computer, > asked the officious official. Here it is, as I took my iPad from its case. > > That's an iPad, blathered the officious official---it's not a computer. > > Really, that's news to me. There's a powerful processor in there. It > runs the UNIX operating > system, networking, Cocoa Frameworks, and on and on. Really? Not a > Computer? > > Right, babbled the officious official. Look inside---there's no computer. > > So there you have it people. The straight unadorned load of old cobblers > from a representative > of the United States of America Transportation Security Agency (TSA) with a > ruling that An iPad Is > Not A Computer. All attempts to reason with the buffoon were met with the > same mantra: > > Look Inside---There Is No Computer. > > > Cheers, > . . . . . . . . Henry
That's...well...I'm not sure really whether I should laugh, or contact my representative in congress. Maybe both. Thanks, Henry. I'd like to ask you about the iPad--but I'll start a new thread for that. I hope all of you nutters are doing very well! Warmest Regards, Jeff _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
