Re: Scarry - United let's anyone past security.

2003-08-16 Thread The Fool
From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] All you need is a printer. From United: Save Time — Print out your own boarding pass We're pleased to introduce EasyCheck-in OnlineSM. Now from the convenience of your home or office, you can print out your own boarding pass. Even if you have bags

How to Rig an Election in the United States

2003-08-16 Thread The Fool
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml How to Rig an Election in the United States Sludge Report #154 – Bigger Than Watergate! By C.D. Sludge Tuesday 08 July 2003 A Diebold touchscreen voting machine Makers of the walk right in, sit right down, replace ballot tallies with your own GEMS

Re: Scarry - United let's anyone past security.

2003-08-16 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 16 Aug 2003 at 1:05, The Fool wrote: This is a classic example of a security failure because of an interaction between two different systems. There's a system that prints out boarding passes in the name of the person who is in the computer. There's another system that compares the name on

Re: Most Dangerous States

2003-08-16 Thread Erik Reuter
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:58:17PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: The only weapons we keep with that sort of accessibility right now are swords. And me cornered in my own house with a sword is probably *extremely* dangerous to whomever is cornering me. Do you think your son could expose the

Re: Most Dangerous States

2003-08-16 Thread Julia Thompson
Erik Reuter wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:58:17PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: The only weapons we keep with that sort of accessibility right now are swords. And me cornered in my own house with a sword is probably *extremely* dangerous to whomever is cornering me. Do you think

Re: Scarry - United let's anyone past security.

2003-08-16 Thread Julia Thompson
The Fool wrote: The photo-ID requirement is presented as a security measure, but business is the real reason. Airlines didn't resist it, even though they resisted every other security measure of the past few decades, because it solved a business problem: the reselling of nonrefundable

Re: Most Dangerous States

2003-08-16 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:04:28AM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: How about a quarterstaff (I think Aikido experts call it a Bo) for home security? That could work. That was actually a non-rhetorical question, hopefully for someone who has trained with a staff or a Bo. I

Re: Scarry - United let's anyone past security.

2003-08-16 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:06:33AM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: *either* gender, it wouldn't have been a problem! :) (Lynn, Leslie, Kelly, etc. -- I've met people of all those names in each gender.) You've met a male who spells his name Lynn? I know a male Len, never a male Lynn. I concur with

Re: Scarry - United let's anyone past security.

2003-08-16 Thread Julia Thompson
Erik Reuter wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:06:33AM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: *either* gender, it wouldn't have been a problem! :) (Lynn, Leslie, Kelly, etc. -- I've met people of all those names in each gender.) You've met a male who spells his name Lynn? I know a male Len, never

Re: Scarry - United let's anyone past security.

2003-08-16 Thread William T Goodall
On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 04:27 pm, Erik Reuter wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:06:33AM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: *either* gender, it wouldn't have been a problem! :) (Lynn, Leslie, Kelly, etc. -- I've met people of all those names in each gender.) You've met a male who spells his

Re: Most Dangerous States

2003-08-16 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 3:26 PM Subject: Re: Most Dangerous States You don't know me, or my friends, my experiences, or obviously my sympathies to those who have endured this type

Re: Most Dangerous States

2003-08-16 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 15 Aug 2003 at 20:48, Jan Coffey wrote: The problem is that guns are too accident prone. (and illegal over here). I'm happy with keeping a throwing blade within reach when I sleep. And yes, I've had run-ins with skinhead thugs...but I've never, admitedly, been on the worse end of

Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence

2003-08-16 Thread Doug Pensinger
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39500-2003Aug9.html Exerpt: At issue was Iraq's efforts to buy high-strength aluminum tubes. The U.S. government said those tubes were for centrifuges to enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb. But the IAEA, the world's nuclear watchdog, had

Re: Most Dangerous States

2003-08-16 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:04 AM 8/16/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:58:17PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: The only weapons we keep with that sort of accessibility right now are swords. And me cornered in my own house with a sword is probably *extremely*

Re: Scarry - United let's anyone past security.

2003-08-16 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:06 AM 8/16/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: The Fool wrote: The photo-ID requirement is presented as a security measure, but business is the real reason. Airlines didn't resist it, even though they resisted every other security measure of the past few decades, because it solved a

Re: Most Dangerous States

2003-08-16 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:30:44PM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Which is one point in favor of a firearm for home defense: it takes less training to learn to fire it than it does to learn to use a throwing knife, I consider

Elevators and Death - My day at work

2003-08-16 Thread Robert Seeberger
My day at work was more interesting than I desired. I really didn't want to work in the first place, I have my son this weekend and wanted to spend time with him. But duty calls so.. Nothing went right from the getgo. I woke up late. I arrived at work barely on time, but everyone else was

Re: Elevators and Death - My day at work

2003-08-16 Thread William T Goodall
On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 12:40 am, Robert Seeberger wrote: When the elevator door opened, the elevator had not leveled correctly and was a couple of feet too high. The resident tried to jump up onto the elevator platform, but slipped with the upper portion of his body on the elevator

Fastest Qheuen Alive rewrite--longer, new ending.

2003-08-16 Thread Medievalbk
Added characters, hopefully better logic, and now with a date and made up localation. I don't know if I've gotten the Ur lisp right. I don't have my copies marked for Ur, only Hoon. Comment on this version--not the first draft. --- The human's old story about the race between

Re: Elevators and Death - My day at work

2003-08-16 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 6:56 PM Subject: Re: Elevators and Death - My day at work On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 12:40 am, Robert Seeberger wrote: When the elevator

Re: Most Dangerous States

2003-08-16 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:31 PM 8/16/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:30:44PM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Which is one point in favor of a firearm for home defense: it takes less training to learn to fire it than it does to learn to use a throwing knife, I consider that a point against.

This Tiger Has No Teeth

2003-08-16 Thread G. D. Akin
This Tiger Has No Teeth I just finished reading Tom Clancy's latest real (not Op Center, etc, collaborations) novel, The Teeth of the Tiger. I have to admit I'm a Clancy fan. I read The Hunt for Red October on a red-eye from DC to Las Vegas right after the book came out in paperback. I wanted

Re: This Tiger Has No Teeth

2003-08-16 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This Tiger Has No Teeth This is Clancy's least enjoyable novel. IMO, of course Thanks for the heads up. I thought _Red Rabbit_ was a bit of a bore, too, so if this is even worse, perhaps I shall avoid it entirely. = Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL

The Blackout

2003-08-16 Thread Jon Gabriel
I just posted a bunch of links to photoblogs slideshows of the blackout on my own blog if anyone is interested: http://zarq.livejournal.com Jon ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l