Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread John Young
Most of the Boston Red Sox team look as if they have just come from a terrorist training camp for blind, handless barbers, decked-out in ill-fitting sports gear, staring wild-eyed at RPGs being fired at their heads and nuts, swinging clubs futilely at the inerrant missiles, their ass-wipe paws s

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 3:55 PM -0700 10/15/04, John Young wrote: >Most of the Boston Red Sox team look as if they have just >come from a terrorist training camp for blind, handless barbers, >decked-out in ill-fitting sports gear, staring wild-eyed at >RPGs being fired at their heads and nuts, swinging clubs futilely >

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread Tyler Durden
OK, Mr Donald...you're shittin' me, right? Has anyone who does not look a terrorist done a suicide mission outside Israel or Russia? If you define a suicide mission a priori as the act of a terrorist (I guess I do), then by definition anyone who performs such an act is a terrorist. Therefore, any

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread James A. Donald
-- > >My profile is radically different from all those who killed > >nearly 3,000 of my countrymen on September 11, 2001. My > >"holy book" of choice is the Bible. My race is Caucasian. I > >am a loyal, taxpaying, patriotic, evil-hating, > >English-as-first-language, natural-born American.

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake James A. Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15/10/04 15:19]: : Has anyone who does not look a terrorist done a suicide mission : outside Israel or Russia? Recall the shoe bomber. You just : had to look at him. You would think the airport screeners would : need to be half brain dead to let hi

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread John Kelsey
>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 15, 2004 10:02 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Airport insanity >First of all, the guy is a major dumbass... >>My profile is radically different from all those who killed nearly 3,000 of >>my countrym

Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Townhall.com Airport insanity Cal Thomas (back to web version) | Send October 13, 2004 Ted Kennedy and I have something in common. We are both on airline lists as potential terror suspects. Kennedy was recently denied access

Vote-counting glitch in NZ local elections

2004-10-15 Thread Peter Gutmann
Looks like you can mess up voting even if there is a paper trail. These are paper votes that are electronically counted, so the problem was in the electronic processing, not the actual voting procedure. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3600391&thesection=news&thesubsection=gener

At least there's some (attempt at) common sense in airline security

2004-10-15 Thread Peter Gutmann
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3600794&thesection=news&thesubsection=general Ease off says air security boss 15.10.2004 Security on domestic flights is too strict and should be downgraded, says the head of the Aviation Security Service. General manager Mark Everitt, a former

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-15 Thread Peter Gutmann
Alan Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, John Kelsey wrote: >>but there doesn't seem to be a clean process for determining how >>skilled an attacker needs to be to, say, scan my finger once, and >>produce either a fake finger or a machine for projecting a fake >>fingerprint i

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread Tyler Durden
First of all, the guy is a major dumbass... My profile is radically different from all those who killed nearly 3,000 of my countrymen on September 11, 2001. My "holy book" of choice is the Bible. My race is Caucasian. I am a loyal, taxpaying, patriotic, evil-hating, English-as-first-language, natur