Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely

2010-11-21 Thread Russell Gonnering
Because we are unwilling to do the only sane thing and profile behavior, we sacrifice our liberty on the altar of political correctness. So, fellow FRIAMers, when they start doing rectal exams to find the concealed explosives, what will our response be then? What about the surgically implanted

Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely

2010-11-21 Thread Pamela McCorduck
As a New Yorker, this has been an interesting thread to read. A well- timed subway bomb--conventional, firebomb, or poison bomb, as in Tokyo a decade or so ago--could wreak much more damage in terms of people it affects, than anything that you can do with a single plane. I do not notice

Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely

2010-11-21 Thread Owen Densmore
I'd love to know what the risk-benifit trade off is. Do we harass 10^6 people at a cost of $10^9 for one discovery of note, one which would stop an air-bomb? As I understand it, the best info is not scanners etc but community members reporting suspicious behavior. Maybe we should ask help

Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely

2010-11-21 Thread Parks, Raymond
applies to clearance investigations and the Box. From: Owen Densmore [mailto:o...@backspaces.net] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 02:16 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely I'd love to know what the risk-benifit

Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely

2010-11-21 Thread Carl Tollander
. Ray Parks P.S. The same logic applies to clearance investigations and the Box. *From*: Owen Densmore [mailto:o...@backspaces.net] *Sent*: Sunday, November 21, 2010 02:16 PM *To*: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com *Subject*: Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy

Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely

2010-11-21 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Thanks, Peter. I think you are right about this. N From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of plissa...@comcast.net Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 1:34 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely I have followed

Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely

2010-11-21 Thread Nicholas Thompson
] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely Because we are unwilling to do the only sane thing and profile behavior, we sacrifice our liberty on the altar of political correctness. So, fellow FRIAMers, when they start doing rectal exams to find the concealed explosives, what will our response be then? What

Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely

2010-11-21 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely Because we are unwilling to do the only sane thing and profile behavior, we sacrifice our liberty on the altar of political correctness. So, fellow FRIAMers, when they start doing

[FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely

2010-11-21 Thread plissaman
I have followed the correspondence on enhanced scanning with usual mixture of shock and incredulity.   Do people object because it’s offensive or because it’s ineffective?   It would be unpleasant but, for me, unpleasanter to be blown up by a device that had avoided the enhanced scanner.  

Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely

2010-11-21 Thread Carl Tollander
Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] More Light, Less Touchy-Feely Because we are unwilling to do the only sane thing and profile behavior, we sacrifice our liberty on the altar