RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:14 PM 10/15/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: -- 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,

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 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

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 00:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 12:14 PM 10/15/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: -- 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

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: Just don't let anyone who looks like the shoe bomber fly. Problem solved. On 15 Oct 2004 at 16:32, Tyler Durden wrote: Huh? The one flaw in this logic is that this only works if you can send this particular definition of suspicious looks backwards in time. The

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread Adam
First of all, there were 19 children killed in the OKC bombing. Were these children guilty of some crime worthy of being killed by a truck bomb? Second of all, you make it sound like McVeigh was just your average-Joe American. How could a non-fundamentalist knowingly kill 168 people? Third,

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: 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 him on the plane. Come to think of it,

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- Damian Gerow I've had more than one comment about my ID photos that amount to basically: You look like you've just left a terrorist training camp. James A. Donald: Nonetheless you can probably start fiddling with your shoes on a plane without the passengers seated near you

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake James A. Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16/10/04 14:33]: : I've had more than one comment about my ID photos that amount : to basically: You look like you've just left a terrorist : training camp. : : Nonetheless you can probably start fiddling with your shoes on : a plane without

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread Steve Thompson
--- John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake James A. Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15/10/04 15:19]: [laws making stupidity mandatory for gov't officials] I've had more than one comment about my ID photos that amount to basically: You look like you've just left a terrorist training

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread Dave Howe
Damian Gerow wrote: I've had more than one comment about my ID photos that amount to basically: You look like you've just left a terrorist training camp. For whatever reason, pictures of me always come out looking like some crazed religious fanatic. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to bomb

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-16 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: If you really look like the shoe bomber, then you should have to drive, or use public transport. Ever tried to drive to Europe? Or to Hawaii? Why airplanes don't count as a form of public transport? So by that rationale, every Arab should

Google Desktop privacy branded 'unacceptable'

2004-10-16 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/15/google_desktop_privacy/print.html The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT Google Desktop privacy branded 'unacceptable' By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco (andrew.orlowski at theregister.co.uk) Published Friday 15th October 2004 22:47 GMT Google's