Nick -
Nah, Steve. I am going to rain on this parade. Sorry.
I wondered what that splashing/drizzling was all about! Thanks a lot!
For years we all had our inseams measured without accusing tailors of
homophilia. There is nothing inherently undignified in the search
except that
Steve,
I agree with everything you say about fascism. Yours not a rant. Just an
exact description of what is happening.
But I am NOT clear why nudity is the bottom line. (};-]) We are absolutely
passive until we find ourselves in the showers and are asked to take our
clothes off?
Nick -
You are spot on again... too bad we'll be drinking your share of the
bourbon tonight!
I agree with everything you say about fascism. Yours not a rant.
Just an exact description of what is happening.
the very best kind of rant, the undeniable ones!
But I am NOT clear why nudity
What a *clever* idea. I can just see the headlines: Salami-equipped
terrorist thwarted at the Albuquerque International Airport. I suppose the
only remaining question is: should we use Italian hard salami, or something
less threatening...
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Steve Smith
Do you realize that you are exempt just by being Amish? I meet Amish folks on
the train every trip.
From: Nicholas Thompson [mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 10:24 AM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re:
H'lo everybody,
Does anybody have any hands-on experience with purchasing a digital usb
microscope for a child?
EVERYBODY seems to be making these things now and the prices range from 50
to a thousand dollars. It seems like a REALLY great opportunity to get
ripped off. No clear
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
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
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
Are we not scientists, engineers, mathematician, or interested inthose fields?
What is the best measure of effectiveness here? How about bombs caught per
billion dollars? Or bombs caught per billion passenger hours wasted? By either
measure, TSA has a bIg fat zero. All of the bombs caught have
Do we harass 10^6 people at a cost of $10^9 for one discovery of note,
one which would stop an air-bomb?
Isn't that the terrorist's victory condition?If so, they don't need
to blow anything up anymore; it's way more cost-effective for them to
just publicly fail periodically.
Carl
On
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
Russell,
I don't think profiling needs to be politically incorrect.
N
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Russell Gonnering
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 1:58 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
Profiling, in the traditional sense is always politically incorrect, and should
remain that way. Targeted searches, as in, a no-fly list, is not profiling, and
makes perfect sense. Of course, given that we can't even get that right.
Frankly, if we were profiling, it would be based on whether or
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.
And what will be in that profile? The bemused smile, the desperate
poker face, the jaded look of resignation, perhaps any attempt at
humor? Perhaps you did not pay your credit card bill this month,
or are behind in your party dues? Maybe you know too much about
spiders,
Hi Nick,
We have the $30 Bionic Eye with our kids. It was basically a 200x CMOS
camera that put out an NTSC signal to the TV. I strongly recommend it.
Though I played with it more than they :-)
Here is a page of Rob Cockerham's* experience with the Eyeclops:
http://www.cockeyed.com/science/eyeclops/eyeclops.shtml
* Of How Much is Inside, etc.
~~James
www.turtlezero.com
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Stephen Guerin
stephen.gue...@redfish.comwrote:
Hi Nick,
We have the $30
Thanks for your thoughts on this, Steve. You have opened up a whole new
front, here. I assume you can't see paramecium in pond water with these
things. I think I may have to get off that. What about yeast growing?
Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com]
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