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Re: See the USA with TSA
« Reply #25 on: December 22, 2010, 01:52:20 AM »
Quote from: DonTron on December 21, 2010, 09:40:57 PM
Quit whining, you guys.

"Screeners swabbed some riders' bags and inspected them in at least two Metro train stations early Tuesday, in Maryland and Virginia suburbs of the nation's capital. The checks took less than one minute each."


All right. That makes it okay, then.
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Re: See the USA with TSA
« Reply #26 on: December 22, 2010, 11:01:48 AM »
Quote from: Grandpa Shooter on December 21, 2010, 07:34:37 PM
Com'on TP, you know that all we really need is a national ID card and all this foolish searching would stop immediately.  Once someone declared their allegiance to Big Brother they wouldn't want to harm anyone because being part of the collective would make them feel so warm and fuzzy that they would immediately become non-violent. >:D

I'm in big trouble then ...  :O
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Re: See the USA with TSA
« Reply #27 on: December 22, 2010, 11:06:14 AM »
Quote from: DonTron on December 21, 2010, 09:40:57 PM
Quit whining, you guys.

"Screeners swabbed some riders' bags and inspected them in at least two Metro train stations early Tuesday, in Maryland and Virginia suburbs of the nation's capital. The checks took less than one minute each."


Only takes a minute for your sister to be raped, too. ;/

I guess if unjust violations of your rights are just held to a minute or less, then everything's fine. :facepalm: [barf]
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Re: See the USA with TSA
« Reply #28 on: December 22, 2010, 01:01:35 PM »
Quote from: DonTron on December 21, 2010, 09:40:57 PM
Quit whining, you guys.

"Screeners swabbed some riders' bags and inspected them in at least two Metro train stations early Tuesday, in Maryland and Virginia suburbs of the nation's capital. The checks took less than one minute each."



Sometimes my sarcasm is - unbelievably - too understated. My New Year's Resolution will to be more overtly sarcastic at all times.

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Re: See the USA with TSA
« Reply #29 on: December 22, 2010, 01:42:51 PM »
Quote from: DonTron on December 22, 2010, 01:01:35 PM

Sometimes my sarcasm is - unbelievably - too understated. My New Year's Resolution will to be more overtly sarcastic at all times.



In the future, we have smilies to indicate sarcasm:  :facepalm: or  :mad: or  ;) or  =|



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Re: See the USA with TSA
« Reply #30 on: December 23, 2010, 02:51:11 AM »
Yep, I think we covered this a while back.

Communication is the 3 V's, Verbal, Visual, Vocal: Words account for 7%, tone of voice accounts for 38%, and body language accounts for 55%.

Since in written communication we don't get Tone of Voice or any Body Language cues, we're only getting 7% of the message, the use of smilies helps improve that by at least giving us a (crude) visual cue.

jus' sayin'   ;)

BTW Nice to see an old/new face around here.
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Re: See the USA with TSA
« Reply #31 on: December 23, 2010, 11:33:54 AM »
Thanks for the suggestions.  And I really mean that!
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Re: See the USA with TSA
« Reply #32 on: December 23, 2010, 01:22:28 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on December 21, 2010, 12:12:51 PM
The security searches just keep getting more and more widespread...

http://billingsgazette.com/news/national/article_4f593648-3ee7-57a3-9c1e-62a0f0b56911.html

How long till you have to be strip searched to travel most anywhere outside your own little neighborhood... five years... ten years...  ???

July 2005 we flew to Orlando.  Our family was "randomly" selected for a more in depth screening.  Our daughter, who was 2 at the time, was wearing denim bib shorts.  The buckles kept setting off the metal detector.  They made us remove her bibs and go through the metal detector.  I was about half-a-heartbeat from going off on that idiot when my wife intervened.  My parting words with that idiot were "how many people as white as I am have flown a jet into a building?".

They also made me turn my phone off, back on, back off, back on, and then off to prove it was a real phone.  When I asked about my laptop in carry on, he said no you don't have to turn it on and off.  What the heck?  I could pack a whole lot more explosives in a laptop than a Motorola Razor cellphone.

That was the last time I have flown, and don't intend to fly anytime in the foreseeable future.   
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Re: See the USA with TSA
« Reply #33 on: December 23, 2010, 01:36:10 PM »
Quote from: DonTron on December 22, 2010, 01:01:35 PM

Sometimes my sarcasm is - unbelievably - too understated. My New Year's Resolution will to be more overtly sarcastic at all times.



I used to have a T-shirt that read: "Sarcasm is just one of many services we offer"   =D
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Re: See the USA with TSA
« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2010, 03:39:52 PM »
Quote from: BridgeWalker on December 21, 2010, 01:50:24 PM
Serious crimes and committed criminals are not deterred by random searches, severe penalties or anything else.

Search Congressmembers, impose severe penalties on them and let's find out.

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