Ah polls, worlds most accurate method of gathering information.
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I have a very good friend who has started working as a TSA screener.
I have had to bite my tongue on a few occasions. “Look- I love ya, kid, but…”
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Could be worse; at least it wasn’t ICE.
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I’ve never had to do xray with clear, just the metal detector. But it gets you to the front of the line (even before those precheck weenies) so that’s cool.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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X-ray as in putting your bags through the x-ray machine. Which everyone has to do. But I agree…only a few times have I been forced to do the pornoscanner vs. standard metal detector with Clear.
I pay for Nexus, precheck and clear bcause my entire flying strategy relies on minimizing time spent at the airport. It’s worth it to me since I too fly a lot and can’t stand crowds.
I don’t pretend that I’m special or rich though. I just choose to devote some of my resources towards convenience in this area. I don’t pay for cable so I figure this balances things out somehow.
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Except that now people prefer to drive, which is even worse.
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Interesting. Of course terrorists are well-financed so…
Rich people are our masters. That’s enough reason not to humiliate them with screening. Only those who need to be subjugated need to be screened.
Too, the most rigorous screening would not have prevented the Saudi financing and enabling of their very successful 9// terrorism. (Successful as got our national security state to kick some Sunni ass for them.)
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Cory I appreciate your humor but it still makes my gut twist. Why is there still no project to abolish this?
Yep, the Saudis are ready to fight to the last dead American, aren’t they???
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Yeah, but he doesn’t count because he was a white American man, ergo, not a terrorist… /s
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I choose to read this as you have cable, but you don’t pay for it. I approve.
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Education, at all levels.
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The Tale of the Emperor’s Nose:
The story goes that a long time ago, in a faraway, and mythical country, which we’ll call China, everyone wanted to know how long the Emperor’s nose was. Of course to be seen even trying to look closely at the Emperor’s visage - let alone to hold up a (different!) ruler to it - would have invited instant, or I should say, far from instant, death. But so many people were curious, that a group of sages got together to look for a method of finding the answer, and this is what they came up with.
Questionnaires were printed and sent out in bundles to cooperating village chiefs, who distributed them to the peasants. Literacy was at a sufficient level that most were able to complete the single question, which was, of course: “How long do you think the Emperor’s nose is?”
When the forms were collected, mathematicians added up all the values, and divided by the number of forms. Thus it was known that the length of the Emperor’s nose was 6.734602 cm. The complete set of data was of course preserved, and many years later, with advances in statistical understanding more advanced mathematicians pointed out that fringe values - obviously the product of deranged minds - were distorting the honest opinions of the rest, and by eliminating them and using the very latest numerical modelling techniques, the mathematicians corrected this value to 4.980403 cm. To this day, no-one has produced a better estimate.
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