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Solution options? Profiling (properly done) may be better than potentially/actually dangerous tech.
...And it's NOT any simplistic "pulling over people travelling while black or brown", which is stupid and which has been said to have already happened in the USA prior to these machines, as conducted by the usual non-highly-trained security grunts. (I've been on at least one flight where everyone of apparent Indian or Pakistani origin was asked to ( Read more... ) -
This is not only a rant now, I STILL have serious concerns about the safety of these machines.
To quote a comment by "Sean" on the NPR Science Friday program for 11/19/10 ( Read more... ) -
Groping Won't Kill Me But Cancer Will - MORE on TSA's Scanners from UCSF Experts:
LETTER OF CONCERNTo: Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, April 6, 2010 ( Read more... ) -
Humans* are Scum.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/15/afghanistan-dog-hero-accidentally-euthanized/?iref=NS1
(*There are exceptions of course) -
Tanka poem for November 10, 2010
Love on four small paws,
To you the world was but friends
You hadn't yet met.
My heart is shattered glass now
That you had to leave so young.
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Missive from Miss Morwyn
Hi, everyone. Morwyn here ( Read more... ) -
One thing you CAN'T buy on eBay:
The State of California.
La..... :)
