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Submission + - TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas (hstoday.us) 1

Submitted by OverTheGeicoE
OverTheGeicoE writes: It looks like Congress' recent jabs at TSA were just posturing after all. Last Friday, President Obama signed a spending act passed by both houses of Congress. The act gives TSA a $7.85 billion budget increase for 2012 and includes funding for 12 additional multi-modal Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) teams and 140 new behavior detection officers. It even includes funding for 250 shiny new body scanners, which was originally cut from the funding bill last May.

Comment Use this to our advantage? (Score 1) 469

by ToiletBomber (#38107854) Attached to: Climate Panel Says To Prepare For Weird Weather
Why not use all these storms to our advantage? Surely there must be a way to harness the energy in these storms, building a damn sturdy wind turbine for use in hurricanes. Or making some kind of water wheel of sorts to make some of that falling rain and snow actually do some work for a living, rather than sitting on it's ass for the rest of its life and making us do all the dirty work of moving it.

Submission + - $819 Crutches 1

Submitted by
SandwhichMaster
SandwhichMaster writes: "Prior to my foot surgery I needed to pickup a set of crutches. My insurance was charged $100 for the crutches and $719 for the "Physical Therapy", which basically consisted of setting the crutches to my height. The whole visit was at most 15 minutes. I called both the hospital and my insurance company, but both refused to do anything. My insurance covers about 90% of the cost, and I'm not really that concerned about the $80, but the whole process still seems ludicrous.

Is there anyone I can report this to? Are U.S. health care costs really this out of control? Has anyone else had similar experiences?"

Comment I never heard it on my satellite provider... (Score 1) 451

by ToiletBomber (#38015344) Attached to: Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System
I happened to have a weather radio handy, and "listened" to it on that... or at least tried to anyways. It sounded like three seperate alerts were all playing at once, overlapping by about 10 seconds... so throughout the entire test I could hear alert tones mixed in with speech, and it made the whole bloody thing incomprehensible.
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Submission + - Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop on Obama

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "BBC reports that a technical glitch allowed reporters to listen in on a private conversation between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama made in a backroom meeting at the G20 summit treating listeners to a rare insight into the importance of personal relationships in international politics. "I can't stand him any more," said Mr Sarkozy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "He's a liar." Mr Obama replied: "You're sick of him. I have to deal with him every day!" According to Reuters, the two presidents were apparently "unaware that the microphones in their meeting room had been switched on, enabling reporters in a separate location to listen in to a simultaneous translation." The reporters made "a group decision ... not to report the conversation as it was considered private and off-the-record," but Arrets Sur Images, a French website that covers current affairs, got wind of the exchange and broke the story. “I am filled with shame that this is the way two of our greatest allies treat our prime minister,” Israeli Labor MK Daniel Ben-Simon told The Jerusalem Post. “If [Netanyahu] lies so easily to important officials, just imagine how much he lies to us.""

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