So a 4 yr old brown skinned Indian/Pakistani/Middle eastern girl can be patted down?

You got it wrong. Pakis are majority Sunnis and Iranians are majority Shiite. That's why most of middle east hates Iran. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Iraq are all Sunni majority.

I agree. Shipping15k packages a day is nothing. I work in the controls industry (software side, not PLC). Some of our biggest customers are big retailers. The most recent DC that I worked on ships no less than 150k cartons a day. They run 24x7 during peak seasons (Thanksgiving and Christmas). The conveyors we installed run at 500ft per min to accommodate the throughput.

I disagree. The Persians were the one of the most advanced scientists and engineers in the world before Arabs i.e. Muslims took them more over and destroyed their knowledge base.

This kind of setup would be god-sent for people like me who live in Florida! Freaking old people take hours to checkout. And then they have to chat with the checkout person and use thousands of their coupons even in the 10 items or less line too! Grrrr.....

What if that female TSA agent turns out to be Rosie O'Donnell? You really want to take that chance?

Arjun MBT is one of the finest tanks in our part of the world. The problem with its development is not because of just DRDO. It has to do with the govt policy, the army constantly changing its requirements and finally the penetration of Russian arms agents in the Ministry of Defense. All these factors have delayed the induction of a tank that kicked Russian T-90s in every environment that the Indian Army fights in. The comparative field trials of the Indian Army a few months ago showed Arjun MBT has consistently performed better than T-90. So, DRDO came out with a better tank that Russians who have decades of tank-building experience.

Hey, what do you have against scantily clad women? They are part of what makes life fun!

Doesn't pakistan fit that description?

My university's computer science dept.along with film and media arts dept. has an interdisciplinary degree that teaches game development to arts students. You should check it out and see what they teach in entry-level course for arts students in this discipline. You can reach them here: http://www.eae.utah.edu/

'Arabic' students? you must have meant Indian students! there aren't that many 'Arabic' students compared to Indians and Chinese in engineering.

Actually, you can do this with T-mobile smartphones too. I bought a HTC HD2 off the craigslist, loaded Android into it. Its a T-mobile branded and locked phone but I was still able to add the $10/mo unlimited web for phones (not the $25/mo smartphones plan). Another neat trick was being able to setup fring and getting google voice to work with it (via sipgate and sipsorcery). I get free incoming and outgoing calls using this method. I just hand out my google voice number. I have been an AT&T customer for more than 6 years but I couldn't take it anymore!

Well, technically, I did buy a windows phone (HTC HD2, runs Windows Mobile 6.5). But I loaded Android 2.2 as soon as I got bought the phone. Now, I use windows only during bootup (which is maybe once a week). I couldn't stand the winmo interface for more than a few mins. Laggy and slow. Not sure if win mo 7 will fix anything at all.

While that sounds wonderful, we will see if that saying holds true when you are surrounded by pakistan and China. Imagine if Mexico was pakistan and Canada was China. We will see how well you will stop the terrorists from infiltrating from the south.