Comment Re:Liquids and a /. car analogy. (Score 1) 279
i'm with you on this. I had a jeep Cherokee that insisted on locking the doors when it got over 15 mph. some way to keep car jacking down i suppose. i got so tired of being locked out of my car and not being able to find the spare key that i ended up putting one underneath the car with a magnet holder. i lock the doors on purpose when i leave a laptop or other valuable in the car and go to the grocery.
airport security is a total joke. its a facade to give the wall marts shopin' (i resemble that sometimes), suv wheeling country a warm fuzzy that the govt is doing their job of protecting the borders. i can't take a 20 oz bottle of water past the security checkpoint, but can get a metal knife when seated in first class. i'm sure there's countless examples of folks who take small razor or personal knives in their bathroom bag past security all the time... detonate a bomb on a plane? light speed is too slow. prepare for ludacris speed. i don't have numbers, but my gut tells me that 5 planes could go down per year and it'd still be safer than driving on the public highway system. would less people fly? some initially perhaps. every day on the freeway someone falls asleep and causes fatal accidents all over the country and we're not leaving our cars in the garage. still we get on the freeway and take the risk. schools all over the country are having people killed each year. i just read today one where a teacher's estranged spouse came in and attacked the teacher. the school went into lock down, the attacker ended up getting home and committing suicide in the garage later. we should all go under ground where it's REALLY save and secure.
airport security is a total joke. its a facade to give the wall marts shopin' (i resemble that sometimes), suv wheeling country a warm fuzzy that the govt is doing their job of protecting the borders. i can't take a 20 oz bottle of water past the security checkpoint, but can get a metal knife when seated in first class. i'm sure there's countless examples of folks who take small razor or personal knives in their bathroom bag past security all the time... detonate a bomb on a plane? light speed is too slow. prepare for ludacris speed. i don't have numbers, but my gut tells me that 5 planes could go down per year and it'd still be safer than driving on the public highway system. would less people fly? some initially perhaps. every day on the freeway someone falls asleep and causes fatal accidents all over the country and we're not leaving our cars in the garage. still we get on the freeway and take the risk. schools all over the country are having people killed each year. i just read today one where a teacher's estranged spouse came in and attacked the teacher. the school went into lock down, the attacker ended up getting home and committing suicide in the garage later. we should all go under ground where it's REALLY save and secure.
