Bush and Cheney specifically said that they were looking for facilities to make new weapons. Specifically nuclear weapons and biological weapons, with maybe some new chemical weapons. But that was not a big deal, because we knew they had saved some chemical weapons. That was a known thing, and not new.

After the first Iraq war, we destroyed massive stockpiles of chemical weapons but we knew we could not have gotten them all. We had however destroyed the factories.

They specific claims made by Bush and Cheney were for factories capable of making weapons, and the main fear was bio and nuke, not more chemicals.

The factories are the most important thing, and this new information does not indicate that Iraq had kept or created any new factories at all. It is entirely about old stockpiles of chemical, not biological nor nuclear weapons that were never destroyed during the first war. Some of them were used in the second war. Others apparently may have survived to be used by ISIS.

But no one has made a credible claim for new factories that successfully made chemical weapons after the first Iraq war, let alone ever making biological or nuclear weapons

More importantly, my point was that the law is not there to make the flight attendants job easier, no matter how worthy they are. Similarly, the law doesn't let cops listen to everyone's phone calls just because it would make their job easier.

Aboujt 1 /week. I think more people are killed by hammers than Ebola.

That is, people have the right to ignore the safety lecture, especially considering it is the exact same thing EVERY single flight.

You want people to actually listen to it? Fine. Put a machine in the waiting area and require people to enter the machine and listen to the speech for 30 seconds, before being given a 'boarding order.'.

But these complaints are just silly.

The value of slight changes can be VERY significant.

Think of the first guy to ever rifle a long gun. Long guns had grooves before, they were just not consistent. Making those grooves consistent and using ammo that expanded just enough to catch them made a HUGE difference.

The linkage to transfer the weight to the ground is just such a huge improvement. They had to design it special so that it bore the weight, but still let your heels touch the ground.

It just like those illegal craigslist advertisements - the police should LOVE them because it makes it easier to identify a criminal.

It is pretty darn effective at getting people to talk.

Passwords however can be easily verified. As such, you can torture people to get a password, while you can not torture people to find out if they committed the crime.

The equivalent of putting a luggage lock on your luggage, as opposed to a real lock.

Among other things, it will discourage people from reusing a slashdot password for something that matters.

Instead it is to manage the mess so that it does not get out of hand.

You personally may choose to live in a world with no one ever cleans up the mess. But the rest of us like having the dirt cleaned up sometimes, even if it never gets rid of all the dirt.

The same thing applies to Forget Me requests.

But the law needs to be fixed the other way around. I.e. The woman should be held responsible for her actions with the sperm, not the guy.

Similarly, the man that receives the photos should not be allowed to do with them what he wants.

Google can not do that because while for YOU an email in Chinese is a huge red flag, it means nothing to the chinese american student living in New York who still gets emails from her cousin in Hong Kong.

Most of the decisions you make are like this one. For you, country, language, etc. etc. are indications of spam, but they are not true for the general population.

So a spam filter designed for your personal use will always work a lot better than one designed for all users of google.