Wut? Cricket is just AT&T rebranded and AT&T gives all your data to the spooks, so WTF would you use them?

The video also shows a number of bags with the bicycle so she may have been walking with it. Also, some of the bags are black trash bags, which may have contributed to the failure of the sensors (and human) to observe in time.

Yes, they do.
Try any other payment method and see where it takes you...

Gmail has never been free, it is paid for by advertising.

I know a small ISP that might be interested, feel free to drop me a line...

> Its possible they cleared him as a Sgt before he got busted and didn't remove it.

Damn unlikely, getting any kind of negative action like that almost always gets all clearances yanked automatically.

As a one-time A1C (USAF equivalent to a PFC) I can say from personal experience that far more sensitive information than that is quite often accessible to lower ranking personnel. That's not to say they aren't vetted first, but we don't have mind-reading machines yet and at that age the simple process of maturity, (and exposure to enough crap like this :), can bring about radical changes in perspective. Most people have enough (or are given enough) perspective even at that age that they can be trusted with sensitive information, but no screening process is perfect. If there's anything surprising here it is that A - we don't get more leaks like this, and B - that the screening is actually as effective as it is, (those are not mutually exclusive).

> And yet, Reagan chose to invade Grenada?
Just politics - it made us cozier with the Brits.

Mod parent up! Historically speaking, Christians are by far and away the most violent religious group. Not to say that anyone should be afraid of Christians - this is an excellent example of how things can be twisted out of proportion - "historically speaking", only the tiniest extremist fringe groups can be considered "violent" by any stretch of the imgination for the simple reason that by and large the greater majority of people are actually pretty decent folks just trying to get along. It's the rarified strata of megalomaniacs and tiny percentage of the population that's stupid and/or weak enough to follow them that we have to watch out for, they leverage the ignorance of the masses to dangerous effect. (Or, to put it another way, all of the world's problems are rooted in ignorance.)

Except VIPs don't get scanned...

> Arming passengers will wind up with more people dead than letting terrorists on board.

Citation please!

Even better would be to conduct polls of travelers at airports all over the country and see what the real statistics are.

Seatac is one of the few airports with TSA staff who have a reasonably sane approach to this BS. I've had two positive interactions with them recently.
      First was my young daughter being selected randomly for one of their more extreme searches. The TSA staffer who was on point for those clearly wasn't happy but grimaced and waved her over, ready to follow the rules no matter how insane. An apparently higher ranking TSA person stopped him though saying quietly, "C'mon, it's a little girl", with a bit of a look that made it clear she thought he was being a moron.
      The other time, also recent, we had forgotten we had some bottled water in the bottom of one of our backpacks and they found it at the x-ray machine. No problem though, they just examined it fairly closely and then let it pass.

"For all intensive purposes"

Completely OT, but had to chuckle at the grammar-nazi-bait sig. :)

I seem to recall reading about this many years ago. Not seeing anything on the web older than a few days though. As I recall it only happens under certain circumstances relating to the age of the snake and specific environmental factors including availability (or lack?) of food, temperature, humidity(?) etc.
      Anybody else hear this before?