1) Ask whether their body camera is working; it should be showing a blinking light
2) Ask: is this a stop search - the legal term that gives them the right to ask questions
3) If they affirm it is a stop search, ask them the basis for the stop. Three main excuses:

a) it's a airport - unlimited powers
b) there's a section 60 order in place; issued by a senior police officer, it allows anyone to be stop searched. Issued in a specific local area usually after a serious incident
c) otherwise there must be reasonable suspicion; the statement 'we're stopping everyone' will not do!

4) Look for other people to become witnesses.
5) After the event ask for a copy of the form that should have been generated.

If enough people resist to the maximum extent of the law, it forces them to behave better in the long term, though it can be problematic in the short term.

All the moves Trump is making are not informed by any actual understanding of reality. So far, the ones he attacks manage to buffer the blows and find reasonable compromises grounded in reality. But at some point this will go really, really wrong. The thing the US already lost is being regarded as a reliable partner. That will long-term mean everybody will find other partners and it also means any "promised" investments in the US will be delayed, drawn out, made half-assed or plainly will not materialize, because they will be seen as sunk cost.

But at some point, Trump's approach (which cannot really be called a "strategy") will begin to fail. The US will lose access to some really needed medication, some important tech goods, or some important raw materials, and then it will look as weak as it has become and people will stop trying to accommodate its whims. In the "small world" real-estate Trump sort-of understands, that does not happen. But on a world stage, you have one party you deal with and 100 more that carefully watch and adjust their policies. Hence one weakness and you are done bullying "partners". And since Trump does understand almost nothing, he is sure to step into it pretty soon.

I'm sure many liberals, communists and moderates thought the same thing of the Brown Shirts in late Weimar Germany.

There was a very nasty surprise waiting for them. Once you gain the levers of power, and you are sufficiently motivated and unhinged from any kind of sense of obligation, decorum or constraint, you don't have to be a majority. You just have to be willing to use raw applications of power. Illegal immigrants are not the only people that are going to end up getting sent to Alligator Alcatraz. They're just the test subjects for the inevitable liquidation of all political opposition.

Referring to ships, or in the case of submarines, boats, she is traditionally used; at least by sailors.

It seems really ironic that the Department of Homeland Security is failing to "implement critical IT and cybersecurity recommendations".

Please share how your IT organization goes through the process of identifying, correcting, documenting, testing and deploying security protocols and fixed but without having bureaucracy.

Now take all that and have it comply with public recordkeeping laws and procedures as well as government security protocols, which we all want government to "be accountable" right?

Let me get my blunderbus, I need to practice a new method of package piracy!

But then I'll never see one where I live..

It's the dream of every coffee drinker.

My 5 year old Dell laptop recently wore out and shopping for a new one I was surprised how little, if any, specs have advanced for the same money (~$2k). In particular it doesn't look like anybody even makes a 15" 4k oled display any more. I suppose the chips are faster, so that's good, but the RAM, storage, and resolution are all about what they were.