Way OT (Re: How NSA access was built into Windows)
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Jan 18 21:11:15 UTC 2007
On Thursday 18 January 2007 14:34, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
>> Where is Jose Padilla now?
>
>And what would airport screening be like if he tried to smuggle the
>bomb in his underwear?
Don't pull my trigger unless you expect to hear the report...
Just as damned intrusive as it is since 9/11, his case has zilch to do
with it. But, the last 4 times I've had to go work on a tv station that
is 975 miles away by roads, I drove because airline & TSA regs now
preclude my taking along enough tools, even as extra paid baggage, to do
the job. I don't appreciate a 2 day drive when half a day of it is
getting around Chicago, but I equally detest that the airplane flight is
3+ hours driving time in the wee hours of the morning just to get to the
airport, and almost 18 hours to cover that same distance (4AM leave for
the airport, get out of the plane in Iron Mountain at about 10PM), with
mid-flight airplane changes & multi-hour layovers in Milwaukee, and no
access to food or drink that is really suitable for diabetics during that
time frame. And when I get there and rent a vehicle, its either a 2 door
grand am that I can't fold up enough to get into, and have to dislocate
my left knee to get back out of (I'm not kidding, the knee isn't so good
anyway), or a jeep with 280k miles on it and a dead battery when I need
4WD to get that last mile. The jeep seats aren't that bad, but those in
the grand am should be registered as lethal weapons, it takes me as long
to learn how to walk after I get out of one of them as I spend in it
getting there.
As for Jose, I'm ambivalent, but to just drag it on till he dies of old
age isn't justice either. They should "get to it".
--
Cheers, Gene
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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