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I guess my rant this morning on FB that riled the hippies was more right - Capstern Nov 16, 09:57 2
- nice. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 10:03 1
  - I thought it was special - now I am just running a campaign of poke at the hippy -- nm - Capstern Nov 16, 10:19
WTF, Arizona? Some vigilant citizens in Phoenix, Arizona are up in arms over a domed church that they wrongly believe to be a mosque. -- (link) - mara Nov 16, 09:56 8
- *headdesk* -- nm - znufrii Nov 16, 09:59
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  - We wrong-footed from day 1 with the "they hate us for our freedoms" bullshit. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 10:00 1
    - yup. - znufrii Nov 16, 10:01
  - And, it contains a list of ideas for targets! -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 10:00 1
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- "now, let''s burn down the Observatory so this never happens again!" -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:57
- Oh, it's a church, so it's OK. Everyone go home. -- nm - Mop (218 lbs) Nov 16, 09:57
Loosi: Yeah I was surprised to find Texas people to be more liberalish - Capstern Nov 16, 09:53 4
- Usually have a Democrat governor? The last win for them was 1990. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 09:58 1
  - what I was reading was like for most of the history of TX its bee democratic - Capstern Nov 16, 10:21
- libertarian is not liberal. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:54 1
  - Well in the end I feel like the odd duck whereever I go anyway - Capstern Nov 16, 10:18
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- Frankly, in my opinion, the person touching me had better be a doctor. - Beryllium Nov 16, 09:53
I think it would take a good while to prove any type of link between the TSA scanners and cancer. They are still working on figuring out if cell - James Bond (aka Igor) Nov 16, 09:47
Snapple Real Fact #729: Did you know that twins have a very high occurrence of left-handedness? -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 09:45 6
- Growing up, my twin did stuff like hold the knife with his left hand... I think he might be ambidextrous or something -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 09:56 1
  - He knifed people with his left hand!?! -- nm - From what Spawn saw Nov 16, 10:00
- how long have you known us? we know everything -- nm - dogbert Nov 16, 09:46
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  - heh -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:46
- yes -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 09:45
This airport security theatre is all the more reason why we need to invest more heavily in high-speed rail. -- nm - znufrii Nov 16, 09:45 22
- Naked air travel -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 09:52
- All I need to know is...Do the Israelis molest their citizenry at the airports? - Mel Profit Nov 16, 09:50 3
  - An article that was posted here yesterday about the Israelis. -- (link) - Reagen Nov 16, 09:52 2
    - Kinda makes the North American system look shameful. -- nm - Mop (218 lbs) Nov 16, 10:03
    - I saw this. It's what got me thinking about all of this. - Mel Profit Nov 16, 09:58
- and teleportation devices -- nm - Roger More Nov 16, 09:47
- I've always wanted to take the train to London -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:46 13
  - The train to Hawaii has a much better view. -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 09:50
  - It's a good thing no one ever bombs train stations in London. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:49 10
    - I had a lot of near misses in the early 90's all over the country. -- nm - LMS Nov 16, 09:57
    - It's a good think I refused to live in constant fear of a terrorist attack, since I'm probably as likely to hit by lightning. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:50 8
      - I would guess that people who have been struck by lightning hate that this always gets used -- nm - dogbert Nov 16, 09:55 1
        
        Heh. Meanwhile, those of us who live in LA are like, "Weather? What's that?" -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 09:58
      - hell, you're what, 10 times more likely to die in a car accident? -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 09:54 3
        
        in 2009, an average of 93 people a day died in auto accidents in the us....nm - x Nov 16, 09:58
        
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        I'm thinking per trip. The figure I saw had it about 12 times. - Reagen Nov 16, 10:01
      - but your way more likely to get attacked and or robbed walking down the street in a foreign country. nm - Jim Nov 16, 09:53
      - EXACTLY. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:51
  - okay -- (link) - znufrii Nov 16, 09:48
- As much as I love train travel, high speed rail only works in densely populated areas like the NE corridor. -- nm - Mop (218 lbs) Nov 16, 09:45 1
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So, yeah. The Texas Rangers are coming here to play my school's baseball team. - nubby Nov 16, 09:43
How many gmail accounts do you have? I'm considering switching my main account, but it's been so long with this one. -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 09:42 16
- used to be just 2 - work and personal/home - but then I "fake" joined facebook to play mousehunt and had to make up a 3rd -- nm - JenBro Nov 16, 09:52
- 312.50 -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 09:45
- One. I had another for my website, but I just pull it into my main gmail one. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 09:45
- 1. -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 09:45
- I use four regularly and I'm squatting another dozen. -- nm - Max Nov 16, 09:44
- one gmail and one regular email. -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:43
- two. one is business related. -- nm - decline Nov 16, 09:42
- three, but only use one. The other two are dummy accounts for spam evasion. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:42 5
  - you get spam in gmail? I can't remember the last time that happened. -- nm - decline Nov 16, 09:43 4
    - by spam I think she means redmond -- nm - dogbert Nov 16, 09:47
    - The spam detection is very good (straight to the spam folder), with only occasional misses (maybe once a month). -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 09:44
    - I get 10 or so a day (mainly cause I use gmail to sign up for games and websites and stuff) -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:44
    - 99% of it goes to the spam folder. I use the dummy emails when signing up for things. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:43
- Two. -- nm - nubby Nov 16, 09:42 2
  - Do you use them both regularly, or is one just a "junk" account? -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 09:43 1
    - I use them semi-regularly. One is junk but also ST-related stuff. - nubby Nov 16, 09:44
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- Personally, if I'm a terrorist group, I'm not targeting planes at this time. - JaxSean Nov 16, 09:45 42
  - I travel on mass transit more than most and I'm amazed they haven't gone after buses or trains. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 16, 09:51 25
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      - If you consider body count, maybe. But I think the real target is fear, death is just a means to that. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:58 1
        
        agreed. This is why anthrax is a better bioweapon than, say, a specially engineered flu. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:00
      - Screw that - shopping mall the week before Thanksgiving. The country would lose its *shit*. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 09:56
      - spreading fear is spreading fear though. If people are afraid to get on a bus win for the bad guys -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:53 7
        
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        now, but if they torch a couple and blow up 5 or 6 I bet that would change quick -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:56 5
        
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        after a few actual bombings, the sane ones *would* be scared. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:01
        
        People didn't stop flying. But it would definitely change things, security wise. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 10:01 1
        
        actually they did stop flying. air travel fell off. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:03
        
        Key word....sane -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 16, 10:00
    - this. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:52
    - pssst. they have. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:52 11
      - in the US? -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:52
      - in the US? -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:52 9
        
        how soon we forget. A plot to attack NYC subways was thwarted this year. -- (link) - loosilu Nov 16, 09:54 7
        
        good point. - Mel Profit Nov 16, 10:02 1
        
        Transit fits multiple needs: Large number of people, very disruptive, very dramatic. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:05
        
        fwiw, that subway map is horribly outdated. -- nm - znufrii Nov 16, 09:58
        
        So, it didn't happen? -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:56 3
        
        It didn't, but they planned on it. It's very attractive. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:59 2
        
        I forget, remind how for they had actually gotten in the planning process? - znufrii Nov 16, 10:00 1
        
        seems pretty detailed. they had picked a time, station, and trains. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:03
        
        heh, 1 second -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:53
  - Honestly? Another plane goes down, and watch a few airlines fail. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:48 1
    - This too. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 09:49
  - you're a lousy terrorists, because clearly they have not given up on planes. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:47
  - this. -- nm - Beaker Nov 16, 09:46 12
    - those explosives that flew out of Yemen just last week ... what was that? -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:48 11
      - It was not on people? -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 09:49 2
        
        luggage gets inspected too. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:50 1
        
        Yes. Maybe to clarify, I mean "strapping bombs on people on commercial passenger planes." -- nm - JaxSean Nov 16, 09:56
      - Cargo planes though. Which shows, perhaps, that they can't get on passenger planes -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:49 7
        
        The Nigerian guy managed. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:50 6
        
        Which, oddly, is a different country than Yemen. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:51 5
        
        which is irrelevant. there are many airports with lax security around the world. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:52 4
        
        You've traveled outside the country. You know that the UK, US, etc all make you go back through security locally. - ty97 Nov 16, 09:55 3
        
        I agree with you. However, I don't believe for a minute that planes are a less attractive target now. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:58 2
        
        I think they'd love to get on planes still. But I think it's a lot harder now, so they could look elsewhere -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 10:00 1
        
        fair point. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 10:05
- A TSA search would probably be the most action I've ever gotten. I need to fly soon. -- nm - Dano Nov 16, 09:41 5
  - But knowing your luck they wont' even touch your junk. :( -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 09:42 4
    - An India (TSA-equiv) dude totally copped a good feel on me. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:44 3
      - Were you... *ahem* turned on at the time? -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 09:46 2
        
        No, I wasn't expecting it or I would have, ahem, dressed up for him. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:47 1
        
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- The interesting hypothetical for me is the guy who (tried) to blow up an official in (Iraq?) using an anal bomb. - ty97 Nov 16, 09:39
- You give up your body if you want to fly! -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 09:38 3
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    - *fingerbangs you* -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 09:39
  - Nobody gets on the plane without pooping first! -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:39
Looking at the Israeli model, I wouldn't call that profiling. They ask *everyone*. - Reagen Nov 16, 09:32 8
- Leo DiCaprio likes the Israeli model. -- nm - Mop (218 lbs) Nov 16, 09:56
- Doubtlessly, though, a higher percentage of Muslims will go through more rigorous screening, it will be reported, and outrage will ensue - ty97 Nov 16, 09:35 6
  - We as a country feel so entitled. - Dano Nov 16, 09:39 5
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      - They've solved the fact that US airport security is so heinously invasive of your personal space that I don't want to go there. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 09:52 3
        
        This is part of what people miss. US tourism has dropped as a result of all our stricter post-9/11 rules. That lots of money lost. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:53 2
        
        Not just from tourism. The US is a less attractive place to migrate to, and do business in than before. -- nm - Roger More Nov 16, 10:06
        
        I've been to the US three times since 9/11 - Beryllium Nov 16, 10:00
LYC: Because everyone must know my pain, here is the most effed up thing that's ever happened to me (very long, sorry) - Tim Nov 16, 09:32 12 1
- (500) Days of Warcraft -- nm - Max Nov 16, 09:52
- Sorry. Wait, is this our J? -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 09:45
- Sorry, I'd say stop playing WoW (or maybe switch servers), get a dog, go on a road trip with your guy friends, go to vegas - ceregon Nov 16, 09:45 1
  - You need to find a chick that looks just like her, nail her and then dump her, man. -- nm - Jim Nov 16, 09:48
- all I can say is frackin chicks, they are nutty. (as an aside I have to say that " She understandably wasn't able to raid that night." would be an L3 - dogbert Nov 16, 09:43 1
  - Indeed. I had already did the "cut" of it. -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 09:46
- That is a heartcrusher and I am sorry. Despite this you seem to be on the right track in taking time for and care of - HdnAgnda Nov 16, 09:43
- I'm sorry dude -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 09:40
- that is harsh. my only advice is don't analyze, it will only make you crazy. trust me on that. And stay away from there. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:40
- My advice; Stop playing world of warcraft. Also, things are always at their darkest just before the dawn. Good soldiers tough it out ;) -- nm - Loyola Nov 16, 09:40
- Sorry to hear that. -- nm - Don Homer Nov 16, 09:39
- Wow...wild stuff. I got nothing to offer in the line of advice...but I'm in Missouri and I can go track her down and "smack-a-bitch". nm - Jim Nov 16, 09:39
Hm. Just realized I have enough miles for a free flight on Continental. And I've had it for about 10 years. -- nm - Diva Nov 16, 09:32 11
- Be careful with the UA/CO merger. AFAIK, CO miles never expire, but I bet that will change with the merger. - ty97 Nov 16, 09:33 10
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    - I'm certain they will, just like DL/NW did, but haven't heard the announcement yet. -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:37 5
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        I think you did have to take action for DL/NW, to link the accounts - ty97 Nov 16, 09:42 3
        
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        I'd be surprised if the details aren't announced by 1Q10 at the latest (but that's just my gut feel) -- nm - ty97 Nov 16, 09:45 1
        
        (1Q11, that is) - ty97 Nov 16, 09:45
  - Will do. The cool thing is that my UA miles never expire either (so far). I've actually been able to get the free flight out of them. -- nm - Diva Nov 16, 09:34 2
    - Note that UA miles do expire, if you have no 'activity' - ty97 Nov 16, 09:37 1
      - oh dear - thx! -- nm - Diva Nov 16, 09:49
Janet Napolitano gives a not so very definitive answer as to whether Muslim women wearing hijabs will be subject to the full body pat downs before - Loyola Nov 16, 09:31 1
- They got the full patdown in Algeria. (as did I) -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:33
NMB Spawn and Mop - sycor Nov 16, 09:31 3
- Great. -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 09:53
- Thanks for checking this. -- nm - Mop (218 lbs) Nov 16, 09:46 1
  - no problem. So far I'm up to about 32 sets of just Marvel. Then there's Indiana Jones, GI Joe and Star Wars. - sycor Nov 16, 09:51
I'm going to start a rumor about TSA using scanners from the NSA. - Max Nov 16, 09:30 3
- I do a lot horseback riding! -- nm - Dano Nov 16, 09:32 1
  - You seem to come through here a lot, Mr. Dano. Okay, you know the position. -- nm - TSA patdown officer Nov 16, 09:33
- *cokenose* -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 09:31
Oh great. Another assists challenge today. -- nm - David Nov 16, 09:28 5
- It amuses me that you guys are on such a mission with them. -- nm - Spawn Nov 16, 09:47
- I find it amusing that it sounds like Halo has apparently taken a page out of the Farmville playbook. -- nm - Dano Nov 16, 09:31 1
  - This sort of incentive based gaming is the future. - David Nov 16, 09:32
- you should boycott and not play! -- nm - decline Nov 16, 09:29
- I didn't do it. -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 09:29

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