RANT: Airline security? Re-arm the pilots again!

Monday, October 2, 2006

http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2006/09/commitment-strategies-vs-highjacking.html#comments

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On the face of it, almost all of the precautions to keep passsengers from highjacking an airplane are unnecessary—all it takes is a reasonably sturdy locked door between pilots and passengers. One possible response is that highjackers might persuade pilots to open such a door by threatening to kill off crew and passengers one by one until they do. In the post 9/11 world I’m not sure that would work—but suppose it would.

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(1) It would seem that one could weld the cockpit door shut. Pilots could use a camping toilet if needed. Seems an easy fix to me.

(2) Armed pilots used to be an acceptable solution. Why not now?

(3) Leave it to the airlines to figure out. Get the government out of all the things that it should NOT be into. Shut the TSA, FAA, and any lots of others.


FUN: Every jobseeker can use the lessons taught here. Especially fancy walking!

Monday, October 2, 2006

http://www.loadingreadyrun.com/

September 22, 2006
Job Hunt
Kathleen discovers that when looking for a job, it is important to play to your strengths.


RANT: PAYTRUST has a dns problem

Monday, October 2, 2006

They are redirecting users to their small business subdomain and then suspending your user id when you try to sign in.

Arghhh!

And, this is my problem because?

Oh, I see. You screw it up. Inconvenience me. And, I have to call you, authenticate myself to you, to be told type in www.paytrust.com.

How about sending out an email and alert me to the problem so I don’t have to wait until your available?

Arghhh!


RANT: Less 911 memorials and more 911 actions (imho)

Monday, October 2, 2006

From: BG
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006
Subject: powerful memorial of 9/11

I thought this was a very good and powerful memorial of 9/11.

http://www.wuzupgod.com/sept11/sept11_memorial_worldwide.html

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Nice, but it doesn’t express the rage.

We should have rebuilt the Twin Towers immediately and made them one story higher. (Is it possible to make them look like a giant middle finger?)

We should have started a program of reprisal; not war. If we identified you as an Al Quida leader, then they are just dead man walking. Period, quietly, preferable painfully.

We should have taken all our existing politicians out and collectively killed their careers on the dole. Put them out to pasture. (I have no use for either ilk D or R!) And, get some people who would return to our original Constitutional intent. The government has really only one role. That is to keep the peace. They’ve failed. So, we need to “help” them understand that they’ve failed, get them refocused on the goal, and put us back on track to peace.

Memorials are for the dead. Actions are for the living. We need to move forward in a way that makes us safe. And, it’s not by having a foreign policy where we are the world’s policeman, or in everybody’s business, or have troops in 140 countries.

I’d like to see us end welfare (corporate and individual). That solves the “immigration problem”. Shine up the Statue of Liberty. You come; you work. You don’t; you starve.

End the phony War on Drugs. We lost. You can’t change human behavior. Let WalMart take out the drug gangs. It’s hard to turn a profit competing against it. If you can go into WalMart and buy any drug, then there’s no need for violent turf wars. Pardon any non-violent prisoner.

Then cut the taxes. Washington is a cesspool of special interests. The original intent of the dead old white guys was a modest government to run a Navy and not much else. We can quibble about the right size after we cut it 90%.

That’s a fitting memorial to all the Americans who died in all the avoidable tragedies that we’ve gotten into over the decades.

imho
fjohn