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View Poll Results: What decision will you be making for AIT scanners?
Bring on the naked photos 21 21.88%
I'll have the groper please 6 6.25%
I'll strip naked and let everyone have a look 16 16.67%
I won't fly 36 37.50%
I have to fly for business but no way are my kids going through this 8 8.33%
I don't fly 9 9.38%
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Old 11-19-2010, 12:13 PM   #136
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WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! Do not visit that link unless you want to have to use eye-Bleach afterwards!!

Says the man that posted a picture of carrot top in a different thread, with no warning at all...
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Old 11-19-2010, 12:25 PM   #137
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They may save lives checking for testicular cancer during the pat downs. Think of it as free cancer screening.
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Old 11-19-2010, 12:26 PM   #138
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WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! Do not visit that link unless you want to have to use eye-Bleach afterwards!!

To say nothing of downloading a php script from facebook... Firefox asked me what I wanted to do with it - so I canceled it.

Maybe the poster could edit out the link, please? With a (brief) description of what they would have seen -- as a spoiler?
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Old 11-19-2010, 12:29 PM   #139
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Says the man that posted a picture of carrot top in a different thread, with no warning at all...
Hey it was hidden behind "spoiler" tags.



Better then being Rick-Rolled like AM did to us!
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Old 11-19-2010, 12:30 PM   #140
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They may save lives checking for testicular cancer during the pat downs. Think of it as free cancer screening.
We could actually market this.

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seriously though, If I were to get a pat down I would purposely fart right in their hand. It would make it all seem worth it.
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Old 11-19-2010, 12:37 PM   #141
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Come on. They are only doing their job. No need to take it out on the "grunts."
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Old 11-19-2010, 12:40 PM   #142
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Abusing those people in legal ways is the only reason I fly. Odd fetish I know, but I gotta be me.
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Old 11-19-2010, 12:51 PM   #143
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You aren't sacrificing your freedom. You are still free to refrain from flying, if you don't like the process of doing so.
Well ... not when you live on a island, unless of course you don't mind staying on that island.

Once we had choices, there were passenger ships and ferries that traveled between islands and to various continents. No more! The only way to get off this island is to fly. And our major airport is on the list.
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Old 11-19-2010, 12:56 PM   #144
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We could actually market this.
That's it!! They walk through the scanner and that gives them the cancer then we find the cancer (that we just gave them) in the pat down!! It's a self propagating business, as long as people fly we'll have happy, cancer free, clients .... This'll work, now to get the TSA to privatize airport security

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Well ... not when you live on a island, unless of course you don't mind staying on that island.

Once we had choices, there were passenger ships and ferries that traveled between islands and to various continents. No more! The only way to get off this island is to fly. And our major airport is on the list.
Not that good a swimmer huh?
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Well ... not when you live on a island, unless of course you don't mind staying on that island.

Once we had choices, there were passenger ships and ferries that traveled between islands and to various continents. No more! The only way to get off this island is to fly. And our major airport is on the list.
And probably monitored carefully for terrorists I'd bet!
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I've heard of folks traveling to Molokai on a surf board, but it's usually an accident, when they paddle out far enough to get caught in the "Molokai Express" current.
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And probably monitored carefully for terrorists I'd bet!
Well, not really, I think that the last passenger ship stopped running sometime in the sixties or seventies. Except of course for the late lamented interisland ferry which was litigated out of existence (damned tree huggers anyway!) just a couple of years ago
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You aren't sacrificing your freedom. You are still free to refrain from flying, if you don't like the process of doing so.

And in the broader picture, your suggestion that any security at all is somehow a violation of "freedom" (whatever we think that is) is unrealistic... and I'd bet you go against that statement every day, in some way or another... every time you lock a door, for example, or buy a product with a credit card.

Freedom and security are not mutually exclusive concepts. In many cases, you need security to be able to grant freedom. This happens to be one of them: Without security protecting flights and lives, there would be more and more serious threats during every flight, which would have an adverse impact on flying; and if flights are curtailed or cancelled because of threats or decreased ridership, or prices skyrocket to deal with the increased cost and insurance against loss of planes and lives, it could possibly prevent you from being able to fly at all.

Society at large has already accepted various levels of security, in order to make their lives safer or easier... this is just one more, and it's voluntary, at that. It does the best job of keeping planes flying, and allowing passengers to fly them comfortably. Until someone comes up with a better solution to making sure no one attacks my plane, I'm cool with it.

There is a difference between taking reasonable precautions to protect oneself and paranoia. The security measures employed by the TSA have long since passed paranoia. And, yes, the excessive security measures do infringe on my freedom. The alternative you proposed (do not fly) in itself infringes on my freedom. This country needs to grow a pair and tell the terrorists we aren't afraid of them and will continue to live out lives unimpeded. Otherwise, the bastards have won.

I won't fly because of the ridiculous "security" regulations and especially now since I do not want to be exposed to unnecessary radiation and any stranger that touches my breasts or my gentalia (no matter how cute she may be) WILL draw back a bloody stump. I do not wish to go to jail for that. It's my body, damn it!
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It isn't a right to go into Walmart, it is a privilege. They should be allowed to grope us along with the receipt check procedure that they do. If we don't like it then we can shop somewhere else.
And imagine how long Walmart would stay in business if they did that. You are being ridiculous!
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That's it!! They walk through the scanner and that gives them the cancer then we find the cancer (that we just gave them) in the pat down!!
We have got to think up a fancy name for this if we are going to market it.
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