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From: JosephKK on 29 Dec 2009 23:46 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:50:02 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com/Snicker> wrote: >On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:04:36 +1100, "David L. Jones" ><altzone(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>mpm wrote: >[snip] >>> >>> I heard on FOX News that some "former government official" said his >>> seat choice was no accident - it was near the fuel tank. >> >>Oh, you mean the Fox News owned by Rupert Murdoch. The same Fox News that >>spins every story far right to help ensure that the poor hapless Americans >>stay perpetually scared of this so called threat of "terrorism"? >>They do a good job, don't they! >>George.W and cronies would be proud. >> >>Ah, America, the only place were it's always Nineteen Eighty-Four >> >>Dave. > >Come on, Dave! 'Fess up, you've _never_ever_ listened to Fox Talk. I >listen via the Web using my Roku Soundbridge... > >mms://a138.l1387324137.c13873.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/138/13873/v0001/reflector:24137 > >Try it for a week, then tell me what you heard that was biased (except >for John Gibson... he gets his jollies from "N-word" baiting, though I >can't really say his questions are biased... he's just drawing out and >demonstrating their ignorance... especially amusing when he asks _why_ >they voted for Obama ;-) > >Hell... Fox even carries sickening liberal nutcase Alan Colmes... > > http://www.alan.com/ > > ...Jim Thompson The mms: link seems to be to an episode of Alan Colmes. Is that correct?
From: JosephKK on 30 Dec 2009 00:07 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:00:56 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: >YD wrote: >> Late at night, by candle light, John Larkin >> <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> penned this immortal >> opus: >> >>> >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27security.html >>> >>> So a guy tried to detonate a bomb during the last hour of a flight. >>> The TSA morons thus conclude that all terrorists detonate their bombs >>> in the last hour, so make it illegal to get out of your seat during >>> those 60 minutes. They are clearly assuming that the bombers are >>> dumber than they are; I have my doubts. >>> >>> The real issue is why they let a Nigerian, festooned with explosives, >>> on a terrorist watch list, onto the plane in the first place. I >>> suppose searching people who look like they might be terrorists would >>> be "profiling" or "invasion or privacy" or something. >>> >>> They did give my 90-year old father a full, very rude pull-aside >>> screening because he had a one-way ticket out of Louisiana after >>> Katrina. I once got super-harassed and triple searched because my >>> ticket had a "payment basis" of "A", and nobody knew what "A" meant. I >>> think it meant American Express. >>> >>> (If they search you three times, they seem to be assuming that the >>> first two searches were incompetant.) >>> >>> Idiots. Always fighting the last battle. >>> >>> John >>> >> >> The guy, Abdullah bin Whatever, is really a stooge for the security >> companies. Since nothing serious has been happening the last couple of >> years and there have been doubts over the whole rigmarole, they got >> afraid of business slackening off and stirred the pot a bit. > >On the whole conspiracy thing, I wonder how many AQ cells are actually >CIA run in order to sweep up the wannabes and get them to set their >balls on fire in mid flight. They might be run by MI6 instead.
From: Jan Panteltje on 30 Dec 2009 07:27 On a sunny day (Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:29:55 -0500) it happened PeterD <peter2(a)hipson.net> wrote in <87blj5hr1n12h0glt2bduf8dikogulmpr3(a)4ax.com>: >On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:45:34 GMT, Jan Panteltje ><pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >>On a sunny day (Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:30:29 +0000) it happened Dirk Bruere at >>NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote in <7psps4F37nU1(a)mid.individual.net>: >> >>>Jan Panteltje wrote: >>>> On a sunny day (Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:07:39 -0500) it happened PeterD >>>> <peter2(a)hipson.net> wrote in <m97ij5d0fm7fh4j8tj74mbave2lapks226(a)4ax.com>: >>>>> But if we go back to the original point, that a bullet hole will cause >>>>> a plane to explode because it is pressurized, >>>> >>>> I do not think tha tever was the original point. >>>> Not even in Goldfinger. >>> >>>Myth Busters tried it. >>>A bullet hole will not cause structural failure in an airliner. >>>Nor will anyone get sucked out through a small window. >> >>Goldfinger was big and fat, so it was a big window, >>else he would not have fit through it. >>:-) > >Didn't it seem to 'compress' him as he was sucked out? I remember >thinking that there was some very strange geometry in play in that >scene. <g> Not only that, remember how that guy got electrocuted? I have often wondered how that circuit worked :-)
From: Jim Thompson on 30 Dec 2009 09:55 On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:46:48 -0800, "JosephKK"<quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:50:02 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com/Snicker> wrote: > >>On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:04:36 +1100, "David L. Jones" >><altzone(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>mpm wrote: >>[snip] >>>> >>>> I heard on FOX News that some "former government official" said his >>>> seat choice was no accident - it was near the fuel tank. >>> >>>Oh, you mean the Fox News owned by Rupert Murdoch. The same Fox News that >>>spins every story far right to help ensure that the poor hapless Americans >>>stay perpetually scared of this so called threat of "terrorism"? >>>They do a good job, don't they! >>>George.W and cronies would be proud. >>> >>>Ah, America, the only place were it's always Nineteen Eighty-Four >>> >>>Dave. >> >>Come on, Dave! 'Fess up, you've _never_ever_ listened to Fox Talk. I >>listen via the Web using my Roku Soundbridge... >> >>mms://a138.l1387324137.c13873.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/138/13873/v0001/reflector:24137 >> >>Try it for a week, then tell me what you heard that was biased (except >>for John Gibson... he gets his jollies from "N-word" baiting, though I >>can't really say his questions are biased... he's just drawing out and >>demonstrating their ignorance... especially amusing when he asks _why_ >>they voted for Obama ;-) >> >>Hell... Fox even carries sickening liberal nutcase Alan Colmes... >> >> http://www.alan.com/ >> >> ...Jim Thompson > >The mms: link seems to be to an episode of Alan Colmes. Is that correct? It's a _live_ feed of Fox... you must have joined during Alan Colmes' rant ;-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | Help save the environment! Please dispose of socialism responsibly!
From: Vladimir Vassilevsky on 30 Dec 2009 10:26
Jim Yanik wrote: > I prefer Archie Bunker's solution; > hand out handguns to everyone aboard;when the bad guys stand up and > attack,everyone else draws and shoots them full of holes. 1. How would this help against a bomb? 2. With gun conveniently provided, bad guy could just make several shots into engines or flight controls. > (actually,to allow those ODCs -with concealed carry permits- to carry > aboard AC; Concealed carry permits issued by whom and recognized where? > they already know the laws concerning shooting,have shown some > level of competency with a gun,and have amassed an exemplary record of > safety and lawfulness.They have shown themselves to NOT be any problem.) Looks more like poor idiot Abdul tried to detonate something like laptop lithium ion battery by injecting water into it. VLV |