From: PeterD on 28 Dec 2009 08:29 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:53:36 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On a sunny day (Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:55:24 -0600) it happened Jim Yanik ><jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote in <Xns9CEED514B6872jyaniklocalnetcom(a)216.168.3.44>: > >>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. > > >I am not sure how well a plane would take some stray bullets... >remember the movie 'Goldfinger'? They do just fine... Don't confuse movies with real life. Many planes have been 'shot full of holes' and none have crashed from decompression...
From: PeterD on 28 Dec 2009 08:30 On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:43:56 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com/Snicker> wrote: >On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:56:56 +0200, Anssi Saari <as(a)sci.fi> wrote: > >>Vladimir Vassilevsky <nospam(a)nowhere.com> writes: >> >>> If he was a terrorist, that plane won't land. He is just another >>> amateur madman. >> >>Yes, at least the NY Times said the guy was in the bathroom for 20 >>minutes, presumably tinkering with his bomb, then went back to his >>seat to set it off. Can't imagine why, makes more sense to set it off >>in the bathroom. Well, maybe he forgot to bring something to the >>bathroom? >> >>> However, it is a good question why amateurs started causing so much >>> trouble. >> >>Maybe it's just copycatting? Like the failed attempt at a follow-up in >>London Underground with bombs that didn't work? > >What's scary is the possibility that several passengers, over several >flights of the same plane, manage to carry on and stash components to >build a bomb in the john :-( > >Why was he in the john for 20 minutes? > >There has to be some way to dispose of these Islamists that prevents >them from entering their "heaven" and getting all those virgins (*) >... > >Boil them to death in pork fat ?:-) > >(*) What good is a virgin... I want a "cougar" ;-) > > ...Jim Thompson Consider this, both Ried <sp?> and this latest lunatic failed completely--one would think they'd get the message: "I don't want you blowing up or killing innocent people..." -- God.
From: Jan Panteltje on 28 Dec 2009 09:41 On a sunny day (Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:29:12 -0500) it happened PeterD <peter2(a)hipson.net> wrote in <2kchj5ptl0si10folbr9k0stm04bo9him2(a)4ax.com>: >On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:53:36 GMT, Jan Panteltje ><pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >>On a sunny day (Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:55:24 -0600) it happened Jim Yanik >><jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote in <Xns9CEED514B6872jyaniklocalnetcom(a)216.168.3.44>: >> >>>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. >> >> >>I am not sure how well a plane would take some stray bullets... >>remember the movie 'Goldfinger'? > >They do just fine... Don't confuse movies with real life. Many planes >have been 'shot full of holes' and none have crashed from >decompression... But Golfinger got sucked out of a boken window :-)
From: Vladimir Vassilevsky on 28 Dec 2009 10:05 PeterD wrote: > Consider this, both Ried <sp?> and this latest lunatic failed > completely--one would think they'd get the message: "I don't want you > blowing up or killing innocent people..." -- God. That raises another question: if plane bombing is really such big of an issue. How many planes were blown? How it compares to hijacks, accidents, etc? VLV
From: Jim Thompson on 28 Dec 2009 10:50
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 -- | 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! |