Comments on: Killing Two Birds With One Stone http://stresstopower.com/blog/2010/01/15/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone/ Stress Hardiness, Optimizing Stress, Being Fully Alive Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:16:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jean http://stresstopower.com/blog/2010/01/15/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-3351 Jean Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:02:45 +0000 http://stresstopower.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-3351 bkehikebabe, Apparently the full-body scanners are as good as you stripping naked. One Congressman says the little pictures they show when they talk about it in the newspapers and on TV don't show how thorough they are. The people viewing them have a detailed picture of everything. He has refused to be subjected to one and is trying to get them changed so the scanners can see what people are carrying under their clothes without it being such an invasion of privacy. That strikes me as the way to go. bkehikebabe,
Apparently the full-body scanners are as good as you stripping naked. One Congressman says the little pictures they show when they talk about it in the newspapers and on TV don’t show how thorough they are. The people viewing them have a detailed picture of everything. He has refused to be subjected to one and is trying to get them changed so the scanners can see what people are carrying under their clothes without it being such an invasion of privacy. That strikes me as the way to go.

]]> By: bikehikebabe http://stresstopower.com/blog/2010/01/15/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-3350 bikehikebabe Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:53:37 +0000 http://stresstopower.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-3350 I can say that because I know that will never happen. I can say that because I know that will never happen.

]]> By: bikehikebabe http://stresstopower.com/blog/2010/01/15/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-3349 bikehikebabe Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:52:34 +0000 http://stresstopower.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-3349 I'd strip naked & have body cavity searches to be safe. :) I’d strip naked & have body cavity searches to be safe. :)

]]> By: Jean http://stresstopower.com/blog/2010/01/15/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-3348 Jean Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:44:16 +0000 http://stresstopower.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-3348 Rummuser, Au contraire. I was assuming your being seen as suspicious would tickle your funny bone. Another reason for keeping the beard. ;) Rummuser,
Au contraire. I was assuming your being seen as suspicious would tickle your funny bone. Another reason for keeping the beard. ;)

]]> By: Rummuser http://stresstopower.com/blog/2010/01/15/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-3346 Rummuser Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:40:06 +0000 http://stresstopower.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-3346 Jean, stop trying to get me to shave off my beard! I would rather go through indignities and inconveniences at airports than get rid of my distinguished look! I carry enough identity documents to prove my non terrorist credentials. Even one certificate from my late wife that I never even attempted to terrorize her though I could not give a similar certificate to her. .-= Rummuser´s last blog ..<a href="http://rummuser.com/?p=2696" rel="nofollow">Ranjan’s Rakhi Sister Zainab.</a> =-. Jean, stop trying to get me to shave off my beard! I would rather go through indignities and inconveniences at airports than get rid of my distinguished look! I carry enough identity documents to prove my non terrorist credentials. Even one certificate from my late wife that I never even attempted to terrorize her though I could not give a similar certificate to her.
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]]> By: Jean http://stresstopower.com/blog/2010/01/15/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-3345 Jean Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:56:12 +0000 http://stresstopower.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-3345 Rummuser, What a great story! So much for you being the Dhadiwala Saheb (Bearded Respected One). :-D Does that make you more or less apt to <a href="http://rummuser.com/?p=2404" rel="nofollow">shave off your beard</a>? When it happened to me I was half delighted that someone noticed enough to think me suspicious. Rummuser,
What a great story! So much for you being the Dhadiwala Saheb (Bearded Respected One). :-D Does that make you more or less apt to shave off your beard? When it happened to me I was half delighted that someone noticed enough to think me suspicious.

]]> By: Rummuser http://stresstopower.com/blog/2010/01/15/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-3344 Rummuser Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:31:32 +0000 http://stresstopower.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-3344 Jean, with my beard I am a sure shot for cops to spend a lot of time scanning me! On asking one guy a couple of years ago, why he was taking so long to scan me when the other guys were all going through at express speed, he frankly told me that I looked 'suspicious'! So, I am prepared for that kind of treatment. I am going off on a couple of days flying trip to Bangalore end of this month and shall write a post on my return about the scans. Do you think that I look like Osama Bin Laden? Have you seen the latest photos that the US State department has released of digitally altered photos that show how possibly Osama looks like now? Or perhaps I look like one of the Mehsoods of the Taliban! Imagine this happening to a Hindu in India and juxtapose that to a bearded Muslim traveling in India! .-= Rummuser´s last blog ..<a href="http://rummuser.com/?p=2675" rel="nofollow">Faith.</a> =-. Jean, with my beard I am a sure shot for cops to spend a lot of time scanning me! On asking one guy a couple of years ago, why he was taking so long to scan me when the other guys were all going through at express speed, he frankly told me that I looked ‘suspicious’! So, I am prepared for that kind of treatment. I am going off on a couple of days flying trip to Bangalore end of this month and shall write a post on my return about the scans. Do you think that I look like Osama Bin Laden? Have you seen the latest photos that the US State department has released of digitally altered photos that show how possibly Osama looks like now? Or perhaps I look like one of the Mehsoods of the Taliban! Imagine this happening to a Hindu in India and juxtapose that to a bearded Muslim traveling in India!
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]]> By: Jean http://stresstopower.com/blog/2010/01/15/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-3343 Jean Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:38:12 +0000 http://stresstopower.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-3343 Cathy, I hadn't thought about that aspect of it. :) gaelikaa, I was pulled out of line and questioned at the London airport about 20 years ago. I had been to too many places in a short period of time and had changed my reservation to come back a day early. So I was a very suspicious character indeed. When I explained I was on a business trip for a national laboratory they looked at the address I had put down for my "home". In fact I had put down my mother's address in California. That made them even more suspicious. When they questioned me about it I explained we were told never to put down our true address just in case the plane was hijacked, the hijackers might consider us to be prime hostages. They were not happy with me but let me on the plane. It was a true story and I still laugh when I think of it. Cathy,
I hadn’t thought about that aspect of it. :)

gaelikaa,
I was pulled out of line and questioned at the London airport about 20 years ago. I had been to too many places in a short period of time and had changed my reservation to come back a day early. So I was a very suspicious character indeed. When I explained I was on a business trip for a national laboratory they looked at the address I had put down for my “home”. In fact I had put down my mother’s address in California. That made them even more suspicious. When they questioned me about it I explained we were told never to put down our true address just in case the plane was hijacked, the hijackers might consider us to be prime hostages. They were not happy with me but let me on the plane. It was a true story and I still laugh when I think of it.

]]> By: gaelikaa http://stresstopower.com/blog/2010/01/15/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-3342 gaelikaa Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:23:22 +0000 http://stresstopower.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-3342 The last time I travelled by air (over 10 years ago) we had to be frisked. It's necessary because of terrorism. It's a bit invasive but what's the option? I don't think about it too much. The last time I travelled by air (over 10 years ago) we had to be frisked. It’s necessary because of terrorism. It’s a bit invasive but what’s the option? I don’t think about it too much.

]]> By: Cathy in NZ http://stresstopower.com/blog/2010/01/15/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone/comment-page-1/#comment-3341 Cathy in NZ Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:09:15 +0000 http://stresstopower.com/blog/?p=1753#comment-3341 imagine if you were going on a 'round the world' trip of a lifetime and the silly people adminstrating the machinery say "oh by the way you've got xyz and because that you can't fly" - for all the passenger/scanner might know - you the passenger might know or the machine might be malfunctioning on that particular day... a bit scary if you always thought you were pretty healthy etc...and suddenly you were grounded at an airport miles from your home or some such other thing one off-side to it all might be increased travel insurance "just in case" not a nice thought ok it's all about stopping nasty people but it might get to a point where the airlines are going down the tubes because no-one will fly with them..."headlines: did you know that 50 people in the last month were grounded by xyz airline because they were suffering from xyz?" of course I have no answer to the problem :-( .-= Cathy in NZ´s last blog ..<a href="http://cedar51.livejournal.com/18752.html" rel="nofollow">official last day of solitude</a> =-. imagine if you were going on a ’round the world’ trip of a lifetime and the silly people adminstrating the machinery say “oh by the way you’ve got xyz and because that you can’t fly” – for all the passenger/scanner might know – you the passenger might know or the machine might be malfunctioning on that particular day…

a bit scary if you always thought you were pretty healthy etc…and suddenly you were grounded at an airport miles from your home or some such other thing

one off-side to it all might be increased travel insurance “just in case” not a nice thought

ok it’s all about stopping nasty people but it might get to a point where the airlines are going down the tubes because no-one will fly with them…”headlines: did you know that 50 people in the last month were grounded by xyz airline because they were suffering from xyz?”

of course I have no answer to the problem :-(
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