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MOST cops are dirty.

One easy way to tell is to look at statisically significant surveys of corruption. For example, 80% of CHP chiefs retire in disability.

That means that, even compared with the typically fraudulent and corrupt disability retirement rate for cops, CHP chiefs are Kings of Corruption. They are literaly bigger felons, in terms of ill gotten gains, than 99% of drug dealers.

Cops lie and defraud casually, because they think they are entitled, and because they think they will never be called to account. No matter what rock you turn over in law enforcement, you find corruption. The only difference between US and Mexico cops is that US cops find it easier to defraud the system and taxpayers as a class than to engage in retail corruption, though plenty of them do that, too.

And the whole Catholic Irish cop thing is passe: corruption among cops knows no race or sex boundary. Why do you ask?

Hey, if every Barney Fife don't get his MP5 the terrorists win, doncha know? Pulling a trigger 120 times sounds like a disability claim to me.

As much as checkpoints are crassly anticonstitutional, the amusement value is undeniable in this case: Arrogant cokehead, drunk, scumbag gets bagged on his way home from getting a hummer from a tall "woman" with size 14 shoes and an adam's apple. ROTFL.

Paging jackboot licker G.Mason to tell us why dogs, small children, and lollypops are all justifications for deadly force.

Political corruption, bureaucratic corruption, and law enforcement corruption are all FAR more commonplace than the average sheeple might think.

We need a LOT more stings like this.

What color is the sky on your planet?

What percentage of pilots do you think are flying armed today? The government has put in place a highly intrusive program designed to discourage armed pilots.

You also have not addressed the fact that building an on-board bomb detonator is trivial, and could use games, FRS radios, hobby radio kits, Bluetooth, garage door openers, etc.

You are attempting to justify a truly bone-headed move by Home-lamer "Security" to justify its existence. They are nothing but a money pit and make us not one bit safer than if we had no airport security at all.

WOuld you like to make radio kits illeal, too. How about the Sony Playstation Portable, with built-in wireless networking? Or the WiFi in every laptop on the plane? Or the Nintendo Game Boy DS? Confiscate all of those along with the nail clippers?

I doubt ethanol production is that highly subsidized. While I don't doubt that agribusinesses like ADM grab corporate welfare with both hands, but look at the corner liquor store. Rotgut gin, even after crushing taxes, is not that expensive.

The code featue on the FRS would make the odds of that extremely low. Same number of channels, but your beeper only goes off when another user of a compatible set sends the right code.

50% of GUNS - yes, big freakin metal guns - placed in hand luggage and screened at the gate make it through without any effort to make it hard to find them, according to tests the TSA used to run (they solved the problem by not running the tests anymore).

You could get anything into checked luggage. Airline security is a complete joke. The only reason an airliner hasn't been blown up is that nobody has tried.

That would only be true for analog cell phones and older systems. Powering up your cell phone on a plane cannot harm a modern network. Plenty of processing power in BTSs and VLRs to hand you (and everyone else in airplanes) off at 500mph, no problem. Your call quality would suck, but there is no problem with the network being able to handle it.

A pair of $20 FRS radios from Wal Mart

Make sure they have a "beep" feature that notifies you when someone keys a radio on your channel/code

Model rocket igniter.

Done.

Our "law enforcement officials" must have a lot of time on their hands if they worry about cell phones on planes.

This is what SHOULD happen to corporate IT.

Unless you can buy all your IT needs off the shelf and hook them up easily, the suppliers of these technologies won't be able to penetrate the middle sized enterprise market. It is inevtable that ASPs and services are gong to do 95% of what every business needs to operate because these technology providers want the beggest market possible.

Large enterprises buy everything else off-the-shelf: They don't have their office furniture custom made. All this in-house technology development is wasteful and the ROI is not there.

Only for a clintonian definition of "working." Just because you get dial tone doesn't mean you can successfully complete a call. The high reliability of the PSTN is mostly a myth.

The Chinese perfected the ability to suspend that kind of common sense in the Cultural Revolution. Millions died! So a War on Drugs should be no problem at all for Chinese bureaucrats.

Which is a twisted interpretation in two ways:

1. We don't need no stinkin' BoR to privde us our God-given rights. Riddle me this, jackboot fancier: Without a IInd, would we have RKBA? For extra credit: Is the government authorized to regulate guns and where does it say so?

2. The Roe only makes any sense at all if you have accepted that an unborn infant is no more worthy of protection than a goiter or tumor.

I have had the exact same issue with Google's photo indexing tool on my PC. A corrupted image file was the problem.

You learn something new every day.

I am glad to see that the jack-boot lickers have no dirt on the IXth, and that Roe is tied to the dubious XIVth.

Unlikely. But I will vote to acquit anyone who does decide to "make a point." There are more people like me that you would like to admit.

Purely an excuse. There was no reason the unproductive Western European economies should have had a currency run-up in the first place. This is just the market looking for an event.