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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| When a 15 minute subway ride or grocery trip becomes an all day afair, the last nail in the coffin to ensuring America falls clearly to 3rd world country status has been nailed into place. Why are the bureaucrats and big wigs working against their own country and it's people? The terrorists won in that case. Sound extreme? Think not. Once you slow a country and it's people down, restrict freedoms, discourage, and dis-empower them for any reason, they devolve, do increasingly less and less productive activities, and just get poorer. Go figure. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| Has anyone here actually flown domestic in America recently? How bad is it? |
I have. It is not so bad, but getting worse. The TSA people seem to have taken the criticisms personally and are growing less polite. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| Has anyone here actually flown domestic in America recently? How bad is it? |
When I flew for the holidays, TSA was unfailingly polite and courteous. But both airports I flew from lacked the body scanners: traffic in and out was too small. So it was the typical 'take your computer out of your bag and take your shoes off' situation. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| the last nail in the coffin to ensuring America falls clearly to 3rd world country status has been nailed into place. Why are the bureaucrats and big wigs working against their own country and it's people? |
More widespread use of smart dust is on its way.
Imagine how intolerable life will be when people accept RFID implants. They'll be enslaved like trapped rats.
I'm extremely averse to big brother. Which is why I was angry at the fact Europe has become way more of a cashless society than formerly. You can't even book into a hotel with cash any longer. They demand credit. If U ain't got, then you can apply for a temporary credit card (for which you have to submit all your personal details of course).
The net is closing. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:15 am Post subject: |
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| Has anyone here actually flown domestic in America recently? How bad is it? |
When I flew for the holidays, TSA was unfailingly polite and courteous. But both airports I flew from lacked the body scanners: traffic in and out was too small. So it was the typical 'take your computer out of your bag and take your shoes off' situation. |
Doesn't sound too bad. Perhaps the new regulations are in principle bad but in practice not much applied? |
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