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It's political bikeshedding. Few people have the background to understand Quantitative easing, but everybody gets the squicks about being naked in public. The
by CERTIORARI 16y ago
It's political bikeshedding. Few people have the background to understand Quantitative easing, but everybody gets the squicks about being naked in public.
The politicians know this, of course, and are going to reduce this to a few slogans and beat it into the ground. This despite the fact that very few Americans spend any real amount of time dealing with the TSA.
- peregrine 16y agoI agree except for your very last statement. Its more then an issue of Americans spending time with the TSA its about privacy. This is a backlash against all of the privacy concerns people have against new technology, it just happens that this technology has easy to see consequences.
- jobu 16y agoWhen I fly in 2 months I will have have to choose between having naked pictures taken of my children, or having them groped. I understand that statement is bit hyperbolic, but it doesn't make the options any less shitty. The airport we use currently has X-ray machines instead of the millimeter wave scanners, so I will probably have to choose the groping. Here is what I'm expecting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80JAcQ8WOP8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80JAcQ8WOP8
- bmj 16y agoI'm having the same dilemma. We have the back-scatter machines at our airport, and given the reports, I'm tempted to just cancel our plans, or just drive.