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Independent of the potential truth of your comments, they're entirely off-topic, which is why there's downvoting. And complaining like that won't help you, I' a

Independent of the potential truth of your comments, they're entirely off-topic, which is why there's downvoting. And complaining like that won't help you, I' afraid. Being wrong doesn't necessarily get downvotes. contentless or off-topic posts generally do! But then I'm fairly new here, so I stand correctable. My advice: Start a WTC thread with a good link if you think it's really important!

shn 14y ago
I think I did not make myself clear. Fair enough. What I am saying that TSA is not capable of doing the job it is expected to do (due to bad hires or whatever other sloppy execution) because there is not much need for that. This is known by their designers and originators (this is the point I am trying to make), and it is just functioning at the very basic level and most of the time in an irritating way (patting down toddlers, etc.). What happened on 9/11 is known by those circles that is why TSA is not taken seriously. ps. I do not care about down votes. I care about people giving serious thought about what others might have to say. Down voting for me is kind of censorship act. I believe up voting weeds out (pushes bottom) bad comments anyway.
shn 14y ago
I do not think I am still making myself clear. But it is good that this is happening, so I improve. If you know where the attack has really come from you do not really invest serious resources on something marginally effective and relative. TSA is that, irrelevant, however it is a tool to instigate and keep alive terrorization. I was trying to explain why TSA is ineffective at the core for the purpose we think it and what the TSA guy could only be correct. As a side note, I do not think HN is a relevant place to post this article we are commenting on anyway, and in general it is off topic. I started to hang around on HN almost from its first days for the sole purpose of reading about techies and startups.

shn 14y ago

I think I did not make myself clear. Fair enough. What I am saying that TSA is not capable of doing the job it is expected to do (due to bad hires or whatever other sloppy execution) because there is not much need for that. This is known by their designers and originators (this is the point I am trying to make), and it is just functioning at the very basic level and most of the time in an irritating way (patting down toddlers, etc.). What happened on 9/11 is known by those circles that is why TSA is not taken seriously. ps. I do not care about down votes. I care about people giving serious thought about what others might have to say. Down voting for me is kind of censorship act. I believe up voting weeds out (pushes bottom) bad comments anyway.

shn 14y ago

I do not think I am still making myself clear. But it is good that this is happening, so I improve. If you know where the attack has really come from you do not really invest serious resources on something marginally effective and relative. TSA is that, irrelevant, however it is a tool to instigate and keep alive terrorization. I was trying to explain why TSA is ineffective at the core for the purpose we think it and what the TSA guy could only be correct. As a side note, I do not think HN is a relevant place to post this article we are commenting on anyway, and in general it is off topic. I started to hang around on HN almost from its first days for the sole purpose of reading about techies and startups.