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by Aloha 3y ago
I don't actually think TSA can shrink by a substantial amount and still carry out even the reduced mission we've discussed here. You still need roughly the same number of people operating X-Ray and Magnetometers that you have oper
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by Aloha 3y ago
There is no interview, its just a fingerprinting.
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by Aloha 3y ago
I flagged on disband, not on curtail and was questioning that - but its clear some of the parallel commenters do want disband - not just curtail. Yeah, I'm fine with getting rid of the millimeter wave body scanners, the rules on liquid
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by Aloha 3y ago
(Edited) Right, okay, but who should operate those things?
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by Aloha 3y ago
As far as I know, the US was among the last countries to adopt what other countries did, which was have some sort of federal police perform airport security. Also, I fly pretty regularly - about one round trip a month - I find the TSA folks
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by Aloha 3y ago
So, something different than the pre-2001 status quo?
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by Aloha 3y ago
I don't disagree with the idea that TSA is about 50% theatre - it is, its meant to make Bob and Eileen from Cedar Rapids who fly twice a decade feel safe. my shoes must be removed anyhow, because they will cause the magnetometer to go
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by Aloha 3y ago
I'm not even gonna go into if lax security was at the root of 9/11, I think it was certainly contributory but definitely not causal. That does not answer my question - we dismantled the previous system and subsumed private sector
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by Aloha 3y ago
Also the job still needs to be done, be it TSA or something else.
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by Aloha 3y ago
I mean what do you replace it with, return to the prior status quo of private security? I don't think that's even a good idea, and I dislike the TSA as much as everyone else - nor do I think having Local LE do it makes sense, beca
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by Aloha 3y ago
What do you replace it with? Before you answer - consider the Status Quo prior to 9/11, it was private security, run by individual airlines or groups of airlines as needed. It was not (always) centralized and often was only done at the
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by Aloha 3y ago
Not all jobs can performance be measured in concrete statistics. We've had some really likable good guys who just couldn't keep up either technically or functionally, and it's obvious to everyone around, even if no deadlines
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by Aloha 3y ago
BBEdit has been my go to for a long time, as a person who came from Windows, it was a good replacement for Notepad++. I'd love to buy it, but while I'd be happy to pay 99 bucks for a perpetual version with upgrades, I'm not w
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by Aloha 3y ago
I work at a company where performing a RIF is the most common way to get rid of people who are not performing at their expected level of effectiveness - the company does not have any meaningful process internally to perform performance revi
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by Aloha 3y ago
Provided network neutrality is limited to banning 'bundling' - meaning some services do not count against a data cap but others do - I think it's an unqualified good. If it goes beyond that, it gets stickier for wireless oper
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by Aloha 3y ago
https://archive.ph/pWw0S
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Why Rupert Murdoch Fired Tucker Carlson from Fox News(nymag.com)
5 points by Aloha 3y ago|1 comments
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by Aloha 3y ago
The reaction to this is as if every computer on the planet is losing the ability to open with PS/EPS. PS/EPS were not native MacOS files until the infusion of NeXTSTEP code into MacOS in the form of OS X. I've lived in a mixe
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Fat Men's Clubs (2016)(npr.org)
45 points by Aloha 3y ago|47 comments
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by Aloha 3y ago
It depends on which government, and what kind of stuff that agency does. I don't find my government customers to be more or less chock full of red tape than my non-government ones. Sometimes my large corporate (utility) customers can b
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by Aloha 3y ago
I'd gladly take a government job - I was interested in a Military career when I was in my teens, but DADT put that out of reach - and now I'm too old and too out of shape. I'd be interested in performing some form of public s
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by Aloha 3y ago
So good, its time to discuss it again ;-)
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by Aloha 3y ago
The stuff that was wild to me was the ATM LAN products, it was out there for a couple years, but then vanished almost as quickly as it arrived.
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by Aloha 3y ago
You don't need to dwell on it either - and that's the issue, most people dwell on it, because they're taught that all feelings are good and valid, and should be explored, my own experience says the opposite, not all feelings
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by Aloha 3y ago
Too much navel gazing being bad, is I think almost obvious enough to not require study. I just wished more people practiced it.
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by Aloha 3y ago
Endless September, the time of the year we retell the old tales.
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by Aloha 3y ago
GPS is not reliable underwater, I'd expect it to have an ELT/EPIRB but those don't work with GPS as far as I know, and the crash could have been hard enough to render it inoperable.
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by Aloha 3y ago
The 2019 power crisis, when the texas grid kinda almost went dark? Our shortage was greater than the entire State of California's generation. It was greater than the spare capacity in any of the three neighboring interconnections. Like
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by Aloha 3y ago
It also pushes the market rate below the marginal cost for thermal generation.
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by Aloha 3y ago
There are basically two places in earth that have a power market structured like Texas, Texas and the United Kingdom. We have an extraordinary reliance on wind and solar, and broadly insufficient thermal generation to deal with generation f

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