Idiots

I have the classic Engineer's profile: multiple allergies, strong math/visual/spatial skills, good kinetics, poor verbal and language skills. It's been associated with high levels of pre-natal testosterone.

It is a good idea to make the enemy army sneeze all day. When they run out of Kleenex, they'll have to surrender.

John

It's too full of cars and tourists and rude locals, and beastly in the summer. The grey stone Grand Architecture is grim and boring; the locals seem to agree, since they piss on it so often.

London is much more colorful and interesting, except for the food of course.

The French countryside is wonderful. We spent a few days in Molitg Les Bains, in the Pyrenees, maybe the most beautiful place I've been.

John

Yes; this is more than symbolism. There is a strong repressed-sexuality component to suicide bombers.

John

Hey, it's vacation time! ;-)

The only posts I've ever filtered are spammers'. I ignore Slowman, of course. I thought you hade a smart thread filter. Just DimBulb Panteltje, and let me play with the roach.

But you have a solution to DimBulb threads, why not Panteltje threads?

IMHO they should have stopped him at Schiphol regardless of all the lists. With a bit of luck the bodyscanners will be operational like they should have been long ago.

I doubt that. Its probably the same only a different mix depending on which countries are close although you'll find a lot of Chinese people everywhere.

I'm waiting for the first celebrity pictures to appear on the net ];)

I thought I was clean simply with the direct kill of Panteltje.

I'll add you to my troll feeder process ;-) ...Jim Thompson

With my artificial hip, I always get special "handling".

Last time I went out of Phoenix they asked if it was OK to use the full body scanner, and I said OK.

Unfortunately it takes enough time that screening every passenger would slow things down... but it's a lot faster for me than the usual take me aside for the full frisk and wand. ...Jim Thompson

WHy do something because it's easy?

I thought I was already there for poking AlwaysWrong.

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Went to the grocery store. While on the way, on the radio they were discussing full body scanning. The implication was you were simply seen nude. What good would that be if you stashed PETN in a body "cavity"? ...Jim Thompson

None at all, unless you own stock in the scanner mfr.

It could detect (externally) hidden ceramic knives and such like that the metal detector might miss (though the consumer knives apparently deliberately include enough metal to allow them to be detected).

You do want at least the appearance of security, no?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

You obviously missed the nature of his journey through the Netherlands. Repeating from my earlier post:

In this instance Shipol made no difference. He was a transit passenger, hence no screening per se. And he was travelling with a valid Nigerian passport and valid US visa. Also it appears he was NOT on any Netherlands watch list - the USA habit of not sharing among their own security branches appears to extend to not sharing internationally.

Don't count on it. I've seen the bodyscanner images myself and it just reveals rough contours. I find a bodyscanner must less intrusive than being searched manually.

AFAIK all passengers are checked again before boarding the aircraft. Transit or not makes no difference.

They might be able to tell by the way somebody walks :-) OTOH I guess they would have hidden the PETN in there if that was an option. Why bother putting it in a shoe or in a piece of underwear if all you need to hide it is a condom and load of vaseline?

Because there was no necessity-- it hadn't been done before in either case, and therefore they were not looking for it, so they did NOT get caught bringing it through security. Either time.

Next time it will be hidden somewhere else.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

That's not the story that the Schipol authorities gave, nor is it in line with my international/transit experiences. "Normally" transit passengers remain in a quarantine area, and local-boarding passengers enter that area once screened. YMMV

On one occasion in transit at Changi we decided to kill the four hour hold with a quick trip into the city. We asked if this was OK and the response was "yes, but you will have to re-enter through security screening etc".