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Reason #412 to Love Miles O’Brien

August 29, 2005 at 8:41 am · Filed under Geek Speak · Comments

From the Hurricane Katrina blog of Miles O’Brien:

This morning as we arrived at Newark with one-way tickets booked only 12 hours prior to departure, we all received secondary screening from the Transportation Security Administration. I am going to go out on a limb and make a prediction: Terrorists will pop for a round-trip booking if they try to use airplanes as cruise missiles again. Perhaps we should learn from the past war — instead of fighting it over and over again — mindlessly.

Amen! I am a little confused what Miles means by “the past war,” however. 9/11? Afghanistan? (The only war directly related to 9/11, although the U.S.A. never declared war against anyone — Taliban, al Queda, Afghanistan or Iraq. Yet it’s a “War on Terror”.) Sorry, I’ve got to stop, this is making my head hurt.

More Homeland inSecurity in action (from 2004): I just read about this — a photography student harassed at gunpoint by state and federal (Department of Homeland Security) officers, at a public tourist attraction. Are we safer? That’s arguable, but we are certainly many degrees more paranoid and judgmental.

I’m in the process of trying to reassemble my Razr cellphone to see if it survived its experience in the washing machine. I don’t have high hopes, although everything (including the LCD screens) look far better than they did a day or two ago.



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