TSA Discontinues Naked Scanners

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[Sean Renaud]

Kick ass. Now to get them to let me keep my shoes on and stop groping me. But one step at a time right?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

The bastards already got me.

 

[Liar]

I always find it funny how all those other places in the world have much less hysterical security checks - on planes that fly to the United States.

If those scanners were effective against terrorists, what's to stop someone from hopping on a plane in, say, Norway and crashing it into Manhattan instead of landing at Newark?

 

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[Liar]

Exactly, you don't need to see my manboobs in the name of safety.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Any reason to think this would work better than it did last time?

 

[ryan8558]

Any reason to think this would work better than it did last time?

There's quite a few Americans believe it worked the first time. They believe flight 93 was shot down.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Forgive me, I wasn't exactly part of the world when this event went down. Even if 93 was shot down (it wasn't) wouldn't that still be a 25% success rate with 2 hitting the Twin Towers and 1 hitting the Pentagon? Maybe I play too many video games but things that only work 25% of time have this really awkward habit of failing 100% of time. At least it sure as fuck feels that way.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I always find it funny how all those other places in the world have much less hysterical security checks - on planes that fly to the United States.

If those scanners were effective against terrorists, what's to stop someone from hopping on a plane in, say, Norway and crashing it into Manhattan instead of landing at Newark?

I've never been to Norway, but the exact opposite is true of every European and Middle East airport I've ever flown to/from. Have you ever been to CDG? I do look kinda shady though.

 

[LadyVer]

Yeah, this made good news for the travel industry today.

 

[about_average]

About time. Because of doctored data from the manufacturer, it wasn't generally known by the public that you're more likely to die from terminal cancer from a single trip through one of the scanners than you are to get blown up in a plane by a terrorist.
They based the "safety" of the scanners on the radiation dosage absorbed by a tissue mass equal to the entire body, when in fact the dose is absorbed by a much smaller mass, just your skin. A significant difference in radiation levels in any given cell.

 

[sticky_keyboard]

TSA Discontinues Naked Scanners

That's good - most of those TSA scanners are repulsive enough with clothes on, I can just imagine how disgusting they'd be if they were naked.

 

[AllyRose]

That's good - most of those TSA scanners are repulsive enough with clothes on, I can just imagine how disgusting they'd be if they were naked.

I chuckled.

 

[XdOu™]

thanks for sharing

 

[AllyRose]

thanks for sharing

You're welcome.

 

[XdOu™]

You're welcome.

no problem