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Mike Hankey wrote: I was recently took a cross country trip and in TX I was pulled over by the police. I was given some lame excuse (probable cause) and the whole car searched because (and this would be the key) I have long hair and the officer assumed I was transporting or using drugs.
What he did was illegal. An officer doesn't have probable cause to search your vehicle unless he sees something first (drugs, not hair). You had every legal right to refuse the search. He probably knew that, and just didn't tell you. If you refuse and he violates your civil rights, every judge on the planet would side with you in court. This is still America, at least for now.
Jeremy Falcon
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I knew it was illegal when he did it and when I got home I called my brother whom I had been visiting, who's a lawyer and he confirmed it but I learned a long time ago that if you play the game it's a 30 min. inconvenience instead of what could have become a long drawn out nightmare. I had nothing to hide so I wasn't worried about that, just wanted to get back on the road.
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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Maybe it would make more sense to profile the community from which the terrorists arise/are bred/spawned.
Now, simply put the onus of prevention upon aforesaid community/nation/etc.
Retaliate so viciously that other such places crap their pants (or whatever they wear) - and it becomes generally decided that allowing murderous slime to breed in your community has consequences. Now, using their no-found freedom of choice, they can choose to clean their own house.
Now, the rest of us can sit back and relax.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Retaliate so viciously that other such places crap their pants (or whatever they wear)
That's worked well historically. Both Israelis and Syrians have peaceful lives filled with flowers and gambolling lambs and flowers in their hair, and they've bombed seven colors (and tortured in the case of Syria) anyone related to those involved.
W∴ Balboos wrote: and it becomes generally decided that allowing murderous slime to breed in your community has consequences
Generally, the community is at much at peril from these people as everyone else, except the murderous slime doesn't have to look to far to find their opponent.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Now, the rest of us can sit back and relax.
Strength lies not in defence but in attack.The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Keith Barrow wrote: That's worked well historically. Both Israelis and Syrians have peaceful lives filled with flowers and gambolling lambs and flowers in their hair, and they've bombed seven colors (and tortured in the case of Syria) anyone related to those involved.
The Israelis have not done the aforementioned vicious retaliation: frequently leafleting before one of those seven-color bombings you refer to. They don't execute their prisoners. They don't even rape the local women.
Ethics are a cultural development. The Mideastern cultures are a classic example - an Arab that brings you to his home as a guest is a paragon of hospitality. Yet, the same culture will teach its children the value of strapping on a bomb and killing innocent people in eating in a restaurant because it makes some (imagined) statement.
As for the locals being in danger, themselves: even in the cases where that is true (and it's far from universal), I say let them have one of those popular uprising; throw some stones; burn some tires - hell, send their kind into the HQ with a bomb - but make sure they know it will be a lot worse if they allow their habitation to be used as a base of operations.
At the very least, they could all move elsewhere, making it easier to blow the crap out of martyr the terrorist cell.
It's time their were consequences sever enough to be preemptive.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I usually get pulled out due to either setting off the metal detector (due to either glasses, watch, belt buckle) or finger prints (if taken, the US are the best at this! (I'm missing a couple due to burns))  I have got use to it now...The strangest thing was being pulled out and glancing at a screen and seeing something I worked on...also a good guide is to NOT say "well **** me it works!" you get all sorts of questions
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I was at a weekend away with some friends once.
There was also a group of people who I did not know, one of who was a very large middle aged man who seemed fairly friendly.
Some weeks later a friend of mine pointed out that the portly gentleman made money by drug running.
He would courier drugs through airports.
He was caught once and after leaving prison turned away from his crime.
There's a reason why profiling doesn't work - the ones who get through don't get picked up by the profiling...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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My answer, scan only the checked luggage and the bags. Stop all the other insanity, and just DEAL with it.
9/11 cannot happen again once they secured the cockpit doors.
Yeah, all kinds of OTHER stuff could happen.
I could name 4 things I could easily take on a plane, that would give my family nightmares at the thought.
(Not mentioning here, well, because I aint stupid enough to give great ideas to idiots too dumb to think of them,
and not smart enough to avoid doing it).
If people don't want to take the risk, they can choose not to fly.
Let the free market handle it. Airlines who do well, will get more passengers.
Airlines dropping out of the sky will have fewer of them.
We should NEVER trade Freedom for Security, or we will have less of both.
Life is risky by definition.
Instead of profiling, I like the idea of Registering Flyers. I used to fly A LOT. I would gladly pay to
go into an Expedited lane, where they know I have been cleared at a much deeper level. In fact, I used some
of the inside tricks to bypass a lot of the security lines (First Class, Business Class) and now JetBlue let
me pay $10 to go express... But that should be available to someone who you are just going to scan quickly,
no taking the shoes off, etc... It will eventually happen.
First time flying? No Family? One Way Ticket? Paid Cash? = Body Cavity Search
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What is the best smart phone for a software developer to buy and use?
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iPhone or Android phone or Windows phone.
What is the question again ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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This one[^] - completely hassle free user interface! Could it be any smarter than that?  
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Ha, I had that one as my work phone 12 years ago.
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One that syncs with his Smart Watch, and talks via bluetooth to his Google Glass and works as a controller for his XBox and PS4.
Or one of these: Motorola[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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This[^]
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Wish I could give you a 99
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If you are going to just buy and use - iPhone
If you are going to Buy, develop & use - Android
If you are going to Buy, develop & keep it in shelf - Windows phone 
I have all three of them 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Quote: As a user
Quote: for a software developer
A dual sim one is suggested for DID people.
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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A nokia 8210 
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I'm sure this is old[^] but many like me might just discover it.
"I'm always open for a new phone" - Hilarious.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: "I'm always open for a new phone" - Hilarious.
Typical iEvangelist.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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These iEvangelists are the core team for Apple that drives the sale 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I used to work with a fellow that needed the latest iSomething as soon as it came out.
He was complaining that they were accelerating the releases (of the iPhone I think), but that didn't stop him from getting the latest and greatest tricked out iDevice.
He spent a small fortune just keeping up with the releases. Not that the last model was bad, he just needed to be able to brag about having the latest release of everything.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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People bragging about owning a phone. - there's something seriously wrong & funny. 
I laugh more at the phone covers that has a wide circular cut on the back to make the Apple logo visible. And the way the iOwners handle the phone feels like they'd be happy with a circular hole on their hands too. That makes the logo visible ALWAYS.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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