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  1. Sounds like a bad B-movie

    On another note: Amsterdam Airport bought a lot of body scanners since the attempted terrorist attack. Only they bought i type that wouldnt have picked up the bomb used Amateurs, they just want to look at hot girls at work.

    I wouldnt even want to go to the USA with all these safety measurements, i have heard about flights where you cant wear shoes. Though visa appliance (but USA visitors dont need an EU visa, dont get me started about this ). Long queues at the checkpoints etc.

    And still it wont work, every system has a single point of failure somewhere. I mean we have seen drunk pilots, blackmailed officers, etc. All anti-terrorist measures are failing, but in the mean time the personal data recorded by the government is misused, leaked and downloaded by hackers.

    Looks like no one gives a shit about privacy anymore. Every fact about a person is known, from photo to fingerprints and location. Little more than half a century Hitler knew just how to use this information to try to extinct a whole race.

    People should care more about their privacy, big brother is watching you and god knows what happens when an idiot is grabbing power.


  2. Oh, that reminds me of another of the new jokes.

    A mail from the Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States Janet Napolitano to the Minister of Interior of the Slovak Republic Robert Kaliňák: ''Even if it might not seem so, the Police Academy series we sent you on DVDs are not instructional films."

    Originally posted by Risto:[..]
    I wouldnt even want to go to the USA with all these safety measurements, i have heard about flights where you cant wear shoes. Though visa appliance (but USA visitors dont need an EU visa, dont get me started about this ). Long queues at the checkpoints etc.


    How stupid is that? If I can't get to their country just like that, I don't want them to get to my country just like that either.

    Originally posted by Risto:[..]
    Looks like no one gives a shit about privacy anymore. Every fact about a person is known, from photo to fingerprints and location. Little more than half a century Hitler knew just how to use this information to try to extinct a whole race.

    People should care more about their privacy, big brother is watching you and god knows what happens when an idiot is grabbing power.

    From what I've heard, if you apply for a job in the US your future employer will gain any information about you from Facebook.
  3. Originally posted by yuri31:[..]
    From what I've heard, if you apply for a job in the US your future employer will gain any information about you from Facebook.


    Not only the USA but everywhere in the world. But that is peoples own choice to share every second on your live on facebook, its worrying but not as worrying about the chipcard we HAVE to use in public transport here in Holland. And then there will be paying per km in your car using monitoring boxes etc. They start treating us like criminals. Of course its not the worst thing, but people are letting it happen way to easily.

    Same with the body scanners, some people wanted them for years. But there were a lot of complaints. Now one terrorist enters a plane with a bomb (the scanners wouldnt have picked up) and the scanners are being bought without further discussions.

    Terrorism is an excuse to push controversial safety measures. While the chance of being ran over by a bus is thousand times bigger than a terrorist attack. Terrorism is hyped in a way, government like us to be scared.


  4. nothing recent. when it happened they said that it was a setup and western spies had planned to kill her and film it to make the government look violent
  5. As distasteful as it may be, the only thing thats going to actually work against terror is profiling. I dont like it either, but its the only thing that will actually work.
  6. Originally posted by wtshnnfb01:As distasteful as it may be, the only thing thats going to actually work against terror is profiling. I dont like it either, but its the only thing that will actually work.


    That step should never be made. We are already giving up all kinds of freedom for a false sense of security. Terrorism will always be there. If Kurt Westergaard's Mohammed cartoons were censored, extremists would have found something else to be pissed about. Now we have even tighter security measures, but it really doesn't matter because they aren't implemented in every country, so terrorists can still bomb whatever they want, they just have to find another way around. And even if they were, the system is never perfect, there are always failures.

    So basically where we are heading is a world with continuing terrorism and deteriorating freedom and privacy. If we would even go as far as to exclude people based on their appearance, just to make as all feel a little safer, we should really stop and wonder at one point what society has come to...
  7. Originally posted by wtshnnfb01:As distasteful as it may be, the only thing thats going to actually work against terror is profiling. I dont like it either, but its the only thing that will actually work.


    I think nothing will ever work against terror.
  8. Just read that general David Petraeus said that USA already have finished plan for attacking Iran because of their nuclear program.

    It's the same reason why they invaded Iraq, and all they found was one big NOTHING.
  9. Originally posted by Risto:[..]

    Sounds like a bad B-movie

    On another note: Amsterdam Airport bought a lot of body scanners since the attempted terrorist attack. Only they bought i type that wouldnt have picked up the bomb used Amateurs, they just want to look at hot girls at work.

    I wouldnt even want to go to the USA with all these safety measurements, i have heard about flights where you cant wear shoes. Though visa appliance (but USA visitors dont need an EU visa, dont get me started about this ). Long queues at the checkpoints etc.

    And still it wont work, every system has a single point of failure somewhere. I mean we have seen drunk pilots, blackmailed officers, etc. All anti-terrorist measures are failing, but in the mean time the personal data recorded by the government is misused, leaked and downloaded by hackers.

    Looks like no one gives a shit about privacy anymore. Every fact about a person is known, from photo to fingerprints and location. Little more than half a century Hitler knew just how to use this information to try to extinct a whole race.

    People should care more about their privacy, big brother is watching you and god knows what happens when an idiot is grabbing power.


    I love and agree with your point of view, very libertarian.
    Those who give up liberty to protect freedom deserve neither.

    The situation in the UK for Government is quite simply awful, the sheer size and power of government and the amount of detail it has on every citizen.

    All of whom are very taxed and rewarded with an inadequate health system.

    I'm all up for Ron Paul in 2012.
  10. Ooohhh to be a fly on the wall in the Northern Ireland First Minister's household right now!


  11. Why was he forced to step aside for six weeks because of his wife's affair?


    In other news, Mike Rann (Australia's favourite premier) has his parlimentary girlfriend back in town. She apparently doesn't regret what she said.


  12. It wasn't just that, it's allegations centred around questionable transactions between her and toyboy. There are also questions about what hubby knew about the transactions.
    So his stepping aside has given his party some clear air but he has also said he's using the time to be with her because she's now in a psych ward. Who needs scripted television when you have this?
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