strathspey@strathspey.org:52651

John Chambers

Re: No more sword dances?

June 3, 2008, 3:08 p.m. (Message 52651, in reply to message 52645)

Cord Walter wrote:
| John Chambers wrote:
| <snip>
| > But we're living in an  age  when  the  airline  security  folks  ban
| > dangerous  weapons like nail clippers and toothpaste tubes.
|
| or giant cartoon robots on t-shirts:
| http://gizmodo.com/394544/optimus-prime-t+shirt-transforms-into-arrest-threat-at-airport
|
| This isn't even paranoia anymore, I think we have arrived at idiocy...

Yeah; here in the Boston area we got a lot of laughs from that one.

Actually, the security folks have a phrase  for  it.   They  call  it
Security  Theater  (or  Theatre  in  the UK ;-).  This refers to fake
security  measures  with  the  purpose  of  impressing  the   general
population  that  Something  Is  Being  Done, while not providing any
actual effective security.


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