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http://mediamatters.org/iphone/blog/201011160015

I trust this more.

It's a link to their mobile site, so I don't know if it'll work on a computer.

I found it in 5 seconds on google, though.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011160015
tl;dr? 11,300 shares = 0.06% of OSI Systems' outstanding shares. So.
It's worth noting that the author of the post you linked to is "Seeing Red AZ," and when you click the link to read more, it's just that person's blog. Said blog links to a story in the Washington Examiner, which is... not exactly a fair and balanced "news" source. Chertoff's involvement gets one sentence, while Soros' merits an entire paragraph. Yep, sounds about right.

eta - jinx, FF!

then I will echo this.

not confused.

statement 1. The reason boycotting is not an option for me, is because I enjoy getting somewhere in 3 hours as oppose to 3 days. If I was THAT upset about the bodyscanners/grope sessions then I would not fly any longer. (my job does not require it. I realize this makes my decision MUCH easier than it would be otherwise)
statement 2. Regardless of if I like it or not, I will put up with the inconvenience of being searched so that I can achieve the CONVENIENCE of reaching my destination in a timely fashion.

So boycotting is an option for you, but you are choosing to fly instead, because of the reasons you stated. "Not convenient" is not the same as "not an option." I'm surprised you would say that you don't have a choice after so many posts about how everybody has a choice!

1. I do not want to get into this discussion. I am tired of the current one already
2. owning ANY portion allows for profits
3. I just googled that, It wasnt a place that I get my information from on a regular basis. I just wanted to prove that there are A LOT of different people getting rich off of this. Not just one man.
4. I am not some crazy conservative who geeks out over some creepy right wing blog. On the contrary I think my political views are typically VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY leftist and I understand about the bias of the media. I have yet to see a news source that wasnt biased.

So it is an option, just not a palatable one?

There are people (myself included) who have to fly for work and it really is not an option to take days to get to an office rather than hours.

I think we can all agree that the scanners are pretty shitty and not a great deal for anyone. Although I have a Prince Albert so at least they'll have something decorative to look at.

Mat.

So boycotting is an option for you, but you are choosing to fly instead, because of the reasons you stated. "Not convenient" =/= "not an option." I'm surprised you would suggestion that you don't have a choice after so many posts about how everybody has a choice![/quote]

honestly, that is EXACTLY what I am saying.
I have a choice. I am CHOOSING to fly. BECAUSE taking a snowmobile to japan is NOT an option for me. SO since I am going to be a PATRON of the airline industry, I am going to have to play by the rules.

I have to fly internationally , usually overseas, for work about 6-8 times a year. If I were to choose not to fly I would lose my job, a job I'm trained for and have been working for 8 years. I don't feel that flying can be reasonably called a luxury when for so many people it's a nessecary part of life .

agreed.
The scanners are shitty. I am not excited about the prospect of having to deal with them.
I think they will also enjoy the shiny spots on my christmas tree of a vagina.

OK, Marvellous, so everyone is happy.

Can we move on now?

Mat.

i would just love that.

Well, luckily for me, I don't have children to travel with (and even if I did, I would clearly just leave them at home alone, it worked in that one movie), or a job that requires me to fly, so I will exercise my right to be an unreasonable person and not get stared at and groped while I cry. Everyone wins!

And now i'm banning myself from this thread.

My parents flew today, and while our airport does not (yet) have a full body scanner my mom got the "pat down" because she was wearing a sweatshirt. So I guess, beware wearing slightly baggy clothes.

I don't know if I missed it in this thread but I just saw this clip of Adam Savage talking about how he accidently smuggled 12 inch blades on the plane.

This is something I often think about while standing in the TSA line, they are so busy arguing with people about whether peanut butter is a liquid or a solid and checking out people's bodies that one might imagine they are even more likely to miss weapons.

I readthat you are also not allowed to wear underwire bras

In 2004ish, I flew under a ticket with my father's name. And they didn't notice until I tried to fly back. And then there was a silly rigamarole wherein the ticket agent tried to determine if I was going to blow up the plane or if my dad is really just an idiot who put the wrong name on my eticket and the five people who looked at my ticket in Philadelphia didn't notice the wrong name. And then the ticket agent solved everything by asking if I would swear on a bible that I really flew under the ticket the first time. And I lied and said I would, even though I really wouldn't. It's a good thing she didn't have a bible with her that day.

I got two cig lighters on a plane once on accident. And I've brought tons of knitting needles, which are allowed but seem pretty dangerous, right?

Am I wrong, or is the reason we can't bring shampoo on planes anymore because a would-be plot to use some kind of liquid to blow up a plan was discovered in England?

They hadn't done it, or obtained supplies, or (maybe?) even known how to pull it off. But the threat (or the threat of a threat?) was enough to make us lose our collective shiitake.

So how long before some enterprising young terrorists (or just douchebags) fabricate a plot to bring explosives onto planes by smuggling them up their asparagi? And if that happens, what then? How will we keep American aircraft safe from the buttbombers?

Someone sig this, please.

That is the most ridiculous story I have ever heard. Good thing they didn't know you were Jewish! The last time I went through, when I got in the argument about the peanut butter, I accidently sneaked through my giant metal bottle of water.

But that guy had razors!

CAPITAL letters!

Well my tits are forked.

So... going to the airport now is like going to some prisons? (I went for an internship, people, not for incarceration.)
I mean, the pat-down sounds more intrusive at the airport, actually.

You, sir, have been sigged.

Well, I fly bright and early tomorrow morning. Good people of hte ppk, whatever should I wear?