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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3783578 times)

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8400 on: January 15, 2012, 11:42:03 pm »

Shouldn't that be the job of...oh, I dunno, the Department of Defense?

Or the National Security Agency.  Or the Central Intelligence Agency.  Or the United States Army.  Or the ... ... ...

Fuckity fuck fuck.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/15/2254211/dhs-x-ray-car-scanners-now-at-border-crossings

In order to penetrate the frame of a car, these xray machines have to be at least 3 times more powerful than a ct scan. And those already pose a significant enough cancer risk that their use is highly restricted. So they are going to be irradiating millions of people at far higher levels than are safe. If they end up scanning a million travelers, thousands maybe 10s of thousands could be be given cancer and thousands of those may die.

My mom is for this policy because she's worried about uranium and plutonium being smuggled into the US from Mexico.

Fuck my life, seriously.

That wouldn't work anyway...the containers they use to transport nuclear material are opaque to x-rays because they tend to be made of very thick lead.  Lead is a great shield for almost any radiation, whether electromagnetic or nuclear.

That aside, there are easier ways to sneak nuclear material into America.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8401 on: January 15, 2012, 11:59:00 pm »

Wouldn't it be more the National Guard, not the Army in this case?
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8402 on: January 16, 2012, 12:02:20 am »


That wouldn't work anyway...the containers they use to transport nuclear material are opaque to x-rays because they tend to be made of very thick lead.  Lead is a great shield for almost any radiation, whether electromagnetic or nuclear.

Precisedly. Any container that is opaque to X-rays will be deemed suspicious and stopped.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8403 on: January 16, 2012, 12:07:41 am »

My mom's a bit paranoid.  She's very creative, but like me, it can make her look really crazy as she goes down the list of things she honestly considers possible.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8404 on: January 16, 2012, 12:10:09 am »

Wouldn't it be more the National Guard, not the Army in this case?

That actually depends what the threat is, or more accurately, where it is.  In America, it is illegal for the military to be deployed in domestic matters.  That's the job of the police.  Of course, if you can claim the threat is of international origin (declare it terrorism and you're set), then the Army can get involved.  As far as that law is concerned...things like the FBI and US Marshalls count as domestic agencies even though they may be acting abroad.  I'm not sure where the various states National Guards or the Military Police come in...  The Guard might count as both.  Formally, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard count as the regular army.  The National Guard formally counts as the militia.


That wouldn't work anyway...the containers they use to transport nuclear material are opaque to x-rays because they tend to be made of very thick lead.  Lead is a great shield for almost any radiation, whether electromagnetic or nuclear.

Precisedly. Any container that is opaque to X-rays will be deemed suspicious and stopped.

Then they will be stopping every single car that goes through.  I doubt it.  I'm guessing it will be ignored if that's the only thing that looks strange.

My mom's a bit paranoid.  She's very creative, but like me, it can make her look really crazy as she goes down the list of things she honestly considers possible.

Doesn't sound so bad.  Most people look downright insane when you start asking them if they believe certain things are possible.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8405 on: January 16, 2012, 12:48:26 am »

Comment on Ars Technica:

"...for all intensive purposes..."
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8406 on: January 16, 2012, 03:07:24 am »

Comment on Ars Technica:

"...for all intensive purposes..."
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8407 on: January 16, 2012, 03:11:42 am »

Must be some pretty intensive purposes.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8408 on: January 16, 2012, 03:50:23 am »

I had to delay updating my LP again because one of my acquaintances went on an internet rampage. He organized the first meeting of the local Occupy group, but has since decided that he hates everything about the movement and its goals. He was one of the moderators of our Facebook group where we coordinate things. He changed the profile picture to something incredibly offensive, removed all the other administrators, and deletes any posts people make in the group. I'll be calling him about it tomorrow, but I had to spend the past few hours tracking down alternate contact information for more than a hundred people to get them into the backup group I made.

It is now about 1:00 AM here. Needless to say, I'm a bit pissed off about the whole debacle.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8409 on: January 16, 2012, 04:09:18 am »

I had to delay updating my LP again because one of my acquaintances went on an internet rampage. He organized the first meeting of the local Occupy group, but has since decided that he hates everything about the movement and its goals. He was one of the moderators of our Facebook group where we coordinate things. He changed the profile picture to something incredibly offensive, removed all the other administrators, and deletes any posts people make in the group. I'll be calling him about it tomorrow, but I had to spend the past few hours tracking down alternate contact information for more than a hundred people to get them into the backup group I made.

It is now about 1:00 AM here. Needless to say, I'm a bit frustrated by this whole debacle.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8410 on: January 16, 2012, 04:49:14 am »

Did you press quote instead of edit?
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8412 on: January 16, 2012, 07:38:39 am »

High school lied to me again!

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8413 on: January 16, 2012, 10:47:31 am »

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TOILET RAEG Edition
« Reply #8414 on: January 16, 2012, 10:53:42 am »

The MafiaaFire guys made a plugin to do just that with the proxies thing, I don't remember which one it was, though.
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