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Thu Sep-30-10 09:17 AM
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| 15. They are going to use this to troll for drugs and weapons |
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and anything at all, any excuse they can site as probable cause to search any random person or vehicle.
They want our right to be protected against illegal search and seizure to be quaint words that don't really mean anything anymore.
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| -'Feds radiating Americans'? Mobile X-ray vans hit US streets |
kpete |
Sep-30-10 08:51 AM |
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Um, holy shit. nt |
BlueIris |
Sep-30-10 08:53 AM |
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Wouldn't you love to be the bloke driving those vans? |
jobycom |
Sep-30-10 08:57 AM |
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In terms of radiation safety... |
caraher |
Sep-30-10 09:13 AM |
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This doesn't sound like your average X-Ray machine, though. |
jobycom |
Sep-30-10 10:04 AM |
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Not a transmission x-ray, which uses a "bright" point source make... |
TheMadMonk |
Sep-30-10 11:08 AM |
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You are correct. I provided training on one of the brand of these trucks |
ladywnch |
Sep-30-10 11:27 AM |
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If they are in no danger why should they NEVER be in the vehicles? |
Nostradammit |
Sep-30-10 05:53 PM |
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for the same reason they put a leather apron on you when you get a dental xray |
ladywnch |
Sep-30-10 06:37 PM |
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You are correct. I provided training on one of the brand of these trucks |
ladywnch |
Sep-30-10 11:28 AM |
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Thanks for the info. |
jobycom |
Sep-30-10 11:55 AM |
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Don't buy into those numbers, you CAN get SKIN CANCER etc. from backscatter |
flamingdem |
Sep-30-10 02:18 PM |
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Then why do they make me exit my commercial vehicle when they do this at border crossings? |
Ikonoklast |
Sep-30-10 11:19 AM |
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Same reason IPod Shuffles came with a warning not to eat them, or |
jobycom |
Sep-30-10 11:59 AM |
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They're looking for drugs, money and weapons, too? |
Ikonoklast |
Sep-30-10 12:02 PM |
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I think more like it is that the person trying to eat the IPod or figure out toilet paper |
jobycom |
Sep-30-10 12:03 PM |
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Like I said, Jobs is the Antichrist. |
Ikonoklast |
Sep-30-10 12:08 PM |
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why do they put seatbelts in cars? |
Confusious |
Sep-30-10 06:30 PM |
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creepy... nt |
CBR |
Sep-30-10 08:58 AM |
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Swell. |
City Lights |
Sep-30-10 09:00 AM |
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Freaky dupe. |
City Lights |
Sep-30-10 09:00 AM |
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It sounds like your computer's been irradiated, too! |
Buns_of_Fire |
Sep-30-10 11:00 AM |
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LOL! nt |
City Lights |
Sep-30-10 12:13 PM |
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You see the faint outline of the driver in that photo? How much radiation is he absorbing? |
ThomWV |
Sep-30-10 09:00 AM |
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A LOT |
notesdev |
Sep-30-10 09:04 AM |
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Source please? |
caraher |
Sep-30-10 09:12 AM |
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Look at that picture |
notesdev |
Sep-30-10 09:44 AM |
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I think it has more to do with the size of the detector array. |
TheMadMonk |
Sep-30-10 11:16 AM |
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These are not transmission images |
caraher |
Sep-30-10 02:48 PM |
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Much, much less than I absorbed working... |
LanternWaste |
Sep-30-10 11:12 AM |
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So, I guess all those pregnant women in their first trimesters |
BlueIris |
Sep-30-10 09:01 AM |
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Think of the bright side |
notesdev |
Sep-30-10 09:05 AM |
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Two mouths to feed? In THIS economy? |
Hassin Bin Sober |
Sep-30-10 10:29 PM |
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Well maybe those people shouldn't go outside at all |
Confusious |
Sep-30-10 06:34 PM |
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I don't see how that really helps anything. |
burnsei sensei |
Sep-30-10 09:04 AM |
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Good point. |
BlueIris |
Sep-30-10 09:17 AM |
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Agreed. And the excess random data all this scattershot surveillance makes matters much worse. nt |
glitch |
Sep-30-10 09:18 AM |
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In regards to the American People; it isn't intended to help them. |
Uncle Joe |
Sep-30-10 10:50 AM |
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This is an excellent post. |
CrispyQ |
Sep-30-10 05:24 PM |
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As in...it's the technology stupid? |
wuvuj |
Oct-01-10 07:03 AM |
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Depends on how it is used. |
jobycom |
Sep-30-10 12:39 PM |
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terrorism my ass, they want drugs |
reggie the dog |
Sep-30-10 09:11 AM |
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They are going to use this to troll for drugs and weapons |
ThomCat |
Sep-30-10 09:17 AM |
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Yup, anti-terror is the least of this thing's uses |
caraher |
Sep-30-10 09:26 AM |
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However, as a matter of fact, thanks to the PATRIOT act these things can be used with impunity... |
TheMadMonk |
Sep-30-10 12:26 PM |
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nice post. nt |
txaslftist |
Sep-30-10 03:21 PM |
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Exactly. |
krabigirl |
Sep-30-10 10:48 AM |
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Is there *anyone* in this administration who thinks this is a bad idea? |
Newsjock |
Sep-30-10 09:37 AM |
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Probably not. Nt |
krabigirl |
Sep-30-10 10:49 AM |
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no to this - radiation accumulates in a body |
ensho |
Sep-30-10 09:45 AM |
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Radiation DAMAGE accumulates to a degree. |
TheMadMonk |
Sep-30-10 12:35 PM |
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bullshit. nt |
Confusious |
Sep-30-10 06:35 PM |
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"a terror-spooked country" |
marmar |
Sep-30-10 09:47 AM |
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I think they meant to say "a country terrorized by spooks" |
kenny blankenship |
Sep-30-10 09:52 AM |
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So, how soon before we start seeing these at those random checkpoint stops |
MadHound |
Sep-30-10 09:55 AM |
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Taking protective measures will just be counted as prima facie evidence of your guilt |
kenny blankenship |
Sep-30-10 10:00 AM |
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Perhaps, but it would make for one hell of a good court case, |
MadHound |
Sep-30-10 10:11 AM |
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Your home is safe. The case has already been tested with respect to... |
TheMadMonk |
Sep-30-10 01:20 PM |
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Ya think? |
txaslftist |
Sep-30-10 03:22 PM |
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...and shooting your dog. --nt |
CrispyQ |
Sep-30-10 05:31 PM |
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I think that if a few more people here practiced basic reading comprehension... |
TheMadMonk |
Sep-30-10 09:56 PM |
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People who aren't doing anything wrong... |
CoffeeCat |
Sep-30-10 11:44 PM |
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Car Wars? |
Iterate |
Sep-30-10 10:18 AM |
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Complete and utter creepiness. Nt |
krabigirl |
Sep-30-10 10:48 AM |
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it's funny how the authoritarian meetheads who claim to love the country and constitution |
fascisthunter |
Sep-30-10 10:52 AM |
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More of the change you can believe in. |
Individualist |
Sep-30-10 11:03 AM |
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Will police always target cars rather than profiling men walking down the street? |
ProgressiveEconomist |
Sep-30-10 11:07 AM |
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The flip side of that is that with sophisticated automated remote scanning, there is no need... |
TheMadMonk |
Sep-30-10 02:05 PM |
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Huh?! "targeted only at persons carrying weapons?" You mean EVERYONE will be irradiated |
ProgressiveEconomist |
Sep-30-10 02:09 PM |
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The device in question here straddles a vehicular target. |
TheMadMonk |
Sep-30-10 10:02 PM |
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Like smart-bombs! No chance that new, "more precise" technology could lead to abuses |
kenny blankenship |
Sep-30-10 02:14 PM |
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How many millions of cars would need to be x-rayed all the time? |
lunatica |
Sep-30-10 11:10 AM |
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The march of technology and regulation will solve this problem soon enough |
kenny blankenship |
Sep-30-10 11:39 AM |
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And who gets to monitor all those x-rays? |
lunatica |
Sep-30-10 01:19 PM |
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Government for the Chicken Littles, by the Chicken Littles. |
flvegan |
Sep-30-10 11:30 AM |
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The assurances of safety of this machine are one thing, |
felix_numinous |
Sep-30-10 12:00 PM |
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Isn't backscatter technology the same as the body imaging |
suffragette |
Sep-30-10 12:22 PM |
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Land of the free, home of the brave. LOL |
rubberducky |
Sep-30-10 12:23 PM |
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The danger is that ANY IONIZING RADIATION will cause CANCER esp. in KIDS |
flamingdem |
Sep-30-10 02:17 PM |
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I hope you're organizing to keep kids off airplanes then |
caraher |
Sep-30-10 02:53 PM |
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Cumulative. |
WinkyDink |
Sep-30-10 05:26 PM |
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Read up on unreliable calibrations that can give you a 100 times dose |
flamingdem |
Sep-30-10 05:42 PM |
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This is a different device from the medical x-rays |
caraher |
Sep-30-10 09:25 PM |
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bullshit. |
Confusious |
Sep-30-10 06:41 PM |
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This is illegal as hell! One more step toward an Orwellian/V for Vendetta society! |
earth mom |
Sep-30-10 03:15 PM |
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So this means the drug cartels will invest in Geiger Counters. |
Arctic Dave |
Sep-30-10 04:58 PM |
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If it can go through a TRUCK... what will it do if you are Pregnant? |
Techn0Girl |
Sep-30-10 05:00 PM |
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Not a bloody thing. Read back a few posts. |
TheMadMonk |
Sep-30-10 10:11 PM |
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Why does you post leave me feeling even less comfortable than before? |
Techn0Girl |
Sep-30-10 10:49 PM |
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Um perhaps because your education on the subject has been one sided. |
TheMadMonk |
Oct-01-10 02:05 AM |
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Yes Anonymous Internet Poster who posts at 1 in the morning - you Have convinced me .... |
Techn0Girl |
Oct-01-10 03:05 AM |
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No I wouldn't, because Corexit is at least as toxic as we think it is. |
TheMadMonk |
Oct-01-10 04:08 AM |
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Thank you again Ananymous Internet Poster..Next to Wikipedia...you're the smartest thing on the web! |
Techn0Girl |
Oct-01-10 04:10 AM |
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Good girl. Never let anything as inconvenient as a fact get in they way... |
TheMadMonk |
Oct-01-10 11:37 AM |
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I am gobsmacked at THIS "DEMOCRATIC" ADMINISTRATION. Did Obama's private school not teach "1984"? |
WinkyDink |
Sep-30-10 05:23 PM |
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Some see that book as a dire warning ... others as process. |
Techn0Girl |
Oct-01-10 03:06 AM |
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Freak Show |
GeorgeGist |
Sep-30-10 09:15 PM |
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And now for the piece de resistance. |
TheMadMonk |
Sep-30-10 10:22 PM |
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oh well...if someone is gonna be looking into my car |
orleans |
Sep-30-10 10:37 PM |
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. |
RandomThoughts |
Oct-01-10 03:10 AM |
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Yes, but just think how many cars they'll be able to find the WEED hidden in the GLOVE COMPARTMENT! |
Warren DeMontague |
Oct-01-10 03:56 AM |
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Kick 1 |
dbt |
Oct-01-10 07:49 PM |
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! |
dbt |
Oct-01-10 07:56 PM |
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American Science & Engineering management page |
bobthedrummer |
Oct-05-10 07:42 PM |
#103 |
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