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Fri Oct-01-10 04:10 AM
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| 98. Thank you again Ananymous Internet Poster..Next to Wikipedia...you're the smartest thing on the web! |
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Edited on Fri Oct-01-10 04:10 AM by Techn0Girl
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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 |
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