The Great No-ID Airport Challenge

Post #260,006 by Ashton 6/26/06 6:39:50 AM Reply	The Great No-ID Airport Challenge [link\|http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71115-0.html?tw=rss.index\| Wired.com] Jim Harper (member of EFF) mailed his driver license home. Test it often, or lose it... may be the message.
Post #260,009 by Another Scott 6/26/06 8:09:07 AM Reply	Interesting. Thanks.
Post #260,013 by bepatient 6/26/06 8:56:07 AM Reply	Comments Seems interesting that a non-white says he had no issue flying without ID and there were 4 or 5 posts saying that it only worked for Gilmore cause he was white. And we wonder why we're still racists...can't even be bothered to listen to a person of race tell you things are no different...without automatically saying they are. We have a long way to go. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #260,232 by Meerkat 6/28/06 1:30:18 AM Reply	Aren't we all 'persons of race'? Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #260,233 by Steve Lowe 6/28/06 2:16:54 AM Reply	Yes, the human race. -- Steve [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu]
Post #260,234 by bepatient 6/28/06 2:28:30 AM Reply	Technically correct but apparently not according to the folks posting comments to that article. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #260,239 by Ashton 6/28/06 5:25:36 AM Reply	Re: Aren't we all 'persons of race'? Not necessarily, though it's a popular inculcation. No doubt you've read the flip side(s) of that presumption, of late.. Given homo-sap's penchant for crafting illusions that support our fav acquired 'truths', along with all those duelling gods - I suspect that pigmentation and physiognomy, the accident of geographical origin/climate - are so evident visually: why, a preacher could make most Anything out of it. (Me? I dunno; there just ain't much traditional-lore I find too comfortable these days, given our Record to date.) I kinda like, Most everything you Know is wrong.. We are consummate fabricators, and the superstition level is rising, no matter what we'd once hoped.
Post #260,516 by mmoffitt 6/30/06 3:33:40 PM Reply	Strange. I never have to do any of that when I fly. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #260,518 by Another Scott 6/30/06 3:36:07 PM Reply	:-p Rub it in, why don'cha. :-)
Post #260,522 by Ashton 6/30/06 8:05:16 PM Reply	Not only that.. Having (now) read all the CVRs at tailstrike from ~'62, including - helpful FOs accidentally switching on Go-Around programs while Pilot is tryin to land - shine-monkeys leavin duct-tape over All the pitot tubes after a wash/polish - cargo planes with 3? of the 72 tie-down hooks actually used - insouciant ones in-a-hurry, Daring evident wind-shear - yada There's lots to be said for moving about in something that weighs under a million pounds.. and where only You gets to make all the mistrakes. And the quality of banter! :-/ amongst those oft-bored minions.. makes the punniest day on IWE seem almost Pythonesque, y'know? Ain't there No literate 'Pilots' ay-tall?? Ah yes, there was One: a wise Chinese Capt. trying to impart wisdom to the grasshopper he was letting land his kiloton charge. A bit prematurely, alas. Ohhh ... ... fu__ ___ __\|

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