I've always said current security is stoo-pid

Post #53,147 by wharris2 9/25/02 8:54:30 AM Reply	I've always said current security is stoo-pid It is to laugh, and it is to cry. I'm to go to Atlanta this weekend, company meeting. I could refuse, of course. (first-class ticket to the corporate door, anyone?) I have an 8:30 flight. (Or something thereabouts, yawn, 8:30, 8:45 whatever.) Thus I should be there by at least 6:30, which means I leave house at 5:30AM (yawn ogaw yawn) The thought of it is bringing on compulsive yawning, let alone going through those security checkpoints with my laptop. (Can't do a 2-hour flight without a game of Quake, or at least Morrowind.) (OK I can do books, but they'll be bulkier with less long-term playability.... I mean readability...) (And damn if I'm going to check my laptop in my baggage, need a billion layers of bubble wrap to protect it from baggage "handlers" aka throwers & mashers.) The lawyers would mostly rather be what they are than get out of the way even if the cost was Hammerfall. - Jerry Pournelle
Post #53,191 by deSitter 9/25/02 12:26:58 PM Reply	Re: I've always said current security is stoo-pid Last time I flew the security cretin banged my laptop around, and I "admonished" them to be more careful, after requesting that a supervisor show up to hear my complaint. Better watch'em carefully. -drl
Post #53,441 by wharris2 9/26/02 11:22:31 PM Reply	Holy crud, you admonished them? And you weren't strip-searched or something equally dire? The lawyers would mostly rather be what they are than get out of the way even if the cost was Hammerfall. - Jerry Pournelle
Post #53,446 by deSitter 9/26/02 11:57:20 PM Reply	Re: Holy crud, you admonished them? I let them know with just the correct amount of raised voice that I was not happy (HEY!), made eye contact with someone who looked important, and then asked that a supervisor be present for what I had to say. -drl
Post #53,484 by jb4 9/27/02 9:44:33 AM 9/27/02 9:45:03 AM Reply	Re: Holy crud, you admonished them? Hey, the man's got a set (and the brains to use them...) jb4 "About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. " -- Edsger W.Dijkstra (1930 - 2002) (I wish more managers knew that...) Edited by jb4 Sept. 27, 2002, 09:45:03 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #53,548 by wharris2 9/27/02 1:30:03 PM Reply	Re: Holy crud, you admonished them? Got a set, yes, and it's a wonder he can still walk. :=) More balls than I, I'd probably have crumbled. The lawyers would mostly rather be what they are than get out of the way even if the cost was Hammerfall. - Jerry Pournelle
Post #53,555 by deSitter 9/27/02 2:00:09 PM Reply	Re: Holy crud, you admonished them? Hell, you're an American - you have rights. Use'em or lose'em. -drl
Post #53,591 by Ashton 9/27/02 3:36:44 PM Reply	Amen.

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