XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2024-08-07 1:46 p.m., D wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > On Wed, 7 Aug 2024, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I remember once when I was in airport security and the guy asked if   
   >>> he could look through my things. I told him, "oh, so I have a choice?   
   >>> If I have a free choice, of course the answer is no".   
   >>>   
   >>> The guy actually smiled, I saw he got it, apologized and said he had   
   >>> to do it anyway since it was his job. Since I was in a good mood, I   
   >>> refrained from saying that the Nazi prison guards were also just   
   >>> doing their jobs.   
   >>   
   >> At the airport, security has no choice but to look through your stuff   
   >> but there is absolutely no reason for them to ask you to go through an   
   >> x-ray machine when they can just as easily pat you down. If ever they   
   >> ask you to step into an x-ray machine, the only answer is no,   
   >> especially if you were "randomly-selected" but you don't look like the   
   >> angry, sweating Muslim down the queue.   
   >   
   > Ah, but they do have a choice. The choose freely to take that job, so   
   > that is why they always will have to listen to my arguments. ;)   
   >   
   > As for X-ray, no sir, I always take the manual way. Usually, well at   
   > least in some airports, that has been quicker too!   
   >   
   > I remember once in the US, I asked a security guard about it, and he   
   > sigh and said "oh, you're one of those, come with me", and he let me   
   > skip about 100 meter of queue, had a quick pat down, and was on my way!   
      
   Same here. When I wnet on a trip to Portugal with my in-laws in 2013, I   
   also insisted that they not agree to the x-ray machines. They are not   
   there to help detect anything; they are there to make sure that the   
   population gets a heavy dose of radiation. I notice that a lot of   
   institutions have already come out to claim that these full-body scans   
   are safe but they are not.   
      
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   CrudeSausage   
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