queerbychoice (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
queerbychoice) wrote2002-04-15 12:04 am
queerbychoice) wrote2002-04-15 12:04 am
The World Truly Is Crazy!
Note to anyone who may end up responsible for disposing of me when I'm dead: I absolutely DO NOT want an advertisement on my tombstone. If anyone ever does such a thing I'll do my absolute best to come back to haunt them for the rest of their days.
Also: Can anyone verify for me whether this is true or not? It smells weird to me; even amidst all the lunacy of 9-11 aftermath, I have an extremely hard time believing that the American airport companies could get away with pulling something like this without the traditionally puritannical mainstream citizens of America screaming bloody murder in newspapers all over the country. But I can't locate any mention of it on Snopes, so I can't prove anything.
Also: Can anyone verify for me whether this is true or not? It smells weird to me; even amidst all the lunacy of 9-11 aftermath, I have an extremely hard time believing that the American airport companies could get away with pulling something like this without the traditionally puritannical mainstream citizens of America screaming bloody murder in newspapers all over the country. But I can't locate any mention of it on Snopes, so I can't prove anything.
no subject
The tombstone advertising smacks of April first tomfoolery, to me...
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
hmm . . . if
hmm . . . if <a href="http://nl12.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=yes&p_product=UW&p_theme=uw&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=20011008008768&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=("20011008008768")&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no">this</a> is what you're thinking of, then from what little I can tell, it looks like at least it's not an extremely widespread practice yet.
Anyone who flies gets irradiated already during the flight; planes fly high enough in the atmosphere that a significant increase in radiation from the stars gets in during the flight - the risks are similar to the risks from an X-ray, except some people fly a lot more often than they get X-rayed. And the airlines have only recently begun compiling data on increased cancer among frequent flyers because of this, and have not yet taken any steps to try to make planes more radiation-proof. Adding extra irradiation this way will just increase the risk even more. I'm certainly glad I'm not a frequent flyer.
no subject
no subject
I didn't think the airport x-ray looked like an image of someone walking through an airport scanner.
Checking the websites of a couple of airport x-ray technology companies, while they were bragging about their hardware's wonderful powers there was no mention of anything like this.
But my biggest fear on 9/11 itself wasn't of the terrorists but of John Q. Public lining up to surrender his personal liberties.
no subject
I noticed the airport posture thing too. It looked like someone who'd been told to stand to be x-rayed. But from the article I linked to in a comment above, it looks to me like this is being tried, but only in a very small number of airports.
My biggest fear on 9-11 itself was for the lives of people in foreign countries who were likely to be murdered by the U.S. government. This fear was closely followed by fear for my own life. Fear for civil liberties was also important to me, but it was superceded by my fear for lives.
I don't have any actual opinion on whether that's the ultimate "right" order to prioritize them in. It's just the order that I happened to go with.
I don't have any actual opinion on whether that's the ultimate "right" order to prioritize them in.
I try to be decent to the people I meet. The rest of the world I could only look at with despair which is why I don't look at it very often.
Richard
no subject
It makes me sick to my stomach. WHAT THE HELL?
no subject
_Imp