Say that, for some strange reason, you are brain-damaged enough to want to fly the airlines (or you get paid to do so). If you somehow get flagged onto the "no-fly list", the TSA has a handy-dandy website you can go to in order to try and resolve the problem.
Unfortunately, if you use that website, you are at risk for having your identity stolen. "Transportation security" is enough for the TSA to handle, "computer security" is not their job, man.
Half-a-million dollars in no-bid contracts to a company run by the good friend of a TSA official. There is a word for that, and your choices are "cronyism" and 'corruption."
And while I'm on the subject of air travel (however tangentially), there was this great line from an airline's frequent flyer in today's New York Times:
“I hate you, and I tell everybody I hate you. You could not pay me to get on your airline if I didn’t have to. The reason you think I’m a happy customer is I flew 178,000 miles on you last year — but that’s because I didn’t have a choice.”
Sergeant Pepper
1 hour ago
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Whadya expect? These are the same morons who detained and searched (twice!) a 5 year old boy at an airport security check because he had the same name as a suspected terrorist. Now, you and me, we're smart enough to look at a 5 year old boy and say, "that's not a terrorist", but the brain surgeons at the TSA... err.... no.
Fuggin' morons. From top to fuggin' bottom.
- Badtux the Moron-sniffin' Penguin
It's not just the TSA, though. The airlines themselves have gone far in the direction of their airliners having all of the pungency of a cattle car with seats.
That's an unfair comparison, I guess, for the cattle at least got fed and watered from time to time.
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