Date: 06/26/2003 02:12 PM
From: Thomas S. Duncan ([email protected])
Subject: 'Nice Bombs Ya Got There'
The real solution is to have everyone fly naked ("Nice Bombs Ya Got There," June 26, 2003).
We could give the passengers hospital gowns and prison shoes after they stripped off their clothes at check-in. Clothes and baggage could be sent on the next airplane, or subjected to an intensive search and placed in a sealed container if it had to go on the same plane.
I suppose people could still conceal explosives in body cavities, etc. But that is less likely. In any case -- none of that would have prevented the 9/11 type of action. If it occurred the way they said it did.
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Date: 06/26/2003 08:14 PM
From: Darin ([email protected])
Subject: 'Nice Bombs Ya Got There'
Once again the fear of 10 million-to-one odds spurs us to degrade and erode the freedom, privacy and dignity of patriotic, lawful, tax-paying citizens ("Nice Bombs Ya Got There," June 26, 2003). Not a single person has been able to tell me what would deter someone eager to die for the opportunity to kill and terrorize. If a person were willing to blow themselves to pieces, why on earth would they be averse to surgically implanting a kilogram of semtex into their abdomen?
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Date: 06/26/2003 12:22 PM
From: Sccoaire ([email protected])
Subject: 'Nice Bombs Ya Got There'
I don't understand why they say that people will clearly object to this invasive technology ("Nice Bombs Ya Got There," June 26, 2003). We're talking about airport security here, isn't that more important? I'd rather everyone on the plane, including myself, go through this thing and know we're safe than be faced with a potential security issue.
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Date: 06/26/2003 10:56 AM
From: Charlie One ([email protected])
Subject: Science and Religion Cease Fire
Does anyone else find it horrifying that scientists ever consider consulting religious leaders? What a fearful and ignorant people we are ("Science and Religion Cease Fire," June 26, 2003). Please figure out how to cure illnesses and make life better. You don't need permission from a bunch of old fools who spend their lives damning those who have the balls to live now.
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Date: 06/25/2003 04:07 PM
From: Pascal Nelson ([email protected])
Subject: Design According to Ive
Hurrah! A wonderful interview with a truly admirable designer ("Design According to Ive," June 25, 2003). I wish all the things I need to buy and use were available in such elegant, clean and functional forms.
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Date: 06/25/2003 11:34 AM
From: vilo ([email protected])
Subject: Design According to Ive
That design sucks big time. So much intellectual talk about something so ugly ("Design According to Ive," June 25, 2003).
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Date: 06/25/2003 08:29 PM
From: E. Michael Harrington ([email protected])
Subject: RIAA Threatens Orgy of Lawsuits
The RIAA has claimed to be concerned about the rights of recording artists ("RIAA Threatens Orgy of Lawsuits," June 25, 2003). They also claim that getting music for free is stealing, robbing the artists of money.
As usual, the RIAA is hypocritical and not credible, for most people who work at the recording labels get music for free, as it has long been standard practice for the labels to give away 15 percent or more in freebies. These CDs are given to industry people, and the artists and songwriters receive no money, while their hard work is enjoyed by a privileged few. The RIAA would have a bit more credibility if it were to come clean on this dirty little practice.
Of course it has also said it is not against technology even after trying to kill the MP3 player (fortunately the RIAA eventually lost its lawsuit against the Diamond Rio MP3 player) and that it never engaged in price fixing (even though the Clinton and G.W. Bush administrations, the strangest of bedfellows, agreed that it was acting like a drug cartel).
Most business-minded companies learned on April 28, 2003, that there is a great market for online music with the advent of Apple's iTunes. Instead the RIAA insists on keeping its head in the sand and refuses to offer a product that respects consumers (allowing them to use songs with MP3 players and burn copies without a foolish and complicated subscription agreement/contract).
I bet recording artists are probably rolling in money now from the great successes of the many RIAA-instigated lawsuits as, no doubt, the honest people at the tip top of the RIAA must be doing the right thing and forking over the money from their legal victories to the artists.
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