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Skriven 2014-04-01 15:27:51 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 11520 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: corny 396
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 29 Mar 14  23:01:00 <=-

 ML>> I wonder where all these new satellite data are coming from,
 ML>> and what kind of sanitizing has been done to it.
 NB>> One does wonder, to be sure...
 ML> And still all false leads.

There's been some somewhat interesting discussion over in the Snooze
echo about it... dunno if anyone really knows what they are talking
about, but there are some that put themselves up as pundits... ;0  Still
no real answers, though... 
 
 ML>> Yes, but I wouldn't worry all that much - the probability
 ML>> of my getting killed during each flight is approximately
 ML>> 0.0002%, a chance I will risk.
 NB>> A decision I'd probably also make, given the chance/need... :)
 ML> I wonder if anyone has changed plans because of this. I
 ML> figure that a bunch of horrors would have to happen before
 ML> I even considered thinking of disrupting my life, but
 ML> others are not quite so trusting (nor so invested) as I.

Indeed.  Good question...  I'm sure that some that were already fearful
have used it as another reason to not fly... or even travel... but as to
changed plans... who knows...

 ML> One of my more paranoid thoughts was that this is a
 ML> more subtle terrorism than before, and there will be
 ML> a lull, then another plane will disappear (Boeing if
 ML> anti-American, Airbus if generically anti-Western, or
 ML> maybe one of the Chinese, Canadian, or Brazilian ones
 ML> if anti-everybody), and another, and, up until the
 ML> resources of the perps are exhausted. I figure three
 ML> or four and the industry will be in a shambles, with
 ML> only me and Lilli flying, and then only after strip
 ML> searches.

Quite paranoid.  And hopefully only paranoid... but probably more
besides you and Lilli would still be flying... ;0

 ML>> there seems to be a good external incentive for
 ML>> honesty (with potential fraudsters having to be in cahoots
 ML>> with the programmers, possibly but not all that likely).
 NB>> As long as the computer programming works as expected, and input is
 NB>> done properly... both as to inventory coming in and as to the
 NB>> "shrinkage" (unsaleable items for whatever reason... breakage, denting,
 NB>> spoilage, etc...) and any other factors besides sales...  :)  Dunno...
 NB>> maybe back in the olden days, without the reliance on machines etc,
 NB>> there was more actual trust to be found...  :)
 ML> And more shrinkage, too. I do note that a couple of the
 ML> latest convictions in the Madoff case were of programmers.

Top-down dishonesty...  :(

ttyl       neb

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