They are watching…
Self-DefenseSo in order to protect the quivering masses our governments and some companies are going to great lengths, ridiculous lengths. Here is a story of technology being used to watch every single face of every single passenger on every single flight, for the entire flight. I call that excessive! Now the software is supposed to detect suspicious facial behavior that will indicate a terrorist in our midst! HELP US!! I am reminded of Ben Stiller in Meet the Parents where we witness this great example of being taken the wrong way in a stressful situation…
Flight Attendant: I’m sorry, sir, you’re gonna have to check that.
Greg “Gaylord” Focker: I got it.
Flight Attendant: No, I’m sorry, that bag won’t fit.
Greg: No, no, I’m not–hey, I’m not checking my bag, okay?
Flight Attendant: Okay, There’s no need to raise your voice, sir.
Greg: I’m not raising my voice. THIS WOULD BE RAISING MY VOICE TO YOU, okay? I don’t want to check my bag, okay? And, by the way, your airline? You SUCK at checking bags, okay, because I already did that once and you lost it, and then I had everything screwed up very badly for me, okay?
Flight Attendant: Well, I can assure you that your bag will be placed safely below deck with the other luggage…
Greg: Oh, yeah? How do you know my bag will be safe below with the other luggage? Huh? Are you physically going to take my bag and put it beneath the plane? Are you going to go right now outside, with the guys with the earmuffs, and go put it in there?
Flight Attendant: No.
Greg: No? Okay, then shut your piehole and listen to me when I say that I am FINISHED with the checking-of-the-bags CONVERSATION!
Flight Attendant: Sir, we have a policy on this airline that if a bag is this large, we —
Greg: Okay, you know what…just take your scrubby little paws off my bag, okay? It’s not like I got a bomb in here. It’s not like I want to blow up the plane! I just want to stow my bag according to your safety regulations. Hey…hey, if you would just take a second, take the little sticks out of your head, clean out your ears and maybe you would see that I’m a person who has feelings. And all I have to do is do what I want to do and all I want to do is hold onto my bag and not listen to you. And the only way I would ever let go of my bag would be if you came over here right now and try to pry it from my dead lifeless fingers. If you can get it from my kung-fu grip then you can come and have it, okay? Otherwise, step off, b!#%$.
(She gasps)
(We next see Greg being violently dragged from the terminal)
Classic! But also a good example how situations can easily be misconstrued by people let alone some software written by people! Well that is enough from me, here is the real story if you are interested…
In London (United Kingdom) – A tiny airline spy that spots bombers in the blink of an eye. Tiny cameras the size of a fingernail linked to specialist computers are to be used to monitor the behavior of airline passengers as part of the war on terrorism. Cameras fitted to seat-backs will record every twitch, blink, facial expression or suspicious movement before sending the data to onboard software which will check it against individual passenger profiles. Scientists from Britain and Germany are developing a system they hope will make it virtually impossible to hijack an airliner by providing pilots and cabin crew with an early warning of a possible terrorist attack such as 9/11. They say that rapid eye movements, blinking excessively, licking lips or ways of stroking hair or ears are classic symptoms of somebody trying to conceal something. A separate microphone will hear and record even whispered remarks. Islamic suicide bombers are known to whisper texts from the Koran in the moments before they explode bombs. Airlines gave the scheme a cautious welcome, indicating it would be too expensive to fit on existing commercial aircraft and that it would probably be ten years before such systems were fitted to new planes.
Oh great the Germans helping to weed out the unsavory types! Hey I can say that as I am part German so don’t go all politically correct on me.
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