@Taukuan:

I can't speak for that community, but it sounds like a bunch of corrupt assholes.

This was on Fark earlier today. Some folks who at least claimed to work for the TSA explained the situation like this: the woman passed the walk through metal detector, but was selected for random screening. This includes things like a pat down and a scan with the hand scanner. The hand scanner picked up metal in the lady's breasts. From what they said, at that point, they cannot use a pat down to make sure that her boobs aren't weapons--the metal must be removed, and her rescanned. The TSA cannot request or accept an offer to look at someones "privates."

If you believe that, things sound somewhat less arbitrary. The TSA website does not mention anything about them not being able to pat down specific areas. If they can do cavity searches, I think letting the lady show the rings to a female agent (which she requested to do) seems more than reasonable.

Anyway... fuck the TSA.

@#2: I don't know if Comcast has different policies up in your area, but it's been different for me. I have to move every 3 months for school and work, and get cable installed twice a year. Every time, I can use their service at the discounted rate for 6 months, and have no problem cancelling at 3 months. No contract termination fees, but I do get screwed over on the installation fees.

That being said, since they started the RST injection thing running one torrent would kill the internet for me. Hopefully that is gone now.

You gotta be blasted to realize that your friend is hanging there dead for hours. I'm blasted.