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Originally Posted by Placermike
...Seems like airports should have a secured smoking area. 
Originally Posted by jenkins2
Seems like a great reason to quit smoking!! LOL Jim
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From: Sequim, WA
As good a reason as any other -- I'm a smoker too and it's killing me, all puns intended. But I really enjoy my vice, there's nothing like satisfying an addiction.[/QUOTE]
I was going to search through the thread, but it will have to wait a bit...Ya'll got me wanting a 'Cowboy Killer'! BRB
I was going to search through the thread, but it will have to wait a bit...Ya'll got me wanting a 'Cowboy Killer'! BRB
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Originally Posted by Placermike
That has to be a tough job. I know personally that I was very pissed off at all the checks when I flew back east a few months ago. I didn't mind the initial check, but got pissed each time the flight was delayed, went out to have a smoke and had to go through it again. Seems like airports should have a secured smoking area.
Just some friendly advise from your local friendly Transportation Security Officer.
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Thanks Redhawk, our airlines are a prime target and I'm glad that you and other dedicated, observant TSOs are checking what goes on those planes.
It's good that box-cutters can't be carried onboard anymore, but scissors under 4" long are allowed and seem like as good a weapon. Liquids and gels less than a quart are allowed again; how are explosives checked in those? And is shipping cargo being checked good?
I didn't think that was off-topic...it's work.
I see a new X-ray backscatter system is being tested in Phoenix. But the restrictions seem to make it next to useless, what's up with that?
It's good that box-cutters can't be carried onboard anymore, but scissors under 4" long are allowed and seem like as good a weapon. Liquids and gels less than a quart are allowed again; how are explosives checked in those? And is shipping cargo being checked good?
I didn't think that was off-topic...it's work.
I see a new X-ray backscatter system is being tested in Phoenix. But the restrictions seem to make it next to useless, what's up with that?
Originally Posted by tsa.gov
X-ray backscatter technology uses a narrow, low intensity x-ray beam, scanned over the body’s surface at high speed. The amount of x-ray radiation used for backscatter technology is equivalent to approximately 15 minutes of exposure to naturally-occurring background radiation from sources such as the sun’s rays.
TSA’s privacy-filtered image looks like a chalk outline of the person’s body, and shows any concealed items including weapons, explosives and other metallic and non-metallic threat items. The officer attending the passenger will not view the image, and as an additional measure, the officer viewing the image will be remotely located and unable to associate the image with the passenger being screened. Once viewed remotely, the image cannot be stored, transmitted or printed.
TSA’s privacy-filtered image looks like a chalk outline of the person’s body, and shows any concealed items including weapons, explosives and other metallic and non-metallic threat items. The officer attending the passenger will not view the image, and as an additional measure, the officer viewing the image will be remotely located and unable to associate the image with the passenger being screened. Once viewed remotely, the image cannot be stored, transmitted or printed.
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Originally Posted by redhawkssh44
That sure would save us a lot of trouble. My other suggestion is for any one who is getting ready to fly to go to www.tsa.gov and look at the list of items you can take in your carry on bag and what has to be in checked baggage. The lists are different and you would be supprised how few people actually check to see what they can and can't bring. Also, print and bring a copy with you in case you have any trouble. Make sure it has a date on it that is within 24 hours because the people at the top change the rules frequently.
Just some friendly advise from your local friendly Transportation Security Officer.
Just some friendly advise from your local friendly Transportation Security Officer.
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I'm headed from Odessa to Tulsa, some one ate a turbine driving a gas compressor for a pipeline so here I go again.
I quite smoking in 2000 on my way to New York. That helped.
US TSA is not a big deal, when I went to El Salvador they took my batteries out of my flashlights and kepy them, the Israelies X-Rayed my steel toes for 2 hours because they hadn't seen steel toe tennis shoes and kept my portable printer, the Nigerians got me for a $60.00 bribe because of my VISA. I am tired of having to replace my shaving cream and toothpaste every time I fly in the US though.
One of the clowns who did the wife wrong went by the house yesterday and tried to get me to let him FIX WHAT HE DID WRONG. HA HA HA, FAT CHANCE. A thief is a thief and I want him and his theiving partner to stay away from my family, ESPICALLY WHILE I'M GONE!!!
Yes I'll get with you on a replacement and give my friend back his Stihl when I get home (whenever that is).
Off to see the wizard as the flight is fixing to board.
I quite smoking in 2000 on my way to New York. That helped.
US TSA is not a big deal, when I went to El Salvador they took my batteries out of my flashlights and kepy them, the Israelies X-Rayed my steel toes for 2 hours because they hadn't seen steel toe tennis shoes and kept my portable printer, the Nigerians got me for a $60.00 bribe because of my VISA. I am tired of having to replace my shaving cream and toothpaste every time I fly in the US though.
One of the clowns who did the wife wrong went by the house yesterday and tried to get me to let him FIX WHAT HE DID WRONG. HA HA HA, FAT CHANCE. A thief is a thief and I want him and his theiving partner to stay away from my family, ESPICALLY WHILE I'M GONE!!!
Yes I'll get with you on a replacement and give my friend back his Stihl when I get home (whenever that is).
Off to see the wizard as the flight is fixing to board.
Last edited by Eric C.; Feb 26, 2007 at 08:00 PM.
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Let's see. After the Army in 72 I did not want to go to school for my A&P Lic. to work on helicopters, did not pay all that well. All I knew was wrenching, so I ended up working for some diesel shops in the area on the big rigs. I set up a small business, there were 3 of us, Me, Myself & I 
and would contract for the jobs. I would go in a night and R&R a trans. maybe do clutch and pressure plate as well. I got to be some what fast at this, so I may do 2 in one night. Made some good money. Had a floor jack bleed off one night and pined my coveralls to the jack & floor. No one in the shop but me, so I was stuck for about 4 hrs. till the guys came in for the day shift. Not hurt at all, just could not move, No Smokes!!!!!! This is BAD....
Next I went to driving OTR Big Riggs for 5 1/2 years, O/O 3 of them. My Dad got sick in 83, so I sold my truck and quit driving to help out. Went into computers than, as a programmer, DOS and dBase, than on to Alpha ver's 3 & 4. Went out on Desert Storm, told me customers I would be gone and to find a new programmer. I was getting real tired of it anyway, so was a good time to get out. After Desert Storm, what to do? I had been building computers for some of my customers, so I set up Precision Computer Repair & Service. That did real well, till putters got to be cheap, so I closed my shop in Jan 06 after over 20 years in computers.
What to do next? Well that's easy. Windows, looking out of. Last July I went and got my Class A Lic. w/Double/Triple/Tankers & Hazmat back. Truck driving is not like it was years ago, that is for sure. It SUCKS BIG TIME!!! Trucking outfits just want to use drivers. They will tell you anything to get you to take the job, after you take it, we didn't say that.
So I am now setting on my butt, looking for that 1 in a Million driving job........thinking about buying a truck and working on the house....
and would contract for the jobs. I would go in a night and R&R a trans. maybe do clutch and pressure plate as well. I got to be some what fast at this, so I may do 2 in one night. Made some good money. Had a floor jack bleed off one night and pined my coveralls to the jack & floor. No one in the shop but me, so I was stuck for about 4 hrs. till the guys came in for the day shift. Not hurt at all, just could not move, No Smokes!!!!!! This is BAD....Next I went to driving OTR Big Riggs for 5 1/2 years, O/O 3 of them. My Dad got sick in 83, so I sold my truck and quit driving to help out. Went into computers than, as a programmer, DOS and dBase, than on to Alpha ver's 3 & 4. Went out on Desert Storm, told me customers I would be gone and to find a new programmer. I was getting real tired of it anyway, so was a good time to get out. After Desert Storm, what to do? I had been building computers for some of my customers, so I set up Precision Computer Repair & Service. That did real well, till putters got to be cheap, so I closed my shop in Jan 06 after over 20 years in computers.
What to do next? Well that's easy. Windows, looking out of. Last July I went and got my Class A Lic. w/Double/Triple/Tankers & Hazmat back. Truck driving is not like it was years ago, that is for sure. It SUCKS BIG TIME!!! Trucking outfits just want to use drivers. They will tell you anything to get you to take the job, after you take it, we didn't say that.
So I am now setting on my butt, looking for that 1 in a Million driving job........thinking about buying a truck and working on the house....
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Originally Posted by RexB
Thanks Redhawk, our airlines are a prime target and I'm glad that you and other dedicated, observant TSOs are checking what goes on those planes.
It's good that box-cutters can't be carried onboard anymore, but scissors under 4" long are allowed and seem like as good a weapon. Liquids and gels less than a quart are allowed again; how are explosives checked in those? And is shipping cargo being checked good?
I didn't think that was off-topic...it's work.
I see a new X-ray backscatter system is being tested in Phoenix. But the restrictions seem to make it next to useless, what's up with that?
It's good that box-cutters can't be carried onboard anymore, but scissors under 4" long are allowed and seem like as good a weapon. Liquids and gels less than a quart are allowed again; how are explosives checked in those? And is shipping cargo being checked good?
I didn't think that was off-topic...it's work.
I see a new X-ray backscatter system is being tested in Phoenix. But the restrictions seem to make it next to useless, what's up with that?
As far as the matches go, sorry. The lighters are destroyed. We have the AACP and other watchdog groups ensuring this.
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Originally Posted by redhawkssh44
... In order for the sue happy lawyers to sign off on testing it we need to have those privacy restrictions in place.
Oops. I don't even want to get started, this'd go waaayy off topic.
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BOT of work, work, work: I am almost heading out to cut some more leaning trees and continue the burn pile stacking. Then again I might just eat some chili and kick back. Decisions, decisions.
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I see a lot of the "Not In My Backyard Mentality" in my side of the buisness and the worst is down in California and even right now in Oklahoma. The turbine here in Oklahoma has to be a newer than 1979 then they have to go through a 3 year repermiting sequence to keep it and if it fails and has to have anything other than a minor adjustment it starts again. When I worked with the Deisels in California they had a limit on the number of hours it could run total and then it had to leave to never return. You couldn't even rebuild it.
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Originally Posted by RexB
We usta' have Rules of Engagement like that: "Don't shoot back until you're fatally wounded" to satisfy the "Oh No'ers", lawsuit-happy citizens, and peeps to the left of "An Inconvenent Truth" author. (Yea, i mean the guy that racks up $2400.00 in electric and $1040.00 in natural gas bills average a month.)
Oops. I don't even want to get started, this'd go waaayy off topic.
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BOT of work, work, work: I am almost heading out to cut some more leaning trees and continue the burn pile stacking. Then again I might just eat some chili and kick back. Decisions, decisions.
Oops. I don't even want to get started, this'd go waaayy off topic.
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BOT of work, work, work: I am almost heading out to cut some more leaning trees and continue the burn pile stacking. Then again I might just eat some chili and kick back. Decisions, decisions.
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Yes.
That brings back expensive memories. In San Diego our Navy's submarine base had to all but close down (moved most boats to Hawaii) and a lot of depot-level yard work for skimmers was halted because of enviro regs. We tried to be clean, but heavy metal and electrical work, painting with salt-water-resistant material, and the whole gamut of supporting large plant and material operations was outlawed.
I see the enviro point, and I live by a "be smart, but effective" rule on my property, but if we want a leading economy then we have to work somewhere. Every state has to share the load. And we have to get smarter, meaning spending big bucks, to do it cleaner.
Now I'll go dump my crank case oil into the waste bucket, pour it over my brush piles and light 'em up. Using a propane torch works sometimes, but green wood is green wood. Leaving the brush/logs sit to dry out draws carpenter ants which I then have to spray with chemicals or they'll eat my house. Or import anteaters. Which would prolly break a different law.
Originally Posted by Eric C.
I see a lot of the "Not In My Backyard Mentality" in my side of the buisness and the worst is down in California and even right now in Oklahoma. The turbine here in Oklahoma has to be a newer than 1979 then they have to go through a 3 year repermiting sequence to keep it and if it fails and has to have anything other than a minor adjustment it starts again. When I worked with the Deisels in California they had a limit on the number of hours it could run total and then it had to leave to never return. You couldn't even rebuild it.
I see the enviro point, and I live by a "be smart, but effective" rule on my property, but if we want a leading economy then we have to work somewhere. Every state has to share the load. And we have to get smarter, meaning spending big bucks, to do it cleaner.
Now I'll go dump my crank case oil into the waste bucket, pour it over my brush piles and light 'em up. Using a propane torch works sometimes, but green wood is green wood. Leaving the brush/logs sit to dry out draws carpenter ants which I then have to spray with chemicals or they'll eat my house. Or import anteaters. Which would prolly break a different law.
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I had 21 generator sets running on natural gas out at Weyerhauser in Longview and it got to be a real pain. Monthly emmisions testing requiring 4 test 15 minutes apart. If I did any more than clean and gap spark plugs complete test again. My requirements were less than 1/3 of a 2000 model car. Then I went to Texas and did the same only there we ran the same engines on the methane from landfills. A little easier due to higher values but still the same sort of testing. Like you I try hard to keep it clean but you got to real about it. To pawn it off on a third world country to do the dirty work is no better either.
