Airport insanity
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Mon Oct 18 10:07:26 PDT 2004
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John Kelsey
> It's one thing if you see some guy lighting a fuse sticking
> out of his shoe, and quite another if you say "You look kinda
> terroristy; I'm sending you off the plane." This works as a
> reasonable strategy only if:
>
> a. The probability ratios don't work out so that the
> overwhelming majority of people you throw off planes are
> innocent.
Provided the number of people you throw off planes is rather
small, I don't see the problem.
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James A. Donald
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