-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 07-17-19  06:33 <=-

 >  >  ML> been known to take zilch, which also seems to bother them.
 >  > Taking zilch could indicate not expecting to return, I suppose...
 >  ML> It's irrelevant to him if I wanted to return or not.
 >  ML> Without any bag at all, the highjacking scenario
 >  ML> wouldn't fly, either.
 > Probably not....  Maybe it's just that it is outside the norm, so
 > becomes worrisome....
 ML> Shortly after the TSA started up, some wag decided to
 ML> fly clad just in a thong, no luggage, no carryon. I
 ML> thought it was funny. The government did not, I'm not
 ML> sure if he was allowed to fly, though there was no
 ML> legal justification for preventing him.

Considered it a public display of indecency, perhaps...?  Or worried at
what he might have stowed in body cavities....?
 
 >  > learned to only take what I could carry easily myself.... 
 >  ML> Yes. As Miss Piggy is quoted as saying, never try to
 >  ML> eat anything bigger than your head. Similarly, never
 >  ML> try to tote a bag bigger than your qualification to tote.
 > Makes perfect sense to me...   Especially after my first
 > experience... 
 ML> I've got Letitia and Bonnie to cut down to a reasonable-
 ML> size carryon plus personal item each. This includes concert
 ML> attire. I'm thinking of setting the example by bringing just
 ML> a personal item, but more likely I will do likewise, making
 ML> my carryon and personal item just a tad smaller than theirs.

That's probably sufficient example...  

 ML> We're traveling on an airline that would allow us to take
 ML> something like 340 lb of hold luggage for free.
 
But just because it's allowed doesn't make it a good idea... unless one
has a retinue of valets to carry it all for one... 

 >  ML> So forgetting to reapply has its disadvantages, as
 >  ML> they have to start the investigations all over -
 >  ML> they quoted a lag of up to 11 weeks! for their
 >  ML> background checks. So I'm only spottily getting the
 >  ML> precheck these days.
 > Oh, dear.... you'll remember next time, I'd guess.... 
 ML> This one, about which I haven't heard yet, would take me to 
 ML> half my life expectancy, so maybe there'll be a next time.
 
Probably...
 
 >  >  ML> And some sites are reacting as if ignoring my inputs and
 >  >  ML> displaying to the tapping of a different drummer.
 >  > That could be right scary...
 >  ML> It's happening fairly frequently. I try to remember
 >  ML> to put airplane mode on when I'm not actively using
 >  ML> the Internet, but I forget all too frequently.
 > Would that protect you better from outside influences on the
 > computer...? 
 ML> No ... what it would do is discourage evildoers from
 ML> appropriating my downtime and highjacking my resources 
 ML> to make a sort of mini-me bot. There is no way to prevent
 ML> outside snooping and influences on any computer. Even
 ML> having wi-fi off altogether doesn't guarantee isolation.
 ML> It is possible (one of the great paranoid sci-fi writers,
 ML> perhaps Lucius Shepherd, wrote about this) with enough
 ML> effort and technology and will to surveil anyone with a
 ML> computer at all.

How...?  Through the electrical lines...?

 >  >  > They might have some sort of arrangement for out-of-state regular
 >  >  > visitors... possibly based on whether one has a current library card
 >  >  > elsewhere... 
 >  >  ML> They didn't ask for evidence of any.
 >  > And I gather you didn't ask, either....
 >  ML> I'm not sure about the sense of offering that kind
 >  ML> of reciprocity, anyhow.
 > Perhaps not, but I have run into it from time to time in my genealogical
 > travels.... 
 ML> If you describe your mission enticingly enough, no 
 ML> doubt doors will be opened. Despite their strict
 ML> reputation, librarians tend to be soft touches.

After all, one of their prime functions is to help people obtain
information.... 

ttyl          neb

... It doesn't take all kinds, there simply are all kinds.  Churchill

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