an exchange re Five o'clock shadow? You're a marked man!

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:52:28 -0500
> To: Tim O'Reilly <tim () oreilly com>
> From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [IP] Five o'clock shadow? You're a marked man!
>
> El Al has a relatively  few flights a day. Scale that up to even domestic 
> US airlines and it is a massive expense and would overload airports. 
> Airlines will have to severely downsize their schedules and most likely 
> become nationalized.
>
> At 03:44 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote:
> > I forwarded the Five O'Clock Shadow posting to my daughter, who
> > recently traveled to Israel, and she had a less alarmist perspective.
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: "Arwen O'Reilly" <ak_oreilly () yahoo com>
> > > Date: January 8, 2004 12:37:58 PM PST
> > > To: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim () oreilly com>
> > > Subject: Re: Fwd: [IP] Five o'clock shadow? You're a marked man!
> > >
> > > This does make for an extremely funny/depressing read.
> > > But I have to say I'm not too terriby worried. We're
> > > just in a period of adjustment--even if security stays
> > > the same, I'm sure that things will streamline in the
> > > next year or so. El Al has been using such strict
> > > security measures for years, and they have it down to
> > > a science. They probably hand check the baggage of
> > > every non-Israeli passenger, plus hand-check the
> > > baggage of many an Israeli passenger, just for good
> > > measure. The lines are long. Yes, it is annoying to
> > > have your toothpaste checked. As a non-Israeli,
> > > non-Jewish, non-Hebrew speaking passenger, I got the
> > > full treatment. But the person checking your bag is
> > > generally sympathetic after a while, and while they
> > > can't exactly have too good of a sense of humor, they
> > > will give you a sort of dead-pan look that can pass as
> > > a smile after a while.
> > >
> > > It took me a total of two hours to pass through
> > > security and get checked in, and I even had to go
> > > through JFK security in addition to El Al security (El
> > > Al doesn't consider JFK to be rigorous enough). But
> > > that was it. So if this kind of security does come to
> > > be standard, I'm pretty confident that it won't be a
> > > problem. Eventually:)
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