Ask the pilot is a feature in Salon.com that shows the other side of the equation when it comes to profiling on airplanes. Certainly it is overly simplistic to think that profiling young Arab males would solve the problem. However, it is an easy way to get a leg up on things. We need to profile people based on behavior, appearance, destination, point of origin etc. It's police work, not put your blinders on and randomly screen every nth passenger. This isn't rocket science and I'm not the first person to come up with this stuff. Nonetheless, read the article above it will disabuse you of some preconceptions.
My Entire Career in a nutshell
Obamacare's Big Thinkers Forgot to Bring in the Doers - Bloomberg: "The yawning gap between what the IT people knew and what everyone else seems to have realized is staggering. Now, I’ve worked on some projects in which the business units seemed to have some sort of selective deafness that only materialized when we tried to tell them that they couldn’t have their magic fairy computer system that did everything they could imagine, only better, in the three months they wanted it to take, or for the paltry sum that they were willing to spend. And I learned the hard way not to assume that the business units, or even the chief information officer, had heard and understood what you said. That is how I became gifted in the art of writing CYA memos when I was directed to do the unwise or the impossible. "
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