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Just curious if you were at the FedEx facility in Memphis with the Vanguard group last night where I suggested this idea to a table-full of attendees while waiting for the tour to start? Or is there truly a time-synchrony to new ideas in the world?

This is just like what Edward de Bono was suggesting yesterday aet SETT. (I attempted to speed type blog his keynote). He gave the suggestion that because there are never enough taxis we should have taxis for locals where the taxi driver has no knowledge of the streets. You just tell him where to go. That way we could have so many more drivers. These taxis would have a ? on the side so we know not to ask questions. Meanwhile, tourists can use a regular taxi which will know the way to go. Cool, huh?

LOL. Ihought similar. Give me a "higher risk" airline without these silly UK restricted 45x35x16 sizes.

How about guaranteeing the risk?

This plane has a bomb on board. It is set to explode on a random flight with a 1 in 10,000 probability. It also has a deliberate CFIT malfunction in the autopilot to aim toward the tallest building in the nearest city.

This is in order to nullify any terrorist 'victory', i.e. no-one will know if it was terrorism or random chance.

I'm reminded of "Travels in Nihilon" by Alan Sillitoe.

Similar approaches with vandalism. Make it extremely secure at great expense, or make it unworthy of vandalism (already vandalised, feeble, unkempt).

Ewan: you're assuming that geographical knowledge is the bottleneck for taxi supply, not market saturation. This may be true in London, where cabbies are required to be highly trained; I doubt that it is true almost anywhere else.

I'd board it! I'm tired of them confescating my jack knife and knitting.