Travel security
It has come to my attention that the feared US air securty TSA folks operate a lower standard of ID check that the lowley Northlink ferries traveling to a small island in the middle of the north sea — by boat.
Northlink now require photo ID, this is a little twitchy, as there is really very little you can do to a boat… i supose you could hijack it, steam it down to london (where you would arrive after about 3 days, having asked nicelly at some port half way to borrow some fuel) then ramraid a giant ferris wheel, but really?
On the other hand in america you can hapilly fly without any photo ID at all, as can be seen in this artical:
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/03/13/how-to-fly-without-id-and-skip-lines/
March 23rd, 2008 at 2056
I think it’s an excellent idea.
Northlink will be certain that any desperate terrorist on board is a *genuine* desperate terrorist.. :oD