E-mailing a pressure cooker

F**k.

News out of the U.S. tells us that a family was visited at home because the woman of the house researched pressure cookers online, while her husband did the same for backpacks and the kid sucked in all the online news he could read.

So much for nobody is watching you.

The dragnet will - we have stated that in many earlier posts - get the low hanging fruit.

Why would anybody but someone fresh off the boat buy a brand new pressure cooker and a designer backpack for a single use in the first place. The American thrift store industry may soon see its sales of used pressure cookers and bargain backpacks under scrutiny by our protectors.

A co-worker of one of the K-Landers back home has escaped a visit by the government despite purchase of chemicals and implements for rockets. His son was going through the boom bang phase still enjoyed by boys, so dad took him to the home improvement store.

In the checkout line, two uniformed firefighters were behind them.

One of the firefighters looked at the assembled materials, broke into a smile and said: You have plans, I see.

The email reference in the subject of the post refers to the experience of a conservative Christian religious scholar and civil servant in Germany. For his thesis on aspects of Islam, he had sent out a questionnaire, and  apparently one recipient was a somewhat radical islamist. Later, the budding scholar with an ethnic Turkish Catholic schooled wife found himself the subject of a press report about possible islamist infiltration of the government of one of the southern  German states.

While his superiors never had any doubt about his allegiance and came out batting for him, the simple fact he had done this e mail survey was held against him by some envious and paranoid dumbasses. No surprise that the scholar has a keen eye for privacy and snooping.

His story, which we noticed several weeks ago in the Twitter #nsa thread was picked up by German mainstream media last week.

You can not yet email a pressure cooker, of course, but you can email photos, drawings or design specs for use in AutoCad, SolidWorks, and the like.

One more thing:
F**k.