But many believe Hilary is nowhere better than trump either.
Well, drugs can be carried within someone's body. So does bombs. What's next? Banning airlines altogether?
And they consume zero battery. But, they are bulky and heavy.
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Anyone who still thinks that at this point is either woefully uninformed, willfully ignorant, or both.
Are you saying that just because Americans have the right to bear arms, they don't want it? And are you saying that I'm a Democrat or a communist just because I live in California? Why, I have reason to believe you're high right now, Mr. South Park
P.S. I've got guns, lots of guns.
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I'm just replying to this because I noticed you've got Oski in your avatar.
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I think we got a pretty crappy lineup in that election. Trump was a dangerous choice for various reasons, but there was justified dissatisfaction with Clinton and her party. It was an extremely uncertain candidate vs one who certainly needed to be taught a lesson. I'm unhappy with Trump but do admire the fact that so many silent Trump voters, having taken verbal abuse for months, came out and retaliated quietly, in contrast with the riots that erupted afterwards.
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Ah, ok. But will they allow me to take a Mac Pro as a carryon? I've actually done it before.
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I am still a bit taken aback by posts from some.
Full disclosure: I do not fly more than a few times a year, it's for pleasure, my laptop is not essiential, I am not an explosives expert...
Anybody still reading??? Lol
I AM almost an expert (I don't solder) in laptop repair (really if you have to solder get a new one, unless it's an expensive one). I don't know if anyone on here watched enough macgyver to know what plastic explosives look like, or done enough reading to know what the inside of a lithium ion battery looks like, but it would be very resonable to assume an ******* with plastic explosives could reshape a battery, place it in where a battery cell should be, hook it up with the wires we already expect to see on an X-ray, and then hit "command e" and goodbye 300-900 people.
Also, I would assume that some big wig in corporate isn't trying to be funny by putting this ban in place. I WOULD assume that a desk jockey listening in on phone conversations at the NSA heard a conversation with a mention of this, or somebody being interrogated by the CIA told them this, or a clever spy overheard a conversation and that lead to reasonable suspicion that somebody out there wants to do something terrible and this is how they plan to do it.
So 1: This ban will suck for business people down to leasure travel people
2: We live in a world full of terrible people who want to kill other people
3: there is a solution!!
Make every person hook their laptop up to a device that makes it run a battery test specified by the factory. If the bomber can't wire **** besides bombs, the laptop won't POST and it's time to confiscate it. If he he pretty good at computers and bombs? The battery will not last long at all due to 1 or more cells being explosives.
Perfect solotuon? No....wanna use your laptop? Better than nothing.
Don't get me started about testing note 7s....
Full disclosure: I do not fly more than a few times a year, it's for pleasure, my laptop is not essiential, I am not an explosives expert...
Anybody still reading??? Lol
I AM almost an expert (I don't solder) in laptop repair (really if you have to solder get a new one, unless it's an expensive one). I don't know if anyone on here watched enough macgyver to know what plastic explosives look like, or done enough reading to know what the inside of a lithium ion battery looks like, but it would be very resonable to assume an ******* with plastic explosives could reshape a battery, place it in where a battery cell should be, hook it up with the wires we already expect to see on an X-ray, and then hit "command e" and goodbye 300-900 people.
Also, I would assume that some big wig in corporate isn't trying to be funny by putting this ban in place. I WOULD assume that a desk jockey listening in on phone conversations at the NSA heard a conversation with a mention of this, or somebody being interrogated by the CIA told them this, or a clever spy overheard a conversation and that lead to reasonable suspicion that somebody out there wants to do something terrible and this is how they plan to do it.
So 1: This ban will suck for business people down to leasure travel people
2: We live in a world full of terrible people who want to kill other people
3: there is a solution!!
Make every person hook their laptop up to a device that makes it run a battery test specified by the factory. If the bomber can't wire **** besides bombs, the laptop won't POST and it's time to confiscate it. If he he pretty good at computers and bombs? The battery will not last long at all due to 1 or more cells being explosives.
Perfect solotuon? No....wanna use your laptop? Better than nothing.
Don't get me started about testing note 7s....
It can double as a terrorism tool. I'm sure they will eventually ban handheld consoles too.
Terrorist goals generally don't think about the budgetary implications of their actions. They don't have a "billions spent on thwarting us" sign somewhere. In general, the goal of a terrorist organization is to demonstrate that a government is incapable of stopping them while reaping large amounts of publicity, with the end goal being some kind of policy change.
Most of what you think you know about why people go "terrorist" is wrong. Various factions have been hating on the US for various reasons that have nothing to do with Trump; you must have forgotten the older twin tower attacks and, well, Israel.
Anti-US feeling has been a political tool in the Middle East since the founding of Israel. We are a convenient scapegoat for all kinds of ills that affect the Middle East. A ban on Muslims is really irrelevant, although the left in the US has seized on that particular thing as some kind of bizarre symbol of futility.
The fact is, on this subject the Left is a lot like NYC Democrats pre-Guiliani. "There's nothing you can do to stop the decline of NYC," they said. Well actually, there is a lot you can do and Giuliana did it. A priori none of the actions makes any sense as a holistic way of solving the problem, but who really gives a cr*p about a holistic solution. Analysis paralysis is guaranteed to not work, and ad-hoc fixes did work for NYC.
Last time I checked you can't watch video or play games on books! Unless that have changed quite recently and I am not aware.
Wow, just wow
So show some examples of events where attackers with assault rifles have been taken down by bystanders that happened to have a handgun on them.
What's that? Never happened because they also ran like little bitches? Ah.
I honestly don't think that will make the much difference, except from pissing off decent travelers. Ill minded people could figure other ways to carry out their acts.
Well....
flip books take care of videos
and I'm sure colouring in books can be considered a game Airlines have mostly removed entertainment screens to make room for more seats. Without our devices, we'll be forced to engage with one another. yuck!
I genuinely don't understand what this would achieve? Do people forget Pan Am 103. That had a bomb placed inside of a Toshiba Radio, placed in the hold and still brought the aircraft down. An explosive device about the size of a coke can brought that Russian airliner down over Egypt the other year.
I don't really think it matters if the explosive device is in the hold or in the cabin, it will still do some serious damage. Also if a fire starts in the hold due to a faulty device battery and surrounded by peoples clothing in a suitcase it might be uncontrollable and cause the aircraft to crash.
I don't really think it matters if the explosive device is in the hold or in the cabin, it will still do some serious damage. Also if a fire starts in the hold due to a faulty device battery and surrounded by peoples clothing in a suitcase it might be uncontrollable and cause the aircraft to crash.
My colleague had a laptop his laptop checked for the first time this year.
The laptop arrived with a cracked screen.
Luckily this was on the way back from a business trip. We had to get the screen replaced.
But if it happened on the way there, it would have caused serious problems.
The way baggages are handled many times, and with the Laptop Ban,events like this will become more and more common. I wonder how this will affect business travelers.
The laptop arrived with a cracked screen.
Luckily this was on the way back from a business trip. We had to get the screen replaced.
But if it happened on the way there, it would have caused serious problems.
The way baggages are handled many times, and with the Laptop Ban,events like this will become more and more common. I wonder how this will affect business travelers.
They have won already starting that tragedy in 9/11, 2001.
The ultimate goal as a terrorist is to incite fear and anxiety across lots of people. When people demand safety, demand being protected, feel depressed because of terrorist attack, they have lost in the war against terrorism. Btw this is what my dad told me.
It had LiIon batteries. They reverted to NiMH when the LiIon where causing trouble!