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Using electronic devices during take-off and landing (was: idiotic"CyberFlying")
mag3 wrote:
I think even the TSA knows that it's impossible to ban all electronics in this "electronic age." At minimum, Fob keys for your car, For a while in the UK a few years ago they were banning pretty much ALL carry-ons. People were getting screwed because they couldn't even take their car keys on the plane with them. cell phones/blackberries, laptops, all must all be allowed, During the year or two after 9/11, I remember that a lot of people were getting screwed over by airport security because they were forcing people to turn on their electronic **** to prove that they worked and were not bombs. A lot of people don't necessarily have their electronics ready to be able to be turned on like that. They may not have all the necessary cables, or have their batteries charged up. Eventually they stopped doing this. Why sadly? They have real issues to worry about, non-safety related rules aren't worth their effort at this point in the flight. Say that the next time Al Qaeda gets an IED made like a camcorder or cell/blackberry through and is able to detonate it. It's a big joke, all this fretting over carry-on dangerous stuff. Here's the biggest joke: All during 2006 there were media reports that come January 2007, all checked bags would be scanned and most of them opened somewhere during the check-in process. You were told not to lock your checked bags. So if there really are bad people with plans to bring something on a plane - don't you think they'd do it with a bomb in the luggage? It's trivial to have a short-distance transmitter-receiver (garage door opener, or toy R/C controller) to rig up so that you can press a button while seated on the plane and your luggage sitting maybe 50 feet from you in the cargo hold blows up. So if you're planning such an attack, don't you want to do it before all this luggage-scanning bull**** starts? You know it's going to start January 2007, so if you're going to blow up a plane using a bomb in the luggage, you've got 6 months in the clear to do it. Well? Did anyone notice any plane getting blown up with a luggage bomb in 2006? I rest my case (or - I rest my luggage). All the security bull**** since 9/11 has cost people and our economy far more than even losing a few planes a year to terrorism. More people die in car accidents every year than died on 9/11. More people have died in plane crashes related to maintainence negligence, bad equipment-design or operational practice, and human error than died on 9/11. The financial cost and numerous cases of personal grief and inconveinence and lack of constitutional legal recourse (getting screwed by no fly lists, having stuff stolen from unlocked checked bags and even during gate-screening) caused by this ever increasing airport security mania is unconscionable. I have no doubt that one perhaps not-so-small reason for our economy tanking during the past 5-6 years is the reduction in business travel caused by this needless security mania and associated costs and hassles which severely reduces the attractiveness or desirability of air travel for people that used to be frequent fliers. |
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