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05-29-2017 , 01:32 PM

#1476

Oroku$aki

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Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 7,063

Ohhh ya, Trump ****ed the US tourism industry bigly.

05-29-2017 , 02:01 PM

#1477

fuluck414

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 3,281

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oroku$aki

Ohhh ya, Trump ****ed the US tourism industry bigly.

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

05-29-2017 , 02:21 PM

#1478

eyebooger

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 58,681

If I'm a major international organization looking for a place to hold a major conference, I can't imagine any destination in the US would be high on my list right now.

05-29-2017 , 04:39 PM

#1479

Louis Cyphre

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Originally Posted by LFS

I totally believe that they have real intelligence that terrorists have developed bombs that can be concealed in laptops. That doesn't surprise me at all. I'm confused why the bombs are so much more dangerous as carry-ons rather than checked baggage. Surely if they can make a laptop bomb they can detonate it remotely. Is it that the bombs are small, and thus must be detonated in a specific place like next to a window or something? I'm probably missing something obvious here.

Maybe there are additional security measures in place for checked bags? better screenings, bomb sniffing dogs?

05-29-2017 , 08:20 PM

#1480

MrWookie

Don't Call Me Meredith

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 94,159

Quote:

Originally Posted by Louis Cyphre

Maybe there are additional security measures in place for checked bags? better screenings, bomb sniffing dogs?

This is the only thing that would make sense. But if so, geez, I remember puffer machines I referred to as the Marilyn Monroe scanners that checked for bomb residue. Those things seemed much more likely to be effective than the nudie scanners.

06-03-2017 , 12:33 AM

#1481

Hero Protagonist

adept

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 770

Quote:

Originally Posted by Louis Cyphre

Maybe there are additional security measures in place for checked bags? better screenings, bomb sniffing dogs?

Possibly.

On the other hand, the fire danger from lithium batteries is much less in the cabin than in the cargo hold. The fires are noticed right away and can be extinguished. Putting all these lithium batteries in the cargo hold where a fire can go undetected for a while, and can be harder to extinguish, is certainly an extra risk.

06-03-2017 , 06:15 AM

#1482

JayTeeMe

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LFS

Well he said there's a box. Maybe it's bomb proof? Can you make a bomb proof box?

07-06-2017 , 03:22 PM

#1483

Riverman

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Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 73,135

TSA fails to detect **** 94% of the time

https://thepointsguy.com/2017/07/tsa...etect-threats/

07-15-2017 , 11:13 PM

#1484

grando1.0

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Does anyone with an IQ over 90 actually think the TSA does anything useful?

09-12-2017 , 01:38 PM

#1485

MrWookie

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Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 94,159

Welp, the TSA fails to find anything. Why? NOT FONDLING ENOUGH.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/hands-...rticle/2009631

Quote:

Well, since you asked, the agent runs his hand inside a passenger's waistband and also runs his hand up the back of each leg until he "meets resistance" and then does the same from the front of each leg. And then the TSA agent swipes the front of his hands 3 or 4 times right over the zipper area of one's Gap Outlet comfort-stretch khakis. That last part was the most unpleasant.

For what it's worth, this isn't the story of an agent who didn't know how to do a pat-down. The agent described exactly what he was going to do before he did it and seemed to be simply carrying out the government's policy.