I was always amazed how I had to take my laptop out ... but I carried cameras, gaming devices, all sorts of other electronics in bags and nobody cared.
Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports
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#52Just get TSA pre-check. It's so freaking easy and it makes airport security checkpoints not a big deal at all.
I have an extreme aversion on principle to paying mafia protection money, and will only do so if my life or livelihood actually depends on it. I certainly won't do so just to make my life a bit more convenient.
That's a very principled position. I'll see you on the other side of security.
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#53The moment I pull out my ipad and macbook and entrust the fate of around 3000 dollars worth of electronics to the competence and benevolence of government officials who barely give a shit is my least favorite part of the travel experience
I don’t know why, but for me it’s the shoes. My laptop bag makes it fairly easy to take my laptop out and put it back in, but dealing with taking my shoes on and off really fucking bugs me. It’s totally irrational, I know.
This is why I wear my toe shoes to the airport. While it might seem counterintuitive, I can take them on and off one handed.
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#54The moment I pull out my ipad and macbook and entrust the fate of around 3000 dollars worth of electronics to the competence and benevolence of government officials who barely give a shit is my least favorite part of the travel experience
I don’t know why, but for me it’s the shoes. My laptop bag makes it fairly easy to take my laptop out and put it back in, but dealing with taking my shoes on and off really fucking bugs me. It’s totally irrational, I know.
I was in Honolulu last summer and they let us keep our shoes on and instead had dogs being walked around sniffing our feet.
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#55It's fascinating how the security theatre has gotten so big that now it basically just rolls forward under its own momentum. It's been around long enough that people accept it as normal, it serves no other purpose than to employ the unemployable and fill contractors' coffers, and it seems that no entity is able to stop or dismantle it.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Next, how about removing the ridiculous limitations on carrying a bottle of water with you?
How hard is it to pour your possible explosive liquid into a bin with all the other possible explosives in the center of the largest, densest crowd in the airp... Oh wait I see your point.
Wow. Make sure you let us know how the FBI visit went.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, it's always up to the whims of the underpaid TSA agent who happens to be there that day. Back when iPads were new, I got scolded for taking it out of my bag, and scolded for leaving it in my bag, by agents at the same airport on two trips a few weeks apart.
In the last 8 days: CMH->MCO ‘remove your belts please’ MCO->SEA ‘keep your belts on’ SEA->CMH ‘i’d recommend you take your belt off’
At one point, I was travelling with my dad when the "shoes off" policy was relaxed (I think the shoes-off policy was relaxed a couple of weeks/months after the shoe bomber plot, but I can't recall exactly when -- and then it was put back permanently).
"Agent": Sir, I recommend you take your shoes off.
Dad: That's okay. I don't need to take my shoes off.
"Agent": Sir, I'm going to need you to take your shoes off NOW!
In addition to challenging the authority of the Memphis TSA agent, my dad is half Japanese and looks quite a bit less white than I do.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Next, how about removing the ridiculous limitations on carrying a bottle of water with you?
How hard is it to pour your possible explosive liquid into a bin with all the other possible explosives in the center of the largest, densest crowd in the airp... Oh wait I see your point.
This is why I’m more nervous in security than I am on the actual plane.