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$100 for five years of Global Entry is: 1) A fucking racket. 2) Totally worth it!
It is a racket. Get a nexus pass for ~US$40 and it’s good for Canada and US, including Nexus.
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You done goofed
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot, and we eventually ban accounts that do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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My favorite lines to use: "Whoa.. whatever you just did, do it again." or "Can I have her give me the pat down instead?" And you can really irritate them if you say the little spiel along with them. It rattles them.
Please don't irritate the TSA agents. If they don't get you for it, they will take it out on everyone behind you. Instead, write your congresscritters. Nearly all of them fly every week, so they feel your pain.
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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!…
I've seen this sort of things in videos of police encounters, too. "I suggest you do X" or "would you mind doing X" is some officers' way of being polite, but it leads to dangerous misunderstandings. When people say no, taking the statement literally, cops see them as trying to start a fight. I'd love to see law enforcement trained in using basic, declarative sentences: "Sir, regulation X.Y.Z says you have to take yo…
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I used to feel the same way. I shouldn't have to, but if the choice is paying or getting felt up, I pay. Me not paying won't stop the feeling up anyway.
I always opt for the pat down instead of going through the machine.
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> I'm fine getting on a plane if everyone went through a metal detector and kept their shoes on. that's an interesting thought. May be if the price of a ticket could be made cheaper by cutting out these TSA bullshit, the market could correct this problem.
Most frequent flyers would pay more to avoid the TSA
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https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/liquids... A pretty good summary and a bonus foreshadowing of this article. I have had a pretty good experience with the new scanners. I have global entry/Precheck and one remaining headache with the old scanners was remembering to take my double walked flask out and show the TSA that it was empty by removing the cap. The new scanners can see that it’s empty from i…
I'm still fairly certain that the purpose of the liquid ban is purely to boost sales of toiletries, especially in small "travel size" containers. An entire new line of single use toiletry products was invented to meet this regulation.
The much more likely scenario is that the politcians, who sometimes have ownership interest in the companies that get government contracts, want to be able to sell new equipment. This is also supported by the constant equipment updates we see at TSA lines.
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Please don't irritate the TSA agents. If they don't get you for it, they will take it out on everyone behind you. Instead, write your congresscritters. Nearly all of them fly every week, so they feel your pain.
>Please don't irritate the TSA agents. If they don't get you for it, they will take it out on everyone behind you. We really shouldn't tolerate people like that though, should we? If you don't respect TSA agents, it's your duty to remind them of that. Our ability to change the TSA through the democratic process has been on the wane for years now, but we can still force change by making it hard for the TSA to hire. If…
If you really want to make a statement, stop flying and stop paying money into the TSA.
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It would have been nice if that guy had actually hit me. We could've replaced him with someone with manners.
That's what you think but the TSA has left me bloody on two occasions and despite reports supported with pictures and other passenger statements, they were still on the job days and weeks later. They're unaccountable, ineffective, and completely useless. It's a modern day Work Project.