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Re: Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports

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Post by _m7bj » Mon, Apr 01, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

labster wrote: post #248

1000units wrote: post #241

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Neither of those two parties is doing anything wrong; you just invented fanciful abstract offenses to be argumentative. TSA agents are doing something concretely wrong every time they grope my genitals, even if it is sanctioned by the state. It's certainly unoptimal that we'd ever have to be rude to people to change things for the better, but we don't actually live in a wholly civil society, evidenced by the fact tha…

I've had my genitalia groped exactly zero times by the TSA. I'm guessing that you probably got put on some TSA shitlist, probably from behavior like the above, or you're an ordinary person of color, not sure which.

>I've had my genitalia groped exactly zero times by the TSA.

>or you're an ordinary person of color, not sure which.

Yeah, and that's fine, right? We shouldn't go out of our way to tell the TSA that's not acceptable or anything /s

Re: Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports

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Post by rhizome » Mon, Apr 01, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

EForEndeavour wrote: post #245

rhizome wrote: post #123

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That reminds me of the time, sometime before the statute of limitations expired, I was coming back to the US from Montreal with a bunch of illegal raw milk cheese in my carry-on. No problem.

Are personal amounts of raw-milk cheese restricted or prohibited from entry into the US? This CBP page says nothing about raw cheese or pasteurization. It clearly states that hard and semi-soft cheeses are fine to bring in passenger baggage, as long as they don't contain meat. Just because the FDA requires raw-milk cheeses to have aged for at least 60 days in order to be sold in the USA, that doesn't mean you can't b…

My understanding was that all raw-milk cheese was banned in the US at the time.

Re: Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports

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Post by village-idiot » Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 4:57 AM UTC

c22 wrote: post #103

village-idiot wrote: post #53

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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.

I wear these[0] when I travel. I can take them off and put them on with no hands at all. I usually do belt and shoes at the same time, in fact. [0] https://www.merrell.com/US/en/jungle-moc/17703M.html

I’d use my Keen sandals for a similar reason, but they’re actually very hard to get back into. This is useful when I use them fishing, but bad in an airport.

Re: Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports

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Post by admax88q » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 7:24 AM UTC

whamlastxmas wrote: post #238

admax88q wrote: post #177

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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.

This is a pretty silly conspiracy. Do you think the manufacturers of those products have some sort of lobbying arm to convince politicians to make draconian TSA regulations? 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…

They could have just banned liquids all together, but they picked some magic 15 mL limit (or whatever it is) that no existing containers at the time fit under.

> The much more likely scenario is...

Why do you phrase this as an either or situation? "My conspiracy is more likely than your conspiracy" as if there can't be more than one conspiracy.

Re: Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports

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Post by caseysoftware » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

1000units wrote: post #240

caseysoftware wrote: post #221

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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.

You should try talking to a personal injury attorney if you have evidence. It might be lucrative.

Sovereign immunity. Most lawyers won't touch it short of a civil rights issue.