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Terminal Cornucopia
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you take the batteries apart without crushing the foil, shorting them, and causing a fire?
He shows this in the Fragguccino video ( http://www.youtube.com/embed/TZ5a4ycwsig ): by using a small pipe cutter (on a lithium AA battery). He notes that it can be done without the pipe cutter but would take more time.
Thanks - didn't catch that's what he was doing with the pipe cutter.
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#53While this is all interesting, none of these videos show any actual lethal potential. I'm not saying that there is any, but there is no target and no way to show whether these tools inflict any meaningful damage.
You probably did not see the videos fully. Chucks of Liberty and 'Murica can crack open a human body pretty smoothly. Most lethal, in my opinion.
And even if Fraggucino and Blunderbussiness only hurt or maim someone, they are enough to strike fear among a crowd of people. Do not underestimate the implications of that.
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#54If there are LiIon batteries available, why bother will all this stuff? Just short them out and throw them somewhere strategic. Takes all of a minute.
They generally just catch on fire and smoke a lot.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, it definitely looked like the person holding it would have been maimed.
Yeah... it'd be slightly less than ideal.
Have you considered fashioning some stylish yet concealed body-armour under your outer clothing, possibly using bits of left-over belt and magazines?
Not quite Ned Kelly, but might help a little.
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#56While this is all interesting, none of these videos show any actual lethal potential. I'm not saying that there is any, but there is no target and no way to show whether these tools inflict any meaningful damage.
You probably did not see the videos fully. Chucks of Liberty and 'Murica can crack open a human body pretty smoothly. Most lethal, in my opinion. And even if Fraggucino and Blunderbussiness only hurt or maim someone, they are enough to strike fear among a crowd of people. Do not underestimate the implications of that.
The melee weapons are a bit silly though. Everyone knows that people can be extremely dangerous with melee weapons, or even just their bare hands.
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#57When I read 'Terminal' on Hacker News I don't think of the airport kind...
I also initially thought of a TTY, but there are too many definitions of the word that could still fit with this site.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Onto any aircraft?
My experience is that many Private Aircraft terminals, such as private jets, private helicopters, etc, don't screen passengers, or their luggage, the way the public is searched in "Commercial Aircraft" pre-flight screening. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/private-... http://www.generalaviationnews.com/2011/01/is-ga-a-menace/ The above links discuss the matter further.
"Private" is kind of a key word there.
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#59I think it comes down to what people are willing to put up with. Personally, I don't mind any of the TSA stuff a single bit. I've stood in line for hours, missed a flight, and gotten home at 1am due to TSA and other security stuff, but I don't mind because it at the very least acts as a deterrent. However, I think that most of these things could be solved with a second screening. None of these options would pass a se…
I don't mind because it at the very least acts as a deterrent.
What evidence do you have for that belief? Here's my evidence to the contrary -- if the TSA really were deterring terrorist attacks, the result would be a shift to other targets. It isn't like a terrorist is going to just give up, go home and forget about causing terror. They are going to pick another easier target. So where are all the other attacks?
Since 9/11 the number of civilian attacks has been less than the fingers on one hand, and the only one that wasn't just a bunch of mental midgets too incompetent to even ignite a bomb were the Boston Bombers.
No, there is no deterrent here because there is nobody to deter. If there were actual, serious terrorists looking at getting onto planes, the TSA wouldn't make a bit of difference. We've got TSA agents using their privileged access to smuggle drugs - it wouldn't take much to swap a couple of keys of cocaine with a couple of bricks of C4 and those dummies would end up helping the terrorists.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/26/news/la-trb-tsa-drug...
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#60He makes a point to say all those things can be purchased after the security check point... but wouldn't most of that stuff make it through security anyway?