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Laptop Ban
Does Trump's ban now look not quite so 'outrageous', or can we expect crowd demonstrations in protest?
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Surely someone somewhere wonders how clever the USA and UK bans are, coming as they do on their own. Any halfwitted person intent on taking a rigged electronic gadget from the named countries and onto a flight to either the USA or the UK to either of these countries will quickly spot the way to do that - explaining it here is telling the obvious. They will take a flight to somewhere else, then continue to either the USA or the UK.
More notably, these bans are a hideous admission that the security screening hitherto employed is and has been quite ineffective - it does not guarantee an aircraft free of incendiary/explosive devices and the cost, the time and the inconvenience have been a monumental confidence trick. But, by those looking seriously at these matters, that was known all along.
I for one am not praising either the USA or the UK on this, and certainly not singling out Mr.Trump.
More notably, these bans are a hideous admission that the security screening hitherto employed is and has been quite ineffective - it does not guarantee an aircraft free of incendiary/explosive devices and the cost, the time and the inconvenience have been a monumental confidence trick. But, by those looking seriously at these matters, that was known all along.
I for one am not praising either the USA or the UK on this, and certainly not singling out Mr.Trump.
BA for Garaman at 08:07 !
The difficulty with Trump is he like hat little boy in the Russian folkstory, about the little boy who cried wolf. He has come out with so much crap over the last few months, that if and when he says something sensible, nobody will believe him. He has no credibility whatsoever.
I am still unsure about the effectiveness of this measure though....surely if a laptop was to scrape by in the pre-flight screening process, and it exploded in the hold, wouldn't that be nearly as serious as exploding in the cabin ?
The difficulty with Trump is he like hat little boy in the Russian folkstory, about the little boy who cried wolf. He has come out with so much crap over the last few months, that if and when he says something sensible, nobody will believe him. He has no credibility whatsoever.
I am still unsure about the effectiveness of this measure though....surely if a laptop was to scrape by in the pre-flight screening process, and it exploded in the hold, wouldn't that be nearly as serious as exploding in the cabin ?
TWR....thanks for that. I appreciate that an explosion would be less effective in the hold, but still a concern I would have thought.
Effective screening of everything that goes into an aeroplane would seem the only way to deal with terrorists threats.
I have seem some nonsense being written about this ban, and how peoples lives are going to be effectively ruined because they can't take a computer into the cabin together on what could be long flights ....what is wrong with a book for goodness sake ?
Effective screening of everything that goes into an aeroplane would seem the only way to deal with terrorists threats.
I have seem some nonsense being written about this ban, and how peoples lives are going to be effectively ruined because they can't take a computer into the cabin together on what could be long flights ....what is wrong with a book for goodness sake ?
