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US and UK ban carry-on electronic devices on planes main cabins from Islamic countries
United States and Britain on Tuesday imposed restrictions on carry-on electronic devices on planes coming from certain airports in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa in response to unspecified security threats. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI guess this was inevitable and risk based. It wouldn't happen without good intelligence so we have to suck it up and take a book to read on the flight but I suspect baggage thefts will go through the roof. I would also remove any sensitive information from my compy.
Mar 22nd, 2017 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse -13With airlines walking a fragile line of profitability they will be hit by the possible loss of business trade, especially if this gets rolled out, but they will always put safety first.
Well reasoned and well said, Elaine
Mar 22nd, 2017 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse -10How unexpected, you got 5 downticks within minutes of posting.
Why would that be do you Think?
DT
any ideas?
@ Kanye
Mar 22nd, 2017 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse -10Hahaha. Best of all they don't have the bollocks or intelligence to post anything. That identifies them without doubt.
Lots of weird goings on with the downticks and upticks...speaking from the perspective of usually always being in the negative and being used to it...
Mar 22nd, 2017 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse -2It shouldn't really bother folk if they are not posting to seek the approval of others...
@ Voice
Mar 22nd, 2017 - 07:41 pm - Link - Report abuse -5I am definitely not and if I was receiving upticks from the usual suspects I would be worried. I don't want the approval of the xenophobic, misogynist, racist, small-minded twats.
It's a little peculiar that the UK and US have different lists of affected countries. Aren't we supposed to share intelligence?
Mar 22nd, 2017 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse -12I wouldn't want to trust my laptop in the hold, having seen the way they throw those bags around and the damage my luggage has suffered.
@Kanye
One of my comments got 5 downvotes in 10 minutes yesterday, it's hardly plausible for this to happen naturally.
The voting will always be open to abuse. There is nothing to stop one person creating 6 accounts in order to rig the voting, but I imagine it would be rather tiresome to vote for everything 6 times with different logins.
And I can't make much sense of the pattern of up- and downvotes either. I agree with Elaine, downvoting without replying is rather cowardly, we may as well ignore it.
DemonTree
Mar 22nd, 2017 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse +6I can't imagine anyone creating that many accounts to do that...
I am perhaps sensing the mischievous workings of a certain enigma that monitors MP and occasionally hijacks accounts and leaves no trace, even the ID he uses has no ID...
I could be wrong, but from time to time he does pull a few tricks...
@ DT
Mar 22nd, 2017 - 08:34 pm - Link - Report abuse -9I didn't notice the differences - well spotted. We do share intelligence but politics also comes into play, I guess. I would be more worried about theft than damage. I have had my hold luggage broken into many times and items stolen on occasion - though nothing of much value. Once in Argentina they broke into a small case that looked like a computer bag but contained reference books. I was rather offended that they didn't appreciate my reading material and took nothing!
Re: The up/downticks, now we are all agreed it is the work of cowards it probably is worth ignoring. We all know exactly who is behind it. How empty their lives must be.
ElaineB and DT,
Mar 22nd, 2017 - 08:53 pm - Link - Report abuse -9Ticked,
My only real concern is that the 3 most upticked cretinous posts will now be the ones highlighted as “Top Posts”, and visible to the casual viewer who reads the article and then sees a Nostrils or Thinkvoice comment as representative.
Very misleading for those who have no other background information on the subject.
@ Kanye
Mar 22nd, 2017 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse -9They are not the only culprits. While it is true that there are a lot more readers than posters on this site anyone who has been around knows who the morons are. I can't imagine anyone who bothers to read the comments only reads the first few.
They will grow tired of their silly games after a while.
@EB
Mar 23rd, 2017 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse -8I was wondering if it had something to do with which countries have direct flights, or more flights, to the UK and US respectively. I'm not sure why politics would come into it, it's a ban on laptops, not people.
And I expect the thieves left your books behind because they were afraid there might be lead in the ink. ;)
@ DT
Mar 23rd, 2017 - 07:12 am - Link - Report abuse -10Hahaha.
The ban on six countries and nine companies is a complete waste of energy.
Mar 23rd, 2017 - 11:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Even a very stupid terrorist can figure out how to travel by train, bus, boat, csr, bike, ... to a country that is not banned and from there on a not banned airline to the US or UK.
I would think they have intelligence from certain countries that leads them to believe something like plastic explosive replacing the main battery in a laptop, Kindle or tablet. That's perhaps why these are being banished to the hold switched off? Perhaps the baggage containers can now contain such an explosion?
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