The Transportation Security Administration won’t let passengers check or carry on any bags with toner and ink cartridges that weigh more than 16 ounces, the TSA said Monday.
“This ban will also apply to certain inbound international air cargo shipments as well,” TSA Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a statement.
“Further, all cargo identified as high risk will go through additional and enhanced screening. These measures also impact inbound international mail packages, which must be screened individually and certified to have come from an established postal shipper,” she said.
Does anyone but me think that the “terrorists” are making us look like old ladies. Oh wait, Janet N. is an old lady. Never mind.
Everyone does recognize we would be “better off” to let the terroists blow up a major skyscraper every 10 years than what we are doing to protect against it? Its spending $10 to protect a one dollar asset. As to the lives–that is what being in a war is all about.
Silly Hoomans==very bad at risk assessment and response.
For those that understand it..
WHO needs a bomb..
2 small vials..is enough to cause a reaction, that could Burn a Whole threw the plane, or ignite aluminum.
Enough to cause damage to the planes…THATS all you need to cause a panic..
2 dry chemicals, using friction to ignite, is enough to cause problems..
IF these Bozo’s ever take a High school Chem class from MY TIME…they woulnt be flying.
ECA: a magnesium shavings fire, which is stupid-simple.
Here’s the problem — the terrorists can hide explosives into just about anything and everything.
Are we going to ban everything?
No, the front line in national security is identifying and stopping radicals BEFORE they attack.
#24
DEFINE radicals..
Which is the problem.
Pay your ticket online, SHOW UP, and they deny you access. And you cant get your ticket price back.
I can’t believe the conspiracy theorists missed this. It’s not about bombs. It’s the printer manufacturers trying to shut down the 3rd party consumables suppliers.
#26..
Could be..
Who remembers a corp TRYING to make 3rd party Ink/refills??
AINT heard nothing in 2-3 years now.
I don’t want terrorism at all, but if it must happen again, LET’S HOPE IT’S A BRA DEVICE.
Stewardesses, please demonstrate the removal procedures!
# 28 Publius – LET’S HOPE IT’S A BRA DEVICE.
Interesting point. Why are we still allowed to wear underwear on planes?
Uh. When was the last time you purchased toner carts from Yemen or Somalia? Hello, HP?
These bombs seem to have gone through airport security a couple of times.
Did they actually say for sure that even one of them would have worked?
The terrorists (govt) have already won if we are having this discussion.
profiling, metal detector’s and random air marshals on odd flights are more than enough.
even air marshals are not needed, at the first hint of suspicion of the crew member, the pilot can be alerted, who can alter the cabin pressure and oxygen levels, causing people to get very sleepy, the air hostess wearing a oxygen mask could then handcuff the terrorist and lock him or her in a freshly used and unflushable toilet (with American pop music playing)..
Fact is i know how to kill someone with a pencil, or with a newspaper. AND i’m damn sure the seatbelt on an aeroplane could be used as a weapon if swung or thrown at their head.
Does that mean karate students or military personal trained in hand to hand combat are not allowed to fly?
of course not, because it is all about scaring the little people in order to regain control over a society that is finally figuring out it is actually under vast amounts of social and cultural control. fuck the TSA
Fun tip, get some fridge magnet material (the stuff you can cut out)write funny words and stick on inside of your clothes for them to read. here is one you can use.
TSA: (Definition) noun:
Testicle/Titty Squeezing Assholes.
When Toner Cartridges are outlawed, only outlaws will Toner Cartridges!!!
Toner Cartridges don’t kill people, people do!!!!