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TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight
An anonymous reader excerpts from an AP story as carried by Yahoo News about changes stemming from yesterday's foiled bombing attempt of a Northwest Airlines flight: "Some airlines were telling passengers on Saturday that new government security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats beginning an hour before landing. The regulations are a response to a suspected terrorism incident on Christmas Day. Air Canada said in a statement that new rules imposed by the Transportation Security Administration limit on-board activities by passengers and crew in US airspace. ... Flight attendants on some domestic flights are informing passengers of similar rules. Passengers on a flight from New York to Tampa Saturday morning were also told they must remain in their seats and couldn't have items in their laps, including laptops and pillows." The TSA's list of prohibited items doesn't seem to have changed in the last day, though.
Zieg Hiel! to the new Fuhrer: The President of the United States.
Sorry if that sounds like flamage, but the US is not the country it once was. It's the land of the paranoid, home of the nanny state. No more "free" or "brave".
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
In the real world, those 4000 that have enough money to buy a plane ticket have more value than the 1 million ungrateful people citiens of ennemy states you might save with world food aid.
I really don't think a n00b VFR wannabee pilot is qualified to talk about air travel, but anyways my main objection to your post is that it contains no factually correct information. Where do I even start ? Well let's see, are you suggesting that you can bypass Customs and Security for an international flight by the simple device of having your own plane and just blithely loading it up, having driven around the security fences ? And what happens when you reach the other end ? Do you simply say "Get out of my way, you silly foreigner. Can't you see this is a private plane ?" ?
Let's now consider the question of getting clearance for an international flight under VFR. Perhaps the conversation would go a bit like this :
"Airspace violator this is Kennedy Sector TRACON. You have not filed a flight plan. Turn left heading 0-3-0, descend to 2000 feet, reduce speed to 1-4-0 knots and intercept localizer at runway 3-1 right."
"Airspace violator please confirm and switch to 1-1-9 point 1 Kennedy Tower."
"Er I don't have ILS. And I don't want to land at Kennedy. So I think I'll just ignore you."
"Airspace violator this is Airforce Eagle Bravo 1 Niner. If you fail to comply with ATC we will open fire."
I think the skies are full enough already without being overloaded with wanton muppets to be honest.
To American funded Irish republican terrorism. The bins were removed after Warrington in 1993 -- where American funded Irish republican terrorists blew up a bin in a town centre, outside a McDonalds, the day before mothers day. Then when people were fleeing away, blew another bomb up in the direction they were fleeing. Christofacist religious republican voting extrimist funded Irish republican terrorists murdered two innocent children on that day.
One of the boys fathers, Colin Parry, later shook hands with Gerry Adams. It'd be like a 9/11 victim shaking hands with Osama bin Laden.
Corrected that it's a little more intellectually honest. It's not like Bush wrote them a fucking check or anything.
Furthermore, the handshake took place upon a new status quo of more peaceful relations. Celebration at the end of violence is not a problem you stupid eurotrash weenie.
I strongly disagree with that statement. More than 99% of all collisions are NOT "accidents". From Merriam-Websters: "accident : an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance" So 1% (give or take) are genuine accidents (read: mechanical failures). Black ice? I anticipate it. Bad drivers? Anticipated. Dangerous intersection? Check. Tired/sick? Bald tires? Poor visibility? uneven road surface? etc. etc. Complacency, ignorance and over-confidence are what kill people in cars.