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Steve Jobs Tries To Sneak Shurikens On a Plane
An anonymous reader writes "Steve Jobs, while on a family vacation to Japan in July, picked himself up some Shuriken, otherwise known as Ninja throwing stars, as a souvenir. In his wisdom he decided to put them in his carry on luggage for the return journey. As it was a private plane he probably thought there would be no issue, but he was wrong. Even private plane passengers have to have all their baggage scanned, and the throwing stars were detected and deemed a hazard. It's alleged that Jobs argued that he could take them on the plane as no one could steal them on his private jet and use them. Security at the airport disagreed and demanded he remove the stars. Jobs, clearly angry at losing his throwing weapons, stated he would not be returning to the country." Undoubtedly this is part of the iNinja project.
this makes the front page why? Its common knowledge...don't bring sharp objects into airports unless you are checking the bag.
The only possible reason that this particular item would have made it off the Firehose is the flame-inducing material within it. It makes me sad. While I'm no fan of Apple, per se, I feel sorry for the guy. He could have investigate the local laws and policy before challenging them, and will absolutely be returning to Japan at some point, but still this is genuinely trivial.
Maybe 'Idle' material, but 'Apple'? Trolling, plain and simple.
The idea of "Post-9/11" is bullshit. For one it is his own property he isn't endangering others. Secondly, the world isn't safer due to all this security theater and imperialistic wars. The thing that changed on 9/11 is now if someone tries to hijack a plane people are going to tackle them and pin them to the ground. People now associate hijackings with that they are going to die no matter what they do, and not the idea that they should comply with the hijackers, wind up in Cuba and be on a plane home in a day with a wild story to tell to the media. No, if someone even remotely tries to attack a plane the passengers will prevent that. -THAT- is why we haven't had another 9/11.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Honestly, they took away his property while he was trying to board his personal plane for reasons that were plainly the result of deeply faulty logic. I can understand why he wouldn't be happy. Unfortunately, if you want to never meet a stupid government agency's representative goons, there's nowhere to go without giving up all contact with the rest of the world.
I just flew on a private jet, and they didn't scan shit of mine. In fact, they even talked about how people had smoked weed on their jets before. So I call bullshit -- something's wrong in the summary.
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The obvious absurdity of restricting shuriken (or any of the other weapons restricted by PC 12020, for that matter) doesn't make them any less illegal in California.
Jobs was right to think that he could get on the plane with his stars because, usually, he would be able to.
Well, technically, he was *wrong* to think that, because it was incorrect.
Property is theft.
No, the problem is that the story is false. Incredible how much bloviated nonsense has accumulated in this thread for something that never happened.
An adult would have realized the rules are there for public safety
Only if they are a stupid adult, one dumb enough to fall for "good security is occasionally obnoxious, therefore anything obnoxious must be good security"
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
>>>a report that Apple denies
They also deny that iPods sometimes spuriously start smoking and then blow up (due to the Lithium battery short-circuiting), despite many many instances of it happening. So I don't know who's telling the truth - Apple or the Japanese security guards. It could go either way.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Private tarmac.
And there's the difference.
If you are flying out of an FBO, even at a big airport like BWI, then you get to bypass airport security. However, TFS said Jobs was flying out of the public terminal. At Kenai Municipal Airport, in Kenai, Alaska (much smaller than BWI; I've been to both airports), some of the private, chartered flights board through the same gate as the passenger flights. In that case, yes, you would pass through airport security. If you are in a small, private airplane like I was, you go out a different door to a different ramp on the airport (if you go into the terminal at all), and you don't pass through security. So it all depends.
MCSE? No, sir...I don't do Windows. Yes, I am an idealist. What's your point?
So I don't know who's telling the truth - Apple or the Japanese security guards. It could go either way.
Since when is Bloomberg quoting a story of an Japanese Tabloid a Japanes security guard? Next you are going to tell us that the last big Bloomberg story on Jobs, also wildly denied by Apple, was in fact true - you know, the one about his death in 1998.
Fandroids hate facts.
Actually, we never had a 9l11 in 50 years preceding it, despite the fact that it was just as easy. 9/11 was a lucky fluke, a super ambitious prank-style act of terrorism that took a lot of planning but took the top prize ever in such acts. We had no reason to expect it to happen in another 50 years, especially since it relied on surprise. I agree with this post that hightened security has not played a significant role in stopping another 9/11. Nor have any of the costly wars. But some people have to say the opposite in order to hide their own guilt of taking the side which wasted so much money on nothing (gained). These people scream that such actions do buy us security in order to save their own faces.
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Observe how the headline places Jobs, who for once is the innocent victim, in the role of the malefactor.