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UK Pilots Want Lithium Battery Powered Devices In the Cabin
AmiMoJo writes: The professional association and trade union of UK pilots The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA), has asked airlines to require travelers to carry devices that run on lithium-based batteries with them in the passenger cabin instead of in checked luggage. The union hoping to address what it considers a significant potential safety risk, baggage fires going unnoticed in the hold. BALPA explains, "when they short circuit, [they] have a tendency to burst into high intensity fires, which are difficult to extinguish." They further point out, "lithium battery fires have caused at least three cargo aircraft crashes and the UN safety regulator has banned a specific type of lithium battery (lithium metal) from being carried as cargo on passenger aircraft."
To come even close to the number of lives religion has destroyed, we'd have to have daily crashes for a century or two.
In that light, I'd take fag marriage over your imaginary buddy in the sky any day.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.