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Laptops To Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology To Airports (bgov.com)
Air passengers at a growing number of U.S. airports will no longer need to remove electronics, liquids, and other items from their carry-on luggage at security checkpoints as the Transportation Security Administration rolls out new technology. From a report: The TSA took a major step in a broader plan to revamp its overall screening process with faster, more advanced technology when it signed a contract Thursday for hundreds of new carry-on baggage screening machines, Administrator David Pekoske said on a press call Friday. The agency has tested the new technology at more than a dozen airports since 2017, along with the relaxed protocols that allow passengers to leave items such as laptops and toiletries inside their luggage. The rollout of the computed tomography, or CT, machines will begin this summer, Pekoske said. The $97 million contract will buy 300 machines, but the list of airports receiving them has yet to be made final, Pekoske said. The technology creates 3-D images of bags' contents and will eventually be able to detect items automatically that the TSA now asks passengers to remove, he said.
Hey hey hey... it sounds to me like you want to lay off all of the good folks at the TSA. Why? They're hard-working Americans. They have families that they love and have to take care of. I mean, they're just like you and I.
I mean, yeah sure, they look at all of their fellow Americans as if they're potential terrorists, and they have been known to cause problems, but it's in the name of security from those that ...would ...cause ...problems... :\
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This is a life-saving medical procedure in American hospitals that could cost you upwards of two-thousand USD. Your insurance company could elect to accept or decline that procedure arbitrarily as they see fit.
However in US airports its now going to be a mandatory part of a theatricality introduced 18 years ago to stop terrorists we created after the fall of the soviet union through the funding and training of the Mujaheddin.
So why don't we combine the two? Instead of going to the hospital for a $2,000 CAT scan, you take a flight from Newark to Las Vegas which will only cost $200. And the CAT scan is free included.
We would just need to replace some DHS folks with doctors:
"You are not carrying any explosive devices in your body . . . but your prostate will go nuclear in a few years."
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