[letmein]

Settle down, settle down shrieking Liberals overhyped by fake MSM news.

For a technical crowd, I'm stunned not one of you understand the root cause for this ban. But I also understand it's not your fault because you would have to read the news from the Caliphate to know what's going on.

ISIS can make or has the intent to make or is trying to make Lithium Ion battery bombs.

Exageration you say? Go research it on Youtube, you'll see. This flaw has been known for years.

Think ISIS won't do it? Believe some crazy conspiracy that ISIS is a Mossad-KGB-Thule front?

Remember that recent passenger jet in Egypt destination Moscow that ISIS blew up killing everyone on board?

I saw with my own eyes the Mujahideen on Telegram weeks before the plane crash where they posted selfies of their new bomb. It literally fits in an Plastic Orange Soda bottle.

Now if you're brave and not under surveillance and not a Muslim and you live in a Nation that respects Free Speech and you want to know the Real News, see page 30 of this pdf:

https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/inspire-magazine-...

That is Al Qaida's 2015 magazine issue with the easy DIY blueprint for how to make it.I don't recommend reading all of it, but just enough until you go "holy shit it's that easy."

I almost didn't want to post this because god forbid the wrong you-know-who ever saw it and got "Inspired", but at the same time, this is a Catch-22, a Clear and Present Danger that folks need to know is real and is out there and so we must do whatever safety counter measures are necessary to ensure ISIS can never succeed in these style of attacks.

Take ISIS at their word--they are deadly serious, it's not a joke.

So If the solution to this horror show means fly naked, so be it! Don't complain, be grateful for your privilege.

Would you rather stay alive along with your fellow passengers, or have the convenience of dicking around on your laptop?

You still can use your iPhones so it's not like you're being strapped into a straightjacket for an 8 hour flight.

[eschaton]

This is just more security theater to ensure the easily terrorized remain compliant with the whims of law enforcement, not something that will actually make people safer.

In fact, putting a whole lot of high-capacity lithium-based batteries close together in a concentrated space that's hard to access—such as the cargo hold on an airliner on a transoceanic flight—actually seems more dangerous than having them in the passenger compartment mixed among the passengers.

But of course Daesh wouldn't possibly be able to do anything with checked luggage, they can only operate in passenger compartments. Right?

[ytpete]

I think many people are well aware of all these news reports, and the general desire of terrorists to smuggle bombs onto airplanes.

But can you explain how moving those same bombs into the cargo hold makes us any safer? Don't we need to focus on detecting them in the first place?

Bear in mind that no planes have crashed as a result of terrorist bombs in recent years, while several have crashed as a result of (accidental) cargo hold fires... So there is evidence that bombs in the passenger cabin are actually safer.