Stop it with this “I can’t afford healthcare” bullshit.

are you under the impression this is not a thing that happens in america

because if so, holy lol, do I have bad news for you about your local homeless population

only difference is that here, the doctors aren’t allowed to give them anything to reduce the chances they’ll be coming back to the emergency room, costing you…

but we’ll have that sweet border wall and those sick new aircraft carriers!

Hard to accurately put into words the depth of my gratitude that I do not live in the United States and have to deal with this shit.

Why not just take a connecting flight? I don’t understand banning these specific countries and airports. I’m not a terrorist genius and even I know all someone would have to do is fly to Paris, for example, then jet on over to the U.S. with no problems. This is monumentally stupid.

Yes. The U.K. doesn’t exactly love immigrants but certainly loves surveillance.

This ban is designed to do one thing: Push travelers to other airlines. AA and other US based carriers have been complaining for years about the subsidies that Arab lines get from their home nations.

Make no mistake. This isn’t about searching your electronics or stopping terrorism. This ban is designed to crush that…

No, you can’t understand the laptop ban, because the device could equally easily have been detonated while it was in the cargo hold.

So you’d be fine with it if it only applied to brown people (whether natural born or not)? Don’t their cameras matter?

This is such a strange policy. It goes into effect on Friday, so it isn’t about safety. And it applies to in-cabin electronics and not checked electronics, so again, it is not about safety. Remember we had electronics in checked baggage bring down airliners in the 1980s (most notably Pan Am 103 in December 1988 over…

(this isnt about safety)

A couple of “real world” problems with this idea immediately come to mind.

True. Here in the Metro Detroit area, which has the highest proportion of middle-eastern population in the nation, we have experienced exactly zero terrorist attacks.

This is great news for the TSA black market in stolen electronics.

Next ban will be math, because people writing weird symbols is scary.

It makes a little less sense when you add in the fact explosives can be detonated using the phone.

To rest of world: Check back with us in about 46 months

As a software engineer, US citizen, and a government contractor, who has business with the Middle East; this is dumb.

What does this even accomplish? Are the devices supposed to be bombs or something? I mean they can still have phones and check the other things right? Basically this just seems like a ruse to make people pay for in flight movies or some equally ridiculous bull shit.

Much easier now to just pull it out of their checked luggage when it gets to the US and search it that way.