Yes, I’ve flown out of LAX many times (I lived in LA from 2008 - 2012). There are drinking fountains all over the place, if you just look for them.

In case you didn’t know, sometimes at airports, they just let everyone skip the normal security checks.

Sure, I think logically Kindles shouldnt matter. But it’s public messaging thing... it’s much easier to understand a simple rule that says “everything except cell phones come out of the bag” than it is to enforce a rule that starts making exceptions about specific device types and dimensions. If you want to keep a…

All of that can happen whether or not the device was inside the bag to start with. Not sure what your point is.

That’s what I’m saying... they were going to take a look at your laptop anyway, but since you went ahead and had it out of your bag, they didn’t have pull aside and rummage through the whole thing. If it was still in the bag, they aren’t going to allow you to pull it out yourself when they ask to swab it.

Nothing, but I travel a lot, and I’m not a hysterical reactionary like most of the ignorant once-a-year passengers freaking out in the security line ahead of me.

Why are people only able to imagine the specific 9/11 scenario when thinking about aircraft security?

I have precheck, but I didn’t pay for it. Many, many travel credit cards give it to you for free.

Just take your empty bottle through and fill it on the other side, where there are chilled, filtered drinking fountains in every major airport. This complaint was getting old even a decade ago.

I’m not expressing any “faith” in anything. I’m just explaining the logic, which I think is sound, and could be implemented either efficiently or poorly.

I doubt it - the iPad (and tablets in general) got a boost because it’s all that many people need for entertainment or light productivity (reading emails or documents) on a plane.

The logic is that electronics are easier to screen if taken out of a bag and laid flat on a bin. That’s how laptops are already screened. Stuffed inside a bag, a tablet X-ray image might be obscured with other wires, chargers, etc you have layered over and under it. Taking it out also makes it easier if a secondary…

As much as people are going to bitch about this, and all other TSA complaints aside, this actually does make sense. We know, publicly, that terror cells have been working on putting explosives into electronics. We know that they have full-size screening equipment to test on. Who knows what else they might be trying…

but my battery takes a dip with gps on all the time.

Jokes aside, I wished the device could be located using an internet connection instead of gps

Most of the senators themselves weren’t clapping (although a few were), it was mostly a gesture to the aides and staff around the wall, I think, who were less sensitive to the decorum of the Senate. The vote wasn’t finished, and Schumer knew that publicly gloating risked McCain (who didn’t look happy about what he was…

And your and my taxes also go, in part, to the kind of indigent care that people, who you call freeloaders, would be provided in a world without Medicaid or Medicare.

You liked this one so much you posted it twice.

Last night’s final vote didn’t touch Medicaid expansion at all. It was taken off the table several rounds ago, since too many Republican Senators had too much pressure from constituents not to touch Medicaid (a program with a 74% favorability rating, which you deny is “popular”).

If I pay for half and the government pays the other half for me, I’ve gotten half of my premium free of charge. You can call it “subsidized” but that’s just another way of saying “partially free”.