Oh for fuck's sake. Does this effectively ban all laptops, iPods, cell phones, etc?
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Dec 29, 2007 12:48:23 pm PST #9746 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
tiggy - Dec 29, 2007 12:49:28 pm PST #9747 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
what the fuck? do they want people to stop flying altogether?
sarameg - Dec 29, 2007 12:50:23 pm PST #9748 of 10001
They are fucking insane.
Hey, my laptop screen is on. How weird. Yay?
I have a small crock pot that runs only on low. We made beans at my parents, but theirs has multiple settings, and I don't recall what we used. Need to ask my mom.
Vortex - Dec 29, 2007 12:50:28 pm PST #9749 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Do the TSA people even know that they're looking for!
tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 12:55:14 pm PST #9750 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Don't most laptops use lithium-ion batteries, not lithium metal batteries?
::off to google::
Jesse - Dec 29, 2007 12:56:34 pm PST #9751 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In the laptop it's OK, but you can't bring a spare? Apparently.
So I totally wasted the entire rest of the day after my modicum of productivity early. At least I've made excellent progress on getting all of the snacky food out of my apartment....
tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 12:58:57 pm PST #9752 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK:
# Under the new rules, you can bring batteries with up to 8-gram equivalent lithium content. All lithium ion batteries in cell phones are below 8 gram equivalent lithium content. Nearly all laptop computers also are below this quantity threshold.
# You can also bring up to two spare batteries with an aggregate equivalent lithium content of up to 25 grams, in addition to any batteries that fall below the 8-gram threshold. Examples of two types of lithium ion batteries with equivalent lithium content over 8 grams but below 25 are shown below.
# For a lithium metal battery, whether installed in a device or carried as a spare, the limit on lithium content is 2 grams of lithium metal per battery.
# Almost all consumer-type lithium metal batteries are below 2 grams of lithium metal. But if you are unsure, contact the manufacturer!
So I guess we can still fly with most lithium batteries....
sarameg - Dec 29, 2007 1:01:31 pm PST #9753 of 10001
I have no faith in the actual enforcement of this. I foresee security folk with a lack of real info (the table isn't at all clear) confiscating left and right, letting the real targeted stuff through....
tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 1:03:44 pm PST #9754 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
They'll probably end up confiscating CDs with Nirvana's "Lithium" on them....
Jessica - Dec 29, 2007 1:04:34 pm PST #9755 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I have no faith in the actual enforcement of this. I foresee security folk with a lack of real info (the table isn't at all clear) confiscating left and right, letting the real targeted stuff through....
Yeah. Given how paranoid some TSA agents are about *hand lotion*, I can only imagine how they're going to behave around batteries...