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Dude, it's a 96 hour ban, all signs point to this being a targeted response to a specific credible threat. Chill.

salesguy222 10y ago
I'm chilled, but what do you mean? Can you link me to the chatter about the credible threat? What if they wait more than 96 hours? What does checking electronics into bags do to keep us safer?
- diminoten 10y ago
  http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/324846-feds-temporarily-ban-electronics-on-certain-flights-to-us http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/324846-feds-tempora... The subtle arrogance in you asking for the threat Intel is utterly astonishing.
  - salesguy222 10y ago
    I appreciate the link, because the one I read said that the ban was indefinite, but that the airlines had 96 hours to implement. I also respectfully need to say that any arrogance you perceived from me was something you were reading into in my opinion, rather than something in my words that directly showed arrogance. I exist to provide logic based and relatively emotionless arguments, not too much cynicism or ill will to fellow commenters.
    - diminoten 10y ago
      > I exist to provide logic based and relatively emotionless arguments Bullshit.
kashkhan 10y ago
because the miscreants are too stupid to wait 96 hours.
- diminoten 10y ago
  If you're executing an attack in the next 4 days, you now can't. Why do you think you know more about international counterterrorism than... Well, anyone?
  - maxerickson 10y ago
    It's a little ironic how contentious your tone is in this thread, considering that there were many outlets that didn't follow along with the mischaracterization of the ban that you have based your commenting on. (I understand that you did see the 96 hour temporary ban in some reports; but even 14 hours ago there were reports not saying that, reports you accused other people of not reading, apparently without reading them yourself (the Bloomberg article didn't contain a time frame when I read it last night, nor the Reuters article I linked in my other reply))

I'm chilled, but what do you mean? Can you link me to the chatter about the credible threat? What if they wait more than 96 hours? What does checking electronics into bags do to keep us safer?

diminoten 10y ago
http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/324846-feds-temporarily-ban-electronics-on-certain-flights-to-us http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/324846-feds-tempora... The subtle arrogance in you asking for the threat Intel is utterly astonishing.
- salesguy222 10y ago
  I appreciate the link, because the one I read said that the ban was indefinite, but that the airlines had 96 hours to implement. I also respectfully need to say that any arrogance you perceived from me was something you were reading into in my opinion, rather than something in my words that directly showed arrogance. I exist to provide logic based and relatively emotionless arguments, not too much cynicism or ill will to fellow commenters.
  - diminoten 10y ago
    > I exist to provide logic based and relatively emotionless arguments Bullshit.

kashkhan 10y ago

because the miscreants are too stupid to wait 96 hours.

diminoten 10y ago
If you're executing an attack in the next 4 days, you now can't. Why do you think you know more about international counterterrorism than... Well, anyone?
- maxerickson 10y ago
  It's a little ironic how contentious your tone is in this thread, considering that there were many outlets that didn't follow along with the mischaracterization of the ban that you have based your commenting on. (I understand that you did see the 96 hour temporary ban in some reports; but even 14 hours ago there were reports not saying that, reports you accused other people of not reading, apparently without reading them yourself (the Bloomberg article didn't contain a time frame when I read it last night, nor the Reuters article I linked in my other reply))