Ah, COOL! Suddenly, packing becomes simpler!

[Keith&Co.]

Remove Your Shoes … and Your Books

TSA wants to have passengers remove books from their carry-on luggage.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news...-plans-require-books-be-removed-carry-luggage

Not because they're inherently dangerous, physically, but because they want to see if anything's hidden in the books.

TSA officials have said that their intent is not to judge passengers by what they are reading but to flip through the pages of books to see if anything is hidden there.
But many in academe know the stories of students and faculty members delayed or detained for some combination of their appearance and what they were carrying with them. There was the Pomona College student who was detained over his Arabic flash cards. And there was the Italian-born professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania whose flight was delayed after security officials interviewed him based on the complaint of another passenger. The professor was writing out complex mathematical equations that his fellow passenger assumed were some sort of terrorist communication.

So, i wonder how much porn i can fit between the pages of my copy of 'The Case For Impeachment'?

Or how many copies of the constitution i can smuggle in the pages of 'You Show Me Yours And I'll Show You Mine'?
'Marilou Visits The Big City'?
'Aunt Suzy Saw 'Em Suck'?
'C Is For Coeds'?


Of course, I may have the opportunity to point out that i'm traveling on business for a military contractor and use my Retired Military ID to get through security...

 

[paladin.oa]

Do that with your wife for extra head explodiness.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

The glass is half full. At least they're recognizing how dangerous books are to civilizations: Quran, Bible, Mein Kampf, Catcher in the Rye, ... the list goes on.

 

[Derec]

Not because they're inherently dangerous, physically, but because they want to see if anything's hidden in the books.

It's Oh La La

 

[Angry Floof]

Fascism, step by step.

A way to get around it is kindle books on your phone. Even if you buy "disposable" phones to travel with, once you get where you're going you can download kindle and your library, and then reset to factory or uninstall kindle before traveling again.

Edit: I like the idea of putting the US Constitution inside a porn cover for traveling.

 

[barbos]

I presume they are worried about weapons and other things terrorists can hide in the books, they are not afraid of words.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I presume they are worried about weapons and other things terrorists can hide in the books, they are not afraid of words.

They are afraid of things they don't understand. The kid pulled aside for having Arabic flash cards.
The guy who reported complex math problems as terrorist communications.
As for weapons, books are not immune to x-ray machines.

 

[barbos]

I presume they are worried about weapons and other things terrorists can hide in the books, they are not afraid of words.

They are afraid of things they don't understand.

They are paid to be afraid of things they don't understand.

The kid pulled aside for having Arabic flash cards.
The guy who reported complex math problems as terrorist communications.

Economists don't do complex math problems.

As for weapons, books are not immune to x-ray machines.

Well, TSA say books are troublesome for them.

 

[Keith&Co.]

The guy who reported complex math problems as terrorist communications.

Economists don't do complex math problems.

What an odd, odd response.
What does this have to do with anything?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Economists don't do complex math problems.

What an odd, odd response.
What does this have to do with anything?

I think barbos had an involuntary response regarding his profession verses economists. I do the same thing with architects, though with more poo flinging.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Do that with your wife for extra head explodiness.

I AM traveling with Mrs. &Co on the next business trip, as a matter of fact.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Fascism, step by step.

A way to get around it is kindle books on your phone.

I don't have a cell phone. And when I read for pleasure, I don't enjoy reading electronic version of a document.
Which is odd. I read electronic tech manuals all day long at work. And I publish ebooks.
Just am more comfortable with a book in my hands if it's not work related.

 

[barbos]

What an odd, odd response.
What does this have to do with anything?

I think barbos had an involuntary response regarding his profession verses economists. I do the same thing with architects, though with more poo flinging.

Yes, I have Sheldon Cooper syndrome. But I am correct, I highly doubt any economics professor even know complex numbers to do complex math.

 

[dismal]

Fascism, step by step.

Yes, here's the next step for the airport Hitlers.

First they come for our books, next they come for our lobster privacy:

The lobster was inside a checked item, a cooler, after Stracuzza says he bought the giant lobster at the Atlantic Fish Market while on vacation in Connecticut.

And Stracuzza isn’t the only one unhappy with the way the lobster was handled.

The owner of the fish market, Lisa Feinman, told Inside Edition: "It was about our privacy. Is there a line? Is there something that says any agent or person can just pick up something of yours, pose as a photograph and send it on social media?"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/owner-giant-20-pound-lobster-201900938.html

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The basic problem is that books are organic, explosives are organic. Their current x-ray can determine that something is organic but can't differentiate books from a block of explosives.

For many years a stack of books would get your checked bag a TSA inspection. They're just getting more obsessive about this.

Note that the same thing applies if you're getting an agricultural inspection--their x-ray actually only detects whether something is organic and food-type density. Pack all such material together and you minimize the amount of suitcase pawing they do. (Coming from China agricultural inspections are very common for us.)

 

[Nice Squirrel]

As for weapons, books are not immune to x-ray machines.

That's what I was thinking...

 

[LordKiran]

As for weapons, books are not immune to x-ray machines.

That's what I was thinking...

Conceivably you could line the hardcover of a book with lead paneling beneath the sleeve. Even so, who's going to even think to do that and why should airport security be so ridiculous as to counter harebrained ideas people like me come up with in the span of 60 seconds??

 

[LordKiran]

I think barbos had an involuntary response regarding his profession verses economists. I do the same thing with architects, though with more poo flinging.

Yes, I have Sheldon Cooper syndrome. But I am correct, I highly doubt any economics professor even know complex numbers to do complex math.

Well you can think whatever you want. It doesn't mean you know shit, though.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Yes, I have Sheldon Cooper syndrome. But I am correct, I highly doubt any economics professor even know complex numbers to do complex math.

Well you can think whatever you want. It doesn't mean you know shit, though.

I believe barbos is our resident Physics guy. It is the only reason I haven't muted him.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

That's what I was thinking...

Conceivably you could line the hardcover of a book with lead paneling beneath the sleeve. Even so, who's going to even think to do that and why should airport security be so ridiculous as to counter harebrained ideas people like me come up with in the span of 60 seconds??

Radioopaque items should be taken out and inspected.

As least with China that's what's happened.