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Posted by BigSmoke on January 3, 2008 at 4:49:39 pm EST
In reply to Babu hikes Kili posted by Bill S on December 28, 2007 at 2:33:17 pm EST

I hear you Adam but cosndier this;

There were around 9,000,000 US flights last year, 2 shorts occurred on CARGO planes...
That is a .00002 occurrence rate...on cargo planes and 0% occurrence on passenger planes - does that really warrant a new regulation? (the math does not add up here unless you break down cargo to passenger ratios but heck, I am trying to make a point so just ignore that fact)

There has been a recent spate of laptop fires, why have they not forbidden laptops from planes?

Because it would be much to difficult, corporations would lobby hard against such a rule.

Regulating batteries was easy and allows them to justify their existence as a government agency and tell us they are making the world a safer place.

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