Wow, what a closed narrow life you must live
I cannot imagine in this day and age someone spending their whole life in a one country/continent. You will miss out on so much, I feel sorry for you.
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Wonder how long 'til TSA decides how to treat the iPad
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Wow, what a closed narrow life you must live
I cannot imagine in this day and age someone spending their whole life in a one country/continent. You will miss out on so much, I feel sorry for you.
For laptops -- sure as long as you don't put anything in the pockets - if it has pockets.
That said, I'm doubtful it's going to be regarded as a laptop. I've never been asked once to take my Sony Reader out of my carry-on bag and I travel about once a month. Physically there isn't much difference between a reader and an iPad.
Wow, what a closed narrow life you must live
I cannot imagine in this day and age someone spending their whole life in a one country/continent. You will miss out on so much, I feel sorry for you.
Miss out on what exactly. I live in America, the top of the world. Only speak one language, so don't want to saddled down with non-English / English issues.
49 States reachable by car or train, that's more than enough for a lifetime.
And NO TSA monkeys to get in the way!
old story, but just be careful when you travel overseas, the iPad being a new device and all.
"A woman traveling to Israel is questioned by security officers who are suspicious of her bag. So they take it out the back and shoot it, killing her MacBook. Amazingly, the hard drive survived.
The Israeli securitys decision to shoot my laptop was nonsensical on multiple levels unprovoked, unduly aggressive, a waste of government funds, etc. the woman, Lilly Sussman, wrote on her blog.
Someone in the comments added: These guys shoot every day at unarmed people, even children. Why so much surprise about a simple laptop?
not good. i want to bring my ipad to Israel this summer.
...kinda missing the point
We get a full body scan yet still have to remove our shoes, or belt, or god forbid you forgot you had a quarter in your pocket.
Like I said above, I feel sorry for you. You're missing out on so much. Being patriotic about ones country is one thing but never leaving it to experience the world and all its sights and cultures is just sad.
Top of the word? (where's the 'shakes head' emoticon?)
Make sure you don't present a passport littered with entry/exit stamps from countries, like Syria, which has sworn to be Israel's enemy and refused its right to exist -- and you'll be fine.
The whole laptop shoot up was quite the anomaly, but good fodder for the anti-Israel crowd. The border crew used poor judgment but it's not a common occurrence, and this happened at the Egyptian border, not the Tel-Aviv (Ben Gurion) airport. I've never had any electronics hand inspected, much less blown up, in Israel, or known anyone with that experience.
Seriously dude, if you think going to Lincoln Nebraska or even Los Angeles or Boston is parity for visiting historically charged cities like Prague or Vienna, or Beijing, or Moscow, or Jerusalem, you are wasting a huge opportunity. I love America, but there is more in this world to see than Civil War battlefields and fake Chinese Theaters with stars embedded in the sidewalk.
Not really. There is much more than civil war battlefields and chinese theaters here as well. More than enough to keep anyone happy with out having to deal with foreign countries, their goofy laws, air travel, border security ect.
Don't really care for tropical weather, so I'm not really broken up about not visiting Hawaii
You sound so scared of new experiences
In historic times it was so expensive to travel to other countries and continents so you could understand people living and dying in the same country never having left. But in modern times I can't get to grips with someone spending their whole life only experiencing one tiny part of the world.
You sound so scared of new experiences
In historic times it was so expensive to travel to other countries and continents so you could understand people living and dying in the same country never having left. But in modern times I can't get to grips with someone spending their whole life only experiencing one tiny part of the world.
Not at all. Spend about 200 days a year traveling through this great country. 350 million people, different cultures, different beliefs, each taking their own little part of this great country and making it their own.
It's really much more amazing than anything else offered.
You sound so scared of new experiences
In historic times it was so expensive to travel to other countries and continents so you could understand people living and dying in the same country never having left. But in modern times I can't get to grips with someone spending their whole life only experiencing one tiny part of the world.
It appears he isn't the only one...
http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2003/01/31/how_many_america.php
Mind you, saying other countries have goofy laws is a bit rich - he has to deal with different laws every time he travels to a different state just as much as he would to a different country.
Oh well, C'est La Vie!
(racer1441 That means "That's Life", as I'm sure you're not bothered by understanding anything other than what's in your blinkered view of the world.
You wouldn't know, you haven't been anywhere else
I like visiting the USA, but its far from the most amazing place in the world. Iceland, Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, China, Africa, along with most of Europe (eastern and western) are some of the places I have visited that I have enjoyed.
I'm in America to (and love my country), but please don't be so closed minded or US-centric.
Lots of beautiful places in the world to see.
Had a passport when I was 7 (went to London with my parents), now on my fourth one.
Flew LAX -> JFK last week and for the first time ever had to take my Kindle2 out. I sent it through in my carry on, and they flagged the bag, found the K2, sent it, and the bag, separately, through again. The TSA guy knew exactly what it was (fortunately) - he even knew it was a K2 and not a 1st gen - so there was no 'splainin to do.
Anyway, I was very surprised by this.
The iPad will probably be treated as a laptop since it is "similar in size"...a gadget site officially asked the TSA and here was their reply:
http://gizmodo.com/5502254/the-ipad-airport-security-and-you
http://gizmodo.com/5502254/the-ipad-airport-security-and-you
Have to say I kinda agree with racer on this. If I want to see the Effin Tower
or the gondolas of Venice I can just go to LasVegas and it's cleaner.
I do enjoy the Carribbean as my vacation destination and want to go to Alaska soon before it all melts but that's it. Being out of the country just makes me appreciate home all the more.
I fly 4 times a month, currently I travel with 2 laptops (one for work, one for personal use), now I'll be adding an iPad.
I'm really not looking forward to being a 4 bin guy.
Anyhow, those security friendly bags seem like a must have for me! yeesh, something else I have to buy now.
Thanks a lot.
I'm really not looking forward to being a 4 bin guy.
Anyhow, those security friendly bags seem like a must have for me! yeesh, something else I have to buy now.
Thanks a lot.
You forgot about the new TSA rules that go into effect 4/1/10 - you have to remove your pants and underpands so they can check for dangerous materials.
I can't imagine a scenario where I'd need two laptops and an iPad. Leave the extra laptop at home.
Extra laptop pretty much stays connected to hotel TV. It grabs TV shows from the internet and I watch them via Windows Media Center. Also it stores my iTunes, etc, because I can't have that on my business computer it's locked down by IT, etc.
Essentially: The business laptop is just for that, business, so I have to have my personal one.