You got your answer in that thread: it would be a bad idea, and you probably would not be allowed. It’s not a question of legal status, it’s a question of what the airline (a private business) chooses to allow.
Well, good luck. But if you had your mind made up anyway, why did you waste your time (and ours) asking the question?
There was no “discussion” in that thread–there was a chorus of unanimity that (a) it wouldn’t be a good idea, (b) it was inconceivable how anyone could think it was remotely feasible, and © it was highly dubious that you could’ve actually considered the possibility that there could be more than one answer–the obvious one–to your question.
Didn’t the city of Boston shut down not too long ago because someone hung LED flashy light things all around the city?
There is a heightened sense of security and paranoia when flying airplanes. I won’t say it’s completely justified, but why make trouble for yourself?
Don’t worry - AP or Reuters will pick up the story. Hopefully with pictures. Maybe even surveillance video.
Nobody discusses anything; every single person responding told you in one way or another that your idea was Bad. Not just bad–Bad. Unless you’ve been living with your head up your ass for the last 6 years, you know perfectly well that what you want to do is going to cause some idiot, rightly or wrongly, to freak out. You’re either incredibly naive or just plain stupid.
You know what? I vote stupid.
Not if the CIA gets to it first…
I just feel incredibly hurt and insulted at being told “stupid question” by a representative of the SDMB administration. I see such a wealth of brain-damaged questions here on a daily basis, betraying the OP’s complete lack of knowledge of basic, rudimentary, elementary physics, economics, mathematics, statistics, probability, geography, and REALITY, and those are never closed and dismissed as “stupid question.” I mean, in the past WEEK we’ve had such Nobel contenders as “Wait, is this “confidence in a bottle” real!? How did they fit all that confidence in there?”, “Is it somehow magically true that it’s bad luck to light three cigarettes off of one match?” , and my favorite, “Why is there somehow a magical monster voice coming out of my laptop?” [all my own paraphrases to highlight the complete stupidity of the questions at hand] - and NONE of those were dismissed with “stupid question” and locked.
Not to mention all of the inanity in IMHO, where mine was.
I think the way a question is asked might have something to do with it. What jumped out with me was the comparison between doing electronic work and knitting, which was describes as something women do on planes. It seems clear the answer was obvious, and the real question was why can women do something when the OP can’t do something he views as comparable. Otherwise it would have been asked as “can I do this on a plane?”
Even if the aim was to say it’s unfair that knitting is allowed and electronic fiddling isn’t, it would have seemed (to me at least) less of a deliberate attempt to provoke if it had described knitting as something other people do on planes.
VCO3, please do not take a bunch of circuit boards on the plane. I fly all the time; please believe me that no one in going to be delighted. You will likely cause a problem that, at best, will result in you not making it to your destination on time.
You plan to declare it when you check in? Good idea. But if so, either show up several hours early, or only bring parts that you don’t want.
Because I guarantee that you won’t be allowed on the plane with the parts, and they’re certainly not going to hold them until you get back. They’ll be disposed of…at best.
Do let us know how it turns out, though.
If it wasn’t a fake question designed to expose the hypocrisy of allowing some hobbies on airplanes and not others, then you are a complete fucking retard. Seriously. I’m talking “too dumb to operate a seat belt” stupid.
Pretend to be hurt and insulted all you want, but I don’t believe you’re actually that stupid. Feel free to prove me wrong, of course.
I look forward to the forthcoming thread, “Fuck you, airport police, your handcuffs are too damn tight”.
You absolutely must be joking. Don’t be an embarrassing offenderati in this thread. If you need to get your panties in a bunch over a politically incorrect slight, go bitch about “they might as well call themselves ‘Burger Queen’” in that thread. I said “women knitting” because it’s a quick and familiar image of something that people see others doing to pass the time. I could have said anything - doing crosswords, playing cards, WHATEVER.
I wish to urge VCO3, that if he must insist on doing this during his trip, that he also take along a webcam. Your legion of fans have to be up-to-date on any current developments. Fight the power man!
DNFTT.
Seriously, folks.
What about all the non-administration, completely normal posters who said it was fucking stupid?
Because it is. Fucking stupid, that is.
Seconded in its entirety.
I’m never sure how sincere you are, but you recently claimed in another thread to be a “new man” and not to view any of your new posts with the old you in mind. Yet once again, you’ve found a way to start a thread with a completely unnecessary comment about how Group X does things a certain way. It’s very difficult to take you seriously when you do this day in and day out. In this case, it wasn’t even relevant to your question. Not anywhere near the most offensive thing you’ve ever said, but it still fits your pattern.
ETA:
Yep, you sure could have. But you didn’t. You managed to find the worst way to phrase something that could have been and should have been totally innocuous. Why?
I am not being an offenderati, embarassing or otherwise. I just think the way we phrase a question indicates our intent in asking it.
“Am I allowed to take electronic components onto a plane and play with them in my seat?” indicates a desire to find out if that is allowed.
The way you phrased it jumped out at me as suggesting you were trying to draw a comparison between fiddling with electronic components and knitting, knowing full well what the answer would be, thereby suggesting there was an inherent unfairness in the situation.
And as for me presuming you picked knitting and women for a reason, well, I wonder where I might have gotten the idea that you deliberately stereotype groups of the population in order to provoke a reaction?
I’m not offended by it one iota. I just think it was a bloody stupid question, to which you already knew the answer. And I don’t think it was coincidence that you decided to phrase it in such a fashion that it essentially asked “why are women allowed to get away with this, but I am not?”
If I misread your intentions, you have my apology. But you and no one else created the mind set I am in when I read your posts.
I can’t even come up with a comment I can live with having posted.
Unbelievably fucking stupid, lower than moronic by lightyears.