In a message dated 8/11/2006 12:02:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>airlines should have started banning all liquids in carry on >luggage then instead of waiting 11 years and then jerking their knees >and everything else. Common sense tells us that any rational or humane organization (business, government agency, etc.) would take steps to reduce danger to their customers as soon as they learn of a possible danger. However, rational organizations only exist in the non-existent perfect world. Real organizations do NOTHING until they are legally required to, and then they will never stop no matter how absurd it becomes until legally allowed to stop. As long as they are not legally required to do X in situation Y to protect their customers, whenever X occurs in situation Y then that organization cannot be held liable. The massive collusion between governments (legislators and enforcers), businesses, and legal systems (lawyers, judges, police, etc.) created the situation where a rational or humane business can not possibly succeed, nor will any good deed remain unpunished. Which is why no commercial airline reinforced its cockpit doors until over a year after 9/11, inter alia. If carry-on cell phones could actually interfere with in-flight navigational or communication equipment, cell phones would be subject to at least the same controls as carry-on firearms. I read somewhere that cell phones moving through the air at several hundred miles per hour interfere greatly with relay towers on the ground, to the point of causing errors in the relay equipment. If this is true, then I suspect the real reason for the no in-flight cell phone usage rule is to protect the cell phone industry. And speaking of banning people or things associated with bad results, we need to ban the sale of beds since most people die in bed and ban ice cream sales during the summer, since ice cream sales are way up in summer but so are accidental drownings. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
