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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by mevile on Saturday March 30, 2019 @11:27PM (#19533605)
> I got scolded for taking it out of my bag, and scolded for leaving it in my bag, by agents at the same airport on two trips a few weeks apart.

You are describing the the usual daily cluster-fuck of life in the military, and in fact, government service in general. I don't know why it is that way, but it is. I have not experienced it in my now 20 years of life in the private sector, but back when I was in the military it's just like that, all the time.

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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by Godel_unicode on Saturday March 30, 2019 @11:50PM (#19533707)
This is what happens when you compensate people with authority rather than, you know, money.
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Re:Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to A... by Zak on Saturday March 30, 2019 @11:48PM (#19533698)
If I had to guess about the military, it would be a combination of the fact that doing it wrong gets people killed, a constant need to optimize, improve, or respond to changing conditions, and a lack of sophistication to tell the two apart.
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