eggrolls: To: Japan
From: Everybody else

Don't piss off the king nerd. Seriously. His followers cannot be trusted to be reasonable.

Unless you really want to be hacked back into the 1800s.

Just a friendly suggestion.

His followers also, by and large, don't know the first farking thing about hacking.

Someone has not noticed the most important thing in the article...
The airport doesn't have separate boarding arrangements for private jet users
When the rich guys have to get through the same gates as joe six-pack, then the TSA would not be that much of a joke.

eggrolls:
To: Japan
From: Everybody else

Don't piss off the king nerd. Seriously. His followers cannot be trusted to be reasonable.

Unless you really want to be hacked back into the 1800s talked about poorly at coffee shops.

Just a friendly suggestion.

Fixed

BitTwist: Part of the problem is there is no way to check bags for a flight on a private jet in Japan. You take all your bags with you. So how was he suppose to get those items onto his private plane?

By carrying them into the secure area of the airport, which is probably still in Japan. If their government says no weapons in that place then you can't take weapons into that place and who you think you are doesn't really enter into it.

Guess Steve-O's just going to have to deal with that empty space in his basement between the batleth and the lightsaber.

eggrolls: Don't piss off the king nerd. Seriously. His followers cannot be trusted to be reasonable.

They did something to Linus too??? Those small-dicked bastards!

But how can he afford a jet on his salary of $1 per year?!?!?1111/?!??

fark you, Steve Jobs.

Look, I didn't read half this thread, and it doesn't matter. You can say whatever the hell you like, but the mental image of Steve Jobs in his back yard playing around with throwing ninja stars is a great one.

Big deal. Jobs won't be alive long enough to warrant another trip to Japan anyway.

eggrolls: To: Japan
From: Everybody else

Don't piss off the king nerd. Seriously. His followers cannot be trusted to be reasonable.

Unless you really want to be hacked back into the 1800s.

Just a friendly suggestion.

Since when do Apple followers know how to hack much of anything beyond pushing a power button?

Have fun with the massive negative publicity backlash, Japanese TSA.

tallguywithglasseson: Jobs said it wouldn't make sense for a person to try to hijack his own plane

Which is what makes it the perfect crime.

What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No. I go for the chandelier; it's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I love the cold. Thirty years later I get a postcard. I have a son. And he's the Chief of Police. This is where the story gets interesting: I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris by the Trocadero. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier.

CornFedIowan: So Steve Jobs really IS a ninja?

If he were a ninja, it would take more than an airport drone to relieve him of his shurikens.

FWIW, Apple says that this story is false.

Doesn't Steve live in CA?

CAL. PEN. CODE § 12020 : California Code - Section 12020

(a)Any person in this state who does any of the following is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in the state prison:

(1)Manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the state, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, or who gives, lends, or possesses any cane gun or wallet gun, any undetectable firearm, any firearm which is not immediately recognizable as a firearm, any camouflaging firearm container, any ammunition which contains or consists of any fléchette dart, any bullet containing or carrying an explosive agent, any ballistic knife, any multiburst trigger activator, any nunchaku, any short-barreled shotgun, any short-barreled rifle, any metal knuckles, any belt buckle knife, any leaded cane, any zip gun, any shuriken, any unconventional pistol, any lipstick case knife, any cane sword, any shobi-zue, any air gauge knife, any writing pen knife, any metal military practice handgrenade or metal replica handgrenade, or any instrument or weapon of the kind commonly known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub, sap, or sandbag.

(11)As used in this section, a "shuriken" means any instrument, without handles, consisting of a metal plate having three or more radiating points with one or more sharp edges and designed in the shape of a polygon, trefoil, cross, star, diamond, or other geometric shape for use as a weapon for throwing.

Barakku: Have fun with the massive negative publicity backlash being talked about poorly in coffee shops, Japanese TSA.

Fixed

iPacked


poorly.

Were they made out of brushed aluminum?

Probably a fake story.

AppleInsider Update (new window)

Barakku: Have fun with the massive negative publicity backlash, Japanese TSA.

Oh noes! A bunch of nerds are going to write strongly-worded blog posts about them. How will they ever recover from that?

Was he bringing them back to California? Shuriken are illegal in CA.

The way to solve this, is look the nip right in the eye, and calmly say:

"That's OK, the best shuriken are made in China or Korea anyway. I will order some from home."

Then toss them in the garbage.

ignatiusst: He's never going back to Japan because they made him throw away his shuriken?! We *are* talking about the CEO of Apple, right? Not some 12 year-old boy throwing a temper tantrum?

With the way Apple is run these days......

he would have ordered them online if the site supported HTML5, since it was flash only he was forced to fly there to purchase.

prepare for another Apple Inc. v. xxxxx lawsuit.

Panty Sniffer: Were they made out of brushed aluminum?

You should know better, they were made out of glass.

Let us not ignore the most obvious question going unasked:

What does Steve Jobs need with shuriken?

I mean, it's not like the signs weren't there - skeletal-thin, always wearing black, develops everything under a veil of secrecy, viciously attacks any perceived threat on him or his company, culls the livers of other men to serve his own needs...I think it's pretty obvious.

Steve Jobs is gay.

/Not that there's anything wrong with that.

If you where flying in a private plane, would you turn your hand crafted, watertight, and made with the finest material, premier steamer trunk over to a minimum wage ramp worker? Neither would Mr Jobs?

Torchsong: Let us not ignore the most obvious question going unasked:

What does Steve Jobs need with shuriken?

I mean, it's not like the signs weren't there - skeletal-thin, always wearing black, develops everything under a veil of secrecy, viciously attacks any perceived threat on him or his company, culls the livers of other men to serve his own needs...I think it's pretty obvious.

Steve Jobs is gay.

/Not that there's anything wrong with that.

You win Fark today.

Takeshi Uno, a spokesman at Kansai airport, said a passenger using a private jet was stopped at the end of July for carrying shuriken, the Japanese word for Ninja throwing stars.

So what's the Japanese word for plain old non-Ninja throwing stars?

PatientZero: eggrolls: To: Japan
From: Everybody else

Don't piss off the king nerd. Seriously. His followers cannot be trusted to be reasonable.

Unless you really want to be hacked back into the 1800s.

Just a friendly suggestion.

His followers also, by and large, don't know the first farking thing about hacking.

I can barely make an Ipad work, but my IT-employed friends who are devoted Apple-heads know more about how to make integrated networks go blooey than I will ever hope to know.

Odd, since his own plane was probably on his own runway at his own factory.

lohphat: FTFA: The airport doesn't have separate boarding arrangements for private- jet users, Uno said.

All Steve Jeebus had to do was hand the swords to the gate agent/handler and have them taken to the plane as baggage and placed in the luggage hold -- WHICH HAS A DOOR TO THE CABIN for easy access to galley stock and PAX baggage BY DESIGN.

If I were supposed to hand a sword to a TSA agent I'm about 60% sure they would shoot me.

Steve Jobs is a ninja, your argument is invalid.

Torchsong: Let us not ignore the most obvious question going unasked:

What does Steve Jobs need with shuriken?

I mean, it's not like the signs weren't there - skeletal-thin, always wearing black, develops everything under a veil of secrecy, viciously attacks any perceived threat on him or his company, culls the livers of other men to serve his own needs...I think it's pretty obvious.

Steve Jobs is gay.

You missed the most obvious point - he has an iphone.

MorePeasPlease:

Is the idea that these are all assassination weapons?

/cane gun? Really? Is this the 1920s or some MafiaWars post-apocalyptic future?

Mama's Boy: cache-01.gawkerassets.com

Thanks for that. I found that really funny... I'm not sure why, but first time I chuckled out loud in awhile.

NTidd: Panty Sniffer: Were they made out of brushed aluminum?

You should know better, they were made out of glass.

Does he have poor impulse control? I hope he's not nuclear-armed.

/He'd probably still listen to Reason

It's strangely comforting to know that billionaires buy cheap tourist crap from tacky Asian junk stores too. I guess they had no problem with his bamboo sprout or his plug-in statue of Buddha with the fountain in front.

ninja please

Oh no!
Now the Japanese will never acquire electronics.

buuuush's fault.


[ / moon-bat ]

JRob_MN: FWIW, Apple says that this story is false.

It was expected that they would say something different?

JDJoeE: Has anyone point out that where he lives (California) its a felony to possess them?

I was about to, but you saved me the trouble. I'm really sorry he wasn't allowed to take them back home. When customs found them in his luggage and arrested him, maybe he'd vow to never again return to the US.