damageddude: Great. Now the Japanese are copying our brainless TSA workers. At least they'll be smaller and be able to go for longer periods without breaks.

I disagree with you. If you can't take a knife on a plane, you can't take a knife on a plane. If there's going to be a rule, it should be one rule for rich and poor alike. I applaud them for treating Jobs just like anyone else.

MorePeasPlease: 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.

Seriously? You can't own sword-canes, nunchaku, or shuriken in California?

Here in Michigan, you can purchase all three in the mall at the crazy import blade store. They also sell a wide variety of swords, knives, and other weapons. Sure, they're "collectibles" or "show-pieces", but they're not made of plastic-- They're wood and steel and other solid materials, and perfectly functional as weapons, even if they might require a little sharpening.

And that's not even talking about the Renaissance Festival, which has weapons vendors here every year selling all manner of medieval weaponry.

If it's against the law here, apparently nobody cares.

jjorsett: When customs found them in his luggage and arrested him, maybe he'd vow to never again return to the US.

Silly mortal. Do you think Gulfstreams are inspected regularly upon arrival?

I've only seen it happen twice on an international arrival. Usually all that happens is that a custom agent comes aboard and checks passports, and might ask about galley leftovers depending on departuer country for agriculture compliance. Other than than once he clears the passports, their personal cars pull up to the plane and their bags go from the hold to their limo -- no questions asked.

This is why the TSA is the most evil joke perpetuated upon the masses as YOUR Congresscritters usually fly private and never have to take their shoes off or give up their water bottles to SAVE AMERICA FRUM TERRA.

Wake up. They OWN YOU -- the rules they created do not apply to them.

What is the deal with nerds and ninjas?

No, you can't study the ancient black arts of Ninjitsu and kick the bully's ass. No, not yours, you skinny little twat. Quit fantasizing.

kingflower: I'm sure some fanboy will send him a crate full of authentic shuriken

"Lindsay Lohan detained by Japanese customs, forbidden from bringing cocaine onto her own private jet"

eggrolls: 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.

You know how I know you're lying? Lots of computer knowledge and Apple fandom are mutually exclusive

MycroftHolmes: You guys have to wait ten days?

Hell, I get pissy when a background check takes longer than 20 minutes or so. And that's only because I'm now used to background checks. In my home state there was no check for long guns, only pistols. You could literally walk into Walmart and walk out with a gun in ten minutes.