What about the alcohol bottles bought after checkin in approved taxfree shops? They are still allowed, and they are more dangerous than any set of nail clippers I would say. Just think about how easy it is to blind someone with 40% alcohol (up to 70% ABV is allowed according to the Swedish board of transportations). Not to mention the obvious possibility to use the bottle as a blunt weapon (with or without the contents) or a cutting weapon by simply crushing the bottle?

Anyone can see these holes in the rules, but most simply ignores them, or at least pretend there are no inconsistencies. The 100 ml maximum for liquids in hand luggage is just silly, when a bottle originally containing 150 ml but is obviously containing less than half its content is forbidden whereas the full 100 ml bottle that may or may not have been refilled with whatever is perfectly fine (random testing schemes will be extremely unlikely to catch anything dangerous).

Medicines are also fine in larger quantities if you can show a prescription or physicians note that you are allowed to carry it. Hypodermic needles are also allowed in this case. Anyone seeing the potentials here? I know at least a few very common medications that are routinely allowed onboard without much hesitation that are extremely dangerous if administered to someone that is not supposed to have them (e.g. insulin, adrenaline and so on).

When will the airlines realise that PEOPLE are more dangerous than any of the household appliances or hygiene articles they try to bring on their journeys?

I would not be surprised if very soon the time comes when they want to force people to be restrained throughout their flights so that they cannot harm anyone.

The seatbelt will in a few years be securely locked during the flight and only if you are in extreme need, the flight attendants may have some mercy and allow you to (of course wearing handcuffs and under gunpoint from the onboard safety officer) go to the loo.

Its true, used correctly, hands can be more deadly weapons than a nail clipper…

Can the world come to its senses again please?

Or if you prefer English: Merry Christmas

Welcome to all my spaces… Especially to my DeviantART and Picasa galleries, with material not necessarily available at the local picture gallery. Of course flickr is still available, but due to the 200 image cap for free accounts it will probably not be extensively updated, but what is there will remain.

New developments:
http://www.gandoon.com will probably not be up as much as intended due to power outtake constraints (server will be down most of the time once again). Updates will instead take place at http://gandoon.wordpress.com. Unfortunately that means my private image gallery which I have 100% control of will not be available. I suggest following the developments on DeviantArt and Picasa instead (they would probably be updated more often anyway).

Maybe I could wish this treatment for my worst enemy, but then again I have precious few enemies to put through this purgatory.

I will be back soon I believe. Images reviews and such stuff will be reposted as time allows.

The site here at http://gandoon.wordpress.com will in the mean time act as a temporary stand-in for the site (provided that I actually post anything here).

I still have hopes to go to Japan, no change there. I will have my Masters degree by May this year, and right now I take a course in industrial environmental work to finish off my studies.

Within a few months I hope to migrate the main page once again, this time hopefully to the Computer Society at Lund University’s newly acquired server pool. A personal physical or virtualised server might become available there quite soon. That would be really great since it has become a little bit annoying with a server running around the clock at home. Further I will move quite soon, to Japan or elsewhere and then it will not be feasible to run a private server at home.
I also have a page at http://gandoon.wordpress.com nowadays. The reason is that I might use it as an intermediate while setting up the new services and when the main http://www.gandoon.com is down (as might have been noticed) is quite often. That server is mainly running daytime CET until further notice.