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Old Sep 16, 2017 | 5:08 pm
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Originally Posted by itsMoe
To be fair, the article is from 1996. Laptops weren't as widespread, and tablets didn't exist.

As for low-hanging fruit, what's easier to implement: retrofitting all the planes with new seats etc, or having people put away their laptops?
Is the criteria here what's easy or what saves lives?

By your logic, it's incredibly easy to just require that no one use laptops or tablets until 10,000 feet. Or at all.
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