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This is what happens if you try to sneak a Galaxy Note 7 onto an airplane
In the wake of Samsung officially axing Galaxy Note 7 production last week, the FAA this past Friday banned all Note 7 devices from U.S. flights. Whereas previous bans prevented passengers from charging or using a Note 7 device in the air, the Note 7 is now classified as a forbidden hazardous material because it may "cause an ignition or a dangerous evolution of heat or become a fuel source for fire." (www.yahoo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I'd like to know who came up with the maximum fine amount of $179,933. Some complex numbers must have been crunched to arrive at such an odd amount.
Maybe it's metric?
Historically, things like this were kept as nice, round numbers. And from 2012 until this past August, it was still a nice, round number ($175,000). Enter the "Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015" (quite a mouthful). Since the existent penalty figure dated from 2012, it was adjusted up by a factor of 1.02819. Voila! - $179,933 (and 25 cents).
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2016/m-16-06.pdf
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2016/m-16-06.pdf
Just a nice, round number.
Office coffee prices rising, team of expert homeland defense experts and lawyers flying to location and their hotels and dinner prices, over weight baggage fees for the same after massive shopping spree, overtime pay, hazardous duty pay being near Note 7. You know, the usual procedures and figuring.
Was a mechanic for years and came across such people who you couldn't get it thru to them it was not ok.