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Old 01-25-2016, 11:54 AM   #31
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It's just the day and age. Teaching right from (not original) wrong maybe impossible x 7,000,000,000???
 
Old 01-25-2016, 12:51 PM   #32
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When people feel threatened, by anything-at-all, they're going to find a warm reception from any judge, jury, or politician(!) whose response is to "make them feel 'safe(r).'"

So far, perhaps because we think it's okay to have camera-drones in the sky and driver-less cars on the highways and so-forth and so-on, we see no obstacle to this "brave new 'cool!!' world" that we are creating.

We're excited to bring George Orwell's vision to reality, but we should not feel that the public at-all shares our opinion, especially not once they fully realize(!) what we have done. They don't object to their letters being steamed-open en masse simply because they do not yet "really know" that this is happening. They think that Facebook "privacy" settings mean something, but they really don't know what they mean.

If you made a movie in which 'enemy agents' were watching a million people in real time, they would call it a 'thriller' and they would assume(!) that it was 'fiction.' There will be hell to pay when they comprehend that it is not.

If someone put up a web-site with a webcam photo of Times Square, such that you could point the cursor at any "person on the street" and within a few seconds (if that person is carrying a smart-phone in their pocket ...) start dumping anything of what is actually known about that person (known by 'someone, somewhere, anywhere ...'), there would be an unholy explosion. It has not yet dawned on people that such an application could, right now, actually be built, and anyone in the world could use it.

It's not like they really "consented to" any of this. It's not like any of it is going to 'stick' in court when the lawsuits begin to fly. The legal liability will be an unstoppable tsunami. It will write itself into the pages of history. And the future, thereafter, will be ... what?

So ... who's gonna break the news? And, what do we plan to do when someone does?

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Old 01-25-2016, 12:57 PM   #33
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You mean the judges that "IN SIN WE TRUST"


tell children no and they hear yes but teach them with warmth that it can burn and you may save some skin...
 
Old 01-31-2016, 10:24 PM   #34
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Drone rifle

and

Toys

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Old 01-31-2016, 10:30 PM   #35
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Drone with a rifle
 
Old 01-31-2016, 10:30 PM   #36
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http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/
 
Old 01-31-2016, 10:38 PM   #37
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I use pistols and rifles for target shooting.

I also enjoy reloading.
 
Old 01-31-2016, 10:56 PM   #38
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Knowing 1st hand how much a weapon and ammo weighs plus recoil involved.

It is a fugazi video.
 
Old 02-01-2016, 01:18 AM   #39
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Not.gov'$++
 
Old 02-01-2016, 02:13 AM   #40
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Again, not that we shouldn't have total "FREEDOM" (or need it?) Just too many don't, plus won't get that we can do without the predefined evil (like pulling rifles out, or spending trillions AND baSH;) let's just run backwards! Or, kick .gov into .EDU THEM++.. Should freedom let me say ***** a politician! ... Put your ******* **** to use for a change? Keyword [say] thanks to Asthma ... (good parents and such?)

Megaphone drop, whoops.

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Old 02-02-2016, 06:27 AM   #41
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(1) Whose property was it flying over? If anyone had a right to take out the drone, it would be the management of the parking lot.

(2) How about having a loaded gun in the back of the pick up in a "gun rack" - maybe unsecured (unlocked, loaded and ready to fire).

OK
I know how strange it sounds to a non-American but if you grew up down south or the mid-west even a guy with a loaded gun or three on a gun rack in his truck is perfectly normal.
 
Old 02-02-2016, 06:33 AM   #42
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Knowing 1st hand how much a weapon and ammo weighs plus recoil involved.

It is a fugazi video.
I see no Fugazi

This is Fugazi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMOAXm94VWo
 
Old 02-02-2016, 09:54 AM   #43
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It's funny I played that video but didn't realize it started with a political-add about some politician here who clams can save us all so I thought yes, that's a fugazi!

Edit; to me this fits here: http://www.sharpen-up.com/japanese-w...symbol-regret/

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Old 02-05-2016, 04:10 PM   #44
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Was about to post a news article about the same anti-drone rifle: https://www.minds.com/blog/view/5384...n=theantimedia. I don't like weapons and I don't like the idea of anyone having a drone to spy other people, so this rifle looks like a good thing to me.
 
Old 02-05-2016, 04:26 PM   #45
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I miss my chemistry sets from when I was a kid!

http://gizmodo.com/some-good-things-...-do-1475717696
http://www.livescience.com/28137-coo...or-drones.html
http://diydrones.com/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post5495471
 
  


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