Don't drone me bro ...
Posted on 04/01/2013 8:41:53 AM PDT by Rca2000
If you click on Jack’s name you will learn “am a 38 year old conservative man, who lives near Cincinnati, Ohio.”
Don't drone me bro ...
Whoever take one out of the sky will instantly become my newest hero.
I think we should start a National “Give A Drone The Bird” movement.
I’m sure the video technology is advanced enough to pick up on thousands of American citizens extending their middle finger....lol.
Let “Big Bro Barry” and his minions know what Americans REALLY think about him and his civilian drone program (and everything else he’s done and is still doing).
Who is “obsessing over technology”? Technology is not the point.
The point is that we are becoming a fully-surveilled police state.
What’s “dumb” is doing the exact thing that societies before us have done—incrementally giving up a little liberty for a little security, until we are fully serfs. Oh, yes, we are.
PULL!
Oh good grief, there are cameras everywhere already - especially if you live in an urban area. We have traffic cameras, weather cameras, CCTV cameras in public places, cameras in ATM's, etc. Drones will just replace old technologies and supplement others. In another generation or two commercial aircraft may well be pilotless as well.
Being against drones is stupid. Being against illegal or unethical things they may be used to do is fine. They are just another technology and one that is going to become very prevalent.
“Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean someone isn’t out to get you! ...or watch you!”
You have to admit that they are cheaper than black helicopters.
“...comb my hair and put on lipstick when I go out and feed the chickens.”
Yep, right there is one big benefit from drones!
As the prices of drones come down you’ll probably just send one out to feed them, to spray insecticide- especially in your orchard, to clean the gutters, to get the mail from the mailbox, find the dog and lead him back. One that could carry a bale of hay would be real useful. Broadcast seeds? One would make a great ‘scarecrow’!
As an old geezer I’m itching for one that will patrol my yard with a recording that says “You kids get off my lawn, I know who your parents are!”
It doesn’t have to be armed, though that would be nice...
“supplementing CCTV cameras in public areas to help deter crime”
And you wonder why people are “paranoid” about them? The CCTV cameras are already out of control, we don’t need to supplement them with drones. People can move to the UK if that their cup of tea.
You're trying to stand in the way of technology and you'll fail. In an urban area, for example, there are already cameras everywhere. They are simply too useful in deterring crime. We rely on them at this point for everything from traffic management to store security. Heck, in not very long individuals will have cameras in their glasses - or even contact lenses one day. Google earth will be real time eventually. If you want privacy, stay home.
The use of pilotless aircraft (drones) is only going to expand, and they will get smaller and cheaper along the way. Objecting to the misuse of surveillance techniques is fine, crying about a new technology that is here to stay is a waste of time.
“Objecting to the misuse of surveillance techniques is fine, crying about a new technology that is here to stay is a waste of time.”
The misuse will be institutional and enshrined in law, so objecting to it, at that point, will accomplish nothing. The government which does everything in its power to not follow the Constitution is not going to brook any objections to a technology allowing unlimited remote searches, 4th amendment be damned. I do expect them to find plenty of reasons to outlaw this technology from the hands of private citizens, while keeping it for themselves, though.
LOL!!!
Kinda surprised at all of the responses I got from a little thread I wrote on break this morning!!
I am not 38 anymore. That “ship sailed” some time ago.
My main concern for the thing I saw—is this: Who is running that drone, and why is it in an industrial park area near the Cincinnati Airport for?? It did look like a drone too—and looked to be “carrying a pair of “things”, side-by-side,underneath it” like the ones pictured. Pretty sure it was a drone. The sound of the buzzy engine did seem to be from “behind it” too.
If so—it was ARMED!! Since we are not in any “state of war or terror elevation—WHY?? and I DID look up at it—I was probably on the monitor—for whoever was watching.
It was most definitely NOT a model airplane. Too big and high up. Lower pitch too. Looked too thin for a passenger plane.
As for those who are saying” don’t fear technology, get used to it”, and “its for the :children” or “your safety”....Will you all feel the same way when they demand YOU put a monitoring device on your CAR, so that they can tell where you drive when, how often, and keep an eye on “your safety”, and “protect the children”...as you say.
“After all if you aren’t doing anything wrong” why should you care”??
So says big sister Janet...
“It did look like a drone too—and looked to be “carrying a pair of “things”, side-by-side,underneath it” like the ones pictured.”
Well the FLIR and the antenna are in the nose so those “things” underneath look like rocket pods. Prolly hellfire missiles.
“Just a matter of time before a drone collides with a commercial aircraft ...”
This is why all suspicious drone activity near airports should be reported to the FBI for investigation of possible terrorist activity. See my tagline for one type of airport terrorist attack:
See also the local CBS report regarding the drone placed hovering in a JFK airliner landing glide-path:
“FBI Investigating Report Of Possible Drone Spotted Near JFK”
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/03/05/fbi-investigating-report-of-possible-drone-spotted-near-jfk/
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