Not true. Other countries (like Canada) settled this stuff years ago. Well established standards, annoying but mostly sensible levels of regulation, etc.

Canada isn't being friendly to Amazon for the short-term economic benefit of having some Amazon engineers spending their beer money in Canada. Canada is friendly to UAS technology because businesses there showed lots of compelling reasons for Canada to be friendly to it: film making, pipeline inspection, forestry, wildlife observation, search and rescue, surveying - all sorts of things.

No, they can test that one piece of equipment in the US, with a licensed pilot, a stand-by pilot, and a spotter all keeping it entirely in line of site. If they crash that particular unique machine, or wish to modify it, they get to start all over again, applying for a new permit.

There's a reason they just sent a bunch of people and equipment to Canada to do their real testing. Because the administration in the US is entirely hostile to this sort of research in practical terms.

I was at a park at an event last week. There was a guy with a couple of screaming kids on one side, and some idiot playing some loud music from his parked car, and someone else with three terriers on leashes, barking non-stop.

I don't think people will be accepting of these loud, distracting things.

It's true. Weak passwords cause the chips in the computer to emit a special kind of electromagnetic radiation which, by sheer coincidence, perfectly stimulates exactly the right combination of untold millions of synapses in a kid's brain (just one kid - it's too focused to impact the others in the classroom), and that pattern happens to exactly manifest itself as an uncontrollable urge to form a plan and take an extended combination of actions that include the very complex process of walking to the computer, logging in, and dealing with the steps involved in fetching a file and updating the desktop. It's an amazing chain of events, especially since in culminates in a level of direct mind control that no scientist could, by any other means, actually reproduce if they tried.

Definitely not the kid's fault. He had no ability to use his arms, legs, and fingers to pursue any other action except the logging in and defacement of the teacher's desktop. Complete, 100% compulsion through mind control due to weak password EM radiation. Amazing!

Or, the kid's a bit of a dick who, despite no doubt being told - along with all of his classmates - that improper use of the school's computer equipment, let alone trying to hack into systems used by and for the teachers and staff is a seriously bad thing ... thought he was too cool to get caught, and too entitled to experience any consequences.

Yeah, it's one of those two things. Either a kid being a dick, or mind control from the weak password. Probably the password thing.

DJI just announced, and will shortly be shipping v3 of their very popular Phantom platform. There are going to be a LOT of people itchy to move to that unit for one reason or another. You should be able to get hold of a gently used v2 for very little by this summer. Cheapie cheap cheap.

Yes, being seen planting a bomb on the sidewalk next to children has a way of stacking the cards against oneself.

So you'd have preferred a scenario where the same evidence wasn't brought forth, to make the trial more challenging? Or forcing his defense attorney to hold off a while making the admission of guilt he made, to add some more temporary drama for the one or two dim-witted jurors you might be able to dig up who never watch the news?

Where do you live?

Exactly. Which is why his punishment doesn't involve the blowing of his family's legs off and the shredding of the children of his relatives by surprise when they're gathered during a public celebration in their home town.

What? Where would you send him, under what conditions? Are you going to send him to the same nice hotel in Qatar where the dumped those guys from Gitmo? Or were you thinking of sending him to the equivalent of a county jail in his family's home town? You really think that somebody else is going to want to take on the cost and visibility of keeping him housed, fed, and locked down for the next seventy years?

I know you have a real allergy to putting anything at all in any kind of actual context, but he was talking about serial trespassers and burglars, especially in the context of his neighbors being repeatedly robbed. You keep tap-dancing around context, around the very reason that the neighborhood had and kept a watch in the first place. Regardless, the only person who brought up race was the police dispatcher who asked him to describe the possible trespasser, and prompted for race. Unless, of course, you're only listening to the fabricated NBC version of the call, which they re-arranged to make it sound like he brought it up, not the dispatcher.

Sure, in your fantasy world of cartoon villains that match the racist stereotypes you need to establish in order to feel good about yourself. In the real world, he didn't go anywhere near his gun, and was on the way back to his truck before Martin doubled back and attacked him. And he still didn't reach for his gun until he was on his back getting his head bashed into the sidewalk. All of the physical evidence backs that up, as well as witness accounts. Your need for the events to be different in order to maintain your narrative and agenda doesn't change what actually happened. Let me guess, you're also in the "hands up don't shoot" camp, in complete contradiction to what witnesses saw in that event, too.

In effect, yes. Because of undue squeaky wheel influence over legislators that don't want to upset their small number of professional activist-type far left base members, the people in question play a large if somewhat indirect role in blocking such things. The resulting regulatory hurdles make what certainly is (at the infrastructure level) an expensive proposition prohibitively expensive because of the multi-decade red tape and litigation hurdles that must also be crossed. So much so that the efforts are essentially abandoned before they begin.

Exactly my point. They aren't being allowed to play the role they could. Meanwhile, the public consciousness is being fixated on other non-solutions like wind and solar, which themselves don't put a dent (let along a reliable dent) in the problem - and if scaled up to the point they'd make a serious difference, would become their own special kind of blight. Never mind that traditional grid suppliers still have be there any way, at full capacity, to deal with the inevitable slack in the wind/solar supply, day to day.

Oh, I get it now. You're figuring that time travel is playing a role in the event. I didn't realize you were allowing for that possibility in your fictional narrative. While we're at it, I suppose you'd like to include his volunteer time with black kids, including those in his own extended family? And of course since you consider a term he used in the past to be a sign of his obvious criminality, you are of course applying that same standard to Martin, who used a racial slur moments before he attacked Zimmerman, thus demonstrating Martin's much more up to date, on the spot racist ranting, combined with Martin's initiation of violence. Right? Right. Because you aren't a hypocrite. Right.