Comment Re:"...the same as trespassing." (Score 1) 1197
Most Americans are rednecks like this, nor are most gun owners
I'm just guessing, based on the part after the comma, that you meant "Most Americans are not rednecks like this"?
Most Americans are rednecks like this, nor are most gun owners
I'm just guessing, based on the part after the comma, that you meant "Most Americans are not rednecks like this"?
If it is flying too high or darting around too much for you to swat it out of the sky, your only recourse is to shoot it down.
Oh, yes, there it is. Well, if you can't corral the dog in some other fashion or shoo it off your property because, for example, it is taking an aggressive posture and is about to attack, in most places yes, you can. You do have a responsibility to exhaust any less harmful means you have at your disposal before doing so.
In the case of the drone, if it were hovering in one place and low enough to swat it down with a broom, and stayed in that position while you did so, then swatting it with a broom would be the proper course of action. If, however, it is flying too high, or darting from your attempts to swat it, well, your options for recourse are limited, aren't they? Should you just accept some perv snapping pedo-pics of your young daughters because the only recourse you have left is to shoot the damn thing down? No, you should shoot the damn thing down.
Likewise, if you can grab hold of the dog's collar, you can take control of the animal and walk it back to its owner, or corral it somewhere safe until the authorities arrive. If you can't do that, if the dog is posing no threat you can let it be and call animal control to deal with it or, if you know who the owner is, a more civil response would be to contact the owner and tell them they need to come get their dog *before* you call animal control. If all else fails *and* the animal is posing a threat, yes, shoot it.
If they don't want their drones shot down, they can fly them over their own property.
While I agree with your sentiment, I think you might be being a bit extreme here. There shouldn't be anything wrong with simply flying over to get from point A to point B. Hovering, lingering, making repeated passes, and, especially, hanging around until acknowledged, then taking off? Yeah, time for your toy to get shot down.
Directed energy weapons are not that interesting. I'm more scared of undirected energy weapon and very curious about ballistic energy weapons.
Would they be interesting if they were pointed at you?
If we had a post of the month award, I'd be voting for this one.
Dumb little shits will be dumb little shits all their life
Thanks for proving that.
If you believe that you can " Just have a conversation with your kids...", and them actually doing as you told them, then you've never raised a child. Children, especially teenagers, are irrational, and typically rebellious.
I didn't know who Temple was until stumbling upon the movie made about her. It would have been nice to get her take on how factual it is. My wife an I really enjoyed it.
Not materially different from your immune system killing off the weaker individuals. A few stronger individuals may survive, and then what has your immune system done? Selected for a stronger pathogen.
I remember a paper from a few years ago which concluded that this was basically how we wound up with deadly diseases in the first place -- being the ones that throughout history have managed to be stronger than the host's immune system.
Vaccine simply cuts out the stage where lots and lots of hosts get sick or die.
I recognize that this doesn't put lives at risk
System-corrupting malware installed onto an on-call doctor's phone via this exploit, causing a boot-loop so no calls or messages can get through.
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. -- Stanley Garn