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Comment FAA and drones (Score 1) 297

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has dismissed the Federal Aviation Administration’s only fine against a commercial drone user on the grounds that the small drone was no different than a model aircraft, a decision that appears to undermine the agency’s power to keep a burgeoning civilian drone industry out of the skies.

Patrick Geraghty, a National Transportation Safety Board administrative law judge, said in his order dismissing the $10,000 fine that the FAA has no regulations governing model aircraft flights or for classifying model aircraft as an unmanned aircraft.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...

Comment Re:Pretty big differencfe (Score 5, Informative) 297

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has dismissed the Federal Aviation Administration’s only fine against a commercial drone user on the grounds that the small drone was no different than a model aircraft, a decision that appears to undermine the agency’s power to keep a burgeoning civilian drone industry out of the skies.

Patrick Geraghty, a National Transportation Safety Board administrative law judge, said in his order dismissing the $10,000 fine that the FAA has no regulations governing model aircraft flights or for classifying model aircraft as an unmanned aircraft.

Comment I'll ask again (Score 1) 300

Why does anyone use Yahoo? You can't get an email without giving up your cell number, their "answers" section is absurd, they really have nothing to offer IMO.
There are far better choices, it seems like a recently beheaded chicken, still running around on autonomic pilot.

Comment Re:A firearm that depends on a battery? (Score 1) 1374

The so-called typical "attacking a straw man" implies an adversarial, polemic, or combative debate, and creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition by covertly replacing it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and then to refute or defeat that false argument, ("knock down a straw man,") instead of the original proposition.[3][4]

Grow the fuck up.

Comment Re:The simpler the better (Score 1) 1374

The range I go to has a ban board, ~60% of the banned names are police, police routinely accidentally discharge their weapons because they carry them everyday and "familiarity breeds contempt".

Your reasoning is if a person can't check their batteries/watch they shouldn't carry a gun, my reasoning is "why add another point of failure to something you may depend on for your life".

I submit that your reasoning actually shows you're the one that shouldn't be allowed a weapon, because you have an unrealistic assessment of life and human behavior made from a soft chair in front of a computer.
Therefore you can't be expected to make the correct decision come shooting time.

Comment Re:RFID interlock (Score 1) 1374

How about a gun with no electronics, I know what my pistol can do right now or a month from now without checking it, because I maintain the weapon, I know whether it's ready to go or not without a daily check.

Why add another point of failure to something you may depend on for your life, only incompetent people think that's a good idea.

Comment Laugh (Score 1) 482

I'm trying to come up with an explanation that makes realistic and consistent assumptions about the stupidity of the buying public

Well let me save you the trouble, stupidity defies realistic and consistent assumptions, as Einstein said "Two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the Universe.”

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