Yes, the "no, you tell me" answer. It's not a phonorecord, but the ECU of my car is copyrighted. Am I allowed to transfer the license to my ECU (and the car along with it)?

My house is copyrighted. It's a "creative work" as are all architectural designs, unless proven otherwise.

But you are asserting that it doesn't apply to those copyrighted items. Why?

My car and house are covered under copyright. The ECU and other things are copyrighted. I have notes in my owner's manual to that effect. The structure of my house is a "creative work" as asserted by all architects everywhere, and thus is also copyrighted.

What's your problem? That you don't know that the software in your car is copyrighted?

Then how does the Right of First Sale have nothing to do with my car, when it applies to my car?

Seems the only one here that doesn't know what it is is you.

You have no idea what you're talking about. A passing car is louder than a small, well-tuned quad with quality balanced rotors at ground level. 30' in the air? Barely audible. There are noisier ones. I work with a 25-pound octo that sounds completely horrifying, and I know when and where to operate it. But thanks for speaking out of ignorance - it helps to put all of this stuff in perspective.

It is the norm to exceed the speed limit, as the limits are usually set well below the safe settings.

The ignorance is on the side of those who don't know what causes crashes.

I tried to check, but I didn't find any reference to DRM on the wiki page, despite it being well detailed for SH4. I remember having bought it, but ending up pirating it, but I may not have known why at the time (nor cared).

That and on Steam, it doesn't have Starforce anymore. Though it seems Steam does sell some copy protected Ubisoft games.

So the First Sale Doctrine has nothing to do with my car? That would mean that I'm not allowed to re-sell my car without Ford's permission. Is that what you are saying?

Or, you are yourself a toxic seed planted by The Man in order to foment FUD and make good people not want to be part of these projects. Or something like that. Give it a rest with the absurd conspiracy crap.

That's "preventable" deaths. Auto deaths aren't "preventable" in that you must travel. They craft statistics like that to hide cancer, heart disease and other "preventable" deaths that are less directly caused. It's amazing how much the statistics are crafted to prove a point, not to describe reality.

When the national speed limit went from 55 to 65, deaths dropped. When the limit was removed (many going to 70, one up to 100), the deaths dropped. The higher the limits, the lower the deaths. The higher the speeds, the lower the deaths.

Because the stats show that the faster you go, the safer you are. No, really. I know your "common sense" says the opposite. But reality trumps an unsupported opinion.

Aside from getting killed by the other drivers you are holding up.

I've never seen that. I've just seen that the SS fund buys bonds from the general fund. So it's not "real" money, but is a "real" debt.

I saw that. I laughed. And sold my farmland (only about 100 acres). But the truth is that land always goes up. There are more people and no more land (except for tiny areas reclaimed, or developments "under water" such as Holland and New Orelans.

I have land, but rather than owning a farm rented out for 3% return, I own houses rented out for 10-15% return. When the crash happens, people will still need a place to live. I know the standard answers about people just stealing land, but in most cases, a written deed is honored by new governments, even if the interim anarchy doesn't care.

I've flown that exact same piece of equipment at 3:00 AM, just for fun. Not on Pennsylvania Ave in downtown DC, of course. But if the guy's a hobby flier up late on a weekend night playing with this quad copter, maybe trying to get a couple of cool scenic night time shots, is that so hard to believe? Or is your tinfoil hat so tight that you're also going to assume I can't possibly have been up late updating firmware, swapping some motors around, and then stepped outside in the low-traffic, peaceful night time hours to test my handiwork? Can't be! I must be an FBI stooge! Please.

The problem is that the incoming drone could easily be flying below tree-top height. Like, 20 feet off the ground. Laser counter measures would be shooting at a target that would have large office buildings and other structures directly behind it.

Just look up the "DC FRZ" - it's illegal to fly any sort of RC device in a 30-mile circle around DCA. That absolutely includes the White House grounds, and large swaths of the surrounding suburbs.