Considering that ISIS was trying to scam them, it seems more like a situation where they managed to take the bait without springing the trap. It's just like the pool hustler. He lets you win one for chump change to get you hooked. If you see it coming and say that's enough for you, he's out the money fair and square.

You spun a yarn without even a shred of fact to back it up. I can do that too, but it has no place in this discussion.

I think most of us recognize it when we see it, but keep stirring up that mud! In fact, I did set a few parameters for it.

As for the world comment, the cost of living in the area matters a lot as well. In some places, that $10k would get 3 or 4 months living in an apartment that barely meets code but wouldn't pay for utilities so you'd be put on the street anyway.

I would say though that wanting to live somewhere around the median for one's region isn't greedy. Wanting enough in a single year to be able to retire on with a median lifestyle is.

Undeniably, Sweden and Norway are much further toward the socialist end of the spectrum than the U.S.

I provided a reference with real figures. You provided a poorly crafted insult.

That same worn out tune has been playing since Reagan and it has only made matters worse for people year by year.

The greedy poor man holding them billionaires down just because he thinks he has a right to eat or something after putting in a 10 hour day. And not even a shred of evidence to back it.

Let me guess, no kids?

Simple wanting is not greed. Greed is the excess of wanting. Especially when it's to the point of depriving others to take more than your share.

When were those conditions NOT true?

Answer, never. It's something more. Perhaps the level of greed increased somewhere, perhaps the short term consequences for taking it too far diminished.Perhaps someone gained disproportionate control of the government.

So let's see here, OH, it looks like corporate profits are at an 85 year high and wages are at a 65 year low!

Hrmm, where DID that wealth go?!?

I'm guessing those protective rings around the props might explain why you didn't break them by bumping into things. Fire it up and shoot the blades with birdshot from a slingshot drawn just far enough back that it might sting.

Which drone? Same model that got shot?

If it hits hard enough to sting, it has more than enough energy to break a spinning plastic prop it might encounter.

but i get to punch you in the face after you shoot me...right ?

.70 ft-lbs per pellet, and there could be more than 1 based upon spead versus apparent cross-section of the drone. All you have to do is destablize the drone to get most to automatically shut down.

As to your question - yes. From a standing position 2 yards away. (:P) Distance tables are handy.

I'm offering to give you that actual experience. The shells and Mossberg 500 are sitting in a gun safe about 25 yards away, along with my other firearms.

Blowhard.