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Comment Re:enh (Score -1, Troll) 166

Peeping toms are bad, mmmkay? Left up to me, I'd put a deer rifle on ANY drone over my "Ponderosa", just to be sure.
Best to fly higher than I can shoot and take less detailed pictures. You don't need to SEE what's going on on my property. If you think you do, you don't.
If you come around looking for your missing drone, don't expect to make it home.

Comment Re:What are the bounds of property? (Score -1, Flamebait) 166

I think flying above others property is fine, but once you begin taking photos clear enough to illuminate ones private life, you are as good as a peeping tom.
The last peeper I found outside my window, I put a small shovel across the back of his head, threw him in the trunk, drove him out of town a couple of counties and dumped his sorry ass after a good beating. I think that hunting drones over your property and the owner at the controls is perfectly acceptable. Righteous too.
Don't like it? Tough shit, think twice.

Comment Re: hahaaa.... (Score 1) 182

I agree with your post and would add; that people DO educate themselves via internet methods. Given their preferences, rather than being directed on a course of study to complete someones requirements to a path of employment, filled with information not wanted, therefore time wasted, people tend to learn the parts they need to complete the education they need, for the purpose at hand.
Youtube has enabled me to study many things, to my satisfaction, or at least put me on to the paths I need to attain my goals. I can count at least 4 fields of study I have indulged in, during the last 3 years or so. Without it, I wouldn't have had the time, money or resources to have done this.
I believe the Massive Open Online Courses are successful, but in a way they do not desire them to be. People filter out the parts they do not want. Schooling has always been a one-size-fits-all proposition. The self taught may have no degrees, but find success in their own ways by making their education work toward the ends they desire. This doesn't always involve working for someone else, which is a more desirable goal for the sort of people who make their own educations.
Perhaps the dissatisfaction with the Open Courses is; it isn't producing the drones that classical education does.

Comment Re: Read the GP's comment, fuckface. (Score 1) 288

By deleting the Unions, the ability to charge actual overhead and a reasonable profit margin, would then be possible. When you add the extra wages of every union hand that has touched your goods, it adds up to waaaaay more than taxes ever did. Another perspective is; non union people (the majority of us) would be able to enjoy a higher standard of living. The unions account for that missing value for cost. It's artificial, it's inflation. Capitalism is still far better than the alternatives.

Comment So.... (Score 4, Funny) 94

Are they going to use the drones to keep people from the states from border crossing illegally to Canada where the jobs are?
Where will the Canadians go when we have taken up the service jobs that no one else wants? To the North Pole to fill in for Elf shit work?
Will it be underpaid people from the states assembling these drones? Drones assembling drones? I could drone on and on.

Comment Re:Read the GP's comment, fuckface. (Score 1) 288

No one is going to work in third world poverty in spite of what others told you about capitalism.
Everyone with a will and ability can start a business, control production and pay wages.
What do we know about wages? Well If I start a factory producing ping pong balls and after overhead and my profit I determine I can pay $7.50 an hour to 10 people or $10 hr to 7 people, who will work harder and longer, where is the problem with that? If you want to work for me, YOU have decided to. I may not be able to pay more, it is a ping pong ball factory, not a diamond exchange. Your problem lies in the fantasy that there is a higher demand for ping pong balls and that I should pay a living wage. Either work for me or don't.
On the other hand If I am able to grow and produce paddles, nets and tables, thus increasing my profits and abilities, I am bound to pay more or my labor force will desert me for greener pastures. Even Henry Ford (for whom Unions were created) said " There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." You are not going to have industry without that and therefore no jobs and therefore no taxes will be collected and therefore no poor will recieve ANY help. Giving the means of production to the state is like handing a drunk your keys to chauffeur you home. Don't be ignorant when you regurgitate your meaningless premise.
Unions tie up more jobs by enhancing the income of members. Industry needs money to create jobs, so not only do Unions steal money from the pockets of consumers by keeping employers on a tiny ledge of profit, but also sink the consumers need for income.

Nope, the rich don't care about inflation at a household level, they do at the industrial level though, so your other premise is worthless as well.
Quit seeing the rich as another species. It's o.k. to not like rude people, it's o.k. not to like airheads, it's o.k. not to like theives. The rich that you highlight are like Movie Stars. They are the ones in the limelight, on the news, in the papers, on the blogs. They are also a minority, just like Movie Stars.
Get a grip. Quit believing everything you hear from every entity with a political interest. It's honestly like asking a car salesman ,what the best car is. Well DUH!

Comment Re:Read the GP's comment, fuckface. (Score 0) 288

This is about politicians declaring something not illegal; now illegal, because their CONTRIBUTORS paid their CAMPAIGNS enough PAYOLA to halt the competition, which would be the ride service. SO fuck California Legislators, fuck cabs and FUCK UNIONS.
Unions are responsible for the high prices we pay for goods and services; INFLATION. When one party after another add to the cost of good or service, by demanding and receiving pay over and above that which normal, good people get, that cost gets passed along to the consumer. Do you want to pay extra so someone who doesn't deserve it, gets more money, just because they want it?
Delete Unions, delete the politicians that support them and educate the greedy previous members as to why they are WRONG!!!
We haven't really needed Unions for more than 60 years, we've needed inflation to go away for at least 40. See, inflation is part of why employers open fewer jobs. Fewer jobs mean more unemployed. More unemployed means more people vote for the candidates who "promise" more jobs. Once in office, well, you know... and the music goes round and round and it comes out here.
So fuck the law, get there by whatever means available, kick your Union leaders in the balls when you get there and take their wallets. Make sure they know they don't have safe haven in this country anymore. RIDE BABY RIDE!!!

Comment Re:LOL (Score 1) 213

Let's crowd-source shooting the Chinese into space! Let's put them there first! Show a little brotherhood.
There's enough space to go around. I can see quibbling about the moon on the light side, but REALLY!
Go forth and mine. Set up diverse industrial asteroids. Be neighborly. Get along with each other or you don't get to come back to Earth.
Let's send the most quarrelsome of everyone into space. Give 'em a job and something to bitch about. Keep them busy and out of our hair.
Set up an asteroid for the U.N. and all the world leaders, call it Botany Bay and accidentally, well, you know...
Now quit thinking so selfishly about the vastness of everything being property, let alone shared. Just share it, it's an endless resource.

Comment Re:LOL (Score 1) 213

Yeah, space is a limited commodity. Like Leprechaun Gold @ a Colorado dispensary.
Who in their right mind was part of this Treaty to begin with? No one in their right mind.
If they weren't in their right mind, their contract is as good as toilet paper.
We need more employment, resources and fewer people on the planet.
If you tie up the mining companies resources in space, it means they're not as active here.
I'm not even a lawyer, closer to a super-villain, and even I can see the right thing to do here is quit damn worrying about what the neighbors think and go fuckin' stake a claim.

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