Newer planes do have an auto-land capability that does get them all the way to the runway.

How is this idiotic? Unless you're talking about the potential idiocy of wasting all that money on a drone and a Gopro camera potentially blown up by fireworks. This was filmed over water. Nobody was in danger except the drone owner's bank account. (And maybe the one in a million chance of the drone falling on the odd boater...)

I used to live in Midland, Michigan, and I was using the weather site I used to use there for times, specifically this one. (left column near the bottom under "Astronomy".

Granted today is 1 day later, but today it's listing sunset at 21:21 EDT (eastern daylight time), nautical twilight at 22:42, and astronomical twilight at 23:39. Ok, now I've beaten the horse to death... :)

No, it just wasn't dark yet. Yeah, light pollution sucks, but you could tell it wasn't truly dark by the fact that it was noticeably darker after the fireworks were over than when they began. Just looked it up and "nautical twilight" began around 10:40, and "astronomical twilight" at 11:40 pm. But nobody wants to wait that long, so they settled for "kinda dark".

Like me!

Living in the Northern US does suck for that, though. Until recently I lived in Michigan, and the fireworks started around 10:00 pm, usually, and even then it wasn't really "dark", it was just mostly dark.

So with this patent alone, wouldn't he be able to patent troll the entire computer industry out of existence? I'm only half kidding.

It apparently is still true. My brother runs an auto repair shop and he says he barely sees Hondas or Toyotas at all compared to American cars - they just don't break down - and he works in a decent sized city, so it's not just that there are no foreign cars there. And of the American cars he does work on, he says he sees more Chrysler products than any others.

Would be cooler with an arm so you could more easily point it at people.

Of course! I'm with him in spirit, as I play my single player games blocked from net connectivity via firewall. :)

Sadly, this is spot on. It sucks, but us old gamers aren't anywhere near enough to change things on our own. The only way we have could any leverage is if enough of us get our kids on our side. I've gotten my 16 year old son thoroughly indoctrinated in what I think is good and bad about the gaming industry today. He's my little disciple. :)

I'm with ya, brother...

Maybe you should have stuck with not doing it. Just sayin' ;)

I prefer artillery.

Executive summary: No.