Well yes I understand that, yet when Jan Brewer down in Arizona did the same thing with immigration it was a BadThing(Tm).

Garodnick was elected to New York City Council in 2005, winning 63 percent of the vote in the general election and defeating both the Republican and Libertarian candidates. In the five-way Democratic primary that year he won 59% of the vote. Daniel Garodnick

I've noticed that Democrats are more likely to "pass a law" on the "issue du jour" than they are to either rationally consider whether a new law is really necessary or to hold LE and the courts accountable for enforcing the existing applicable laws.

Remotely controlled aerial vehicle must be under direct visual observation at all time per FAA regulations.

With respect to UAS used as model aircraft, the FAA reiterated the operating guidelines in AC 91-57, and further noted that to qualify as a model aircraft, the aircraft would need to be operated purely for recreational or hobby purposes, and within the visual line of sight of the operator.
The policy statement also clarified that AC 91-57 applied only to modelers and “specifically excludes its use by persons or companies for business purposes.” 72 FR at 6690
Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft

so if you fly behind a tree and lose the visual line of sight, your operating outside the FAA guidelines and I suspect that any system permitting FPV from a UAS affordable by a hobbyist or small or medium bussiness would only be capable of transmitting on a strictly line of sight basis and any obstructions in the LOS would cause losse of the video transmission.

Oh good grief people read the article,

No person may avigate a UAV within the limits of the city except:
        1. The police department in accordance with section 14-133.1.
        2. A person avigating such UAV pursuant to and within the limits of an express authorization by the federal aviation administration.

basically a grandstanding city Councilman introduced a statute making it illegal to operate a UAV anywhere it is all ready illegal to operate a UAV!

While I don't support hacking into anybodies computers, I'd have to say that That after The Sony BMG CD copy protection rootkit scandal which involved a form of hacking on their part and cpyright infringement, the file sharing lawsuit against common people, the lawsuits from the artists to get a fairshare of damages Sony has won in filesharing, and the general asshattery involved in the entertainment industry, it's hard to be sympathetic to them; karma is a bitch when you are. North Korea on the other hand can only be decribed as a boil on the ass of humanity, so if it's destiny that some company would have to fall on it's sword to embarrase the sensibilities of Kim Jong-il, I'm glad that Sony volunteered.

Senators are in charge of a lot of things the general public is only vaguely aware of.

Your confusing cost with wealth redistribution. Everything they spent either went into wages, or bought goods that paid somebodies wages and generated profits that were distributed to stockholders. Being an overt Commie redistributionist is a bad thing(tm), being a covert Republicrat or Democan redistributionist is a economic stimulis package.

Not necessarily, anyone can contact the software authors and negotiate license terms; it can become more difficult as the number of authors increase and probably exponentially more difficult. MySQL for an example had multiple licensening options, one was the GPL.
The reason what licensor actually said that counts is because the licensor is the entity that initiates legal proceedings to remedy perceived violations of the licence. Any way the terms of the GPL are essentially a non-concern until you distribute.

You guys are all fucking zero-sumers, you want more water in an area that is desert, build a couple nuclear power plants and run some desalination plants. News flash, Southern California is in the horse latitudes, that means desert, just like almost every desert on the planet is in the horse latitudes.

We didn't break teh fuckin' planet; just Kaliphornia, and that was because Feinstein voted with the Republicans and Hell froze over. When you disturb the natural order there are consequences.

It doesn't matter what the aurthor of the GPL meant, it's what the licensor actually said that counts

If your an actor, hired to be in a historically based film protrayal of a particularly decadent period of Roman Civilization, when ruled by a Ceaser who was discribed as

sources focus upon his cruelty, sadism, extravagance, and sexual perversity, presenting him as an insane tyrant. Caligula

and produced by Bob Guccione, it's hard to be sympathetic to complaints that it turned into a porno.

As a dyed in the wool denier, I can unequivocally say that windmills remove an immeasurable amount of energy from the planetary system and have no effect on the frequency of tornadoes or any other storms.

Weather is an instance of climate, if weather is chaotic, then climate is chaotic; self-similarity is a harsh mistress. You alarmists all seem to confuse Chaotic systems with erratic systems; chaotic systems often appear well ordered, while being unpredictable.

I assume that because this so called dark matter, if it really exists, is pretty homogeneous at scales of planetary systems so all of the gravitational pulls at infinitely different angles just cancels out.