Comment Re:Responsible Agency Enforcing Law (Score 1) 222
They're the ones who have the guns -- the ones who can use those guns and threaten people without worrying about getting arrested. They should only do it when it's necessary.
They're the ones who have the guns -- the ones who can use those guns and threaten people without worrying about getting arrested. They should only do it when it's necessary.
You sound evil.
Evil. Not the the worst evil. But more evil than leaving me alone.
Threatening people unnecessarily is evil -- law or no law.
Because they are spending tax money to threaten people based on the meaningless distinction between recreational drone use and drone use for a commercial purpose. They shouldn't waste the money and they shouldn't threaten people needlessly.
He should stick to curing diseases like malaria. Schools are too mixed up with politics, money, and government control of peoples' lives.
If he wants to help with education, he should fund scholarships so more parents could send their kids to a school of their choice.
It's time for an end to one-size-fits-all government education schemes.
This should help. For really incriminating behavior, I would expect the cameras to "malfunction" most of the time. But for ordinary, day-to-day contact with the public, it will be a lot easier to just not act like a complete asshole than to hide the evidence later.
'RESTART! RESTART! RESTART!' would have been a lot better. Clear instructions are useful. Screenfulls of BS just confuse people. All they can do is restart anyway.
Cucumber factory only has stem-removal jobs.
Are you saying you drive a Karma?
I agree. Say NO to those linguogogues and their linguomorphic practices!!!
Want to get a package through Mumbai traffic?
Smaller vehicles, logistics, and the knowledge of local couriers.
Want to get a package to the balcony of a 60-story high-rise in Hong Kong?
Deliver it to the front door and take it up on the elevator.
Want to deliver packages to the houseboats of Amsterdam but can't afford the local wages?
Driverless vehicles. Or just charge enough to cover the cost of delivery.
Want to deliver medicine in Australia or Mongolia, where it's already economical to fly the doctor to the patient?
Doctors' time may be worth enough money to make flying worthwhile. Is a truck driver's time worth that much? Also, a bottle of medicine doesn't care if it takes an extra 12 hours to get where it's going.
And any drone that can carry a package a long distance will also have to carry a lot of heavy fuel.
Drones are an obvious win.
There will probably be some extremely rare cases where they make sense. Delivery to boats offshore, for example.
What's wrong with driver-less 1-wheeled vehicles ?
They tip over? I don't know. Lets see a prototype.
Now, what's wrong with zero-wheeled vehicles, ah, wait, that would be too similar to a drone to fit into your world view.
They waste too much energy staying airborne and they are less efficient and harder to build and more risky to operate and less resilient to weather than wheeled vehicles.
There aren't enough isolated people getting frequent deliveries for it to make economic sense to deploy drones. Why spend millions of dollars developing a new technology to avoid a few trips a year?
Also, a drone that could carry a package 50 miles and return would have to carry a lot of additional weight in fuel. A driverless "car" big enough to carry a package would probably be able to make the delivery for a fraction of the cost.
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson