On the flip side, if you don't have to risk your life to do the killing, you might be more controlled in your killing. More deliberate, fewer deaths overall, no murder rampages from unbalanced soldiers. If the system is set up right, all drone operations could be recorded and reviewed. There can be more accountability. I'm not saying that military is actually doing this, but the potential is there.

Arming the cabin crew also makes the renegade pilot scenario more likely. Wait til the other pilot is sleeping or in the bathroom, pull gun, kill other pilot, now you have flying missile ala 9/11.

That's depressing to hear. I thought SpaceX was one of the good companies. :(

And I assume that civilian installations are not EMP protected. I think blowing up a few key electrical utility installations can do a great deal of damage. Think a large fraction of the east coast for example without electrical power, and no ability to restore it for at least days if not weeks. I assume these EMP devices are not nuclear, so they would perhaps be easier to smuggle as well.

I think that would have actually been interesting. They could of course vary the amount of cookie on one side and the cocaine on the other. Would have produced some nice graphs at least. Really, why didn't they do this? The PI had access to the drug after all.

Spacex i feel is huge. Tesla.

Can I turn that question around? What innovation from outside the usa has happened in recent years?

Not totally clear from the wired article, but they seem to pickup and drop off only at bus stops.

If people knew the budget for the military, would they support it less?

But we do know that the NSA *does* monitor phone traffic.

For example, telecom interception at att:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

How do you reconcile what you said with this information. Is room 641 a lie?

Or a repressive protein that blocks the operating cells?

Apparently it is free when ordering from motomaker...

Why would would it be more convenient? The snowshoe stamp requires the screen to be on. The stamp itself doesn't require battery power, but neither does an nfc chip. The stamp is also huge in comparison to an nfc.

At the very least they already collect the metadata for all postage communications.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Then they impound your car because it might be rigged with booby traps. I'm all for giving it to the man, but unfortunately this is a poor chance at a good outcome.

I don't know. Shutting down an airport for god knows how long would be pretty damn disruptive.