That video doesn't show anything clearly... or do you have another video to present?

Yes, you can presume the "chopper" is made of a metal of some sort.... ... or you can RTFA. But presuming is much more fun, isn't it?

I've got a different definition of "shot down"... they managed to land the drone right next to the truck. How shut down is that? This is nothing more than marketing-oriented drama.

But it does raise some serious question on trespassing, surveillance, right to privacy, etc.

Let me quote TFA/TFS :

Anyway, reading most comments here, I think a lot of slashdot poster confuse 100 years with 1000 years - not that I blame them. After all, we should all fly around in our atomic powered hovering fords by now. So they said, back then.

Foreseeing the future is very difficult. It's easy to let its imagine run while. Just read this thread through.
I find the best way to see clearly is to reduce speculation to a minimum and stick to what you know.

Moving around in space is nothing like flying around in the air or scratching around on the surface of the Earth. And in combat, regardless of its form, it's all about movement and positioning. The key always lays there from the most basic form of hand to hand combat to the most advanced stealth jet fighter combat.

If you are serious about getting an Idea about how a space battle would look like, I suggest the following. Get the Orbiter space flight simulator and try it out a little. Figure how you move around in space. Search around a little and do the tutorials.

My guess is that, like most people, you'll get bored after the first 2 days waiting to reach a target... you'll quickly (or rather very slowly and longingly) notice that space travel is slow and complex. When most people think of in-flight combat, they think about dogfight, with quick instant maneuvers to evade immediate danger or quickly engage a target. Space, its another business. Orbits are planned months ahead, years or even decades in advance for some satellite. Even on very short term missions, you do small precise maneuvers that will have noticeable impacts hours or days later.

The most accurate movie depiction of space combat is probably 2001: A Space Odyssey... sort of. There's just no combat, but it wouldn't feel any different.

The pharmacist and the doctor are not competitors in the world of the best advice. They are two professional, each having their field of expertise. They have to work together to give the best possible treatment to the patient.

If either sees questioning of some advice as negative, then there is a fundamental problem - and this is where reform needs to start. Of course, working together does imply taking the time to talk to each other when problem arise.

I lived most of my life in Canada, and if my pharmacist wasn't certain about some strange posology on the prescription or spotted a possible interaction, he didn't unilaterally decided otherwise. He called and consulted with his colleague, the doctor, who wrote the prescription. This is how it should be done. And it's not just in Canada. Now I live in Germany, a country that has a radically different medical system structure. The same way, if a problem arise with a prescription, the pharmacist will contact the practician to discuss the issue and identify proper alternatives.

Maybe I was just lucky always to have good pharmacists?! But this is pretty much how I picture how this system should work. Of course, the information about other drugs you are taking won't come automatically to the pharmacist. Without a centralized tracking system, he'll only know what you tell him.

That's exactly the kind of mistake that leads to such high mortality figures. I couldn't believe it as i read the summary and on. I never would have thought PAE related mortality would be so high in the US.

But even the best system can't compensate for human incompetence and laziness. In your case, you either got someone on the line who had no clue and too lazy to either refer you to someone who had one or check it up or to someone really incompetent. Even the best electronic tracking system wouldn't have helped in your case. At least not for drugs sold over the counter. For prescription drugs, a centralized system tracking your prescriptions would rise a flag at the pharmacist preparing the prescription, even if you get wrong advise from other medical professionals along the line.

Anyone, we often tend to forget that doctors are not experts in medication. The only know so much. Pharmacist and pharmacologist are the reference in this field... they are the one we should ask question regarding medical interaction.

It depends which antibiotics. Some are very selective, others "wideband" so to speak. Many will have absolutely no effect on the intestinal microbiota. Others will completely kill it off, make the need of active yogourt to repolulate it.

(but INAMD... just what I understood through experience).

...God plays with the same modus operandi than most corporations built to his image; It simply planned obsolescence.

Is it really that misguided? I wanted to mod you down, but on second thought your comment really is insightful... I just don't agree with it.

What kind of logic is that? That goes in the same bucket as "If you don't like how it is, make it yourself"... It's also like saying if you are bothered by how animals are handled by *some* producers, why don't you become vegetarian.
With food, just like with electronics devices, there are ways to consume while reducing your negative footprint. With food, it gets always easier to do so - no so much with electronics.

Toys, really? I don't know how you live or what you do for a living, but there is no way I could work or live in 2012 without consuming electronic products.

But it the end, I think what will happen here is the same thing as with what happens when people try to consume animals products only coming from animals treated in the best conditions... most are not ready to pay the price.