Wow, where do people come up with such crap???

"Unmanned aircraft weighing less than 55 pounds and more
than 0.55 pounds (250 grams) on takeoff, including everything
that is on board or otherwise attached to the aircraft"

Okay, then if it is hovering (already past takeoff) then I attach the payload I am good?

What if I fly by and hook the payload?

What if it snows or ice forms on my 0.50lb "drone" ?

Stupid regulation by stupid people for stupid people.

"maximum take-off weight" is usually the highest weight the aircraft is certified to carry at lift off.

Nothing I own has a "maximum take-off weight" over 0.0lbs therefore nothing is required to be registered.

No.

I would love to issue an edict that everyone had to pay me $5 every 3 years "because reasons."

We've simply figured out step 2:

1) impose fee by edict
2) be a government entity
3) profit!

Everybody claiming it is "reasonable" or "run at a loss" must still think 1) we live in the age of file clerks and index cards, and 2) the FAA is actually going to do something. Or perhaps said "thinkers" are even more cynical of government efficiency than am I and yet are still wiling to excuse the FAA for it.

This will do nothing of any value whatsoever.

"registration is required" was tried with citizens' band radio in the 1970's. It had small fees and large fines and prescribed and prohibited behaviors. It did not work then and it will not work any better now.

Your implication that I am not desirable is offensive. I demand a public apology and if it happens again you shall be banned for life.

For several decades in the western U.S. and Canada I've known the phrase as Rick notes, there's no replacement for displacement.

Have you seen the way they code???

Because what better excuse to build a humongous satellite with a large laser/dish/array aimed at the earth?

Nobody will abuse a time off policy where there are no vacation days and time is taken as needed. If it is abused it can be addressed by the performance review process.

I always understood how that will stop employees from abusing the "as needed" vacation policy.

I never understood what will stop the employer from abusing it. Until now.

You are very correct re. the difference between a RT operating system and not RT. That has nothing to do with Sync specifically or infotainment in general.

Sync does not have any control over engine management, traction control or any other safety critical system (and neither does any other infotainment system). Not sure about Sync, but typically you cannot even update safety critical systems from the infotainment system. An infotainment system may have read-only access to report "interesting" data, but that's all.

There is no need for your infotainment system beyond responding to the UI and performing the tasks you need, just like your phone, etc.

The individual officer(s) involved cannot be immune from civil lawsuits!

The individual officer(s) involved cannot be immune from criminal prosecution!

In addition to facing EXACTLY the same criminal charges that any other individual who performed the same actions would face, the officer(s) should be individually subject to a civil suit just like any other individual. Once a few officers have been bankrupted and are facing garnished wages and liens to settle court judgments then they will suddenly find a way to avoid taking the offensive and illegal actions.

And should those in charge persist, they will find their tacit acceptance and hints (never orders, because that would be wrong) are falling on deaf ears.

How do you "sign your name" is the same thing my "luddite" teacher in 9th grade asked when I was the first person in the school to turn in a paper from a word processor. I "printed" my signature and he didn't like it, but he didn't have to.

He, and now you, are the only ones to ever care.

So who is the luddite? Have you ever used a word processor?

Cursive was invented to optimize writing with a quill. A quill is fragile, so you want to put it down carefully. Even then, it tends to blob at the beginning of a stroke. Cursive minimizes lift up and put down and the number of separate strokes.

And you assume that nothing like systemd has ever been tried during that survival contest?

The systemd approach has always failed to survived. Multiple times.

Through "survival of the fittest' that collection has proven to be the fittest. It is just painful that we have to try a failed approach, again.

Henry Spencer: Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it, poorly.