Europe lives without dryers (I lived in the NL for a year and rented, dried clothes on racks) not because they are environmentally friendly but for the same reason nobody has AC and refrigerators are tiny. It's about 1950-level wealth. Shit's expensive, yo! Apartments and such are tiny too.

Our fast food is a good start to bring your bellies up to speed. If you build it, they will gorge. Get on our level!

What do you expect from Linux users? :popcorngif:

The FAA is concerned with you accidentally flying it into a restricted area like way up there (evidently 1000 feet) or near an airport or the White House.

It is not concerned with whether some idiot crashes it into someone's window or head. That's the concern of local police and states.

Hmmm. You're right! Let's begin the debate.

This is a troubling development in an ongoing saga over the FAA's rules which punish the safe commercial use of drones.

It will induce drone makers to start donating to Congress (cynical, but difficult to actually disprove that's the reason for the regulation, not the ostensible surface reasons) and in short order, people here on Slashdot will be talking about the corrupting influence of drone makers on Congress.

The empire that keeps the trade routes open prospers. Those that lord over their own people falter.

Someone will get to the asteroids. Better a free people than the new economic core of empire, China, with its skyrocketting prosperity due to greater economic freedom than in the US.

We are seeing there's a hell of a lot more to freedom w.r.t. prosperity than just freedom of speech.

Some have a strange sense of propriety that all must kneel to get permission of the king before doing anything. That's not freedom...even in a democracy.

Right after 9/11, in the heat to Get Those Guys and their network, the NSA went into vast recoding depositories to track back conversations, actual recorded calls. They admitted it and it kind of blew by in the moment.

Am I the only one who remembers this?

Not only that, but they (and California even moreso) have crossed the linr from local government to quasi-national bloat and over-regulating government, placing burdens on their populations that were normally reserved (such as it is) for the top dog government.

Now they are plagued at two levels.

Europe is going the other way, introducing a power-inhaling pan-European government atop their own bloated national governments. Don't wanna be left out by their own dueling bloat levels.

You can cross the street without looking both ways and maybe get hit by a car. Oh, sure, you had the right of way. You're still dead, but you had the rogjt of way.

I remember the shock in the US whem the UK decided they could hold your silence against you. You were he heroes, the original English system on which much of the US is based, how sad you are straying.

Additionally, if keys are not incriminatory, why is he in jail for not providing them?

We will. That has happened repeatedly in the past. It is no more logical for us to worry about humanity in 100 years than it would have been for people in 1900 to worry about us today.

Think of how much has been invented -- yet they would have been concerned about horse poop buildup and poop dust all over everything. 'Let's limit use of horses!" slowing the economy and leaving us with, say, 1980 level tech, "helping" absolutely no one.

So, to people 100 years from now. What did we do? Keep a powerful economy so you can have flying cars and autodocs, or weaken and hobble is so you don't?

We are the people in 1900 looking to hobble ourselves to "help" those way off in the future...of 2014.

Thanks for the "help".

I hope Russia will start "arresting" US citizens in the same matter

Well, don't go stealing Russian credit card numbers.

I am not sure what planet you're yabbering from. They made a request. This is the opposite of hijacking.

From DC's point of view, it's called being nice. They need only send a letter agreeing to it, and they get good will. If they are tied up in exclusivity contracts, you have a quick conference call with those other businesses and explain the following: At this point, I would be in favor of an organized boycot of the upcoming Superman/Batman movie

Based on the buff pattern of his hand, he jerks off lefty. Flushing suggests approximately 6.5 hours ago. Computer estimates from wear pattern thinking of one Taylor Swift, body part: nose and upper lip.

It's on its way, people.