There are plenty of cities in western countries where drones are entirely prohibited and you need to drive to the countryside to fly it, observing various nature reserves and restricted airspaces.

It is also very common that training, a test or license, insurance, etc. are required.

The odd thing is that buying is restricted. Does that include ordering online?

The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

You would think that with a former-lawyer as the prime minister now it would get sorted

You'd think that with a former human rights lawyer as the prime minister, he wouldn't be so keen on shitting on human rights.

No for Starmer, everything was just a stepping stone on his career ladder.

It's weird but he's a vacuum. He doesn't appear to stand for anything in particular. This is why none of the decisions make much sense as a whole, why there's no coherence, why he has no articulated vision, why the policies are a complete mishmash.

But it's weirder. He doesn't even seem to stand for enriching himself beyond career climbing. He's somewhat non corrupt as these things go (I mean the glasses thing was dumb shit but small fry on the scale of these thing).

So sure he knows about the courts and human rights and etc but he doesn't stand for any of them.

Actually scratch that.

Judging him by what he's achieved, about the only thing he has been consistent on is a kind of petty authoritarianism with him in charge. This isn't even to say he hasn't done anything good (he manifestly has), but as part of a weird directionless morass (nationalise the trains, but repeat water company press releases about why that's impossible for water, for example).

The only one who does not understand physics, is you with your stupid signature.

Says the man who screams insults when he tries some highschool physics and doesn't like the answer.

No idea what the ROI part of the British islands is. Did you typo something?

I mean this is on brand for you: you are holding forth about something and don't even know the basics of what you're talking about. ROI is the Republic Of Ireland, a EU member nation located on the island of Ireland which is one of the British Isles.

That is a silly statement. Because they are. Plus: north Ireland.

It includes the Republic of Ireland which hasn't been part of the UK since 1921.

British Isles - that is a term with a meaning: it is a nickname for the UK, stupid idiot.

Hmm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

What about Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney? Are they part of the British Isles?

You mean the channel islands? No, they are the channel islands.

Are they part of the UK?

I have no idea what in your brain passes for "part of", but no. They're crown dependences. Hence the whole tax thing.

See: neither can I. Because it is farking completely unimportant for the discussion.

Right it's not important what things are actually called when you use a name for them... That figures!

The islands are property of the crown - hence: King Charles III owns them.

No, the Crown owns them. Chazzer is the king. I really can't be arsed to explain the subtleties of nomenclature of the British constitution to you. It appears that names of things are not your strong suit.

Talking about the "UK" and the "British islands" or "British isles" is: complicated.

It's not, really. Also did you know the British Isles and British Islands are not the same?

No, of course you didn't because facts are not your strong suit either. Your main skill is holding forth on subjects that you are monumentally ignorant about, so keep up the good work!

BTW, AI is a godsend for ALS patients. Even with an eye tracker, your writing throughput is low / tiring compared to typing, and of course you can't do anything that requires physical activity (painting, playing an instrument, speaking, etc). AI tools help fill the gaps.

Did *she* want to die? Did *she* want to be "released"?

Did she have an eye tracker, to allow her to communicate naturally?

Motor neurons dying != brain control of motor neurons dies.

Anyway, you don't need a brain-computer interface for an ALS patient to work. I have a friend in Finland with ALS who works as a consultant on safety for a nuclear reactor startup (he was a nuclear safety engineer before becoming paralyzed). All it takes is an eye tracker.

The biggest problem is the typically short and unpredictable lives of ALS patients. He has lived abnormally long (I think something like 13 years now), but a large part of that is due to him thinking like a nuclear safety engineer (backup on backup on backup, training his nurses to have zero tolerance for error, etc), and still has a close call like once per year or so, and I regularly worry when I don't see him online in a while that something happened that killed him. A tube comes off a life support system. A nurse forgetting to reconnect something. A mucus plug in his airways. Etc. ALS patients' lives are fragile. He does CAD design for parts on his computer (it's too hard to do it with the mouse using the eye tracker, so he designs the shapes programmatically) and orders them 3d printed to correct any deficiencies he finds in his support systems.

ALS patients also have to constantly fight the medical system. Even in a place like Finland that will actually do long-term care for ALS patients (which is very expensive), it shows that it would be much more convenient for them if those danged ALS patients would choose to die (and there's often pressure put on them to do so). One of my friend's goals is to outlive a doctor who told him he would only live a year or two put a lot of effort into getting him to choose death. It was a battle to get long-term ventilator care. It was an even bigger battle to get to use a cough machine and to be able to control the settings on it; without regular, meaningful cough support, your lungs fill with mucus, and you'll probably eventually die of a mucus plug, pneumonia, or whatnot.

By contrast, ALS patients today can actually live a decent life using eye trackers. It's not like before when you had to tediously spell out things one character at a time to a helper holding an E-tran frame. Given that 1 in 500 people will get ALS at some point in their life, we really should be allocating a lot more money toward researching cures, even if purely from a cost-saving perspective.

(One final note: if anyone here starts getting peripheral weakness and worries its ALS: your instinct will be to exercise more. Do just the opposite. If your peripheral neurons are dying, the last thing they need is more work. ALS overwhelmingly strikes active people - one researcher I was reading noted that in her entire career, she's never met a couch potato who got ALS. Take it easy, see a doctor immediately, and if it is ALS, start preparing early, but know that you do not have to be forced to choose to die, so long as you can get care. You can live a decent, productive life if you choose to).

Capitalism doesn't care where the money comes from, government or not

I also will not accept "bothsides!" arguments here.

Ever noticed how it's never "bothsides! so I voted Democrat"? Even the "bothsides" people realise that voting for the current clowns requires hefty justification, and ye they do it anyway.

That timeframe is ridiculous.

It it.

There's no reason why the courts can't operate more efficiently than they do other than that the lawyers and judges have no incentive to move things along.

That's conservatism for you. Turns out if you strip masses of funding from the justice system under the guise of "austerity", then it grinds to a halt. Next time a conservative insists that they are a party of "law and order" or "tough on crime", call them out for being outright liars.

Sure, if we all have a daddy with an emerald mine and a bunch of clueless cucks to line up to suck our cocks we can ALL make 10 trillion!

I was going to buy a new phone last month but then I didn't because of the prices. Moto normally deeply discounts the old model but didn't even do that, their old models stayed fairly expensive, and the new models are very expensive (compared to normal, they still aren't as cracked out as Samsung.)

Nobody is buying a vanilla android phone and using it as delivered to not use any Google services. If they want that they are at least reflashing, if not buying a phone with an alternate android on it... Which moto claims they will soon offer. Not holding my breath though

Well, I'm glad at least someone gets it, unlike the chuds who modded me down for not worshipping their golden ass.

Instead they will buy that data as part of an investigation in to who's getting abortions. You forgot who's running this country, they're not interested in catching criminals. That's difficult and expensive compared to declaring victory.