Maybe they're sticking with an adage I first heard years ago relating to hang gliding — "Never go higher than you're willing to fall." Although I would think that, with a conventional aircraft like this is, going higher would give you more options for how far you can go looking to put the bird down after it loses power. Maybe they're just worried about losing their Wi-Fi connection and having the control software turn off or something silly like that.

Its not racism or prejudice in the sense of judging people by immaterial qualities (skin color, sex/gender/ethnicity/etc) , it is the prejudice of Elitism. They think ONLY their elite compatriots are or should be eligible to doing the six figure job. There was a cute 80s movie that took this Elitism to task, The Last Starfighter.

It fits this pretty well.

The very same people who told right wingers to "go start your own" social media, when the whole big tech cabal collectively went after various people, are the same ones now complaining that they were banned without cause for posting on a Tuesday.

This isn't a pro or con right wing post, this is a "you made your bed now lie in it" post.

I'm not a fan of the bigoted posts from any side. People love the powers that be right up to and until they are on the wrong side of those powers. Take a moment and think things through, and lets stop being so damn tribal, and maybe, just maybe Liberty will survive.

Same.

I'm almost hopeful that in a few years, Starlink Mobile will be the push I need to change. I'm waiting until then, or it gets even worse with T-Maybe

And having a database that can be queried by websites and online services to declare "The user of this computer is underage" can't possibly be used by bad actors to more reliably focus their attentions on children. ("What a wonderful idea! With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?")

And there are other readily-available sources of information: for example, publications on the design and use of shaped charges, or binary explosives -- explosives made by combining two materials, neither of which is explosive on its own, such as Astrolite G, a mixture of ammonium nitrate and hydrazine, sometimes referred to as 'the liquid land mine'; you can pour it onto the ground to soak in and detonate it with a blasting cap or pressure-sensitive fuse. The Anarchist's Cookbook is, on the whole, not a particularly good reference, nor are many of its instructions particularly safe.

I don't know if it's still there, but the Science Center at the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center in San Diego used to have a device that was a good demonstrator of this. It had four double rows of lights, with two foot pedals and two twist handles, and a counter. It would randomly light one bulb in each of the paired rows, and by manipulating the pedals and handles, you could move the lit bulb in the other of each paired row; when you got all four matching, a counter would increment and the lit bulbs would be randomized; the goal was to get as many matches as possible before the timer ran out. Watching other people do it, I would regularly see results in the 8-15 range, with people laboriously matching one light, then the next, then the third, then the fourth, which seemed so inefficient, so I worked at it, not focusing my attention on any given light while I moved all four controls to an approximation of the correct matches before making fine adjustments for a match. After a bit of practice, I could get results consistently around 35-45 matches, and I'd usually wind up with a bunch of people watching me.

"The only solution" is in fact, not the "only" solution.

The correct and LEGAL means for the police to gain access to the phone is to take it and seal it in a tamperproof container (aka electronic Faraday Evidence Bag), go to a court and ask for a warrant to search the contents.

We have established LAW and procedures for the state to gain access to the device. It is inconvenient ON PURPOSE. and serves as a checks and balance in legal proceedings.

IF that is the case, seize the phone, get a Search Warrant.

The problem is, the state couldn't be bothered following ESTABLISHED law and procedures.

Simply accusing someone of some unspecified crime isn't a right the state has to just bypass Constitutional protections, namely the 4th and 5th Amendments.

Americans have rights, secured in our founding Constitution. I don't care what feelings one might have to the rest of the case. Rights exist, enshrined and we ought to defend them tirelessly forever.

There is some established case law that says that one cannot be compelled to give up a Password, Pin or Pattern Unlock, as a violation of the 4th and 5th Amendment.

Those Amendments are key to a person's rights to be SECURE. Which is the key word here. He SECURED his rights, under duress, by refusing to comply.

THIS is separate from the police chasing him as a possible criminal for crimes I may or may not like.

Rights work by being the STARTING POINT, not an afterthought or worse, something the state can simply ignore in an attempt to prosecute people for potential criminal activity.

The state has legal remedies they ought to seek if they want access to secured personal property. We all know what that is. GET A WARRANT, which is almost always a rubber stamp (very easy bar to jump over). They couldn't even be bothered with that.

Everyone ought to understand, if we do not defend our rights, the state certainly won't.

They're just sending out the bills a year early, due to an AI-based timing mistake.

Permanent standard time and flexible hours.

It is like no one researches these things.

Iâ(TM)d prefer you and everyone else just get darker drapes.

I wish I had some mod points for you. You speak truth.