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Comment Re:Clickbait (Score 1) 55

With over 15,000 residents per square kilometer in the center of the city you wouldn't want ANY drones overhead where if they lose power, lose contact with the controller, hit something, etc. there's a high likelihood of personal injury. Now with the introduction of robot air taxis into he mix there would be even higher risk. In that sort of situation requiring permits and flight plans makes absolute sense.

Comment Re:I just had to replace a phone for a family memb (Score 1) 55

We haven't seen a president in the US who could be considered anything less than 'conservative' since Carter in 1980, everyone since then is either conservative, hyper-conservative, or wing-nut loony conservative. In civilized areas of the world the Democratic Party would be considered moderate-right.

Comment Re:Of course not! (Score 2, Informative) 122

Also I would point out that there's nothing socialist about modern American fascism, considering that there's very little flirtation with collective ownership of the means of production going on (other than Sam Altman getting Trump to consider having the US government buy the gigantic economic black-hole-bomb he's built), but they do enact deals that look a good bit like socialism for corporations the regime favors...

Comment Re:Of course not! (Score 5, Insightful) 122

The vast majority of voters in any party want the opposite of that but are told to vote for "the lesser of two evils" which admits to an inherently evil system.

This is only possible because the US has first-past-the-post elections, a clunky and primitive voting method that can enable this situation. Moving to more advanced voting methods like ranked choice or STAR voting prevents a two-party stranglehold from forming.

Comment Re:Bye Chrome... (Score 1) 161

I'm a little surprised no one has tried to bring Manifest v2 back in a Chromium fork. It's supposedly open source after all. If it's too complicated to do practically, then really what's the point in Chromium being open source at all.

See also: Android and the ever-increasing difficulty, impracticality, and necessity of getting root access.

Comment Re:Pokemon go go go! (Score 1) 44

could eventually support defense systems

That's utterly false. Those are not "defense" weapons, drones which need to locate their position are OFFENSE systems. Defensive drones only have to locate the attacking aircraft, they don't care where they are in relation to anything else. This whole PR game of pretending that offensive weapons are something else just irritates the hell out of me.

Comment Re: Preservation letter? (Score 2) 60

A lot of forces won't even investigate most misdemeanors any longer because there aren't enough prosecutors to even file the case much less pursue it. I heard a cop who was told about a stolen bicycle the victim had located, "Go steal it back tonight. Then buy a better lock." because they wouldn't dispatch anyone for a bike which valued less than a felony warrant.

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