Used to walk the dog rather late at night, and several times I saw a local cop driving very slowly down the street with his lights off past his ex-wife's house. This is nothing new.

I think it's correct either way. They should be embarrassed of the people they abused.

Mos sensible post I've seen in this thread. Are you sure you're on the right web site? :-)

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.

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.

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...

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.

Agreed, in fact I think that's a major reason to avoid use of non-hybrid PQC.

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

Anti-war pacifists like myself may be the most qualified to speak out on hose subjects. Unlike war supporters like yourself we're realistic enough to realize that NO ONE ever wins a war, just one side which loses less than the other.

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.

No, it's because in the real world storage, network bandwidth and compute power all cost money. People who think that Ring and Alexa are retaining the minutia of your daily life don't seem to understand that either.

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.

They tend to rely overly on authority figures, since they can't understand the world on their own. Unfortunately their authority figures tend to rely overly on questionable, or outright corrupt, sources of information like the MSM and political leaders.

I've always wanted a prehensile tail, it would be handy when working on the car sometimes.