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Unmanned Aerial Drones Coming Soon Above U.S.
cnet-declan writes "Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been flying over Iraq and Afghanistan, but now the Bush administration wants to use them for domestic surveillance. A top Homeland Security official told Congress today, according to this CNET News.com article, that: "We need additional technology to supplement manned aircraft surveillance and current ground assets to ensure more effective monitoring of United States territory." One county in North Carolina is already using UAVs to monitor public gatherings. But what happens when lots of relatively dumb drones have to share airspace with aircraft carrying passengers? A pilot's association is worried."
hail skynet.
MORTAR COMBAT!
But what happens when lots of relatively dumb drones have to share airspace with aircraft carrying passengers? Hilarity ensues...
what about being liberated in liberia? eh?
Hmm, you know fuel prices are high when the unmarked black helicopters have been replaced with unmarked black blimps :-).
But can they run Linux?
Screw the rules, I have green hair!
How high do these things fly above ground ? Are then within rifle range ? :) Skeet shooting could take on a whole new perspective!
-Billco, Fnarg.com
Every fucking time I turn around another police outfit from Bumblefuck, U.S.A. has bought itself a shiny new toy with my "homeland security" tax dollars. (Add your least favorite story about the new SWAT team in a county with three homocides a year, an armored car for a town of 50K people, etc.) And because there usually aren't any terrorists anywhere near them, these knuckledraggers end up figuring out a way to chase the usual crowd of inbred drunks around town with it.
Freedom over. Police state = very yes.
Keep your eyes to the sky.
I hope they can see well enough to get a good up close view of my middle finger. I'll even isolate it for them to make it easier.
Even better! Build you own drones to fight the drones that stalk you or build a EMP emmiting device and watch these suckers drop from the skies like frozen turkeys.
They are not. They are a renewable source of flying thing. Its, .. Its like nuclear power, .. a renewable source .. of energy, .. only blimps fly. Trust me I know about these things.
~George Bush
Where's Gordon Freeman? The Combine is starting to make its move!
> As a little kid I actually tried put this myth to the test it worked flawlessly.
Where's that -1 Evil moderation when you need it?
Geheime a break.
"The RQ-1A/B Predator is a system, not just an aircraft. The fully operational system consists of four air vehicles (with sensors), a ground control station (GCS), a Predator primary satellite link communication suite and 55 people."
That thing is freakin' awesome.
Except for the whole Deathbringing, and suppression of my rights and stuff. But still...
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
I thought they were Times New Roman...
rewriting history since 2109
Those aren't any fun until you mention the second part: laser-guided missiles.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.