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Drone Hunters Lining Up and Paying Out In Colorado
coondoggie writes "What might have started out a whimsical protest against government surveillance tactics has morphed into more as a small town in Colorado has found itself overwhelmed with requests and cash for a unmanned aircraft hunting license that doesn't exist."
Yeah, not a real license. I don't care, I still want one.
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In Soviet Russia, drones shoot you!
[Uh, wait ... maybe not just in Soviet Russia ...]
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Are you listening? It seems your constituents may not be all that keen on having drones used on civilian populations.
Oh yeah, it's not an election year. So I guess not.
News at 11 - Bob Fink blew up the house of his best friend John Ackers today in Deer Trail after mistaking him for a CIA drone. John Ackers mistook Bob's missile as a terrorist attack and blew up Deer Trail's only Mosques in retaliation.
I think this may fit the definition of irony, that people, who just may eventually be hunted by drones, are trying to get licenses to hunt the drones, while the drones that hunt them, do not need any license, because the people have already given the government enough power to ensure both: that they eventually can be hunted by drones (and no license required) and that they can't actually get a license to protect themselves.
On the second thought, this is not irony, it's just oppression.
You can't handle the truth.
"Shooting at an unmanned aircraft could result in criminal or civil liability, just as would firing at a manned airplane." I thought manned airplanes flew at high altitude over my house because I WAS allowed to shoot at them. The trailer parks is getting to be a real drag.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
Am I the only one that did a double uber face palm after reading this? HOW FUCKING STUPID HAS THE GENERAL PUBLIC BECOME? A license to hunt US Government property? What a bunch of mouth breathing window licking morons we have degenerated into if people are actually showing up for one. I would love to see this from their perspective but I can't seem to get my head up my ass. Reality check Mike here, no government entity is going to hand out licenses to hunt and destroy "GOVERNMENT PROPERTY" you morons. Seriously I expected more from people in that part of the nation. Isn't this the kind of shit you read about in the south for fucks sake? So much stupid I have a problem wrapping my head around it. Perhaps I should go and huff paint fumes for an hour or two and come back to it for another go.
then sue the pants off of whomever decides that they have the fucking rights to shot my RC plane out of the air.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I'll do scientific development and engineering tests of a 'low carbon foot print' 'energy efficient' 'Politically Neutral' 'Gay Lesbian Transexual Transgender Left-Right Handedness Neutral Cat-Dog Neutral' and language independent slingshot!
In the Bible David 'Roman Era hacker' killed Goliath 'Roman Era Asshole [personification of the U.S.A. today]' with a simple bolo-type slingshot.
Hay, paraphrasing Biblical scripture and I'm an Atheist!
Ha ha.
A bunch of guys shooting up in the air in an uncontrolled manner.
I have never understood the hatred and mistrust placed on drones versus aircraft, fixed or rotary wing. It seems like a bunch of Luddites. Drones are cheaper, safer, and usually more capable at doing the task at hand than fixed wing or rotary wing aircraft at doing a job thats already been done for decades by law enforcement and the military. Also a drone, in the military at least, allows for a more calm and collected engagement of targets, reducing collateral damage and fratricide.
Sorry, the law says the shooter must pay you the cost of the vehicle, that's all.
I'm pretty sure an RC plane costs more than the shooter's pants, so he would technically be able to sue the pants off of the shooter and still get some money as well.
You cannot afford to have my pants removed!
The license, if it existed, would exempt you from being fined by the city for unlicensed shooting of a drone. The owner of the drones, particularly if the owner of the drones is the state or federal government, will not be so nice. As a joke, it's funny. People taking it seriously, believing it offers some legal protection, are delusional. It's like doing a search-and-seizure on your neighbor with a badge from a Cracker Jack box.
Does your solution to everything have to be shoot / bomb it? Surely you guys can be more creative - EMP, Deathray. signal jammer / spoofer, hack the drone maybe I dunno... There's got to be better ways of bringing down machines than technology that's been around since the Song Dynasty in China (960 - 1279).
I'm not signing anything
Let's start a Kickstarter campaign for the creation of a home-built rocket with visual target acquisition that can take out a drone! No high-explosives, just compressed air and a cloud of bb's for a turbine intake, or a bunch of high-test super-thin filament wire or fishing line to tangle the prop. Something likened to a weighted net they use for riot control.
Or maybe some kind of broad-spectrum jammer with double-stick tape to overload its ability to communicate? Mineral oil cloud to screw up the optics? Small spikes that trail thin wires to draw lightning? Trained flying monkeys to jump on its back and totally screw with its aerodynamics?
C'mon guys - out of the box thinking here. Not everyone in Colorado can afford a Phalanx cannon.
I'm sure a couple of Arduino's, a few das blinken lights and a big old mess of home made rocket propellant will get it done. Screw those rednecks with pimp-pistols and rifles...
Drone sure is good eatin'
Why else does all Y'all think I need a drone shootin' license.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
I don't think anybody likes drones except perhaps the people who build them. However, I'm really upset with the idiots who even think about pointing a weapon up in the sky -- or aiming a laser, for that matter -- in a misguided attempt to fight the spread of drones. There are *people* flying overhead all the time in aircraft both small and large, and there's no way to tell which aircraft is manned and which isn't even if you want to do something stupid. There's a federal death penalty for anyone interfering with an aircraft (or "related facilities") that results in death, so this is serious stuff. I don't like it when people go duck hunting without being careful not to point their weapons anywhere near a family cruising along in their Cessna. If you want to fight the spread of drones then do it in ways that won't get people hurt or killed -- resulting in more drones, probably. Defund them, prevent them from being based in or launched from your community or state, boycott their manufacturers and affiliates, tax them heavily, make their owners/operators/manufacturers personally liable for the worst torts imaginable, and/or whatever. But for the sake of the people up in the skies, please, please don't even think about shooting at them.
How much is a drone worth in scrap and their tech on the black market?
I assure you, I can. You'd be amazed what violent criminals will do to other people for a small fee.
The permit system is supposed to control the manner in which they are shooting up in the air. It's all perfectly legal and controlled if we set up a permit system, just like with firearms in general.
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There's nothing ironic about people in the free market demanding things and offering money for those things. As the government has not (and will not) issue licenses to hunt drones, the market for licenses to hunt drones is a free market.
What an entrepreneurial private individual should do in this free market situation is to start a private business to sell these licenses. These would fall in the same category as bumper stickers, buttons, t-shirts, etc with funny political messages on them.
Here's the real irony: that the supposedly government hating, liberty loving capitalists aren't jumping on ideas like above. It's like they WANT the government to take over so they can then point and say "omg government is taking over everything" when they could have prevented it (and made a killing in the process)
Marx once said the capitalists will sell him the rope to hang them with. That's incorrect. What's actually happening is the capitalists will hand over their customers to the government to become slaves, for free. All these people asking for license to hunt drones could have been a customer to a private business, their money could have been kept in the private sector. But no, the markets just let all the people and money go towards government.
So no, this is not oppression. This is compliance. This is surrender. The so called capitalists are being accomplices in the expansion of government and erosion of freedom
Sorry, the law says the shooter must pay you the cost of the vehicle, that's all.
That's cool. I can put a lot of hours into building a vehicle. How much per billable hour do you think you'd pay for someone to build you a custom drone?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
That's not a drone license, that's a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed out and 'drone' written in in crayon.
From the original article:
"Even if a tiny percentage of people get online (for a) drone license, that's cool. That's a lot of money to a small town like us,"said Boyd
The funny thing here is that the FAA in all their "seriousness" has become the PR department, for free. The FAA's own Altitude Rules pretty much would keep aircraft above the area covered by the town's "Rules of Engagement".
And the NSA will continue to ignore the hillbillies.
Of course the DEA will probably take issue with their meth labs.
sounds like a good idea to me
I've seen lots of comments about, "This is stupid, and can't possibly be legal." That said, legality of shooting down drones is irrelevant: this is about people who are willing to pay money to make sure drones aren't harassing Americans. I'd pay $25 for that. It's too bad it's not more money. For about $10bn., you could buy enough votes to actually start to change something.
Person A: I'm telling you, you don't need a drone license! Person B: I do! I've bleeding got one, I tell you! Person A: That's a deer license with the word "deer" crossed out and "drone" written in in crayon.
I thought guillotine was specifically designed to the goal of making executions faster, with less suffering. Or at least not as long. Compared to earlier methods of execution, it is faster, and with less suffering; a guillotine would result in unconcousness in seconds.
See Wikipedia, the source of all, often accurate information for more.
So, a craft stalls, and on the way to a controlled glide to the ground, you assert the right to shoot it? Because you assume that there are no circumstances for something flying that low other than something that violates your "space." I'm glad you weren't driving next to me a few years ago when my car stalled on the freeway, and I was lucky enough to honk and coast to the side of the road.
This is far, far better than what I was afraid this article was going to be about. The first image that popped into my head was "hunters" taking out licenses to use drones to seek out and bag big game. Unfortunately, I bet that will actually be a "sport" somewhere down the line.