Excellent. I guess you're a loch Ness and Bigfoot believer as well. After all, there are eye witness accounts and their analysis will be much better since they were right there.
They're reporting near misses, but near misses by WHAT?
Before the big drone scare, they might well have seen the very same thing but not reported it because it would either be a bird or the dreaded UFO report.
Look carefully at the reports. Note that most are inconsistant with the sort of drones flown by hobbiests. For example, claims that they are closing at high speed from the side, or looks like an F4.
I note too that none of these drones seem to be falling out of the sky in spite of supposedly flying close enough to get hit with the significant turbulance in the wake of a commercial jet. I find it a bit suspect that these 'drones' are so readily identified as such in spite of being about goose sized and the speeds involved. That is, if the encounters are really that close.
So, we have no marks on planes, no failed engines, no photos from the passengers, and no drones falling out of the sky. Some evidence of an actual incident would be a big step towards convincing me people aren't panicking over geese and sun dazzles.
So can you find even one single solitary instance where a drone has caused more danger to an aircraft than a shoe?
So in fact, you do think you're a special snowflake that shouldn't have to have a breathalyzer interlock or anti-sleep driving measure installed? Even though, unlike the drone thing, those dangers have ACTUALLY killed people?
Haven't you seen liquid fueled RC planes? They even have jets. They can fly quite a long time. It's not hard to maintain line of sight when you're flying high enough to possibly intercept an aircraft.
You seem rather fond of the phrase near miss. Most likely because there have never been any hits. Why do you insist on legislating away non-problems at other's expense?
Funny thing, I don't actually own a drone. I have flown model rockets, and made sure to do so well away from air traffic. If I owned a drone, I would do likewise.
What we really don't need is people like you foaming at the mouth over things that have never happened.
Perhaps you should get your car equipped with geo-fencing and a breathalyzer ignition interlock. After all, people have driven into pedestrian areas and have driven drunk before. While you're at it, add an EEG since people have fallen asleep driving before. Why haven't you already done that? You're not a self-important idiot, are you?
A near miss is another phrase for not a strike. We know a lot of things ingested into a jet engine can be a problem. We haven't banned the lot of them because there haven't been incidents. Kinda like we haven't had incidents with drones.
We have had RC aircraft for decades without a problem. Currently, the number of aircraft brought down by a drone strike is the same as the number brought down by catapulted footwear.
It is probably prudent to limit drone flights near major airports, but since we already do have laws about that, mission accomplished!
There are a few things to keep in mind though. First, Canada has more guns per capita than the United States. Two, there are still places in the U.S. remote enough that a rifle and/or shotgun are still important survival tools and assistance is quite a way off even if you can call someone.
Imagine being all alone in the U.K. surrounded by wilderness and the nearest help if something goes wrong is in France. Now you have an idea why people in the more remote parts of the U.S. believe they need a gun.
There are a great many somewhat less extreme examples as well.
We have at least one post WWII example of an armed populace using guns to defeat a corrupt local government that was rigging an election. This is known as The Battle of Athens.
Every day, thousands of unlicensed people operate machines that amount to no more than whirling blades of death. These machines are powered by the distilled essence of the dead no less. They have a long history of maiming and killing the innocent, even children. You can buy these infernal machines with no background check, no license, not even an ID. The sellers of these contraptions aren't even required to be licensed.
We need to control these so-called "lawn mowers" NOW, before they kill us all!
On the other hand, if you can throw it out with 2 lines of code in processing and you are space constrained, it may be good enough to just paste over the div by zero by making that input value never happened.
Mathematically, yes. In engineering, if you know the direction 0 was approached from, +/- infinity makes sense. In many cases, maxval and minval are good enough and will work out at the practical level (where engineering lives).
WHOOSH yourself! When I spoke of having the last fire mnaker teach a few younger tribe members, did you think I meant have them watch him write a book? Were they all learningh disabled for some reason?
You've clearly gotten target locked and flown into terrain.
Unlike 100% of the things you went on about after that, they had all the information necessary to clearly see that they still needed the ability to light a fire that wasn't dependent on something they couldn't make for themselves or assure would remain available from the outside, and that the last person with that knowledge wasn't going to live forever.
What they didn't have was the brain capacity to look at that situation clearly and FEEL the urgency for action. I'm not casting stones there, it's just a neuroanatomical fact, and it applies to us today as well.
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To the consumer, knowing that the monthly bill is bounded would be nice, but that, apparently, has no meaningful upper limit.
So how much training do you suppose they got on identifying hobby drones when they were learning to fly?
Excellent. I guess you're a loch Ness and Bigfoot believer as well. After all, there are eye witness accounts and their analysis will be much better since they were right there.
And it's not necessarily worse.
They're reporting near misses, but near misses by WHAT?
Before the big drone scare, they might well have seen the very same thing but not reported it because it would either be a bird or the dreaded UFO report.
Your disagreement is devastating, let me tell you!
I haven't seen PILOTS proposing draconian restrictions on drones, just a non-pilot legislator that wants to ban everything but NSA spying anyway.
Look carefully at the reports. Note that most are inconsistant with the sort of drones flown by hobbiests. For example, claims that they are closing at high speed from the side, or looks like an F4.
I note too that none of these drones seem to be falling out of the sky in spite of supposedly flying close enough to get hit with the significant turbulance in the wake of a commercial jet. I find it a bit suspect that these 'drones' are so readily identified as such in spite of being about goose sized and the speeds involved. That is, if the encounters are really that close.
So, we have no marks on planes, no failed engines, no photos from the passengers, and no drones falling out of the sky. Some evidence of an actual incident would be a big step towards convincing me people aren't panicking over geese and sun dazzles.
So can you find even one single solitary instance where a drone has caused more danger to an aircraft than a shoe?
So in fact, you do think you're a special snowflake that shouldn't have to have a breathalyzer interlock or anti-sleep driving measure installed? Even though, unlike the drone thing, those dangers have ACTUALLY killed people?
Shame on you!
Haven't you seen liquid fueled RC planes? They even have jets. They can fly quite a long time. It's not hard to maintain line of sight when you're flying high enough to possibly intercept an aircraft.
You seem rather fond of the phrase near miss. Most likely because there have never been any hits. Why do you insist on legislating away non-problems at other's expense?
Funny thing, I don't actually own a drone. I have flown model rockets, and made sure to do so well away from air traffic. If I owned a drone, I would do likewise.
What we really don't need is people like you foaming at the mouth over things that have never happened.
Perhaps you should get your car equipped with geo-fencing and a breathalyzer ignition interlock. After all, people have driven into pedestrian areas and have driven drunk before. While you're at it, add an EEG since people have fallen asleep driving before. Why haven't you already done that? You're not a self-important idiot, are you?
A near miss is another phrase for not a strike. We know a lot of things ingested into a jet engine can be a problem. We haven't banned the lot of them because there haven't been incidents. Kinda like we haven't had incidents with drones.
We have had RC aircraft for decades without a problem. Currently, the number of aircraft brought down by a drone strike is the same as the number brought down by catapulted footwear.
It is probably prudent to limit drone flights near major airports, but since we already do have laws about that, mission accomplished!
Hint, shooting an angry bear is fairly low on my list of things you might need a gun for.
There is, for example, food.
There are a few things to keep in mind though. First, Canada has more guns per capita than the United States. Two, there are still places in the U.S. remote enough that a rifle and/or shotgun are still important survival tools and assistance is quite a way off even if you can call someone.
Imagine being all alone in the U.K. surrounded by wilderness and the nearest help if something goes wrong is in France. Now you have an idea why people in the more remote parts of the U.S. believe they need a gun.
There are a great many somewhat less extreme examples as well.
We have at least one post WWII example of an armed populace using guns to defeat a corrupt local government that was rigging an election. This is known as The Battle of Athens.
Every day, thousands of unlicensed people operate machines that amount to no more than whirling blades of death. These machines are powered by the distilled essence of the dead no less. They have a long history of maiming and killing the innocent, even children. You can buy these infernal machines with no background check, no license, not even an ID. The sellers of these contraptions aren't even required to be licensed.
We need to control these so-called "lawn mowers" NOW, before they kill us all!
I would, but there aren't any. They'll just have to wait in line with the friends and family of people killed by a soup ladle wielding maniac.
More people have been killed with a butter knife than with a drone. Do you support butter knife control?
That depends on what the definition of "is" is.
The term is well understood by every English speaking person in the world but you, apparently. What does that say about you?
New legislation, All geese must be cyborged immediately with GPS, geo-fencing and collision avoidance software.
Perhaps the problem is aircraft that are too damned fragile to handle an event with a non-zero natural occurrence without killing people.
Don't forget to ban squall lines and hail. More than one aircraft has gone down after the engines ingested too much water and hail.
So far, no aircraft has been brought down by a drone strike. In fact, I know of no report of a drone strike of any kind.
On the other hand, if you can throw it out with 2 lines of code in processing and you are space constrained, it may be good enough to just paste over the div by zero by making that input value never happened.
Sometimes it really is a pathological corner case and it really will work out fine if you "kick the table leg" and get on with it.
Mathematically, yes. In engineering, if you know the direction 0 was approached from, +/- infinity makes sense. In many cases, maxval and minval are good enough and will work out at the practical level (where engineering lives).
I said believably. That's hard when it is known that 100% of the privacy advocates declared the process broken beyond repair and walked away.
Or they played along not expecting much so it couldn't be said they didn't give it a chance.
Nice to see there are still some 3 digit users around.
WHOOSH yourself! When I spoke of having the last fire mnaker teach a few younger tribe members, did you think I meant have them watch him write a book? Were they all learningh disabled for some reason?
You've clearly gotten target locked and flown into terrain.
Unlike 100% of the things you went on about after that, they had all the information necessary to clearly see that they still needed the ability to light a fire that wasn't dependent on something they couldn't make for themselves or assure would remain available from the outside, and that the last person with that knowledge wasn't going to live forever.
What they didn't have was the brain capacity to look at that situation clearly and FEEL the urgency for action. I'm not casting stones there, it's just a neuroanatomical fact, and it applies to us today as well.
It's very simple. Bank recognizing you when you enter the bank = good. Bank following you around = bad.