I don't think you kill Due Process all at once. You just "bend" it, like bending the definition of Congress being in session to avoid congressional approval of nominees, and hope nobody notices. That's what you do with a "Living and Breathing" Constitution; you don't uphold it. You stretch it, but not all at once until it shatters. You do it little by little, until it just cracks imperceptibly. Then you nudge it some more.
The footage I've seen shows a subtle roll wobble that is characteristic of RC aircraft with short wings. That plus the low speeds => low roll damping. A capable fighter aircraft would need at least a Stability Augmentation System that would cancel this out, and this footage leads me to think RC model as well.
Thanks for the link to the "cockpit". Looks like a homebuilt aircraft you'd find in some EAA enthusiast's garage. The stick looks like a reuse from an F-4 Phantom or something of that era. Oh, and I'm sure they are up for a bit of a surprise when the first pilot accidentally hits the landing gear knob with his left knee. And check out the thin fiberglass structure by the right hand controls. You can see some more fiberglass behind the seat. Speaking of the seat, they're in for another surprise when the first pilot has to eject (won't be long) and lands without his lower legs because he left them under the front console.
Consider that this is the kind of stunt Saddam Hussein was up to in his defiant years before the invasion, before we called his bluff. Now put this silly PR move in the context of a hypothetical scenario where Hussein was still around. It's not hard to imagine the tension between Iraq and Iran if there were two megalomaniacs trying to outdo each other in the Middle East, instead of just one megalomaniac. The arms race would be "pedal to the metal" right about now.
wait, who said that members of the military would actually be *willing* to fight a war against other Americans? I'd wager you'd see the shortest war in history as the front line troops would simply refuse to fire. Key leaders would resign before giving the orders to fight, and the infrastructure would then either A. fall into unmanageable chaos or B. constrict and lock down into a state of paralysis. Either way, it's not going to be an effective force, even if it gets far enough to (unconsitutionally) deploy troops.
I agree with your objection, and I would hope that it would work itself out that way, but I'm sure we would most likely see a split between those who will side with the government because of the power and authority it wields an those who would side with the citizens who are revolting against a government which has breached the limits of proper governance.
It's an awful scenario I dread to see, but look at the current state of the country. We have people who look less to the rule of law and more to the current popular trends, including a "likeable" president. People assume the government's intent is always noble and are willing to turn over their liberties and their hard earned dollar to these "well meaning" group of people who are after all, just fellow flawed human beings in a big amorphous blob we call the government. If this "likeable" president sells a significant amount of the population on turning against their fellow citizen, and especially if he sets up a parallel civilian security force as our current president has established (see YouTube link) through ObamaCare (Sec 203 Commissioned Corps and Ready Reserve Corps; we had to pass it to know what's in it), then we will have a longer and more complicated fight than you were thinking.
Now somebody will quickly say that these Corps were setup for national emergencies and health emergencies, but it's not far fetched to see its purpose "extended" when an insurrection is declared a "national emergency".
It IS, in fact, possible to wage an effective and persistent guerrilla war against the U.S. Armed Forces. You have multiple theaters of operations as clear evidence.
I can't emphasise it enough, if you point a gun in my direction, accidentally or not, I will do anything up to and including killing you to stop that situation occurring or continuing. But owning a gun expressly for that purpose will only cause the same reaction from the other party.
Bravo. You've fallen hook line and sinker for the moral equivalency between attacker and defender. The premise of the argument is that the "other party" is a guy who intends to hurt you. A gun is an equalizer for the defender. I'm not crazy about being the guy who brought the knife to the gunfight and, as the second amendment sought to equalize power between the people and a rogue government, we should be free to equalize against those who seek to harm us.
Liberal idiots whip themselves into a frenzy because rifles look scary. They associate rifles with the military and wars. Rifles are an easy target for mass hysteria for the same reason that ignorant reporters fixate on them.
Exactly. The Violence Policy Center is actually counting on public ignorance and confusion about firearms to gain support for legislation.
Search for the word "confusion." Yes, let's take advantage of public ignorance to deprive them of their rights. That's the way our politicians develop policy of all kinds, whether guns, health care, entitlements, etc.
Banning cars or propane tanks or whatnot would be ridiculous. Yes, they *could* be used for mass harm, but they generally aren't. Assault weapons are.
By that logic, we should be having about 10 massacres a day, since there are so many "assault weapons" out there already. As seen in a bumper sticker; "Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns." This is true for the vast majority of law-abiding gun owners. AR's have gained huge popularity among all kinds of sportsmen for their modularity, performance, light weight, etc.
Worse yet, your statement reeks of the same presumption of guilt that all of the left holds towards gun owners. Example; our country's current chief prosecutor, Atty Gen Eric holder said on CSPAN back in the mid 90's that gun owners should be shamed like smokers were being at the time, and that they needed to brainwash people about guns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYyqBxD-3xw
This is an absolutely shameful disregard for the presumption of innocence and a disgrace. And then we are supposed to believe that he didn't know about a gunrunning program that would help him "brainwash" people about gun violence?
I remember getting the little subscription card included in the NES box before the first issue came out and the marketing made you feel like you were getting in on something special and exclusive. Then getting my first issue in the mail, it was every bit as glorious as I've ever seen any bit of propaganda. I was a subscriber for a good many years until I started moving around a lot, at which point the SNES was starting to show its age and the N64 wasn't really appealing to an overachiever with more schoolwork than he could handle.
Hard to believe, I still have the first issue in very good condition, somewhere in my box full of collectibles.
The Left-leaning media is hard at work too.
FoxNation.com | 8/13
For some reason '60 Minutes' sent out a transcript of the Romney-Ryan interview but decided not to air the portion where Paul Ryan tells Bob Schieffer his mother is a "Medicare senior in Florida." Don't you think this is an important piece of information considering the Democrat Party's central line of attack against Ryan is that he "ends Medicare as we know it?"
BOB SCHIEFFER: You're going to have to see-- you're going to have to do a little selling.
PAUL RYAN: My mom is a Medicare senior in Florida. Our point is we need to preserve their benefits, because government made promises to them that they've organized their retirements around. In order to make sure we can do that, you must reform it for those of us who are younger. And we think these reforms are good reforms, that have bipartisan origins. They started from the Clinton commission in the late '90s. http://nation.foxnews.com/cbs-news/2012/08/13/cbs-doesn-t-want-you-know-ryans-mother-medicare
But that's one yummy helping of spectacular engineering fail. And this coming from a guy who saw his rocket execute an un-prescribed loop-da-loop right out of the launcher, so I know the bitter taste of test failure on tape first hand. Not the same amount of money was involved in my case, though. Looks like this control system was determined to diverge as soon the legs stopped making contact. Tether saved us from a few failures in my day, but based on the history looks like they had done enough tethered testing and were ready to go free. Feel sorry for the team who had to get data the hard way. Hope you had telemetry, because there's nothing left to diagnose or debug.
I think the article might be a bit sensationalist considering the context is that you are able to spoof your own drone, but I get the general point. Spoofing unencrypted civilian GPS (CA code) is a possibility, but harder after a receiver has a fix. Spoofing unencrypted military GPS (P-code) using the same technique is VERY difficult because of the length of the pattern, but not impossible. Spoofing encrypted military GPS (Y-code) is statistically improbable.
I'm a UAV guy but not much of an RF guy. Anybody know what chance there is to selectively jam one band while letting the other band pass? I don't think it's very likely, so slim chance of jamming P/Y code to spoof the C/A fallback (if it's being used at all). Frankly, I wouldn't use CA fallback anyways if I suspect jamming. I'd look at my residuals (dead reckoning navigation errors) and try to head towards my pre-defined return home point. Which brings me to my next point.
If you want it to use the return-home function that results from a lost datalink you need to jam the datalink. And that's still not a landing instruction, just a safe point to fly to in order to reacquire, so spoofing to return-home is unlikely to give you an intact drone.
To actually command a landing at a certain spot you need to know which coordinate to spoof your GPS towards, which implies that you unencrypted the datalink AND know its packet structure to interrogate, if not redefine, the recovery point, which is pre-programmed during pre-flight checklist and not casually redefined during normal operations.
In my professional opinion, all this adds up to a high improbability of Iran deliberately bringing down that drone. Unless some incompetent decided to use an unencrypted GPS receiver and datalink on one of the most valuable assets in the inventory. Then I'd have them fired. Out of a cannon.
This is most likely prompted by the fact that the most well-respected and versatile ground control software package has been hosted on Solaris for a long time, but has also been transitioning to Linux over the last few years. Couple that with the fact that Solaris is becoming more and more difficult to support and procure hardware for and this is a natural progression. I myself had to ask the company that makes this software to port the software to x86 so I could use it in a UAV training system and surprisingly they were more willing to port it to Linux than to OpenSolaris which I thought would be a shorter path, but since it was OpenMotif based and Linux is way easier to support the Linux path made more sense. The Linux version was not "flight certified" and was only useful for the training system. Now the universal ground station software is Linux native and that's probably what they're transitioning to.
Yeah, keeping people hungry is also SOP, since hungry folks don't put up that much of a fight. Ask the North Koreans.
I don't think there's mass hunger in Venezuela yet, but with a command economy it's a logical step.
And in case we don't think it could happen here, from Sarah Brady's own mouth:
Yeah. The Bilbo Baggins is the one I was talking about. Their Bilbo burger with the english muffin bun is priceless. All their food is top quality and so are the beers. So if they get sued they would have to prove they referenced the public domain Ace edition?
It might not be long until they find the one named for a specific character here in my area. The first floor has the pub called "The Green Dragon" and they carry a nice long list of exotic beers; the top floor is a nicely decorated restaurant area. I was just there on Sunday with the buds. I hope it does not succumb to the lawyers.
To echo my previous response to the same question above:
It was actually the inventor of the CICADA himself, who has a great sense of humor and loves to do this to almost all the "drones" he creates.
I'll be the ridiculous poster who has an actual encounter with a turtle.
Getting tossed about by the waves two weekends ago in Maryland, I feel sharp pain and scratching at my shins. There were no trees or branches anywhere on the beach, so I think maybe it's a crab (it is Maryland after all). As I kick to get away from the object, I feel more nipping at my ankles. My crab theory is shot to hell as I see the brown shell about 16" in diameter surface a few feet in front of me. I feel ridiculous as I tell the story when my friends ask me about the blood streaming from my shins and ankle.
Had this "attack" been any worse. I may have needed this code after all.
(I duck and take cover as I see clumps of vitriol and ridicule coming my way already...)
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I don't think you kill Due Process all at once. You just "bend" it, like bending the definition of Congress being in session to avoid congressional approval of nominees, and hope nobody notices. That's what you do with a "Living and Breathing" Constitution; you don't uphold it. You stretch it, but not all at once until it shatters. You do it little by little, until it just cracks imperceptibly. Then you nudge it some more.
The footage I've seen shows a subtle roll wobble that is characteristic of RC aircraft with short wings. That plus the low speeds => low roll damping. A capable fighter aircraft would need at least a Stability Augmentation System that would cancel this out, and this footage leads me to think RC model as well.
Thanks for the link to the "cockpit". Looks like a homebuilt aircraft you'd find in some EAA enthusiast's garage. The stick looks like a reuse from an F-4 Phantom or something of that era. Oh, and I'm sure they are up for a bit of a surprise when the first pilot accidentally hits the landing gear knob with his left knee. And check out the thin fiberglass structure by the right hand controls. You can see some more fiberglass behind the seat. Speaking of the seat, they're in for another surprise when the first pilot has to eject (won't be long) and lands without his lower legs because he left them under the front console.
Consider that this is the kind of stunt Saddam Hussein was up to in his defiant years before the invasion, before we called his bluff. Now put this silly PR move in the context of a hypothetical scenario where Hussein was still around. It's not hard to imagine the tension between Iraq and Iran if there were two megalomaniacs trying to outdo each other in the Middle East, instead of just one megalomaniac. The arms race would be "pedal to the metal" right about now.
wait, who said that members of the military would actually be *willing* to fight a war against other Americans? I'd wager you'd see the shortest war in history as the front line troops would simply refuse to fire. Key leaders would resign before giving the orders to fight, and the infrastructure would then either A. fall into unmanageable chaos or B. constrict and lock down into a state of paralysis. Either way, it's not going to be an effective force, even if it gets far enough to (unconsitutionally) deploy troops.
I agree with your objection, and I would hope that it would work itself out that way, but I'm sure we would most likely see a split between those who will side with the government because of the power and authority it wields an those who would side with the citizens who are revolting against a government which has breached the limits of proper governance.
It's an awful scenario I dread to see, but look at the current state of the country. We have people who look less to the rule of law and more to the current popular trends, including a "likeable" president. People assume the government's intent is always noble and are willing to turn over their liberties and their hard earned dollar to these "well meaning" group of people who are after all, just fellow flawed human beings in a big amorphous blob we call the government. If this "likeable" president sells a significant amount of the population on turning against their fellow citizen, and especially if he sets up a parallel civilian security force as our current president has established (see YouTube link) through ObamaCare (Sec 203 Commissioned Corps and Ready Reserve Corps; we had to pass it to know what's in it), then we will have a longer and more complicated fight than you were thinking.
Now somebody will quickly say that these Corps were setup for national emergencies and health emergencies, but it's not far fetched to see its purpose "extended" when an insurrection is declared a "national emergency".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
It IS, in fact, possible to wage an effective and persistent guerrilla war against the U.S. Armed Forces. You have multiple theaters of operations as clear evidence.
I can't emphasise it enough, if you point a gun in my direction, accidentally or not, I will do anything up to and including killing you to stop that situation occurring or continuing. But owning a gun expressly for that purpose will only cause the same reaction from the other party.
Bravo. You've fallen hook line and sinker for the moral equivalency between attacker and defender. The premise of the argument is that the "other party" is a guy who intends to hurt you. A gun is an equalizer for the defender. I'm not crazy about being the guy who brought the knife to the gunfight and, as the second amendment sought to equalize power between the people and a rogue government, we should be free to equalize against those who seek to harm us.
Liberal idiots whip themselves into a frenzy because rifles look scary. They associate rifles with the military and wars. Rifles are an easy target for mass hysteria for the same reason that ignorant reporters fixate on them.
Exactly. The Violence Policy Center is actually counting on public ignorance and confusion about firearms to gain support for legislation.
http://www.vpc.org/studies/awaconc.htm
Search for the word "confusion." Yes, let's take advantage of public ignorance to deprive them of their rights. That's the way our politicians develop policy of all kinds, whether guns, health care, entitlements, etc.
Banning cars or propane tanks or whatnot would be ridiculous. Yes, they *could* be used for mass harm, but they generally aren't. Assault weapons are.
By that logic, we should be having about 10 massacres a day, since there are so many "assault weapons" out there already. As seen in a bumper sticker; "Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns." This is true for the vast majority of law-abiding gun owners. AR's have gained huge popularity among all kinds of sportsmen for their modularity, performance, light weight, etc. Worse yet, your statement reeks of the same presumption of guilt that all of the left holds towards gun owners. Example; our country's current chief prosecutor, Atty Gen Eric holder said on CSPAN back in the mid 90's that gun owners should be shamed like smokers were being at the time, and that they needed to brainwash people about guns. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYyqBxD-3xw This is an absolutely shameful disregard for the presumption of innocence and a disgrace. And then we are supposed to believe that he didn't know about a gunrunning program that would help him "brainwash" people about gun violence?
I remember getting the little subscription card included in the NES box before the first issue came out and the marketing made you feel like you were getting in on something special and exclusive. Then getting my first issue in the mail, it was every bit as glorious as I've ever seen any bit of propaganda. I was a subscriber for a good many years until I started moving around a lot, at which point the SNES was starting to show its age and the N64 wasn't really appealing to an overachiever with more schoolwork than he could handle. Hard to believe, I still have the first issue in very good condition, somewhere in my box full of collectibles.
The Left-leaning media is hard at work too.
FoxNation.com | 8/13
For some reason '60 Minutes' sent out a transcript of the Romney-Ryan interview but decided not to air the portion where Paul Ryan tells Bob Schieffer his mother is a "Medicare senior in Florida." Don't you think this is an important piece of information considering the Democrat Party's central line of attack against Ryan is that he "ends Medicare as we know it?"
BOB SCHIEFFER: You're going to have to see-- you're going to have to do a little selling.
PAUL RYAN: My mom is a Medicare senior in Florida. Our point is we need to preserve their benefits, because government made promises to them that they've organized their retirements around. In order to make sure we can do that, you must reform it for those of us who are younger. And we think these reforms are good reforms, that have bipartisan origins. They started from the Clinton commission in the late '90s.
http://nation.foxnews.com/cbs-news/2012/08/13/cbs-doesn-t-want-you-know-ryans-mother-medicare
But that's one yummy helping of spectacular engineering fail. And this coming from a guy who saw his rocket execute an un-prescribed loop-da-loop right out of the launcher, so I know the bitter taste of test failure on tape first hand. Not the same amount of money was involved in my case, though. Looks like this control system was determined to diverge as soon the legs stopped making contact. Tether saved us from a few failures in my day, but based on the history looks like they had done enough tethered testing and were ready to go free. Feel sorry for the team who had to get data the hard way. Hope you had telemetry, because there's nothing left to diagnose or debug.
I'm a UAV guy but not much of an RF guy. Anybody know what chance there is to selectively jam one band while letting the other band pass? I don't think it's very likely, so slim chance of jamming P/Y code to spoof the C/A fallback (if it's being used at all). Frankly, I wouldn't use CA fallback anyways if I suspect jamming. I'd look at my residuals (dead reckoning navigation errors) and try to head towards my pre-defined return home point. Which brings me to my next point.
If you want it to use the return-home function that results from a lost datalink you need to jam the datalink. And that's still not a landing instruction, just a safe point to fly to in order to reacquire, so spoofing to return-home is unlikely to give you an intact drone.
To actually command a landing at a certain spot you need to know which coordinate to spoof your GPS towards, which implies that you unencrypted the datalink AND know its packet structure to interrogate, if not redefine, the recovery point, which is pre-programmed during pre-flight checklist and not casually redefined during normal operations.
In my professional opinion, all this adds up to a high improbability of Iran deliberately bringing down that drone. Unless some incompetent decided to use an unencrypted GPS receiver and datalink on one of the most valuable assets in the inventory. Then I'd have them fired. Out of a cannon.
This is most likely prompted by the fact that the most well-respected and versatile ground control software package has been hosted on Solaris for a long time, but has also been transitioning to Linux over the last few years. Couple that with the fact that Solaris is becoming more and more difficult to support and procure hardware for and this is a natural progression. I myself had to ask the company that makes this software to port the software to x86 so I could use it in a UAV training system and surprisingly they were more willing to port it to Linux than to OpenSolaris which I thought would be a shorter path, but since it was OpenMotif based and Linux is way easier to support the Linux path made more sense. The Linux version was not "flight certified" and was only useful for the training system. Now the universal ground station software is Linux native and that's probably what they're transitioning to.
And in case we don't think it could happen here, from Sarah Brady's own mouth:
http://www.examiner.com/article/sarah-brady-claims-obama-pushing-under-the-radar-gun-control
So much for the most legit and transparent administration, like, EVER!
Yeah. The Bilbo Baggins is the one I was talking about. Their Bilbo burger with the english muffin bun is priceless. All their food is top quality and so are the beers. So if they get sued they would have to prove they referenced the public domain Ace edition?
It might not be long until they find the one named for a specific character here in my area. The first floor has the pub called "The Green Dragon" and they carry a nice long list of exotic beers; the top floor is a nicely decorated restaurant area. I was just there on Sunday with the buds. I hope it does not succumb to the lawyers.
To echo my previous response to the same question above: It was actually the inventor of the CICADA himself, who has a great sense of humor and loves to do this to almost all the "drones" he creates.
Somebody, somewhere spends hours coming up with these "names"
CICADA = Close-In Covert Autonomous Disposable Aircraft
It was actually the inventor of the CICADA himself, who has a great sense of humor and loves to do this to almost all the "drones" he creates.
I'll be the ridiculous poster who has an actual encounter with a turtle. Getting tossed about by the waves two weekends ago in Maryland, I feel sharp pain and scratching at my shins. There were no trees or branches anywhere on the beach, so I think maybe it's a crab (it is Maryland after all). As I kick to get away from the object, I feel more nipping at my ankles. My crab theory is shot to hell as I see the brown shell about 16" in diameter surface a few feet in front of me. I feel ridiculous as I tell the story when my friends ask me about the blood streaming from my shins and ankle. Had this "attack" been any worse. I may have needed this code after all. (I duck and take cover as I see clumps of vitriol and ridicule coming my way already...)