What does the FAA requirement for civilians to register their drones, have to do with the law that prohibits the use of Federal Military personnel in law enforcement actions within the boundaries of the nation? Particularly in regards to small drones intended to be used by infantry patrols in a combat zone?
Secure or unsecure it's all commercial grade equipment. There are procedures to secure such as per the requirements of the network involved but there is not a special US one manufacturer of such equipment. HP is most common printer found but they don't hold a monopoly, I've seen Cannon, Lexmark and others. A classified network has no connection to the Unclass networks, and Higher level networks have no connection to lower networks. Airgapping (authorized and unauthorized) does happen but network separation and very heavy monitoring keeps things mostly secure.
No, South Korea does not want the US to pull out or reduce our presence. They rely heavily on us and our big sticks to keep the North in check. Remove our extremely capable forces and the barrier to NK seeking a military resolution to the stalemate is greatly reduced. NK deciding to attack means Seoul is obliterated in minutes.
And more importantly to many than the fuel cost. because many of us are paying more than $1.50 (you lucky dog) a gallon, is the time it takes to refuel. 5 minutes. If it's for a daily commute charging while at work or plugged in is fine. But on longer trips refuel time becomes a big factor. And if one makes longer trips, this becomes a big factor as a second vehicle is now required for those longer trips.
This. This should be easily tested for by looking at a few areas subject to frequent pollution problems. A great place to test this would be the LA Basin, another would be the Wasatch front of Utah (Salt Lake City Metro area) Both are natural bowls that frequently trap high levels of pollution that cover the entire area equally, not caring if the neighborhood is poor, middle class or rich.
You can't DRM a decades old technology in wide distribution. There is no profit is redesigning a standard product that others can produce far cheaper than the car manufacturer can.
DRM applies to digital content. Not clamping oversized alligator clamps onto lead contact rods.
Not all Europeans. In the former Yugoslavia it took outside forces to stop those Europeans from killing each other for not being of the same religio-ethnicity. Orthodox vs Catholics vs Muslims.
Then you have the Russians invading Neighboring countries (Ukraine) for land. Not outright killing but it's still a hostile invasion resulting in military casualties. And then there is the little decades long dispute between Greece and Turkey (again over land). You are right though that the Germans seem happy to let people live even if they are foreign, or handicapped, or gay, or Gypsies or are Jewish.
100+ million gun owners, 11-12k homicides a year. Roughly half of those being gangland thug on thug homicides suggests it's not as frequent as you claim. Roughly 5k per year out of a population of 320 Million+ No other nation comes anywhere near the number of guns in the US, yet many have firearm homicide rates far greater than the US does.
I live in one of the most gun friendly states in the nation,Utah. Where roughly a fifth of the eligible adult citizens have concealed carry permits. Where Open carry is legal and common, where campus carry is legal and common. We see about 20-30 firearm homicides a year. If gun nuts would just shoot each other given the chance why aren't our streets running with blood?
No it does not accuse the drafters of stupidity but of fully understanding what a well regulated militia was. Well regulated meant functional (not well trained). A militia is to respond with their own arms. If the people are not allowed arms then they cannot be called out to function as a well regulated (functional rather than well trained) militia.
A disarmed militia is not functional or well regulated. It's also not a militia but rather a gathering of individuals unable to act in defense of the community or state.
Actually it is public property. The facility is owned by a non-profit set up by the city and county to operate it. And construction was funded via taxes. Quicken attached it's name via a naming rights contract, not via ownership of the venue.
Bingo. Me I carry when I can. And am a staunch supporter of the right to carry. But I see this going nowhere as it is not the decision of the RNC or even Quicken Arena, but the Secret Service who are tasked with protection for Trump and Cruz at a minimum as well as any prior presidents who might wish to attend (Bush I and II). They set the security arrangements and requirements and they will not allow guns inside the venue.
Does the same apply to the exercise of the Freedom of Speech. Feather quill pens and hand cranked presses using lead type. None of this TV or radio or interweb crap. The founding fathers never guaranteed any of those modes of communication. And your peaceful assembly had better be orchestrated by voice only, no mechanical amplification and none of those new fangled things called electric lights. Candles, lanterns and torches will do if the meetings run into the evening hours.
No I am not. The point was that regardless of which valuation is correct he is filthy rich. Him being worth 4.5 billion is not significantly different from being worth 10 billion. He may always want more. But he's well beyond the point were exact amount really matters at least not as per the discussion.
When a large percentage of the population of this country lives from paycheck to paycheck with little if anything in the way of savings, whether he is worth $10 billion or a paltry $4.5 billion is meaningless. Make it $2 billion and he's still set his family up for generations of easy living even if it never earns a cent of interest.
That would be their daddy's P-38. Or the can opener on each of their many multi-tools, or just use one of their many big knives. Demand for can-openers not likely to be as high as you expect.
Funny it's you gun haters who are always obsessing about supposed sexual connotations. Such topics do not come up among those of us who enjoy exercising our 2A rights.
You are right that guns would not have been very successful at stopping a surprise suicide bomber or three. But as there were reports of shooting as well. Armed citizens could have helped react there as well. But they are less common at airports because most people go to airports to travel and that requires locking up ones gun.
As to your claim about political correctness: You would punish millions of peaceful law abiding people based on the acts of a very small minority of the faith. a minority that twists the faith well beyond it's teachings in order to justify murder of innocent civilians. Of people who are for the most part not by definition Infidels (Christians and Jews are not infidels, but Children of the Book, slightly misguided followers of Allah who deserve a lesser status but are not infidels to be killed.) You would punish millions for the crimes of a few. Of course you would. You've already indicated via your overly sexual connotations of gun ownership that you wish to punish millions of peaceful law abiding gun owners for the criminal acts of a very small minority of gun owners.
I strongly dislike him and his politics as well. But choosing how to enforce the laws is not Treason. It may be dereliction of duty. But it's not aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war. He is not a traitor. He's a scum sucking marxist-liberal who has a vision of America that will lead to it's destruction, but that is his right, and he's managed to convince many others that such a route is the best way to go. And he would likely have the opinion that I am a scum sucking right-wing nutbag who has a vision of America that will lead to it's destruction, as is my right. That we disagree is not treason, or even criminal.
Bradley Manning, Snowden, the Rosenbergs, Bowe Bergdahl, Adam Gadahn. Those are individuals whose acts are treasonous as per the actual definition of the crime.
We need to re-learn how to disagree with someone and their political views without needing to demonize them and accuse them of high crimes without any actual basis for those claims.
Further Assange never broke US law. He didn't steal the classified information. Manning did. He didn't reveal the classified information to unauthorized persons (he is one). Manning did. The US has no case against him, he never signed an SF-12 NDA regarding classified information. The old Intel community joke of I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you is wrong. It should be I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill myself is more accurate. A non-cleared person is not at fault when a person with a clearance reveals classified information to them.
Who you calling a libertarian? I'm a conservative. The minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage. It's an entry level wage to prevent labor abuses, not a wage meant to be used to live off of. You jack up the minimum wage you only price entry level workers (high school kids trying to gain experience) out of the work force. Their unskilled labor is not worth the price. They don't need it to be worth the cost, they just need some spending cash. It's the idiots trying to raise a family while working jobs not designed or intended for such and then complaining that they don't make enough that even make this an issue.
I have expenses, When looking for a job I know that I can't make it on less than $12 an hour. So I don't even apply for such jobs. I don't get a $7.25 an hour job and then complain that I need a raise. I spent nearly a year unemployed because of this pickiness. But then I had the savings to do so. Because I'm not an idiot. But I'm also not a libertarian who thinks no government is better.
The fact is you string up the producers because they are wealthy. Their heirs get their wealth and go live in the Caribbean on their inheritance and the workers who strung up the producer suddenly have neither money to buy anything nor anything to buy. We need some regulation. But too many are pushing for too much, to the point that those that have will simply take their ball and leave, leaving the rest of us with nothing.
And living in the urban world that we do, very few of us will be able to survive. During the great Depression at least the majority of Americans (for example) had some property to grow food on to feed their families. Today that is not the case. You kill the producers you destroy the economy and cause mass starvation and death.
Funny, there is just such a coffee/hot chocolate dispenser down stairs in the break room of my office with the other vending machines. Those machines are still fully legal and quite common. Keurig machines are just a more modern take on the idea using individual cups of syrup for greater variety of flavor rather than feeding from a common large volume container. And take a look at the new coke dispensers at many restaurants. Everything comes out of one nozzle, from a series of inkjet like cartridges, only the water and CO2 come from outside the dispenser box.
McDonalds has used dispenser tubes that work like caulk guns for their sauces, onions and pickles for years. One click of the trigger dispenses the correct measurement for one burger. Granted sliced pickles are a little different than chopped pickles but not that different. And if you think even those would be difficult to dispense you aren't really aware of what machines can handle, a vacuum powered suction cup could pick up individual slices from a bin and drop them on the burger with a minute burst of air reversing the suction.
Why would RoboCarlz rely on something as sketchy and variable as human speech. Just a touch screen menu with variability options will work great. Like the Coke machines now taking over many restaurants. Where with just a few button pushes you can choose your base drink and then add a variety of flavors, inside the machine are a bunch of inkjet style cartridges full of concentrated syrups for all the various flavors, They syrups are concentrated and many flavors can go a month between replacements.
So let us take your order. You touch the 6'r button, touch extra mayo, modify pickles to 1 slice only, hold all other condiments. Then select how you want the meat cooked.
Or have you speak your order into your phone/device where Siri/GV has learned your voice and speech patterns and then your device sends the instructions to the RoboCarl. If you frequent the store it could even learn your favorite, and greet you as you walk up having identified you by your smartphone. "Hello again Mr AC would you like your regular 6r, extra mayo 1 pickle, hold the rest, meat so rare the cow was only vaguely aware of what a fire looked like? Or would you like to try something else this time?"
Honestly the biggest challenge to this kind of automation at this point would be how the ingredients are loaded into the bot, can that process also be automated or will it take a human in the back of the store to load the meat, condiment and bun cartridges in a timely manner.
One tech per store, 3 total for a full day's coverage, supervising multiple Chef bots. Give em a floating manager who supervises three or four stores. Versus 15 - 20 minimum wage workers, 3 assistant managers and a manager for the human run store.
Take another look at Walmart, my local Walmart self service lane has 10 checkouts monitored by one cashier. A checkout has a problem it gets shut down until it can be fixed, only a minor drop in throughput. Meanwhile the other lanes are one cashier per lane. 1 for 10 lanes versus 4 for four lanes.
Usually those going to the human run lanes are those with carts full of stuff, get very many items and the self check-out becomes a pain due to much more limited pre and post scan shelf space.
Most fast food restaurants have two production lines for high volume times and for redundancy in case of equipment failure. The same would happen with the auto-chef's except they may be able to cram three or four in due to not having to include space for a human on the production line. So one goes down do to part failure, or a major goof by the tech doing routine maintenance. Production is slightly reduced, wait times are slightly longer. If seriously damaged the Chef-bot bot arrives, opens the access door on the roof, removes the broken/worn-out Chef-bot and replaces it with a new/refurbished one while the other Chef-bots keep producing. With proper diagnostic systems the Chef-bot bot could arrive to swap out Chef-bots before the human tech even realizes a problem is about to occur.
Customer hits the extra Onions button and no pickles button.
The machine reaches the onions step and the onions gate opens and the plunger presses down through the dispensing tube, dropping 1/2 tsp of chopped onion onto the patty, the gate closes the piston retracts and the feed hopper opens allowing onion bits to gravity feed into the dispenser tube filling it with 1/2 tsp of chopped onion, then process then repeats. At the pickle state the pickles gate remains closed.
Results Extra onions, no pickles. No spit, snot or other unwanted additives. Not exactly impossible. by any means.
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What does the FAA requirement for civilians to register their drones, have to do with the law that prohibits the use of Federal Military personnel in law enforcement actions within the boundaries of the nation? Particularly in regards to small drones intended to be used by infantry patrols in a combat zone?
Secure or unsecure it's all commercial grade equipment. There are procedures to secure such as per the requirements of the network involved but there is not a special US one manufacturer of such equipment. HP is most common printer found but they don't hold a monopoly, I've seen Cannon, Lexmark and others. A classified network has no connection to the Unclass networks, and Higher level networks have no connection to lower networks. Airgapping (authorized and unauthorized) does happen but network separation and very heavy monitoring keeps things mostly secure.
No, South Korea does not want the US to pull out or reduce our presence. They rely heavily on us and our big sticks to keep the North in check. Remove our extremely capable forces and the barrier to NK seeking a military resolution to the stalemate is greatly reduced. NK deciding to attack means Seoul is obliterated in minutes.
And more importantly to many than the fuel cost. because many of us are paying more than $1.50 (you lucky dog) a gallon, is the time it takes to refuel. 5 minutes. If it's for a daily commute charging while at work or plugged in is fine. But on longer trips refuel time becomes a big factor. And if one makes longer trips, this becomes a big factor as a second vehicle is now required for those longer trips.
This.
This should be easily tested for by looking at a few areas subject to frequent pollution problems. A great place to test this would be the LA Basin, another would be the Wasatch front of Utah (Salt Lake City Metro area) Both are natural bowls that frequently trap high levels of pollution that cover the entire area equally, not caring if the neighborhood is poor, middle class or rich.
I don't have a spare phone attached to my car via a small magnetic box in a hidden spot.
Also a new key costs a couple bucks. $80 if it's chipped. A new phone is not so cheap usually.
You can't DRM a decades old technology in wide distribution. There is no profit is redesigning a standard product that others can produce far cheaper than the car manufacturer can.
DRM applies to digital content. Not clamping oversized alligator clamps onto lead contact rods.
Not all Europeans. In the former Yugoslavia it took outside forces to stop those Europeans from killing each other for not being of the same religio-ethnicity. Orthodox vs Catholics vs Muslims.
Then you have the Russians invading Neighboring countries (Ukraine) for land. Not outright killing but it's still a hostile invasion resulting in military casualties. And then there is the little decades long dispute between Greece and Turkey (again over land). You are right though that the Germans seem happy to let people live even if they are foreign, or handicapped, or gay, or Gypsies or are Jewish.
100+ million gun owners, 11-12k homicides a year. Roughly half of those being gangland thug on thug homicides suggests it's not as frequent as you claim. Roughly 5k per year out of a population of 320 Million+ No other nation comes anywhere near the number of guns in the US, yet many have firearm homicide rates far greater than the US does.
I live in one of the most gun friendly states in the nation,Utah. Where roughly a fifth of the eligible adult citizens have concealed carry permits. Where Open carry is legal and common, where campus carry is legal and common. We see about 20-30 firearm homicides a year. If gun nuts would just shoot each other given the chance why aren't our streets running with blood?
No it does not accuse the drafters of stupidity but of fully understanding what a well regulated militia was. Well regulated meant functional (not well trained). A militia is to respond with their own arms. If the people are not allowed arms then they cannot be called out to function as a well regulated (functional rather than well trained) militia.
A disarmed militia is not functional or well regulated. It's also not a militia but rather a gathering of individuals unable to act in defense of the community or state.
Actually it is public property. The facility is owned by a non-profit set up by the city and county to operate it. And construction was funded via taxes. Quicken attached it's name via a naming rights contract, not via ownership of the venue.
Bingo. Me I carry when I can. And am a staunch supporter of the right to carry. But I see this going nowhere as it is not the decision of the RNC or even Quicken Arena, but the Secret Service who are tasked with protection for Trump and Cruz at a minimum as well as any prior presidents who might wish to attend (Bush I and II). They set the security arrangements and requirements and they will not allow guns inside the venue.
Does the same apply to the exercise of the Freedom of Speech. Feather quill pens and hand cranked presses using lead type. None of this TV or radio or interweb crap. The founding fathers never guaranteed any of those modes of communication. And your peaceful assembly had better be orchestrated by voice only, no mechanical amplification and none of those new fangled things called electric lights. Candles, lanterns and torches will do if the meetings run into the evening hours.
No I am not. The point was that regardless of which valuation is correct he is filthy rich. Him being worth 4.5 billion is not significantly different from being worth 10 billion. He may always want more. But he's well beyond the point were exact amount really matters at least not as per the discussion.
And a ready source of new superhero's and monsters.
When a large percentage of the population of this country lives from paycheck to paycheck with little if anything in the way of savings, whether he is worth $10 billion or a paltry $4.5 billion is meaningless. Make it $2 billion and he's still set his family up for generations of easy living even if it never earns a cent of interest.
That would be their daddy's P-38. Or the can opener on each of their many multi-tools, or just use one of their many big knives. Demand for can-openers not likely to be as high as you expect.
Funny it's you gun haters who are always obsessing about supposed sexual connotations. Such topics do not come up among those of us who enjoy exercising our 2A rights.
You are right that guns would not have been very successful at stopping a surprise suicide bomber or three. But as there were reports of shooting as well. Armed citizens could have helped react there as well. But they are less common at airports because most people go to airports to travel and that requires locking up ones gun.
As to your claim about political correctness: You would punish millions of peaceful law abiding people based on the acts of a very small minority of the faith. a minority that twists the faith well beyond it's teachings in order to justify murder of innocent civilians. Of people who are for the most part not by definition Infidels (Christians and Jews are not infidels, but Children of the Book, slightly misguided followers of Allah who deserve a lesser status but are not infidels to be killed.) You would punish millions for the crimes of a few. Of course you would. You've already indicated via your overly sexual connotations of gun ownership that you wish to punish millions of peaceful law abiding gun owners for the criminal acts of a very small minority of gun owners.
Sorry, not even close.
I strongly dislike him and his politics as well. But choosing how to enforce the laws is not Treason. It may be dereliction of duty. But it's not aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war. He is not a traitor. He's a scum sucking marxist-liberal who has a vision of America that will lead to it's destruction, but that is his right, and he's managed to convince many others that such a route is the best way to go. And he would likely have the opinion that I am a scum sucking right-wing nutbag who has a vision of America that will lead to it's destruction, as is my right. That we disagree is not treason, or even criminal.
Bradley Manning, Snowden, the Rosenbergs, Bowe Bergdahl, Adam Gadahn. Those are individuals whose acts are treasonous as per the actual definition of the crime.
We need to re-learn how to disagree with someone and their political views without needing to demonize them and accuse them of high crimes without any actual basis for those claims.
Further Assange never broke US law. He didn't steal the classified information. Manning did. He didn't reveal the classified information to unauthorized persons (he is one). Manning did. The US has no case against him, he never signed an SF-12 NDA regarding classified information. The old Intel community joke of I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you is wrong. It should be I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill myself is more accurate. A non-cleared person is not at fault when a person with a clearance reveals classified information to them.
Who you calling a libertarian? I'm a conservative. The minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage. It's an entry level wage to prevent labor abuses, not a wage meant to be used to live off of. You jack up the minimum wage you only price entry level workers (high school kids trying to gain experience) out of the work force. Their unskilled labor is not worth the price. They don't need it to be worth the cost, they just need some spending cash. It's the idiots trying to raise a family while working jobs not designed or intended for such and then complaining that they don't make enough that even make this an issue.
I have expenses, When looking for a job I know that I can't make it on less than $12 an hour. So I don't even apply for such jobs. I don't get a $7.25 an hour job and then complain that I need a raise. I spent nearly a year unemployed because of this pickiness. But then I had the savings to do so. Because I'm not an idiot. But I'm also not a libertarian who thinks no government is better.
The fact is you string up the producers because they are wealthy. Their heirs get their wealth and go live in the Caribbean on their inheritance and the workers who strung up the producer suddenly have neither money to buy anything nor anything to buy. We need some regulation. But too many are pushing for too much, to the point that those that have will simply take their ball and leave, leaving the rest of us with nothing.
And living in the urban world that we do, very few of us will be able to survive. During the great Depression at least the majority of Americans (for example) had some property to grow food on to feed their families. Today that is not the case. You kill the producers you destroy the economy and cause mass starvation and death.
Funny, there is just such a coffee/hot chocolate dispenser down stairs in the break room of my office with the other vending machines. Those machines are still fully legal and quite common. Keurig machines are just a more modern take on the idea using individual cups of syrup for greater variety of flavor rather than feeding from a common large volume container. And take a look at the new coke dispensers at many restaurants. Everything comes out of one nozzle, from a series of inkjet like cartridges, only the water and CO2 come from outside the dispenser box.
McDonalds has used dispenser tubes that work like caulk guns for their sauces, onions and pickles for years. One click of the trigger dispenses the correct measurement for one burger. Granted sliced pickles are a little different than chopped pickles but not that different. And if you think even those would be difficult to dispense you aren't really aware of what machines can handle, a vacuum powered suction cup could pick up individual slices from a bin and drop them on the burger with a minute burst of air reversing the suction.
Why would RoboCarlz rely on something as sketchy and variable as human speech. Just a touch screen menu with variability options will work great. Like the Coke machines now taking over many restaurants. Where with just a few button pushes you can choose your base drink and then add a variety of flavors, inside the machine are a bunch of inkjet style cartridges full of concentrated syrups for all the various flavors, They syrups are concentrated and many flavors can go a month between replacements.
So let us take your order. You touch the 6'r button, touch extra mayo, modify pickles to 1 slice only, hold all other condiments. Then select how you want the meat cooked.
Or have you speak your order into your phone/device where Siri/GV has learned your voice and speech patterns and then your device sends the instructions to the RoboCarl. If you frequent the store it could even learn your favorite, and greet you as you walk up having identified you by your smartphone. "Hello again Mr AC would you like your regular 6r, extra mayo 1 pickle, hold the rest, meat so rare the cow was only vaguely aware of what a fire looked like? Or would you like to try something else this time?"
Honestly the biggest challenge to this kind of automation at this point would be how the ingredients are loaded into the bot, can that process also be automated or will it take a human in the back of the store to load the meat, condiment and bun cartridges in a timely manner.
One tech per store, 3 total for a full day's coverage, supervising multiple Chef bots. Give em a floating manager who supervises three or four stores. Versus 15 - 20 minimum wage workers, 3 assistant managers and a manager for the human run store.
Take another look at Walmart, my local Walmart self service lane has 10 checkouts monitored by one cashier. A checkout has a problem it gets shut down until it can be fixed, only a minor drop in throughput. Meanwhile the other lanes are one cashier per lane. 1 for 10 lanes versus 4 for four lanes.
Usually those going to the human run lanes are those with carts full of stuff, get very many items and the self check-out becomes a pain due to much more limited pre and post scan shelf space.
Most fast food restaurants have two production lines for high volume times and for redundancy in case of equipment failure. The same would happen with the auto-chef's except they may be able to cram three or four in due to not having to include space for a human on the production line. So one goes down do to part failure, or a major goof by the tech doing routine maintenance. Production is slightly reduced, wait times are slightly longer. If seriously damaged the Chef-bot bot arrives, opens the access door on the roof, removes the broken/worn-out Chef-bot and replaces it with a new/refurbished one while the other Chef-bots keep producing. With proper diagnostic systems the Chef-bot bot could arrive to swap out Chef-bots before the human tech even realizes a problem is about to occur.
Customer hits the extra Onions button and no pickles button.
The machine reaches the onions step and the onions gate opens and the plunger presses down through the dispensing tube, dropping 1/2 tsp of chopped onion onto the patty, the gate closes the piston retracts and the feed hopper opens allowing onion bits to gravity feed into the dispenser tube filling it with 1/2 tsp of chopped onion, then process then repeats. At the pickle state the pickles gate remains closed.
Results
Extra onions, no pickles.
No spit, snot or other unwanted additives.
Not exactly impossible. by any means.