Me: Oh, good, I've got about 20 windows in my house that need washing inside and out. How soon can you be here? Keep repeating as long as necessary. It's good to keep them on the line so their signal-to-noise ratio drops.
Then there is the IRS scammer. A Sheriff's deputy friend of mine said, "You're going to send me to prison? Really? Free room and board sounds great! Which prison you gonna send me to?"
Only intentions are important in the DNC. And then there's the whole "experience" issue. If we're supposed to vote for Hillary because she has experience, this blows that out of the water. But then again, it doesn't matter, results don't matter, as long as they are in charge.
Not to mention the fact that the lifespan of these things averages 20 years so you only get a few years of profitability. But in 20 years, the money will be worth less so the replacement cost will likely be about 50% more (using CPI). Sure, you make some 70 to 80 million in those three years (which won't get passed on to the customers, btw), but then the replacement cost will eat through that in a heartbeat. Basically, the project will lose money in perpetuity.
This guy clearly doesn't understand how cut-throat and back-stabbing federal contracting is. People will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat if it means they can weasel their way to a contract ahead of you. Hardware is easy to duplicate/copy, software is not. By forcing private industry to give up their intellectual property rights opens the door to well-connected contractors stealing from the little guy.
Learn about the Ontario Science Centre during the mid-1970s. That place was super cool. Tons of interactive tech, huge lasers, giant Tesla coils and Van de Graaf generators, and of course, the Philips Coffee Machine (I'm still searching for the schematic, btw). "Coffee! Coffee. Coffee?" Oh, and none of this global warming boring-as-all-hell environmentalist crap.
The log-in screen photos are the only thing I like about it and you can't even use them as desktop pictures without a third-party hack. Sorry, but everything about the Windows/PC user experience is like a Yugo whereas working in the OSX environment is like any of Top Gear's best picks.
To this day, websites don't render the same way on all browsers and it's damn near impossible to design a page the same way that you used to design things in a desktop publisher. In addition, there are still a legion of incompetent page designers who insist on making things only work properly on Internet Explorer.
Exactly. It was a publicity stunt. It's no different than the Clinton campaign hiring Kahn to speak at their convention and then a few days later the guy decides that he doesn't want all the publicity... after the world learns that he was scamming green cards.
The chief reason that this will likely get borked is that control of the energy will shift away from the state and back to the individual like it is now. Powering transportation solely on electricity gives the state the ability to decide when, where, and how much you can use because it's a public utility but under the legal control of the state. The state can choose to legally ban your use of a public utility. That doesn't happen too often but it can. When energy is distributed by private enterprise with multiple distributors competing the marketplace, you get to choose where, when, and how much. Furthermore, with a public utility, you have no say in how much it costs. With multiple, competing distributors, you can decide not to buy your energy from the stupid expensive place around the corner and instead go over to Costco and buy it for 5-10% less.
How can this be considered a valid study when the sample size is so small? Furthermore, we haven't been back to the Moon in almost 50 years. Healthcare and fitness has come a long way since then.
All kidding aside, people have been throwing hissy fits over second-hand smoke for years. Why isn't anyone complaining about (and legislating control of) second-hand pot smoke? Or are people too stoned to do anything about it?
Well, if you understood the first thing about ICS (Incident Command System) and NIMS, you would know that there is an air-operations chief who coordinates all of this including UAV operations. The FAA and FEMA aren't talking to each other. Par for the course in the government.
Irrelevant. People fought fires without DC-10 slurry bombers for years. Just because YOU are afraid of a new tool that could save lives such as the Granite Mountain Hotshots, one of whom was a friend of mine, doesn't give you the right to deny its use.
But here's the problem with that. Lots of places use volunteer groups to augment the paid professionals. They are going to be using off-the-shelf equipment simply because it's inexpensive. The same situation applies to search & rescue. Lots of them are all-volunteer non-profit groups (and they are VERY good). This use-case has also fallen through the FAA's cracks. They can't operate as a Section 333 for two important reasons: a) it's not a commercial operation which by the FAA's own definition means that the pilot is monetarily compensated for flying and far more importantly b) they don't have the luxury of waiting 48 hours before flying. 83% of all searches end in the first 12 hours and 97% in the first 24 hours. At least the FAA appears to have relaxed some of these rules but mandatory daylight operations and line-of-sight operations limit the capabilities.
This blanket restriction kills a use-case for UAVs in firefighting. That happens to be fire behavior observation. Having field observers watching the progress of the fire from a nearby and safe location is essential for the safety of the firefighters and anyone else who might be in the path. Using a UAV and perhaps a tethered UAV with it's extended air time, is very useful for this. Even a tethered unit could be placed 150 feet off the ground to give the observers a better view. But if the manufacturers blindly bend over for the FAA who consistently doesn't see these use-cases, then we've lost a valuable tool.
Open source will be the only way to go. One reason I won't by DJI products. But I fear that the air frame manufacturers will hard code these restrictions into the hardware.
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Me: Oh, good, I've got about 20 windows in my house that need washing inside and out. How soon can you be here?
Keep repeating as long as necessary. It's good to keep them on the line so their signal-to-noise ratio drops.
Then there is the IRS scammer. A Sheriff's deputy friend of mine said, "You're going to send me to prison? Really? Free room and board sounds great! Which prison you gonna send me to?"
I think you mean "SolarCity"
Cool! Maybe we need to install these all over Washington.
If you hacked your Tesla and crashed it while in autopilot mode, is Tesla still liable?
Only intentions are important in the DNC. And then there's the whole "experience" issue. If we're supposed to vote for Hillary because she has experience, this blows that out of the water. But then again, it doesn't matter, results don't matter, as long as they are in charge.
It penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
Not to mention the fact that the lifespan of these things averages 20 years so you only get a few years of profitability. But in 20 years, the money will be worth less so the replacement cost will likely be about 50% more (using CPI). Sure, you make some 70 to 80 million in those three years (which won't get passed on to the customers, btw), but then the replacement cost will eat through that in a heartbeat. Basically, the project will lose money in perpetuity.
No Marble Madness and no Clown-o-mania. I'll go back to work now.
This guy clearly doesn't understand how cut-throat and back-stabbing federal contracting is. People will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat if it means they can weasel their way to a contract ahead of you. Hardware is easy to duplicate/copy, software is not. By forcing private industry to give up their intellectual property rights opens the door to well-connected contractors stealing from the little guy.
How else are we going to save the planet unless the government has control over your thermostat?
Learn about the Ontario Science Centre during the mid-1970s. That place was super cool. Tons of interactive tech, huge lasers, giant Tesla coils and Van de Graaf generators, and of course, the Philips Coffee Machine (I'm still searching for the schematic, btw). "Coffee! Coffee. Coffee?" Oh, and none of this global warming boring-as-all-hell environmentalist crap.
The log-in screen photos are the only thing I like about it and you can't even use them as desktop pictures without a third-party hack.
Sorry, but everything about the Windows/PC user experience is like a Yugo whereas working in the OSX environment is like any of Top Gear's best picks.
I'll be long gone by then so I don't give the furry crack of a rat's behind. Also, get off my lawn.
To this day, websites don't render the same way on all browsers and it's damn near impossible to design a page the same way that you used to design things in a desktop publisher. In addition, there are still a legion of incompetent page designers who insist on making things only work properly on Internet Explorer.
Exactly. It was a publicity stunt. It's no different than the Clinton campaign hiring Kahn to speak at their convention and then a few days later the guy decides that he doesn't want all the publicity... after the world learns that he was scamming green cards.
And these people are rearranging the deck chairs.
Ironically, federal agencies are buying huge quantities of ammunition, particularly agencies that have no use for it e.g. NOAA.
The chief reason that this will likely get borked is that control of the energy will shift away from the state and back to the individual like it is now. Powering transportation solely on electricity gives the state the ability to decide when, where, and how much you can use because it's a public utility but under the legal control of the state. The state can choose to legally ban your use of a public utility. That doesn't happen too often but it can. When energy is distributed by private enterprise with multiple distributors competing the marketplace, you get to choose where, when, and how much. Furthermore, with a public utility, you have no say in how much it costs. With multiple, competing distributors, you can decide not to buy your energy from the stupid expensive place around the corner and instead go over to Costco and buy it for 5-10% less.
How can this be considered a valid study when the sample size is so small? Furthermore, we haven't been back to the Moon in almost 50 years. Healthcare and fitness has come a long way since then.
All kidding aside, people have been throwing hissy fits over second-hand smoke for years. Why isn't anyone complaining about (and legislating control of) second-hand pot smoke? Or are people too stoned to do anything about it?
Well, if you understood the first thing about ICS (Incident Command System) and NIMS, you would know that there is an air-operations chief who coordinates all of this including UAV operations. The FAA and FEMA aren't talking to each other. Par for the course in the government.
Irrelevant. People fought fires without DC-10 slurry bombers for years. Just because YOU are afraid of a new tool that could save lives such as the Granite Mountain Hotshots, one of whom was a friend of mine, doesn't give you the right to deny its use.
But here's the problem with that. Lots of places use volunteer groups to augment the paid professionals. They are going to be using off-the-shelf equipment simply because it's inexpensive. The same situation applies to search & rescue. Lots of them are all-volunteer non-profit groups (and they are VERY good). This use-case has also fallen through the FAA's cracks. They can't operate as a Section 333 for two important reasons: a) it's not a commercial operation which by the FAA's own definition means that the pilot is monetarily compensated for flying and far more importantly b) they don't have the luxury of waiting 48 hours before flying. 83% of all searches end in the first 12 hours and 97% in the first 24 hours. At least the FAA appears to have relaxed some of these rules but mandatory daylight operations and line-of-sight operations limit the capabilities.
This blanket restriction kills a use-case for UAVs in firefighting. That happens to be fire behavior observation. Having field observers watching the progress of the fire from a nearby and safe location is essential for the safety of the firefighters and anyone else who might be in the path. Using a UAV and perhaps a tethered UAV with it's extended air time, is very useful for this. Even a tethered unit could be placed 150 feet off the ground to give the observers a better view. But if the manufacturers blindly bend over for the FAA who consistently doesn't see these use-cases, then we've lost a valuable tool.
Open source will be the only way to go. One reason I won't by DJI products. But I fear that the air frame manufacturers will hard code these restrictions into the hardware.
How are we going to power all of our electric cars if we're going to run out of electricity in 2040?