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Weighted net = free drone. Or just a good cast with a weighted string over the blades. Consider it a tax refund.
Knock down, incinerate, repeat ad infinitum.
Yeah, this image is a common repost at this point. It's a 2 year old photo involving a rouge drone in Australia.
I'll accept that.
I remember the days when “it’s for your safety,” actually meant something to me. Now my immediate reaction is “fuck off”
Hang on. Let me shoot these puppies to death for your safety.
If they want to spy on me they can use satellites like a proper goddamn intelligence agency. This shit is just intimidation tactics.
Yes, but it's expensive. Be more fiscally conservative, citizen.
I sincerely doubt that the database query is more expensive than the drone.
Satellite feed time is quite expensive, and the surveillance satellites they have have to be moved into the correct orbit in a lot of cases. You can't just mass surveil the entire planet in fine detail. You can observe a region generally, or you can hyper-focus on specific cars, buildings, people, to the exclusion of other efforts. The demands for imagery is far hire than can be produced, so it really is very expensive to try and get satellite data on silly shit like a single grow house.
Frankly it's only a matter of time, but your point is taken.
It's a matter of diminishing returns.
Thomas Sowell was right, nobody ever takes it into account.
Not anymore. FAA's new drone regulations are aiming to reclaim what used to be private airspace.
Want to fly a 1lb foam hobby RC plane over your own property? Previously, you just could, and no one cared so long as you didn't interfere with full-size aircraft. Today? Illegal if you don't pay FAA for a license to fly your toy. And next year? Illegal if you don't also install an ID module in your 1lb toy plane, which must broadcast your GPS location while it flies, along with other telemetry data (unencrypted, for the purpose of law enforcement locating the pilot).
The purpose of the restrictions on what used to be toys is to allow law enforcement and certain companies to fly right over your property without restriction. It's also really disheartening for the few people left in the hobby, because the ID module law is about to kill off what's left of the community.
It absolutely does. The FAA restricts airspace up to 5 stories from the ground. You explicitly do own some airspace, but the state is desperate to keep that well below 5 stories. I think I've heard they've been trying to get it as low as 20 feet above the tallest building. I could have sworn I've heard it's somewhere around 100' to 150' feet.
That being said, this is just what I can remember, I'm probably wrong.
Depends on your local government