is there anything in this besides momentary embarrassment? not sure what to think, potential GOP attack ad fodder but what else??
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/politics/major-obama-donors-are-tied-to-pepe-cardona-mexican-fugitive.html?hp
― buzza, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 05:50 (twelve years ago) link
just momentary embarrassment.
How about the Republican's latest negotiation tool re extending the payroll taxes again. More extraneous demands:
At the behest of the manufacturing lobby, for example, Republican negotiators still want to delay an environmental regulation that would require industrial boilers and incinerators to release less mercury, lead and soot. What does that have to do with the payroll tax cut? Nothing, of course; Republicans are simply trying to get Democrats to pay a price for something they want.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/opinion/the-payroll-tax-fight.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha211
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
If this glowing piece from Sunday's Washington Post Business section is credible, Gene Sperling is the White House's liberal economic guy--trying to push Geithner slightly leftward and advocating to Obama for job-creation ideas
When Obama tapped him as Treasury secretary, Geithner asked Sperling to join as a no-title adviser. “The great thing about him was he was willing to come help do anything,” Geithner said. Sperling asked to be Treasury’s top adviser on fiscal policy. But he also encouraged Geithner — who was focused on stabilizing the financial system and faced critics who accused him of being too sympathetic to Wall Street — to pay more attention to populist ideas such as curbing executive pay.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gene-b-sperling-obamas-jobs-creator/2012/01/17/gIQAJ8KXqQ_story.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
so glad Congress is authorizing drones to be flown in the US ugh way to go you stupid assholes
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
gotta get em ready for use on the Occupy Conventions
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
would it be hilar if people figured out how to shoot them down?
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
^ srs question
or would it be like for sumter
The FAA is also required under the bill to provide military, commercial and privately-owned drones with expanded access to U.S. airspace currently reserved for manned aircraft by Sept. 30, 2015. That means permitting unmanned drones controlled by remote operators on the ground to fly in the same airspace as airliners, cargo planes, business jets and private aircraft.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-congress-oks-faa-bill-allowing-drones-in-us-gps-air-traffic-control-20120207,0,3563340.story
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
I want my own drone
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
PRIVATELY-OWNED DRONES
argh
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of issues involved in this bill
The labor provision, which was opposed by the Democratic-controlled Senate, became the principal issue holding up the bill. A compromise reached two weeks ago by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, allows the mediation board's rules to stand, but it also toughens some lesser requirements that must be met in order to hold a union organizing election.
While the compromise was acceptable to some unions, more than a dozen other unions that represent airline industry workers — including the Teamsters, Communications Workers, Machinists and Flight Attendants — complained the deal was reached without their input and urged its rejection.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
Well you can presently fly remote-controlled model airplanes, this just becomes an issue of air traffic.
Also, prownes?
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
superfluous hyphen
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
unmanned cargo aircraft isn't such a bad idea
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/02/07/karen-handel-resigns-from-komen-for-the-cure/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently 'they' have been saying that for ages. The pilots of commercial carriers are basically just hostages.
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
I totally want a drone. I could put a slim jim and some little debbies in it and fly it to DJP in Boston and be all here are your intergalactic snacks in a robot voice.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
good morning!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
if drones are allowed over the US, just a matter of time before one is hacked by anonymous and crashes
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
preferably when [redacted]
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
DIY drones
― Z S, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
I don't have a problem with private drones anymore than I do with private aircraft
govt drones are more sinister if you ask me.
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
the pilot of a private aircraft is much more likely to be responsible about its use if he or she is inside it imo
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's why I referred to them as hostages
― le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
eh bring on the robots
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
given that it'll likely be very easy to make a DIY drone in yr garage v soon, I'd rather they be allowed and regulated (as air traffic is today) and made useful, and not outlawed. Or worse, allowed to be used by only rhe govt and a v narrow slice of the private sector. I really don't understand how drones would be bad aside from cluttering the airways
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
some dubious syntax there but I think u get me
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
that Monsanto dude appt. is a fucking embarrassment btw not like there's anything anybody can do about it but seriously
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
I have problems with, say, Donald Trump owning a drone.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
private security drone armies
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
I would prob start watching the apprentice tbh
― iatee, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
why? srs q. Xp
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
I would assume that ARMED drones would be illegal
bear in mind my def of "drone" is "robot that flys"
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
what if drones started falling from the sky
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
oh no
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
don't really want to find out what, say, the Oakland Police Department would do with armed drones fwiw
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
basically this comes down to me having real, serious problems with the militarization of law enforcement in this country - police departments are armed and trained as if they are serving in warzones, it's fucked up.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
this drone thing reminds me of recent things like this and this
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, it's worse than you think, Shakey: Now college campus police departments are getting SWAT teams. A solution in search of a problem.
http://nineronline.com/2011/unc-charlotte-swat-team-%E2%80%93-an-asset-we-hope-to-never-use/
― You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
I would totally build a drone that throws rocks at the police drones.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
dude I feel u 1000% which is why govt drone usage is creepier than Donald trump
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I'm not making this assumption. private security firms carry weapons.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, but private security firms don't have gunships.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
or at least those that operate domestically.
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
I should change that to private security firms operating within the borders of the USA. Because, you know, xe or whatever they are now.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
oops. yup.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.gamergirlsunite.com/reviews/pcreviews/finalfantasyXI/FFXI_ship.jpg
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
I assumed for this whole discussion "drone" meant a plane w/ missiles on it. Why else would you have one?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
snacks
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link