Indefinite Detention? But I Have Soccer Practice at 4: U.S. Politics 2012

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

so glad Congress is authorizing drones to be flown in the US ugh way to go you stupid assholes

gotta get em ready for use on the Occupy Conventions

would it be hilar if people figured out how to shoot them down?

^ 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

I want my own drone

PRIVATELY-OWNED DRONES

argh

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.

PRIVATELY-OWNED DRONES

argh

Well you can presently fly remote-controlled model airplanes, this just becomes an issue of air traffic.

Also, prownes?

PRIVATELY-OWNED DRONES

superfluous hyphen

unmanned cargo aircraft isn't such a bad idea

http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/02/07/karen-handel-resigns-from-komen-for-the-cure/

unmanned cargo aircraft isn't such a bad idea

Apparently 'they' have been saying that for ages. The pilots of commercial carriers are basically just hostages.

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.

good morning!

if drones are allowed over the US, just a matter of time before one is hacked by anonymous and crashes

preferably when [redacted]

DIY drones

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.

the pilot of a private aircraft is much more likely to be responsible about its use if he or she is inside it imo

Yeah, that's why I referred to them as hostages

eh bring on the robots

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

some dubious syntax there but I think u get me

that Monsanto dude appt. is a fucking embarrassment btw not like there's anything anybody can do about it but seriously

I have problems with, say, Donald Trump owning a drone.

private security drone armies

I would prob start watching the apprentice tbh

why? srs q. Xp

private security drone armies

I would assume that ARMED drones would be illegal

bear in mind my def of "drone" is "robot that flys"

what if drones started falling from the sky

oh no

don't really want to find out what, say, the Oakland Police Department would do with armed drones fwiw

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.

this drone thing reminds me of recent things like this and this

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/

I would totally build a drone that throws rocks at the police drones.

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.

dude I feel u 1000% which is why govt drone usage is creepier than Donald trump

I would assume that ARMED drones would be illegal

I guess I'm not making this assumption. private security firms carry weapons.

Yeah, but private security firms don't have gunships.

or at least those that operate domestically.

I should change that to private security firms operating within the borders of the USA. Because, you know, xe or whatever they are now.

oops. yup.

http://www.gamergirlsunite.com/reviews/pcreviews/finalfantasyXI/FFXI_ship.jpg

I assumed for this whole discussion "drone" meant a plane w/ missiles on it. Why else would you have one?

snacks

Why else would you have one?

surveillance. helping nancy grace catch child murderers? I dunno.

Nancy Grace's drones would zip around the country, slut-shaming left and right