Re: The TSA-approved luggage locks debacle cinched this one.
"She's not being stupid, she's being partisan."
She's also targeting a particular audience which is, according to Jake:
Minor correction: The [i]Telegraph[/i] is not a tabloid in the original sense of the word; they still sell physical copies in broadsheet format, and would regard doing anything else as decidedly improper. (They and their target demographic probably think any idea thought up after about 1965 is highly improper, come to that.)
Subtle reminder: You can tear her twitter account apart all you want. Make every valid point in the book. Hell, win the argument on the internet even.
And her target demographic will never even hear that there was a discussion.
Actually, at this point, she's running for the democratic nomination for President, and her campaign is geared primarily towards people who will vote in the primary elections.
It's a subtle but important distinction.
The campaigns for both nominees are likely to change after the primaries.
"We should take the concerns of law enforcement..."
We should take them seriously, though. Because at this point in time, those concerns tell us the direction we probably shouldn't go as a country if we don't want to end up as a cautionary tale in the history books that will be written in the next 25-100 years.
"Teens are teens. They are out having sex, having fun, preparing for college and life, and taking advantage of all their technological resources to help the above."
You're forgetting: the de-facto "On The Internet/Made use of technology" modifier takes the behavior out of the realm of adolescence and pushes it straight into the "Unambiguously Evil" section of law.
Actually if recent history is any indication, Comey will almost certainly have a public change of heart once he retires and goes to work consulting in the private sector.
As someone who lives in an old, multi-story house, with a quiet doorbell that can't be heard from any but the ground floor, I'll say that this idea is intriguing.
Not to mention the possibility of the emotional trauma of their drone capturing and displaying images of elderly, overweight nude sunbathers in the "privacy" of their back yards.
The 'lethal weapons' clause, 5.1, could be fixed easily enough simply by striking out 'lethal', such that it prohibits any drone mounted weapons, rather that just lethal ones. If someone wants to play around with weaponized drones they can join the army, otherwise they can do without.
In a world where Congress has redefined pizza to be a vegetable (in, what, 2011?), I have to imagine it would be fairly easy to redefine certain "non-lethal weapons" - say, pepper spray as an "aerosol-based anti-psychotic medication with pacifying qualities" or similar. Of course, many medications have negative side effects, but as long as the label is properly formatted, FDA should be fine with it.
I can hear the smooth, deep-voiced voice over in the commercial now:
"Imagine a world where drones aren't weaponized - they've been re-purposed and converted into unmanned aerial medical dispensaries..."
Or a Special Forces team raiding the premises? Doesn't matter which team (even an ad-hoc team with personnel from all the different units) goes in: they're all trained to shoot their target(s) dead, no questions asked.
Wow. You're really equating a special ops teams capabilities to a missile platform? Do you really have so little respect for US soldiers?
A soldier with a rifle is capable of determining who their target is and shooting them. They're also - at least in theory - able to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, and will not generally kill indiscriminately (or, at least, the special forces guys I've known wouldn't). If they go into a building and determine its filled with nuns and orphans, they can make an intelligent decision and, for example, not execute the orphans. Doesn't mean they always make the "right" decision, but at least they have the capability to do so.
A missile platform's targeting capability is only as granular as its blast radius.
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but bringing logic and facts to a political fight is a sure-fire way to lose the fight.
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You know, the type of person who still reads a paper newspaper. or thinks that Internet Explorer is the internet.
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Re: The TSA-approved luggage locks debacle cinched this one.
She's also targeting a particular audience which is, according to Jake:
Subtle reminder: You can tear her twitter account apart all you want. Make every valid point in the book. Hell, win the argument on the internet even.
And her target demographic will never even hear that there was a discussion.
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It's a subtle but important distinction.
The campaigns for both nominees are likely to change after the primaries.
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We should take them seriously, though. Because at this point in time, those concerns tell us the direction we probably shouldn't go as a country if we don't want to end up as a cautionary tale in the history books that will be written in the next 25-100 years.
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And lets not forget the potential impact of genuinely well meaning but technologically illiterate people with access to keying material.
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Well, actually, no, we don't. As a society we've just chosen to do so for the last several decades (at least).
There are lots of ways the system could be modified to make more sense. But they're not going to happen any time soon.
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Re: Just leave things alone
You're forgetting: the de-facto "On The Internet/Made use of technology" modifier takes the behavior out of the realm of adolescence and pushes it straight into the "Unambiguously Evil" section of law.
On the post: Senate Pushes Forward With CISA As Internet Industry Pulls Its Support
But at least the Mafia isn't lying to itself (or its clients) about its motives.
On the post: James Comey Says 'Dozens' Of Terrorists Have Eluded The FBI Thanks To Encryption
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Because the parallel construction experts can't come up with plausible scenarios fast enought?
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Re: Ok
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Lets reframe the conversation...
Because that's the situation you'll have in reality.
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On the post: Bill That Was Supposed To Limit Police Drone Activity Changed By Lobbyist To Enable Weaponized Drones
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Bets on how long it takes state governments to outsource drone operations to India?
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In a world where Congress has redefined pizza to be a vegetable (in, what, 2011?), I have to imagine it would be fairly easy to redefine certain "non-lethal weapons" - say, pepper spray as an "aerosol-based anti-psychotic medication with pacifying qualities" or similar. Of course, many medications have negative side effects, but as long as the label is properly formatted, FDA should be fine with it.
I can hear the smooth, deep-voiced voice over in the commercial now:
"Imagine a world where drones aren't weaponized - they've been re-purposed and converted into unmanned aerial medical dispensaries..."
I mean, who could argue against that?
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A Missile? Not so much.
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Wow. You're really equating a special ops teams capabilities to a missile platform? Do you really have so little respect for US soldiers?
A soldier with a rifle is capable of determining who their target is and shooting them. They're also - at least in theory - able to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, and will not generally kill indiscriminately (or, at least, the special forces guys I've known wouldn't). If they go into a building and determine its filled with nuns and orphans, they can make an intelligent decision and, for example, not execute the orphans. Doesn't mean they always make the "right" decision, but at least they have the capability to do so.
A missile platform's targeting capability is only as granular as its blast radius.
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