House Approves Spending Bill For MORE Drones In U.S. Airspace. What Me Worry?

[tombogan03884]

Tom, you're sounding more and more like a condecending old fool .
 We get the picture, already!  Can you quit blaming the choir? We can't pick "all" the songs we sing, "all" the time! Sometimes we gotta sing louder on certain songs first! We all get the "you did (are doing) this to yourself" shit. Quit laying blame, and help us fix it, for chrissakes!

I've listened to you bitch for a DAMNED long time now (around 5 yrs), but you're starting to sound more like a politician that can twist anything into whatever you want it to be. We get enough of that this time of year from the crap we gotta take from the dufus' they're running!  

Sorry, rant off!

B!tch all you want, I don't see you saying I'm wrong.
People keeping quite to avoid hurting any ones feelings are are large part of why the country screwed up, it's called " Political Correctness".
And Romney's standing in the polls, hell, just the fact that he's running again, shows that no one learned squat.

[jnevis]

Traffic,,,old news....

Pot, also old news, even the thermal stuff to look for grow rooms,..



So,.. this mega bling investment is strictly on the up and up? Watching us shower, reload, have a "movement", this just takes it to another level,....

the .gov is talking about regulating sugar like alcohol.....and this is just another further encroachment....one piece at a time....

So it's not to brazen.....

Ummm,except IR video without a warrant has been ruled inadmissible by SCOTUS

Then there is the fact that the FAA rulings has only a small portion of it that involves actual gov UAV use.  How about food production, using UAVs to watch for insect infestations an such.  They are also being used to look for seismic events/damage. A lot of the requests to the FAA involving drones are from universities and corps for research. 
 The costs of a drone versus a manned aircraft are enormous.  A drone can be flown for say $200/he while a manned aircraft to do the same thing is in excess of $1+k/hr not factorring in training costs for the crew.  Most of what has been used so far are basically off the shelf RC planes that have a small camera.  There are larger ones looking at pollution in the air or water.  It is a great deal more persistant to observe with a drone than send people to do the sampling.