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The Drones Take Manhattan
In another absolutely abysmal volume day in which several vacuum tubes throw a hot potato to each other to pretend there is a market and to sucker in anyone who still believes Bernanke can centrally-plan his way out of the mess he himself created, here is some fun news to break the monotony.
Two airliners landed at JFK earlier reporting an RC plane or drone at 1,500ft on the approach to runway 31R. We are investigating...
— NYCAviation (@NYCAviation) March 4, 2013
One aircraft said it seemed small but had 4 engines. Pulling up the recordings to get quotes. Anyone have info/ideas?
— NYCAviation (@NYCAviation) March 4, 2013
These reports have been coming in for a couple days, aircraft reporting distracting, red flashing lights.
— NYCAviation (@NYCAviation) March 4, 2013
This news, too, is bullish. So buy stocks and rotate greatly.
h/t Alex
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Martians just watching enjoying some popcorn and watching the Novela that is the USA
Did it look something like this? Probably just the latest DARPA toy.
In Soviet Amerika drones fly you.
Bloomberg reportedly considering banning the atmosphere so private drones can't generate lift.
Haven't had this much ufo traffic around NYC since the US Navy brought down that passenger jet a few years back. Oh wait, it just spontaneously blew up. My bad.
And for those haters out there. US Navy sinks Japanese research vessel as sub captain is joy riding around with babes. Another Navy vessel is still grounded on a reef in the Pacific because they didn't see it with the millions of dollars worth of electronics on these things. They should have left the captain and other commanders on the thing until it is finally freed.
The Right of the People to have and fly drones shall not be infringed
They are not DONES
They are the Vanguard of the Economic Savior Force, the Alien Invasion, Window Smashing and Rectal Inspection Disaster of Paul Krugman.
I added in the Vanguard, Alien Invasion and Window Smashing for Shits and Grins. The other part was his.
Obama has signed Executive Order # 3722840, which limits commercial air traffic so as not to interfere with drone flights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZEgeTFFFDY
Drones are freakin' awsome. I've been playing with my remote controlled drone all week. This thing is just insane! The most fun I've ever had in my life.
MDB, I for the life of me don't get how some readers have no comprehesion or sense of irony and take you comments literally. "i've been playing with my remote controlled drone all week". Great stuff.
Typo. He meant remote controlled bone.
Don't drone on about it.
pathetic little whatever you are
FORWARD SOVIET!
Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air.
Where are the drones?
Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move.
Where are the drones?
There ought to be drones.
Just when I'd stopped
Opening doors,
Finally knowing
The one that I wanted was yours,
Making my entrance again
With my usual flair,
Sure of my lines,
No one is there.
Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want -
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the drones?
Send in the drones.
Don't bother - they're here.
Nice take-off on "Send in the Clowns".
I love Sondheim's works.
Did someone say "drones"?
Drone at Sandy Hook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYvw6dL-1fo
Everyone "need see" buckaroo banzai.
Classic flick.
They aren't drones. They are Imperial Fighters.
God help those drones if they are caught with Big Gulps or a Slur-Pee. They will be in real trouble then.
That's what they're there for... They're up there to patrol for & take out Big Gulp drinkers from 30,000 with hellfire missles... They've calculated that the collateral damage is roughly less or equal to NY's Finest trying to take down a lone gunman...
Don't worry about your privacy and freedom citizens, drones are here to help us. They even deliver burritos now:
http://mashable.com/2012/12/26/burrito-drone/
and also missiles (sorry "gas explosions") to those just can't seen to accept them and follow orders. So see stop resisting. Soon they'll be able to see inside homes to make sure we aren't doing anything suspicious, like terrorism. The drones are just doing it out of love, and because they are richer than us.
Remember, always call your local gas company if you see drones, er smell gas.
Nice...wondered when the drones would start flying drones. UMass Amherst near Westover AFB in MA also noted some flying lights in the sky two weeks ago but then it could have been a Friday night...
These RC planes piloted by irresponsible INDIVIDUALS could bring down a drone ahem,,, excuse me a COMMERCIAL AIRLINER so they must be made illegal for the publics safety of course.
We can't have reckless individuals just flying these things here and there!
Don't they know flying dangerous objects around the place is the governments job...
So much fodder for Michael Moore...Drones, Detroit bankruptcy, GETCO/SAG algo trading, where are u MM?
I heard he and Mike Judge got sick n tired and are opening a wax museum together.
At Weinerschnitzel.
Maybe the little man will ban drones next?
I love seeing the rats eat each other.
pods
These drones bring up all sorts of questions.
If a drone caused a jetliner to go down, will it be considered an act of terrorism? Does it hate us for our freedom? Will the US attack the country of origin of the drone or the operator? What freedoms can the government take away after a drone terror attack on our airports? Will I have to go through TSA naked? How far apart will I have to stretch my rectum during serches?
Are drones people like corporations? I could see that rat fuck Bill Kristol making that argument.
They are operated by corporations. Cmon, corporations are people bra
FYI, they may search for your missing "a".
They will manage to eventually bring down an airliner by reckless drone use - and they will blame some third party for it and maybe even start a war over it, if they think they can get away with it.
GE better get busy developing some 'drone-proof ' turbofans...
What if they were from Dronesville?
Horton hears a Who. Men in Black marbles.
us rats take care of each other, we even taste the food for others.
Finally the aliens are coming Dr. Krugman is expecting! Buy stocks now.
Wait till one causes a crash.
That will be some fun!
"Runway 31R" ???
That's near Chinatown, innit?
Has to be the pesky Iranians
That's just Yves Rossy playing around with the 747's again. Ignore that flying man.
This one has him flying in formation with some planes, pretty awesome
OK, thats now number 1 on the bucket list!!!
I will pass on playing like a bird, but if you want to strap something on to be more like a horse, then there is always this.
I was kind of embarassed when they told me why they wanted me to model...................
pods
Maybe he's the airfreight guy responsible for delivering Germany's NYFED gold (to Swiss vaults of course). Let's see, one 400oz bar per trip, at yea speed for yea nautical miles for xyz bars, um hm, yep ... 7 years.
Mystery = Solved.
PODS, Esquire.
Professional Cock model
make sure you wear your helmet!
Great for commuting, or bugging out when TSHTF. Add to Buy list in NatGeo's Doomsday Preppers.
One of my heroes; that dude is too much. I liked the video where he jumped out of his haul plane and put a big model airplane under his tennis shoes and "snowboarded" down about 9000 feet standing on the model airplane wing. He's incredible.
All these stories get more and more assine by the day! It was probably some mentally deficient DHS knucklehead playing with a confiscated toy!
This is real news. Student suspended for shaping Pop-Tart into gun - www.ktnv.com
at least he wasn't expelled for using M&M's peanuts as 00 buckshot.
Speaking of shaping pop tarts into a gun, Taylor Swift might make a nice bottom for an over-under.
Time to ban pop tarts, clearly they are a precursor to violence.
Those fuckers will burn ya good!
Um... whats an RC plane ?
Remote Control
Republican Controlled
Retard Controlled seems more like it, though it might also mean Rocket Carrier...
Are you sure he didn't say RQ?
Royal Canadian.
Release Candidate.
Radio Controlled. It's a major hobby. People in the US are now building Radio Controlled models with chainsaw engines driving the propellor and six foot wingspans. Also, with panable and zoomable controlled video broadcast back to base. In other words, drones. Unarmed; at least for now.
Does that mean U.S.A. citizens still have enough time and money to deal with useless stuff, and could pay higher gasoline prices? And taxes?
Look on the You-Tube search bar for model airplanes with chainsaw engines. The drone-like video camera installation is called FPV; flight point-of-view.
Ooooh... I want me wanna them chainsaw drones. Finally, practical tree-trimming.
Royal Crown.
Did they have DHS symbols?
FEMA perhaps?
Thank God they are around to protect US.
No, it was bloomburg's soda patrol.
It helps the Velocity of Money. /sarc
No, that was me. I was having some fun with my 1:32 scale turbofan-powered 747 R/C plane on remote via satellite link from Philly. Sorry about that. I really didn't think anyone would notice. I had already done 4 touch-and-goes on 31R earlier today with it and nobody seemed to notice. I guess I got a little too close to one of the real ones on the 5th run. It just seemed like a really fun thing to do.
We're cool, right?
And on more Fascist Totalitarian Authoritarian Police State News:
Houston Cops Push for Law to Grab Guns from Citizens
Now that politicians and the establishment media have intertwined mental health and proposed gun laws, the top cop in Houston wants to change Texas law to make it legal for police to seize guns from citizens they determine are mentally ill.
Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland wants the Legislature to require a judge to decide if citizens referred for mental health treatment are qualified to exercise the Second Amendment. McClelland has teamed up with Republican state Rep. Allen Fletcher who is drafting a bill to keep firearms confiscated from citizens by the police in a property room until a judge decides if it should be returned.
A proposed law will amend the mental health code of Texas and allow police to confiscate a weapon taken from a person they determine is “experiencing a mental health crisis and has been found to be a danger to himself or others and is being transported by police for an emergency mental health evaluation,” according to the Associated Press.
“Whenever that person’s (mental) evaluation is completed, because of HIPAA laws and medical privacy issues, I have no way of knowing if this person still qualifies to carry or have a firearm,” -Police Chief Charles McClelland
http://www.infowars.com/houston-cops-push-for-law-to-grab-guns-from-citizens/
The Take,
Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland wants the Legislature to require a judge to decide if citizens referred for mental health treatment are qualified to exercise the Second Amendment.
So my question is what if the JUDGE IS A MENTAL CASE I mean seriously there are a lot of judges around with MENTAL PROBLEMS due to their drunkenness with absolute power! For example, JUDGE JOHN ROBERTS of the high court doesn’t even know what the constitution says because he is so blinded with power. WE ARE IN TROUBLE PEOPLE.
I bolded (HIPPA) an italicized the most important part of his quote.s The stage is being set for a complete transfer of an individuals personal health or mental health information to Law Enforcement Agencies and is in violation of the HIPPA patient Privacy Rule. Which states:
Privacy Rule
The Privacy Rule is intended to protect the privacy of all individually identifiable health information in
the hands of covered entities, regardless of whether the information is or has been in electronic form.
The rule establishes the first “set of basic national privacy standards and fair
information practices that provides all Americans with a basic level of protection and peace of mind
that is essential to their full participation in their care”. 65 Fed. Reg. at 82464The Privacy standards:
http://www.csun.edu/~lisagor/2006Fall/FCS494BEE/494BEE%20What's%20HIPAA_.pdf
If its about mental health, why don’t you focus on the drug pharmaceuticals and Doctor's themselves that deliver psychotropic's on a daily basis? Answer that one Police Chief Charles McClelland…. we all know your a traitor to The People’s civil rights and so you tread on The Constitution with impunity. You damn well know your doing the gun control so you can keep your purse in check… disgusting maggot. It's obvious by now that the Agenda done by design will be of an effort of continued abuse and erosion of Civil Liberties and individual Freedom with impunity.
McClelland said police need to ability to confiscate a firearm prior to a determination by the state.”
This is an outrage! How about having the ability to read the Constitution and comprehend it? You have no authority/legal authority or consent except for the illegal kind you exert by lethal force. People should be concerned, very concerned.
Again, what is the exigency or necessity for these laws? They probably cannot show a single case where a gun crime could have been prevented if they had only been able to have made a prior determination of the person's mental competency... It's as though the executive branch has completely forgotten its role...
Realistically, the mental circumstances that would cause someone to wig out and start shooting folks are incredibly rare. Any prospective law couldn't even generalize based upon diagnosis... some folks with PTSD might be in danger of shooting others, while the rest of them won't... some people with delusions might be in danger of shooting others, while the rest of them won't... this is why each particular case must be decided in court, where there are formal rules of evidence, procedure, etc. and due process might actually be effectuated (might).
I think the simple answer to these officers is, shut the fuck up and do your job... but don't expect to receive your bloated pension. Best of luck.
Someone should declare eating doughnuts as a clear indication of mental illness. Immediately, no police will be carrying guns.
Would not take much to run an RC airplane on a reverse ILS approach and do some damage to landing aircraft. Cheap and scary.
Cheap? how about 10$ worth of materials and a swap meet junk chain saw; hand made prop; you missing the important part; the HE. I expect these to be legislated against soon; they;re obviously the peoples air-force; and we know that's not good.
If Congress would create legislation against RC airplanes, I wonder how that law would affect their agenda for flying drones within the USA border?
Laws only apply to us little people.
JUSTUS!!!!
You don't need HE if you've got enough KE (Kinetic Energy).
I wonder how long it will be before the autonomous ones start launching hellfires in downtown Chicago.
Whatever it was, I'm sure it's for our own good..........
Don't drone me bro
They are just scanning the aircraft for horsemeat. Or gold coins. Nothing to worry about, citizens, move along.
Practice runs.
Get used to it. This shit is just getting started.
Cue the guy with the crazy hair. Ancient Astronaut Therorists believe.........
Would love to spend a couple of hours chatting with that guy over some beers...
The believe aliens engineered humans to mine gold for them. Warren Buffet may be an alien since he doesn't believe gold is a currency. He must know what it really is.
double entry
You stole my line!!
Ancient astronaut money-printers actually boosted human civilization in secret by raining down comets which actually were armor-casings for paper fiat quatloos jump-starting the first homo sapiens Keynesians in history!
Um, JFK is in Queens.
Central Park Drone Base FTW!!!
Shit, I thought they were launched from Gracie Mansion. Remember, Mickey is a licensed pilot.
I thought JFK was with Elvis, who would never agree to hide out in Queens.
What Practice Run?
These things are cheap to buy/build and I'm surprised it took as long as it did for some demented fuckhead to try to crash a plane on takeoff/landing. Hopefully they try to retrieve it and get nailed.
And once one asshole comes up with the idea, more will come out of the woodwork.
And since you can't jam them without messing up aircraft electronics...eventually somebody will bring down a plane.
Then they'll ban the sale (and ownership, so don't think about buying ahead to sell on Ebay).
Wow.
Busted, Henry Kissinger!
Are the drones going to be used to make sure nobody has a sugary drink thats too large or somebody isn't selling food with too much sodium?
They are ants, Them
Amish to Unveil New Horse-Drawn Drone
That web page also contained the contrived headline saying "Low Flying Drone Impaled by Statue of Liberty Torch While on Training 'Op'". That sounds like something WB7 might have come up with pictorially.
what happens when the drones revolt and refuse their orders?
It'll be the new "bird strike" for urban aviation... c'est chic!
Drones and your papers,,
FR
Your Papers, Citizen
Gun Control and the Changing American Character
A staple of American self-esteem is that we Yanks are brave, free, independent, self-reliant, ruggedly individual, and disinclined to accept abuse from anyone. This was largely true in, say, 1930. People lived, a great many of them, on farms where they planted their own crops, built their own barns, repaired their own trucks, and protected their own property. They were literate but not educated, knew little of the world beyond the local, but in their homes and fields they were supreme.
If they wanted to swim buck nekkid in the creek, they swam buck nekkid. If whistle pigs were eating the corn, the family teenager would get his rifle and solve the problem. Government left them alone.
Even in the early Sixties, in rural King George County, Virginia, where I grew up, it was still mostly true. The country people built their own boats to crab in the Potomac, converted junked car engines to marine, made their own crab pots, planted corn and such, and hunted deer. There was very little contact with the government. One state trooper was the law, and he had precious little to do.
I say the following not as an old codger painting his youth in roseate hues that never were, but as serious sociology: We kids could get up on a summer morning, grab the .22 or .410, put it over our shoulder and go into the country store for ammunition, and no one looked twice. We could go by night to the dump to snap-shoot rats, and no one cared. We could get our fishing poles—I preferred a spinning reel and bait-casting tackle—and fish anywhere we pleased on Machodoc Creek or the Potomac. We could drive unwisely but joyously on winding wooded roads late at night and nobody cared.
Call it “freedom.” We were free, and so were the country folk on their farms and with their crabbing rigs. Because we were free, we felt free. It was a distinct psychology, though we didn’t know it.
Things then changed. The country increasingly urbanized. So much for rugged.
It became ever more a nation of employees. As Walmart and shopping centers and factories moved in, the farmers sold their land to real-estate developers at what they thought mind-boggling prices, and went to work as security guards and truck drivers. Employees are not free. They fear the boss, fear dismissal, and become prisoners of the retirement system. So much for Marlboro Man.
Self-reliance went. Few any longer can fix a car or the plumbing, grow food, hunt, bait a hook or install a new roof. Or defend themselves. To overstate barely, everyone depends on someone else, often the government, for everything. Thus we becamethe Hive.
Government came like a dust storm of fine choking powder, making its way into everything. You could no longer build a shed without a half-dozen permits and inspections. You couldn’t swim without a lifeguard, couldn’t use your canoe without Coast-Guard approved flotation devices and a card saying that you had taken an approved course in how to canoe. Cops proliferated with speed traps. The government began spying on email, requiring licenses and permits for everything, and deciding what could and could not be taught to one’s children, who one had to associate with, and what one could think about what or, more usually, whom.
With this came feminization. The schools began to value feelings over learning anything. Dodge ball and freeze tag became violence and heartless competition, giving way to cooperative group activities led by a caring adult. The female preference for security over freedom set in like a hard frost. We became afraid of second-hand smoke and swimming pools with a deep end. As women got in touch with their inner totalitarian, we began to outlaw large soft drinks and any word or expression that might offend anyone.
Thus much of the country morphed into helpless flowers, narcissistic, easily frightened, profoundly ignorant video-game twiddlers and Facebook Argonauts. As every known poll shows, even what purport to be college graduates do not know who fought in World War One, or that there was a Mexican-American war, or where Indochina is.
Serving as little more than cubicle fodder, they could not survive a serious crisis like the first Depression. And they look to the collective, the hive, for protection. The notion of individual self-defense, whether with a fist or a Sig 9, is, you know, like scary, or, well, just wrong or macho or something. I mean, if you find an intruder in your house at night, shouldn’t you, like, call a caring adult?
The echoes of the former America linger in commercials in commercials for pickup trucks with throaty bass voices and footage of Toyotas powering through rough unsettled country that almost no one ever even sees these days. Mostly it’s just marketing to suburban blossoms. The number of vehicles with four-wheel drive that have actually been off a paved road is not high.
Many who grew up in the former America, and a good many today in the South and west, substantially adhere to the old values. They won’t last. We live in the day of the Hive, and in the long run there is no point fighting it.
But for these relics, who like to wind the Harley to a hundred-and-climbing on the big empty roads out west, who throw the deer rifle in the gun rack on the first day of the season, who set out into the High Desert for sheer love of sun and barren rock and sprawling isolation—the terror of guns, of everything, makes no sense.
They—we—grew up with guns. Since nobody ever shot anybody accidentally or otherwise, we accepted as obvious: that people, not guns, committed murder. Did shotguns leap into the air of their own volition, point themselves, and open fire? Or did someone pull the trigger? If a murderer shot his victim, did you put the gun in jail, or the murderer? If remote urban barbarians below the level of civilization shot people, what did that have to do with us?
A different America, a different culture. We really were free. You could come out of the house on a summer morning and let the dogs run loose in the fields, nobody ever having heard of a dog license. You could change the oil in your car or rewire your basement without the county meddling. You could shoot varmints eating your garden and no one cared. The government left you alone. This is not an unimportant part of the dispute over guns—wanting to be left alone. Nobody in America, ever again, is going to be left alone. Not ever.
Welcome to the Borg Collective. Resistance is futile. At least in Brave New World, if I remember correctly, there was a reservation for those who craved freedom over a modicum of security and free drugs.
The Obama Bowl
"Sir, do you have a permit to use that toilet? You do? OK, but I don't see the TP dispenser endorsement. No, sorry, I don't care if you brought your own TP. Pull 'em back up and buckle that belt.
Hey, over there! I heard that. I told you it's a one-loaf drop!"
Solid Read ..
I loved the part where if you murder someone would you jail the gun or the murderer?!
I guess now they will jail the gun.. FUBAR
So now you can bring a plane down with a video/remote control iPhone app...
Youtube is going to get very interesting.
Wasn't that the Bernanke and tiny Timmy taking off from the Scotia Mocatta vault runway in a glider full of chocolate gold, destination Kloten, Zurich?
I found it quite interesting that the bucolic T.V. magazine "Sunday Morning" did a piece on drones and was giving a 'wake up' call about it all.
For them to step into a 'dark realm' such as that to me was very significant and somewhat hopeful.
Fuggin' Soetero.
How could one spot a toy RC plane from a jet aircraft travelling around 500 mph?
Looks like someone forgot to tell the pilots "if you see something, don't fucking say anything".
From the description, it was one of these. I own a couple, but you couldn't pay me enough to live in New York...
http://www.dji-innovations.com/products/phantom/overview/
In the interest of their personal and families safety, anyone that flies a drone against his own American citizens should Google Columbian Neckties.