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Hell, I'll get Bone a job, too. They can finally work side by side to clean this mess up.

Being a Top Party Operative, I can get Mr. Paul a job, but it won't be for thinking. The current janitorial service at Party Headquarters sucks.

So, let me get this straight. Lawmakers employ lobbyists and think tanks to help them write legislation and provide them with talking points and position papers????!!!!!!! I think the author may be attempting to transform a Poli Sci 101 text into an Tom Clancy flick.

One of those two brothers spends more time out in the sun than the other.

Tents seem to blow away during the climb more often than they shred. Guy it down with the upper attachment points using deadmanned snow filled stuff sacks and you should be OK. Otherwise, your stuff might wind (get it?) up in the wrong hands:

It's called poor writing skills, actually. It has nothing do to with ADHD culture or lack of depth of the audience. The best writers can communicate complex ideas succinctly to an audience that isn't necessarily 'on the inside'. This author seems incapable of pulling that off. No abstract. The piece just rambles on and on and on. All the genius in the world is useless if you can't communicate your ideas effectively. Anyhoo, no summary from you, I'm not going to wade through the author's masturbatory piece, so that's all I've got. Resume the insults as you see fit. Also boring. Bye.

This is a knee jerk reaction to an emerging technology. I'm surprised at the Bonian language from the bill's author, who otherwise seems to be have been a respected legislator with decent credentials. Emergency? That's baby talk. The trend is that anyone will be able to afford a video (or weapons) capable drone the size of a fly in the very near future. This is a clumsy attempt to bolster the social contract with legal sanctions in such a world. A better approach would be to examine privacy laws in general to ensure that they are robust enough to cover any technology that may arise. The law says nothing about piloted aerial surveillance, for example. What's the expectation of privacy in a given situation? What is the 'victims' responsibility in safeguarding their own privacy (showering with the curtain open, Facebook settings, etc). At what point does unauthorized use of pics, voice and video become a crime? What about misuse of sexting? Finally, our drone strike history is what has kicked off this craze. We need to more closely examine the human rights/legal implications of summary execution by drone, but that is a different issue, at a different level of government, than RC choppers. Oregon and other states would do well to look at their privacy protections rather than focus specifically on toy helicopters. That's a lot harder to do than licensing (what a waste of govt resources) toys, and legislators are as shy of hard stuff as anyone else.

Asking for crib notes is the opposite of dismissal - its asking for more information in the form of a summary (I have to explain this to an attorney?) The piece reads like Noam Chomsky on meth in the throes of a stream of consciousness, name dropping conspiracy rant. Just wondering what new ideas were being presented. GOP splintered. Check. Demographics aligned against them. Check. GOP soul searching. Check. My eyes glazed over at that point, I think. Brevity is the soul of wit and all that. The author might do well to schedule a coffee date with his editor once in a while. No abstract, no nutgraph. He just commences flushing. You could build a pyramid with those weighty, blocky paragraphs. I have to wonder if the author laments the death of the scroll. Ugh. Oh, and Prole, I think the phenomenon is called friendship. Not that I have time for it, or the article, what, between bullying retards and stalking 20 somethings.

75 prominent republicans sign an amicus brief in support of gay marriage Once every 100,000 years or so... FOX has yet to mention it.

The law, as written, includes felonies for certain types of drone use, and explicitly outlines the 20 year/375K maximum penalties for them.

Crib notes, please.

Always a charmer.

True dat. Unless your lucky enough to see a really big one come off Foraker.

In space, no one can hear you take a screamer.

Here's a much crappier photo (not a submission) of that same face sounding off, with a tent camp in the midfield for scale. Some mountains are just too damn spectacular.

The Russki's 'd do the rocket first. Just sayin'.

LOL

I'm looking for ideas for my 6 year old's science fair project. Thanks for the idea...this should get him an 'A+' If he's the payload, you'll all be famous.

Holy shit!

As long as I can continue to launch a rocket capable of reaching space without a license, I'm good. [video:youtube]sQw_C5KLhFM

Having to obtain a license to fly a $50 toy seems a bit much. The concern is that drone pilots will violate others' privacy. It seems like laws restricting the unauthorized use of photo/video might be a tighter, more workable solution than to get the state involved in every RC sale. SB 71 smacks of targeting a specific industry - what used to be called an RC copter is now a DRONE, and DRONES ARE BAD, MKAY? The privacy issue is real, however, given the technology and where its going. Considering that an 8 year old can now plunk down his profits from selling his buddy's old video games on Craiglist so he take an aerial video of you and your sheep through your luv loft's skylight, post it on Youtube, Twitter it to Buzzfeed - where it will quickly migrate to FOXnews, a bit of privacy bolstering regulation seems in order.

Actually, it is true. I can see restricting police and other govt. use, but private citizens? That seems a bit broad brush. Oregon SB 71 Author: OR Senator Prozanski (D). He's not just some kook, either. He's the chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has won awards, etc. He gets a low (25%) rating from the OR ACLU, which is sponsoring their own drone bill that simply requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant before using surveillance drones. The bill was read and sent to the judiciary committee (for which Prozanski is the chairman) It has not been voted on.

Wow. You're really promoting your latest public shaming effort. The noobs already failed to raise any cash. Not enough for ya, I guess.

I'll never look at the garden the same way ever again: Electric flowers communicate with bumblebees

My family's got more Nipponese than Tora! Tora! Tora! Bon to the mthrfkn zai, benwa polishers!