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I somehow doubt the crows will cough up the perps name when interrogated....
They definitely won't, crows are very loyal and they abhor snitches.
That's why they get away with their murder.
Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?
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#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In yet others, they can occupy parts of national parks and have an armed standoff with federal agents, again with no real consequences. What situation are you referencing here? First one that comes to mind is Malheur but one of them was killed and 7 went to prison.
The one that was killed was only done so away from Malheur, when the men with badges suddenly became brave again when they had one man and his family out in a bumfuck rural road.
The men with badges didn't "suddenly become brave". This was a planned operation to capture the leaders of the Malheur standoff. I can find no evidence or even claim that the passengers in LaVoy Finicum's truck were his family. He was transporting Ryan Bundy along with Shawna Cox, Victoria Sharp, and Ryan Payne. Ammon Bundy was in a trailing Jeep. Ammon surrendered in the initial stop but Finicum fled.
After crashing his truck avoiding a roadblock during the high speed pursuit Finicum got out and attempted to draw on officers. He was literally yelling "shoot me" as they shot him.
There's video from the air: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZWX3Tz1tQI
And inside his truck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEswP_HSFV4
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_Nati...
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
What will be legal is to simply sue the owner of the drone for breaking your window when your neighbor shot it down. Let the owner and the neighbor sort it out if the owner can prove the neighbor shot it down. But until that proof is forthcoming, the owner is liable. Same as any plane crash. Oh, and Heaven help the owner if any humans or pets in the house are injured. After a while, that will get so expensive that ei…
that's a good fantasy. but here's how I think it would play-out in reality: * your new window was $1800, so even with treble damages, it's still under $10k, which means it is a small claims issue. * sue AMZN (or some subcontractor/"third party") in small claims, they don't show up. you get a default judgement * good luck collecting. the moment you do, they start denying it on technical grounds. Oh you were a prime me…
Which is why you never join prime.
And if you think damages are less than 10k from some kid getting hit in the head by a drone crashing through his/her window, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. In the US, healthcare alone is not that cheap.
Finally, you suing AMZN is not how things work in the US. In the US, the relevant insurance companies work it out with each other. What I mean by that is, it is AmFam suing AMZN. And believe me, AmFam is gonna get every penny it's owed.
You're the one living in fantasy land if you think homeowners sue liable parties for money in the US rather than filing claims with their home insurance company.
If everyone just keeps that full coverage, it will work itself out. AMZN will be paying those claims. Or rather, AMZN's insurers will be paying those claims.
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then they are traitors
looks like some people didn't get the word play. perps + traitors ... :) or alternatively, which some of us know, HNers don't like humor by some people, but like it by others. seen many examples of that in the past.
Or alternatively the word play wasn’t very good.
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It generally is. How else do you think Google gets all those satellite pictures for maps?
Google has no satellites, the state has. They got those photos for free, probably in exchange for better software.
There's companies with imaging satellites that sell their data to Google and Microsoft. Also a lot of the imagery on maps and Co is not satellite at all but aerial photography which they buy from various private companies who do do aerial surveying.
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#266I just dont understand why we are doing this. Delievery within a city is a solved issue. Wanna get rid of humans? self-driving cars.
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#267One of the things I find incredibly annoying is that delivery drivers will drive by my home even when they're not delivering to me. Did they even ask for my consent? Once they have self-driving cargo vans, I'm just going to shoot out their tires so they can't spy on me. Or that's what I would sound like if I was a looneybin.
The looney part is you pretending a van driving in front of your house is nearly as invasive as drone flying over your yard...
That's just because people got used to motor vehicles in their neighbourhoods.
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#268I hear that a focused low power EMP zot can do wonders .. /s
I semi-interested in drones, and my social media algorithm repeatedly shows me both EMP devices and drone jamming countermeasures. Aliexpress style vendors, factory assembly videos. I would guess that both of these are illegal in the US.
Hey, I'm legally allowed to put 1500 watts into a yagi array with near 30dbd of gain. It isn't my fault that a drone flew in the beam while I was sending cw at 500cpm.
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> What if 10 neighbors collude and start flying drones over my garden and house, only a few meters above ground or my roof, 24/7? What if your neighbours climb on your roof and start banging on your windows at night?
> What if your neighbours climb on your roof and start banging on your windows at night? Worth noting that in the US, castle law[1] is ardently defended and not something to be tested by FAFO. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine
Here, "FAFO" = fsck around, find out.
Parent's point is that you should not apply that methodology in order to test the applicability of castle law in the US, since you might end up dead.
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#270Aside: It's going to be a great time when the crows, raccoons, and other semi-intelligent wildlife discover that these drones have food in them at seemingly random reward schedules. Sure, you can give the drones little tasers to keep the animals away, depending on your locality. But knowing what I know about bears and crows, almost nothing is going to stop them. Especially when some influencer jerk tries tempting a b…
>almost nothing is going to stop them Except for those 4-8 prop blades spinning at high rpm. Then multiple layers of packaging to get the item. It'll be interesting to see if it actually happens, my prediction is that trash bags will still be preferable risk/reward.
According to the company's own video, there's a lot of attack surface outside of the blades.
And birds incidents with actual planes show that it's not the same reasoning as human warfare : inflicting damage to the enemy while taking none. For delivery companies it won't matter if the birds got out safely or died in the process of destroying their $$$$ drones.