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How is drone delivery economically feasible? The carry weight is negligible, the range is paltry and they still require operators- whom I'm sure earn more than your average white van man.
there are niches in places where the roads are bad/congested/otherwise and the cargo is particularly high value. I remember reading about a delivery use case for blood bags in the African countryside.
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Wow, these rules are incredibly poorly defined. I'll take the bit that says "20-30 feet high with propeller guards over a small family gathering in the park wouldn’t necessarily require any additional documentation" to mean that flying 30 feet in the air over people is legal. And people can definitely throw a rock 30 feet high.
this allows you to film your own family & friends enjoying a picnic, but not endanger, harass, annoy or intimidate some other group, from enjoying thier lives
in context this is about ireland and private property so to be purist about -on topic, we need to look at EU rules regarding flights over homes and yards.
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The question is so common that it has its own section in the FAA’s drone FAQ > Can you shoot down drones above your property? > It’s illegal under federal law to shoot at an aircraft. A private citizen shooting at any aircraft – including unmanned aircraft – poses a significant safety hazard. An unmanned aircraft hit by gunfire could crash, causing damage to persons or property on the ground, or it could collide with…
Yeah, yeah, this is what every single drone hobbyist parrots on about when asked this question. However, when was the last time someone was actually charged and convicted (criminal not civil) for shooting down a drone flying over their property.
Right now it's uncommon and largely handled by civil courts.
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Elect new leaders in your city who will change that. It’s not like that everywhere, and you’re playing in to the hand of the corrupt to pretend otherwise.
Playing in the hands of the corrupt to remind others of their innate, individualist rights to firearms to protect their lives and property when police aren't a trusted recourse? Playing in the hands of the corrupt is to shame others for not relying on a fundamentally unreliable police force, in fact.
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So who pays your medical bills when one of those falls on your head. FAA or the delivery company?
Who pays your medical bills when one of those cars jump the curb and hits you? The state transport authority or the automobile driver?
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> The media and government tried and tried to paint him as a criminal but ultimately all the kings horses, men, and prosecutors weren't able to persuade a jury. This is technically correct but is a misleading characterization of the events according to Wikipedia [1]. > The first criminal case resulting from the standoff, against six Bundy supporters, was declared a mistrial by U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro on Ap…
The Bunkerville trial of Ammon was declared a mistrial with prejudice. For Malheur he was found 'not guilty' on all charges 'according to wikipedia', >On October 27, 2016, Ammon Bundy was found not guilty on all counts.[87][88] Unless you are thinking of another trial of Amon, I think you are mixing up someone else (6 others?) or another event. I admit it is easy to mix it up with Ammon, because the government tried…
I don’t know exactly how he’s escaped consequences, but I don’t think it’s because he’s actually reasonable and correct.
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The Bunkerville trial of Ammon was declared a mistrial with prejudice. For Malheur he was found 'not guilty' on all charges 'according to wikipedia', >On October 27, 2016, Ammon Bundy was found not guilty on all counts.[87][88] Unless you are thinking of another trial of Amon, I think you are mixing up someone else (6 others?) or another event. I admit it is easy to mix it up with Ammon, because the government tried…
Are we reading the same Wikipedia page? Maybe I’ll save a full perusal of his statements for another day, but based on Wikipedia… yes, he has said some surprisingly liberal things about Trump, immigration policy, the Republican party, and Black Lives Matter. On the other hand, he put some hospitals through lockdown, threats of violence, accusations of pedophilia conspiracy, and protesting outside of hospital workers’…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Du-jbE022I
"Not medically necessary." The baby was not about to die, in fact the doctor admits in the bodycam to manufacturing a story to take Cyrus away via a transfer for cover for removal to foster care. The baby was stable. The hospital then defamed Mr Bundy by lying about the circumstances.
>about to die of malnourishment
Why would a child be discharged straight to CPS foster care with a transfer only to obfuscate that, if the child were about to die? The child is stable, ready for foster care but simultaneously about to die? These are not simultaneously compatible in this context, someone is lying. And I think the end result thankfully bears this out, as the CPS case was ultimately cleared and charges dropped against the mother.
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For what it's worth, shooting at aircraft (including drones) is a federal offense, and the FAA takes that one pretty seriously. Drones also have cameras.
The question is so common that it has its own section in the FAA’s drone FAQ > Can you shoot down drones above your property? > It’s illegal under federal law to shoot at an aircraft. A private citizen shooting at any aircraft – including unmanned aircraft – poses a significant safety hazard. An unmanned aircraft hit by gunfire could crash, causing damage to persons or property on the ground, or it could collide with…