15-03-2014, 08:59 PM
While walking my dog yesterday, I came across a man flying a six-propeller drone. I watched for some 20 minutes until he landed it. It flew very fast in any direction his two joysticks dictated. It had a positionable webcam he could view on his hand-held controller [or could transmit via wifi anywhere else]. It had a range of about a Km [.65 mile] and could lift a rather hefty load. Its battery pack alone was heavy and huge! I looked at a local large computer store and they were selling a similar one for about $400. I can only imagine what a few thousand dollars can buy these days....and what capabilities they might have. Brave New World or Hellish Electronic Nightmare?::
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass