We perfer snowbacks, thank you very much.
Declan
He’s having trouble getting Canada to pay for it.
Look on the bright side : soon enough the drones will be automated. Automated drones can’t be racist *or *“fear for their life” !
ETA : also, drone = constant, easily tapped video link. That’s like having flying cops with bodycams, except the bodycam’s hard drive is “a cloud made up of everyone who cares to listen”. And the operator can’t shut if off when some unsavoury shit is about to go down.
Oh fine!
Now the cops will demand Hellfires for their drones.
Nice going!
Okay, so he’s no Donald Trump, but here’s that fence.
So these drones are going to use “non-lethal” rubber bullets, bean bags, pepper spray and Tasers? Are there stats as to how many people have been killed by police using these “non-lethal” devices?
Nothing could possibly go wrong. I’m sure this will inspire trust and confidence between the police and the targets… err… I mean citizens. Have fun!
People don’t need and should not get the absolute best protection available. There’s such a thing as “good enough”. We don’t need drones flying around shooting people from the air
My comment was stupid and a knee jerk reaction to the so-called sophisticated people in the bigger cities looking down and making idiotic comments about the so-called ‘flyover states’ of which I live in one (but not North Dakota).
Remember that pic of the douchebag security guy walking by the protesters just hosing them down with pepper spray?
Replace the guy with a drone.
…being manipulated via remote video by a douchbag security guy, controlling it like a video game, scoring his “kills”.
And of course, we’ll just sit back and wait for the first time one of those drones does something illegal, and strangely, the department is “unable to determine” which of their officers was flying the drone that day, so no one can be disciplined for it.
You guys are just a bunch of Luddites. I, for one, am looking forward to D+5 minutes (where D is the day drones are deployed), when one of the drones get hijacked by 4chan and starts spraypainting Dickbutt in teargas all over city hall.
Or randomly shooting at people, because 4chan.
Can we call the control system Skynet? That would be cool!
Uh, despite the title, Fargo is set in Minnesota.
That’s OK, it’s all within drone-range from ND. Or, at least the western parts of Minnesota that are, you know, historically North Dakotan territory already.
At least the movie had its opening scene in Fargo.
I’d guess this is a pilot program for an NRA “Hunting With Drones” program. If the police can arm drones, surely law abiding citizens can. Unfortunately, many law abaiding ctizens are not able to go into the wild and do their own killing. But now, flying drones, they can.