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You're assuming good-faith on the part of the police. Then using an emotional counter argument. Think about that. A police officer really believes that you're a terrible person and guilty of some terrible crime; and use that to justify a tiny little lie by pretending s/he didn't know that they couldn't do X.

Of course sane people do not want guilty people to go free. What's wanted here, and what's important here, is not that the guilty go free, but that the innocent aren't subject to harassment, embarrassment, and all sorts of other -ments from the government. And before you ask, yes, it's okay with me if some murders go unsolved due to the absence of pervasive surveillance, or even the overly liberal application of the "good-faith" exception.

That's right, you can't expect professional law enforcers to know the laws!

Seriously, the precedent that ostensibly allows this is very dangerous because it essentially allows police to feign ignorance in order to bypass 4A protections.

Exactly, if the man had stepped out on his porch, surveyed the landscape, and noticing no person present then decided to urinate on his lawn (in view of the camera), (as is a great rural American tradition), is the man now potentially on the hook for indecent exposure?

Maybe, I'm more worried about local industry's contribution than some science nerd's overly-ambitious projects.

OFFICIAL BUSINESS!!! NOT A BOMB!!!

Hours? You're giving them far too much credit.

If this sort of thing isn't going on or hasn't gone on, I'd be surprised.

Sr-90 is a huge hazard if it gets into your food supply. It replaces/binds Calcium and pings your bone marrow with ~.5MeV betas (electrons).

You might be surprised. I'm on the Gulf Coast where the growing season is long. We have rice, cotton, corn, soy, locally as well as two large vegetable farms with I don't even know how many acres of greenhouses. The large vegetable farms sell most of their produce to chain-grocer warehouses and restaurant suppliers. They will sell to the public, but don't really seem to like doing so.

Almost nothing at my local Walmart is cheaper than it is on amazon prime. UPS and FedEx stop at my house more than the postman.

I'd bet the isn't a single town that was brought into existence by Walmart. Before Walmart, you had a variety store, hardware, auto parts, and a grocery. After Walmart you'll get a dollar store in its place.

As to why small communities can't seem to solve the fresh produce problem, I'm at a loss. I live in a rural farming community and we can't get fresh produce. I can't decide whether to order produce delivered from Austin or start a local produce delivery myself. Currently we make a weekly trek to civilization and fill our minivan to bursting with food and supplies.

I'm not sure what your point here is but I see several possibilities:

  * Is independently supporting Sanders' campaign, maybe even volunteering.
  * Is gainfully employed by a pro-Sanders PAC.
  * Is gainfully employed by a something other than a PAC that is pro-Sanders.
  * Is gainfully employed directly by the Sanders campaign.
  * Something else

It isn't clear to me which of those is the case, but I assume it's the first. If he's actually employed by Sanders, that'd make his post a pretty odd thing to do. I think there are a lot better ways to have dealt with it (actually, I guess that's true either way).

As in "is advocating for", or "is a supporter of" Sanders, not "is employed by"; or at least that's the impression I get.

I hope Dalla reads this comment. It'll be a shame if the important part of the message is missed because people took offense at his tone with the campaigner.

Didn't they?

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

Nothing against the kids, but they need to play by the established rules; not undercut established juice franchisees who've invested considerable funds to purchase local franchise rights.

If you want to apply that test naively then you need to hold David Petraeus, Scooter Libby, Robert Novak, and a whole host of others to the same standard. Snowden didn't "reveal national security secrets to enemies" he revealed them to the press. He may have made it possible for so-called enemies to learn things they didn't already know, but even that is debatable. Define "Aid" and "Enemies" however you like, but apply the definitions consistently if you want to be taken seriously.

Not only did Snowden attempt to raise alarm, but so have others to little effect. Thomas Drake, and William Binney, for starters who were both much higher up in the NSA than Snowden. Neither had any effect on NSA lawbreaking and Drake in particular suffered quite a bit for his efforts. I think it was fair for Snowden to assume and plan for the worst when tattling on the NSA.

It may generally be called treason by some people, but in the US the definition of the crime of treason is specifically constrained to avoid abuses.

>Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

Hoo boy! I wish I could explain it. I live right smack in the middle of a bunch of people who can be observed to do exactly that. They are oblivious to the irony or logical inconsistency. My only guess is that these people see pro military industrial complex hawks as defenders of the America in their fairy tales and implicitly trust that their motives are pure. The only other thing is maybe that they've been defending the MIC for so long that they've stopped (or were never) thinking critically about their position.

The weather? The beer? Work? No reason in particular?

Nonsense. A gov't can foolishly decide to waste inordinate resources as a punitive measure.

>Most fighters don't cruise around on full AB; they cruise at lower throttle settings to conserve fuel.

Yeah, so, what's your point?

It's obviously not a well developed plan. Nevertheless, considering the costs of repair, sortie interval, loiter time, all of the other limits imposed by having so few very units of expensive aircraft opens them up to novel attacks. As to how to get the things to stay up there? Balloons are one way, large solar panel wings which could be jettisoned is another. Such a plan might not even have to work well, it might be enough to cause decision makers to keep the fighters grounded.

Why does it need to go 500 mph? The F35 is going faster than that.

How about I just hoist 100,000 ball bearings into the air and drop them in front of the F35?

But if you're committed to the fast drone idea then get one. I think they're going about 450 mph now which ought to give you enough time to maneuver in front of the f35.

Exactly, let's see if you can land it now.

Though, I understand much of it is composites so it might sound better than it actually works.

>The A-10 was the bee's knees when it was new and we were worried about thousands of Soviet tanks pouring through the Fulda Gap. But it's not 1985 any more.

Nobody in Chair Force command ever liked the A10. And the A10 is performing CAS as a secondary role, not the one it was originally intended for; and it is worn out and obsolete, and does need replacement. The F35 just isn't the tool for the job and it won't ever be. The Super Tucano is much closer, but I'm still skeptical of it too.

The F35 is supposed to eventually have some amazing capabilities, but CAS isn't one of them. It can't do CAS, and it will never be able to.

It's a Zerg rush, the darn things don't even need weapons. They can FOD the engine out. Enough strikes might damage the airframe critically. Send them each with a small capsule of Mercury and Gallium for extra fun.

>Believe it or not, the F-35 is built to save costs in the long term.

I don't believe it. Sure, that's how they sold it, and I understand the supply chain problems they want to avoid, but I don't believe a word of it.

Most anyone who heard an F35 and is posting publicly about it must have heard the plane in transit over land where they aren't permitted to cause sonic booms, and could have even been traveling very slowly.