- Funny; “job stress” never caused me to get drunk and bite anybody’s you-know-whats. A bad day at work ever had that effect on you? A bad year? (H/T jed in comments)
- Speaking of the you-know-whats: Nicki gives a “gun owner who favors gun control” a kick in his.
- Medical costs going up-up-up? Well, we all know they have been. But more recently, if these stats are correct, medical costs have stabilized. Medical insurance costs, OTOH …
- Be sure to register that drone you get for Christmas. Did Congress pass a law about this? Article fails to mention such. ADDED: Some of the major problems with drone registration.
- Nobody needs a high-capacity window!
- Fedgov seizes that land near Area 51 that’s been owned, worked, and lived on by one family since Abe Lincoln’s day. Looks like they’ll be allowed to cheat the family on price even worse than they’d previously intended. (Sad h/t to Jim B.)
- Detroit pastor shoots brick-wielding attacker.
- But in Chicago they still fantasize that 2,500 “guns off the streets” will save 2,500 pure, innocent lives.
- What Jennifer Lawrence tells us about women and unequal pay. It’s not the other guy’s prejudice as much as it is our poor negotiating.
- Strictly for you guys in the Pacific Northwest: Ways Oregon beats Washington. Ways Washington beats Oregon.
Annual benefits enrollment starts at work on the first of next month. We were notified that health insurance premiums WILL rise between 81 an 113% and this is AFTER the company increases the amount they pay in by $3.5 million.
I’m in favor of “sensible gun control” — certain sorts of people (e.g. the officer from the first story) probably shouldn’t have guns.
It’s all about responsible gun ownership. 😉
Register consumer drones? Gee, how did we ever survive all the unregistered radio-controlled model aircraft that have been around since at least the sixties?
All of us survived very well without registering anything until recently… so it isn’t something “we” need at all… but the non-voluntary government has to have registration of all kinds of things or they can’t control them or us. Of course, they can’t actually control us or anything else in the long run, but they may never figure that out.
Non-compliance is actually about the only cure for this dumb ass stuff. Anyway, I don’t especially want a drone… I want my flying car!!! 🙂
Yet another impossible to enforce law.
OBTW, part 2 of your house is out.
I can’t see how the FAA’s drone registration “proposal”* is legal under the FAA Modernization and Reform Act for small hobbyist drones. Section 336 of that Act says:
(a) IN GENERAL. Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating to the incorporation of unmanned aircraft systems into Federal Aviation Administration plans and policies, including this subtitle, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft, or an aircraft being developed as a model aircraft, if—
(1) the aircraft is flown strictly for hobby or recreational use;
(2) the aircraft is operated in accordance with a community-based set of safety guidelines and within the programming of a nationwide community-based organization;
(3) the aircraft is limited to not more than 55 pounds unless otherwise certified through a design, construction, inspection, flight test, and operational safety program administered by a community-based organization;
(4) the aircraft is operated in a manner that does not interfere with and gives way to any manned aircraft; and
(5) when flown within 5 miles of an airport, the operator of the aircraft provides the airport operator and the airport air traffic control tower (when an air traffic facility is located at the airport) with prior notice of the operation (model aircraft operators flying from a permanent location within 5 miles of an airport should establish a mutually-agreed upon operating procedure with the airport operator and the airport air traffic control tower (when an air traffic facility is located at the airport)).
The FAA simply lacks jurisdiction.
* Sneer quotes because it’s not legally a proposed regulation, which has to be published with a comment period; it’s merely the announcement that they intend to do so.
It’s necessary because terrorism. You don’t want to support terrorism…do you? [sinister sneer]
In regard to high-capacity windows – sounds more like the problem is high-capacity buildings. Why would anyone need a building more than two stories tall? We should register most of the buildings in NYC, concurrent with comprehensive background checks for their owners and all their tenants. It’s for the children.
OT: Innovative police work:
http://fox2now.com/2015/10/19/former-chesterfield-police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-invasion-of-privacy-charge/
If a man is straddling you in a fight, and his crotch is right above your face, it seems a natural way to proceed… 😉
I doubt drone registration is going to be very popular.
[with the hope of providing a way to link badly behaved drones to their pilots.]
That’s of course not the real reason. They want to be able to drone peons. They don’t want peons to be able to drone them.
I never worried much about my pay, as long as I was making “enough”. There is something to be said for making somewhat less than you can theoretically squeeze out of an employer; the closer you are to that theoretical maximum, the less productive you are (your output compared to your cost). The higher your ratio of production to cost, the less likely you will be laid off in a business downturn. That’s worth something…
However we did have one blow-up about pay when we discovered what a Mormon co-worker was offered by his Mormon boss – substantially more than the rest of us were getting, even though he was far less productive. Caused quite a ruckus at the time.
On that Washington vs Oregon thing, it was pretty serious back when Washington’s vehicle registration fee was up over $200 per year while Oregon’s was $32 for 2 years. Washingtonians naturally responded by registering their cars in Oregon, and Washington cops then pulled over everybody on I-5 for “driving while Oregonian”, looking for those sneaky tax cheats. It made driving up there pretty tedious. Then some angel in Washington got a measure on the ballot that knocked the fee down to Oregon levels. The parasites whined and complained, but the people had had enough and passed it.
#1 reason Washington is better than Oregon- It’s further from California.The SJW’s were certainly working on the lists, thoough
Two words regarding drones, Ghost Drones or Disposable Drones, as in build them with cheap materials and use them for whatever. If someone shoots them down or something to get their hands on them, then you’re not out of money and they can’t trace it back to you.
With the Maker community these days, the genies are out of the bottles. You can’t stop the signal.
While the FAA absolutely needs to regulate drones, it’s imperative that the new registration requirement will be well thought out and carefully implemented.
Because there’s a long history of government regulations that are “well thought out and carefully implemented.” Right?
In many states if you bow hunt you are required to have your name and address on each arrow. The same process would work with drones, at almost no expense or inconvenience.
Not all women are so timid about asking for more money. Several years ago a young woman I know was to be given the average pay raise that everyone was getting. She asked the boss “Am I just an average employee?” The percentage of the raise was doubled without any further ado.
Sure, drone reg will give owners an ‘opportunity to learn the rules’, just as the tax code, in the words of an accountant acquaintance ‘allows me to comport my life in conformance to the code’.
Excuse me while I render a middle finger salute.
http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2015/10/tradecraft-stay-behind-operations-and-resistance-operations/