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Well, what you have is two of those branches of government conspiring, instead of checking and balancing each other. The third branch is part of the party, too, and prefer sitting on their thumbs to ending the spectacle. Sounds to me like we have three branches of government, all of which...

Bicycles aren't a hazard?? More people are killed on bikes a year than *see* a drone, friend. Bicycle involved accidents are a major problem in urban areas with prominent biking communities (good God, Madison, WI). Bikes aren't registered because bicyclists throw an ever-loving FIT if you try...

Asking someone "are you scared because you lack information" is neither insulting, nor condescending. It's a perfectly legitimate question. There's nothing wrong with being uneducated on a small topic. Especially if uninterested, or the education isn't readily available. Additionally, my offer...

Could you explain why you find it unsettling? We have a few million folks over here using firearms in a perfectly legal manner. Does the idea that someone uses and likes a technology/tool really unsettle you? Or are you only afraid because guns are scary, and you don't know much about them? If...

Depends on the state, actually. Violations are non-criminal in most of the midwest. Take Wisconsin, for example. It's petty misdemeanor trespassing. IF you do not leave when the owner of the property requests it, IF you're still there when the police arrive AND IF you do not leave when...

Doing nothing seems to be working out fine. We've had fewer people hurt by drones in the last year than skateboards, swimming pools, or kitchen knives. Nobody's asking to register any of those things.

Avid gamer, here. I use GFE, currently, because it's convenient. If they want my email address to get driver updates, I might actually just go to getting them from Windows Update. Pretty sure nVidia doesn't actually need my email.

Two words, friend: "IMPERIAL CLIPPER". A few more: * Eagle * Federal Dropship (series; there are 3 variants) * Imperial Courier * Asp (more of a pizza box than a wedge...) * Diamondback (both variants) * Type-series of cargo ships Many of the fighters are wedge-shaped because the shape lends...

We're talking about posting of media content here, not violence. Violence connotes physical (not emotional) force. Posting something like this without the consent of the victim is certainly reprehensible, but we should avoid extending the language of violence in order to garner an emotional...

issues with them are pretty well-understood at this point. They cause concussive force. If they hit a target wrong, or at close range, they can still be lethal. If they hit other-wrongly... they don't incapacitate the target. There isn't much in the way of effective less-lethals at this point...

Been waiting for a new flagship for over a year on T-Mo. Was hoping to move to Verizon and grab one of the new Win10 phones while I was at it. Guess Microsoft doesn't like their evangelists, and this is my queue to abandon ship for Android? Gosh dang, I do *not* want to go back to Android. This...

Difference of opinion, I guess. The way I see it, if you have something legal to shoot, you point the open end of the barrel at it and pull the trigger. That hasn't changed much in 220 years. You say "all of them" RE: features on modern rifles you object to. I'll be pedantic for a moment: 1)...

I think you may have a reading comprehension problem, so let me help: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." "Since a well regulation Militia is necessary, the right of the people to own...

This looks like a fun piece of kit for measuring split times for shooting competitions. Could also be cool as retrofit to sporting rifles/shotguns used in 3-gun and similar competitions. From a police standpoint, the extra meta-data can only be useful. The battery and connectivity issues will...

Indeed. Is this really a systemic problem that requires a process-based solution? If it's a rare/one-off problem, or a repeated bad actor, I'm pretty sure we have a sanctions regime for handling that kind of behavior. Double the fine every violation and see how long before they stop. For science.

The former looks a lot like the latter to an outsider. Makes it pretty important for a community to police themselves into a dull-roar. I recall shooting with a group a while back where a few of the snipers would do this intentionally... then blast you while you were typing a snarky reply back...

As an American, that fine and restraining order seems startlingly reasonable. Here, if a similar rule were violated, I'd expect ~$150,000 and up to 1 year in jail. Or $500,000 and up to 5 years in prison, if it were a federal rule... Lack of clarity in rules combined with ridiculous...

We should probably address these issues before they become a crisis, though, honestly. It's not like we haven't already started pondering the ethics of the situation; we just haven't build any kind of reference framework for evaluation, yet.

Center-of-mass shots have the highest probability of hit, and lowest probability of collateral damage. Anything else is generally viewed as irresponsible. 16" moving target, under stress and at 20 feet, is not a trivial gimme-shot. Especially not with a handgun. Anything less than about 21...

Finger should be off the trigger until you're actually ready to shoot. If the guy was fingering the trigger while lowering his weapon he should, in my opinion as a trained firearms owner/carrier, be on the hook for negligent manslaughter. "Keep your booger-hook off the bang-switch" is pretty...