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Offline bagrat

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Drones!!!
« on: May 19, 2010, 07:38:40 PM »
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Offline MachFly

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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2010, 08:27:49 PM »
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Hope they don't use it to give out speeding tickets   :pray
well....good thing I don't live in texas
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Offline gyrene81

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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2010, 08:44:35 PM »
Yeeeeehhhhhaaaaawwww TEXAS...it's like a whole 'nother country.
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Offline MrMeanie

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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2010, 11:50:48 PM »
big brother is alwas watching.  :noid
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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2010, 01:44:45 AM »
That bit about potential public safety applications including "Homeland Security", "tactical" and "not ruling anything out" bothers me.
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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2010, 02:55:08 AM »
Now that I think about it, there's a whole new market out there for micro weaponry. Laser guided flashbang grenades, tear gas rockets and taser darts. The possibilities are endless and there's money to be made in the name of safety.
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Offline AWwrgwy

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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2010, 03:01:46 AM »
drones in texas wtf?!........ :noid

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Local 2 Investigates Police Secrecy Behind Unmanned Aircraft Test
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I thought this sounded vaguely familiar.....



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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2010, 05:02:33 AM »
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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Offline indy007

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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2010, 07:43:36 AM »
Welcome to two years ago. It's not Texas, just Houston. Another toy shopping spree from our previous mayor... but a drone can't do anything new that couldn't be mounted on any existing air assets. Would you rather the police fly ferociously expensive, turbine helicopters, like they have been doing for decades, or a much more cheaply operated, rotax-powered drone?

Offline VonMessa

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« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2010, 08:55:37 AM »
Welcome to two years ago. It's not Texas, just Houston. Another toy shopping spree from our previous mayor... but a drone can't do anything new that couldn't be mounted on any existing air assets. Would you rather the police fly ferociously expensive, turbine helicopters, like they have been doing for decades, or a much more cheaply operated, rotax-powered drone?

I'll take the Rotax for my home-built, please  :devil 
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Offline Yossarian

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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2010, 09:08:03 AM »
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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Patriot act, anyone?  ;)
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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2010, 09:20:36 AM »
Patriot act, anyone?  ;)

Shhh !!!!!!!!!

Skuzzy could be ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He'll creep up on ya like a Shaolin Monk..........then  BANG !

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Offline Sperky

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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2010, 11:47:32 AM »
I've heard a rumor that the HPD and other departments are secretly recruiting pilots from AH to fly these unmanned drones from the comfort of the pilot's home... new stick set-up and computer provided...   :noid
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Offline Tigger29

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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2010, 12:41:48 PM »
Personally I like this one better

Offline allaire

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Re: Drones!!!
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2010, 04:26:24 PM »
Oh man that is funny as hell.
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