06-21-2019, 06:00 PM
(06-21-2019, 03:06 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: I can see one advantage with drones-if one is shot down, there is no pilot to be killed or captured. So it is relatively easy for a government to write off the drone and avoid war.
That's a big advantage with using drones. I expect them to be put to more high-risk activities. I am surprised to have not heard of them being used for fire-fighting and traffic-law enforcement. One of the biggest BS claims is that state police use aircraft to detect speeders. It's simply too expensive to do so because such requires two state troopers in the air to detect the speeder and another on the ground to intercept the speeder. Have a spotter not a cop doing video surveillance with images from the drone? I could do that job, and I would need no badge. In fire-fighting they would be suited to suicide missions.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
