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Less than a week after the company posted a buzzy promotional YouTube video chronicling the first test flights across mid-sized lakes, the Federal Aviation Administration called Lakemaid Beer to immediately pull the unmanned beer from the skies.
"As much as they thought it was a funny idea, it was a violation of all sorts of codes," Lakemaid Beer Company President Jack Supple told ABC News, adding he's determined to keep pushing to get his idea off the ground.
"I understand why they had to shut it down, but I would like to do it for our fishermen," said Supple, lamenting the missed opportunities that the coming Super Bowl weekend could have brought for the business. "The fishermen are going to sit there from Friday 5 p.m. all the way through Sunday. That's a long time to be out there on a frozen lake."
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ReplyDeleteWe have the unalienable right to a drone delivery service? Hum? Wonder why the founders didn't put that particular point in the constitution.
ReplyDeleteYes, drones should strictly be used in the US to spy of citizens.
Deletenever said that lou but I also don't see it as an unalienable right.
ReplyDeleteDon't you find the traffic cams at every intersection, cams on buildings, cams in buildings, cams in parking lots, cams on houses, GPS monitoring your moves, now drones circling overhead a bit disconcerting?
DeleteIs it a right of government to monitor every move we make?
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DeleteGet your beer by drone. By rights I prefer a tall blond deliver my Jameson.
DeleteI am with you William. As to privacy rights, those are long gone, not because of government though. Everybody has a smart phone which is capable of recording and filming everything you say and do, and tomorrow it will appear on the internet. Privacy is a long gone relic of the past. Finally, if I were fishing on a frozen lake I would rather have a hot toddy than a cold beer.
DeleteHey Rick, not a right however it's not a right of government to use against the citizens of the US.
DeleteIs it a right of government to monitor every move we make?
The government has no rights. They only have enumerated powers. It's debatable weather or not restricting privately owned drones comes under the making of rules to protect the territory of the US.
DeleteOk, If you like, Does the government have the enumerated power to monitor citizens?
DeleteSee "Necessary and proper clause," "elastic clause," and commerce clause."
DeleteSee "enumerated powers act." This is an area where the Tea Party has been particularly involved. Trying to limit and peel back progressive government intrusion into every aspect of our lives.
I typed this on my cell phone. Hope I wasn't being watched while I did it.
Louman see Mick's comment above. The biggest threat to our privacy is ourselves. We put information out there everyday. You are being monitored by much worse entities then the U S Government.
Delete@ louman. It is the duty yes duty of our federal government to protect the citizenry. If it takes monitoring phones I-net etc let it be so. We are not fighting the Nazis in WW2 we are fighting a sneaky underhanded foe. Since ww2 other countries of the world know they can't go toe to toe with the US military. Al Qaeda and associated groups know the same thing. That's why we only get into skirmishes with a lot of guerilla warfare and the opposing forces melting into the civilian population. Were you in Vietnam? Was it easy to discern friend from foe?
DeleteThe government isn't spying on you Louman. They could really not give a damn about what you are doing unless you are a threat to our country. Our country Lou not our Government. They are monitoring all this shit in bulk looking for clues looking for possible trouble. They don't care about you political views. They don't care who you vote for. They are looking for big time problems.
We are fighting no one. If we were fighting a sneaky underhanded foe, they would close the border unless the Administration wants them to have an easy way into the country.
DeleteJust another laughable attempt at the facade of security.
Really Lou? we are fighting no one. We are fighting the most underhanded for we have ever had in Islamic extremists. They didn't go away just because you boy Bush left office. Yea you were all for the shit then weren't you. When Obama says Al Qaeda is on the run you laugh at him. When we run surveillance to try to uncover sleeper cells which do exist louman you laugh at him. Lou you don't get to have it both ways. So which is it we fight no one or al Qaeda is still a threat? You get one or the other not both.
DeleteWhen you are born, you must get a birth certificate with your private history, such as it is. Isn't that government intrusion on your privacy? All wage earners must register with the IRS, isn't that an invasion of your privacy? All would-be voters (in Florida at least) must prove their citizenship, as do driver's license applicants, isn't that an invasion of your privacy? If you go to buy alcoholic beverages you must prove you are of legal age, ditto tobacco purchasers. The list goes on and on.
ReplyDeletepoorfessor, if you had to guess, what percentage of people in the USA are completely off the grid? I mean the government has absolutely no knowledge of their existence of location.
DeleteWhat would be your guess?
According to the national mayors council there are about 675,000 homeless people in the U.S. But, I suspect that most of them have some government contact. It would be interesting to find out what percent of Americans have cell phones, as they can be easily traced through their service providers. I'll try to find that out.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the latest statistics from the CTIA, (Cellular Telephone Industry Association), there are an estimated 292.8 million active wireless subscriber connections in the United States as of the June 2010 report. This represents a 93 percent wireless penetration of the total U.S. population. Compare this to the 194.4 million wireless subscriber connections in the United States in June 2005, which represented only a 66 percent total wireless penetration.
ReplyDeleteMy guess would be about 10% or about thirty million folks, notice I didn't say citizens, are unconnected. That would include those that exist right under the nose of the authorities. I live in the most populous State per square mile in the country and know plenty of folks that don't have cell phones or cable TV. Lot's chose to home school their children to keep them from the governments homogenizers.
DeleteWe read every day about missing persons being rediscovered, transient souls who live hand to mouth far far away from uncle Sam's gaze. Consider for a moment the large number of homes that have changed hands for cash during our ongoing depression. Consider the large amount of work that goes on without a permiting agencies involvement. Consider our expanding drug culture, tremendous hidden wagering, offshore internet banking,,,,,
I think we vastly underestimate the number off the grid.
No William you vastly overestimate those off the grid. Every citizen gets a SSN at birth they are now on the grid. Even Most illegals have a cell phone to cheaply call back home. They are now on the grid. I think maybe the four guys on Mountain Men might be it. But then they are on TV so now they are on the grid. Same with Shelby and the crocodile hunters they have put themselves on the grid.
DeleteWhere I have problems is in trying to understand the obsessive concerns for your "rights to privacy” from your own government, particularly when it is at variance with the great American ethic of business before all things.
ReplyDeleteWhat have you to fear from the government invading that which you cherish so much? Are you concerned that a government drone could expose a citizen humping his neighbor’s wife beside his swimming pool? If you are growing illegal plants is not the government only doing its job if it detects such activity? If you have nothing to hide, why try to hide it and why are you not prepared to be open with the government you collectively elected. Government, in America and here in Australia are often on the nose with voters, we have yet to find a system better suited to our needs and when we do, old Thomas Jefferson has something to say as to the path we should follow. I will not post the quote, my regard and friendship towards Americans is too strong to insult you more than I have already done in this post.
Cheers from Aussie
We completely trust our NSA, IRS, BLM, VA, EPA, AG, ICE, Tobacco and Firearms,,,,yada, yada, yada,,,,,agencies.
DeleteYeah right, they're pure as driven snow as administered by our current progressives.
Yeah right
King no insult taken here. That is exactly been my feelings always. Are you growing pot? Are you sheltering money? Are you robbing banks? Are you involved in any illegal activity? If not then there is no worry. As a one time police officer I realize we have always run surveillance on those we suspect are engaged in mischief. It's just so much easier now then it was in the seventies when we spent long hours in a car to possibly find out nothing. I really don't care what the government knows about me because I try to do the right thing always.
DeleteBut King it's our president you know. He is out to get anyone who disagrees with him and he is going to send in the IRS to get them. That's what he does all day at the White House. He goes over all these records collected on William's people just to see how he can fuck them over.
Well now that you mention it mr police officer,,I am associated with a group that was "fucked over" by the IRS as you say.
DeleteAnd I can't really blame the president because he seems to only learn about these things after reading the newspaper.
He is the Sargent Schultz of our age,,,,"I see nothing?!?"
File your paperwork correctly and that doesn't happen. But seriously William I don't think any political action committee should be tax exempt whether they represent the left or the right. Same goes with the biggest non profit scam in America, religion.
ReplyDeleteIt's already been proven that the Tea Party was targeted so why do you stay in your state of denial. The emails prove that it went all the way up to the White house.
DeleteLois Lerner has been held in contempt of congress. Of course so has AG Holder for what that's worth today.
They got what they wanted. BO was re-elected. The senate remained democrat controlled. Harry Reid remains the chief obstructionist.
So what is your motive for remaining in denial ric?
William like the Benghazi affair you are only informed of the side you have been indoctrinated to hear.
DeleteTo bad it wasn't one of your sons that lost their lives in Benghazi, maybe then you would be mad as hell.
DeleteIt isn't the fact they died. It's about the cover up and lies.
It's about the fact Washington watched it unfold and did nothing.
The unions should also be a taxable group as they are a glorified PAC.
Deletehttp://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-has-secret-lunch-with-obama-at-the-white-house-210512165.html
DeleteHillary's secret meeting with BO yesterday prior to the dem strategy meeting today.