Almost. Any drone that weighs more than .55lbs must be registered with the FAA and as part of that it is required to be compliant with RemoteID. RemoteID requires the drone to broadcast both its identification and location of the control station.

If it’s being operated over a home then it will almost certainly have to follow the rules on Operation Over People and those can be quite restrictive, especially for drones that weigh more than .55lbs.

There ARE Federal Rules for this in the United States, drone operators cannot legally fly any type of drone anywhere they want at any time.

I’m somewhat surprised that there’s no purchasable solution to this problem as all of the technology to make a short range drone interdiction system already exist. To detect one all that’s necessary is an appropriate camera setup and a system hooked to it capable of recognizing them, both of which are already prevalent in the market. Add an inexpensive laser range finder so the system can know if the drone is truly over your property and at an altitude acceptable for interception.

Once that’s done it becomes a matter of how to interdict the drone. One relatively safe option would be for the system to deploy a high speed short range interdiction drone to overfly the other drone and drop something on top of it meant to snarl its rotors, for instance fishing line with weights.

None of that is necessarily easy but its certainly doable.

It’s a Russian Grigorovich-class frigate

It is, isn’t it.

It sure seems that we’re slowly walking into a much wider conflict.

The poor US military has only over 100 left that are sitting idle.

Citation needed. In 2022 the US had 50 Batteries spread between 16 Battalions. It’s pretty unlikely we’ve more than doubled that number in the last 18 months, let alone built that many just to have them sitting around doing nothing.

The damn things cost 1.1 Billion each to build plus another 690 Million to fully load for a combined total (each) of something like 1.7 Billion dollars or 170 Billion dollars for 100 of them. There’s no way the US Army, which is who operates the Patriots, fit that into their 2023 Budget. It’s simply not possible.

You nailed it.

New Chinese 10 Dash Line Sparks Furor

God Dammit China…knock this shit off!

“A new Chinese law that came into effect Saturday authorizes China’s coast guard to seize foreign ships “that illegally enter China’s territorial waters” and to hold foreign crews for up to 60 days, the Reuters news agency reported.”

First link: Members of A Company, so you’re looking at 100 people maximum and likely less. Not exactly a large fighting force.

Second link: There’s nothing “quiet” about it. It’s been blaring on Western News non-stop for about 6 years now. The US has been completely open about weapons sales and training schedules.

Third link: We gave President Tsai Ing-Wen a medal. Okay, and?

I’m pretty sure that’s the point of these attacks. Ukraine is reducing the coverage and effectiveness of Russia Air Defenses in preparation for flying F-16s.

This echoes generic fear mongering of regulation from the conservative side.

No it acknowledges that changes that can be made from one administration to the next.

What are some bad things the EPA has done in your mind?

This took nearly 30 years.

Saying the government shouldn’t have the power to regulate emissions that are destroying the biosphere is absurd.

I haven’t said that nor would I but $GovernmentAgency isn’t a synonym for “The Government”. What’s being discussed are the limits of an Agency attached to the Executive Branch relative to the power of the Legislative Branch.

What does “but will it always” do good things even mean?

This, this right here is what it means.

The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules.

That’s what can happen when an Agency of the Executive “does things” on its own authority.

If the EPA ever start doing truly asinine things, then we elect leaders to change the laws dictating their mandate.

Except we can’t because a pile of headline inflamed do-gooders descend and start screaming about how the EPA is being ruined.

it was the 80s/90s, windows didn’t exist

Wow, that’s a pretty narrow gap. The 80386 started mass production in 1986 and Windows 3.0 (the first actually usable one) came out in 1990.

I refused to use Windows until Win95 and even then I was experimenting with OS/2. In 1997 I installed Slack 3.4 and have been around every since. I’m currently running Linux Mint but I sorta miss SuSe and may go back to it.

When I opened the page in FireFox I was prompted to manage cookies. I clicked on that and then clicked the “site vendor” tab.

Imagine if that was the headline…

Well that headline would be pretty damn accurate!

all the way to the entire country

China is no different. In fact there are NO countries in the world immune to the “you displaced a previous civilization” argument. They’ve all done it.

No, the basis is that the EPA has exceeded its regulatory authority by coming very close to ending ICE vehicles with its new rule. While I agree with what the EPA is doing with it’s new tailpipe emissions rule I also wonder at the advisability of letting politically appointed technocrats make such sweeping changes.

It will be a good thing THIS time but will it always?

I’d like to read the article but holy hell there’s over 700 companies in their tracking cookie policy!

Luckily there’s an archive of it: https://archive.ph/Yrcda

Good. It’s way past time for the United States to stop blindly supporting Israel.

The Russians are such fucking whiners. They’ve been importing weapons from several countries and using them in Ukraine for two years but when Ukraine does it then suddenly it’s a big fucking problem.

It’s like your brother punching you several times an hour for two years straight and when you finally slug them back they lose their shit and start threatening to cave your skull in with a bat.

Fuck 'em. If they didn’t want the smoke they should have stayed home.

Yes but have you considered that US Bad?

Seriously, that’s all it is.

Welcome to the Club!

Who is “they”?

As the article notes the largest meat packers are at least somewhat against this and are themselves investing in cell grown meat. The National Cattleman’s Association stance on the issue, also noted in the article, boils down to “It’s fine, it just needs to be labelled so consumers know what they’re getting.”

I think the only “they” we can define here are the Florida and Alabama State Legislatures.

If I was a Rancher, and I’m not terribly far removed from that, I wouldn’t want cell grown or cultivated meat banned. I’d stand up a production center for it on my ranch right next to my cattle and sell both.