Unmanned vehicles

[Calandale]

But, will The Force work?

Otherwise, why did Luke have
to pilot his x-wing, into the death star?

[Parts]

It will work to a point but I think pilots jobs are safe as a lot of times I think you just have to be there.  More of what bothers me is not so much their use in war but for surveillance on citizens  in peace by the government.  Yeah I am a bit paranoid but look at this article.

US near bottom of global privacy index

By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer Wed Jan 2, 10:31 AM ET

LONDON - Individual privacy is under threat around the world as governments continue introducing surveillance and information-gathering measures, according to an international rights group.

"The general trend is that privacy is being extinguished in country after country," said Simon Davies, director of London-based Privacy International, which released a study on the issue Saturday. "Even those countries where we expected ongoing strong privacy protection, like Germany and Canada, are sinking into the mire.

Although privacy was improving in the former communist states of eastern Europe, it is worsening across Western Europe, the report said. Concerns about terrorism, immigration and border security were driving the spread of identity and fingerprinting systems, according to the report.

Greece, Romania and Canada had the best records of 47 countries Privacy International surveyed.

Malaysia, Russia and China ranked worst, but Great Britain and the United States also fell into the lowest-performing group of "endemic surveillance societies."

The survey considered such factors as legal protections, enforcement, data sharing, the use of biometrics and prevalence of closed-circuit cameras.

U.S. President George W. Bush's administration has come under fire for monitoring — without warrants — international phone calls and e-mails involving people suspected of having terrorist links.

Davies said little had changed since Democrats took control of Congress a year ago.

Britain was criticized for its plans for national identity cards, a lack of government accountability and the world's largest network of surveillance cameras.

So I don't feel this paranoia is unjustified

[Calandale]

Funny, since the US always
acts like this is so big a part
of us. We always think we've
got MORE protections.

I'm thinking of moving to Europe.

[Parts]

I want to move to Nova Scotia or Newfoundland  I'd make a good Canadian      

[Calandale]

Eat some back bacon and beer,
and have a pack of smokes, eh?

[Peter]

Unmanned vechiles?, ought to tell that to all the deadbeat dads

FYI that was a sexual joke.

I'll take your word for it.

[Peter]

There's nothing particularly ground-breaking about remote controlled planes with cameras and weapons on them.  I'll be more interested when the planes start flying themselves and making their own decisions about what targets to engage and how to go about destroying them.

[Parts]

There's nothing particularly ground-breaking about remote controlled planes with cameras and weapons on them.  I'll be more interested when the planes start flying themselves and making their own decisions about what targets to engage and how to go about destroying them.

Only thing that is groundbreaking is there increased use and dropping price.  As for autonomous ones engaging the enemy that's some scary shit.  I am sure they could do something like that now the problem would be friendly fire of units in the wrong place or broken/outdated identifiers

[Calandale]

I would suspect that ease
of integration - in terms of
seeming to 'be' right in the
cockpit is too. This was always
the real problem with using
such.

Soon, we'll have an army which
doesn't lose any American lives.

And the population won't mind
our empire so much.