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Is there a drone hijacking code anywhere? Like, would it be possible to capture errant drones entering my airspace, take over controls and have them land on the roof for later use? Considering how my airspace is a matter of national-security, I don't think it should be far fetched. Also: Petty Theft Drone, by rock5tar.member Batteries not Included
But nobody elects them. Why? Possibly because of brainwashing, but another possibility is that just because the 3rd parties are funnier, doesn't mean they're better.
Duverger's Law. No exceptions.
I dunno though. Is the green party really that hysterical compared to dems or repubs?
But you also have, like, open space. Lots of Class G airspace, I’d expect.
Between JFK, Newark, and LaGuardia, and dozens of small private airports and a scattering of military bases, there is almost no uncontrolled space in this part of the country.
But all of that is generally moot, because the FAA, so far as I can tell, has barely any resources put into governing this stuff, much less the will to enforce it. And the airports don’t seem to give much of a shit as long as you aren’t, ya know, in the way of the planes.
I think you're 75% correct. The missing 25% is the profit motive from privatized prisons and cheap prison labor.
Text of the 13th Amendment: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
This was the amendment that prohibited the practice of slavery in the United States after the Civil War. Notice the bolded exception, and consider who the United States tends to put in prison a LOT more than everyone else.
Taken from that angle, it starts to make much more sense as to why thing are the way they are. Criminal justice in the United States is deeply warped by profit motive (and, y'know, racism). It meshes nicely with "Get Tough On Crime" and "Zero Tolerance" attitudes: indulge people's gut-level desire to punish wrongdoers and spend effort on scooping people up to exploit, rather than spending effort on improving standards of living or community health.
FAA Part 107. I suspect it matters a lot more in parts of the country where huge chunks of the airspace is controlled. We have a shit ton of airports down in Swamp Yankee territory, as it turns out.
We honestly never checked that shit. Our drone at work is controlled by whomever wins the toss.
We also have airports. Busy ones. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes to get through security.
It's something that is technically meant to be governed by the FAA, on account of how easy it is to deliver a "present" via cheap, easily accessible drones. Hence Part 107.
The reality is that the processing for getting a controlled airspace exception takes absurdly long and is completely unusable for commercial operators. It's a legal grey area that will almost definitely need revisiting in the next few years.
At my previous employer, we just called the small airports and let their management/air traffic control know we wanted to fly a drone 100ft off the ground 5 miles away, and no one seemed to mind.
