[GPSCC-chat] "Drones create a buzz in Southern Californiaaerospaceindustry"

[Tian Harter]

>From a spam wars point of view, robo phone calls are drones attacking me
in my own home.

Both robo phone calls and robo drones require cheap fossil fuels to make
any sense at all.

>From a targeted population point of view, those robots deciding to
invade my privacy by dialing my phone number are almost daily. They
would probably be worse if I didn't plug up the phone line dialing up
to post this, for example.

Brian Good wrote:
> 
>     I have mixed feelings about drones.  We've already seen their
> potential abused in
> terrorism against civilian populations as see-all kill-all invisible
> agents of sudden death
> from the sky.  On the other hand, they have the possibility of making a
> kind of war by
> robot proxy:  there's no point in moving troops around unless you
> control the skies, so
> once the drone battle is settled, fighting on the ground is pointless. 
> Swarming drones
> can make aircraft carriers obsolete--is that a bad thing? 
> 
>     Some of the collateral damage we've already seen:   computer drone
> pilots decoupled
> and detached from the carnage they wreak on the ground half a world
> away, and the
> greed in industry in this high-tech gold rush. About a year ago Condi
> Rice addressed
> over a thousand software developers at the SAP confab in San Jose, and
> when Code Pink
> and Progressive Democrats of America stood up and challenged her as a
> war criminal,
> the apparently universal hostility to the demonstrators showed me that
> the gang of suits
> smelled money, big money, in Condi's world of military dominance. 
> 
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