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

[fred]

  Prohibiting recorded phone messages promoting commercial, financial 
and political interests should be seriously considered.  Those interests 
save their time by interrupting others' private time.

Fred

On 9/20/10 5:36 PM, Tian Harter wrote:
> > 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.
>>