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

[spencerg]

        1.  The National Do-Not-Call registry and law controls 
commercial robot calls.  It's not perfect, and it's poorly enforced, but 
it works moderately well.


       2.  Political interests using robot calls may make more enemies 
than friends.


       3.  What do you mean by "promoting financial interests"?  Are you 
talking about collection agencies or advertisements?  Aren't 
advertisements covered by "1" above?


       The collection agencies are a problem that won't be solved until 
a critical mass of the news and worldview of the US electorate comes 
unhooked from the mainstream commercial media and money loses elections, 
crudely like the 1993 elections in Canada where the ruling party went 
from 163 seats out of 295 to 2.  
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_federal_general_elections).  
The election of Andrew Jackson in 1828 was a similar political event in 
US history, I think.  (The election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800 was 
called a "revolution" at the time.)


       Spencer


On 9/21/2010 1:12 PM, fred wrote:
>  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.
>>>
>
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