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Flying drones in a city, on unplanned routes, at night, out of line of sight, over uninvolved members of the public, is such a safety and regulatory nightmare that I can't imagine how anyone would ever get permission for it without specific legislation. If the UK follows the new EASA rules or similar for UAS it'd require a named operator who has qualified on the special "certified" license, the full rules for which are not yet published but based on the old system it'll be expensive and time consuming to achieve and require regular logged flights and maintenance to stay current on. Possibly you'd be able to get blanket approval for limited missions following a specific flight profile, but unless vulnerable women stick to preapproved routes you'd need each flight planned and signed off, seeking permission from the aviation authority beforehand. The whole idea would be laughable except that it's the cops so I guess the law doesn't really matter and they'll hand over the controls to whoever fancies a shot.
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I hate that I hear normal people talking about Bitcoin and NFTs now. In 2010 when it was just a thing for dumb nerds on the Internet it was funny, but now I get people standing up at work to talk about some idiot project using "blockchain" in a vaguely defined way for dubious benefit and apparently we're all meant to take it seriously.
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Nobody has tried to citizen's arrest Blair for war crimes in ages now. Maybe this knighthood is what's needed to get that arrest bounty going again.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Christ. I want to pay for a music streaming service next year, but according to this, Amazon are currently the service that pay artists the most: Bearing in mind that those streaming service payouts cover everyone with a share of royalties: publishers, writers, performers, etc., and that super massive artists get much more generous deals than everyone else, the actual amount your favourite band makes from a stream is far less than the numbers suggest. As far as I can tell, buying a single album from Bandcamp for $7 or so probably gets more money directly to the artist than a lifetime of streaming. e: not to suggest that for instance songwriters are less deserving of payment than performers. Obviously they get paid if you buy from Bandcamp too, as so publishers if artists have a deal with them rather than releasing the music themselves. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Jan 9, 2022 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:But the other problem is I can only imagine how absolutely insane the takes would get if Corbyn started any party with the word socialist in the name. Even that's no guarantee - Europe is littered with centrist and centre-right "socialist" parties. You could probably start the wildly successful "Hang Landlords from Lampposts, Yes We Do Mean Literally Party" and within a few decades find your MPs arguing how the party has a long, proud tradition of supporting renters by ensuring a strong buy-to-let market and flexible housing contracts.
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Prole posted:
Same, except it's been nearly 12 years Helen. 
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Jan 15, 2022 16:24
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Did imgur change their interface yet again? It's harder than ever to get a straight up link to the image you want to post.
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Jan 15, 2022 16:25
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Also pretty cheeky to refuse to answer questions in Parliament, who I rather think have precedence over the police.
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Jan 25, 2022 15:44
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Happy Burns Night, folks. I hope you've all got your haggises and drams ready to celebrate our beloved bard, fondly remembered for such noble poems and songs as this.quote:CUMNOCK PSALMS
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Jan 25, 2022 16:47
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I think it's pretty cool that falconer is a real and modern profession. The Dutch police were briefly using sea eagles to capture drones flying where they shouldn't be, but apparently they gave it up after a year because there just wasn't that much demand for massive drone-catching raptors. Anyway here are pictures of some red kites that I took when I was in Scotland around Christmas. Went to a feeding site and there were at least 50 of them flying around, swooping in to grab chunks of meat, and sitting in the trees digesting.   
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Fabulous photos! Thank you! Getting photos of swooping birds is hard so those are the good ones out of about 300 shots.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Nice NERF ball. So majestic.
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Jan 27, 2022 17:42
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Work from home tax loophole to be closed after it cost Treasury £500 million They hate work from home so much. A lot of businesses have probably saved a lot of money with their employees paying rent, internet and electricity costs for their workspaces. This is not very good, businesses should be paying those costs. Nonetheless, WFH is that rare thing that has in some environments benefited both employers and employees. But it's bad for the most important segment of society, landlords, so it must go.
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I thought the queen was dead.
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You could easily outsource your legislature overseas. Why pay MPs £80k plus expenses when we could simply elect a Parliament in Mexico who'd do the job for £25k a head? Sell the Palace of Westminster to a property developer and just rent them a coworking space in Oaxaca or something.
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