Slog - Comments on This Week on Drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60 Holy Fucking Shit: Aerial drones to hunt pot growers. The federal government plans to escalate its eradication of marijuana plantations in the backwoods of national forests this year, beginning in California with the deployment of larger strike teams and the controversial launching of miniature, remote-controlled spy planes to outfox growers, a top Bush administration official said Thursday. The SkySeer runs quietly and its tiny video camera can resolve whether a person is armed with a handgun from 250 feet in the air – high enough for the 4-foot-long craft to become invisible from the ground, according to its inventor, Sam... Copyright 2008 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:35:58 -0800 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:57:47 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by owsley THE BOTS ARE COMING

can you imagine what a shitty fucking place the world is going to be in 100 years?

]]> owsley http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990651 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990651 Drugs Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:22:27 -0800 Comment by PopTart That looks like something straight out of Star Wars. It's a short leap from using this technology to rout "bad guys" to using it to see what's happening on your private property. And all of you who say, "but I'm not a bad guy, they won't come after me" wake up and smell the f*cking coffee we're quickly losing control over what the government is allowed to define as "bad."

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990657 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990657 Drugs Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:48:10 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty Nope. But George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and a host of others sure did. No matter, I'll be dead in another 25-30 years and then it's somebody else's problem.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990658 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990658 Drugs Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:49:02 -0800 Comment by PopTart You know, the version of the future that I hate is the movie Demolition Man. "In the future all restaurants are Taco Bell." Aaarghh, help me. And I'm never using a weird shell like thing to wipe my butt--you'll have to pry the toilet paper out of my cold dead hands.

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990663 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990663 Drugs Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:01:07 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @2,

If you're talking about the pic that Dominic posted, that is a drone from Star Wars. The actual drone, pictured in the article, is significantly less impressive.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990665 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990665 Drugs Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:29:19 -0800 Comment by PopTart @5 oops! that's what I get for not following the link. I knew it looked like something from Star Wars!

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990668 Drugs Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:36:04 -0800 Comment by Squatch @2

While there may be private property issues, I'm all for using it to patrol the forests. The hell with pot growers, meth labs, etc. ruining the national forests. I say bust 'em all.

]]> Squatch http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990674 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990674 Drugs Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:17:45 -0800 Comment by ecce homo Don't do drugs, and you won't have to worry about any of this.

Why anyone wants to be a druggie is beyond me.

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990697 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990697 Drugs Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:34:17 -0800 Comment by superyeadon Don't be a jackass, and you won't have to worry about any of this.

Why anyone wants to be a jackass is beyond me.

]]> superyeadon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990706 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990706 Drugs Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:27:45 -0800 Comment by ecce homo Typical druggie response.

"I have a right to be a druggie!!!"

Answer: Nope, you don't.


Get a real job and start contributing to society.

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990738 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990738 Drugs Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:42:53 -0800 Comment by Brave and mighty SAVAGE warrior Dan Photo at:http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/

Beverly Morris, bottom right, screams and collapses as the casket carrying her brother, U.S. Army Spec. Charles Jankowski, arrives at the Panama City-Bay County International Airport in Panama City, Fla., on Friday. Comforting Morris are her sister, Felicia Kirkland, left, and Jankowski's girlfriend, Karen Hainley. Jankowski died from wounds from an exploding improvised explosive device near Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, March 28, 2008. He will be buried on Monday, April 7, 2008.
(April 04, 2008)

]]> Brave and mighty SAVAGE warrior Dan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990743 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990743 Drugs Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:07:05 -0800 Comment by ecce homo You don't have a "right" to do drugs.

Grow up and get real jobs.

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990748 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990748 Drugs Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:29:03 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Shorter ecce hobo @ 12:

I'm unemployed because I'm too stupid and lazy to hold down a real job. I want to do drugs but I'm such a simpering waste that even drug dealers will have nothing to do with me. I'm so jealous of the cool kids. They didn't even notice me enough to torment me in school. And that's why I still have the maturity of an adolescent boy.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990817 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c990817 Drugs Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:07:48 -0800 Comment by ecce homo At least you had the courage to not be a sock puppet this time Kesh.

Chickenshit...

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c991007 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c991007 Drugs Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:16:59 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @14,

I've never been a sock puppet. Everyone here hates your worthless ass. It stands to reason that many other people have reason to run you out of town.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c991097 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_week_on_drugs_60#c991097 Drugs Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:57:47 -0800