They're going to revoke the privilege to play with my toys in my backyard and at a local park? How do they plan on doing that exactly? My backyard is "their turf" now?

I don't care what the FAA does actually. The market is already too saturated and I'm too poor to get professional quality photography equipment so my idea for a business is already gone. I live in a pretty small town and I know of several people already selling these service, so I'm already too late to the game. I do…

Counter: many more people are injured and killed every year following the FAA's rules than have ever been injured or killed by commercial use of a UAV. That fact makes it really hard to say that it's necessary until it can be done safely, it is already being done safely.

You're not going to get disagreement from me.

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I will gladly take that bet, commercial pilots that fly for photography purposes are a huge minority compared to the number of people that would like to see these rules changed or amended to contain a bit more logic.

None of my RC aircraft come anywhere close to breaking any local ordinances for noise (they're all electrics). Reckless behavior has to be something that is demonstrably reckless. Disorderly conduct requires some sort of conduct that is disorderly. You can't refuse a lawful instruction if the instruction isn't lawful.

The FAA's position, which is actually somewhat logical, is that a privately licensed pilot may be driven to take risks that they normally wouldn't if they are flying for compensation. It obviously doesn't make sense in all circumstances (ie: if you strap a GoPro to your plane to record your flights every time, and…

The advisory circular is the only thing that says that you can't fly a model aircraft for commercial purposes, all prior rules are specifically for manned flights. That was most of the FAA's case since 91-57 is voluntary to begin with.

Wrong.

The same three words I use every time this topic comes up: Pirker v FAA.

They all do the same thing with it. As the OP said efficiency is reduced in most things because they produce heat rather than whatever they're supposed to be doing. An electric heater doesn't have this problem, it's sole purpose is turning electricity into heat, so barring the very small amount of power that is used…

They all do the same thing with it. As the OP said efficiency is reduced in most things because they produce heat…

Never admit to being wrong, just keep on trucking in the same direction no matter what happens. That's the spirit.

"NFL spokesman Michael Signora confirms the NFL is looking into whether footballs were properly inflated in Patriots-Colts game."

One of the last races of last racing seasons we got invited out to a race by one of the teams. Our son got diagnosed with cancer a two years ago, but thankfully we caught it early and he is completely good now. The driver of that team dedicated the race to our boy and childhood cancer, and ended up winning. Because of…

I think it's high time we declare our democratic republic to be a miserable failure. This woman can vote. This woman is statistically likely to vote. This woman gets to make actual decisions that have an affect on the entire rest of the population of the United States. This woman does not represent sound thinking.

Stick to reporting on sports!

Seeing as you continue to just make things up here I'm going to go ahead and stop responding. I don't care to have intellectual discussions with people lacking intellect or facts.

SolarCity - These government subsidies don't benefit the company directly, they benefit the consumer. Essentially it makes solar installations cheaper for the end user (which, yes, allows them to sell more, just keep reading). This isn't unique to them, or unique to solar energy, and the government should be helping…

I'm actually pretty sure, after reading your last comment, that we don't in fact disagree on much of anything. Now I'm more confused than anything. One or both of us misunderstood something somewhere.