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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 06:18 PM Original message |
Unmanned spy planes to police Britain |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. Welcome to a Brave New World! WOOOOHOOOO |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. My dad, who worked for several years in the USAF developing |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 06:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. There are an awful lot of Dems in the military n/t |
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BearSquirrel2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 09:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. You can't "spy" on someone in public ... |
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951-Riverside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. They've been thinking about doing the same here in California |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
5. The UK already has one of the largest CCTV surveillance system in the industrialized world. |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 05:09 AM Response to Reply #5 |
20. I'm pretty sure Orwell had the cameras inside peoples' houses. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 12:04 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. If there is already a camera per 14 people, wouldn't adding aerial drones be a waste of money? |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 02:38 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. No argument there. |
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Henny Penny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 05:45 PM Response to Reply #20 |
32. The old... |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 07:44 PM Response to Reply #20 |
34. then you won't mind if i follow you around & film you. |
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Megahurtz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
6. And it won't be long for them to hit the U.S. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
7. orwell was a few years off ......... |
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aggiesal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
8. I worked on the Globalhawk, ... |
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MicaelS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 08:30 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Great Britain vs. Illinois |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 07:10 AM Response to Reply #8 |
25. The manufacturers gave evidence to the Commons committee |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
9. People are not waking up to the dangers of UAV's in the 'wrong hands' |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 08:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Good Point! I hear they are manned by folks who have good "video gaming skills" in |
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aggiesal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 08:47 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Actually, to fly the Globalhawk you'll need ... |
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Truth4Justice (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 04:19 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Sure it is. Right up there with the heat beam device they are deploying ,for our safety of course. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
10. Geeze! And, I thought Blair getting "the boot" signaled a new era in GB! |
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dgauss (217 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
14. Say hello to an older cousin of your future best friend . . . |
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JBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
15. Headline should be "Unmanned police planes to spy on Britons". |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-05-08 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
17. what a fine.... |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 03:24 AM Response to Original message |
18. can obtain clear images ? |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 05:10 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Maybe for normal photographs... |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 06:42 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I only mentioned it |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 06:45 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I would be willing to bet... |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 07:07 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Or it flies below the clouds |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 08:37 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I'd picked up on the reference |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 09:18 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. It's 'up to' - and there's this quote: |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
27. Can they attack within 45 minutes???!!11 |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
31. It's amazing how much of that kind of crap the Brits put up with. Did you know that you |
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Endangered Specie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
33. Why do I have a sudden urge to watch the Matrix and the Terminator? |
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Tindalos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-06-08 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
35. Does this explain all those UFO sightings lately? |
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