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I was wondering that. I guess it depends on what the FCC's definition of a "drone" is. Is it just a regulation for quad/hex copters?

I think you have to register it regardless, if you use it outside. Seems a bit silly that you could live on a farm and not be allowed to fly it around your property without it being registered.

I don't think a 1KG drone could kill someone if it fell on them. I can't imagine a quadcopter / drone exceeding about 60 mph in a complete free fall due to wind resistance (terminal velocity is about 120mph).

I'm wondering if the main reason for such strict rules might be surveillance. You could totally buy a cheap drone and snoop around peoples back yards and property. But I guess that could be done with a <250 gram drone as well.

Found this article interesting. Basically any drone weighing more than half a pound will need to be registered through the FAA. There is a $5 fee, but its refunded if you register by Jan 20. The $5 is good for 3 years. Kind of crazy that people have to register their little plastic toys.

I knew the FAA was going to make some new rules, but I expected it to just be rules for commercial use of drones (e.g. what amazon wants to do). Or for larger drones weighing a few pounds.

Article link: http://www.wtae.com/money/mandatory-drone-registration-rules-due-monday/36953272

And link to the FAA's announcement: https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=19856

What do you guys think?

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Sanders and Hillary have been involved in government for decades. I don't trust ANYONE that has been in government for that long.

"What exactly is Trump." He's a business man obviously. He's someone that understands the economy and international trade. He understands the effects socialistic policies will have on the economy. He understands that we've been screwed when negotating international trade deals.

Trump is someone that will actually take action against ISIS. Obama said they were "mostly contained" and that they were "The JV squad" and the next day France is attacked and 100+ dead and 100's wounded. Obama is either completely clueless or has his own agenda.

Defund planned parenthood. I fully support that. And I'm not even going to argue pro abortion vs pro life because defunding them isn't even about that. We have hundreds of clinics and hospitals that are capable of providing the same services as planned parenthood, why are we primarily funding one private organization instead of letting multiple hospitals / clinics offer the same services, and by the way almost all of these services are covered by insurance under existing obama care.

Regarding Bernies policies, sure some of them will work. But it will lead America down the path of a socialized nation. America was founded on the principals of Freedom and "no taxation without representation." The course that Bernie wants to lead us on, is a path with bigger government, more social programs, free this, free that, but at what cost? Higher taxes and less individual freedom. More government intervention in every aspect of our lives. Liberals will often point to Scandinavian countries as "proof" that socialism works. Sure, some of these policies "spread the wealth" and give handouts to the poor and those that are too lazy to work, but look at whats its costing them.

Here is an example of socialism out of control: Denmark has income taxes starting at 37-42%, and 68% if you make just 80K+ USD! On top of that they have sales tax at 25%+. Denmark his triple the household debt vs the US. I don't know about you, but I am unwilling to pay that much in taxes. Government run social programs are extremely inefficient. Did you know for every person on welfare in the United States we could be giving them about $27,000 USD per year. Instead the money gets funneled through multiple government organizations and the people that really need help end up with a fraction of that amount of money. Even our existing social programs are completely disastrous!

I support shrinking the federal government in every way possible, with the exception of our military. So yes that does include the department of education and common core. I don't know the full details, but Obama actually did something kind of good lately and signed a law giving more educational power to the states.

Lets clarify what "Shipping millions back to Mexico" really means. We are not just singling out Mexicans and saying get out of our country. No, those that came here legally are allowed to stay. Those that came into our country and broke federal law, drained a combined (trillions of dollars) from social programs should have to leave the country. Is that realistic? Probably not due to the incredible numbers of illegal's in this country that have come in over the past few decades.

Trump may be a little overly aggressive on this policy than other candidates, but I have to remind you that once again it doesn't really matter what the President wants. The United States is a three branch system and not a dictatorship. If Trump or whatever president wants millions sent back, that probably would never happen, but some kind of a middle ground could be reached, which I would fully support.

What kind of middle ground? Well we could start with a policy where those that are law abiding citizens that have been here, have not committed any other crimes (besides their illegal entry) and are honest hard working contributors to society can stay, after paying some kind of a fine, and they can work their way towards citizenship.

Those that are leaching off of our social programs, and the criminals, gangsters, drug cartels will be fully ID'ed and then deported back to their country. Any criminal evidence will be sent to the local country so they can peruse their own prosecution.

Regarding North Korea. It's not just North Korea that we've ignored, its Iran. Did you hear the news that Iran tested last week their first precision guided missile? They did this against UN security council resolutions. We have not been strict enough in our dealings with Iran and North Korea. Neither of these rogue nations should be allowed to continue the development of Nuclear arms.

"We must deal with the maniac in North Korea with nukes." I'm not sure by this statement if you are implying that Trump wants to Bomb north Korea with nukes, or that he wants to deal with Kim Jong Un who possesses nukes.

"He doesn't agree with spending money on education or health care," I don't either. I think the government needs to stay out of individuals lives as much as possible. Think about it, the more government involvement, the more taxes. We can either have the government get more heavily involved in education and healthcare, or we can have them tax us far less, and let us make our own education and healthcare decisions.

I have first hand experience with the Obamacare mess. I was paying around $200/mo for health insurance. Obama promised us that under his new healthcare plan, that the middle class would pay less. That's a flat out lie. My rates soared to over $300/mo in the pre to post Obama care regulations.

I'll also mention one thing I like about Trump is that he is personally funding his campaign. Unlike some candidates he is not taking ANY campaign contributions (aka bribes) from large corporations unlike some of the candidates running. Like honestly why do companies give millions of dollars to some candidates. Because they think they are nice? No, its a legal bribe. Hey take this money and by the way approve these laws the remove these, hint hint, wink wink. Trump also stated that if he were to be elected he would not take a salary

"But yeah honestly you have been nothing less than a scumbag to me in the past for no reason, so I'm not surprised your political beliefs are scummy too."

Very shocked to hear this. I don't recall a single instance of treating you poorly. Hell, I've not even played TF2 with you in probably 6+ months. My experiences with you have been mostly neutral, but I do remember enjoying one lobby where you were medic on granary and we did pretty well. You can talk crap about me all you want, but if you don't have any evidence or any examples I can't take you seriously. Randomly calling me out after I've not even seen you in game in months seems scummy IMO.

Those in the TF2 community that actually know me, know I'm generally a pretty nice guy. I talk some shit, might get mad and rage on someone in a lobby every now and then, but its a damn video game, almost everyone does that.

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An interesting article: http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/france-raids-mosques-what-they-found-inside-proves-trump-is-right/#ixzz3trBZqPjo

LOL $9.47 an hour is a HUGE difference from $15. Also WA has a higher cost of living than about 90% of states, so it makes sense that they would have a higher minimum wage.

Lower than its ever been? How so? Lower than its ever been if you factor in inflation, yes, but from a dollars to dollars standpoint, no.

Taxpayers are subsidizing payroll of walmart? How so do you have a source for this? I know Walmart and other companies like Google, Apple etc, pay very little to no corporate taxes due to loop holes as well as having billions of dollars in offshore accounts.

If you adjust current wages for inflation and compare them with wages from 30, 40 or even 50 years ago, yes wages have not kept up with inflation. It's unfortunate, but how do you go about fixing it? I don't think thats up to the government. Shit happens, before wages were higher due to less international competition. Think about it, 90% of consumer goods on the shelves at major stores are internationally sourced. This was not the case 50 years ago. We had more manufacturing jobs, thus more management jobs, executive jobs etc (relative to the population at the time). With the surge of global trade, we are now competing to sell our goods on a global market, and directly competing against China, India and Mexico for some products. How do we compete with $15 an hour labor when their average might be $2-3?

US government gets good bargains? Is that why they pay their employees 40% more than standard private companies do? If the federal government established and ran schools everyone would be overpaid and underworked.

I actually believe if we started handing out "Free Higher Education" that costs would increase. Supply and demand. We'd need more teachers, so they'd be in high demand and thus their salaries would be higher.

Thank you. I saw that video a month ago or whenever it came out. I was actually just going to post it as well. To anyone that thinks free education / $15/hr is a good idea please watch this clip.

Regarding moving manufacturing overseas or moving it back to the United States.

I'll first state that, I've been running my own global trade business since 2009. I've developed my own products and had others develop products for me, which I've put into production. I've been reasonably successful with it and earn a very comfortable living.

Your statement about it being expensive to relocate manufacturing is generally incorrect. For most consumer products it is extremely affordable to relocate manufacturing. Just because you currently own and operate a factory in the US, doesn't mean you have to fully own and operate a factory overseas. Fully owning and operating a factory and hiring people to actually work and oversea production can be expensive, but as I mentioned above and will continue to talk about, that's not really necessary.

What I've done many times is find a supplier in a similar line of business and get them to produce my product in their factory along side of other products (contract manufacturing). Since most of my products are produced on CNC machines and the electronics are all done using automated assembly pick and pluck machines, the quality is generally top notch and is not something that could be done at a higher level of quality. As for the cost, maybe 1/4 the cost of getting it done in the US.

Now its one thing to employ people like you said that are "underpaid and under trained" to do things that actually matter and effect product quality, but today I would say that 75%+ of products require very little hands on assembly. Some companies get most of their parts assembled and sourced from China then bring them here for final assembly.

Companies like Apple and other very high tech companies honestly don't even have a choice as to where the majority of their products are produced. We don't even have high tech manufacturing facilities like those of Foxconn, Samsung, LG etc in the United States. Or at least not to near the same scale.

You would be surprised how many fast food jobs will and can either be outsourced or replaced by machines. There is absolutely no reason why McDonalds needs 10-15 people working per restaurant. Robots can flip ham burgers and do a lot of the tasks they are doing. Also you know drive through where they take your order? Some of these jobs are already being outsourced to people in call centers for some fast food chains.

Another example of jobs being outsourced for the food industry. Just the other day I read that the FDA approved US companies to ship Chicken to China for processing. They would process it package it and freeze it and ship it back.

I think you are ignoring a lot more of the economic implications of a 2x minimum wage hike than you realize.

When the government starts getting involved in a free market, they are bound to screw things up. Look what the Clinton administration did with home loans? They forced banks to issue loans to people that would otherwise not qualify. This increased demand for houses, skyrocketed prices, only to have them crash down again and to have huge banks and insurance companies go bankrupt. We need to learn from history or it is bound to repeat itself.

Oh gosh don't get me started on Bernie Sanders. Him and Hilary are the types of people we don't need. We don't need any more career politicians in the white house. Sanders has been in congress for over 20 years.

The policies that he is pushing for are so brainless, it leads me to believe he has no idea about economics.

He's pushing for both free higher education, and a $15 minimum wage. Sounds great on paper right, everyone likes free stuff. But when you actually do the math, and calculate the economic implications of these highly socialistic or even borderline communistic policies, you find out how disastrous they really are.

$15 minimum wage. Again sounds great I wish it could work, but its not realistic. If it went into effect what happens?

1) Some business go out of business
2) Those that stay open, downsize and lay off employees
3) Many companies outsource jobs
4) Increases inflation. Labor increases cost of goods/services increases.
5) Increase in the gap between those in poverty and those earning a decent living (due to less jobs being available)

Who wins from the $15 minimum wage. Not America. China, India and Mexico win, because our jobs go to them.

As for free higher education? Who's going to pay for it? With University costing 20-30K a year on average, we're talking about trillions of dollars over the next few years. And some people want "debt forgiveness.' There is over 1.3 trillion in student debt right now.

I've been saying this for years. We don't have a higher education problem in the US, we have a jobs problem.

And all these economic policies are coming from Bernie sanders, a man thats spent over 20 years in congress earning 200,000 a year, and yet has a net worth of only a few hundred thousand. If he can't manage his own finances how could he possibly manage the nations.

Agreed. And yet our current president, refuses to even use the term Radical Muslim. And says that ISIS or (ISIL as Obama calls them) are not Muslims. Yet they claim they are. The first step to resolve the issue is to identify the problem. At least Trump has done that unlike the current clown we have in the white house.

I already provided you with one example that 99.9999% of Churches/Christians believe is an obsolete law/guideline from the Old Testament and that is no longer relevant, and that is animal sacrifices to forgive sins. So any other cherry picked verses that say otherwise are taken out of context and/or do not apply.