On Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)—a federal
agency that evaluates aviation accidents—held that the Federal Aviation
Administration should be able to regulate small unmanned aircrafts, like
drones or model planes.

The FAA was appealing a lower court ruling, which held that a Swiss
pilot named Raphael "Trappy" Pirker did not have to pay a $10,000 fine
imposed by the FAA for "reckless flight" at the University of Virginia,
because his drone wasn't an "aircraft" under FAA regulations. Since the
agency has strict rules about reckless aircraft operation, allowing for
blanket regulation of small drones could lead to a total ban of unmanned
devices. (Pirker's lawyer, Brendan Schulman, has appeared on the New
America Foundation's DroneU podcast to talk about issues surrounding FAA
regulation of small and/or autonomous aircraft.)

Former FAA general counsel Kenneth Quinn told NBC News that, "It's a
huge win for the FAA, and signals it's not going to be the Wild West for
drones, but a careful, orderly, safe introduction of unmanned aircraft
systems into the national airspace system."



Drones and the right-wing drones who fly them...like Johnny ****head
Herring here.


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Just because you are opposed to abortion doesn’t make you pro-life. Your
morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a
child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed, not a child
clothed, not a child able to see the doctor. That’s not pro-life…that’s
pro-birth.