Drones, drones everywhere. What do you think?

No limits! Yep, we bought one. There are usage restrictions in Australia though.
 
Drones, interesting this came up. We were on the patio by the pool and some freaking nut was flying a drone with a camera buzzing around the houses. I started looking for the guy and found him and asked this young punk what the hell he was doing, he said just looking around. About that time another home owner came over and had called the county sheriff. This punk wanted to leave but Nope, he staying put at the insistence of a few home owners. Once a couple of county sheriff cars arrived they confiscated the guys drone and camera. After reviewing the pictures right there this guy was not looking at our wife's, but casing homes. He was arrested. The camera had a few pictures of homes that were broken into the week before.

So for me and drones should be outlawed around neighborhoods and should only be allowed to fly in designated parks or RC parks like the places people fly remote control planes.
 
The laws in the USA must be less restrictive. You cannot fly over other people's private property in Australia.
 
CPP said:
Drones, interesting this came up. We were on the patio by the pool and some freaking nut was flying a drone with a camera buzzing around the houses. I started looking for the guy and found him and asked this young punk what the hell he was doing, he said just looking around. About that time another home owner came over and had called the county sheriff. This punk wanted to leave but Nope, he staying put at the insistence of a few home owners. Once a couple of county sheriff cars arrived they confiscated the guys drone and camera. After reviewing the pictures right there this guy was not looking at our wife's, but casing homes. He was arrested. The camera had a few pictures of homes that were broken into the week before.

So for me and drones should be outlawed around neighborhoods and should only be allowed to fly in designated parks or RC parks like the places people fly remote control planes.
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Absolutely agree!! Sure, drones can be fun, just like RC planes and such, but yes, there should be restrictions up the butt on them.....and I mean all of them, I don't care who's using them.
Having said that, with this Amazon drone experiment going on, to me that's kind of fun (if not silly). I don't live where they are doing it, but the irony is that they are doing it in Washington which has the most restricted air space anywhere. Personally, I don't see it being very practical anyway.
 
Steve said:
The laws in the USA must be less restrictive. You cannot fly over other people's private property in Australia.
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When it comes to this type of thing, yes, far less restrictive where it should not be less, but more. Of course it's been backwards for a long time because the reverse is also true. Gives me a headache.
 
CPP said:
Drones, interesting this came up. We were on the patio by the pool and some freaking nut was flying a drone with a camera buzzing around the houses. I started looking for the guy and found him and asked this young punk what the hell he was doing, he said just looking around. About that time another home owner came over and had called the county sheriff. This punk wanted to leave but Nope, he staying put at the insistence of a few home owners. Once a couple of county sheriff cars arrived they confiscated the guys drone and camera. After reviewing the pictures right there this guy was not looking at our wife's, but casing homes. He was arrested. The camera had a few pictures of homes that were broken into the week before.

So for me and drones should be outlawed around neighborhoods and should only be allowed to fly in designated parks or RC parks like the places people fly remote control planes.
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You have some great instinct. Glad you and the neighbors stood together. In my neighborhood, folks are to busy with their own lives to even acknowledge that their are neighbors.
 
MusicDirector said:
When it comes to this type of thing, yes, far less restrictive where it should not be less, but more. Of course it's been backwards for a long time because the reverse is also true. Gives me a headache.
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Couldn't agree more.
 
MusicDirector said:
When it comes to this type of thing, yes, far less restrictive where it should not be less, but more. Of course it's been backwards for a long time because the reverse is also true. Gives me a headache.
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Certainly. When it comes to people's privacy, absolutely. However, the George Orwell phenomenon is much more than regulatory happenstance. That is the sad reality of digital siphoning by those who control the switch.

I wish it wasn't becoming this way.
 
Jerome W said:
I agree and I would add that the obsession of recording our events gets in the way of simply living them.
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I think it depends on whether you are a digitally social person or a digitally private one. Our family tends to be towards the latter and my tendencies don't really go beyond my afflictions with this forum!

So Jerome....You love to live your HiFi hobby, but you also like to show and tell about it online like the rest of us here. Therefore there is some narcissism in your pursuits also. However, I would like to think that we swim in much calmer waters here!
 
Same here Steve. Audio Shark is as far as I go. I don't like the whole idea about social media and have never involved myself in it.

Eric
 
Steve said:
I think it depends on whether you are a digitally social person or a digitally private one. Our family tends to be towards the latter and my tendencies don't really go beyond my afflictions with this forum!

So Jerome....You love to live your HiFi hobby, but you also like to show and tell about it online like the rest of us here. Therefore there is some narcissism in your pursuits also. However, I would like to think that we swim in much calmer waters here!
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Steve,
You are right.
There is also narcissism in sharing pics of our last toy. But at least, we share with people interested in the toy. We have a common passion creating a community.
It is quite different than recording oneself in a performance to show it to complete strangers who do not care about it no ?

An other point to be discussed is that the recording is not always made to be shared. It is sometimes for personal use only and then the narcissism gets to the summit imho.
 
Air space ownership laws need to be defined better. This is going to be a huge issue. It should be a trespassing.
 
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