Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by quahaug 4488 days ago
Given Facebook's predilection for collaborating with the NSA, perhaps this is a government program to civilianize the image of drones. The military industrial complex really needs someone from the commercial sector to step up and rinse out a the bad aftertaste of all those funeral and wedding attendees that were blasted limb from limb by hellfire missiles.

Jeff Bezos tried his damnedest to make them seem like santa clause just in time for christmas, but we need some real megawatt tech celebrities to work their magic. Bezos is balding, for christ's sake.

I mean Mark Zuckerberg with all his cute, cuddly animal-loving vegetarian tendencies wouldn't harm a fly.

If HE'S okay with drones, then they MUST be okay! (insert obligatory emoticon)

And, oh yeah...

  CITIZEN ALERT NOTIFICATION: WITH THE PROCURMENT OF A FLEET 
  15 PANOPTICOID DRONES MANUFACTUED BY LOCKHEED, YOUR LOCAL 
  SHERRIF'S DEPARTMENT WILL BE ENFORCING ALL EVICTIONS IN 
  YOUR COUNTY BY NON-LETHAL PEPPER-STUN DRONE STRIKE. IN THE
  EVENT THAT YOUR HOME IS FORECLOSED, YOU WILL BE ORDERED TO 
  VACATE UNDER THREAT OF NON-LETHAL FORCE. 

  ---

  CITIZEN ALERT NOTIFICATION: WITH THE PROCURMENT OF A FLEET 
  27 PROTOBEDIENT DRONES MANUFACTUED BY NORTHROP/GRUMMAN ALL
  TRAFFIC STOPS ON STATE ROAD 902 WILL NOW BE CONDUCTED 
  AUTONOMOUSLY. DO NOT TAUNT THE PROTOBEDIENT DRONE.

  ***end citizen alert notification***