I've seen the future baby, it is murder

[sabotabby]

Remote-controlled flying police drones, coming soon. As Slacktivist points out, the drones proposed in this failed initiative are the sorts of things that killed Daraz Khan for being nearly as tall as Osama bin Laden.

This is a crap idea for other reasons, mainly that we're not ready for the future yet, as we don't have nearly enough gratuitous Kanji lettering in primarily English-speaking locales, and we don't seem to have any hover cars whatsoever.

Says Fred:

Flying police drones, usually armed, are a staple of dystopian science fiction. The key word there is "dystopian." What is it that makes some people watch Bladerunner or Dark Angel or even Waterworld and think: "Gee, how can we make our society more like this postapocalyptic fantasy world?"

For other news, I will save you all some time and suggest that you just go read springheel_jack's journal today.

This is one of those lazy-assed entries I end up making when there's a lot of good bloggage going on but I'm in the office, the phone's ringing off the hook, and I'm taking off for the long weekend tomorrow*. It's just been that sort of day.

* Incidentally, that is not an invitation to start flamewars in free_palestine, even though it always happens when I go away for a weekend.