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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Is the Airforce Suggesting They Choose Drone Pilots the Same Way We Choose Politicians and Lobbyists? ... Select for sociopaths?

Commentary by Roger Erickson

Drone pilot burnout triggers call for recruiting overhaul

The show must go on. Gotta keep stocks up for the drone makers and political bribes flowing to the [Immoral] Systems Caucus. Why don't we hear those guys demanding drone austerity?

There's Public Purpose in austerely draining all other options in favor of drones? In other species, drones are expendable, and thrown out to die every year, after political sex (or even before, if austerity really bites).


2 comments:

  1. Real drone systemics is, of course, far more complex.

    http://www.beesource.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-235854.html

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  2. I watched a bit from "300" last night where the Persians, discovering they could not compete "man-to-man" with the Spartans, resorted to long distance archery instead. The king of the Spartans, Leonidas, in response to a vast cloud of arrows, muttered "Persian cowards!"

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