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Posted on 03/02/2013 6:09:55 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
Not fully autonomous for now.
They are indeed getting more and more autonomous. They don't need to be fully autonomous, either - just self-contained enough to be able to receive broad mission objectives via satellite. The uplink centres to those satellites could be (or already is) behind heavily reinforced government bunkers - the kind that three-shot "assault" rifle-armed citizenry would be machine-gunned to pulp if they attempt to penetrate.
Besides, you are not going to be able to scramble highly-encrypted digital signals with anything bought off Radio Shack.
Think about it: Afghanistan's people are armed to the gills with fully automatic machine guns AND anti-aircraft weaponry. The drones fly in and out with little concern over being shot down. Granted, the comparison may not be fully apples-to-apples, but you have to account for the fact that they have a more deadlier collection of weapons at the hands of their civilian population compared to what the American "citizen" is allowed by the government to possess.
I was thinking of the chorus to Eye in The Sky from Alan Parsons:
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don’t need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
Look at what ONE man did to the LAPD and SBPD just by releasing a manifesto.
Mulitply that by a couple of million.....just sayin.
People have told me the GPS in your phone can have its own power source, and requires very little power itself...
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My understanding (I DO NOT own a cell phone) is that removing the battery won't do it. The SIM (subscriber identity module) card, where all your info is stored, is powered by an internal, non-removable battery.
You must remove both the battery AND the SIM card to be untrackable.
Those with more/other knowledge please respond.
not as far as my electrical knowledge goes the phone is traceable if they know the number, they can poll the phone then triangulate with cell towers so long as the battery is in
the SIM doesn't communicate with the tower
The Afghans also have an advantage that is impossible in America: A tribal command structure with a degree of family loyalty that is impenetrable.
"Honor your father and mother, THAT YOUR DAYS WILL BE LONG IN THE LAND THAT THE LORD THY G-D GIVETH THEE."
People go to church, blather the words, and have no idea what they mean.
Some engineers will do anything for anybody, just as long as it's a cool problem to solve.
FAA filots, hum????? On the ground, hum??? I wonder if, nah, that would be too easy....
He was also someone who was on the inside so he could do a lot more damage than someone who wasn’t. He was also well trained. As for his manifesto, at this point its a dime a dozen out there on the web not to mention it a rehash of other works that have polluted our culture (see Marx and successors). Non of this is a substitute for real organization which the left has over us in spades. Now if things go completely to pot, then perhaps we will see the multiple individual snapping event at which point the entire system could be overwhelmed, overrun, and possible destroyed. If it does I think the real reasons will come more from the lack of basic goods being available and services rather than a manifesto at this point. Too many have their creature comforts provided to them on a silver platter and their heads are firmly planted where the sun doesn’t shine.
Thanks for posting.
Tanjuberrmudge! Great links!
SIM cards require no battery. Taking out the battery is enough to kill any tracking.
“allowed civilian citizens to arm themselves with RPGs, anti-aircraft weaponry,....”
That’s what I’ve been saying all along.
Check tagline. The right to bare arms is meant to protect
our nation from enemies foreign or DOMESTIC.
Yep, they sure do. And We the People do what we have to do.
the end game of all this is to have every inhabitant of the new world order slave plantation fitted with an electronic monitoring collar around the neck, with GPS and ground transponders, each fitted with remote control lethal injection or behavior modification tazer.....we once laughed at Dick Tracy wristwatches and so many other “that will never happen” things that are now commonplace
Who owns a phone that has a removable battery?
Because many here have watched as these scofflaws ignore the Constitution and issue executive orders to implement new laws through directives, and ignore the laws that inconvenience them.
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