You are on to something. They will use it later. Just don't expect much support around here...

Me too, kind of reminds me of this.

Don't let yourself be desensitized by the deaths of children and civilians. Don't be desensitized to the government creating future terrorists by using these "precision" tools of war.

This thread has been linked to from elsewhere on reddit.

• [/r/conspiratard] Ever notice that drones are being called "drones". Drones weren't called "drones" before!

^{I am a bot. Comments? Complaints? Message me here. I don't read PMs!}

Top comment from the link:

"They talk about how awful "drone strikes" are. I've challenged people in this camp more than once to explain to me the difference, if any, between a missile fired from a UAV and a cruise missile launched from a submarine, and I've never gotten a hint of an answer."

Two differences, after just a couple seconds of thinking, is that these drones are (1) flying over populated areas and are also spying on people, and (2) there is a danger of them crashing over a populated area they are monitoring and causing casualties.

Edit: No American would accept armed Pakistani drones flying over American cities spying for "terrorists", occasionally dropping bombs and killing civilians.

"They talk about how awful "drone strikes" are. I've challenged people in this camp more than once to explain to me the difference, if any, between a missile fired from a UAV and a cruise missile launched from a submarine, and I've never gotten a hint of an answer."

Well, there is the issue of a machine eventually killing a man. (Without a person pressing the button.) I think South Korea has a land killing machine that targets the de-militarized zone.

My biggest issue with drone strikes, is the frequency of "Signature Strikes." Of course I don't care how innocents die, I care that they die at all.

The two top comments:

I love the fact that they're blaming "the media" instead of stupid, paranoid people calling any remote controlled vehicle a "drone".

aaaand

"Drone" means "a remotely controlled pilotless aircraft or vehicle." So any remotely controlled pilotless aircraft or vehicle can fairly be called a drone. Duh.

That sub makes my soul weep

The sub is full of insane nut-jobs who think everyone else is insane nut-jobs. It is like bathing in crazy.

Habituation = normalisation.

Remember the stories about Amazon using miniature drones to deliver parcels? Drones bringing you nice things!

What the others say...plus, if the FCC can classify ALL unmanned aircraft of ANY size under the "drone" umberalla by virtue of "potential dangers" they could regulate out RC planes and quadcopters from civilain use...or at least charge them for the "privilage."

Well a reconnaissance drone is more or less just an RC plane with a camera on it. They kind of are the same thing.

Then they get more complicated, like with the Global Hawk. That thing doesn't need a pilot on the ground, it can be preprogrammed and can react to changes and adjust it's flight accordingly.

I just don't see how these are any more sinister than manned aircraft.

It's laziness and the usual parroting of buzzwords by the media, mass or otherwise. Personally I find the term 'dron'e more sinister than the proper one for quadcopters and such.

Like how every news source uses the word "ping" now after CNN ran that stupid non stop loop of news for weeks about how they had "pings" from the blackbox. Now every wireless device is described as using pings. Although that's not an issue just as it isn't controversial.

I agree drone is becoming a buzzword on purpose. Suddenly my cousins air hogs heli is now a drone.

Not a tech guy, but I was under the assumption that was the technical term for contacting a server.

But now ping is the word for every form of digital communication ever according to news people's usage.

Yup, it's almost as bad as 'assault rifle' and 'racist'.

"hacker" and "terrorist"

"Murder-Drones"

good point

But now ping is the word for every form of digital communication ever according to news people's usage.