Snoop Dogg Endorses BitCoin !

[PenAndPaper]

I dabble in drones, and can say the tech to do this is EASILY here now and it's not even hard to do. I could build one that could land your pizza in your front yard or sidewalk from 20 miles away no problem. Building one that can analyse the surrounding area and not land on top the family cat is a bit harder, but still easily do-able, tho not with my primitive skills. I could build one that uses a 4G link to steam view and request confirmation to land from an operator though, thus manually avoiding chopping fluffy. If I can do that with no engineering experience, imagine what a team of skilled people could put together in no time.

Anyway, the problem is FAA regulation. They've been saying for several years they're going to introduce new regulation supporting drone use. They need to get on this, as it's the future. Hell Iceland has a dedicated drone airport. Japan uses them for ag mainstream, even places in Africa have a drone framework. We're stuck in the stone age because of a government basically says "anything we don't specifically say is legal is thus automatically illegal." (USSA anyone?) Then drags their feet to do anything at all.

I've spent several months this year in Japan and I can't say that I've seen any drones in the skies... but maybe I'm not looking in the right places. It's a cool idea, but surely there would be many accidents, no? Aside from kids and pets being chopped up by the propellers, won't they have mechanical issues or collisions midair with birds and such and occasionally fall to the ground? It probably would suck to have a 200 pound drone fall on you while mowing the lawn.

"A dog has been killed today from an amazon drone" and voila. The technology is over. The problem is that since they want to use them for home delivery they can't use lets say specific air corridors for example.

[JustAnotherSheep]

Snoop dogg is in bitcoins??? Shit. a guy who admits to smoking 50 blunts everyday, doesnt have a talented bone in his body and is a felon, Yeah now I am really convinced the masses will follow.

You may not like him but he does have talent. Also quite a large fanbase.

[GigaCoin]

I dabble in drones, and can say the tech to do this is EASILY here now and it's not even hard to do. I could build one that could land your pizza in your front yard or sidewalk from 20 miles away no problem. Building one that can analyse the surrounding area and not land on top the family cat is a bit harder, but still easily do-able, tho not with my primitive skills. I could build one that uses a 4G link to steam view and request confirmation to land from an operator though, thus manually avoiding chopping fluffy. If I can do that with no engineering experience, imagine what a team of skilled people could put together in no time.

Anyway, the problem is FAA regulation. They've been saying for several years they're going to introduce new regulation supporting drone use. They need to get on this, as it's the future. Hell Iceland has a dedicated drone airport. Japan uses them for ag mainstream, even places in Africa have a drone framework. We're stuck in the stone age because of a government basically says "anything we don't specifically say is legal is thus automatically illegal." (USSA anyone?) Then drags their feet to do anything at all.

I've spent several months this year in Japan and I can't say that I've seen any drones in the skies... but maybe I'm not looking in the right places. It's a cool idea, but surely there would be many accidents, no? Aside from kids and pets being chopped up by the propellers, won't they have mechanical issues or collisions midair with birds and such and occasionally fall to the ground? It probably would suck to have a 200 pound drone fall on you while mowing the lawn.

Also don't forget Libertarians and Anarchists shooting them down cuz it's flying over "their property"

[TiagoTiago]

Shouldn't be hard to detect faulty propellers or the close to zero-G you get from a free-fall and then deploy a parachute. Hell, there are even quads capable of controlled flight with 2 propellers damaged ( http://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_the_astounding_athletic_power_of_quadcopters.html , relevant bit starts at 06:14 , but the whole thing is quite enjoyable ).

[notme]

I dabble in drones, and can say the tech to do this is EASILY here now and it's not even hard to do. I could build one that could land your pizza in your front yard or sidewalk from 20 miles away no problem. Building one that can analyse the surrounding area and not land on top the family cat is a bit harder, but still easily do-able, tho not with my primitive skills. I could build one that uses a 4G link to steam view and request confirmation to land from an operator though, thus manually avoiding chopping fluffy. If I can do that with no engineering experience, imagine what a team of skilled people could put together in no time.

Anyway, the problem is FAA regulation. They've been saying for several years they're going to introduce new regulation supporting drone use. They need to get on this, as it's the future. Hell Iceland has a dedicated drone airport. Japan uses them for ag mainstream, even places in Africa have a drone framework. We're stuck in the stone age because of a government basically says "anything we don't specifically say is legal is thus automatically illegal." (USSA anyone?) Then drags their feet to do anything at all.

I've spent several months this year in Japan and I can't say that I've seen any drones in the skies... but maybe I'm not looking in the right places. It's a cool idea, but surely there would be many accidents, no? Aside from kids and pets being chopped up by the propellers, won't they have mechanical issues or collisions midair with birds and such and occasionally fall to the ground? It probably would suck to have a 200 pound drone fall on you while mowing the lawn.

"A dog has been killed today from an amazon drone" and voila. The technology is over. The problem is that since they want to use them for home delivery they can't use lets say specific air corridors for example.

Sure you can.  They could follow roads for example.

[rampantparanoia]

Next up... Wu-Tang Financial.

http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/tw2ltp/chappelle-s-show-wu-tang-financial

[bitcodo]

Forrest Gump is having Bitcoin World Tour.

[mb300sd]

I dabble in drones, and can say the tech to do this is EASILY here now and it's not even hard to do. I could build one that could land your pizza in your front yard or sidewalk from 20 miles away no problem. Building one that can analyse the surrounding area and not land on top the family cat is a bit harder, but still easily do-able, tho not with my primitive skills. I could build one that uses a 4G link to steam view and request confirmation to land from an operator though, thus manually avoiding chopping fluffy. If I can do that with no engineering experience, imagine what a team of skilled people could put together in no time.

Anyway, the problem is FAA regulation. They've been saying for several years they're going to introduce new regulation supporting drone use. They need to get on this, as it's the future. Hell Iceland has a dedicated drone airport. Japan uses them for ag mainstream, even places in Africa have a drone framework. We're stuck in the stone age because of a government basically says "anything we don't specifically say is legal is thus automatically illegal." (USSA anyone?) Then drags their feet to do anything at all.

I've spent several months this year in Japan and I can't say that I've seen any drones in the skies... but maybe I'm not looking in the right places. It's a cool idea, but surely there would be many accidents, no? Aside from kids and pets being chopped up by the propellers, won't they have mechanical issues or collisions midair with birds and such and occasionally fall to the ground? It probably would suck to have a 200 pound drone fall on you while mowing the lawn.

"A dog has been killed today from an amazon drone" and voila. The technology is over. The problem is that since they want to use them for home delivery they can't use lets say specific air corridors for example.

I would have the packages dropped from like 10-20ft up with a cheap parachute. I bet it'd still be gentler than UPS, and 5lbs won't cause serious injury from a few feet up if the parachute fails. Keeps the drone safe from anyone trying to capture it too.

[TiagoTiago]

I dabble in drones, and can say the tech to do this is EASILY here now and it's not even hard to do. I could build one that could land your pizza in your front yard or sidewalk from 20 miles away no problem. Building one that can analyse the surrounding area and not land on top the family cat is a bit harder, but still easily do-able, tho not with my primitive skills. I could build one that uses a 4G link to steam view and request confirmation to land from an operator though, thus manually avoiding chopping fluffy. If I can do that with no engineering experience, imagine what a team of skilled people could put together in no time.

Anyway, the problem is FAA regulation. They've been saying for several years they're going to introduce new regulation supporting drone use. They need to get on this, as it's the future. Hell Iceland has a dedicated drone airport. Japan uses them for ag mainstream, even places in Africa have a drone framework. We're stuck in the stone age because of a government basically says "anything we don't specifically say is legal is thus automatically illegal." (USSA anyone?) Then drags their feet to do anything at all.

I've spent several months this year in Japan and I can't say that I've seen any drones in the skies... but maybe I'm not looking in the right places. It's a cool idea, but surely there would be many accidents, no? Aside from kids and pets being chopped up by the propellers, won't they have mechanical issues or collisions midair with birds and such and occasionally fall to the ground? It probably would suck to have a 200 pound drone fall on you while mowing the lawn.

"A dog has been killed today from an amazon drone" and voila. The technology is over. The problem is that since they want to use them for home delivery they can't use lets say specific air corridors for example.

I would have the packages dropped from like 10-20ft up with a cheap parachute. I bet it'd still be gentler than UPS, and 5lbs won't cause serious injury from a few feet up if the parachute fails. Keeps the drone safe from anyone trying to capture it too.

What is the range of a DIY microwave gun built out of a dismantled microwave oven?

[hieroglyph]

It's not surprising that Snoop Dog supports Bitcoin.  Bitcoin can help struggling industries like the music industry buy putting the money in the hands of artists and not the corporations.  All and all this is pretty good news I'd say.

[mistress_magpie]

I can't wait to see the new GGW and BTC partnership either!  I really want there to be a platform where I can create content and find a well populated community of buyers with coin.

[kireinaha]

It's not surprising that Snoop Dog supports Bitcoin.  Bitcoin can help struggling industries like the music industry buy putting the money in the hands of artists and not the corporations.  All and all this is pretty good news I'd say.

The music industry is struggling? Hmm... that's news to me. And the musicians are just going to do all the marketing and promotion on their own? What's stopping them from doing that now and accepting credit cards or paypal? Isn't that what platform like iTunes... are already doing?

[TiagoTiago]

It's not surprising that Snoop Dog supports Bitcoin.  Bitcoin can help struggling industries like the music industry buy putting the money in the hands of artists and not the corporations.  All and all this is pretty good news I'd say.

The music industry is struggling? Hmm... that's news to me. And the musicians are just going to do all the marketing and promotion on their own? What's stopping them from doing that now and accepting credit cards or paypal? Isn't that what platform like iTunes... are already doing?

They are "struggling" 'cause they are cooking the books to not pay what they should to the artists...

[kireinaha]

It's not surprising that Snoop Dog supports Bitcoin.  Bitcoin can help struggling industries like the music industry buy putting the money in the hands of artists and not the corporations.  All and all this is pretty good news I'd say.

The music industry is struggling? Hmm... that's news to me. And the musicians are just going to do all the marketing and promotion on their own? What's stopping them from doing that now and accepting credit cards or paypal? Isn't that what platform like iTunes... are already doing?

They are "struggling" 'cause they are cooking the books to not pay what they should to the artists...

Yup, Snoop Dogg and his pals all really seem to be struggling to make ends meet. He might have to cut down on the non-essentials to put food on the table this month.

Are you guys for real...?

[pheaonix]

heres some bitcoin rap by ytcracker to whet your appetites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfg1Gtcg08

[The 4ner]

Did Snoop Dogg endorse it or Snoop Lion? 

[31337157]

It's not surprising that Snoop Dog supports Bitcoin.  Bitcoin can help struggling industries like the music industry buy putting the money in the hands of artists and not the corporations.  All and all this is pretty good news I'd say.

The music industry is struggling? Hmm... that's news to me. And the musicians are just going to do all the marketing and promotion on their own? What's stopping them from doing that now and accepting credit cards or paypal? Isn't that what platform like iTunes... are already doing?

They are "struggling" 'cause they are cooking the books to not pay what they should to the artists...

Yup, Snoop Dogg and his pals all really seem to be struggling to make ends meet. He might have to cut down on the non-essentials to put food on the table this month.

Are you guys for real...?

I would recommend you look more into how the record industry works before you jump to too many conclusions. As in any industry, there will of course be the top "doggs" if you will, who have been consistently pulling in sales and keeping themselves relevant. Do they represent all artists as a whole? Absolutely not.

There is a great speech by Courtney Love covering how advances and advertising work, along with how artists have to pay for record plays ($10k = 1000 national plays). Damon Dash has also breaks down how record advances work and where all the money goes. Here is the Courtney Love write up if you'd like to look into it: http://www.gerryhemingway.com/piracy.html

It's quite surprising actually how the creative industry fools the public into the idea of celebrity = rich. It's an exploit and that is how they make their money.

[kireinaha]

I would recommend you look more into how the record industry works before you jump to too many conclusions. As in any industry, there will of course be the top "doggs" if you will, who have been consistently pulling in sales and keeping themselves relevant. Do they represent all artists as a whole? Absolutely not.

There is a great speech by Courtney Love covering how advances and advertising work, along with how artists have to pay for record plays ($10k = 1000 national plays). Damon Dash has also breaks down how record advances work and where all the money goes. Here is the Courtney Love write up if you'd like to look into it: http://www.gerryhemingway.com/piracy.html

It's quite surprising actually how the creative industry fools the public into the idea of celebrity = rich. It's an exploit and that is how they make their money.

I get that young, naive musicians often find themselves in lopsided contracts with record labels, but I don't see how bitcoin is going to change any of that (as was suggested earlier in the thread). Nobody has ever forced a musician to sign with a record label... they do it because of a mutual working benefit. If they really want they can self publish, like MC Hammer did in the early days. He didn't even need a record label to screw him out of money, he blew it all himself!  

Every artist has the opportunity to record their work and put it up on iTunes or other independent platforms these days, but just like anything else, to make it big in the music industry you've got to work hard and market yourself. It's easy to curse the record labels, but without them and their help with getting new artists exposed, most famous bands would have likely broken up long ago and their members would now be working a mop bucket in some dive bar (Courtney Love) instead of telling sob stories from their mansions about how they've been "screwed" by the man.

[antimattercrusader]

I dabble in drones, and can say the tech to do this is EASILY here now and it's not even hard to do. I could build one that could land your pizza in your front yard or sidewalk from 20 miles away no problem. Building one that can analyse the surrounding area and not land on top the family cat is a bit harder, but still easily do-able, tho not with my primitive skills. I could build one that uses a 4G link to steam view and request confirmation to land from an operator though, thus manually avoiding chopping fluffy. If I can do that with no engineering experience, imagine what a team of skilled people could put together in no time.

Anyway, the problem is FAA regulation. They've been saying for several years they're going to introduce new regulation supporting drone use. They need to get on this, as it's the future. Hell Iceland has a dedicated drone airport. Japan uses them for ag mainstream, even places in Africa have a drone framework. We're stuck in the stone age because of a government basically says "anything we don't specifically say is legal is thus automatically illegal." (USSA anyone?) Then drags their feet to do anything at all.

I've spent several months this year in Japan and I can't say that I've seen any drones in the skies... but maybe I'm not looking in the right places. It's a cool idea, but surely there would be many accidents, no? Aside from kids and pets being chopped up by the propellers, won't they have mechanical issues or collisions midair with birds and such and occasionally fall to the ground? It probably would suck to have a 200 pound drone fall on you while mowing the lawn.

"A dog has been killed today from an amazon drone" and voila. The technology is over. The problem is that since they want to use them for home delivery they can't use lets say specific air corridors for example.

I recognize the risks to which you are referring. However, I don't think people get it. This is going to happen, as much as or more so than bitcoin. It will revolutionize everything. Before there can be millions of drones everywhere, there will have to be "rules of the sky" set forth. While they're human built, and mechanical problems can occur, I don't see them falling from the sky as being a big danger - they're pretty reliable and the technology will continue to improve. One could say the same thing about a helicopter, a mechanically much more complex device.

I don't know what the future holds, but I imagine there will be some type of transponder system per FAA regulations which specify the drones must be able to communicate with digitally with an air traffic control system (this is in the works now, it's very nice compared to what we have now) as well as specific altitudes dedicated for drone use, to keep regular air traffic clear. Home delivery could achieved in the same way as freeways vs residential streets, with some altitude or airspace class requirements.

I'm really hoping the beginning of this will be present in FAA Regulations coming in 2015 (Hopefully). But rest assured, eventually, it's going to happen. The technology may experience setbacks but will not be "over."

As for Japan, I don't know about them flying around everywhere, but I know they use them for chemical application on small farms and such. I imagine for use in cities/mainstream they have the same issues we do here, the tech is not quite mature enough for mainstream use, and lack of framework for air traffic separation etc.

I dabble in drones, and can say the tech to do this is EASILY here now and it's not even hard to do. I could build one that could land your pizza in your front yard or sidewalk from 20 miles away no problem. Building one that can analyse the surrounding area and not land on top the family cat is a bit harder, but still easily do-able, tho not with my primitive skills. I could build one that uses a 4G link to steam view and request confirmation to land from an operator though, thus manually avoiding chopping fluffy. If I can do that with no engineering experience, imagine what a team of skilled people could put together in no time.

Anyway, the problem is FAA regulation. They've been saying for several years they're going to introduce new regulation supporting drone use. They need to get on this, as it's the future. Hell Iceland has a dedicated drone airport. Japan uses them for ag mainstream, even places in Africa have a drone framework. We're stuck in the stone age because of a government basically says "anything we don't specifically say is legal is thus automatically illegal." (USSA anyone?) Then drags their feet to do anything at all.

I've spent several months this year in Japan and I can't say that I've seen any drones in the skies... but maybe I'm not looking in the right places. It's a cool idea, but surely there would be many accidents, no? Aside from kids and pets being chopped up by the propellers, won't they have mechanical issues or collisions midair with birds and such and occasionally fall to the ground? It probably would suck to have a 200 pound drone fall on you while mowing the lawn.

Also don't forget Libertarians and Anarchists shooting them down cuz it's flying over "their property"

Yes, and I am semi "one of those people." I don't appreciate the idea of government seeing into my house with a constant stream of thermal cameras. That said, technology is a double edged sword. Hopefully we can get some legislation pushed through that require warrants to deploy a thermal drone. In anycase, the commercial applications (Delivery, photography, search and rescue, agricultural etc) are game changing. 

[TiagoTiago]

I'm curious how drone delivery will work in big cities where people don't got anything resembling a landing pad in their apartments...

In any case, i expect there will be increased demand for window blinds and curtains...