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Well, we don't want the drones getting high now do we? I'm so so sorry, I just couldn't resist

• Cthulhu_ 9y ago
  Flagged. :p
  • escapologybb 9y ago
    Is no more than I deserve! In all (okay, somewhat) seriousness, if they really such a demand for waterborne delivery of marijuana that has to be regulated against? Also, the regulations seem to specify that GPS must be used so that the vehicle and by extension the weed can be tracked at all times. Drones come with GPS chips that are just as easily tracked, no? This seems genuinely puzzling.
    • joshribakoff 9y ago
      im guessing their concern is the drone malfunctions and drops the goods over an elementary school. They want hand to hand transactions with consenting adults
  • Stratoscope 9y ago
    When humor is outlawed, only outlaws will have humor.
    • legulere 9y ago
      The problem is that if you allow witty comments that contribute nothing substantially, you will end up with nothing else but witty comments. This happened to a lot of subreddits on reddit.
      • jtmarmon 9y ago
        Pretty much all of it. Except for askscience which is pretty strict on it
      • jameskegel 9y ago
        This place becomes more and more like reddit every day. Where is proper STEM discourse happening now?
        • TeMPOraL 9y ago
          "This place becomes more and more like reddit every day" is so old a meme here, that it wouldn't surprise me if a similar phrase was posted as one of the first 100 comments of HN's history.
          • jameskegel 9y ago
            While I appreciate your freedom to post your disagreement, it does not make my comment or perception of HN any less valid. My question was, where does proper STEM discourse happen these days? Surely everyone didn't fade into the ether in silence, so where is everyone? It is not unrealistic or asking too much to ask that comments are on topic and not of a comedic nature. I'm not whining here, I love comedy, I'm genuinely asking because I need someone to point me in the right direction of where I should excuse myself to.
          • mtreis86 9y ago
            The meme is older than the internet for sure, "In a paper on 'Pure Mathematics for Engineering Students,' published in The Bulletin for March 1901, I expressed opinions which coincide with those given here today. I then said that instruction in mathematics for engineering students should have two objects (1) to develop an engineering mind, and (2) to develop mathematics as an instrument of research for the engineer. I came to these conclusion at that time as a result of inquiries made of graduates of several institutions, who were in engineering practice, and of their employers. From the latter, I have had the statement that it is inadvisable to place a man in the higher positions in engineering who has not has a good mathematical training, especially, in the calculus, which, they assert, develops those modes of thought which are necessary to the engineer." Arthur E. Hayes, Symposium on Mathematics for Engineering Students, 1907
            • jameskegel 9y ago
    • tlrobinson 9y ago
      The HN community certainly allows humor, but it has a pretty high bar. I prefer not having to sift through a wall of moderately amusing comments to find the interesting content.
      • sillysaurus3 9y ago
        Drones can clear a high bar.
        • TeMPOraL 9y ago
          Which is why they're banning drones getting high.
• mtgx 9y ago
  It could be a gateway to other types of drone delivery. We wouldn't want that.