This one goes out to kleinbl00.
I wasn't able to find the original, unedited video/pitch, because the guy/"CEO (no endquotes) of Brinc eventually realized that this was hurting his brand and tried to delete the vid from public domain, but omfg, it's like Thiel and SpinLaunch had a baby.
José & co. will know to shoot the drone next time. Which is why we've replaced the tasers with live munitions, sir, YES SIR!!
The average number of times you'd need to taze someone consecutively that'd keep them incapacitated until CBP arrived is not a calculation I'd like to be contemplating.
Actually, please don't share this. Thanks.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! How the FUCK do they think the taser's probes got through his jacket and two layers of clothing to make contact with the skin?!? And I love the dramatic, arms in the air, 1950's TV cowboy fall... umm... people who get tased go STIFF... arms down at their sides... face flat into the pavement. Not some dramatic TV stuntman, arms in the air, BS. There's nothing in this video that is even remotely possible.
Typical SPL, rural California: 30dB Typical SPL, DJI Phantom 4: 76 dBA Note that: - Sound Pressure Level(SPL) is a scalar, Sound Power Level (PWL) is a vector. - SPL is almost always expressed as 1W/1m. - Sound energy experiences spherical decay from a point source, so 6dB per doubling of distance. - In order to be inaudible, a pure tone or distinct sound must be 6dB quieter than ambient. 76dB @ 1m = 70dB @ 2m = 64dB @ 4m = 58dB @ 8m = 52dB @ 16m = 46dB @ 32m = 40dB @ 64m = 34dB @ 128m = 28dB @ 256m = 22dB @ 512m (yes, there are mathier ways to do this but this is how we used to do it in reports because architects can follow along, and so can normies) So whoever your drone is interested in observing, the targets of its observation are aware of it between 500 and 250m away. Meanwhile, the effective range of a taser is 3m. A Phantom 4 Pro tops out at 72 km/h or 20m/s. 250/20 = 12 leisurely seconds for our evil wetback to decide what to do about the gnat humming at him from that curious box over there. Now - will a blanket foil a taser? Yes. A backpack? yes. A tarp? yes. Anything between you and and the taser further away from your skin than 4mm? yes. My personal favorite tho is the pocket fisherman: Let's not neglect the fact that these are not autonomous drones, these are prosumer bullshit being flown by a radio link, uploading their video. With the best protocols in the world you're talking three quarters of a second worth of lag and it will surprise no one to learn that cell service is spotty in places migrants tend to cross borders. Let's be honest for a minute, though. How much observing can that pissant little drone do of targets more than 250m away? And what consequences would a migrant face for destroying one? Felony property damage, max? Here's the fun one. What's the drone gonna do if, say, migrants cross the border two at a time? Which one you gonna keep in your cross hairs (behind your 750ms delay) and which one is gonna come around behind you and throw his jacket over your drone? I mean yeah obviously this is dystopian and inhuman and and and but yeah it's more stupid than evil. This entire class of problem-solving has been marketed and deployed already.
Yeah the mechanics on that one are tricky. "Whatever, man, I'm a citizen. Come check my driver's license." "Hold it closer." "I am holding it closer." "No hold it closer!" "No dude your whirring blender is freaking me out!" "HOLD IT CLOSER!" "Fuckin' fine, man!" "That's not a driver's license, that's an Amazon gift card!" "My license is in my other pants..." "REMAIN EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE OR I WILL TASE YOU!" (smiles) "sure thing, bubba, come on over here." Rough guess? Thing can reliably go about 4 miles from its base station. Prolly less 'cuz DJIs generally don't sport Tasers but we'll guess 4 miles. It's got half an hour of endurance - assume it knows exactly where you are and rips right out at you at full speed. It can hover there for 27 minutes before it drops out of the sky. I don't know if you've driven across bare-ass desert before but 20mph is rough. If you get the fuck on it you might be able to close a 10 mile gap before your stupid drone exhausts its batteries and plummets out of the sky (at which point any sensible migrant will keep/destroy it). Which means in a perfect world, these stupid little things extend your range by like, ten miles. But I mean, we're dunking on an 18 year old. The pathetic thing is this is who Peter Thiel is paying these days.
I have thoughts. quelle surprise. My low bar is the ADE-651 from Advanced Tactical Security & Communications Ltd. of Great Britain. It cost $60k. The government of Iraq (ie, the government we installed) bought about a thousand of them to detect bombs and explosives. It is also literally a dowsing rod. The truly tragic thing about the ADE-651 is it wasn't even a novel scam. Law enforcement had gotten burned by the same dumb idea ten years previously. But since nobody got in trouble for that, why not keep the scam alive? you shut your whore mouth. Oh wait on the gadget jewfro is pushing here? I mean you're gonna have to drive by every other day or so anyway 'cuz any coyotes who see that thing are gonna overturn it and set it on fire anyway so it's kind of moot. Guessing eighteen months based on my experience with capital depreciation schedules. Will any of them make it 18 months? Negative ghost rider. Doesn't matter though - the point is you've got a budget, I've got something to sell, and our daddies are in the same masonic lodge. The phrase used by VCs is "regulatory arbitrage" which basically means "yeah it's illegal but we'll be profitable until they figure out how to enforce it." Theoretically? Neither Uber nor AirBnB should ever be profitable. Practically? What are you gonna do, sue? Soldiers, wandering outside the green zone, dowsing for IEDs. Why yes - yes it did kill a lot of them. Quick quiz question: which happened first, ED209 in fiction or the Philly PD bombing activists? Surprise! Philly! Stereotype away, man. The issue isn't "all cops are bad" the issue is "cops have created a bad ecosystem." It attracts and retains bad cops. I only know what you're saying but it's entirely possible he saw you as not one of the terrible ones. Everyone I know who went into law enforcement was exactly the sort of person who shouldn't get into law enforcement. And the ones I know best did the right goddamn thing. I'm making my way through this cheerful tome at the moment. It's easy to say the phrase "end-stage capitalism" but the problem is? We've suffered so much worse before. I'm kind of at the point where I'm cheering on ideas like this. Fuck yeah spend your money on ridiculously stupid, ineffectual ideas. Build the goddamn wall. Spinlaunch spinlaunch rah rah rah. I wanna buy merch, man. I'm still bummin' I never dropped the coin on the Baz Lansdorp autographed Mars One poster. 'cuz the thing is? If you're wasting capital on failures, we don't have to suffer your successes. "Hey Bob - CBP just got a bump. Think you could less-lethal that thing?" "Sure thing, Chuck. It'll be ahhh, less. Less lethal." "Cool. Cut a video and they'll cut a check."It's like a combination of every fake science idea ever.
Solar-powered recharging. Okay, what happens when dust inevitably blows all over your grounded solar panel?
What is the depreciation schedule on these drones?
The issue I have is that while the business strategy of "move fast and break things" seems to work, the last place you ever want to employ that strategy is designing products apparently supposed to be used in life-or-death scenarios.
You attract the VC money, you hire actual engineers, and then, "Law enforcement is praising the BRINCball! We got Hans Gruber to release the hostages after talking to him through a drone for an hour!"
These ideas become dystopian because they're stupid. While cops are trained to exercise judgment, not all of them are necessarily trained in the workings of this technology, which leads to an undue trust being placed in it, which leads to misuse.
I don't want to stereotype cops, but sometimes, a man can be stupid?
I had a CBP officer give me his personal phone number saying "call me if you're interested in a career in law enforcement" and I was a second-year university student at the time.