If you feel you want to take it up a notch :P
(moderator's note: originally posted by Kevin Hester, restoring after inadvertent deletion)
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If you feel you want to take it up a notch :P
(moderator's note: originally posted by Kevin Hester, restoring after inadvertent deletion)
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Peter, just a few quick comments from me:
- apologies accepted, no worries. likewise, apologies for being abrupt in my post.
- I'm agreeing with Ellison that the talk was tending towards politics. as you know economics=politics there. And as such, a non-topic here.
- I'm actually quite interested in the subject. I worked and lived there from 97-01, where I was the chief software architect of the china internet.
- Joshua is, I believe, a new moderator. The consensus on the moderator thread is that he made a mistake and did not follow our accepted practice.
- all moderator discussion happens here: http://www.diydrones.com/group/moderators . If there's a secret moderator cabal, I'm not senior enough to be part of it!
- I'll fix the title... Joshua sent me the correction yesterday, but I hadn't gotten around to updating it.
- and of course, thanks for being a long-time contributor and bringing up something you felt was awry.
Cheers all around,
Mark
Peter, I totally agree with your idea about this being a public forum. However, in internet society, there are social etiquette. One of those is not to hijack threads on a discussion. If we want to start a discussion on how world politics relate to drones, we could start our own discussion for that. Mark was well within internet etiquette to point out that the thread was going off topic.
As for Joshua deleting the initial post, I considered it a mistake because we, as moderators had decided in the past not to delete posts, without consulting the rest of the group first. Joshua is quite new, and did not know of this policy. We as moderators, all have diverse opinions on various matters, but we try coordinate this to provide a consistent user experience, but that is not always the case. Please bare with us. Now, let's not continue to go of topic for this discussion.
I'm the one who deleted the blog and I still stand by deleting it after reading what has all been said in here...
+ more fun about HIL & AP
http://www.uavstar.com/Products/Autopilot/Autopilot_e.htm
http://www.ruav.ru/index.php?page=Products_Autopilots
Ok Peter, let's not start with personal attacks on Mark. I happen to know that the original post was deleted by mistake, and not by Mark. He's the one that resurrected it for us.
"attack drones on Alibaba" just lol.
same as strategic ballistic missile on ebay.
there is no *attack drones* - it just dealer marketing freak - tipically for china market =)
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/update/01/index.htm
IMF Januarу 2013 WEO projections
China annual in %
Peter, as Ellison noted there's better places to discuss international politics... and we're not all in the USA. :-)
I *believe* I'm in line with Chris on this, but if that's not the case then feel free to chat away!
In defence of Mark, we were starting to hijack his re-posting. If we want to discuss politics and economics, we would probably find a better place than DIYDrones.
And with these excellent contributions, we'll call this economics discussion closed.
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