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TOM THE DANCING BUG: Obama's Secret Legal Technology for Drones

Ruben Bolling at 11:45 am Wed, Feb 13, 2013

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  • TimSalinger

    Ha, as if we’d ever know this much about the drone program!

  • Forced2Register

    ahhahahahha, I really enjoyed it! thanks Ruben! :-)

  • John Napsterista

    Awwww! I love the mini-panels with Drone seated in the classroom and then having his coffee at work! I hope Drone becomes a recurring TTDB character and/or plush toy!

    • GawainLavers

      http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=TMW-DRONEY&Category_Code=TMW

    • cellocgw

      Done:  submitted request to Think Geek.   Shouldn’t be long now…

    • mikei

      My Little Drony?

      • Dexter Sinistre

        Cute, very cute.

        • mikei

          It’s the most adorable way to eliminate high-risk targets while mitigating the threat to US personnel EVER!

  • Jellodyne

    I always thought those Predator drones were a little too soft and fuzzy. A few years at law school should fix that. Of course there’s a chance they’ll start chasing ambulances.

    • wysinwyg

       That’s the idea.  They call it the “double tap”. (bum tish?)

  • Andy Simmons

    Decimate?  Really?  So, it would take like ten of these drones to actually eliminate a target completely?  That doesn’t seem very efficient.

    • http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

      Common usage has it as more like 90% than 10%; misconception has spawned yet another definition.

      Also, full marks for this one Ruben, text notwithstanding.

    • Ipo

      The Theban Legian supposedly was decimated until there weren’t ten left.  The word decimation is frequently used as a synonym for the word “annihilate” which the OED lists as meaning “to reduce to non-existence, blot out of existence” .

      • http://twitter.com/belrick belrick

        I thought decimate was to literally reduce to one tenth the original number.

        • Antinous / Moderator

          Like ‘manufactured’ literally means ‘made by hand’?

        • http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

          The story goes that decimation was a means of disciplining the troops; if they retreated against orders or something, supposedly they’d be lined up and every tenth guy had to step forward to be killed.

          • Antinous / Moderator

            Actually, they were chosen by lot, then they put sacks over their heads and the other nine beat them to death.

          • http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

            Harsh but fair.

        • Ipo

          Decimation is reducing by one tenth. 
          Wash, rinse, repeat. 

          *(Thebian LegiOn)

  • http://twitter.com/MattAtDoyle MattAtDoyle

    Why does the drone get an office with a window?

  • http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

    Tom Tomorrow is slightly ahead of the game. He already has drones teaching constitutional law, and retconned one of them as Obama’s mentor.

  • dasanjos

    10 Internets for the first to identify the city in the last panel!

    • Shinkuhadoken

       That way if your internets are decimated, you’d still have one left.