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I've gone to a small physical therapy clinic and have ran into another patient that started physical therapy on the exact same day that I started with my exact full name and exact same date of birth. That was at just one (independent) clinic in one city.

Define "exact full name", as in "spelled identically"?

Your claim is you met someone with the same first and last name (ignoring middle name, which is part of your legal name on your birth certificate and voter record, which is what we are talking about in the case of the Indiana law),

Typically "exact full name" means first, middle, last (and any other name parts you may have), spelled identically. There are hundreds of adults meeting this requirement that I've seen in the State of California based on an unclaimed property search from the State Controller's website.

and who not only shared your birthday (mm/dd), but was also born in the year as you? I find that doubtful - possible, yes, but very unlikely when birth year is considered.

You do realize that names go into and out of fashion, correct? For instance, I know someone who named a baby Noah one year and five other acquaintances used the exact same boy's name that year. I've never met any other Noah's any other year. Obviously that is a very small sample size, but pop culture has a huge influence on how common a specific name is in a given year. Obviously, pop-culture has no control over surnames. For instance, in 2015 there supposedly 20,355 girls named Emma born (Today). If they were distributed evenly throughout the year, that means that there were 55 girls named Emma born every single day. Names are typically paired based on how they sound together. So, I'd be willing to bet that there is a very short list of middle names used in conjunction with Emma. Now, that has been the most popular first name for a girl for 5 or 6 years straight. This means you've had the chance for one of those 55 girls to be given the exact same name every single day for almost 2000 days at this point.

If we include the city of birth, the likelihood of a false match drops even further.

In what state are you required to provide city or state of birth when registering? I don't recall ever providing such information when registering to vote.

The first name Michael is shared by 180,000 Americans, the last name Bolton is shared by 32,000 Americans, but how many Michael Boltons have you met - ignoring birthday/birthdate?

Why would you even consider using those two names when Bolton is one of the lowest ranking last names on your own links provided? I would consider that to be a bit disingenuous on your part. You also have to consider the fact that neither one of these people has to be born in the US to fall afoul of this program. They just have to have immigrated to the US at some point in their life.

He pulled his figures from his backend. The efficiency of an internal combustion engine isn't the whole story. There are also very significant losses in the transmission needed in order to use said ICE. This has been analyzed over and over again and the EV almost always comes out on top, especially as coal makes up a smaller and smaller percentage of power generation. Hybrid vehicles improve the efficiency but as far as I know nobody makes a hybrid diesel-electric passenger vehicle.

The differences between diesel and electric vehicles are far more than 10%, especially when this moves to large vehicles such as in this CARB study comparing battery electric trucks compared to conventional diesel vehicles.

He gets especially erratic when he talks about NO and being greenhouse negative. NO is NOT something you want in the atmosphere, and it in no way would be greenhouse negative since the goal of modern diesel vehicles is to limit NOx and soot due to the negative effects of both in terms of human health.

Their kids go to public schools and many immigrant populations tend to be low income (i.e., don't live in high value, hence high property tax, rentals) and tend to have more kids than the average. As a result, they pay less in taxes per child than average.

As well, for example, in California they are covered under Medi-Cal for some medical situations:

An immigrant who meets all eligibility requirements, but is not in a satisfactory immigration status for full scope Medi-Cal is entitled to emergency and pregnancy-related services and, when needed, state-funded long-term care.

Then they asked me how much I was making. I told them that as well. They said, "Well, it will be hard to justify what you are asking based on what you are making."

This. Exactly this.

That is why as a California resident I applaud the new law. I really see no point in giving this information away as it can only do harm in my negotiating round.

And let me quote from the actual bill:

(a) An employer shall not rely on the salary history information of an applicant for employment as a factor in determining whether to offer employment to an applicant or what salary to offer an applicant.
(b) An employer shall not, orally or in writing, personally or through an agent, seek salary history information, including compensation and benefits, about an applicant for employment.

Umm... why is that?

The law states (and I quote) from the actual bill:

(a) An employer shall not rely on the salary history information of an applicant for employment as a factor in determining whether to offer employment to an applicant or what salary to offer an applicant.
(b) An employer shall not, orally or in writing, personally or through an agent, seek salary history information, including compensation and benefits, about an applicant for employment.

There is no way for them to ask and they are not allowed to use the information. So, it is really hard for me to imagine a situation where I would feel compelled to voluntarily disclose this.

According to the California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, last week's accusation of Russian interference in the US elections was blatantly incorrect. “DHS confirmed that Russian scanning activity had actually occurred on the California Department of Technology statewide network, not any Secretary of State website. Based on this additional information, California voters can further rest assured that the California Secretary of State elections infrastructure and websites were not hacked or breached by Russian cyber actors.” Wisconsin’s chief elections administrator, Michael Haas, has also repeatedly said that Homeland Security assured the state it had not been targeted: “Wisconsin was not provided any information that indicated before the November election that Russian government actors were targeting election systems.”
 
The latest Red Scare is just a big nothing burger.

According to the California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, last week's accusation of Russian interference in the US elections was blatantly incorrect. “DHS confirmed that Russian scanning activity had actually occurred on the California Department of Technology statewide network, not any Secretary of State website. Based on this additional information, California voters can further rest assured that the California Secretary of State elections infrastructure and websites were not hacked or breached by Russian cyber actors.” Wisconsin’s chief elections administrator, Michael Haas, has also repeatedly said that Homeland Security assured the state it had not been targeted: “Wisconsin was not provided any information that indicated before the November election that Russian government actors were targeting election systems.”
 
The latest Red Scare is just a big nothing burger.

According to the California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, last week's accusation of Russian interference in the US elections was blatantly incorrect. “DHS confirmed that Russian scanning activity had actually occurred on the California Department of Technology statewide network, not any Secretary of State website. Based on this additional information, California voters can further rest assured that the California Secretary of State elections infrastructure and websites were not hacked or breached by Russian cyber actors.” Wisconsin’s chief elections administrator, Michael Haas, has also repeatedly said that Homeland Security assured the state it had not been targeted: “Wisconsin was not provided any information that indicated before the November election that Russian government actors were targeting election systems.”
 
The latest Red Scare is just a big nothing burger.

According to the California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, last week's accusation of Russian interference in the US elections was blatantly incorrect. “DHS confirmed that Russian scanning activity had actually occurred on the California Department of Technology statewide network, not any Secretary of State website. Based on this additional information, California voters can further rest assured that the California Secretary of State elections infrastructure and websites were not hacked or breached by Russian cyber actors.” Wisconsin’s chief elections administrator, Michael Haas, has also repeatedly said that Homeland Security assured the state it had not been targeted: “Wisconsin was not provided any information that indicated before the November election that Russian government actors were targeting election systems.”
 
The latest Red Scare is just a big nothing burger.

According to the California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, last week's accusation of Russian interference in the US elections was blatantly incorrect. “DHS confirmed that Russian scanning activity had actually occurred on the California Department of Technology statewide network, not any Secretary of State website. Based on this additional information, California voters can further rest assured that the California Secretary of State elections infrastructure and websites were not hacked or breached by Russian cyber actors.” Wisconsin’s chief elections administrator, Michael Haas, has also repeatedly said that Homeland Security assured the state it had not been targeted: “Wisconsin was not provided any information that indicated before the November election that Russian government actors were targeting election systems.”
 
The latest Red Scare is just a big nothing burger.

According to the California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, last week's accusation of Russian interference in the US elections was blatantly incorrect. “DHS confirmed that Russian scanning activity had actually occurred on the California Department of Technology statewide network, not any Secretary of State website. Based on this additional information, California voters can further rest assured that the California Secretary of State elections infrastructure and websites were not hacked or breached by Russian cyber actors.” Wisconsin’s chief elections administrator, Michael Haas, has also repeatedly said that Homeland Security assured the state it had not been targeted: “Wisconsin was not provided any information that indicated before the November election that Russian government actors were targeting election systems.”
 
The latest Red Scare is just a big nothing burger.
 
captcha: bogeyman (I kid you not)

According to the California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, last week's accusation of Russian interference in the US elections was blatantly incorrect. “DHS confirmed that Russian scanning activity had actually occurred on the California Department of Technology statewide network, not any Secretary of State website. Based on this additional information, California voters can further rest assured that the California Secretary of State elections infrastructure and websites were not hacked or breached by Russian cyber actors.” Wisconsin’s chief elections administrator, Michael Haas, has also repeatedly said that Homeland Security assured the state it had not been targeted: “Wisconsin was not provided any information that indicated before the November election that Russian government actors were targeting election systems.”
 
The latest Red Scare is just a big nothing burger.

According to the California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, last week's accusation of Russian interference in the US elections was blatantly incorrect. “DHS confirmed that Russian scanning activity had actually occurred on the California Department of Technology statewide network, not any Secretary of State website. Based on this additional information, California voters can further rest assured that the California Secretary of State elections infrastructure and websites were not hacked or breached by Russian cyber actors.” Wisconsin’s chief elections administrator, Michael Haas, has also repeatedly said that Homeland Security assured the state it had not been targeted: “Wisconsin was not provided any information that indicated before the November election that Russian government actors were targeting election systems.”

The latest Red Scare is just a big nothing burger.

Seems to me all modes of transport that aren't subject to traffic cameras and license plate readers is being excluded. Apparently an "active GPS device" with the package just wasn't enough for the surveillance state to be satisfied. Right there in the 500 page regulations document a stated objective is the development of a complete "track and trace system" for the distribution chain.

"CA wants complete surveillance for the MJ market" seems like the real headline and not the clickbait-esq "ban on weed drones".

Warning: Eurocrats are known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

IN order to work as an educator in CA, you have to take an oath affirming the Constitution.

“Except as provided in this code, no certification document shall be granted to any person unless and until he has subscribed to the following oath or affirmation: ‘I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America, the Constitution of the State of California, and the laws of the United States and the State of California.’

https://www.ctc.ca.gov/docs/de...

Unless the private company accepts Public dollars as a contractor, such as Google.

Neither Google nor Alphabet are listed as having contracts with the State of California.

https://www2.cslb.ca.gov/onlin...

Oh I don't know. I think parts of the country are fairly far along in that regard. Take the 11 California counties which have more registered voters than citizens eligible to vote: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/... In one particular county that was at 144% registration a 66% turnout means we got 99.3% of the citizenry to turn out to vote. Quite the miracle...

Yes, yes, rail at your pretended outrage. That story has been passed along the right-wing noise brigade quite a lot lately, no surprise that you are spreading the fires here. Guess it's a lot bettter when you can denounce California instead of other stateS.

But here's the thing, the state tallies do not support the claims of Judicial Watch.

Besides, it's not a crime for a person to have registered to vote in more than one place, and in today's mobile society, people like Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, and Tiffany Trump simply can't be expected to handle that kind of paperwork.

How sure are you that it was legal for Google to fire him? http://leginfo.legislature.ca....

California has been able to force VW to do much of your agenda.
- Forced VW to buy back the diesel cars at pre-scandal prices
- Forced VW to pay extra compensation to owners
- Forced VW to spend $800 million dollars to build an EV charging network in California
VW will be making EVs to use the charging network.
https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/...

The problem is their cashflow is mixed together with government incentives influencing buyers, and selling ZEV credits to other car manufacturers. It's not at all clear that Tesla's long-term investments actually yield a self-sustainable business model without these external factors. Both have to end at some point.

Well, you see there is short term and long term.

In the short term there are these government incentives you mention which increase sales to consumers, and selling credits to other auto manufacturers. Both of which provide cash to spend on infrastructure (such as car-assembly machinery, and battery manufacturing plants).

This infrastructure is expensive, and good infrastructure is what allows for long-term profitability.

As for whether or not this will pan out in the long-term... I guess we will have to see. So far it is working. Check back in 10-20-50 years.

The problem is their cashflow is mixed together with government incentives influencing buyers, and selling ZEV credits to other car manufacturers. It's not at all clear that Tesla's long-term investments actually yield a self-sustainable business model without these external factors. Both have to end at some point.

For the Model3 the credits may make a difference for buyers given it's price; however, for the Model S and Model X - it's not likely an influencer at all on price and they're doing just fine with sales.

For that matter, the backlog on the Model 3 alone blows through the amount of cars allowed to be sold while still receiving the credits, which has been published, and which they would have to list per purchase prices, and yet it seems 1800 people on average every day are still putting down $1k for reservations...

The problem is their cashflow is mixed together with government incentives influencing buyers, and selling ZEV credits to other car manufacturers. It's not at all clear that Tesla's long-term investments actually yield a self-sustainable business model without these external factors. Both have to end at some point.

Actually, mandatory overtime is legal in California, so he can require that people work extra hours when needed.

As for offering to work any line in the factory, he is trying to show that there are not egregious safety issues. He is willing to personally take on any job in order to demonstrate that it is not inherently unsafe and scary.

I didn't live in the US, but it seems pretty clear to me:
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/...

Why would the reason for the speed limit matter anyway? Surely the law's the law, or are you just trying to justify breaking it? A lot of drivers do, and they're often the same ones who complain about cyclists breaking the law.

The truth is that the intermittency problem with wind and solar is so severe that when you get more than a few percent tied into the grid it actually has negative value.

Only if you do it stupidly. California is already seeing days where renewable make up 50% of their electric usage and their problems with negative value are relatively small, manageable and are in the process of being mitigated. BTW, the term for what you call intermittancy is the duck curve.

The smart way to do it is:

1. Improve the grid so that, for example, when the wind stops blowing off the east coast you can bring in electricity from the plain states to fill the gap.
2. Build natgas plants that can easily and rapidly spin up and down to also buffer the supply.
3. Include storage as part of the plants. California has recently added that to the law regulating all new forms commercial power generation in the state.

What you can't do is rely on baseload power (like nukes and coal) which get tons of subsidies in the form of guaranteed returns.

What's more, most of the energy used to PRODUCE solar panels, and much of the energy used to produce wind turbines, comes from soot-belching, coal-fired power plants in China, and most of the energy REPLACED BY these devices would have been produced in clean power plants with state-of-the-art "scrubbers" in North America, Europe & Australia.

That's all bullshit of the highest degree.
The energy required to manufacture wind turbines is recouped within about 6 months of operation.

And, in case anyone is interested:
The energy required to manufacture solar panels is a tiny fraction of how much they will generate over their lifetime.
In Middle Europe, where irradiance is about equal to that of Alaska, PV panels built with 10 year old manufacturing technology reached a net energy cost of zero within 3 years. In Southern Europe it was between 0.5 and 1.5 years.
Furthermore for every doubling in solar manufacturing capacity energy used to produce solar panels decreased by 12-13 percent, and greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 17-24 percent. Over the last decade, solar manufacturing capacity has increased 10x.

As for "scrubbers" and coal, China is way ahead of the US.
China recently cancelled construction of 104 new coal plants equal to one third of the US's total installed coal capacity. Even then, China's coal regulations are so much cleaner than the US's that by 2020 not one single US coal plant would be clean enough to legally operate if it were in China.

(1) A duly licensed chiropractor may manipulate and adjust the spinal column and other joints of the human body and in the process thereof a chiropractor may manipulate the muscle and connective tissue related thereto.

(2) As part of a course of chiropractic treatment, a duly licensed chiropractor may use all necessary mechanical, hygienic, and sanitary measures incident to the care of the body, including, but not limited to, air, cold, diet, exercise, heat, light, massage, physical culture, rest, ultrasound, water, and physical therapy techniques in the course of chiropractic manipulations and/or adjustments.

For reference, massage therapy is:

manual manipulation of soft body tissues (muscle, connective tissue, tendons and ligaments) to enhance a person’s health and well-being

which is covered by 302a(1) "and in the process thereof a chiropractor may manipulate the muscle and connective tissue related thereto" and physiotherapy is:

an independent primary care profession which assesses, plans and implements rehabilitative programs that improve or restore human motor functions, maximizes movement ability, relieves pain syndromes, and treats or prevents physical challenges associated with injuries, diseases and other impairments

which is covered by 302a(2) in its entirety.

So, no, that's not what I'm saying; he is most certainly licensed for what he does.

(1) A duly licensed chiropractor may manipulate and adjust the spinal column and other joints of the human body and in the process thereof a chiropractor may manipulate the muscle and connective tissue related thereto.

(2) As part of a course of chiropractic treatment, a duly licensed chiropractor may use all necessary mechanical, hygienic, and sanitary measures incident to the care of the body, including, but not limited to, air, cold, diet, exercise, heat, light, massage, physical culture, rest, ultrasound, water, and physical therapy techniques in the course of chiropractic manipulations and/or adjustments.

For reference, massage therapy is:

manual manipulation of soft body tissues (muscle, connective tissue, tendons and ligaments) to enhance a person’s health and well-being

which is covered by 302a(1) "and in the process thereof a chiropractor may manipulate the muscle and connective tissue related thereto" and physiotherapy is:

an independent primary care profession which assesses, plans and implements rehabilitative programs that improve or restore human motor functions, maximizes movement ability, relieves pain syndromes, and treats or prevents physical challenges associated with injuries, diseases and other impairments

which is covered by 302a(2) in its entirety.

So, no, that's not what I'm saying; he is most certainly licensed for what he does.

You forgot to indicate how far it is from your property to the end of your street, and if there is a municipal boundry between your house and those with DSL and/or Cable service...

It's a couple of miles one way, and five miles the other way. One of the road probably crosses a municipal boundary, but the other end does not. The road itself is only paved because some guy who lives out here became county commissioner. Pretty sure he or one of his relatives started the Peterson fire which is named after the road which I believe is named after him, by mowing in the middle of the day, whee! We knew that it was caused by midday mowing while it was still going on, even, but Cal Fire still says they don't know how it started. I bet Peterson Ln. has cable.

America is fractally corrupt. The closer you look, the more corruption you find.

Actually, this particular scenario of an alternative work scenario is explicitly legal:

No overtime required for a regular schedule of not more than 10 hours per workday within a 40-hour workweek

Put in 4 hrs extra during the week and kick off at noon on Friday during the summer... Then the parent company 500 miles away decided that it could possibly run afoul of labor laws or something

It doesn't just "possibly" run afoul. The arrangement you describe is explicity ILLEGAL in many states, including California.

It doesn't matter if you like the arrangement and agree to give up your rights, it is still illegal.

If more harvard students went to prison, on the other hand, you can guarantee treatment of prisoners would improve.

Don't need that, this is California we are talking about. Treatment of prisoners will remain the same. All extra money will go to the prison guards and prison doctors. http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Budget/

practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering

and avoid using the titles

“consulting engineer,” “professional engineer,” or “registered engineer,” or any combination of those titles or abbreviations thereof

and, even then, there are well-defined exceptions where someone may be allowed to practice Engineering and/or use those titles without a license. Keep in mind that those are quotes, used in the correct context, from California Business and Professions Code Chapter 7 Paragraph 6704.

As defined by the law that governs the use of the title of Engineer in my state (you can find these definitions in the same above-linked document):

Civil engineering embraces the following studies or activities in connection with fixed works for irrigation, drainage, waterpower, water supply, flood control, inland waterways, harbors, municipal improvements, railroads, highways, tunnels, airports and airways, purification of water, sewerage, refuse disposal, foundations, grading, framed and homogeneous structures, buildings, or bridges

which I don't do professionally,

Electrical engineering is that branch of professional engineering described in Section 6734.1 that embraces studies or activities relating to the generation, transmission, and utilization of electrical energy, including the design of electrical, electronic, and magnetic circuits, and the technical control of their operation and of the design of electrical gear

which I don't do professionally,

Mechanical engineering is that branch of professional engineering described in Section 6734.2 that deals with engineering problems relating to generation, transmission, and utilization of energy in the thermal or mechanical form and also with engineering problems relating to the production of tools, machinery, and their products, and to heating, ventilation, refrigeration, and plumbing

which I also don't do professionally. Those activities, and the use of the titles specifically mentioned above, are the things I can't do without a license (and, in the case of the activities themselves, I can do them under the supervisio

Ok, I went and looked at the California State University system. 1999-2000 Allocation (Funding) $2.25 billion. 2016-2017 $3.4 billion, the highest it has ever been. It peaked near $3 billion around 2010, fell off for a few years and bounced way back. Maybe you should go work at a CSU? The real problem there is the same as many places, vastly more overpaid administrators, not enough spent on students and education.

Sources
http://www.calstate.edu/budget...
http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2016...

I see $37 billion in Federal funds in 2014 alone; that does not include State spending (California alone is close to a billion dollars). It's not capitalist, in that it's Government spending, but it definitely is big money and some who claim capitalist backgrounds (for example, Elon Musk/Tesla) love to suck up those dollars from the Government. More of a fascist inter-twining of business and Government...

Now is time for you to start threatening to shoot people because they point out your crap, and from what I am seeing that is pretty much everyone else.

You're aware that because of this nonsense I wrote a Python script to scrape my 8,000+ comment history from Slashdot? I can prove that I never threaten to shoot anyone and I can prove that an asshat falsely accused me for six weeks.

I should send your posting log to your government office. You post more during the day, and only during weekday working hours, than you probably do your job. California is being ripped off by you, illegally I would like to add.

Be my guest. Here's the governor's contact info.

https://govnews.gov.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php

(3) “Launch” means to move or attempt to move people or property from Earth to space. For purposes of this regulation, "launch" also includes the movement or attempted movement of people or property from space to Earth.

And the enabling law California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 19503 allows them to do so retroactively.

(3)The Franchise Tax Board may provide that any regulation may take effect or apply retroactively to prevent abuse.
(4)The Franchise Tax Board may provide that any regulation may apply retroactively to correct a procedural defect in the issuance of any prior regulation.

And guess who get to define the terms "abuse" and "procedural defect"?

Oops, wrong link, here's the text of the regulation.

Most employment agreements are such that the company owns it even if it is outside of normal hours. So inventions you come up with on your own time are not yours.

Move to California and stop being a serf.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca....

Have you had a look at the state's budget deficit lately? The tax rates?

Yes I have, according to the governor's office, the Proposed 2017-2018 budget will have a budget surplus of $2.5b. Much of that will go into the rainy day fund.

As for taxes, no I don't have a problem with them. I actually like my infrastructure and not having a broken down state. Now my local taxes, that's another matter.

Business is leaving the state in droves to escape the tax rates

And more are starting up to replace them; that's how it works. California's unemployment rate is 4.9%. A smidge higher than the national average, but hardly symptomatic of some mass exodus.

Try to see through your biased view of politics. You are forgetting about earthquakes and liquefaction especially in California and especially in San Francisco which spatially limit development based on the ability of the ~ground~ to support the weight of buildings like large apartment complexes. Those weigh a lot. Falling buildings in dense urban areas are not just costly in damages but lethal to residents.

Try to see through your biased view of politics. You are forgetting about earthquakes and liquefaction especially in California and especially in San Francisco which spatially limit development based on the ability of the ~ground~ to support the weight of buildings like large apartment complexes. Those weigh a lot. Falling buildings in dense urban areas are not just costly in damages but lethal to residents.

That's something you only consider doing in the first place when the ocean is the least-inconvenient place to get the water supply from. Given that assumption, can you guess what the most convenient body of water to discharge the wastewater into might be?

That's right, the ocean!

I admit, there are places that have water supplies other than the ocean. But in that case, they have water supplies other than the ocean and the problem of what to do with the excess salt is moot because you're not desalinizing to begin with!

Hold on a second. Your story has changed - a lot If I recall, and cutting and pasting seems to verify that. You wrote :

"People drink the water, piss it back out, and flush it down the drain. The drain goes to the sewer. The sewer goes to the wastewater treatment plant. So re-salinize the wastewater after treating it and you can dump it back into the ocean at the same salinity you started with!

I don't recall myself or anyone else in this subthread saying that the saline sludge shouldn't go back in the ocean. Given the puny amount we can remove, it isn't going to make much of a difference as long as we don't create local hypersaline spots. That isn't difficult. And I myself will state pretty strongly that your concept which you possibly seem to have abandoned quickly, that of "re-salinize the wastewater after treating it and you can dump it back into the ocean at the same salinity you started with! isn't going to work. Other people want that treated fresh water.

You don't know how Cali works it might appear. This place lives and dies on fresh water, and has been taking all that the West can give it, and wants more. Taking fresh, even if not potable treated waste water and dumping waste brine in it to pump it into the ocean is not going to go over well at all there. In fact, here's what is happening now, Cali is using a lot of wastewater to irrigate, and plans using more. http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/...

One of the most interesting things this moron can imagine is that the smart people seem to think that desalinization is some sort of miracle cure, that will solve California's water issues.

It won't.

In 2010, California used 38 billion gallons per day of water from all sources. 67 percent of the total water used, and 74 percent of all non saline water use went to irrigation. RIght away, that tells us that there isn't going to be any use for desalination other than spot uses, and providing providing potable only water. https://ca.water.usgs.gov/wate...

So California's farmers are going to want that treated sewage water, just like they do now, and the amount of desalination taking place is going to be spot located, and returned to the ocean in some other manner, not in the badly needed, treated fresh wastewater.

Faking a government issued ID (Driver's license, Passport and the like) IS a crime, but is that what these folks actually did?

Seriously? More concern trolling?

Gosh! No, I'm sure the ID they faked is a Monopoly Banker ID Card with a picture of Monopoly Man on it, and that's what they presented to Planned Parenthood to prove their identities, and they accepted it because they're stoopid, and the DA filed 15 felony counts because he's pissed at PP for being so stoopid, not because they broken any laws.

Also, the separate indictments by a Grand Jury in Texas -- TEXAS -- that indicted the pair on the same charges were clearly under the influence of Satan.

Also, the fact that these guys used a stolen password to access an email system they weren't authorized to use can't POSSIBLY have happened.

Since they can't POSSIBLY have logged into an email system, they obviously did not send several emails fraudulently pretending to be other people.

They can't POSSIBLY have fraudulently used someone else's credit card to pay a $325 registration fee.

Sure. It's all fake news generated by a liberal media and a overzealous prosecutor just trying to make his bones in that Liberaltopia of California.

Hey. Here's an idea. Go read the indictment and educate yourself. But then, it's pretty obvious you have no interest in educating yourself; your interest is in sowing doubt.

> I think the problem that chairman Wheeler was trying to solve was states that attempted to block all provision of broadband service under the universal service rules.

That's an interesting guess, I suppose, but no. For example here is information about California's implementation:
http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/CASF/

Obviously you're capable of Googling the other 13 states yourself, but I think you'll find probably all of them, certainly most of them, have broadband programs - programs that make sense for their state. If you think for just a few moments about even one obvious difference between states, population density, I think you'll recognize that the needs in Montana and Wyoming are different than New Jersey and Maryland.

This is the official Autonomous Vehicle Disengagement Report for California

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/...

Google is at 5000 miles before a disengagement is required, compared to the 0.8 miles reported for Uber. Google also logged over half a million miles, compared to a couple of thousand of some of the other companies. So at least for the companies doing autonomous vehicle testing in public roads in California, no one come even close to Google.

But are we comparing similar driving environments and challenges? I only see Google cars on El Camino, driving slowly and mostly in the middle lane, i.e., among the least challenging of all driving environments. It would be perhaps more comparable to see how well Google cars perform with arbitrary start and end locations and keeping up with the flow of traffic.

This is the official Autonomous Vehicle Disengagement Report for California https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/... Google is at 5000 miles before a disengagement is required, compared to the 0.8 miles reported for Uber. Google also logged over half a million miles, compared to a couple of thousand of some of the other companies. So at least for the companies doing autonomous vehicle testing in public roads in California, no one come even close to Google.

We do have similar numbers from Google and other companies. Google numbers for 2016 are 0.20 disengagements per 1000 miles driven. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/...

You can't just leave some milk or fish out in the warehouse just because your shift is done.

I'm not going to look up Maine labor regulations, but in California, an employer can compel an employee to work overtime.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FA... (see #7).

It seems premature.

If you need to know whether your investment will be made worthless by luddites, it's coming a bit late.

According to Google's last disengagement report,

This is a very interesting report and is worth more to me than TFA. Thank you!

Observations:

Page 4 Figure C, they're using an old MBA mind trick! y axis is not 0-based.

Another important aspect of the report is that they're self-categorizing the disengagements as "routine" vs. "reportable." I think this is not so bad because I expect their ability to make any progress with the state depends on their credibility and reputation, and it's harder to make these engineers lie when they have no financial reason to work. However I would expect the difference between 0.16 and 0.13 to fall within the noise of discretion. The progress on safety disengagements might be minimal, or it might be significant but hard to measure until we increase our risk threshold.

How would you measure the number of "safety disengagements" with a human driver? I remember driving with my mom as a teenager, and I felt she was affecting panic to be disrespectful. Choosing to invoke disengagement has little to do with the situation and more to do with (1) your trust in the primary driver, (2) the amount of respect you feel obligated to give the primary driver. Both are lower for a teenager, and much lower for a robot. It's hard to extract a situational signal over the noise of (1) and (2), which for example will increase with humans' experience with the robots even if the robots don't get any better. so, again, I don't criticize them for categorizing the incidents using a simulator. I think it's not only kinda-fair, but necessary to get any signal whatsoever. But even then the signal will be noisy, and semi-meaningless in an absolute sense.