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Story about Lanny Davis.

Davis is Cohen's lawyer, and CNN's "anonymous" source saying that Cohen has all the details that will impeach Trump. Davis admits he has been lying for the last month. Yep, single anonymous source used all over media, got caught lying. And you fell for it.

You must be a moron to believe unnamed sources without evidence, but then again you are probably a liberal so that makes sense.

Well, for one thing, V2V is coming whether you want it or not.

If my car can tell the person behind me to get the hell off my ass - in the most polite way, I am all for that.

I'm still very interested in scaling upward to real world traffic.

The major manufacturers and OEMs are well aware of the problems and are already working on it, and have been for years. For another thing, the vehicles are already going to have to be able to account for human drivers, so they already have to be acquainted with the idea of leaving a safety buffer and so on. The thing is that they're going to do a better job of that than human drivers, because they don't have blind spots. They're going to know when a vehicle is in the adjacent lane, and they're going to move up or back a bit so that they don't keep the car there so that if either your car wants to swerve, or the other car swerves, there is not a collision.

Cool. Seriously, I'm not against any or all of the aids in the world to help the driver. I want vehicles to stay centered in the lane, I want that jackass who is using my bumper as a target while he texts incredibly important things to someone to have his car back off. I like self parking cars, a whole lot of good things going on in teh world of helpers.

I'm just not into the idea of this: http://www.newstimes.com/local...

An alerter to prove I'm not bored off my ass and asleep. so my supposedly fully autonomous car doesn't pull off the road. It's not a defense of driving while asleep, but that remaining vigilant while doing nothing sorta sucks. I'll maybe support autonomous cars when it's legal to be intoxicated while travelling in one. Or pull the curtains and become a member of the 75 mph club.

Or a completely blind person can "drive" one.

During test runs, a number of security features are disabled, in particular parts of the TVM system, which would have prevented any overspeed during normal service. This leaves the train speed under the sole responsibility of the driver.

Why are we still using humans to drive the trains? We already have computer-driven cars on the roads — and driving a car is a lot harder for a computer both because of the complex terrain and human-only signalling.

Trains operate in a one-dimensional universe (most of the time) — they don't need cameras and radars on the sides. The signalling they use is entirely under control of the rail-road too and in most cases is already interconnected and centralized. Moreover, driving a train is usually a very tedious process, which puts the human drivers to sleep — quite often — a problem severe enough to warrant special systems to try to prevent it.

I wonder, what is it? Is it a fear of protests by union-thugs? Engineers' own inertia?

Reminds me of the news story from a couple days ago. Parents dropped their kid off at school and told him to go beat up another kid. Some 73-year-old crossing guard tried to stop the kid so the parents allegedly slugged him a couple times to show their kid how it's done. With parents like this, who needs video games?

Like stealing statues, then selling them at one thousandth of their value as scrap metal: here

News times article from 1995.
Here's an interesting extract.

The most visible opponent of the proposed ban was
the Unite States. The
Clinton administration argued that a ban would interfere with the legitimate
development of the U.S. high-tech arsenal. The United States signed the
weapons convention in 1981, but it wasn't until last May that the measure was
sent to the Senate, where it still awaits ratification.

" almost 50 percent of the audience of the Olympics doesn't normally watch sporting events. "

and "Women want to get personal. They want warmly intimate stories, not athletic competition and cold hard scores."

So there's your answer, if you choose to understand it. They're giving the viewer what she wants.

Okay, since so many people are saying the same things, I thought I'd provide you all with some links talking about the various minidisc data solutions.

PC World - Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax?
minidisc.org - Sony MDH-10
minidisc.org - Minidisc Data Product Index
Storewell (norway) - Selling the Sony MMD-140
minidisc.org - What was cool in minidisc (mostly audio)
newstimes.com - Computer News (November 28 1995)

It used to be a lot easier to scare up a lot more hits, but I guess some of that stuff has decayed over time. Amazingly enough, altavista has forgotten it :)

There was at least one other Sony-released Minidisc data drive, but I don't remember much about it. It's not like I have one. I have a Zip 100, because everyone else has one, even though they suck.

The Tzar is dead, confirmed by DNA testing. The other remains with him were his family, most of whom were identified. Anastasia is dead, although Maria was not identified. Not surprising, considering how well the bodies were destroyed.