It depends on what you mean by "win". What Lincoln said in 1844 is still true today: All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
The problem is that every tax is a behavior-modifying tax. If you tax property, people buy less property. If you tax sales, people spend less money. If you tax income, people scramble to classify their earnings as something other than income. The solutions that have developed through ad hoc process is to tax a little bit of everything, so that avoiding tax altogether is impossible.
That is my mistake, I'm sorry. I thought that the person who was adamantly defending the stupid claim that self-driving cars existed in the mid '90s was the same person who'd made the original stupid claim to begin with. I guess I was just a bit confused because its not often that someone argues with me, cites a wikipedia article that supports my side of the argument, then calls me a moron. I didn't realize that there were two separate Knight Rider fans on slashdot today who would insist that it was a documentary filmed in real time.
It would be a stretch to say that self-driving cars exists today, let alone existed in mid-90s. So what are you even trying to prove here?
The big difference is that Netflix and Amazon don't rely on advertisers that expect an established release schedule for new material. If writers go on strike for a month or two, then Netflix and Amazon can postpone production for a month or two and suffer no loss real losses. If ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, etc. don't release new programs for a month or two, they lose revenue from those adverts.
That is interesting news to me. Are these invaders organized under the authority of central government? Are these invaders establishing and enforcing new laws in contradiction to the US government? Do they hold a monopoly on force within a well defined territory? Do they mint and distribute a currency? If you answered "no" to these questions, then its not an invasion by a foreign country.
The British Empire was once 24% of the world's land area. Now its a bit smaller that Oregon and continuing to shrink. That is about a 99.7% territory lost and now under the control of foreign governments.
I know enough people with student loans in those fields to call this out as bullshit.
I know enough people with PhD/MDs who got scholarships, tuition waivers, or loan repayments to know that it can be done. So maybe the people you know just aren't very smart after all?
they would have no loans if the option was readily available"
"Do you deny that even that limited system is still at least close to a self-driving?" Actually, that is exactly what I am denying. And your second quote from Wikipedia continues to back me up on that. Imagine a student driver taking a test where the instructor has to do 6% of the driving. That is not passing score and its not even close to a passing score. You can put on cruise control and snooze through a Nevada highway for 34 miles. Show me a vehicle tested before 2005 that operated on open course for a reasonable distance WITHOUT A HUMAN DRIVER and I'll admit that I was wrong.
Your original statement was "Two decades later the rate of success of SDCs has improved only a fraction of a percent". Saying that the current generation for self-driving cars is only a fraction better than the mid-nineties is like saying the current smartphones are only a fraction better than a telegraph. You're completely overlooking the quantum leap in technology that has happened in a very short amount of time.
Mitt Romney made that 47% statement when talking to a private group of donors and the context (federal taxes) was very clear. He wasn't misleading anyone, by implication or otherwise. It was only the snippet that was released from a secret recording that was taken out of context and blown out of proportion.
It would be nice if everyone smart enough to be a doctor or an engineer could just decide to go to school.
If you actually are smart enough to be a doctor or an engineer, there are many opportunities for free or reduced tuition. The main driver of total student debt is people who really aren't qualified to go to college, who enroll in schools with no admission standards (especially for-profit schools) and study subjects with few job prospects.
Wow, did YOU at least bother to read the Wikipedia? The very next sentence after the one you quoted: "This car, however, was semi-autonomous by nature: it used neural networks to control the steering wheel, but throttle and brakes were human-controlled, chiefly for safety reasons."
There was nothing close to SDCs in the mid nineties. The first DARPA Grand Challenge was in 2004 and was a complete failure with none of the teams completing more than 12 km of the course and no winner declared. The second DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 was much more successful with five teams completing the course. This is generally considering the starting point for current autonomous vehicle development and most of the leading companies in the field can be traced back to successful DARPA challenge teams.
Yes, the price of merchandise includes fess to credit card company and yes it is the fees that pay for these rewards.
But as a customer, you pay the merchant the same price whether or not you pay with cash or a credit card. The customers that are really getting ripped off are the ones paying the inflated price, but not getting an rewards back.
Maybe you should quit denigrating any issue that doesn't apply directly to you as being a "wedge issue" or "identity politics". Straight, white males (myself included) are no longer the center of the political universe and we're going to have to get used to the idea that the issues that drive politics might not revolve around us.
You sure you want to go down that road? Because every nut job who has blown up an abortion clinic is someone who tried to fix the issue rather than voting for the parties perpetuating it.
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin is turning out to be the next great sci-fi/fantasy epic. Its a completely original post-apocalyptic to the nth degree setting.
Its the type of book that shows why we need more diversity in speculative fiction, because it deals with issues in a way that would be impossible for a white, male author to address with any authenticity.
Is your friend actually a paleoanthropologist or are you just making that up to sound authoritative? Because they way you are talking is a amateur understanding of the subject. Scientists don't just find objects and make assumptions. There are whole journals full of analysis and evidence. We can look at the wear patterns on an object and see how often it was handled and how it was held. We can tell if an object was handed down for generations or cast side by a child. We can usually find things like trace pollen and determine if an object stayed in the same region or had been carried around from place to place.
Then there is the issue of context. Is the objects similar to other objects? Are there contemporary cultures that still use the same or similar objects?
What we don't assume is that they were toys
There are lots of objects that have been classified as toys. One of the more interesting cases is the Quechua culture in Peru had pull toys (little animals with wheels, that were pulled on strings), but somehow never used the wheel as a means of transportation.
To say that paleoanthropologists are just making assumptions about cultural artifacts is as insulting as saying that physicists are just making up numbers.
If the theory is correct, we see very few smart people actively trying to prove it is wrong,
To the contrary, I can't think of any major theory that ISN'T being constantly tested and revised. Quantum mechanics and relativity are generally accepted theories, but there are constant experiments that test and validate different applications of theories under specific circumstances. The is no such thing as a "the theory is correct to within the limits of experimental or observational error", because we are always pushing new limits to experiment. In a sense, every time we do a new experiment, we are re-testing all of previous theories that experiment is based on.
cult celebrating there was either one celebrating food or a cult with sacrificing food as a central element
And the truth is that your deductions wouldn't be too far from the mark. The Christian Church incorporated a lot of pagan iconography into its rituals. Understanding Christian ceremonies as an extension of older fertility and death rituals is a more accurate interpretation that you would get from actually asking most Christians.
You don't tell if "science is good" by asking smart people. You test a scientific theory by using that theory to make a prediction. If the prediction is wrong, then the theory is wrong. If the prediction is correct, then the theory MIGHT be right.
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It depends on what you mean by "win". What Lincoln said in 1844 is still true today: All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
The problem is that every tax is a behavior-modifying tax. If you tax property, people buy less property. If you tax sales, people spend less money. If you tax income, people scramble to classify their earnings as something other than income. The solutions that have developed through ad hoc process is to tax a little bit of everything, so that avoiding tax altogether is impossible.
That is my mistake, I'm sorry. I thought that the person who was adamantly defending the stupid claim that self-driving cars existed in the mid '90s was the same person who'd made the original stupid claim to begin with. I guess I was just a bit confused because its not often that someone argues with me, cites a wikipedia article that supports my side of the argument, then calls me a moron. I didn't realize that there were two separate Knight Rider fans on slashdot today who would insist that it was a documentary filmed in real time.
It would be a stretch to say that self-driving cars exists today, let alone existed in mid-90s. So what are you even trying to prove here?
The big difference is that Netflix and Amazon don't rely on advertisers that expect an established release schedule for new material. If writers go on strike for a month or two, then Netflix and Amazon can postpone production for a month or two and suffer no loss real losses. If ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, etc. don't release new programs for a month or two, they lose revenue from those adverts.
That is interesting news to me. Are these invaders organized under the authority of central government? Are these invaders establishing and enforcing new laws in contradiction to the US government? Do they hold a monopoly on force within a well defined territory? Do they mint and distribute a currency? If you answered "no" to these questions, then its not an invasion by a foreign country.
The British Empire was once 24% of the world's land area. Now its a bit smaller that Oregon and continuing to shrink. That is about a 99.7% territory lost and now under the control of foreign governments.
I know enough people with PhD/MDs who got scholarships, tuition waivers, or loan repayments to know that it can be done. So maybe the people you know just aren't very smart after all?
Well, did they try a quick google search? https://www.usnews.com/educati...
Your original statement was "Two decades later the rate of success of SDCs has improved only a fraction of a percent". Saying that the current generation for self-driving cars is only a fraction better than the mid-nineties is like saying the current smartphones are only a fraction better than a telegraph. You're completely overlooking the quantum leap in technology that has happened in a very short amount of time.
When was the last time that America was invaded and occupied by a foreign country? How much is that worth to you?
Mitt Romney made that 47% statement when talking to a private group of donors and the context (federal taxes) was very clear. He wasn't misleading anyone, by implication or otherwise. It was only the snippet that was released from a secret recording that was taken out of context and blown out of proportion.
If you actually are smart enough to be a doctor or an engineer, there are many opportunities for free or reduced tuition. The main driver of total student debt is people who really aren't qualified to go to college, who enroll in schools with no admission standards (especially for-profit schools) and study subjects with few job prospects.
Wow, did YOU at least bother to read the Wikipedia? The very next sentence after the one you quoted: "This car, however, was semi-autonomous by nature: it used neural networks to control the steering wheel, but throttle and brakes were human-controlled, chiefly for safety reasons."
There was nothing close to SDCs in the mid nineties. The first DARPA Grand Challenge was in 2004 and was a complete failure with none of the teams completing more than 12 km of the course and no winner declared. The second DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 was much more successful with five teams completing the course. This is generally considering the starting point for current autonomous vehicle development and most of the leading companies in the field can be traced back to successful DARPA challenge teams.
But as a customer, you pay the merchant the same price whether or not you pay with cash or a credit card. The customers that are really getting ripped off are the ones paying the inflated price, but not getting an rewards back.
Maybe you should quit denigrating any issue that doesn't apply directly to you as being a "wedge issue" or "identity politics". Straight, white males (myself included) are no longer the center of the political universe and we're going to have to get used to the idea that the issues that drive politics might not revolve around us.
You sure you want to go down that road? Because every nut job who has blown up an abortion clinic is someone who tried to fix the issue rather than voting for the parties perpetuating it.
That's an easy thing to say if you're a straight, white male and don't have an personal stake is so-called "wedge issues".
You've just described 99% of Science Fiction. Maybe you just don't like the genre?
Its the type of book that shows why we need more diversity in speculative fiction, because it deals with issues in a way that would be impossible for a white, male author to address with any authenticity.
Maybe a pharma company could develop some sort of test.
Then there is the issue of context. Is the objects similar to other objects? Are there contemporary cultures that still use the same or similar objects?
There are lots of objects that have been classified as toys. One of the more interesting cases is the Quechua culture in Peru had pull toys (little animals with wheels, that were pulled on strings), but somehow never used the wheel as a means of transportation.
To say that paleoanthropologists are just making assumptions about cultural artifacts is as insulting as saying that physicists are just making up numbers.
To the contrary, I can't think of any major theory that ISN'T being constantly tested and revised. Quantum mechanics and relativity are generally accepted theories, but there are constant experiments that test and validate different applications of theories under specific circumstances. The is no such thing as a "the theory is correct to within the limits of experimental or observational error", because we are always pushing new limits to experiment. In a sense, every time we do a new experiment, we are re-testing all of previous theories that experiment is based on.
And the truth is that your deductions wouldn't be too far from the mark. The Christian Church incorporated a lot of pagan iconography into its rituals. Understanding Christian ceremonies as an extension of older fertility and death rituals is a more accurate interpretation that you would get from actually asking most Christians.
You don't tell if "science is good" by asking smart people. You test a scientific theory by using that theory to make a prediction. If the prediction is wrong, then the theory is wrong. If the prediction is correct, then the theory MIGHT be right.
What article of the Constitution allows that to happen?