If the one person is more important than the other four...
The problem where you have to decide whether to let a train run straight and kill 5 people or switch the track so that it only kills 1 becomes more complicated when that one person is the president and the 5 people are his bodyguards. My guess is that passenger safety outranks jaywalker safety, but I'll bet a lot of situations are covered by "panic and brake".
...it just offers a way for people to pretend having an enviable life.
I use FB to discuss interesting topics with interesting people. It's like Slashdot, only without the trolls and adults act like adults. FB, except for the ads, is entirely what you make of it. I see posts that interest me because of the sources I follow. (CNN, CNN International, and BBC News are a few.) The responses to the posts I share are civil even in disagreement because I'm discussing topics with friends. One of my high-school friends is a huge DJT supporter; I'm very much a critic. I call DJT a liar; my friend calls DJT a visionary; we defend our stances and disagree; and then we play Words With Friends. On/., it's hard to mention DJT, CNN, or FB without calling forth name-calling idiots. If your FB feed is full of pics of people sharing their dinners or whining like children, that's entirely your fault. The only real drawback to discussing topics on FB instead of Slashdot (apart from getting mined) is that we tend to stray wildly off-topic.
Why is it fine for someone to be a bad driver, hit and kill someone, no prob.
Depends what you mean by "bad driver". If they violated some traffic regulation, it's not "no prob". If they didn't, who decides if they're a "bad driver"?
The truly strange thing is when a drunk or distracted driver gets busted without even hurting anyone else...
If you're endangering people, why should the authorities have to wait until someone's actually hurt to intervene?
If that's true, then the "right" thing for the Fed to do is shut down every MJ dispensary operating in the US. That would be stupid and wasteful. And every state has a selection of laws that are just ridiculous (e.g. donkeys can't sleep in bathtubs) and ignorable.
Or death penalty for the self-driving car that refuses to crash itself to save a human life?
Assuming that the car is driving around with no passengers aboard, the decision to avoid a pedestrian and crash is pretty easy. When you're hauling cargo as precious as the jaywalker, you need more advanced logic.
Smokers are almost always smoking -- either they have one going, or they have one available.
You could say "always have one available" about gum chewers, soda drinkers, or any of hundreds of different habits. I have a cigarette available. It's on the front seat of my car in a pack with a bunch of others and I'll light it when I'm off work for the day. That will be my first cigarette of the day. Even though I've had one available, I don't think it's accurate to say I've been smoking all day. I'm smoking tobacco for 10 or 20 minutes a day; how does the fact that I have some imply that I'm "almost always smoking"?
I've witnessed the entire transaction for a sheet of LSD delivered to New Mexico from Germany. I wasn't involved with testing and haven't heard feedback, but it sure looked like the stuff I remember from college. If you want to browse what's available: 1) (Optional but recommended) Subscribe to and use a VPN 2) Download, install, and open the Tor browser 3) Search duck-duck-go for 'Dream Market' (they're hardly the only market, but they're a big one) 4) Register and browse 5) Use your Bitcoin wallet to order whatever the fuck you want (ketamine, cocaine, LSD, whatever) 6) (Optional and discouraged) Get caught and face the consequences 7) (Optional) Ingest the substance you bought from an anonymous source with no assurance of quality or safety
Until the transaction time and cost rival credit cards, cryptocurrency isn't going to become the standard. Seems to work for ransoms. Great for contraband. If you're an investor, it's as good as roulette (with the exception that fraud on the roulette table is illegal.) I've heard that overstock.com accepts Bitcoin, but it seems more useful in the dark markets.
I had a co-worker in Florida who would also take ten or fifteen minute breaks from coding...
Periodically taking a break from your code can be really useful sometimes and I think I could rationalize taking a couple of smoke breaks during the day, but I don't. I was just messing around. I am a smoker, but not before or during work. I don't like smelling like an ashtray around my coworkers. Mostly I use cigarettes in the evenings to get the pot off my breath.
The air inside my office space is great. The problem is that the company forces me to go outside and stand next to traffic huffing exhaust for periodic 10-minute stretches. If they'd let me smoke inside I wouldn't have this problem.
...I disliked everyone pretty much equally (of the candidates I was allowed to vote for)
Who did you support that you weren't allowed to vote for? Foreigner? Criminal? Too young? The candidate I voted for didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but I was allowed to cast my vote for him.
This is the first step toward simulating my commute. If I can do that in VR and open a virtual terminal where I can browse Slashdot, I'll have the full experience of working from home!
Pump & dump for cryptocurrency is organized, profitable, and mostly legal. John Oliver did a good piece on cryptocurrencies over the weekend that touches on this and other misbehavior.
Make a conscious decision and do not use social media platforms.
The discussions I have on Facebook are not entirely different than the ones I have on Slashdot. The big difference is that I know the people I'm talking to, so it's rare that things devolve into name-calling and trolling like I see so often here. Facebook is 100% what you make it. (Plus ads.) I see posts from CNN, CNN International, BBC News and other things I find interesting. If you don't want to see pictures of people's dinners, it's not hard to tailor your friends list. I just checked my last few comments on FB. They were on John Oliver's piece on Cryptocurrencies that he put out Sunday, MoviePass tracking (and the email from their CEO correcting what he calls misreporting), condolences on my sister's dog passing, and a post concerning the anti-vaxx religious movement. Except for my sister's dog, I wouldn't be surprised to find any of that here. My circle of friends on FB are just as bright and interesting as the Slashdot horde and considerably more civil. I understand the objections to FB that I hear so often here, but it's not useless unless you've tailored it to be useless.
I could see in the distant future cloning somebody from dust, but I think resurrecting them is fantasy. No matter how advanced we get technologically, decay is a one-way hash. You'll have better success with a medium.
If you run out of funding in 30 years, you've already been paid so toss the brains out. Just like you should have 30 years ago. I'm not only worried about them making the transition to uploading minds, I'm wondering if they can even do what they're promising now. Embalming a body so that there's NO decay after hundreds of years is a pretty big claim. Didn't RTFA to learn about "high-tech embalming," but it must be something special.
I think the rule-of-thumb is 6. Six layers of independent VPNs and then browse only with TOR. The small hit in latency is a small price to pay to keep the Man from connecting my Slashdot account with my Facebook account.
Slashdot Mirror
Squirrels are fine. You could blow a tire on a bunny.
If the one person is more important than the other four...
The problem where you have to decide whether to let a train run straight and kill 5 people or switch the track so that it only kills 1 becomes more complicated when that one person is the president and the 5 people are his bodyguards. My guess is that passenger safety outranks jaywalker safety, but I'll bet a lot of situations are covered by "panic and brake".
...it just offers a way for people to pretend having an enviable life.
I use FB to discuss interesting topics with interesting people. It's like Slashdot, only without the trolls and adults act like adults. FB, except for the ads, is entirely what you make of it. I see posts that interest me because of the sources I follow. (CNN, CNN International, and BBC News are a few.) The responses to the posts I share are civil even in disagreement because I'm discussing topics with friends. One of my high-school friends is a huge DJT supporter; I'm very much a critic. I call DJT a liar; my friend calls DJT a visionary; we defend our stances and disagree; and then we play Words With Friends. On /., it's hard to mention DJT, CNN, or FB without calling forth name-calling idiots. If your FB feed is full of pics of people sharing their dinners or whining like children, that's entirely your fault. The only real drawback to discussing topics on FB instead of Slashdot (apart from getting mined) is that we tend to stray wildly off-topic.
I heard Putin meddled in their election. I believe 76% like I believe 239 lbs.
Why is it fine for someone to be a bad driver, hit and kill someone, no prob.
Depends what you mean by "bad driver". If they violated some traffic regulation, it's not "no prob". If they didn't, who decides if they're a "bad driver"?
The truly strange thing is when a drunk or distracted driver gets busted without even hurting anyone else...
If you're endangering people, why should the authorities have to wait until someone's actually hurt to intervene?
What operator? This is a Level 3+ system, not a Level 2...
GP specified "operator of a motor vehicle". I inferred a dumb vehicle.
It's not right to enforce some laws but not all.
If that's true, then the "right" thing for the Fed to do is shut down every MJ dispensary operating in the US. That would be stupid and wasteful. And every state has a selection of laws that are just ridiculous (e.g. donkeys can't sleep in bathtubs) and ignorable.
Or death penalty for the self-driving car that refuses to crash itself to save a human life?
Assuming that the car is driving around with no passengers aboard, the decision to avoid a pedestrian and crash is pretty easy. When you're hauling cargo as precious as the jaywalker, you need more advanced logic.
no one is saying that the operator of a motor vehicle that hits and kills a jaywalker is a monster.
Depends on the situation. If the operator was drunk or playing Pokemon Go and the accident could have been avoided, that's pretty monstrous.
Using an alias is not the same as registering using someone else's credentials.
Smokers are almost always smoking -- either they have one going, or they have one available.
You could say "always have one available" about gum chewers, soda drinkers, or any of hundreds of different habits. I have a cigarette available. It's on the front seat of my car in a pack with a bunch of others and I'll light it when I'm off work for the day. That will be my first cigarette of the day. Even though I've had one available, I don't think it's accurate to say I've been smoking all day. I'm smoking tobacco for 10 or 20 minutes a day; how does the fact that I have some imply that I'm "almost always smoking"?
I've seen people run a search for "google". Clicking a fake Amazon instead of typing a-m-a-z-o-n-Ctrl+Enter doesn't surprise me.
I've witnessed the entire transaction for a sheet of LSD delivered to New Mexico from Germany. I wasn't involved with testing and haven't heard feedback, but it sure looked like the stuff I remember from college. If you want to browse what's available:
1) (Optional but recommended) Subscribe to and use a VPN
2) Download, install, and open the Tor browser
3) Search duck-duck-go for 'Dream Market' (they're hardly the only market, but they're a big one)
4) Register and browse
5) Use your Bitcoin wallet to order whatever the fuck you want (ketamine, cocaine, LSD, whatever)
6) (Optional and discouraged) Get caught and face the consequences
7) (Optional) Ingest the substance you bought from an anonymous source with no assurance of quality or safety
I saw it work once and there seem to be a lot of customers. I'll note that when the authorities shut down 2 of the biggest dark markets several months ago, they ran one for a month first.
Until the transaction time and cost rival credit cards, cryptocurrency isn't going to become the standard. Seems to work for ransoms. Great for contraband. If you're an investor, it's as good as roulette (with the exception that fraud on the roulette table is illegal.) I've heard that overstock.com accepts Bitcoin, but it seems more useful in the dark markets.
I had a co-worker in Florida who would also take ten or fifteen minute breaks from coding...
Periodically taking a break from your code can be really useful sometimes and I think I could rationalize taking a couple of smoke breaks during the day, but I don't. I was just messing around. I am a smoker, but not before or during work. I don't like smelling like an ashtray around my coworkers. Mostly I use cigarettes in the evenings to get the pot off my breath.
The air inside my office space is great. The problem is that the company forces me to go outside and stand next to traffic huffing exhaust for periodic 10-minute stretches. If they'd let me smoke inside I wouldn't have this problem.
...I disliked everyone pretty much equally (of the candidates I was allowed to vote for)
Who did you support that you weren't allowed to vote for? Foreigner? Criminal? Too young? The candidate I voted for didn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but I was allowed to cast my vote for him.
This is the first step toward simulating my commute. If I can do that in VR and open a virtual terminal where I can browse Slashdot, I'll have the full experience of working from home!
top of each pyramid
Pump & dump for cryptocurrency is organized, profitable, and mostly legal. John Oliver did a good piece on cryptocurrencies over the weekend that touches on this and other misbehavior.
My biggest fear realized! What a fool I am! My FB account has links to my family, my friends! They could ALL fall victim to... What exactly?
Make a conscious decision and do not use social media platforms.
The discussions I have on Facebook are not entirely different than the ones I have on Slashdot. The big difference is that I know the people I'm talking to, so it's rare that things devolve into name-calling and trolling like I see so often here. Facebook is 100% what you make it. (Plus ads.) I see posts from CNN, CNN International, BBC News and other things I find interesting. If you don't want to see pictures of people's dinners, it's not hard to tailor your friends list. I just checked my last few comments on FB. They were on John Oliver's piece on Cryptocurrencies that he put out Sunday, MoviePass tracking (and the email from their CEO correcting what he calls misreporting), condolences on my sister's dog passing, and a post concerning the anti-vaxx religious movement. Except for my sister's dog, I wouldn't be surprised to find any of that here. My circle of friends on FB are just as bright and interesting as the Slashdot horde and considerably more civil. I understand the objections to FB that I hear so often here, but it's not useless unless you've tailored it to be useless.
I could see in the distant future cloning somebody from dust, but I think resurrecting them is fantasy. No matter how advanced we get technologically, decay is a one-way hash. You'll have better success with a medium.
I may have a habit of backing unpopular opinions, but let it never be said that I don't check my links. Cheers.
If you run out of funding in 30 years, you've already been paid so toss the brains out. Just like you should have 30 years ago. I'm not only worried about them making the transition to uploading minds, I'm wondering if they can even do what they're promising now. Embalming a body so that there's NO decay after hundreds of years is a pretty big claim. Didn't RTFA to learn about "high-tech embalming," but it must be something special.
I think the rule-of-thumb is 6. Six layers of independent VPNs and then browse only with TOR. The small hit in latency is a small price to pay to keep the Man from connecting my Slashdot account with my Facebook account.