Make it easy for me to specify I am looking for technical information, or looking to buy something, or what have you. All too often I am trying to do a search for technical information, but if that acronym has also been used by Beiber lately I am SOL. I would love it is I could weed out the pop culture hits when I wanted to omit them.
Similarly I would like a search engine that I could easily specify if I also want hits for related words, or just EXACT match, and whether to ignore capitalization or not. It is maddening when an acronym also happens to be a common word and I get flooded with useless crap.
If the car yanks control out of my hands because it thinks I am about to do something dangerous, who is liable for the results? We've had this discussion for fully automated systems, but it will get more awkward as we start to have a nanny looking over our shoulder second guessing our every move.
It is the latest round of "The door is ajar" warning crap. If I get beeped at every time I look left at whatever bombshell is in the convertible next to me I might end up knocked unconscious by my wife.
Putting a bajillion flashing and buzzing widgets into a car to make it safer will do the opposite. I recently spent a few days driving my old truck to burn off old gas, since it gets used very little. I was pleasantly surprised how much easier it is to concentrate on the road without an infotainment system flashing maps, and efficiency info at me.
If we honestly think that driving is dangerous enough to take action on it, I would argue that we should spend the energy making better drivers rather than trying to wrap layers of technology around crappy drivers.
Please show me at least one example of a society at any time in history that survived for any length of time without some form of taxation. I think you will have to go back to just about the hunter-gatherer days to find an example. You can leave the country and revoke your citizenship if you want (Yes, we should make this easier to do), but in the mean time I suggest you propose a viable alternative before going all anarchist on us.
The pacific northwest is beholdent to a few large companies that use their importance to exert some scary influence on the politics. When these issues come up Microsoft has threatened to move overseas, or to other states. The voters and state/local government falls in line. Same with Boeing, which has moved a lot out of Washington even after getting just about special treatment they could ask for.
Down here in Orygun, Intel and Nike do the same thing. Nike's headquarters is surrounded by Beaverton, but is not part of it because they they have made huge threats to leave if the city tries to annex it into the city, which would result in higher property taxes to help pay for the city services they already benefit from. Intel got a very sweet package during their recent expansion. It is a massive race to the bottom to get and keep these big employers. It is sickening. The rest of us in the area get to pay higher taxes to make up the shortfall, and we have the threat hanging over us that they can crash the local economy and housing prices with it if they make good on their threats.
"Washington would still get the lion's share of Microsoft-based taxes since the lion's share of employees live there, and are well-paid."
What a crock of crap.
My tax responsibility is mine, not my employers. Employers cannot skip out on their taxes just because they have employees who don't have that kind of opportunity. I don't get to argue my way out of responsibility for taxes just because my checker at the grocery store has to pay her taxes. We are all in this together, it is not fair for big enough employers to threaten to leave if they don't get special tax treatment. It is anti-competitive to say the least when the Microsoft's, Intel's, and Nike's get special breaks while the rest of us living in the area have to make up for this tax welfare they get. F' them.
No representation without taxation. Stop letting these moocher companies lobby if they don't pay their share.
Same here. I am happy to pay my taxes, especially if it keeps the schools funded and keeps old folks out of the gutter. I am sick and tired of way too much of my taxes going to the military industrial complex while the rich multinational oil company's whose interests are served by such mis-adventures sit back and dodge their civic duty to pay their fare share like me.
Please increase my tax rate and properly fund our schools. I am tired of all the badly educated dumbasses, and it horrifies me to see kids only 10 years behind me have to rack up much more debt than I did to go to even a low end college.
There are maybe 2-3 times a year I would actually use an autonomous car per year if it was perfect and free (big if's). Basically just on long full day road trips. The other 99% of the time driving is no burden, or would be less of a burden than having to sit in the car bashing in an address and other vital details into the infernal thing before getting out of the driveway.
How many folks actually have a sigh of relief when their spouse offers to drive? Very few I suspect, as this is a problem that mostly does not need to be solved. I mostly don't even use the navigation system in my car now.
Heck, the navigation system should be a huge warning sign of what these cars could be like. The interface (Nissan) is lousy, map updates are way overpriced (and still outdated), and they want a subscription if you want traffic information. The car has a 2G modem for its connection to Galactic Central that will be no longer be serviced by AT&T in a year and a half. An autonomous car would similarly fall victim to being orphaned after a few years due to either hardware or software, and would almost certainly require some sort of data plan fee to stay up to date. Cars should last at least 20 years, and frankly car companies don't have a clue how to design and maintain critical life supporting software for that type of lifespan across.
Autonomous driving should concentrate on trucking, and maybe taxi type services. The rush for sticking it in general passenger cars is either stupid, or a Trojan horse for some other motivation.
Great, you can scan something and then print it in crappy plastic. Big whoop.
Seriously, 3D printing has been around for a while now, and I am still waiting to see anything beyond the Gee-Whiz level of cool or useful. You can only make so many money clips, pencil holders, and miniature busts before it becomes clear it is just a toy. Industrial ones that can print in metal are a different story, but the crappy plastic extruders are never going to take over the world or replace China's factories.
In watching "Air Disasters" and in seeing post mortems of many accidents and near accidents, I have a hard time seeing that any solution will be better than what we have today.
In some cases weather radar is deceptive, with so much of a crap storm reflecting radar that you can't see the even bigger crap storm behind it and end up steering into an even worse storm than you think you are escapsing.
Sometimes you lose all hydraulics and have to feather the throttle to steer the plane.
Sometimes ducks destroy the engines and you have to land in the Hudson.
Sometimes you spend too much time fiddling with the autopilot that you respond badly when the sensors ice up or get jammed with a mud spider nest that you ride a stall all the way to the ground. I see bad sensor readings being a case where either an autopilot or a remote co-pilot will have even worse odds than what we have today.
It all boils down to us having an amazingly safe system today, and being careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
People have been warning about the ever increasing number of laws for decades, and yes we long ago passed the threshold you fear. We simply live with more laws than we can comprehend, and many are paid no heed. Sadly though we are all likely guilty of multiple offenses on a daily basis, so be careful what you say or the system might decide it is worth the bother to look a few up and prosecute you.
Most two driver households have at least 2 cars already. Often folks have one commuter sedan econo car, and one family sized minvan or SUV. Electrics fit nicely into the commuter niche as they are today, and if the 200 mile ones come out as promised they will make good cars for all but road trips. The charging standards need to catch up to where Tesla already is before they will be viable road trip cars for most.
We have 2 gassers and a used Nissan Leaf. It is a great commuter car, and we take the other sedan gasser for weekend tripps mor than 60 miles round trip, and the truck for hauling crap or for family camping trips. The Leaf is our favorite to drive and easily is accounting for 2/3 of the miles our household drives, while the truck dropped from 50% to about 5%.
As the previous poster noted, they are great COMMUTER cars, so unless you get a Tesla or like extra adventure the 75-100 mile ones common today are not great choices for your ONLY car. Still, most folks only need over 75 miles a day maybe a half dozen times a year and could still be ahead by renting for those occasions. Similarly an SUV is a poor choice for your only car more times than not, and people just live with the extra rollover risk and poor fuel economy to be covered just in case they have to go offroading in LA some day.
So does this mean that as an anti-theist I can refuse service to those who practice religion?
As a Pastafarian can I refuse to serve noodles to those not wearing a colander?
As a Dude-ist can I refuse service to those that don't abide?
Seriously, I am curious to know how much these wingnuts have thought about the possibility that non-Christians might use this crap against them. Imagine the uproar is a Halal butcher turned away some Catholics, or a Jewish deli turned away some Baptists on religious grounds. Faux News would have an outrage-gasm.
1. libertarians are not anarchists and do not believe in 'no government.' 2. expecting the government to operate within budget like everyone else is not anarchy....
1. Libertarians want minimal government, but not one that collects taxes, just one with enough army to enforce all the contracts they want the world to run on. And they want that army to be paid for by someone else, not them. I am pretty sure they miss company towns and want to bring back that model to the whole country, but with th emight of the US military to back it up and give it legitimacy this time around.
2. They expect the government to operate within a budget, but they want that budget to be $0. The whole notion they have is to "starve the beast", to set the budget low enough that the government is bound to be both badly run, and to badly overrun their budget by design. In so doing they can show the A) government doesn't work, and B) government doesn't stay within its budget so that they can be justified in destroying departments or installing their cronies using an invented crisis to further erode it from the inside.
Take Social Security for example. Rather than do something minimal like removing the income cap for taxation, or raising the tax by 2% to cover the long term demographic driven shortfall, they want to burn the whole thing down. We would be better off lower the retirement age than raising it, but the debate has already been pulled so far to the right you can't even talk about improving social security, you can only argue about how big the cuts *MUST* be to save the program.
I heard a lot of Libertarian ranting from my grandfather who spent much of his life in the John Birch society, and spent most of his later years running a small group trying to get income taxes repealed. So yeah, I have heard a lot of the crazy behind Libertarian ideas. It is a fantasyland for the most part. It has gotten recent attention thanks to our two major parties screwing up so bad that folks are ready to vote for the "anything else" option more so than ever before.
Plenty of HP/Agilent/Keysight folks will happily get in front of the camera to tell war stories about how effective she was at steering a very good and well loved company into the rocks. It broke into pieces that still limp on with the scars and damage that her bad management caused. The country is littered with old HP campuses that have been abandoned after off shoring and consolidation, in large part due to activities on her watch.
Her appeal to the right is how effective she was at dehumanizing a culture that used to place great value on its people into 3 pieces that now tout "shareholder value" above valuing its people. Sadly the pieces are pretty un-special at even shareholder value these days. Bill and Dave have to be doing about 3600 rpm in their graves.
My guess is that mostly it would serve as a coercive device against any disgruntled employee who sues them. Bring a suit, and they will pull this agreement out to immediately put almost any plaintiff on the defensive.
I have been designing GaAs MMIC's and RFIC's for 14 years, and none of them were on a silicon wafer. GaAs makes a nearly lossless substrate that makes microwave circuits much better than if they were over a conductive silicon wafer.
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Make it easy for me to specify I am looking for technical information, or looking to buy something, or what have you. All too often I am trying to do a search for technical information, but if that acronym has also been used by Beiber lately I am SOL. I would love it is I could weed out the pop culture hits when I wanted to omit them.
Similarly I would like a search engine that I could easily specify if I also want hits for related words, or just EXACT match, and whether to ignore capitalization or not. It is maddening when an acronym also happens to be a common word and I get flooded with useless crap.
If the car yanks control out of my hands because it thinks I am about to do something dangerous, who is liable for the results? We've had this discussion for fully automated systems, but it will get more awkward as we start to have a nanny looking over our shoulder second guessing our every move.
It is the latest round of "The door is ajar" warning crap. If I get beeped at every time I look left at whatever bombshell is in the convertible next to me I might end up knocked unconscious by my wife.
Putting a bajillion flashing and buzzing widgets into a car to make it safer will do the opposite. I recently spent a few days driving my old truck to burn off old gas, since it gets used very little. I was pleasantly surprised how much easier it is to concentrate on the road without an infotainment system flashing maps, and efficiency info at me.
If we honestly think that driving is dangerous enough to take action on it, I would argue that we should spend the energy making better drivers rather than trying to wrap layers of technology around crappy drivers.
Please show me at least one example of a society at any time in history that survived for any length of time without some form of taxation. I think you will have to go back to just about the hunter-gatherer days to find an example. You can leave the country and revoke your citizenship if you want (Yes, we should make this easier to do), but in the mean time I suggest you propose a viable alternative before going all anarchist on us.
The pacific northwest is beholdent to a few large companies that use their importance to exert some scary influence on the politics. When these issues come up Microsoft has threatened to move overseas, or to other states. The voters and state/local government falls in line. Same with Boeing, which has moved a lot out of Washington even after getting just about special treatment they could ask for.
Down here in Orygun, Intel and Nike do the same thing. Nike's headquarters is surrounded by Beaverton, but is not part of it because they they have made huge threats to leave if the city tries to annex it into the city, which would result in higher property taxes to help pay for the city services they already benefit from. Intel got a very sweet package during their recent expansion. It is a massive race to the bottom to get and keep these big employers. It is sickening. The rest of us in the area get to pay higher taxes to make up the shortfall, and we have the threat hanging over us that they can crash the local economy and housing prices with it if they make good on their threats.
"Washington would still get the lion's share of Microsoft-based taxes since the lion's share of employees live there, and are well-paid."
What a crock of crap.
My tax responsibility is mine, not my employers. Employers cannot skip out on their taxes just because they have employees who don't have that kind of opportunity. I don't get to argue my way out of responsibility for taxes just because my checker at the grocery store has to pay her taxes. We are all in this together, it is not fair for big enough employers to threaten to leave if they don't get special tax treatment. It is anti-competitive to say the least when the Microsoft's, Intel's, and Nike's get special breaks while the rest of us living in the area have to make up for this tax welfare they get. F' them.
No representation without taxation. Stop letting these moocher companies lobby if they don't pay their share.
Same here. I am happy to pay my taxes, especially if it keeps the schools funded and keeps old folks out of the gutter. I am sick and tired of way too much of my taxes going to the military industrial complex while the rich multinational oil company's whose interests are served by such mis-adventures sit back and dodge their civic duty to pay their fare share like me.
Please increase my tax rate and properly fund our schools. I am tired of all the badly educated dumbasses, and it horrifies me to see kids only 10 years behind me have to rack up much more debt than I did to go to even a low end college.
There are maybe 2-3 times a year I would actually use an autonomous car per year if it was perfect and free (big if's). Basically just on long full day road trips. The other 99% of the time driving is no burden, or would be less of a burden than having to sit in the car bashing in an address and other vital details into the infernal thing before getting out of the driveway.
How many folks actually have a sigh of relief when their spouse offers to drive? Very few I suspect, as this is a problem that mostly does not need to be solved. I mostly don't even use the navigation system in my car now.
Heck, the navigation system should be a huge warning sign of what these cars could be like. The interface (Nissan) is lousy, map updates are way overpriced (and still outdated), and they want a subscription if you want traffic information. The car has a 2G modem for its connection to Galactic Central that will be no longer be serviced by AT&T in a year and a half. An autonomous car would similarly fall victim to being orphaned after a few years due to either hardware or software, and would almost certainly require some sort of data plan fee to stay up to date. Cars should last at least 20 years, and frankly car companies don't have a clue how to design and maintain critical life supporting software for that type of lifespan across.
Autonomous driving should concentrate on trucking, and maybe taxi type services. The rush for sticking it in general passenger cars is either stupid, or a Trojan horse for some other motivation.
Great, you can scan something and then print it in crappy plastic. Big whoop.
Seriously, 3D printing has been around for a while now, and I am still waiting to see anything beyond the Gee-Whiz level of cool or useful. You can only make so many money clips, pencil holders, and miniature busts before it becomes clear it is just a toy. Industrial ones that can print in metal are a different story, but the crappy plastic extruders are never going to take over the world or replace China's factories.
In watching "Air Disasters" and in seeing post mortems of many accidents and near accidents, I have a hard time seeing that any solution will be better than what we have today.
In some cases weather radar is deceptive, with so much of a crap storm reflecting radar that you can't see the even bigger crap storm behind it and end up steering into an even worse storm than you think you are escapsing.
Sometimes you lose all hydraulics and have to feather the throttle to steer the plane.
Sometimes ducks destroy the engines and you have to land in the Hudson.
Sometimes you spend too much time fiddling with the autopilot that you respond badly when the sensors ice up or get jammed with a mud spider nest that you ride a stall all the way to the ground. I see bad sensor readings being a case where either an autopilot or a remote co-pilot will have even worse odds than what we have today.
It all boils down to us having an amazingly safe system today, and being careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
People have been warning about the ever increasing number of laws for decades, and yes we long ago passed the threshold you fear. We simply live with more laws than we can comprehend, and many are paid no heed. Sadly though we are all likely guilty of multiple offenses on a daily basis, so be careful what you say or the system might decide it is worth the bother to look a few up and prosecute you.
Yes, we have numeruous examples of light rail trains that have been very safely operating for decades.
Pretty rich for an Irish company to be criticizing a state in the USA.
Most two driver households have at least 2 cars already. Often folks have one commuter sedan econo car, and one family sized minvan or SUV. Electrics fit nicely into the commuter niche as they are today, and if the 200 mile ones come out as promised they will make good cars for all but road trips. The charging standards need to catch up to where Tesla already is before they will be viable road trip cars for most.
Have you met many Americans?!
We have 2 gassers and a used Nissan Leaf. It is a great commuter car, and we take the other sedan gasser for weekend tripps mor than 60 miles round trip, and the truck for hauling crap or for family camping trips. The Leaf is our favorite to drive and easily is accounting for 2/3 of the miles our household drives, while the truck dropped from 50% to about 5%.
As the previous poster noted, they are great COMMUTER cars, so unless you get a Tesla or like extra adventure the 75-100 mile ones common today are not great choices for your ONLY car. Still, most folks only need over 75 miles a day maybe a half dozen times a year and could still be ahead by renting for those occasions. Similarly an SUV is a poor choice for your only car more times than not, and people just live with the extra rollover risk and poor fuel economy to be covered just in case they have to go offroading in LA some day.
Yes, but they thought they had bought their quota of senators and should not have to answer to the little people anymore.
Awesome technology searching for a need. If not having to drive was such a big deal, but driving time was not then you would see much more carpooling.
Could a German deli put up a "No Jews Served Here" sign and it be all Kosher?
You mean like Comcast in many areas?
So does this mean that as an anti-theist I can refuse service to those who practice religion?
As a Pastafarian can I refuse to serve noodles to those not wearing a colander?
As a Dude-ist can I refuse service to those that don't abide?
Seriously, I am curious to know how much these wingnuts have thought about the possibility that non-Christians might use this crap against them. Imagine the uproar is a Halal butcher turned away some Catholics, or a Jewish deli turned away some Baptists on religious grounds. Faux News would have an outrage-gasm.
1. libertarians are not anarchists and do not believe in 'no government.' ...
2. expecting the government to operate within budget like everyone else is not anarchy.
1. Libertarians want minimal government, but not one that collects taxes, just one with enough army to enforce all the contracts they want the world to run on. And they want that army to be paid for by someone else, not them. I am pretty sure they miss company towns and want to bring back that model to the whole country, but with th emight of the US military to back it up and give it legitimacy this time around.
2. They expect the government to operate within a budget, but they want that budget to be $0. The whole notion they have is to "starve the beast", to set the budget low enough that the government is bound to be both badly run, and to badly overrun their budget by design. In so doing they can show the A) government doesn't work, and B) government doesn't stay within its budget so that they can be justified in destroying departments or installing their cronies using an invented crisis to further erode it from the inside.
Take Social Security for example. Rather than do something minimal like removing the income cap for taxation, or raising the tax by 2% to cover the long term demographic driven shortfall, they want to burn the whole thing down. We would be better off lower the retirement age than raising it, but the debate has already been pulled so far to the right you can't even talk about improving social security, you can only argue about how big the cuts *MUST* be to save the program.
I heard a lot of Libertarian ranting from my grandfather who spent much of his life in the John Birch society, and spent most of his later years running a small group trying to get income taxes repealed. So yeah, I have heard a lot of the crazy behind Libertarian ideas. It is a fantasyland for the most part. It has gotten recent attention thanks to our two major parties screwing up so bad that folks are ready to vote for the "anything else" option more so than ever before.
Plenty of HP/Agilent/Keysight folks will happily get in front of the camera to tell war stories about how effective she was at steering a very good and well loved company into the rocks. It broke into pieces that still limp on with the scars and damage that her bad management caused. The country is littered with old HP campuses that have been abandoned after off shoring and consolidation, in large part due to activities on her watch.
Her appeal to the right is how effective she was at dehumanizing a culture that used to place great value on its people into 3 pieces that now tout "shareholder value" above valuing its people. Sadly the pieces are pretty un-special at even shareholder value these days. Bill and Dave have to be doing about 3600 rpm in their graves.
My guess is that mostly it would serve as a coercive device against any disgruntled employee who sues them. Bring a suit, and they will pull this agreement out to immediately put almost any plaintiff on the defensive.
I have been designing GaAs MMIC's and RFIC's for 14 years, and none of them were on a silicon wafer. GaAs makes a nearly lossless substrate that makes microwave circuits much better than if they were over a conductive silicon wafer.