The root of the problem, in my opinion, is that Man makes God in his own image, which is something that really gets some people all riled up when I say it in their earshot. Religious types, whether they realize it or not, whether they want to admit it or not, anthropomorphize their Diety. Then, to make matters worse, other humans go and write a book (or books, as the case may be), ostensibly the Word of God, which just reinforces the whole thing.
I wish more people would live-and-let-live today. So much culture seems to be based on denying others their own choices in how to live their lives when those choices are not victimizing anyone else.
I've often wondered how it would change day-to-day life for us humans here on Earth if we had a power source (like fusion, or antimatter, or {fill in the blank} ) that was cheap and ubiquitos enough that you could just let everyone have it for free, and Federation-style replicators that could feed and clothe you for next to nothing (or for free); basically, as you say, all the basics covered, for everyone. I think that might solve a huge chunk of humanitys' problems. Don't know if you've noticed it, but it's almost too easy for people to be nice, polite, and forgiving during times of plenty for all, and as I'm wont to say, when times are hard you find out what people are really like. But unfortunately humanitys' problems go beyond just resources. Look at what's going on in the Middle East: you have groups that are killing other groups because they don't believe in the same God the exact same way that they do, and this God, apparently, takes such offense at this that He demands these heretics be slaughtered. One might say that so-called Christian religions are better than that, but historically that's not true either. So then my great fear would be that in a world where resources are no longer a problem at all for anyone, that the power-hungry and the fanatics would still beat those freely available ploughshares into swords anyway, and go kill their neighbors regardless. In the end what I think is that humans still need more time to evolve out of the need for such 'beliefs' that drive them to go kill people for those sorts of reasons; my opinion is that we, as a race, still act more like animals than we act like highly-evolved, sentient beings, and that we're at a dangerous point in our evolution, where we have the capability to extinguish ourselves many times over.
I'd be tempted to say that 'binary choices' are just the way the majority of people think, with the two choices being polar opposites of each other or very close to being such. Of course I'm basing this on my experiences over, say, the last 10 years or so having discussions with people over the Internet, and not in face-to-face conversation, so that might not be an accurate representation of 'most people'.
Actually, wasn't there at least one study done lately that shows that issuing computers to students hasn't improved their grades significantly enough to justify the expense, regardless of who manufactured the hardware? And that they're just screwing around on them instead of doing actual schoolwork anyway? If I'm correct then the 'real thieves' would be anyone who advocated buying any laptops for students in the first place. Also, virtual modding you down by one for using this as a vehicle for your personal agenda.
There's a cynical, snarky, conspiracy-theory-esque part of me that wants to say, "This is propaganda from the authorities, indoctrinating the general public that law enforcement is infallable, nigh-unto omniscent and omnipotent, so you'd better never consider breaking any law for any reason because you'll always get caught", but the truth of the matter is, the average crook really isn't that smart in the first place, otherwise they'd probably apply themselves to legitimate enterprises to make money instead of turning to crime. Obvious poor planning and a lack of foresight and imagination is what brought this little heist down in the end, not any top-notch police work. I think the average slashdotter could have planned and executed it better.
Leaving politics up to politicians has created most of the messes we've all got to deal with now. It's like allowing marketing people to make engineering decisions: coming to a bad end is inevitable. Also, I'm not 'hectoring' anyone, I actually understand where that fellow is coming from and made a suggestion to give him some relief. However we do have a responsibility, unfortunately, to clean up the messes that politicians have made because we were actually stupid enough to trust them in the first place. It all starts with discussion.
Look up 'pedantic' in a dictionary, buddy, I'm pretty sure they've put your picture there as an example of what 'pedantic' looks like. While you're at it look up 'argumentative', and 'obnoxious', I'm sure those definitions will sound real familiar to you. Do you live with someone? I know it's probably a long shot that you might, but if you do, you might want to have someone read your posts before you hit the 'submit' button, to help prevent you from being 'pedantic', 'argumentative', and 'obnoxious'.
Further replies from you will be ignored. Save yourself the time and don't bother; I am done with you.
I'm not advocating socialism or communism, mind you, and I agree that capitalism, at least here in the United States, is running out of control at the moment. If I had all the answers I'd be running for public office myself, not just being a nigh-unto anonymous commenter on an obscure Internet website. Part of the problem is the world is effectively significantly smaller than it was even, say, 50 years ago, because fast tranport to the other side of the planet is relatively cheap, and even more so, instantaneous communications to pretty much anywhere on the planet costs almost nothing and is available to pretty much everyone. Like it or not, we've become a global community, with all the problems that brings with it.
Sadly short-sightedness on everyone's part is what's going to turn the Earth into an approximation of what Venus looks like right now: a searing black calm, devoid of life.
There, is that better? Please, don't be pedantic. Nit-picking choice of single words is precisely that; the meaning being conveyed is what counts, k?
Ever notice how small children, playing with their toys, are just very simply happy, without a care in the world? That's because they're small children, living in their child-sized world, with mom and dad taking care of all the big, grown-up things and decisions for them. That's what you sound like: You want to go back to being a child, and just playing with your toys, and leaving all the big grown-up stuff to someone else to worry about. Honestly I don't blame you; I do things to escape being an adult when I can, for the sake of my sanity. Adults are boring! Being an adult is tedious! But the fact remains that we are adults now, and turning a blind eye to what's going on around us is a disservice to ourselves and to everyone else as well. I'm sorry that the toybox that was Slashdot has been taken away and replaced by an office desk, but it is what it is. I suggest you start reading science fiction and fantasy novels, if you aren't already, so that your inner child can still have playtime. It's what I've done for decades now, right before I go to sleep at night, and for what it's worth I think it works rather well.
'Appropriately regulating businesses' is a concept diametrically opposed to the way capitalism works, though, and the organism of the genus capitalism, like any life-form, will fight tooth and nail to it's dying breath trying to preserve itself -- and it doesn't care how much collateral damage it causes in the process. We'd have to do away with capitalism entirely. But doing that starts people pointing fingers and yelling 'socialism!' or 'communism!', which while they're not terrible concepts on paper, they, like most all things involving humans, overlooks a fundamental fact: Humans can't be trusted with the sort of power that leading a socialist or communist society gives them; power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We need to evolve further as a race before many of the problems we have as a race will be solved. I fear that won't happen before it's too late, though.
"You're right, doc, I really need to lose weight", someone will say. "I'll start on that tomorrow." Then they never do. It's called 'paying lip service' to something, and that's what most nations are doing. It's like they need glasses, or the prescription on their current glasses updated: They can't see past the end of their own noses. Something that's going to happen 100 years or more from now? Nah, that's too far off to worry about, after all they'll be out of office by then and likely dead, so why should they care? To be fair, while that's the way the average person also thinks, the average person (representing 99% of the population, mind you) really is rather busy making sure they have a roof over their heads, clothes on their backs, and enough food to eat, and all this high-concept science stuff is way over their heads, and why again should they care about what's happening halfway around the planet? Sadly short-sightedness on everyone's part is what's going to turn the Earth into a clone of what Venus looks like right now: a searing black calm, devoid of life.
I don't know what the hell to do about this any more than I have a solution for, say, the problem that the homeless represent here in the United States. What I do know is that the solutions to these problems has to come from the top, down, to start with, not from the bottom, up, but getting the people at the 'top' to give a damn enough to actually do something about it, while also getting people on down from there to go along with it, is tougher than herding caffeine-enhanced ferrets.
Hello newfriend, you seem to have lost your way on the Internets, here, let me help direct you back to where you belong: http://www.4chan.org/b/
..oh, and if 'sticking to your guns' (as my father used to say, meaning 'sticking up for what you believe') is now considered 'being a troll', then I guess I'm guilty as charged. I ain't no sellout, I ain't no hoe; I think what I think, and anyone who doesn't like that can get fucked.
Perhaps it's repetitive, boring, and/or dangerous when YOU are doing it?:-) Some people actually enjoy driving themselves. If you don't then that's fine, but don't think that your opinion should be forced on everyone else. By all means, don't drive if you don't want to, take a bus, or a cab, or have someone else drive you, or just stay home, or whatever you decide to do. But I talk to plenty of people, and they all prefer to drive themselves, and give you a funny look when you describe some people's dream of a 'self-driving car' that has no controls a human can use to drive manually; they think it's an insane idea, just like I do and will continue to do, and I'm far from alone in the world with this opinion -- and it's not an 'old people' idea, either, so get that notion out of your head, too. I get accused of being a troll all the time for daring to voice my opinions strongly, when ironically enough, on this subject, it's all the 'self-driving autonomous car' advocates that sound like trolls to me: A box on wheels controlled by a computer, and you have NO way to manually control it yourself? LOL, that's a trollercoaster in the making! It's also pure fiction, no government is going to be so stupid as to allow such a thing, at least not anytime in this century. So I suggest all you driving-hating people just suck it up and accept that most people prefer to drive themselves, manually-driven cars will not be the majority anytime soon, and if you hate it so much then please do find alternative transportation for yourselves, there's no worse safety hazard I can imagine than someone who is unwillingly engaging in operating a motor vehicle, or worse, is scared constantly while they're doing it. Enjoy the fact that so-called 'autonomous vehicle' technology will more likely manifest itself as features that prevent you from causing an accident; I know I will.
..and to reiterate: For the forseeable future, all vehicles will be required to have a full set of manual controls available to the human operator at all times that completely overrides any 'automated' system, and that all vehicle operators will continue to be required to be educated, trained, tested, licensed, and insured, in order to operate a motor vehicle, regardless of any 'automated' features. I and others of a like mind will ensure such with letters written, meetings attended, votes cast, and whatever else might be necessary to ensure it, because in the end a human being must always be the final fail-safe in place to override and take control from any automatic system, especially when other human lives are at stake. To design a vehicle or transportation system any other way is completely irresponsible and utterly negligent. So get over it.
Technology is supposed to help people, not replace people. Technology in your car that helps you be a better driver is a good thing. I have been, and will remain of the opinion that attempting to replace human drivers, literally preventing them from actually operating the vehicle, is a bad thing. What Toyota is aiming for, if implemented well, will be a good thing.
Hi ChrisQ, You know your comeback is pretty weak and pathetic, right? Why not just admit that you're mad that you've been called out for your small-minded, hateful ways and move on? Most Islamic peoples are like most other people in the world in at least one respect: they just want to live their lives. They don't want to dictate to everyone else how they live, and they just want to be left alone. It's the extremists that ruin thing for everyone else, Islamic or otherwise. And guess what? YOU are an extremist, YOU are ruining things for everyone else. Get correct, son, the world is too small a place anymore for people like you to be allowed anymore, we don't need you and your bullshit. Seriously, you're not any different fundamentally from those 'islamic state' assholes that are running around cutting off people's heads and blowing up archaeolgical sites; the only real difference between them and you, is you haven't worked yourself up to the point of actually hurting anyone yet (or at least I hope not).
I'm not going to speak for anyone else, but personally I find your 'God' of blood, vengeance, and death, to be significantly less than warm-and-fuzzy, so I think I'll just stick to atheism, OK?
You are all Sexconker. Sexconker say Mooo. MOOO! MOOOO! MOOOO Sexconker MOOOOO! MOOOO says the Sexconker. YOU Sexconker!!
...and by the way: What the actual fuck is a 'sexconker' anyway? Does this mean you conk them on the head before you fuck them? You're always on about cows; do you conk cows on the head and then fuck them?
For your consideration: "ChrisQ". Just an idiot racist with an inane first post, but next time it could be much more explosive verbal diarrhea. Retroactive birth control, anyone?
Now, back on topic.. Remember, kids, don't hate your lawmakers when they take away consumer access to your toy drones, hate the idiots who can't play with them responsibly.
I'm willing to bet that you're one of the really shitty drivers that causes accidents all the time because you're the type that complains about other drivers more than anyone else. Meanwhile while I've been in a few minor accidents over the course of driving for the last 35 years I'm not the one who is screaming to 'ban human drivers', which of course is utter and complete nonsense, will never work, will never happen, because I know the 'bad drivers' are a small majority and most people behave themselves on the roads just fine, and that shit happens and getting all spastic over that fact just shows how immature someone really is.
There will never be driverless cars. There will never be cars with no manual controls. Untrained, unlicensed people will never be allowed to be the sole occupant of any so-called 'autonomous car', ever. You're all living in a childish fantasy world in your heads, and it will never be. Get over it and grow up already.
Are you the same people that keep voting for more and more restrictions on everyones freedoms in the name of 'security'? I wouldn't at all be surprised if you are.
'Progress', huh? How is taking people's choices away from them progress? How is expecting people to get into a box on wheels that they have NO direct control over other than a voice interface and maybe a red 'Emergency Stop' button (all of which may not do anything at all in a real emergency where the entire system is malfunctioning) 'progress'? Sounds like being sent to a living Hell to me. I don't care how many times I get moderated down to -1, I am not going to change my opinion: There will never be 'autonomous cars' that have NO manual controls because it is inherently unsafe. Likewise there will never be unlicensed sole occupants of said 'autonomous cars' because it would be inherently unsafe. The whole goal of this 'autonomous car' nonsense is, ostensibly, to make transportation safer for everyone, and not having a trained, tested, licensed human being available to be the last failsafe backup system to guide the vehicle in an emergency is an inherently unsafe way to design a vehicle, and so far as I'm concerned anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot and I don't give a damn what anyone thinks of that.
Get over it, Nancy. ALL cars will ALWAYS be REQUIRED to have a FULL SET of MANUAL controls that can override ANY autonomous system at ANY time, and ALL drivers will ALWAYS be required to be educated, trained, licensed, insured, and IN CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE at all times, because when human lives are at stake, human being MUST be the FINAL 'backup system' for ANY automated system. To do things any other way is madness.
Also you're a lying sack of shit, probably just another troll trolling talentlessly, and couldn't find SF on a map if your life depended on it. Wouldn't at all be surprised if you have to ask you mom to drive if you need to get somewhere.
And how exactly are they going to enforce such a law? Any method manufacturers use to lock out 3rd party firmware can and will be circumvented. They're wasting time and taxpayer money on nonsense like this.
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The root of the problem, in my opinion, is that Man makes God in his own image, which is something that really gets some people all riled up when I say it in their earshot. Religious types, whether they realize it or not, whether they want to admit it or not, anthropomorphize their Diety. Then, to make matters worse, other humans go and write a book (or books, as the case may be), ostensibly the Word of God, which just reinforces the whole thing.
I wish more people would live-and-let-live today. So much culture seems to be based on denying others their own choices in how to live their lives when those choices are not victimizing anyone else.
I've often wondered how it would change day-to-day life for us humans here on Earth if we had a power source (like fusion, or antimatter, or {fill in the blank} ) that was cheap and ubiquitos enough that you could just let everyone have it for free, and Federation-style replicators that could feed and clothe you for next to nothing (or for free); basically, as you say, all the basics covered, for everyone. I think that might solve a huge chunk of humanitys' problems. Don't know if you've noticed it, but it's almost too easy for people to be nice, polite, and forgiving during times of plenty for all, and as I'm wont to say, when times are hard you find out what people are really like. But unfortunately humanitys' problems go beyond just resources. Look at what's going on in the Middle East: you have groups that are killing other groups because they don't believe in the same God the exact same way that they do, and this God, apparently, takes such offense at this that He demands these heretics be slaughtered. One might say that so-called Christian religions are better than that, but historically that's not true either. So then my great fear would be that in a world where resources are no longer a problem at all for anyone, that the power-hungry and the fanatics would still beat those freely available ploughshares into swords anyway, and go kill their neighbors regardless. In the end what I think is that humans still need more time to evolve out of the need for such 'beliefs' that drive them to go kill people for those sorts of reasons; my opinion is that we, as a race, still act more like animals than we act like highly-evolved, sentient beings, and that we're at a dangerous point in our evolution, where we have the capability to extinguish ourselves many times over.
I'd be tempted to say that 'binary choices' are just the way the majority of people think, with the two choices being polar opposites of each other or very close to being such. Of course I'm basing this on my experiences over, say, the last 10 years or so having discussions with people over the Internet, and not in face-to-face conversation, so that might not be an accurate representation of 'most people'.
Actually, wasn't there at least one study done lately that shows that issuing computers to students hasn't improved their grades significantly enough to justify the expense, regardless of who manufactured the hardware? And that they're just screwing around on them instead of doing actual schoolwork anyway? If I'm correct then the 'real thieves' would be anyone who advocated buying any laptops for students in the first place. Also, virtual modding you down by one for using this as a vehicle for your personal agenda.
There's a cynical, snarky, conspiracy-theory-esque part of me that wants to say, "This is propaganda from the authorities, indoctrinating the general public that law enforcement is infallable, nigh-unto omniscent and omnipotent, so you'd better never consider breaking any law for any reason because you'll always get caught", but the truth of the matter is, the average crook really isn't that smart in the first place, otherwise they'd probably apply themselves to legitimate enterprises to make money instead of turning to crime. Obvious poor planning and a lack of foresight and imagination is what brought this little heist down in the end, not any top-notch police work. I think the average slashdotter could have planned and executed it better.
Leaving politics up to politicians has created most of the messes we've all got to deal with now. It's like allowing marketing people to make engineering decisions: coming to a bad end is inevitable. Also, I'm not 'hectoring' anyone, I actually understand where that fellow is coming from and made a suggestion to give him some relief. However we do have a responsibility, unfortunately, to clean up the messes that politicians have made because we were actually stupid enough to trust them in the first place. It all starts with discussion.
Look up 'pedantic' in a dictionary, buddy, I'm pretty sure they've put your picture there as an example of what 'pedantic' looks like. While you're at it look up 'argumentative', and 'obnoxious', I'm sure those definitions will sound real familiar to you. Do you live with someone? I know it's probably a long shot that you might, but if you do, you might want to have someone read your posts before you hit the 'submit' button, to help prevent you from being 'pedantic', 'argumentative', and 'obnoxious'.
Further replies from you will be ignored. Save yourself the time and don't bother; I am done with you.
I'm not advocating socialism or communism, mind you, and I agree that capitalism, at least here in the United States, is running out of control at the moment. If I had all the answers I'd be running for public office myself, not just being a nigh-unto anonymous commenter on an obscure Internet website. Part of the problem is the world is effectively significantly smaller than it was even, say, 50 years ago, because fast tranport to the other side of the planet is relatively cheap, and even more so, instantaneous communications to pretty much anywhere on the planet costs almost nothing and is available to pretty much everyone. Like it or not, we've become a global community, with all the problems that brings with it.
Sadly short-sightedness on everyone's part is what's going to turn the Earth into an approximation of what Venus looks like right now: a searing black calm, devoid of life.
There, is that better? Please, don't be pedantic. Nit-picking choice of single words is precisely that; the meaning being conveyed is what counts, k?
Ever notice how small children, playing with their toys, are just very simply happy, without a care in the world? That's because they're small children, living in their child-sized world, with mom and dad taking care of all the big, grown-up things and decisions for them. That's what you sound like: You want to go back to being a child, and just playing with your toys, and leaving all the big grown-up stuff to someone else to worry about. Honestly I don't blame you; I do things to escape being an adult when I can, for the sake of my sanity. Adults are boring! Being an adult is tedious! But the fact remains that we are adults now, and turning a blind eye to what's going on around us is a disservice to ourselves and to everyone else as well. I'm sorry that the toybox that was Slashdot has been taken away and replaced by an office desk, but it is what it is. I suggest you start reading science fiction and fantasy novels, if you aren't already, so that your inner child can still have playtime. It's what I've done for decades now, right before I go to sleep at night, and for what it's worth I think it works rather well.
'Appropriately regulating businesses' is a concept diametrically opposed to the way capitalism works, though, and the organism of the genus capitalism, like any life-form, will fight tooth and nail to it's dying breath trying to preserve itself -- and it doesn't care how much collateral damage it causes in the process. We'd have to do away with capitalism entirely. But doing that starts people pointing fingers and yelling 'socialism!' or 'communism!', which while they're not terrible concepts on paper, they, like most all things involving humans, overlooks a fundamental fact: Humans can't be trusted with the sort of power that leading a socialist or communist society gives them; power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We need to evolve further as a race before many of the problems we have as a race will be solved. I fear that won't happen before it's too late, though.
"You're right, doc, I really need to lose weight", someone will say. "I'll start on that tomorrow." Then they never do. It's called 'paying lip service' to something, and that's what most nations are doing. It's like they need glasses, or the prescription on their current glasses updated: They can't see past the end of their own noses. Something that's going to happen 100 years or more from now? Nah, that's too far off to worry about, after all they'll be out of office by then and likely dead, so why should they care? To be fair, while that's the way the average person also thinks, the average person (representing 99% of the population, mind you) really is rather busy making sure they have a roof over their heads, clothes on their backs, and enough food to eat, and all this high-concept science stuff is way over their heads, and why again should they care about what's happening halfway around the planet? Sadly short-sightedness on everyone's part is what's going to turn the Earth into a clone of what Venus looks like right now: a searing black calm, devoid of life.
I don't know what the hell to do about this any more than I have a solution for, say, the problem that the homeless represent here in the United States. What I do know is that the solutions to these problems has to come from the top, down, to start with, not from the bottom, up, but getting the people at the 'top' to give a damn enough to actually do something about it, while also getting people on down from there to go along with it, is tougher than herding caffeine-enhanced ferrets.
Hello newfriend, you seem to have lost your way on the Internets, here, let me help direct you back to where you belong: http://www.4chan.org/b/
..oh, and if 'sticking to your guns' (as my father used to say, meaning 'sticking up for what you believe') is now considered 'being a troll', then I guess I'm guilty as charged. I ain't no sellout, I ain't no hoe; I think what I think, and anyone who doesn't like that can get fucked.
Perhaps it's repetitive, boring, and/or dangerous when YOU are doing it? :-) Some people actually enjoy driving themselves. If you don't then that's fine, but don't think that your opinion should be forced on everyone else. By all means, don't drive if you don't want to, take a bus, or a cab, or have someone else drive you, or just stay home, or whatever you decide to do. But I talk to plenty of people, and they all prefer to drive themselves, and give you a funny look when you describe some people's dream of a 'self-driving car' that has no controls a human can use to drive manually; they think it's an insane idea, just like I do and will continue to do, and I'm far from alone in the world with this opinion -- and it's not an 'old people' idea, either, so get that notion out of your head, too. I get accused of being a troll all the time for daring to voice my opinions strongly, when ironically enough, on this subject, it's all the 'self-driving autonomous car' advocates that sound like trolls to me: A box on wheels controlled by a computer, and you have NO way to manually control it yourself? LOL, that's a trollercoaster in the making! It's also pure fiction, no government is going to be so stupid as to allow such a thing, at least not anytime in this century. So I suggest all you driving-hating people just suck it up and accept that most people prefer to drive themselves, manually-driven cars will not be the majority anytime soon, and if you hate it so much then please do find alternative transportation for yourselves, there's no worse safety hazard I can imagine than someone who is unwillingly engaging in operating a motor vehicle, or worse, is scared constantly while they're doing it. Enjoy the fact that so-called 'autonomous vehicle' technology will more likely manifest itself as features that prevent you from causing an accident; I know I will.
..and to reiterate: For the forseeable future, all vehicles will be required to have a full set of manual controls available to the human operator at all times that completely overrides any 'automated' system, and that all vehicle operators will continue to be required to be educated, trained, tested, licensed, and insured, in order to operate a motor vehicle, regardless of any 'automated' features. I and others of a like mind will ensure such with letters written, meetings attended, votes cast, and whatever else might be necessary to ensure it, because in the end a human being must always be the final fail-safe in place to override and take control from any automatic system, especially when other human lives are at stake. To design a vehicle or transportation system any other way is completely irresponsible and utterly negligent. So get over it.
Actually since we're talking about vehicles this is more appropriate: http://vignette2.wikia.nocooki...
Technology is supposed to help people, not replace people. Technology in your car that helps you be a better driver is a good thing. I have been, and will remain of the opinion that attempting to replace human drivers, literally preventing them from actually operating the vehicle, is a bad thing. What Toyota is aiming for, if implemented well, will be a good thing.
Hi ChrisQ,
You know your comeback is pretty weak and pathetic, right? Why not just admit that you're mad that you've been called out for your small-minded, hateful ways and move on?
Most Islamic peoples are like most other people in the world in at least one respect: they just want to live their lives. They don't want to dictate to everyone else how they live, and they just want to be left alone. It's the extremists that ruin thing for everyone else, Islamic or otherwise. And guess what? YOU are an extremist, YOU are ruining things for everyone else. Get correct, son, the world is too small a place anymore for people like you to be allowed anymore, we don't need you and your bullshit. Seriously, you're not any different fundamentally from those 'islamic state' assholes that are running around cutting off people's heads and blowing up archaeolgical sites; the only real difference between them and you, is you haven't worked yourself up to the point of actually hurting anyone yet (or at least I hope not).
I'm not going to speak for anyone else, but personally I find your 'God' of blood, vengeance, and death, to be significantly less than warm-and-fuzzy, so I think I'll just stick to atheism, OK?
You are all Sexconker. Sexconker say Mooo. MOOO! MOOOO! MOOOO Sexconker MOOOOO! MOOOO says the Sexconker. YOU Sexconker!!
...and by the way: What the actual fuck is a 'sexconker' anyway? Does this mean you conk them on the head before you fuck them? You're always on about cows; do you conk cows on the head and then fuck them?
CONK! COOOONK! CONK you sexconker, COOOOONK!!1!
For your consideration: "ChrisQ". Just an idiot racist with an inane first post, but next time it could be much more explosive verbal diarrhea. Retroactive birth control, anyone?
Now, back on topic..
Remember, kids, don't hate your lawmakers when they take away consumer access to your toy drones, hate the idiots who can't play with them responsibly.
I'm willing to bet that you're one of the really shitty drivers that causes accidents all the time because you're the type that complains about other drivers more than anyone else. Meanwhile while I've been in a few minor accidents over the course of driving for the last 35 years I'm not the one who is screaming to 'ban human drivers', which of course is utter and complete nonsense, will never work, will never happen, because I know the 'bad drivers' are a small majority and most people behave themselves on the roads just fine, and that shit happens and getting all spastic over that fact just shows how immature someone really is.
There will never be driverless cars. There will never be cars with no manual controls. Untrained, unlicensed people will never be allowed to be the sole occupant of any so-called 'autonomous car', ever. You're all living in a childish fantasy world in your heads, and it will never be. Get over it and grow up already.
Are you the same people that keep voting for more and more restrictions on everyones freedoms in the name of 'security'? I wouldn't at all be surprised if you are.
'Progress', huh? How is taking people's choices away from them progress? How is expecting people to get into a box on wheels that they have NO direct control over other than a voice interface and maybe a red 'Emergency Stop' button (all of which may not do anything at all in a real emergency where the entire system is malfunctioning) 'progress'? Sounds like being sent to a living Hell to me. I don't care how many times I get moderated down to -1, I am not going to change my opinion: There will never be 'autonomous cars' that have NO manual controls because it is inherently unsafe. Likewise there will never be unlicensed sole occupants of said 'autonomous cars' because it would be inherently unsafe. The whole goal of this 'autonomous car' nonsense is, ostensibly, to make transportation safer for everyone, and not having a trained, tested, licensed human being available to be the last failsafe backup system to guide the vehicle in an emergency is an inherently unsafe way to design a vehicle, and so far as I'm concerned anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot and I don't give a damn what anyone thinks of that.
Get over it, Nancy. ALL cars will ALWAYS be REQUIRED to have a FULL SET of MANUAL controls that can override ANY autonomous system at ANY time, and ALL drivers will ALWAYS be required to be educated, trained, licensed, insured, and IN CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE at all times, because when human lives are at stake, human being MUST be the FINAL 'backup system' for ANY automated system. To do things any other way is madness.
Also you're a lying sack of shit, probably just another troll trolling talentlessly, and couldn't find SF on a map if your life depended on it. Wouldn't at all be surprised if you have to ask you mom to drive if you need to get somewhere.
Taking away people's choices is never a popular idea which is why there will always be human drivers.
And how exactly are they going to enforce such a law? Any method manufacturers use to lock out 3rd party firmware can and will be circumvented. They're wasting time and taxpayer money on nonsense like this.