Because American urban and suburban populations are too spread out for efficient use of mass transportation. I live about 45 minutes from the closest station for my city's rail system, and then probably another 45 minutes ride on the train to the stop closest to my work plus another 15 to 20 minutes to wait for the bus that runs from the stop to my work. Or, i can drive myself and be there in 45-60 minutes. There are many more people like me that would benefit from autonomous cars then there are people who would benefit from increased rail service.
My vote is for "Sin-jin". Which happens to sound suspiciously like another company which has famously failed 3 times now, killing a lot of people and causing millions of dollars of damage in the process.
Mankind spread on this planet like a virus (well, loosely quoted from the matrix). An higher level intelligence might simulate something like us to see how long it takes for us to break out from our planet or from our solar system, and how 'damaging' our infection on other planets would be.
That was kind of my point: if you are doing simulations like that you would probably change certain variables to model different outcomes.
^Minor fact check, seems like the item about hull damage from being hit by a champagne bottle might be a hoax. Near as I could tell it originally came from a parody news site ( https://www.duffelblog.com/ )
Fair enough, I picked that as an example for dramatic effect, but the LCS vessels have been notorious for hull issues and damage.
How about we just stop with all the "war on X"s? When you are constantly on a war footing training takes a backseat and duty patterns change, leading to fatigue. In the Navy's case ships are kept out of port for much longer than they should, meaning many repairs are done underway which leads to a further reduction of training time and off duty time for the sailors. Stop wasting money on massively overbudget projects like the DDX/Zumwalt program (only 3 ships produced for a cost of almost $4 billion per ship) or the LCSs which are under-gunned, have engine issues, and have hulls so poorly made that one got cracked from a champagne bottle at the christening. $12 billion just from the DDX program would have gone a long way towards refitting ships and training current/more crews for said ships. And let's not even get started on the F-35 program.....
It does at least narrow the pro-simulation argument.
If it is a simulation it is either intentionally different from the "host" reality, or imperfect.
Out of curiosity, why would a civilization sufficiently advanced enough to create a perfect simulation create one that is precisely like their own reality? What would they be hoping to solve or discover? If it is a Matrix-esque (minus the born into slavery for energy harvesting) alternate reality designed to escape from a virtually destroyed planet/society, etc, then they would necessarily want it to be different from their own. Maybe it's a calculation of how different factors can affect evolution of beings/society/etc, in which case again they would want it to be different.
Guns are not a silly hobby, they are an enshrined RIGHT. You are asking for something the government does not have the power to do.
I see plenty of people cheering Trump on for trying to curb the enshrined right of freedom of speech of NFL players protesting. They seem to forget that symbolic speech is protected by the 1st Amendment. And while the government doesn't have the power to completely remove these rights, they do have the power to put reasonable checks on the exercise of those rights (it's ok to protest, but don't block streets; felons can't own firearms; automatic weapons should be heavily regulated, etc). Mandatory initial and annually recurring training (firearm safety, laws, and basic marksmanship) is an obvious control that should be put on firearms and, while it wouldn't stop incidents like this one in Vegas, would certainly reduce the number of accidental gun deaths every year.
Did you miss the 3rd sentence of my post where I said I'm a gun owner?
You didn't tell the truth about Trump's "silence" on this issue. It's not even light out this morning and he already made a statement. Why should we believe anything else you have to say?
Also, the dead aren't even cold yet and all you can think about is some political calculation? Show some humanity.
Did you read my post at all? I specifically mentioned he sent out a few condolence tweets, but they were nothing like what he has traditionally sent out during attacks in Europe. Hell, he hasn't even called the shooter a "loser" yet! That's his favorite insult for terrorists.
If he takes steps to prevent acts like this he angers his base (even though we sorely need some practical gun control),
what gun control that you are advocating for would have stopped this particular incident? The guy had a machine gun. Machine guns are banned i.e. illegal. We don't know where the gun was obtained and in this case it doesn't matter because the machine gun in and of itself was illegal. It is not legal to transfer a machine gun anywhere, gun show or not. Obviously this guy does not obey gun laws. I honestly would like to hear your suggestion on what "practical" gun control would have stopped this situation.
Also.. Trump is fucking moron.
It wouldn't stop this one. There are plenty of cases (Norway, Australia, etc) that show that even very strong gun control, even to the point of an almost complete ban cannot prevent attacks. But just because no solution is 100% effective, it does not mean the only option is the status quo. Mandatory training classes (focusing on firearm safety, laws, and basic marksmanship) for firearm ownership is a logical first step. And, while it's not directly related to gun control, improvements in the mental health system in our country would go a long way as well, as most mass shooters in the US tend to have psychological issues that have been unaddressed, or at least inadequately addressed. The problem is the NRA and others have equated any form of checks on gun ownership as the first step to completely ban guns which, given the amount of guns already in circulation in the US, is an incredibly unlikely scenario. But it gets them more money from membership dues and gets more donations for affiliated politicians and PACs.
They support gun control because gun owners are the other -- people not like them.
Did you miss the 3rd sentence of my post where I said I'm a gun owner? I'm just not a card carrying member of the NRA, "they gunna take our gunz!" crowd.
The weapon was fully automatic, which is very tightly regulated. It is likely the shooter either modified a weapon illegally or obtained one on the black market. That is no normal "assault rifle".
You can buy a fully automatic weapon for the price of a less than mid-level new car, perfectly legally. You only have to get certain licenses and stamps and follow certain regulations related to storage, but really anyone can get if you can find one. Hell, I know one person that has one and I know of at least one local gun range that allows you to rent one (it's a ripoff though, an MP5 but you can only use their pre-loaded magazines that they charge $50 each for). The recent legalization of silencers is kind of concerning as well. I'm surprised someone hasn't used any of those in a mass shooting yet-a couple silenced pistols in a loud venue means you can shoot for a lot longer before people notice what's going on.
Yes we do. 64 years old, lived in Mesquite, no currently known political affiliation despite what some AC trolls on here are saying. Over 400 sent to hospitals, roughly 10 firearms found in his hotel room, apparently killed himself before police arrived.
Why not? If you are spraying a crowd of 30,000 people at a concert with an automatic weapon (and listening to the video that's been released, he is using a fully automatic firearm of some type) from the 32nd floor of a hotel, how is that anything but terrorism?
No, this is not terrorism (yet). There is no ideological or political separation for discriminating between the victims and the perpetrator(s). If the shooter has left some manifesto or similar behind it may be classified as an act of terrorism later, but nothing of that sort has as of yet been discovered.
Why would you call this terrorism? Why is it relevant?
If Trump can call anything terrorism without waiting for any facts showing it to be so, why can't we? Because the perpetrator is white? As a white gun owner myself (also a freely admitted anti-Trumper since the birther days), Trump's (relative) silence on this attack speaks volumes. He's sent out what, 2-3 condolence tweets? No stream of tweets decrying terror and how we have to act now, how great the first responders are, etc.
This attack can cause big trouble for Trump. If he takes steps to prevent acts like this he angers his base (even though we sorely need some practical gun control), if he does nothing then he shows the rest of the country and the world he cares only about his base, in which case his ability to govern and compromise, already damaged, ends up beyond repair. Best case for Trump at this point is the shooter turns out to be a registered Democrat, in which case the right-wing media plays up their favorite talking point of how Democrats have been violent since Lincoln was assassinated, conveniently forgetting the ideological shift in the mid 20th Century.
This is bullshit. A driver never gets to decide the price.
A driver, no. But drivers, yes. Remember the story about Uber drivers colluding to all go offline at the same time to show a shortage of drivers thereby triggering surge pricing?
They are both political parties, but they also have militant wings. No different than Sinn Fein was with the IRA, or the Madhi Army during the Iraq war.
Eyes must be open and looking directly at the phone. With the sensor array, I bet you could also check to see if someone is prying your eyes open with their finger... or it's different enough with hands overlaid for the face recognition not to match.
So during the questioning by police, they simply hold up the phone to you and ask you if it is your phone. You look up to see, and it unlocks.
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Because American urban and suburban populations are too spread out for efficient use of mass transportation. I live about 45 minutes from the closest station for my city's rail system, and then probably another 45 minutes ride on the train to the stop closest to my work plus another 15 to 20 minutes to wait for the bus that runs from the stop to my work. Or, i can drive myself and be there in 45-60 minutes. There are many more people like me that would benefit from autonomous cars then there are people who would benefit from increased rail service.
How the fuck is "Cyngn" pronounced?
My vote is for "Sin-jin". Which happens to sound suspiciously like another company which has famously failed 3 times now, killing a lot of people and causing millions of dollars of damage in the process.
So the summary basically boils down to Japan is dammed if they do, damned if they don't.
Right, the system shouldn't know, that's why this is a bug.
When creating a new volume, [the Disk Utility GUI] apparently puts the password into the password hints field.
A hint needs to be plaintext to read it later, the error was the utility saving the *password*, not the *hint*, in the hint field.
Maybe they just wanted to be really sure the user got the hint?
Mankind spread on this planet like a virus (well, loosely quoted from the matrix). An higher level intelligence might simulate something like us to see how long it takes for us to break out from our planet or from our solar system, and how 'damaging' our infection on other planets would be.
That was kind of my point: if you are doing simulations like that you would probably change certain variables to model different outcomes.
^Minor fact check, seems like the item about hull damage from being hit by a champagne bottle might be a hoax. Near as I could tell it originally came from a parody news site ( https://www.duffelblog.com/ )
Fair enough, I picked that as an example for dramatic effect, but the LCS vessels have been notorious for hull issues and damage.
How about we just stop with all the "war on X"s? When you are constantly on a war footing training takes a backseat and duty patterns change, leading to fatigue. In the Navy's case ships are kept out of port for much longer than they should, meaning many repairs are done underway which leads to a further reduction of training time and off duty time for the sailors. Stop wasting money on massively overbudget projects like the DDX/Zumwalt program (only 3 ships produced for a cost of almost $4 billion per ship) or the LCSs which are under-gunned, have engine issues, and have hulls so poorly made that one got cracked from a champagne bottle at the christening. $12 billion just from the DDX program would have gone a long way towards refitting ships and training current/more crews for said ships. And let's not even get started on the F-35 program.....
It does at least narrow the pro-simulation argument. If it is a simulation it is either intentionally different from the "host" reality, or imperfect.
Out of curiosity, why would a civilization sufficiently advanced enough to create a perfect simulation create one that is precisely like their own reality? What would they be hoping to solve or discover? If it is a Matrix-esque (minus the born into slavery for energy harvesting) alternate reality designed to escape from a virtually destroyed planet/society, etc, then they would necessarily want it to be different from their own. Maybe it's a calculation of how different factors can affect evolution of beings/society/etc, in which case again they would want it to be different.
Guns are not a silly hobby, they are an enshrined RIGHT. You are asking for something the government does not have the power to do.
I see plenty of people cheering Trump on for trying to curb the enshrined right of freedom of speech of NFL players protesting. They seem to forget that symbolic speech is protected by the 1st Amendment. And while the government doesn't have the power to completely remove these rights, they do have the power to put reasonable checks on the exercise of those rights (it's ok to protest, but don't block streets; felons can't own firearms; automatic weapons should be heavily regulated, etc). Mandatory initial and annually recurring training (firearm safety, laws, and basic marksmanship) is an obvious control that should be put on firearms and, while it wouldn't stop incidents like this one in Vegas, would certainly reduce the number of accidental gun deaths every year.
Did you miss the 3rd sentence of my post where I said I'm a gun owner?
You didn't tell the truth about Trump's "silence" on this issue. It's not even light out this morning and he already made a statement. Why should we believe anything else you have to say?
Also, the dead aren't even cold yet and all you can think about is some political calculation? Show some humanity.
Did you read my post at all? I specifically mentioned he sent out a few condolence tweets, but they were nothing like what he has traditionally sent out during attacks in Europe. Hell, he hasn't even called the shooter a "loser" yet! That's his favorite insult for terrorists.
If he takes steps to prevent acts like this he angers his base (even though we sorely need some practical gun control),
what gun control that you are advocating for would have stopped this particular incident? The guy had a machine gun. Machine guns are banned i.e. illegal. We don't know where the gun was obtained and in this case it doesn't matter because the machine gun in and of itself was illegal. It is not legal to transfer a machine gun anywhere, gun show or not. Obviously this guy does not obey gun laws. I honestly would like to hear your suggestion on what "practical" gun control would have stopped this situation.
Also.. Trump is fucking moron.
It wouldn't stop this one. There are plenty of cases (Norway, Australia, etc) that show that even very strong gun control, even to the point of an almost complete ban cannot prevent attacks. But just because no solution is 100% effective, it does not mean the only option is the status quo. Mandatory training classes (focusing on firearm safety, laws, and basic marksmanship) for firearm ownership is a logical first step. And, while it's not directly related to gun control, improvements in the mental health system in our country would go a long way as well, as most mass shooters in the US tend to have psychological issues that have been unaddressed, or at least inadequately addressed. The problem is the NRA and others have equated any form of checks on gun ownership as the first step to completely ban guns which, given the amount of guns already in circulation in the US, is an incredibly unlikely scenario. But it gets them more money from membership dues and gets more donations for affiliated politicians and PACs.
They support gun control because gun owners are the other -- people not like them.
Did you miss the 3rd sentence of my post where I said I'm a gun owner? I'm just not a card carrying member of the NRA, "they gunna take our gunz!" crowd.
The weapon was fully automatic, which is very tightly regulated. It is likely the shooter either modified a weapon illegally or obtained one on the black market. That is no normal "assault rifle".
You can buy a fully automatic weapon for the price of a less than mid-level new car, perfectly legally. You only have to get certain licenses and stamps and follow certain regulations related to storage, but really anyone can get if you can find one. Hell, I know one person that has one and I know of at least one local gun range that allows you to rent one (it's a ripoff though, an MP5 but you can only use their pre-loaded magazines that they charge $50 each for). The recent legalization of silencers is kind of concerning as well. I'm surprised someone hasn't used any of those in a mass shooting yet-a couple silenced pistols in a loud venue means you can shoot for a lot longer before people notice what's going on.
We don't know yet.
Yes we do. 64 years old, lived in Mesquite, no currently known political affiliation despite what some AC trolls on here are saying. Over 400 sent to hospitals, roughly 10 firearms found in his hotel room, apparently killed himself before police arrived.
Nobody's calling this terrorism dipshit.
Why not? If you are spraying a crowd of 30,000 people at a concert with an automatic weapon (and listening to the video that's been released, he is using a fully automatic firearm of some type) from the 32nd floor of a hotel, how is that anything but terrorism?
No, this is not terrorism (yet). There is no ideological or political separation for discriminating between the victims and the perpetrator(s). If the shooter has left some manifesto or similar behind it may be classified as an act of terrorism later, but nothing of that sort has as of yet been discovered.
Why would you call this terrorism? Why is it relevant?
If Trump can call anything terrorism without waiting for any facts showing it to be so, why can't we? Because the perpetrator is white? As a white gun owner myself (also a freely admitted anti-Trumper since the birther days), Trump's (relative) silence on this attack speaks volumes. He's sent out what, 2-3 condolence tweets? No stream of tweets decrying terror and how we have to act now, how great the first responders are, etc.
This attack can cause big trouble for Trump. If he takes steps to prevent acts like this he angers his base (even though we sorely need some practical gun control), if he does nothing then he shows the rest of the country and the world he cares only about his base, in which case his ability to govern and compromise, already damaged, ends up beyond repair. Best case for Trump at this point is the shooter turns out to be a registered Democrat, in which case the right-wing media plays up their favorite talking point of how Democrats have been violent since Lincoln was assassinated, conveniently forgetting the ideological shift in the mid 20th Century.
Don't they still publish Mein Kamph, but with notations arguing against Hitler's ideology? Or was that something they were just talking about doing?
Square pigs are better anyway.
This is bullshit. A driver never gets to decide the price.
A driver, no. But drivers, yes. Remember the story about Uber drivers colluding to all go offline at the same time to show a shortage of drivers thereby triggering surge pricing?
They are both political parties, but they also have militant wings. No different than Sinn Fein was with the IRA, or the Madhi Army during the Iraq war.
Ah, yes. Otherwise known as credibilitygate
Do you REALLY know Jesus or did he just touch you on the shoulder once?
Largest-scale practical joke?
Only because their first attempt with the brown note episode in season 3 didn't work.
Eyes must be open and looking directly at the phone. With the sensor array, I bet you could also check to see if someone is prying your eyes open with their finger... or it's different enough with hands overlaid for the face recognition not to match.
So during the questioning by police, they simply hold up the phone to you and ask you if it is your phone. You look up to see, and it unlocks.
How about McDowell's? Free sample size of Soul-Glo with every combo purchase!