Robot may or may not be better, but to say humans are the worst drivers imaginable is a hyperbole. I suppose you let your dog drive because it is safer.
the population of the US is 318 million (I assume that 30,000 is in the US), that is 0.009% of people die, sure it could better. 13,322 people die from falls, given that walking is so much slower are we even worse at walking.
To me it is not apparent that less people will die, if robots drive, you need actual evidence and testing, not wild statements about how bad people are.driving you need use actual facts.
If I died every time my computer had a blue screen I would be dead a long time ago.
`In that case now we know all this. We shouldn't have an obesity epidemic right? We know much more about calorie intake and expenditure than we knew 100 years ago. We are all the right weight right?
The fact is that you can force the yourself to loose weight this way, but doing it permanently is extremely hard, your metabolism adapts and slows down to compensate, you cannot do exercise, or maintain a diet you don't like for the rest of your life. We naturally try to conserve energy.
We have been counting calories for at least 30 years now. What we have been doing is clearly not working for the vast majority of people, it is time we took a look at it and found a better way. My personal belief (although not scientifically proven) is we should be designing walk -able communities, that exercise is just a part of life. And making healthy food more convenient and satisfying. A salad may even be tasty but not after eating did I think I was full.
Of course there will be access, it may not be complete and at the same level as it was but it will still be there. And it will allow the UK to form agreements with other countries. There are plenty of countries that are not part of the EU that do perfectly well.
As for leverage that is historical, 1/6 1/2 of trade the UK can go other places once it is free the EU bureaucracy the EU cannot, it is still bound by the same rules. There are plenty of countries that are eager to enter into trade agreements with the UK.
Life will go on, Europe does not fear the UK failing, it fears that it will succeed, that would mean that other countries may also leave the EU as well, once the unfounded fear is gone.
Agreed I don't find pictures of a child going potty, sexual, and hopefully the vast majority rest of society doesn't either.
Also why do you assume its the Dad, my wife used to take photos of my children doing things naked. I didn't like it. Mainly because people like you that somehow think a nude child is somehow sexual, and because I thought it maybe embarrassing for them later. But I understood I was being a bit over the top.
I have a problem getting my children to keep their cloths on, I am working on making them ashamed of their body though.
I do, unless they where sexualized then they are there photos (In that case they should be arrested either way), the probably should not post them if their daughter does not like them, but it should not be a matter for the legal system, the family should sort it out between themselves.
By extension all photos your parents take should not be published until the child is old enough to give legal consent, who should have the right to decide on any image shouldn't you?
From a legal standpoint they where the legal guardians at the time and had the right to give consent and copyright to themselves or anyone the chose.
Once again making someone slightly uncomfortable, merits legal action.
as long as you don't install anything on your phone the issue is not that the retailer get access is that apps may get access to your financial details
retailer don't need to get card details with chip and pin either.
It is much simpler to secure an interface that does to challenge response (ok I don't believe chip and pin do this yet) when I do a physical action, than an internet capable general purpose computer that you install arbitrary software on.
Firstly not all countries have capital gains tax on shares, and even in the US I believe it is less so if a company makes a untaxed profit and simply reinvest that money (no dividends), increasing the value of your shares, you as an investor don't have to pay as much or any tax on that. If you make enough like that it is probably worth making your income in a country with not capital gains tax at all.
That is fine, as long as work is not allowed to contact me for any reason on my phone, even informing me of an issue will mean I will start thinking about it. If I am not allowed to use company time for personal reason, the company should not be able to use my time for commercial reasons.
Smart phones (over and above a non-smart cellphones), are mainly for entertainment purposes. Even the possibly useful features like email, and checking your bank account are time wasters, if people get a instant response they generally just write more, it is generally more efficient just call someone if you want to talk to them than email them wait for a response, then email them again..... Also with email the vast majority is just irrelevant and the time spend reading it vastly out ways the occasional benefit. With banking on your phone do you really need up to the minute information, or will checking once a week/month from home do? Yeah it maybe that you can give your friend some cash right then, but really you could just carry a bit of spare cash for when that rare event occurs. Does counting your steps really motivate you to exercise more, or is it just one bit of extra irrelevant data, unless you are a competitive athlete.
Its like having a TV with you everywhere, TV waste time and now you can carry that TV everywhere you go.
You are assuming productive things happen in meetings, this is generally the opposite in my experience. Maybe that is why people a 26% more productive, all the meetings they miss. Apart from that you don't need a smart phone to have reminder, my feature phone has a calendar feature.
The porn industry isn't dead, dying or anywhere close, the staggering there is array of porn available, possibly too much.
The problem is that these people see is that they can't make millions selling porn, well boo hoo. Your in business deal with the environment your are in, or fail.
This industry is an example of how piracy although prevalent has not stopped a wide variety of content being produced.
The only way you can prevent fraud is allow people to check what they voted for is what they voted for. If you write down your vote on a piece of paper you know what you have written doesn't get changed behind your back, you can't do that with electronic voting.
If you allow people to check then you can always force them to check who they voted for in front of you. Maybe you have multiple passwords, each resulting in a different checked result, only the person knows which one is correct. However in this scenario if someone lies and says an election is fraudulent how would you prove it.
That being the case, I am not sure how completely anonymous paper voting will be in the future with facial recognition, and reading ticks, what is stopping someone putting a small camera watching you vote.
Let me see? Space is quite big, unimaginably big in fact, and it is very likely there will be insane amounts resources out there on mostly dead planets, with no ecological harm done to anyone. Not to mention we can only examine a insignificant fraction of it in any detail, i.e. not through inferring information from specs of electromagnetic radiation.
Yes we are a long way from exploring even our solar system in any great detail or harvesting any resources, however if we do not make a start, because we keep saying whats the immediate payback? We will never get there. We also are currently benefiting space technology such as communications, GPS, and the government being able to better spy on us, oops the last one might not be a benefit.
As for people suffering, yes there are, but it isn't through lack of resources, it is through our greed, fear and hate. In the US 40% of food produced is waste. Obesity is a problem. Obesity kills 3 times as many people as malnutrition worldwide, (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9742960/Obesity-killing-three-times-as-many-as-malnutrition.html), OK the malnourished are probably more likely to young children, but still we clearly have enough resources. There are 7 billion people in the world, if a few thousand concentrate on building rockets, it is not going stop the rest of us coming up with a solution. In order to fix suffering we need social/political solution not a scientific one.
Why should we all starve if we can produce goods and services (this includes food) without the need to employ people. If we need more people to produce that food then they won't be unemployed will they? If we don't and there is enough food, and other resources why should anybody starve? The only thing that needs to change is the way we distribute the needed goods and services in the first place. It seems like a minor problem compared with actually producing the goods and services in the first place.
Have you actually read any of these terms and condition most of them that they can be changed, even mortgage agreement that effect the biggest asset that most people have, have such clauses.
Part of contract law states you must have a "meeting of minds", how can this be the case if it contains a clause saying on party can change the conditions at their will. And it is not Ok to say well you can just stop using the service if you don't like it. You have invest time and effort in that product, you will not be compensated for transferring to another one.
Clauses that cannot be enforced should be illegal, and punishable by law. They serve give the impression that you have less rights than you have. Most people are not lawyers, so even if they read the agreement it cannot reasonably be assumed they know which clause are not applicable. It is not reasonable that consumers seek legal advice before purchasing a DVD or a video game.
I know you can put anything you like on a ballot, I want those options printed on the form so everyone knows that they are options, and have meaning, not just invalid vote throw it in away. At the very least it would be interesting to see what the percentage was.
mandatory voting is OK as long as long as the following options are available: 1. None of the above you are all bunch of self serving morons. 2. How the hell should I know? I haven't got enough information to make an informed decision, so you want me to vote to introduce random noise in the vote to distill the vote of people who actually care. Go major parties.
People seem to have so many problems with other people in theaters, I only go rarely but nobody has ever bothered me significantly there. Does anybody else not mind having other people around them doing what I consider minor stuff, or is it just me.
That will always be the case crimes go unsolved, it is about having a balance between personal rights and solving crimes. Imagine how much easier if there was a video camera everywhere. Rape would no longer be a matter of who you believe, we would have video evidence of the incident. But we need to balance privacy with catching every offender.
law enforcement officials did not need an encryption "backdoor," sidestepping a concern of computer-security experts and device makers alike. Instead, Vance said, he only wanted the encryption standards rolled back to the point where the companies themselves can decrypt devices
Making encryption standards so weak so that the company/person writing the software, can bypass them, is the very definition of a back door.
I haven't used windows 10 yet, but from the moment I installed windows 8 it felt like I was looking at a store front, starting with making it difficult not create a Microsoft account. Having to go to a shop to install an upgrade.
I want my computer to belong to me and not a vehicle for a company to advertise to me or my children. The mac is better they have a store but it isn't so in your face.
Although I am not arguing if autopilot is safer or not, I just don't know.
A lot fewer people own cars that are capable of autopilot and even those who own a car with that capability probably don't drive all the time relying expressly against manufactures instruction.
In order to have a fair comparison you need to know how many accidents under similar driving conditions, and how far each has type has driven without that information 1 maybe a lot of maybe just a few.
There are 255.8 million cars in the US. Tesla I believe has sold about 70,000 world wide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors). Even assuming every one of those is autopilot capable, and the owners use it exclusively, and every one was sold in the US multiplying it by the number to even out ownership rates for that 1 fatality you would get 3654 fatalities.
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Robot may or may not be better, but to say humans are the worst drivers imaginable is a hyperbole. I suppose you let your dog drive because it is safer.
the population of the US is 318 million (I assume that 30,000 is in the US), that is 0.009% of people die, sure it could better. 13,322 people die from falls, given that walking is so much slower are we even worse at walking.
To me it is not apparent that less people will die, if robots drive, you need actual evidence and testing, not wild statements about how bad people are.driving you need use actual facts.
If I died every time my computer had a blue screen I would be dead a long time ago.
`In that case now we know all this. We shouldn't have an obesity epidemic right? We know much more about calorie intake and expenditure than we knew 100 years ago. We are all the right weight right?
The fact is that you can force the yourself to loose weight this way, but doing it permanently is extremely hard, your metabolism adapts and slows down to compensate, you cannot do exercise, or maintain a diet you don't like for the rest of your life. We naturally try to conserve energy.
We have been counting calories for at least 30 years now. What we have been doing is clearly not working for the vast majority of people, it is time we took a look at it and found a better way. My personal belief (although not scientifically proven) is we should be designing walk -able communities, that exercise is just a part of life. And making healthy food more convenient and satisfying. A salad may even be tasty but not after eating did I think I was full.
Of course there will be access, it may not be complete and at the same level as it was but it will still be there. And it will allow the UK to form agreements with other countries. There are plenty of countries that are not part of the EU that do perfectly well.
As for leverage that is historical, 1/6 1/2 of trade the UK can go other places once it is free the EU bureaucracy the EU cannot, it is still bound by the same rules. There are plenty of countries that are eager to enter into trade agreements with the UK.
Life will go on, Europe does not fear the UK failing, it fears that it will succeed, that would mean that other countries may also leave the EU as well, once the unfounded fear is gone.
Or it is people harassing her because they can get a reaction, the appropriate response is so what there are nude baby photos out there.
Agreed I don't find pictures of a child going potty, sexual, and hopefully the vast majority rest of society doesn't either.
Also why do you assume its the Dad, my wife used to take photos of my children doing things naked. I didn't like it. Mainly because people like you that somehow think a nude child is somehow sexual, and because I thought it maybe embarrassing for them later. But I understood I was being a bit over the top.
I have a problem getting my children to keep their cloths on, I am working on making them ashamed of their body though.
I do, unless they where sexualized then they are there photos (In that case they should be arrested either way), the probably should not post them if their daughter does not like them, but it should not be a matter for the legal system, the family should sort it out between themselves.
By extension all photos your parents take should not be published until the child is old enough to give legal consent, who should have the right to decide on any image shouldn't you?
From a legal standpoint they where the legal guardians at the time and had the right to give consent and copyright to themselves or anyone the chose.
Once again making someone slightly uncomfortable, merits legal action.
as long as you don't install anything on your phone the issue is not that the retailer get access is that apps may get access to your financial details
retailer don't need to get card details with chip and pin either.
It is much simpler to secure an interface that does to challenge response (ok I don't believe chip and pin do this yet) when I do a physical action, than an internet capable general purpose computer that you install arbitrary software on.
Firstly not all countries have capital gains tax on shares, and even in the US I believe it is less so if a company makes a untaxed profit and simply reinvest that money (no dividends), increasing the value of your shares, you as an investor don't have to pay as much or any tax on that. If you make enough like that it is probably worth making your income in a country with not capital gains tax at all.
That is fine, as long as work is not allowed to contact me for any reason on my phone, even informing me of an issue will mean I will start thinking about it. If I am not allowed to use company time for personal reason, the company should not be able to use my time for commercial reasons.
Smart phones (over and above a non-smart cellphones), are mainly for entertainment purposes. Even the possibly useful features like email, and checking your bank account are time wasters, if people get a instant response they generally just write more, it is generally more efficient just call someone if you want to talk to them than email them wait for a response, then email them again ..... Also with email the vast majority is just irrelevant and the time spend reading it vastly out ways the occasional benefit. With banking on your phone do you really need up to the minute information, or will checking once a week/month from home do? Yeah it maybe that you can give your friend some cash right then, but really you could just carry a bit of spare cash for when that rare event occurs. Does counting your steps really motivate you to exercise more, or is it just one bit of extra irrelevant data, unless you are a competitive athlete.
Its like having a TV with you everywhere, TV waste time and now you can carry that TV everywhere you go.
You are assuming productive things happen in meetings, this is generally the opposite in my experience. Maybe that is why people a 26% more productive, all the meetings they miss. Apart from that you don't need a smart phone to have reminder, my feature phone has a calendar feature.
The porn industry isn't dead, dying or anywhere close, the staggering there is array of porn available, possibly too much.
The problem is that these people see is that they can't make millions selling porn, well boo hoo. Your in business deal with the environment your are in, or fail.
This industry is an example of how piracy although prevalent has not stopped a wide variety of content being produced.
The only way you can prevent fraud is allow people to check what they voted for is what they voted for. If you write down your vote on a piece of paper you know what you have written doesn't get changed behind your back, you can't do that with electronic voting.
If you allow people to check then you can always force them to check who they voted for in front of you. Maybe you have multiple passwords, each resulting in a different checked result, only the person knows which one is correct. However in this scenario if someone lies and says an election is fraudulent how would you prove it.
That being the case, I am not sure how completely anonymous paper voting will be in the future with facial recognition, and reading ticks, what is stopping someone putting a small camera watching you vote.
Let me see? Space is quite big, unimaginably big in fact, and it is very likely there will be insane amounts resources out there on mostly dead planets, with no ecological harm done to anyone. Not to mention we can only examine a insignificant fraction of it in any detail, i.e. not through inferring information from specs of electromagnetic radiation.
Yes we are a long way from exploring even our solar system in any great detail or harvesting any resources, however if we do not make a start, because we keep saying whats the immediate payback? We will never get there. We also are currently benefiting space technology such as communications, GPS, and the government being able to better spy on us, oops the last one might not be a benefit.
As for people suffering, yes there are, but it isn't through lack of resources, it is through our greed, fear and hate. In the US 40% of food produced is waste. Obesity is a problem. Obesity kills 3 times as many people as malnutrition worldwide, (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9742960/Obesity-killing-three-times-as-many-as-malnutrition.html), OK the malnourished are probably more likely to young children, but still we clearly have enough resources. There are 7 billion people in the world, if a few thousand concentrate on building rockets, it is not going stop the rest of us coming up with a solution. In order to fix suffering we need social/political solution not a scientific one.
Why should we all starve if we can produce goods and services (this includes food) without the need to employ people. If we need more people to produce that food then they won't be unemployed will they? If we don't and there is enough food, and other resources why should anybody starve? The only thing that needs to change is the way we distribute the needed goods and services in the first place. It seems like a minor problem compared with actually producing the goods and services in the first place.
Have you actually read any of these terms and condition most of them that they can be changed, even mortgage agreement that effect the biggest asset that most people have, have such clauses.
Part of contract law states you must have a "meeting of minds", how can this be the case if it contains a clause saying on party can change the conditions at their will. And it is not Ok to say well you can just stop using the service if you don't like it. You have invest time and effort in that product, you will not be compensated for transferring to another one.
Clauses that cannot be enforced should be illegal, and punishable by law. They serve give the impression that you have less rights than you have. Most people are not lawyers, so even if they read the agreement it cannot reasonably be assumed they know which clause are not applicable. It is not reasonable that consumers seek legal advice before purchasing a DVD or a video game.
I know you can put anything you like on a ballot, I want those options printed on the form so everyone knows that they are options, and have meaning, not just invalid vote throw it in away. At the very least it would be interesting to see what the percentage was.
Here is a question what if you submit a mainly blank census? you have submitted it and it contains no false information.
mandatory voting is OK as long as long as the following options are available:
1. None of the above you are all bunch of self serving morons.
2. How the hell should I know? I haven't got enough information to make an informed decision, so you want me to vote to introduce random noise in the vote to distill the vote of people who actually care. Go major parties.
People seem to have so many problems with other people in theaters, I only go rarely but nobody has ever bothered me significantly there. Does anybody else not mind having other people around them doing what I consider minor stuff, or is it just me.
thousands of crimes remained unsolved
That will always be the case crimes go unsolved, it is about having a balance between personal rights and solving crimes. Imagine how much easier if there was a video camera everywhere. Rape would no longer be a matter of who you believe, we would have video evidence of the incident. But we need to balance privacy with catching every offender.
The whole thing is an oxymoron
law enforcement officials did not need an encryption "backdoor," sidestepping a concern of computer-security experts and device makers alike. Instead, Vance said, he only wanted the encryption standards rolled back to the point where the companies themselves can decrypt devices
Making encryption standards so weak so that the company/person writing the software, can bypass them, is the very definition of a back door.
I haven't used windows 10 yet, but from the moment I installed windows 8 it felt like I was looking at a store front, starting with making it difficult not create a Microsoft account. Having to go to a shop to install an upgrade.
I want my computer to belong to me and not a vehicle for a company to advertise to me or my children. The mac is better they have a store but it isn't so in your face.
If the employee is so angry or annoyed that they are willing to leave without notice, it is probably best that they are just allowed to leave.
Do you really want a disgruntled employee, serving your customers, maintaining your IT system, managing your finances, ... for two weeks?
It maybe in the contract but it makes no sense to force someone to stay unless they are very closely supervised.
Although I am not arguing if autopilot is safer or not, I just don't know.
A lot fewer people own cars that are capable of autopilot and even those who own a car with that capability probably don't drive all the time relying expressly against manufactures instruction.
In order to have a fair comparison you need to know how many accidents under similar driving conditions, and how far each has type has driven without that information 1 maybe a lot of maybe just a few.
There are 255.8 million cars in the US. Tesla I believe has sold about 70,000 world wide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors). Even assuming every one of those is autopilot capable, and the owners use it exclusively, and every one was sold in the US multiplying it by the number to even out ownership rates for that 1 fatality you would get 3654 fatalities.