Google is not government and may censor whatever it wishes on its property.
Google takes money from the government, making it quasi-governmental.
Aside from that, the websites they crawl actually aren't on Google's property...
The publicly-funded internet being in control of private companies, who can determine what speech is and is not acceptable on the public internet is a bit of a Hobson's choice, wouldn't you agree?
You must be a car salesman. Or don't get much attention from women. Nobody else would honestly believe that there are a large percentage of women willing to date or sleep with you if you drive a certain kind of car.
We know that if they work exactly as we imagine how they should work, it would be safer.
... and if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
FWIW, in practice almost nothing ever works exactly the way we imagined it would. At least, not without a lot of painful experimentation and discovery.
You feel free to volunteer for the aforementioned pain. Just don't try and volunteer me.
The road system is much more than just the city. I just got back from a road trip to watch the eclipse, and sure, an automated vehicle probably could have done the majority of the driving, the last 35 miles into our selected spot was over rough forest service roads, and the last 500 feet over nothing more than a slightly mowed track in the sage brush. Yes, stuff like this is an edge case, but it's also not uncommon.
Edge case my ass, that's a daily drive for millions of rural Americans.
"Flyover country" is still part of the country, and those who live here still have valid opinions.
But many consumers familiar with the tendency of other electronic devices to sometimes malfunction or perform erratically still seem to have trouble accepting the idea of being held in a vehicle that could fail.
Don't forget the absolutely valid concern regarding not having control over your destination.
Government decides you're a nasty dissident? Off to the re-education camps with you.
Hacker got a grudge? Time to trap you in your car and charge a ransom.
Psychotic ex? How'd your car end up driving itself into that ravine, anyway?
I don't know about that, they drove it up to $4000+, sounds like they think it's real enough.
The fact that the value is so malleable, namely because it's wholly based on speculation, kind of implies that it's about as ephemeral as currency can get.
.. says the person who already equated white supremacist ideology with murder...
Not only is white supremacist ideology murderous,
LMAO, stop, please, you're killing me (pun intended)!
FYI, "murder" is the pre-meditated killing of another person... not something that an abstract concept like ideology is capable of. I agree that their philosophy is idiotic and dangerous, but to conflate it with actual murder? That's just mindless.
If you want to reduce all of Antifa to a handful of the least well-behaved individuals, then let's go ahead and do the same to every group involved in this conflict and see how they compare.
.. says the person who already equated white supremacist ideology with murder...
I was interested until you fomented the concept that regulation is the will of the people.
Regularly, it is not, and has rarely ever been. Consider the not-so-famous words of Fiorello La Guardia, in reference to the federal government criminalizing marijuana in the 1930's:
"A law that the people do not want enforced, cannot be enforced."
Yet, that's exactly what anti-drug legislation has been doing for almost 100 years now - holding Americans to a legal standard that we never agreed to.
That would be accurate if things like "shotgun weddings" no longer existed. But they do.
Heck, in some states, a parent can still legally arrange the marriage of their underage children. In Arkansas, you can marry off a child as young as 14 by signing the right paperwork.
And before anybody claims that you could just choose to not have sex, this is a state in the Bible belt. The Bible is very clear on the fact that a woman has to put out for her husband (I Cor 7:5).
Last I checked, forced marriage was illegal even in the bible belt.
The forced part comes after marriage.
Fun fact, in some states it's still perfectly legal to beat your wife, so long as you do it a certain way.
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Google is not government and may censor whatever it wishes on its property.
Google takes money from the government, making it quasi-governmental.
Aside from that, the websites they crawl actually aren't on Google's property...
The publicly-funded internet being in control of private companies, who can determine what speech is and is not acceptable on the public internet is a bit of a Hobson's choice, wouldn't you agree?
Oh, cool, so if we label someone as a Nazi they no longer have civil liberties.
You're a Nazi, now give me all of your stuff and stop offering your opinion.
Trolling for those Troll mods, I see.
Hope you get 'em.
... which technically applies to anything and everything with a EULA.
Go look up the number of times in history that Iran has attacked another country.
Then go look up the number of times that another country has attacked Iran.
Then, realize you've been duped by effective propaganda, and stop it.
Didn't you know? You're not allowed to have nukes until you have a Central Bank owned by the Rothschilds
E Pluribus Pluribus.
You must be a car salesman. Or don't get much attention from women. Nobody else would honestly believe that there are a large percentage of women willing to date or sleep with you if you drive a certain kind of car.
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You must drive a Pontiac Aztek. maybe a Pugeot.
We know that if they work exactly as we imagine how they should work, it would be safer.
... and if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
FWIW, in practice almost nothing ever works exactly the way we imagined it would. At least, not without a lot of painful experimentation and discovery.
You feel free to volunteer for the aforementioned pain. Just don't try and volunteer me.
I thought Florida was a no-fault state?
A guy I know found out the hard way when he left his door open at the Orlando Airport loading zone.. Ca-runch.
The road system is much more than just the city. I just got back from a road trip to watch the eclipse, and sure, an automated vehicle probably could have done the majority of the driving, the last 35 miles into our selected spot was over rough forest service roads, and the last 500 feet over nothing more than a slightly mowed track in the sage brush. Yes, stuff like this is an edge case, but it's also not uncommon.
Edge case my ass, that's a daily drive for millions of rural Americans.
"Flyover country" is still part of the country, and those who live here still have valid opinions.
But many consumers familiar with the tendency of other electronic devices to sometimes malfunction or perform erratically still seem to have trouble accepting the idea of being held in a vehicle that could fail.
Don't forget the absolutely valid concern regarding not having control over your destination.
Government decides you're a nasty dissident? Off to the re-education camps with you.
Hacker got a grudge? Time to trap you in your car and charge a ransom.
Psychotic ex? How'd your car end up driving itself into that ravine, anyway?
I don't know about that, they drove it up to $4000+, sounds like they think it's real enough.
The fact that the value is so malleable, namely because it's wholly based on speculation, kind of implies that it's about as ephemeral as currency can get.
.. says the person who already equated white supremacist ideology with murder...
Not only is white supremacist ideology murderous,
LMAO, stop, please, you're killing me (pun intended)!
FYI, "murder" is the pre-meditated killing of another person... not something that an abstract concept like ideology is capable of. I agree that their philosophy is idiotic and dangerous, but to conflate it with actual murder? That's just mindless.
Nope. Driver-less cars, using CURRENT technology would be safer than what we have now.
Those are the ones that can be tricked into thinking a stop sign is actually a speed limit sign with nothing more than a handful of stickers, right?
BTW, did Google ever figure out how to get their car to recognize a stopped cyclist, and not repeatedly slam on the brakes?
If you want to reduce all of Antifa to a handful of the least well-behaved individuals, then let's go ahead and do the same to every group involved in this conflict and see how they compare.
.. says the person who already equated white supremacist ideology with murder...
I was interested until you fomented the concept that regulation is the will of the people.
Regularly, it is not, and has rarely ever been. Consider the not-so-famous words of Fiorello La Guardia, in reference to the federal government criminalizing marijuana in the 1930's:
"A law that the people do not want enforced, cannot be enforced."
Yet, that's exactly what anti-drug legislation has been doing for almost 100 years now - holding Americans to a legal standard that we never agreed to.
What part of TFS makes you think this data has been made publicly available?
Sustainable birth rates are actually very important to society for many reasons, economics being a major one.
Funny thing about "affecting other people," if you think abstractly enough, everything you do affects someone else.
Please ask someone...
Well I would, but apparently I am "clearly a moron," so it probably wouldn't do any good.
Kind of like trying to reason with a self-righteous asshole.
Can you buy rubbers with an EBT card?
Perhaps if you have to live off EBT then you cannot afford to have children in the first place...
OK, I'm just going to leave you to think about what you said there...
So, nothing tangible or of any real value whatsoever.
That would be accurate if things like "shotgun weddings" no longer existed. But they do.
Heck, in some states, a parent can still legally arrange the marriage of their underage children. In Arkansas, you can marry off a child as young as 14 by signing the right paperwork.
Can you buy rubbers with an EBT card?
Asking for a friend (that's the joke, right?)
And before anybody claims that you could just choose to not have sex, this is a state in the Bible belt. The Bible is very clear on the fact that a woman has to put out for her husband (I Cor 7:5).
Last I checked, forced marriage was illegal even in the bible belt.
The forced part comes after marriage.
Fun fact, in some states it's still perfectly legal to beat your wife, so long as you do it a certain way.
Oh, so you mean things like showing up for a Presidential inauguration. :)
... or counter protests...