If she has higher brain function, and from the summary it seems she has full higher brain function, pulling the plug without asking her would be murder.
So ask. Hook her up with one of those Stephen Hawking eye-tracker things, and ask her what she wants.
Were I in her hospital gown, I know what my answer would be. The tough part would be deciding which smart-ass remark I want on my tombstone.
why suddenly did the Fed feel the need to install creches in its buildings?
I can guarantee you it wasn't to make anyone who tried to blow the building up look like a monster.
They probably added the daycare because they realized workers lose less time from work if their kids are in the same building. It was actually a fairly common practice in the 1990's, though not necessarily widespread.
I think he's basing that statement on the existence of "road nannies," i.e., the jackasses who will cut you off when you're in the passing lane and creep, thus creating a road hazard. Although, to be fair, I would hope the auto-cars would be programmed well enough to not change lanes if it detects another vehicle coming up fast.
I could imagine jamming might replace sawing partway through the tie rods or poking holes in the brake line as the hip new way for arranging accidents for inconvenient people.
Yea, because the government totally won't have a backdoor already installed at the factory for dealing with... let's call them "undesirables."
I call it the aggressive, psychotic driver who makes random, unsafe lane changes, fails to signal, and swoops across several lanes of traffic while doing well over the speed limit.
At night, during a blizzard, on a section of road with more holes than a chunk of Swiss cheese.
You know, get that realism factor going full-steam.
That sort of thing tends to happen when you intentionally and maliciously fuck up someone else's shit.
The real question is, and I know I bitch about other people asking this myself, but why is this on Slashdot? He's not some IT rock star like Sergey or John, EnerVest isn't some major player in the IT world like Google or Apple, and the punishment meted out seems fairly appropriate.
Maybe the constant, mindless drone of 24-7 American media news cycles is finally starting to get to me, but this doesn't seem sensational enough to qualify as "news."
Which would blow my mind, if I didn't understand the mentality of the average voter: "Oh, but if I don't vote for the lesser evil someone might get elected who's a greater evil!
Name one thing he said he would do that he didn't try to do, only to be shut down by the republicans.
You mean, aside from:
- Introduce a comprehensive immigration bill in the first year - Bring Democrats and Republicans together to pass an agenda - Cut the cost of a typical family's health insurance premium by up to $2,500 a year - Create a public option health plan for a new National Health Insurance Exchange. - Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN - No family making less than $250,000 will see "any form of tax increase." - Recognize the Armenian genocide - Give the White House's Privacy and Civil Liberties Board subpoena power - Allow penalty-free hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009 - Sign the Freedom of Choice Act - Devote federal resources to promote cellulosic ethanol - Provide an annual report on "state of our energy future" - Require energy conservation in use of transportation dollars - Double federal program to help "reverse" commuters who go from city to suburbs - Mandate flexible fuel vehicles by 2012 - Require more flex-fuel cars for the federal government - Require new federal fleet purchases to be half plug-in hybrids or electric vehicles - Require plug-in fleet at the White House - Use revenue from cap and trade to support clean energy and environmental restoration - Create cap and trade system with interim goals to reduce global warming - Enact windfall profits tax for oil companies - Require 25 percent renewable energy by 2025 - Establish a low carbon fuel standard - Reduce earmarks to 1994 levels - Give annual "State of the World" address - Call for a consultative group of congressional leaders on national security - Limit term of director of national intelligence - Strengthen the Age Discrimination in Employment Act - Give tax incentives to new farmers - Strengthen anti-monopoly laws to favor independent farmers - Limit subsidies for agribusiness - Reduce the number of middle managers in the federal workforce - Improve and prioritize student science assessments - Encourage diversity in media ownership - Seek treaty to control fissile materials - Pay for the national service plan without increasing the deficit - Expand service-learning in schools - Establish a Global Energy Corps to promote green energy in developing countries - Create a national catastrophe insurance reserve - Direct revenues from offshore oil and gas drilling to increased coastal hurricane protection - Support human mission to moon by 2020 - Re-establish the National Aeronautics and Space Council - Support tax deduction for artists - Fully fund the COPS program - Restore Superfund program so that polluters pay for clean-ups - Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour - Increase the supply of affordable housing throughout metropolitan regions - Allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage - Ban racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies - Eliminate caps on damages for discrimination cases - Sign the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act into law - Urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws - Regulate pollution from major livestock operations - Create scholarships to recruit new teachers - Double funding for afterschool programs - Double funding for Federal Charter School Program and require more accountability - Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials - Allow five days of public comment before signing bills - Expose Special Interest Tax Breaks to Public Scrutiny - Create a public "Contracts and Influence" database - Seek independent watchdog agency to investigate congressional ethics violations - Double the Peace Corps - Reinstate special envoy for the Americas - With the G-8, launch Health Infrastructure 2020 - Seek to nego
If enough people do take that tradeoff, eventually you won't ever be able to buy an ad free Fridge for $2000 because they'll stop making them.
But barring a fundamental design change that makes repairs impossible, you will be able to get one that's so old it's no longer getting software updates for probably a third of the new price.
At least, that's how I got my bad-ass 27 cu. ft. side-by-side with all the bells and whistles for 300 buckaroonies.
And some people spent the entire four hour flight in a darkened cabin with this glowing LCD playing advertising a foot away from their faces. Simply incomprehensible.
The optimist in me, weakened and and near death though he may be, feels compelled to chime in with "don't bitch, usually they charge for reading lights!"
6. Like all politicians, he told people what they wanted to hear, so they would vote him into power, after which (again, like all politicians) he put his real agenda into action.
It's not hard to find dumb displays; somebody else already posted links to a brand called Seiki that makes several different models (including this kickass retro-themed one!), and they're significantly cheaper than the "smart" versions that other brands are selling.
... Which makes weev's invocation of McVeigh ironic, since the Unabomber actually targeted government officials, and McVeigh murdered a bunch of children.
How about paying tens of thousands for a car I don't have to exert continuous control over? I'm not as young as I used to be, and I never did like driving all that much.
So take a cab or bus.
FTR, I'm not saying that auto-cars will never be available to the public; I'm saying that the logical test bed for such a thing is public/semi-public transit.
Are the sensors that detect things like occupants in other vehicles and train tracks and oncoming trains optional equipment, mandatory, or pure science fiction?
Because if they're optional, I'm not paying for that trim package.
Psssh, I'm totally buying that system, and then hacking it to report to every other vehicle that I'm a bus full of nuns and schoolchildren.
Considering how fundamentally "anti-religion" some engineers are, I'd swap "nuns" with "supermodels," just to be on the safe side.
Are the sensors that detect things like occupants in other vehicles and train tracks and oncoming trains optional equipment, mandatory, or pure science fiction?
Because if they're optional, I'm not paying for that trim package.
Many cars have weight sensors in the seats. This is generally how they decide whether or not to deploy airbags.
So the subsystems already exist and it's just a matter of your networked car telling other cars how many occupants it has.
So in other words, to keep my auto-car from killing me in favor of saving a car-load of kids, I should always travel with at least 3-5 dwarves in the car. Got it.
Seriously, though, the auto manufacturers won't put that much thought into it, as it would mean liability for the deaths their systems cause.
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If she has higher brain function, and from the summary it seems she has full higher brain function, pulling the plug without asking her would be murder.
So ask. Hook her up with one of those Stephen Hawking eye-tracker things, and ask her what she wants.
Were I in her hospital gown, I know what my answer would be. The tough part would be deciding which smart-ass remark I want on my tombstone.
So, now it's sociopathy to want to end suffering, rather than force them to live in agony for our own selfish motivations?
RMS don't need no stinkin' job!
why suddenly did the Fed feel the need to install creches in its buildings?
I can guarantee you it wasn't to make anyone who tried to blow the building up look like a monster.
They probably added the daycare because they realized workers lose less time from work if their kids are in the same building. It was actually a fairly common practice in the 1990's, though not necessarily widespread.
Objection doesn't come into play - I was presented a challenge ("Name one thing..."), and accepted.
I think he's basing that statement on the existence of "road nannies," i.e., the jackasses who will cut you off when you're in the passing lane and creep, thus creating a road hazard. Although, to be fair, I would hope the auto-cars would be programmed well enough to not change lanes if it detects another vehicle coming up fast.
I could imagine jamming might replace sawing partway through the tie rods or poking holes in the brake line as the hip new way for arranging accidents for inconvenient people.
Yea, because the government totally won't have a backdoor already installed at the factory for dealing with... let's call them "undesirables."
Nope, nein, no way, huh-uh, not gonna happen...
I call it the aggressive, psychotic driver who makes random, unsafe lane changes, fails to signal, and swoops across several lanes of traffic while doing well over the speed limit.
At night, during a blizzard, on a section of road with more holes than a chunk of Swiss cheese.
You know, get that realism factor going full-steam.
That sort of thing tends to happen when you intentionally and maliciously fuck up someone else's shit.
The real question is, and I know I bitch about other people asking this myself, but why is this on Slashdot? He's not some IT rock star like Sergey or John, EnerVest isn't some major player in the IT world like Google or Apple, and the punishment meted out seems fairly appropriate.
Maybe the constant, mindless drone of 24-7 American media news cycles is finally starting to get to me, but this doesn't seem sensational enough to qualify as "news."
Which would blow my mind, if I didn't understand the mentality of the average voter: "Oh, but if I don't vote for the lesser evil someone might get elected who's a greater evil!
I prefer to not vote for evil at all.
Name one thing he said he would do that he didn't try to do, only to be shut down by the republicans.
You mean, aside from:
- Introduce a comprehensive immigration bill in the first year
- Bring Democrats and Republicans together to pass an agenda
- Cut the cost of a typical family's health insurance premium by up to $2,500 a year
- Create a public option health plan for a new National Health Insurance Exchange.
- Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN
- No family making less than $250,000 will see "any form of tax increase."
- Recognize the Armenian genocide
- Give the White House's Privacy and Civil Liberties Board subpoena power
- Allow penalty-free hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009
- Sign the Freedom of Choice Act
- Devote federal resources to promote cellulosic ethanol
- Provide an annual report on "state of our energy future"
- Require energy conservation in use of transportation dollars
- Double federal program to help "reverse" commuters who go from city to suburbs
- Mandate flexible fuel vehicles by 2012
- Require more flex-fuel cars for the federal government
- Require new federal fleet purchases to be half plug-in hybrids or electric vehicles
- Require plug-in fleet at the White House
- Use revenue from cap and trade to support clean energy and environmental restoration
- Create cap and trade system with interim goals to reduce global warming
- Enact windfall profits tax for oil companies
- Require 25 percent renewable energy by 2025
- Establish a low carbon fuel standard
- Reduce earmarks to 1994 levels
- Give annual "State of the World" address
- Call for a consultative group of congressional leaders on national security
- Limit term of director of national intelligence
- Strengthen the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
- Give tax incentives to new farmers
- Strengthen anti-monopoly laws to favor independent farmers
- Limit subsidies for agribusiness
- Reduce the number of middle managers in the federal workforce
- Improve and prioritize student science assessments
- Encourage diversity in media ownership
- Seek treaty to control fissile materials
- Pay for the national service plan without increasing the deficit
- Expand service-learning in schools
- Establish a Global Energy Corps to promote green energy in developing countries
- Create a national catastrophe insurance reserve
- Direct revenues from offshore oil and gas drilling to increased coastal hurricane protection
- Support human mission to moon by 2020
- Re-establish the National Aeronautics and Space Council
- Support tax deduction for artists
- Fully fund the COPS program
- Restore Superfund program so that polluters pay for clean-ups
- Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour
- Increase the supply of affordable housing throughout metropolitan regions
- Allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage
- Ban racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies
- Eliminate caps on damages for discrimination cases
- Sign the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act into law
- Urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws
- Regulate pollution from major livestock operations
- Create scholarships to recruit new teachers
- Double funding for afterschool programs
- Double funding for Federal Charter School Program and require more accountability
- Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials
- Allow five days of public comment before signing bills
- Expose Special Interest Tax Breaks to Public Scrutiny
- Create a public "Contracts and Influence" database
- Seek independent watchdog agency to investigate congressional ethics violations
- Double the Peace Corps
- Reinstate special envoy for the Americas
- With the G-8, launch Health Infrastructure 2020
- Seek to nego
If enough people do take that tradeoff, eventually you won't ever be able to buy an ad free Fridge for $2000 because they'll stop making them.
But barring a fundamental design change that makes repairs impossible, you will be able to get one that's so old it's no longer getting software updates for probably a third of the new price.
At least, that's how I got my bad-ass 27 cu. ft. side-by-side with all the bells and whistles for 300 buckaroonies.
Might help with the "What do you want for dinner tonight? I dunno, what do you want?" conversation that happens on a nightly basis.
In my experience, so does maturity, which does not come at a price premium.
And some people spent the entire four hour flight in a darkened cabin with this glowing LCD playing advertising a foot away from their faces. Simply incomprehensible.
The optimist in me, weakened and and near death though he may be, feels compelled to chime in with "don't bitch, usually they charge for reading lights!"
My kingdom for a mod point!
Try:
6. Like all politicians, he told people what they wanted to hear, so they would vote him into power, after which (again, like all politicians) he put his real agenda into action.
It's not hard to find dumb displays; somebody else already posted links to a brand called Seiki that makes several different models (including this kickass retro-themed one!), and they're significantly cheaper than the "smart" versions that other brands are selling.
... Which makes weev's invocation of McVeigh ironic, since the Unabomber actually targeted government officials, and McVeigh murdered a bunch of children.
just never plug it in to the internet.
And pay a premium for features I'll never use?
No thanks.
Shit like this is exactly why, so long as they're available, I will always opt for a 'dumb display' rather than a 'smart tv.'
Just give me a decent size screen with a good resolution, refresh rate, and a handful of various input types.
How about paying tens of thousands for a car I don't have to exert continuous control over? I'm not as young as I used to be, and I never did like driving all that much.
So take a cab or bus.
FTR, I'm not saying that auto-cars will never be available to the public; I'm saying that the logical test bed for such a thing is public/semi-public transit.
You can't possibly be that naive - he did say unintentional deaths, did he not?
No, he didn't; I have a hard time believing someone can be so oblivious that they forget to read the comment their talking about.
Add in all the _intentional_ gun deaths and it becomes the MOST common way for young people to die.
If that's true, you should have no problem presenting the empirical data that supports your claim.
(FYI, it's not true - for young people aged 14-24, the most common cause of death is auto accidents)
Correct it, if you can. Maybe then you can add some value to the conversation, rather than superfluous snark.
Are the sensors that detect things like occupants in other vehicles and train tracks and oncoming trains optional equipment, mandatory, or pure science fiction?
Because if they're optional, I'm not paying for that trim package.
Psssh, I'm totally buying that system, and then hacking it to report to every other vehicle that I'm a bus full of nuns and schoolchildren.
Considering how fundamentally "anti-religion" some engineers are, I'd swap "nuns" with "supermodels," just to be on the safe side.
Are the sensors that detect things like occupants in other vehicles and train tracks and oncoming trains optional equipment, mandatory, or pure science fiction?
Because if they're optional, I'm not paying for that trim package.
Many cars have weight sensors in the seats.
This is generally how they decide whether or not to deploy airbags.
So the subsystems already exist and it's just a matter of your networked car telling other cars how many occupants it has.
So in other words, to keep my auto-car from killing me in favor of saving a car-load of kids, I should always travel with at least 3-5 dwarves in the car. Got it.
Seriously, though, the auto manufacturers won't put that much thought into it, as it would mean liability for the deaths their systems cause.