In Norway, if you end up like this, there are worse things than merely not paying. Its getting a union the attention of this, because the Union has access to the legal legs needed to manpower such cases trough court, usually ending in trainwrecks if laws are broken. And if no payment for wages is made, they are broken badly.
The most likely cases for Australia is that the 1000 employs are not organized in a proper Union, so when the payment stops, it doesn't end in court within days. And if thats the case, since this is public news, i don't get why a union hasn't voluntarily stopped in, done basic paperwork, and gone to court, to brute force Plutus Payroll to either default or pay. There is a lot of PR to be made
> It moves the production line closer to enemy action to destroy it, Please read up on how warfare works. There is The Front, The Road to the Front, The Border, and usually miles away from all that: Where vehicles refuel. Why on would anybody have a 3D printer on front, instead of just having one in a supply area? Also: I don't think you understand just how much Logistics a 3D printer removes, if it can print ANY reasonably replaceable part. Instead of a of a forward supply depot with random parts that will never get used, there is a smaller depot of materials. And if there is demand: A even smaller cache of pre printed parts, to avoid waiting for printing.
>We can transport just about anything anywhere in the world in 24 hours No. Package arrives for mail: Will be shipped in next 12-16 hours. Repeat for every single relay. So army base -> county mail system -> overseas shipping location -> sea/air travel -> arrival on right continent -> and a few more chains of relay I expect minimum time for that to be several days, if not a week. If its a priority thing, thats still hours to get shipping going, shipping overseas quickly take half a day, and more is taken to get it on location. It will take over 24 hours unless you start risking air drops in field.
You need to think about this from a Urbanites perspective. Sure, a experienced person who works as a driver, or somebody who drives for work commute(half an hour, or more).... these people can drive for hours without rest. Meanwhile, the modern urbanite? Maybe gets a bit shaky after 2 hours. That said, 150 miles is 240ish Kilometers. An hour drive is what... 70km? So 3 and a half hours drive, then pause. Its a lot. This is compared to a electric car/bike situation where "the gold standard" was maybe under an hour of battery power, which is too little for anything but inner city commute.
Because a point of a postal service, is to expect mail to arrive. And it do happen, most of the time. Simply put: Theft is theft, and if the package is tracked, theft is still theft.
I agree with the sentiment, the article even states it plainly: Enough of the "board" is staffed by people that also work in the company, so there is no reason to hire a extra to work as a CEO. So the article's headline is a blatant lie. There is somebody in Charge of the company: The board.
So based on this article: 1. Price on gas lowers 2. Gas plants gets built 3. It turned out once built en mass, that gas plants was cheaper than coal before price collapse, but nobody knew until economy of scale kicked in ==== That said, the statement in the article do not have to ring true at all.
Then again, per Wikipedia, Owners: -U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (24.3%) -Salt River Project (21.7%) -LADWP (former) (21.2%) -Arizona Public Service (14.0%) -NV Energy (11.3%) -Tucson Electric Power (7.5%) So 4 out of 6 want it shut down, in the mid term future. Which one? And why?
So tl:dr He isn't Dr. gemoules But its a Doctors office which specialized in a type of new fancy procedure. Who might have some guy in his late 40s as a figurehead & main surgeon.
So basically his office is a gamble: If the procedure is unsafe, the office will have issues with that. If it isn't, the office is a pioneer, and i don't know what is to be earned on it beyond keeping current revenue and upgrades.
>The catch? That isn't a catch. That is how surgery work. Surgeon do not move. You go to surgeon. Its the basic of how surgeons and specialists earn money and reputation.
The yahoo name is still worth their home page and search engine. Both of those are valuable. I am not seeing what there is to earn on renaming, when there is no bad faith against Yahoo in itself.
I think i agree with the sentiment. I don't think EU Council Directive 96/96/EC of 20 December 1996 even states that DEF status has to be checked to get renewal. I am not even sure there is any warning signs in cars with DEF.
We are also seeing A Chinese Elite fleeing China. Either because most of their wealth is based in Taiwan or Hong Kong, or because they simply don't like Authority Figures outside of their own family. We are also seeing them staying, because things like Security is far easier to operate in a segregated 2nd world state.
>"The power elite" Which one? Wall Street Co? Parts of the Bildenberg group? Tax Heaven Swindlers? I don't think there is what you think there is. There is also a legitimate risk of The Powerful Elite being unable to set its foot inside China after some point, because the economic infractions might stack up. Then again, this is China, families already have some form of Citizen score.
>the overall experience is not radically different to playing with a Wii or Kinect, >except that you move around with your head instead of your thumb. >Its not different >Except for the part that is Anon, i..... isn't that being... contradicting?
Unless the paper edition is better, The Guardian is pretty shit. It seems limited to top level national news, but no digging or investigation. Le Monde looks like a shitty global Tabloid. And the trend seem to follow for most of them: Pages long articles with little to no content, and mostly reprints/elaboration from a core source. I.E Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, etc The same is especially true of the various National News Agencies around the world, which serves as a spring board for everything else to get... stories
I am not sure which I blame more. The 24 hour news cycle, meaning no research. The daily newspaper, meaning only current events can be "news". Or the tabloid getting profitable enough, that Regular News didn't just condemn it and move on.
Its a sad point when the best news source is your state funded news agency(I.e NRK), but you can still spot that there is lots of shitty translations of foreign articles, and many raw reprints of statements. It saddens me when I see reprints of stuff like the EM drive, or Cold Fusion, and its just a raw reprint instead of bothering a PHD in some university until they got a reasonable article.
I guess its a combination of media, and breaktrough. Some of the shorter stories feels like something out of a Light Novel, or reading a better paced comic(i.e Donald Pocket). And I don't mean anything by that: The pacing is just pretty high, and things happen at a radical rate.
A lot of the short stories is 20-30 pages. In contrast, a lot of books quickly use 200-400 pages to do the same thing. The general formula for the more sci fi stuff seem to be: 1. Some introduction page 2. Something AMAZING HAPPENS 3. Background objects is described, exactly as fantastical and mundane as they are 4. More amazing stuff 5. Raw cynicism if the final part of the story is short, where what has played out is explored indirectly
The reading style is also rather enjoyable, which is further amplified by the pacing. Some of the slower books, like Starship Troopers: still has a extreme pacing. And if you watch older Sci Fi, or Non American Sci Fi, you can see the influence: There is a good amount of effort put into having background objects be background objects, even if they are described. Its very contrasted to the Hollywood way of "if you describe a object, its a important foreground object".
>It's inane to pretend that today's Russia has the same global geopolitical goals as did their Soviet predecessors. ? Is it now? The same leaders that basically led the Soviet lead into its fall, also got to lead Russia when it rebuilt post Soviet. We are entering a era where Russia is starting to finish its Cold War Recovery. We already had a Crimean war, where we got a "axaaxaxaxa" as a passager plane was shot down. We had Soviet pilots come on record with their Soviet stuff, and what is essentially bullying in International Waters praying US won't just open fire and deny it. In International space, something like was left behind on Svalbard, mostly due the Post Soviet economic crash. Its neighbor, , is still alive, and one of the few places where Russia exports its.... imperialism.
The Russian International trend so far since Post Soviet has been to Bully, but back down if Bully has no effect. You can see this in effect if its about Nuclear subs, air territory, International fishing waters. Or the gigantic department of foreign trolls, to exist to AstroTurf foreign communities. Or on wars it has fought, where the entire strategy is that the enemy will not shoot back properly.
Just remember: Russians do not respect Public Space. The world is their for the taking, and then poorly maintained. It doesn't matter if its Crimea, Sweden, Svalbard, International Fishing Rights, or Putins 2nd wife.
In Norway, its reaching the 25% mark because unlike a lot of other countries, Electric Cars is exempted from quite a few regulations, which makes them significantly cheaper. That still do not change that if the genie is in the bottle, its not out: Before Tesla, Leaf and a few other brands arrived to the marked, the electric segment where electric scooters converted to small city cars
>Unlike Ingress, where there is a continuing story line influenced by how well the two factions are doing, Doesn't this just make it unlikely for people to want to play Ingress? I get the point of Ingress, but it seems extremely pointless.
Go really doesn't have anything going for it either, but it has 1 core goal: To catch them all. Thats your long term goal. Everything else is a part of the fun journey.
The fuck is a plant? Cabbage? Cornflower? Apples? Grains? Weed roots? I admit i skimmed the link, but it doesn't really say anything. "So humans don't get full benefit from eating cellulose, but they can still eat it", or at the least that is what it seems to be talking about.
I understand that we live in a era where the knowledge of what weeds is edible is resurrecting slowly, but one needs to be more specific. I.E What ancestors of plants is eaten? What has been domesticated? What weeds did we eat back then, but didn't domesticate? Its also worth noting that we eat meat differently today. Today we eat the prime meat, and who knows what happens to the blood or skin. Our ancestors would eat or preserve the whole animal, if possible. Eating the whole animal is a trend, that stopped close to modern times too.
I am not sure I agree the value is in the IP. You could argue SEGA, for a while, by copying the times trends during the age of the Megadrive and its succesors, had many strong IPs. It turns out IPs are worth almost nothing by themselves. They need to be backed by released, commercials, and SOME SUCCESS. The latter is the hardest.
So what do I mean by this? Well, during the early 90s, Nintendo did license out some of their IPs over low threshold. The results is things like CD-i Zelda(3 shit games), Mario Teaches Typing(MS-Dos, developed by INTERPLAY !!!). As we sorta can see, IP's are not worth shit by themselves. They need to be backed up by current or former media, to even exist. And so far, even if Nintendo is a backwards company led by old Japanese men, with foreign sub branches filled with weird people, the fact is, they do own their IPs. But since the IPs are not worth anything by themselves, a Nintendo game tends to be a game that has some threshold of better production value. It could be anything from smoothing over the mechanics, to removing tons of story elements to smooth up gameplay, or it could be raw quality.
I don't think Pokemon GO is a bad use of the IP. Even if GO is in many ways a total converison of Ingress, the point still stands: GO has better goals than Ingress ever had. And GO's goal synergy enough with what Pokemon as a IP is, to allow GO to become the current hit. I've seen installation projections for Android, that claims GO has a install base of over 5%, compared to 2-3% for other very popular apps(Twitter, Snapchat, etc). Go is insanely popular.
> In the meantime my parents are earning 5 figures. This tells us something about the lie you are presenting us. The truth of the matter is that effort is hard, and there was effort. But the "lie" is to use the word " refugees with almost nothing" which is demonstratedly false. Going by the wage figure, and the story, all they needed was the language. What they came with, seemed to be trade experience in a high value trade. The fact is that a high value trade would equal "refugees with extremely wage earning skills" not "nothing".
I get that the story is fancy, and that working towards a goal under your families support was "harsh". But the fact is, it wasn't. There is a good chance the entire "high wage career" is fueled by very good proxy support, combined with good support mortals.
Brake failure? Then you apply ALL the backup systems. 1. Engine braking, 2. regenerative braking, 3. air friction, 4. stop accelerating, 5.skidding, 6. etc.
And this will be a important hall mark of safety: If a auto car is unmaintained, at which maintenance level will it brick itself to stop going on the road? The car will after all check its backup systems, maybe on each start up.
>With one referendum, which is more fueled by temporary discontent than calm reasoning, they want to dismantle what took years and years to gradually build up. Anon, this is a scary line of thought. Not because of what you say, but because of what is happening. UK is a country outside of EU in a lot of ways. They are even segregated from Europa itself via that seawater. And it has shown up for every single war and conflict far into modern times. If it wasn't for the Naval warfare, Britain would have no real reason to fight in World War 1.In World War 2, Europa practically gets Blitzed, but not Britain, because Britain is not directly a part of Europa.
Another point is that EU is in many ways German lands and Franc lands. Germany and France is 2 countries But there is also Switzerland, Austria, Lichenstein, Belgia, Luxembourg, and surrounding countries where French or German is a auxiliary language. Of the mentioned, only Switzerland stands completely outside of EU, as Lichenstein is a part of Schengen Area and European Economic Area.
So Britain leaving isn't worth anything as a note. Denmark, Sweden, any of the central members, Italia, etc. Those leaving would be a real sign of danger. That would spark the chain reacting you are speaking on about. Inside Europa there is no care for warfare. Nations that sided with NATO occasionally go out and bomb things on NATO missions.
Outside of Europa there is always the danger of Russia deciding it want to try landgrab, because Russia is Russia. Turkey seem to be of no danger, but it currently serves as a proxy state, a proxy state which wants into the EU free trade economy, possibly to allow for further outsourcing.
In a fully automated car, people will get into LESS SERIOUS accidents. The car will start braking a full second before a human driver, slow down if the hazards are present(oil, ice, sand, etc). A freak accident can still happen, but its less likely.
But that statement in itself isn't worth anything. You where teaching filtered Chinese Students in a elite topic, outside of China. Some part of a given is that they will be better than the locals, based on the fact they are export. That said, the statement is worth something, as a cultural examination.
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In Norway, if you end up like this, there are worse things than merely not paying. Its getting a union the attention of this, because the Union has access to the legal legs needed to manpower such cases trough court, usually ending in trainwrecks if laws are broken. And if no payment for wages is made, they are broken badly.
The most likely cases for Australia is that the 1000 employs are not organized in a proper Union, so when the payment stops, it doesn't end in court within days. And if thats the case, since this is public news, i don't get why a union hasn't voluntarily stopped in, done basic paperwork, and gone to court, to brute force Plutus Payroll to either default or pay.
There is a lot of PR to be made
> It moves the production line closer to enemy action to destroy it,
Please read up on how warfare works. There is The Front, The Road to the Front, The Border, and usually miles away from all that: Where vehicles refuel.
Why on would anybody have a 3D printer on front, instead of just having one in a supply area?
Also: I don't think you understand just how much Logistics a 3D printer removes, if it can print ANY reasonably replaceable part.
Instead of a of a forward supply depot with random parts that will never get used, there is a smaller depot of materials. And if there is demand: A even smaller cache of pre printed parts, to avoid waiting for printing.
>We can transport just about anything anywhere in the world in 24 hours
No.
Package arrives for mail: Will be shipped in next 12-16 hours. Repeat for every single relay.
So army base -> county mail system -> overseas shipping location -> sea/air travel -> arrival on right continent -> and a few more chains of relay
I expect minimum time for that to be several days, if not a week.
If its a priority thing, thats still hours to get shipping going, shipping overseas quickly take half a day, and more is taken to get it on location. It will take over 24 hours unless you start risking air drops in field.
You need to think about this from a Urbanites perspective.
Sure, a experienced person who works as a driver, or somebody who drives for work commute(half an hour, or more).... these people can drive for hours without rest.
Meanwhile, the modern urbanite? Maybe gets a bit shaky after 2 hours.
That said, 150 miles is 240ish Kilometers. An hour drive is what... 70km? So 3 and a half hours drive, then pause.
Its a lot.
This is compared to a electric car/bike situation where "the gold standard" was maybe under an hour of battery power, which is too little for anything but inner city commute.
Maybe. But that just begs the question, that a layman would ask: How is antiserum different from vaccination?
Because a point of a postal service, is to expect mail to arrive.
And it do happen, most of the time.
Simply put: Theft is theft, and if the package is tracked, theft is still theft.
I agree with the sentiment, the article even states it plainly: Enough of the "board" is staffed by people that also work in the company, so there is no reason to hire a extra to work as a CEO.
So the article's headline is a blatant lie. There is somebody in Charge of the company: The board.
This would be what... Active management by board?
So based on this article:
1. Price on gas lowers
2. Gas plants gets built
3. It turned out once built en mass, that gas plants was cheaper than coal before price collapse, but nobody knew until economy of scale kicked in
====
That said, the statement in the article do not have to ring true at all.
Then again, per Wikipedia, Owners:
-U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (24.3%)
-Salt River Project (21.7%)
-LADWP (former) (21.2%)
-Arizona Public Service (14.0%)
-NV Energy (11.3%)
-Tucson Electric Power (7.5%)
So 4 out of 6 want it shut down, in the mid term future. Which one? And why?
So tl:dr
He isn't Dr. gemoules
But its a Doctors office which specialized in a type of new fancy procedure. Who might have some guy in his late 40s as a figurehead & main surgeon.
So basically his office is a gamble: If the procedure is unsafe, the office will have issues with that. If it isn't, the office is a pioneer, and i don't know what is to be earned on it beyond keeping current revenue and upgrades.
>The catch?
That isn't a catch. That is how surgery work. Surgeon do not move. You go to surgeon. Its the basic of how surgeons and specialists earn money and reputation.
The yahoo name is still worth their home page and search engine.
Both of those are valuable.
I am not seeing what there is to earn on renaming, when there is no bad faith against Yahoo in itself.
I think i agree with the sentiment.
I don't think EU Council Directive 96/96/EC of 20 December 1996 even states that DEF status has to be checked to get renewal.
I am not even sure there is any warning signs in cars with DEF.
At the least planned obsolescence means that "medium of trade" degrades if its stocked, so thats fine too.
Modern barter is even harder to do.
We are also seeing A Chinese Elite fleeing China.
Either because most of their wealth is based in Taiwan or Hong Kong, or because they simply don't like Authority Figures outside of their own family.
We are also seeing them staying, because things like Security is far easier to operate in a segregated 2nd world state.
>"The power elite"
Which one? Wall Street Co? Parts of the Bildenberg group? Tax Heaven Swindlers?
I don't think there is what you think there is.
There is also a legitimate risk of The Powerful Elite being unable to set its foot inside China after some point, because the economic infractions might stack up.
Then again, this is China, families already have some form of Citizen score.
>the overall experience is not radically different to playing with a Wii or Kinect,
>except that you move around with your head instead of your thumb.
>Its not different
>Except for the part that is
Anon, i..... isn't that being... contradicting?
Unless the paper edition is better, The Guardian is pretty shit. It seems limited to top level national news, but no digging or investigation.
Le Monde looks like a shitty global Tabloid.
And the trend seem to follow for most of them: Pages long articles with little to no content, and mostly reprints/elaboration from a core source. I.E Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, etc
The same is especially true of the various National News Agencies around the world, which serves as a spring board for everything else to get... stories
I am not sure which I blame more. The 24 hour news cycle, meaning no research. The daily newspaper, meaning only current events can be "news". Or the tabloid getting profitable enough, that Regular News didn't just condemn it and move on.
Its a sad point when the best news source is your state funded news agency(I.e NRK), but you can still spot that there is lots of shitty translations of foreign articles, and many raw reprints of statements.
It saddens me when I see reprints of stuff like the EM drive, or Cold Fusion, and its just a raw reprint instead of bothering a PHD in some university until they got a reasonable article.
I guess its a combination of media, and breaktrough.
Some of the shorter stories feels like something out of a Light Novel, or reading a better paced comic(i.e Donald Pocket). And I don't mean anything by that: The pacing is just pretty high, and things happen at a radical rate.
A lot of the short stories is 20-30 pages. In contrast, a lot of books quickly use 200-400 pages to do the same thing.
The general formula for the more sci fi stuff seem to be:
1. Some introduction page
2. Something AMAZING HAPPENS
3. Background objects is described, exactly as fantastical and mundane as they are
4. More amazing stuff
5. Raw cynicism if the final part of the story is short, where what has played out is explored indirectly
The reading style is also rather enjoyable, which is further amplified by the pacing.
Some of the slower books, like Starship Troopers: still has a extreme pacing.
And if you watch older Sci Fi, or Non American Sci Fi, you can see the influence: There is a good amount of effort put into having background objects be background objects, even if they are described. Its very contrasted to the Hollywood way of "if you describe a object, its a important foreground object".
>It's inane to pretend that today's Russia has the same global geopolitical goals as did their Soviet predecessors.
?
Is it now? The same leaders that basically led the Soviet lead into its fall, also got to lead Russia when it rebuilt post Soviet. We are entering a era where Russia is starting to finish its Cold War Recovery.
We already had a Crimean war, where we got a "axaaxaxaxa" as a passager plane was shot down.
We had Soviet pilots come on record with their Soviet stuff, and what is essentially bullying in International Waters praying US won't just open fire and deny it.
In International space, something like was left behind on Svalbard, mostly due the Post Soviet economic crash. Its neighbor, , is still alive, and one of the few places where Russia exports its.... imperialism.
The Russian International trend so far since Post Soviet has been to Bully, but back down if Bully has no effect. You can see this in effect if its about Nuclear subs, air territory, International fishing waters. Or the gigantic department of foreign trolls, to exist to AstroTurf foreign communities.
Or on wars it has fought, where the entire strategy is that the enemy will not shoot back properly.
Just remember: Russians do not respect Public Space. The world is their for the taking, and then poorly maintained. It doesn't matter if its Crimea, Sweden, Svalbard, International Fishing Rights, or Putins 2nd wife.
In Norway, its reaching the 25% mark because unlike a lot of other countries, Electric Cars is exempted from quite a few regulations, which makes them significantly cheaper.
That still do not change that if the genie is in the bottle, its not out: Before Tesla, Leaf and a few other brands arrived to the marked, the electric segment where electric scooters converted to small city cars
>Unlike Ingress, where there is a continuing story line influenced by how well the two factions are doing,
Doesn't this just make it unlikely for people to want to play Ingress?
I get the point of Ingress, but it seems extremely pointless.
Go really doesn't have anything going for it either, but it has 1 core goal: To catch them all. Thats your long term goal. Everything else is a part of the fun journey.
The fuck is a plant? Cabbage? Cornflower? Apples? Grains? Weed roots?
I admit i skimmed the link, but it doesn't really say anything. "So humans don't get full benefit from eating cellulose, but they can still eat it", or at the least that is what it seems to be talking about.
I understand that we live in a era where the knowledge of what weeds is edible is resurrecting slowly, but one needs to be more specific.
I.E What ancestors of plants is eaten? What has been domesticated? What weeds did we eat back then, but didn't domesticate?
Its also worth noting that we eat meat differently today. Today we eat the prime meat, and who knows what happens to the blood or skin. Our ancestors would eat or preserve the whole animal, if possible. Eating the whole animal is a trend, that stopped close to modern times too.
I am not sure I agree the value is in the IP. You could argue SEGA, for a while, by copying the times trends during the age of the Megadrive and its succesors, had many strong IPs.
It turns out IPs are worth almost nothing by themselves. They need to be backed by released, commercials, and SOME SUCCESS. The latter is the hardest.
So what do I mean by this? Well, during the early 90s, Nintendo did license out some of their IPs over low threshold. The results is things like CD-i Zelda(3 shit games), Mario Teaches Typing(MS-Dos, developed by INTERPLAY !!!).
As we sorta can see, IP's are not worth shit by themselves. They need to be backed up by current or former media, to even exist.
And so far, even if Nintendo is a backwards company led by old Japanese men, with foreign sub branches filled with weird people, the fact is, they do own their IPs. But since the IPs are not worth anything by themselves, a Nintendo game tends to be a game that has some threshold of better production value.
It could be anything from smoothing over the mechanics, to removing tons of story elements to smooth up gameplay, or it could be raw quality.
I don't think Pokemon GO is a bad use of the IP.
Even if GO is in many ways a total converison of Ingress, the point still stands: GO has better goals than Ingress ever had. And GO's goal synergy enough with what Pokemon as a IP is, to allow GO to become the current hit.
I've seen installation projections for Android, that claims GO has a install base of over 5%, compared to 2-3% for other very popular apps(Twitter, Snapchat, etc). Go is insanely popular.
> In the meantime my parents are earning 5 figures.
This tells us something about the lie you are presenting us. The truth of the matter is that effort is hard, and there was effort.
But the "lie" is to use the word " refugees with almost nothing" which is demonstratedly false. Going by the wage figure, and the story, all they needed was the language. What they came with, seemed to be trade experience in a high value trade. The fact is that a high value trade would equal "refugees with extremely wage earning skills" not "nothing".
I get that the story is fancy, and that working towards a goal under your families support was "harsh". But the fact is, it wasn't.
There is a good chance the entire "high wage career" is fueled by very good proxy support, combined with good support mortals.
Brake failure?
Then you apply ALL the backup systems.
1. Engine braking,
2. regenerative braking,
3. air friction,
4. stop accelerating,
5.skidding,
6. etc.
And this will be a important hall mark of safety: If a auto car is unmaintained, at which maintenance level will it brick itself to stop going on the road? The car will after all check its backup systems, maybe on each start up.
>With one referendum, which is more fueled by temporary discontent than calm reasoning, they want to dismantle what took years and years to gradually build up.
Anon, this is a scary line of thought. Not because of what you say, but because of what is happening. UK is a country outside of EU in a lot of ways. They are even segregated from Europa itself via that seawater.
And it has shown up for every single war and conflict far into modern times. If it wasn't for the Naval warfare, Britain would have no real reason to fight in World War 1.In World War 2, Europa practically gets Blitzed, but not Britain, because Britain is not directly a part of Europa.
Another point is that EU is in many ways German lands and Franc lands. Germany and France is 2 countries But there is also Switzerland, Austria, Lichenstein, Belgia, Luxembourg, and surrounding countries where French or German is a auxiliary language.
Of the mentioned, only Switzerland stands completely outside of EU, as Lichenstein is a part of Schengen Area and European Economic Area.
So Britain leaving isn't worth anything as a note. Denmark, Sweden, any of the central members, Italia, etc. Those leaving would be a real sign of danger. That would spark the chain reacting you are speaking on about.
Inside Europa there is no care for warfare. Nations that sided with NATO occasionally go out and bomb things on NATO missions.
Outside of Europa there is always the danger of Russia deciding it want to try landgrab, because Russia is Russia. Turkey seem to be of no danger, but it currently serves as a proxy state, a proxy state which wants into the EU free trade economy, possibly to allow for further outsourcing.
In a fully automated car, people will get into LESS SERIOUS accidents. The car will start braking a full second before a human driver, slow down if the hazards are present(oil, ice, sand, etc). A freak accident can still happen, but its less likely.
But that statement in itself isn't worth anything. You where teaching filtered Chinese Students in a elite topic, outside of China. Some part of a given is that they will be better than the locals, based on the fact they are export.
That said, the statement is worth something, as a cultural examination.