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  1. Re: Makes more sense there on South Korea Signs On To Build Full-Scale Hyperloop System (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    If your sole measure of efficiency is total tonnage of freight moved then sure.

  2. Yeah but the difference is you're not expected to be in control of the bus and have no interaction with it while it tootles along, the worst that can happen there is you miss your stop. I agree it would be a lot easier to fall asleep behind the wheel in one of these things but it's on you to recognise that happening and take steps just like when you're driving a regular car. It still has windows, a stereo and the ability to stop for a rest basically anywhere. There's no excuse for falling asleep and that doesn't really excuse anything.

  3. Re:Not a good sign on Star Wars' Han Solo Spinoff Directors Quit In the Middle of Shooting (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They really missed a trick at the end of rogue one. All they way through they had this hope motif going, rebellions are built on hope etc etc, they must've dropped it in four or five times. Then at the end when they get to leia and she has the plans and everyone's all like, what's that? And she says '...hope'. Why the fuck didn't she say ' a new hope'. I mean for fucks sake, it writes itself!

  4. A driver asleep with this tech is a lot more likely to survive than a driver asleep without this tech.

    True enough, but a driver asleep is asking for trouble regardless.

  5. No... it should pull over and stop as soon as it is possible to safely do so. What if there were a medical emergency in the vehicle that is causing the driver to be unresponsive?

    Of course, if you expect drivers that are able to maintain consciousness while having a heart attack to just keep driving instead of pulling over and coming to a stop as soon as they can, then I'm not sure what world you are living in.

    On the flip side, what if the sensors fail in the steering wheel and you are holding it but the car doesn't recognise it and refuses to move anywhere, what if a medical emergency happens then and your car is as useful as a box?

    Of course, if you expect one solution to be applicable to all conceivable situations, then I'm not sure what world you are living in.

  6. "Yet this driver has demonstrated that people are about as dumb as you think they can be, so now they've implemented a 3 strikes policy that disabled autopilot after 3 reminders."

    Maybe the driver was asleep? Deep sleep? Was that ruled out?

    If a driver was asleep with this kind of tech that just goes to show how dumb they are.

  7. So rich people don't have medical issues while driving that might prevent them from responding to verbal cues? A car capable of driving itself (mostly) isn't capable of pulling over safely if it can not confirm that the driver is doing what they are supposed to do?

    If zillionaire Elon Musk can't anticipate such an obvious contingency, expecting $80K to be a guarantee of intelligence is seriously foolish.

    Look, if you're not capable of driving a car you should even less be in one that you think is going to drive itself for you. It seems in some cases riches cause stupid and the cure for stupid is dead.

  8. not everyone is a tinfoil hat wearing retard that gives a shit about any of that.

    Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.

  9. Re: No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    Seriously, you and your mate must be pretty fucking thick if you think that people die anyway is a good reason for carrying around guns. Do you think death is a real entity going around picking people up and if you don't get shot you'll still die by something else regardless? Is that it?

    I mean people die anyway so why not let me have a fucking rocket launcher? If it's for fighting against the state with their tanks and armour a rifle will only go so far. Why can't I mine my property? I mean people die from walking in the woods, how would land mines a difference?

    That's how stupid you sound. Just admit you have a boner for guns and move on. Don't be embarrassed by it and come up with all this shit to justify it to yourself it makes you look like a tool who shouldn't be trusted with a hair dryer let alone a deadly weapon.

  10. Re: No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course they do but they don't get shot at nearly the same rate.

  11. Re: When religion makes laws on Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, let's get this straight. First. I stated that holy books contradict themselves whether to be nice to everyone or kill 'em all. You said that newer instructions can supplant older ones (ignoring the main issue of the contradictions in the first place), except the koran? To which I pointed out they tend to pick and choose what bits the like and it's not necessarily the most recent bit. So you start bringing strawmen into it pretending to know what one is. Where/what exactly is this strawman you think I'm after? Which part of your argument did I misrepresent to attack? Are you saying the koran doesn't contradict itself or or are you saying it can't/won't adapt its teachings? Are you saying when it says opposite things they are both 'true'? What exactly is the point you're trying to get across? Calm down, take a breath and then explain.

  12. Re: When religion makes laws on Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The bible is full of so many holes and inconsistencies that straw men are really not required.

  13. Re: When religion makes laws on Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Apart from the creation, the garden of eden, the flood etc and all of the sin bits that do?

  14. Re: When religion makes laws on Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is only take what it says last? You'll also notice most religions believe whatever is most convenient for them and can easily brush large parts of their holy books aside.

  15. Re:Oh yes, I know how it goes. on Wisconsin Speech Bill Might Allow Students To Challenge Science Professors (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    After the power of the orb fades.

  16. Re:Umm, WHICH religion would that be? on Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why the fucking hell do you have to slimily lump all religions together?

    Because all religions are the same slime.

  17. Re: When religion makes laws on Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that murdering people for their believes is a traditional conservative viewpoint? How fitting.

    Are you deliberately dense?

    He's mocking you - by saying you only impose your ideals on Christians and give Muslims a complete pass.

    He's making fun of you for ignorantly saying a religion whose main tenets are "love thy neighbor" and "turn the other cheek" is worse than the religion whose main intellectual driver is LITERALLY "kill the unbeliever by smiting him in the neck". Did you even fucking know that Islam literally translates as "submission"? Why do I think not...

    Christianity is based on Jesus Christ sacrificing himself to save everyone else. Islam is based on killing everyone else.

    And you really fucking thing Christianity is worse and are willing to give Islam a pass?

    WHAT THE FLYING FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!

    Oh? And do you have the stones to say who's currently going around the US saying they're going to attack their political opponents? I think they call it "punching Nazis". Would it be those "progressive antifas" who've openly adopted actual Nazi and Fascist tactics of political violence?

    The problem with christianity as well as islam is both holy books are filled with multiple instructions both to be nice to everyone and fucking kill anyone who's not the same as you. Especially the old testament in the bible. Try reading it one day.

  18. Re:You sound like Pavel Chekov on US Tech Companies Start To Become Copycats of Chinese Peers (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1
    Well they cant have researched very hard then

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Programs in China - As of 2017, numerous cities across China have one or more competing "dockless" bike-sharing programs...

    European programs - In 1967, the group Provo painted 50 bicycles white and left them in downtown Amsterdam to be freely used...

    So Europe have been at it in one form or another for 50 years but yeah, Chinese innovation.

  19. Re:Who copied who? on US Tech Companies Start To Become Copycats of Chinese Peers (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    WeChat pay predates Facebook Messenger's payment system, and is much more advanced. It's actually more like PayPal, but if your PayPal account was also your instant messenger account and your social media account...

    I don't know about anyone else but that sounds like a really bad idea.

  20. Re: 5400 RPM? on Teardown of New iMac Reveals Upgradable Processors, RAM (macrumors.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you want to replace the hard drive, you're certainly able to do so.

    After slicing through the adhesive that secures the 4K display to the iMac's housing and removing the power supply, hard drive, and fan... Similarly, after detaching the heatsink and removing the warranty voiding stickers on the backside of the logic board... making it possible to replace or upgrade the CPU ...

    So you basically have to deconstruct the whole thing and lose any kind of warranty, but it is technically possible I suppose.

  21. Re: BEAUHD IS AN IMBECILE MILLENIAL! on Teardown of New iMac Reveals Upgradable Processors, RAM (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    unfair to who?

  22. Re: Bye Theresa on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    What problem? The terrorist attacks aren't a bug, they're a feature, how else do you convince a population that you can take away their rights if you don't terrorize them first?

    Why do you think she cut police force left and right while she was responsible for it? A sizable police force could easily have squashed any fledgling terror groups before they could be useful for her.

    The problem is you need to do it in a way that people can't point back at you and say this was your fucking fault to begin with.

  23. Connecting nowhere on Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't they worry about making one connection anywhere before planning world domination. Seriously, we'll have the flying car before we get this piece of shit that's never going to work.

  24. So basically everything then.

  25. No one is forced to buy the product.

    The problem is people are. That's how they can get away with this shit.