Even if you enjoy driving most of the time, there are moments in which driving can be a hassle and self driving capabilities still make sense, even for a Porsche.
For example: you might want to have an enjoyable ride driving your Porsche to your destination's door, and then let the car self drive to a parking spot and pick you up afterwards when you're done. Or perhaps you enjoy driving your Porsche on a rural winding road with no traffic, but you'd rather be working or reading when stuck in city traffic.
The system used in Argentina has a paper trail. When a vote is casted the machine saves the voter's choice to an RFID chip inside the ballot and at the same time the same information is printed as human-readable text on the ballot. The voter can use a separate machine to read the RFID and verify that the information printed matches the information stored.
The votes are counted at each polling station primarily using a RFID reader, but each political party can designate monitors to oversee the process. In case of doubts the votes can be re-counted using the printed information. When everyone present agrees on the totals, the results are sent to a central location where they are aggregated. Results from each polling station are made available online so each party can verify that the totals add up correctly.
As a final step, 5% of the polling stations are randomly selected the week after the election and votes are manually re-counted using the paper trail. This is done in the presence of monitors from the different parties. This is the second time this system is used. The first time the audit of the 5% of the polling stations showed no differences.
I think there is a bit of exaggeration on these reports since even if the software is vulnerable, the system as a whole can be verified. The police raids can be explained since some of these "researchers" made available a list of all the employees of the company supplying the voting machines including phone numbers and addresses in an attempt to prove the incompetence of that company
In this case the audit is just counting the paper votes.
The voting machines used in Argentina will save the voter selection to an RFID chip in the ballot and at the same time print the exact same information. The voter can use a separate machine to read the information in the chip and verify that the information displayed on a screen matches the information printed on the ballot. After that the voter has to insert the ballot in a box.
At the end of the day the voting station authorities will empty the box and use a machine similar to the one that the voters used to verify their ballot in order to tally the votes, approaching the ballots one by one to the RFID reader. Each political party can nominate a monitor to oversee this process. They can even ask to manually recount the votes using the printed information if they have doubts. When everyone present agrees on the results, the data is transmitted to a central location to be aggregated. The ballots are put in the box again and the box is shipped to a central location. The totals from each polling station are made available online.
The week after the election a 5% of the polling stations are randomly selected. The boxes from those stations are re-opened and the votes are re-counted using the printed information. Again, delegates from every political party oversee this.
This is the second time this system is used. The first time was in the Salta province. The audit of the 5% of the votes found no differences.
Judges have the power to send people to jail, which is essentially banning a person from everywhere except a tiny cell. So being banned from a single city like in this case doesn't look that bad in comparison.
It'a no more ridiculous a thought than you trying to create an arbitrary separation between me driving a friend across town and someone I don't know.
The separation is as arbitrary as any other taxing criteria. The criteria applied here has nothing to do with driving someone you don't know. It's about charging extra for vehicle registration to companies whose main purpose is to drive around goods or people for a profit. Your original question was "Why should I apply for a commercial license?". The answer was "You don't", because you don't meet the criteria. The discussion here is not about you. It's about uber, which apparently meets the criteria but somehow gets away not paying extra.
since their for-profit use of publicly-funded infrastructure
Which I and my rider pay for regardless of us knowing each other or not.
The question is not wether you pay for the infrastructure but rather how much you pay. You would pay considerably more if the companies that met the above criteria wouldn't have to pay extra. Is the criteria fair? Maybe not. Maybe all vehicles should pay the same regardless of their purpose, or pay based on mileage, but that's a completely different discussion.
All you are saying is that, under the current circumstances, driving is the most cost-effective means of transportation for you (and your competitors). If somehow the cost of driving went steeply up, you (and your competitors) can switch to an alternative means of transportation and still keep doing whatever you do for a living. In that sense, driving is not an absolute requirement for your business. That's not the case of uber, and since their for-profit use of publicly-funded infrastructure is so central to their business model, it's arguably fair for them to pay extra for it.
Maybe it's not fair that a startup paid as much as an stablished company. But maybe it's not fair that they used the publicly-funded infrastructure for free either.
You could potentially walk, bike, take public transport or a cab to get to your clients. You drive because it's more efficient or convenient, but it's not an absolute requirement for your business. On the other hand, driving *is* what uber does. You take that out and they have no business. That's the key difference.
I thought the general principle was that if you are making a profit off publicly-funded infrastructure (in this case, roads) you should be taxed more than the general public, hence the special license for commercial vehicles. I can't see why uber and the like should be exempted.
I'm sure these girl's work has some merit, but this is hardly a breakthrough. Rhizobial inoculation of soybean is a common agricultural practice around the world.
So Communists believe in restricting economic freedom. Should we call for the boycott of companies that hire communist employees? Wait! That already happened. It was called McCarthyism.
You fight political ideas by convincing the majority of people that these ideas are wrong, not by trying to silence the proponents of the ideas you oppose.
I live in Argentina, where any software company getting a CMMI certification can apply for a tax cut. Because of that, CMMI was all the rage around eight years ago or so. Turns out CMMI was so utterly useless and cumbersome that at this point most companies prefer to forget about the tax cuts rather than bother with being CMMI certified. Only companies seeking government contracts continue doing so.
To understand the risks that this type of events involve check what happened in Brazil several years ago when radioactive medical material went missing and ended up killing several people
You can take a sample test yourself. See how basic the questions are and feel appalled to see the % of students in your country that managed to pass each level.
For example, only 11% of students in my country (Argentina) were able to reach level 3 (identify the smallest value in a table). Highest rank for that question was Shanghai-China (89%). USA was 48%.
Ironically, in 2009 Chavez ordered to confiscate one of these body exhibitions that was on tour in Caracas, because he said it was immoral to put unsepulchered bodies on display.
Hopefully this will enable the implementation of the NX technology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology ) on Android, since using the X protocol directly over the public Internet is terribly slow.
In the per capita list, Buenos Aires ranks 2nd, but the city population data they use are wrong. They say Buenos Aires population is 3 million, but that's only Buenos Aires city proper, the whole metro area has an estimated population of about 13 million. So Buenos Aires should rank lower than listed in that study.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of a strong central government getting bad is China's "cultural revolution". If you don't mind a couple of million dead people, I guess, yes, you're right.
Slashdot Mirror
You just tell the cashier that you want to use this payment method. There is no voice recognition software involved in the process.
There is a documentary on the subject that is worth watching. Atari: Game Over http://www.imdb.com/title/tt37... It's available on Netflix
Even if you enjoy driving most of the time, there are moments in which driving can be a hassle and self driving capabilities still make sense, even for a Porsche. For example: you might want to have an enjoyable ride driving your Porsche to your destination's door, and then let the car self drive to a parking spot and pick you up afterwards when you're done. Or perhaps you enjoy driving your Porsche on a rural winding road with no traffic, but you'd rather be working or reading when stuck in city traffic.
How long until Google upgrades these routers to share your unused bandwidth with third party project fi users?
The system used in Argentina has a paper trail. When a vote is casted the machine saves the voter's choice to an RFID chip inside the ballot and at the same time the same information is printed as human-readable text on the ballot. The voter can use a separate machine to read the RFID and verify that the information printed matches the information stored.
The votes are counted at each polling station primarily using a RFID reader, but each political party can designate monitors to oversee the process. In case of doubts the votes can be re-counted using the printed information. When everyone present agrees on the totals, the results are sent to a central location where they are aggregated. Results from each polling station are made available online so each party can verify that the totals add up correctly.
As a final step, 5% of the polling stations are randomly selected the week after the election and votes are manually re-counted using the paper trail. This is done in the presence of monitors from the different parties. This is the second time this system is used. The first time the audit of the 5% of the polling stations showed no differences.
I think there is a bit of exaggeration on these reports since even if the software is vulnerable, the system as a whole can be verified. The police raids can be explained since some of these "researchers" made available a list of all the employees of the company supplying the voting machines including phone numbers and addresses in an attempt to prove the incompetence of that company
In this case the audit is just counting the paper votes. The voting machines used in Argentina will save the voter selection to an RFID chip in the ballot and at the same time print the exact same information. The voter can use a separate machine to read the information in the chip and verify that the information displayed on a screen matches the information printed on the ballot. After that the voter has to insert the ballot in a box. At the end of the day the voting station authorities will empty the box and use a machine similar to the one that the voters used to verify their ballot in order to tally the votes, approaching the ballots one by one to the RFID reader. Each political party can nominate a monitor to oversee this process. They can even ask to manually recount the votes using the printed information if they have doubts. When everyone present agrees on the results, the data is transmitted to a central location to be aggregated. The ballots are put in the box again and the box is shipped to a central location. The totals from each polling station are made available online. The week after the election a 5% of the polling stations are randomly selected. The boxes from those stations are re-opened and the votes are re-counted using the printed information. Again, delegates from every political party oversee this. This is the second time this system is used. The first time was in the Salta province. The audit of the 5% of the votes found no differences.
Judges have the power to send people to jail, which is essentially banning a person from everywhere except a tiny cell. So being banned from a single city like in this case doesn't look that bad in comparison.
It'a no more ridiculous a thought than you trying to create an arbitrary separation between me driving a friend across town and someone I don't know.
The separation is as arbitrary as any other taxing criteria. The criteria applied here has nothing to do with driving someone you don't know. It's about charging extra for vehicle registration to companies whose main purpose is to drive around goods or people for a profit. Your original question was "Why should I apply for a commercial license?". The answer was "You don't", because you don't meet the criteria. The discussion here is not about you. It's about uber, which apparently meets the criteria but somehow gets away not paying extra.
since their for-profit use of publicly-funded infrastructure
Which I and my rider pay for regardless of us knowing each other or not.
The question is not wether you pay for the infrastructure but rather how much you pay. You would pay considerably more if the companies that met the above criteria wouldn't have to pay extra. Is the criteria fair? Maybe not. Maybe all vehicles should pay the same regardless of their purpose, or pay based on mileage, but that's a completely different discussion.
All you are saying is that, under the current circumstances, driving is the most cost-effective means of transportation for you (and your competitors). If somehow the cost of driving went steeply up, you (and your competitors) can switch to an alternative means of transportation and still keep doing whatever you do for a living. In that sense, driving is not an absolute requirement for your business. That's not the case of uber, and since their for-profit use of publicly-funded infrastructure is so central to their business model, it's arguably fair for them to pay extra for it.
Maybe it's not fair that a startup paid as much as an stablished company. But maybe it's not fair that they used the publicly-funded infrastructure for free either.
You could potentially walk, bike, take public transport or a cab to get to your clients. You drive because it's more efficient or convenient, but it's not an absolute requirement for your business. On the other hand, driving *is* what uber does. You take that out and they have no business. That's the key difference.
I thought the general principle was that if you are making a profit off publicly-funded infrastructure (in this case, roads) you should be taxed more than the general public, hence the special license for commercial vehicles. I can't see why uber and the like should be exempted.
... five computers.
I'm sure these girl's work has some merit, but this is hardly a breakthrough. Rhizobial inoculation of soybean is a common agricultural practice around the world.
So Communists believe in restricting economic freedom. Should we call for the boycott of companies that hire communist employees? Wait! That already happened. It was called McCarthyism.
You fight political ideas by convincing the majority of people that these ideas are wrong, not by trying to silence the proponents of the ideas you oppose.
I live in Argentina, where any software company getting a CMMI certification can apply for a tax cut. Because of that, CMMI was all the rage around eight years ago or so. Turns out CMMI was so utterly useless and cumbersome that at this point most companies prefer to forget about the tax cuts rather than bother with being CMMI certified. Only companies seeking government contracts continue doing so.
Glad it was already found.
To understand the risks that this type of events involve check what happened in Brazil several years ago when radioactive medical material went missing and ended up killing several people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
Here
http://www.oecd.org/pisa/test/
You can take a sample test yourself. See how basic the questions are and feel appalled to see the % of students in your country that managed to pass each level.
For example, only 11% of students in my country (Argentina) were able to reach level 3 (identify the smallest value in a table). Highest rank for that question was Shanghai-China (89%). USA was 48%.
Well, he obviously can't. That's why he is asking the US government to do it for him.
Ironically, in 2009 Chavez ordered to confiscate one of these body exhibitions that was on tour in Caracas, because he said it was immoral to put unsepulchered bodies on display.
http://news.sky.com/story/676071/chavez-blocks-venezuela-dead-body-art-show
In case you understand Spanish, you can hear it from the man himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2MfLT-U2qo
Hopefully this will enable the implementation of the NX technology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology ) on Android, since using the X protocol directly over the public Internet is terribly slow.
A lot? For instance, I would say sending 3 probes past the orbit of Pluto is quite a feat.
And in (south american) Spanish it means "stupid", "idiot".
In the per capita list, Buenos Aires ranks 2nd, but the city population data they use are wrong. They say Buenos Aires population is 3 million, but that's only Buenos Aires city proper, the whole metro area has an estimated population of about 13 million. So Buenos Aires should rank lower than listed in that study.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of a strong central government getting bad is China's "cultural revolution". If you don't mind a couple of million dead people, I guess, yes, you're right.