Sometimes....... At least until their obsession bleeds into mainstream totally unchecked and gradually turned up to the 11, then the ambivalent majority has to care.
The gender bathroom spectacle apparently has annoyed quite a large amount of people - just not annoyed enough to initiate backlash. 20 more SJW spectacles of the same intensity each pushing more and more ridiculous policies, then perhaps finally some parent of their boys (specially snowflake ones) found to their horror that their grade school starts to gender-segregate their boys from their girls into different classes, in their vain attempt to "prevent" sexual assaults, "harassment" and "microaggression" (the term can mean almost anything) in older of the grade school kids. Then maybe the mainstream will be forced to care when their snowflake boys gets "discriminated" enough.
The problem is that large parts of their parliament continues to go to the Yasukuni Shrine, even though they know how much that pisses off China and S. Korea.
Things is, the original purpose of this ancient Shrine is to honor the people that have died for their country, and that is the custom since Meiji Restoration and not likely to have been done to anger neighbors on purpose. The fact that the Japanese soldiers (multi millions are just civilians and teenager boys hastily pulled in to fight the war, especially latter part of it when Japan is losing millions of soldiers) has not changed. The problem is that the Shrine currently hold remains of some of the worst "Class A" (crimes against peace) war criminals - And for that, even many Japanese (including good portion of the decedents of the Class A war criminals) wants the War Criminals (Mass Murderers) among the war dead removed from the compound and only worship the civilians that fought protecting the country. I'm an Asian and I'd have no qualms about the Y-Shrine if they just removed the Mass murderers.
Lastly, the insincere apology - Most people actually have no idea that circa 2017, Japan is still paying "humanitarian aid" to South Korea................ So in short, apology SK won't accept on insincerity, money given they won't acknowledge. Japan has done wrong in the past but the current situation is, PR-wise, a no-win situation.
The Japanese never apologize for the 'real crimes' because they don't believe they have insulted anyone. Commiting war crimes during WWII was not an insult to the American soldiers, those were honorary executions of the enemy.
(2)One of the well-travelled young (still in 30s) Japanese I used to work under had this assessment:
Not only had they apologized to so many people, everytime the Chinese and Koreans asked for one more apology it is ususally another ruse for Asking compensation yet again
(3) Disclaimer : I'm an ethnic Chinese and the following said will, in no way, lessen the Japanese atrocities during the war:
Quite a significant portion of the very organized, politically-backed South Korean Comfort woman (that is still living is strangely large number) protesting in 2017................are also actually not comfort woman from more than 72 years ago, but rather prostitutes (admitedly, "forced" by every tough situations and war and post shoartages. Post-war ones are total frauds) that was allowed to tag on to the grievance seeking team because
(a) The vastly missing or non-existant records after multiple changes of adminstration within 10 years
(b) compounded with Korean war around 1951 that turned SK into a rubble (figuratively)
(c) Anyone whose records are stored north of 38th parallel north being totally inaccessible,
As a result people just had to take everyone's word for it. when a woman claimed that she was a comfort woman and she's with the team. And despite of previous compensation to the SK administration decades ago ( when it was still military-ruled - seems like money went straight to the army and the victims didn't get them), South Korean comfort woman, who have a significant voice internationally as a humanitarian issue, did a great job in reinforce in people's minds the factually incorrect "Japan never apologizes, Japan never compensate" "common knowledge".
That was what we were taught as a rough business guideline too, for someone who want to go into a eatery business.
But depeding on the food mix I suspect for many types of settings - like small eateries in places that serves more like drink stand or more expensive coffee places it's way less than 30% - 5 cents coffees that sells more $1 or 50-cent (including whipped cream and spices) gourment coffee selling at $6 - most drinks have costs less than 20% of selling price. Perhaps even less than 10%.
Excuse me but in most developed countries the older people are "supposed" to have paid into the system - Pensions, social security or whatever name-of-choice the country has, and are supposed to be taking the things they have been promised in exchange of paying into the system for over 4 decades.
If your country over-promised (...perhaps YOU let your politicians) and basic welfare turns into a ponzi scheme it's a problem with overspending and politicians that promised you the moon letting future generations hanging. Getting old is not a sin in itself.
And I'm not even to calling you out for your old vs. young people broad brush yet, the same can be said of those un/underemployed youngsters who receive more than they pay into the system. Are you ready to call low-income earners blood-suckers of the society?
I do agree with you; that is also why in so many indigenous people in reserves in developed countries like Australia (where government gives them enough welfare to be akin to UBI) alchoholism, especially for the males, is off the chart.
They have all the free times in their hands, and boredom, combined with a generalized sense of demoralization, as everything they have was given to them, can be soul-destructive.
I can't quote you which publication was that now (Bloomberg businessweek?), but it there was a article a few years ago about the result of selective breeding of cows, both the physical shape of the cow and fat content of the beef in the commercial range of western world is very different from now. But whatever fat content lowered in the beef in the 2010s, people compensate by slathering butter, BBQ sauce and seasoning imaginable to make it more palatable. Thus there are no obvious lowering of calorie count - if fact, it may be slightly worse for health due to the sugar content and chemicals in artificial additives.
I do have children, and I would answer that question honestly if it came up during jury selection.
Good for you on the fair jury part, my intention of previous post to GP (maybe I didn't state it very clearly) was the right for people to know if through the news - there are lots of people that reasonably want to take precautions when it comes to their children, and wait till AFTER his acquittal to let the person be alone with his kid.
By extension (to GP and GGPs), if we were to literally interpret "Presumed innocence until proven guilty" to the fullest extent, unqualified, and to protect them against every single potential of undesirable salutation................ I don't think society currently accepts that someone on trial for multiple sexual assaults and kidnapping of children, and attempted murder be able to continue his/her daily work of a kindergarten teacher till the minute he/she was found guilty.
You can't fault parents for this very basic precaution while he is still on trial (you MAY fault them if they still judge him after acquittal).
It is an interesting argument. Does the reporting of his crime in any way help the public?
Are you willing to honestly vouch that if you have children, you will be impartial enough to say that you won't judge him "just because this person has been arrested and charged for sexual assault against minority and attempted murder" and allow your young children to be around this person alone? If this sexual predator with pedo tendencies is your neighbour do you WANT to know?
If yes, you may want to revalue your merit as a (potential) parent. If no, you have answered your own question.
My previous point may not sit well with you - but you may also consider that it is not the reporting that is in the wrong. I think people should have some right to know, and if you really think that they should not be judged, then it's the people the judge that is wrong, not the reporting. Although I acknowledge that it's a problem in the society that many people just OMG at news-of-the-day and never bother to verify after the fact that someone's charges has been dropped or found not guilty.
Two days are more than enough, not only because of heat (which is very likely), but also because the subject in question is fleeing, which means he may be can get dehydrated faster than athletes on a 4 hour marathon.
I didn't read the full article but (emphasis mine)
Mr Kwon is one of three co-chief executives of Samsung Electronics. His resignation comes on the same day the firm forecast record quarterly profits, citing higher memory chip prices.
That's equivalent of "The market is good so we are so very sure that next quarter is the best quarter ever.", and this statement tie perfectly with his new-spirit-whatever statement that comes along his resignation speech.
And last week he was still clinging on by throwing their CIO and CSO under the bus. Given the multiple instances of criminally neglient way Equifax handle the aftermath and violation of basic security principles would it be that he finally comprehended the extent of their screw up?
It's not unlikely that entitled CEOs with his Ivory Tower buddies thought at first that this "PR Disaster" could be solved by a few fall guys, maybe a statement of non-apology or two, a free website and threw in some freebie reporting (that costs Equifax almost zero marginal cost) and he could ride out this 6-12 months.
Perhaps he finally grasped that at best, the company is ruined. It is probable that a few person (perhaps even CxO level) is going to jail like Enron execs - the fiduciary duty to 143 million people are even heavier that that of Enron, it's virtually any and all USA working people with a minimal "economic participartion".
Or worst case scenario in his POV, he realized might had nuclear-Armagaddoned the whole private / consumer Credit industry. After virtually all economically active people in the USA has been compromised there are little ways for any agencies to vet credit worthiness anymore at a low cost way for numerous years. Then the damage flow down to all Financial institutions (who can'teven know who is who and can't decide whether to even do business with eager customers) and to less extent, all employers and other individuals (like landlords), and the whole financial market will either need a total overhaul or suffer a meltdown............ Possibly a total overhaul AFTER meltdown. At that point, he should fear for his life and flee... cough I mean retire to a tropical island and stepping down from CEO and fleeing from the burning house known as Equifax is a prudent start.
None of the communist regimes achieved power through non-violent means, if I remember correctly. And almost all Communist regimes, if they do not significantly deviate from their original ideals (like market reforms post-Mao) run into big existential problems caused by basic resource allocation failure within 2 decades, some much faster, even before the almost inevitable corruption of the ruling elite that is caused by absolute power with no oversight.
For that, hit-and-miss results of Democracy has been miles better than 0% hit by communism in the past century.
I think you're not getting parent's point. In economic terms wealth!=amount of cash one has, parent meant "richer" in "Consumer welfare" context (try google it).
The purchasers now have $5 less per person in cash but they more enjoy more individual benefits derived from the consumption of the app. On related note, if you bought $2 of buns for breakfast, you most likely benefited much more from buying the $2 buns than growing the wheat, grinding it to flour and baking it yourself. That's how economy and division of labour is supposed to work, and money is just a medium of exchange and not wealth.
Also because most genres of movie actually attracts viewers whose motivation is to pay a sum to escape from reality for two hours, not to get another slice of life.
Hollywood elites are getting priorities wrong if they insist that people pay for their social messages and berate their actual paying customers if and when they do not lap up every single bit of their gravy they put out.
I don't know about John Goodman but as I teen I thought stuff like Austin Powers was disgusting, and I positively avoided any "comedy" if the movie trailers reek attempts grossing people out in hit-and-misss jabs of body / bathroom humours, and that certainly included half-naked guys with beer bellies.
I don't watch a lot of movies so I may be biased, but some of the actresses that try to push as "average" in the body positive movement certainly does not look average to me. I'm not talking about the face, I'm talking about ladies that look at least 15kg overweight featured as "average weight" . Likes of Amy Schmer should not be featured in bikinis.
Some of the attempts to correct the lookism trend are way over the top, the pushback shows up in one-star ratings of likes of Amy Schmer movies and the all-girl Ghost Busters flop.
If medical study and caution for side effects for women contraceptive was held to same stringent standard as this current male contraceptive is now, will the women pill be stuck as "five years away for the last 40 years" as well. Women Contraceptives are not exactly harmless for health.
While you are at the supermarket example let's just say.... let's not pretend pretend the the ground "beef" is the same everywhere.
And I've heard (second-handedly) that for the great bargain price of $1 the packaged hot dogs in the Dollar Tree was downright nauseating. You've bread, something that resembled a Frankfurt, something that used to be lettuce but now part shrivelled and the wetter part turning slimy. You can also look up the thousands (millions?) of horror outsourcing stories when you based your criteria on price alone.
Except that Middle East has much larger pile of by-then aging modern weapons that has a used-by date, and historically and culturally speaking the countries are much more violent.
The silver lining being that some of the more backward, dysfunctional monarchies finally cease to get propped up by oil, thus ending the major source of funding for terrorism.
As safeguard I think it may be help if (since as suggested by other posters, Tesla autopilot may not have enough capacity to judge what is a safe place to pull over) it starts with the car slowing down to a speed that will lower fatality rate shall accident occur, after X minutes of inattention. Their vehicle slowing should give ample incentive for "mutitasking" drivers to put their hands back to steering.
So I think that ties back to the GP poster and some opinions I saw:-
Many American vote in ways that would imply supporting tax cuts for the well-off, as even though their income are in lower-middle class bracket and they're up to the eyeballs with debt...... they think they're upper middle class or rich man material that has hit a temporary rough patch. And they're for the tax cuts because in their life plan they see themselves getting back to that upper-middle-class status just one opportunity away.
In that extension, many also believe in America being/was the greatest country, and when what they saw in their eyes obvious do not coincide with what he believe was the truth and taught as a child 3,4 decades ago, they felt wronged by the system felt utter injustice. And that's why the MAGA resonates so well, and they shall get America to what it was and should be.
Yes you need a license to use them. It's called Identification card, social security, or whatever your country calls it. Foreign citizens can use it as long as they have a Visa or passport.
Existing on the streets or any part of a country without them and you're an illegal.
Japanese society can come up with great ideas, but a lot of times major ideas are not thought through all the way. This was one of those ideas, it was innovation for innovations sake and didn't really solve the problem of too many seniors and not enough facilities to take care of them. I mean, how much human care could $100,000 have provided to an entire senior center?
But there is a significant minority (I read about 20%? last year from Nikkei- can't find the source now) that would have rather be taken care by a quality, affordable robot than a caretaker.
May sound surprising to many, but a minority do think that being taken care of at home by a robot means they are still living like an independent individual instead of an invalid. Having a non-thinking, non-judging robot clean up when you pooped in your wheelchair can be more dignifying than having a nurse to do so.
Human interaction can be provided less frequently, like caretakers checking every two or three days, and there should be lots of other stuff that a robot won't be advanced enough to do within this two or 3 decades.
Too bad if this can't get through the initial steep prices. Just like viable green technology that may never be available on market if they were abandoned at Step 2 on pricing concerns.
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Sometimes....... At least until their obsession bleeds into mainstream totally unchecked and gradually turned up to the 11, then the ambivalent majority has to care.
The gender bathroom spectacle apparently has annoyed quite a large amount of people - just not annoyed enough to initiate backlash. 20 more SJW spectacles of the same intensity each pushing more and more ridiculous policies, then perhaps finally some parent of their boys (specially snowflake ones) found to their horror that their grade school starts to gender-segregate their boys from their girls into different classes, in their vain attempt to "prevent" sexual assaults, "harassment" and "microaggression" (the term can mean almost anything) in older of the grade school kids. Then maybe the mainstream will be forced to care when their snowflake boys gets "discriminated" enough.
Yasukuni Shrine is a can of worms, I know.
The problem is that large parts of their parliament continues to go to the Yasukuni Shrine, even though they know how much that pisses off China and S. Korea.
Things is, the original purpose of this ancient Shrine is to honor the people that have died for their country, and that is the custom since Meiji Restoration and not likely to have been done to anger neighbors on purpose. The fact that the Japanese soldiers (multi millions are just civilians and teenager boys hastily pulled in to fight the war, especially latter part of it when Japan is losing millions of soldiers) has not changed. The problem is that the Shrine currently hold remains of some of the worst "Class A" (crimes against peace) war criminals - And for that, even many Japanese (including good portion of the decedents of the Class A war criminals) wants the War Criminals (Mass Murderers) among the war dead removed from the compound and only worship the civilians that fought protecting the country. I'm an Asian and I'd have no qualms about the Y-Shrine if they just removed the Mass murderers.
Lastly, the insincere apology - Most people actually have no idea that circa 2017, Japan is still paying "humanitarian aid" to South Korea................ So in short, apology SK won't accept on insincerity, money given they won't acknowledge. Japan has done wrong in the past but the current situation is, PR-wise, a no-win situation.
The Japanese never apologize for the 'real crimes' because they don't believe they have insulted anyone. Commiting war crimes during WWII was not an insult to the American soldiers, those were honorary executions of the enemy.
(1) To deunk with reality : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(2)One of the well-travelled young (still in 30s) Japanese I used to work under had this assessment:
Not only had they apologized to so many people, everytime the Chinese and Koreans asked for one more apology it is ususally another ruse for Asking compensation yet again
(3) Disclaimer : I'm an ethnic Chinese and the following said will, in no way, lessen the Japanese atrocities during the war:
Quite a significant portion of the very organized, politically-backed South Korean Comfort woman (that is still living is strangely large number) protesting in 2017................are also actually not comfort woman from more than 72 years ago, but rather prostitutes (admitedly, "forced" by every tough situations and war and post shoartages. Post-war ones are total frauds) that was allowed to tag on to the grievance seeking team because
(a) The vastly missing or non-existant records after multiple changes of adminstration within 10 years
(b) compounded with Korean war around 1951 that turned SK into a rubble (figuratively)
(c) Anyone whose records are stored north of 38th parallel north being totally inaccessible,
As a result people just had to take everyone's word for it. when a woman claimed that she was a comfort woman and she's with the team. And despite of previous compensation to the SK administration decades ago ( when it was still military-ruled - seems like money went straight to the army and the victims didn't get them), South Korean comfort woman, who have a significant voice internationally as a humanitarian issue, did a great job in reinforce in people's minds the factually incorrect "Japan never apologizes, Japan never compensate" "common knowledge".
That was what we were taught as a rough business guideline too, for someone who want to go into a eatery business.
But depeding on the food mix I suspect for many types of settings - like small eateries in places that serves more like drink stand or more expensive coffee places it's way less than 30% - 5 cents coffees that sells more $1 or 50-cent (including whipped cream and spices) gourment coffee selling at $6 - most drinks have costs less than 20% of selling price. Perhaps even less than 10%.
Excuse me but in most developed countries the older people are "supposed" to have paid into the system - Pensions, social security or whatever name-of-choice the country has, and are supposed to be taking the things they have been promised in exchange of paying into the system for over 4 decades.
If your country over-promised (...perhaps YOU let your politicians) and basic welfare turns into a ponzi scheme it's a problem with overspending and politicians that promised you the moon letting future generations hanging. Getting old is not a sin in itself.
And I'm not even to calling you out for your old vs. young people broad brush yet, the same can be said of those un/underemployed youngsters who receive more than they pay into the system. Are you ready to call low-income earners blood-suckers of the society?
That's assuming that penalties of getting caught won't rise though.
I do agree with you; that is also why in so many indigenous people in reserves in developed countries like Australia (where government gives them enough welfare to be akin to UBI) alchoholism, especially for the males, is off the chart.
They have all the free times in their hands, and boredom, combined with a generalized sense of demoralization, as everything they have was given to them, can be soul-destructive.
I can't quote you which publication was that now (Bloomberg businessweek?), but it there was a article a few years ago about the result of selective breeding of cows, both the physical shape of the cow and fat content of the beef in the commercial range of western world is very different from now. But whatever fat content lowered in the beef in the 2010s, people compensate by slathering butter, BBQ sauce and seasoning imaginable to make it more palatable. Thus there are no obvious lowering of calorie count - if fact, it may be slightly worse for health due to the sugar content and chemicals in artificial additives.
I do have children, and I would answer that question honestly if it came up during jury selection.
Good for you on the fair jury part, my intention of previous post to GP (maybe I didn't state it very clearly) was the right for people to know if through the news - there are lots of people that reasonably want to take precautions when it comes to their children, and wait till AFTER his acquittal to let the person be alone with his kid.
By extension (to GP and GGPs), if we were to literally interpret "Presumed innocence until proven guilty" to the fullest extent, unqualified, and to protect them against every single potential of undesirable salutation................ I don't think society currently accepts that someone on trial for multiple sexual assaults and kidnapping of children, and attempted murder be able to continue his/her daily work of a kindergarten teacher till the minute he/she was found guilty.
You can't fault parents for this very basic precaution while he is still on trial (you MAY fault them if they still judge him after acquittal).
It is an interesting argument. Does the reporting of his crime in any way help the public?
Are you willing to honestly vouch that if you have children, you will be impartial enough to say that you won't judge him "just because this person has been arrested and charged for sexual assault against minority and attempted murder" and allow your young children to be around this person alone? If this sexual predator with pedo tendencies is your neighbour do you WANT to know?
If yes, you may want to revalue your merit as a (potential) parent. If no, you have answered your own question.
My previous point may not sit well with you - but you may also consider that it is not the reporting that is in the wrong. I think people should have some right to know, and if you really think that they should not be judged, then it's the people the judge that is wrong, not the reporting. Although I acknowledge that it's a problem in the society that many people just OMG at news-of-the-day and never bother to verify after the fact that someone's charges has been dropped or found not guilty.
Two days are more than enough, not only because of heat (which is very likely), but also because the subject in question is fleeing, which means he may be can get dehydrated faster than athletes on a 4 hour marathon.
Mr Kwon is one of three co-chief executives of Samsung Electronics. His resignation comes on the same day the firm forecast record quarterly profits, citing higher memory chip prices.
That's equivalent of "The market is good so we are so very sure that next quarter is the best quarter ever.", and this statement tie perfectly with his new-spirit-whatever statement that comes along his resignation speech.
And last week he was still clinging on by throwing their CIO and CSO under the bus. Given the multiple instances of criminally neglient way Equifax handle the aftermath and violation of basic security principles would it be that he finally comprehended the extent of their screw up?
It's not unlikely that entitled CEOs with his Ivory Tower buddies thought at first that this "PR Disaster" could be solved by a few fall guys, maybe a statement of non-apology or two, a free website and threw in some freebie reporting (that costs Equifax almost zero marginal cost) and he could ride out this 6-12 months.
Perhaps he finally grasped that at best, the company is ruined. It is probable that a few person (perhaps even CxO level) is going to jail like Enron execs - the fiduciary duty to 143 million people are even heavier that that of Enron, it's virtually any and all USA working people with a minimal "economic participartion".
Or worst case scenario in his POV, he realized might had nuclear-Armagaddoned the whole private / consumer Credit industry. After virtually all economically active people in the USA has been compromised there are little ways for any agencies to vet credit worthiness anymore at a low cost way for numerous years. Then the damage flow down to all Financial institutions (who can'teven know who is who and can't decide whether to even do business with eager customers) and to less extent, all employers and other individuals (like landlords), and the whole financial market will either need a total overhaul or suffer a meltdown............ Possibly a total overhaul AFTER meltdown. At that point, he should fear for his life and flee... cough I mean retire to a tropical island and stepping down from CEO and fleeing from the burning house known as Equifax is a prudent start.
None of the communist regimes achieved power through non-violent means, if I remember correctly. And almost all Communist regimes, if they do not significantly deviate from their original ideals (like market reforms post-Mao) run into big existential problems caused by basic resource allocation failure within 2 decades, some much faster, even before the almost inevitable corruption of the ruling elite that is caused by absolute power with no oversight. For that, hit-and-miss results of Democracy has been miles better than 0% hit by communism in the past century.
Don't ever doubt for moment that humankind have a way to dig deeper at the rock bottom whenever boredom is involved in any first-world problems.
I think you're not getting parent's point. In economic terms wealth!=amount of cash one has, parent meant "richer" in "Consumer welfare" context (try google it). The purchasers now have $5 less per person in cash but they more enjoy more individual benefits derived from the consumption of the app. On related note, if you bought $2 of buns for breakfast, you most likely benefited much more from buying the $2 buns than growing the wheat, grinding it to flour and baking it yourself. That's how economy and division of labour is supposed to work, and money is just a medium of exchange and not wealth.
Also because most genres of movie actually attracts viewers whose motivation is to pay a sum to escape from reality for two hours, not to get another slice of life. Hollywood elites are getting priorities wrong if they insist that people pay for their social messages and berate their actual paying customers if and when they do not lap up every single bit of their gravy they put out.
I don't know about John Goodman but as I teen I thought stuff like Austin Powers was disgusting, and I positively avoided any "comedy" if the movie trailers reek attempts grossing people out in hit-and-misss jabs of body / bathroom humours, and that certainly included half-naked guys with beer bellies. I don't watch a lot of movies so I may be biased, but some of the actresses that try to push as "average" in the body positive movement certainly does not look average to me. I'm not talking about the face, I'm talking about ladies that look at least 15kg overweight featured as "average weight" . Likes of Amy Schmer should not be featured in bikinis. Some of the attempts to correct the lookism trend are way over the top, the pushback shows up in one-star ratings of likes of Amy Schmer movies and the all-girl Ghost Busters flop.
If medical study and caution for side effects for women contraceptive was held to same stringent standard as this current male contraceptive is now, will the women pill be stuck as "five years away for the last 40 years" as well. Women Contraceptives are not exactly harmless for health.
While you are at the supermarket example let's just say.... let's not pretend pretend the the ground "beef" is the same everywhere. And I've heard (second-handedly) that for the great bargain price of $1 the packaged hot dogs in the Dollar Tree was downright nauseating. You've bread, something that resembled a Frankfurt, something that used to be lettuce but now part shrivelled and the wetter part turning slimy. You can also look up the thousands (millions?) of horror outsourcing stories when you based your criteria on price alone.
Except that Middle East has much larger pile of by-then aging modern weapons that has a used-by date, and historically and culturally speaking the countries are much more violent. The silver lining being that some of the more backward, dysfunctional monarchies finally cease to get propped up by oil, thus ending the major source of funding for terrorism.
As safeguard I think it may be help if (since as suggested by other posters, Tesla autopilot may not have enough capacity to judge what is a safe place to pull over) it starts with the car slowing down to a speed that will lower fatality rate shall accident occur, after X minutes of inattention. Their vehicle slowing should give ample incentive for "mutitasking" drivers to put their hands back to steering.
So I think that ties back to the GP poster and some opinions I saw :-
Many American vote in ways that would imply supporting tax cuts for the well-off, as even though their income are in lower-middle class bracket and they're up to the eyeballs with debt...... they think they're upper middle class or rich man material that has hit a temporary rough patch. And they're for the tax cuts because in their life plan they see themselves getting back to that upper-middle-class status just one opportunity away.
In that extension, many also believe in America being/was the greatest country, and when what they saw in their eyes obvious do not coincide with what he believe was the truth and taught as a child 3,4 decades ago, they felt wronged by the system felt utter injustice. And that's why the MAGA resonates so well, and they shall get America to what it was and should be.
Yes you need a license to use them. It's called Identification card, social security, or whatever your country calls it. Foreign citizens can use it as long as they have a Visa or passport. Existing on the streets or any part of a country without them and you're an illegal.
DUH... OF COURSE?
Japanese society can come up with great ideas, but a lot of times major ideas are not thought through all the way. This was one of those ideas, it was innovation for innovations sake and didn't really solve the problem of too many seniors and not enough facilities to take care of them. I mean, how much human care could $100,000 have provided to an entire senior center?
But there is a significant minority (I read about 20%? last year from Nikkei- can't find the source now) that would have rather be taken care by a quality, affordable robot than a caretaker. May sound surprising to many, but a minority do think that being taken care of at home by a robot means they are still living like an independent individual instead of an invalid. Having a non-thinking, non-judging robot clean up when you pooped in your wheelchair can be more dignifying than having a nurse to do so. Human interaction can be provided less frequently, like caretakers checking every two or three days, and there should be lots of other stuff that a robot won't be advanced enough to do within this two or 3 decades. Too bad if this can't get through the initial steep prices. Just like viable green technology that may never be available on market if they were abandoned at Step 2 on pricing concerns.