but but but but what if Scotty beams down 500 orphans with their arms linked in a circle around your car while you're going 200mph?! What will your car do then?!?!
I am getting tired of all of the "Which should an autonomous car hit" questions when the answer is "Neither because if the car is functioning correctly, the car sensors should have picked up the little old lady as soon as she stepped into the street, and the busload of school kids when it came around the corner a block away, and will have decided the path to take to avoid every single obstacle within a few milliseconds or come to an ABS-assisted stop." I think people have joked so much about the light pole just jumping out in front of you that they are actually beginning to believe that can actually happen. Sure, someone might throw themselves off an overpass immediately in front of you and they're gonna die, but a human would have hit them too.
There are serious objections to autonomous driving (sensor reliability being the top one) but people are fixated on whatever moral alignment the car will have (sign me up for Lawful Evil).
I'm sure Zorin Industries has fully insured its equipment against earthquake damage and its oil against loss. In the event of a catastrophe, Max Zorin will pull the cord on his golden parachute, paying himself the money from the insurance policies as a severance package, then leaving a bankrupt Zorin Industries responsible for the cleanup.
(yes, I know there is no Zorin Industries, but feel free to insert whatever compan(ies) actually own the oil tankers here.)
I find it hard to understand why "are games art?" strikes anyone as enough of a question to even be asked.
Because, for better or worse, we've given our government the ability to censor things that are not "speech" and the government has decided that artistic value is one of the things that it will use to decide what is "speech" or not.
I've always been curious how things would have turned out if some kid had broken Bastiat's leg instead of his window, because a large portion of the money spent on healthcare is nothing but maintenance as Bastiat would have seen it.
I suspect after the first couple of people do that, it will become $200 + $5000 deposit to be credited to your AWS account when they get the thing back.
Can the client climb on the second floor with a rope? We used that in a treehouse last year. It should work the same.
Now, Steve, what did I tell you about pulling in dependencies without my say-so? I know you're comfortable with all those old frameworks but we need to keep our design fresh and cutting edge. Now, I've got this excellent system some kids just out of college put together, very next gen, very cutting edge. See, you just take a see-saw and the guy picks up a boulder and stands on one end of it...
cherry-picking a few horror cases is a propaganda technique
And? What are you going to do about them? These are messes that the industrialists made. Are you even going to provide a counter-point of an unregulated mine that was shutdown in a clean and orderly manner? CAN you even provide a counter-point? Are you going to tell us what makes this time different? Tell us why, if we drop all the regulations now and start over just like back then, people will not do the same things they did back then?
Never fails to get the subject to tell you whatever it is you tell them to tell you to make it stop?
Never fails to get the subject to tell you bullshit that you can't verify in order to get you to stop? (Why don't you ask McCain about his Vietnam tour?)
I found out you were a fan of our local baseball team because I snuck into your house and hacked your computer
Dammit, that sounds like a lot of work. How 'bout I just sit here on my fat ass then tell the court that I found out you were a fan of our local baseball team because of... well, I can't tell you because it's a state secret, but just trust me, and don't try to verify.
Why would I buy an overpriced burrito from my neighbor when Taco Bell sells the exact same burrito for 50 cents less because they continue to pay less for "beef" in bulk?
TL;DR it will be like mom 'n pop stores, only miniaturized
Like the ones driven out of business by Wal-Mart, only miniaturized?
We're heading for a world where all the workers own their means of production
How does that work? I buy a burgerbot and lease it to McDonalds instead of working there myself? Why would McDonalds deal with me when they can buy 500,000 burgerbots in bulk at a price far lower than I could ever negotiate for my single bot?
Or I buy a burgerbot and just compete with McDonalds, along with the other 499,999 people that thought this was a good idea?
We are approaching a point where we no longer need all the people we have to do all the things that need to be done. This will be an interesting challenge for the 21st century, what do we do with all the people who are no longer required to make stuff?
The same thing we've always done: belittle and mock them for being unable to get a job. While we wait for that time to come, we'll do the same thing we've been doing: belittle and mock people for thinking that robots will ever replace people at their job.
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but but but but what if Scotty beams down 500 orphans with their arms linked in a circle around your car while you're going 200mph?! What will your car do then?!?!
I am getting tired of all of the "Which should an autonomous car hit" questions when the answer is "Neither because if the car is functioning correctly, the car sensors should have picked up the little old lady as soon as she stepped into the street, and the busload of school kids when it came around the corner a block away, and will have decided the path to take to avoid every single obstacle within a few milliseconds or come to an ABS-assisted stop." I think people have joked so much about the light pole just jumping out in front of you that they are actually beginning to believe that can actually happen. Sure, someone might throw themselves off an overpass immediately in front of you and they're gonna die, but a human would have hit them too.
There are serious objections to autonomous driving (sensor reliability being the top one) but people are fixated on whatever moral alignment the car will have (sign me up for Lawful Evil).
I'm sure Zorin Industries has fully insured its equipment against earthquake damage and its oil against loss. In the event of a catastrophe, Max Zorin will pull the cord on his golden parachute, paying himself the money from the insurance policies as a severance package, then leaving a bankrupt Zorin Industries responsible for the cleanup.
(yes, I know there is no Zorin Industries, but feel free to insert whatever compan(ies) actually own the oil tankers here.)
Because, for better or worse, we've given our government the ability to censor things that are not "speech" and the government has decided that artistic value is one of the things that it will use to decide what is "speech" or not.
Because, for better or worse, certain people have been agitating for years for the government to come in and start censoring videogames. (This predates the current batch of agitators, and will likely continue long after these are gone.)
I've always been curious how things would have turned out if some kid had broken Bastiat's leg instead of his window, because a large portion of the money spent on healthcare is nothing but maintenance as Bastiat would have seen it.
I'd be ok with land mines if they automatically evaporated once the war is over too.
Nobel didn't originally accept economics as a science either, this economist won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, which was originally provided by the Swedish bank in 1968 through a perpetual endowment to the Nobel Foundation.
I've gotten "can't run program" submitted from the feedback form inside the program.
Because the threat of the government coming in and demanding everyone install a government approved backdoor on their encrypted data is real.
That threat is the difference between "You're alive!" and "You're alive, for now!"
I suspect after the first couple of people do that, it will become $200 + $5000 deposit to be credited to your AWS account when they get the thing back.
Fritz: We should at least tell Steve over in the engine construction department that he won't need to install urea tanks on all of these cars, right?
Hans: Yes, this is good. He will surely share his bonus with us and not throw us under the bus when people discover what we have done.
Now, Steve, what did I tell you about pulling in dependencies without my say-so? I know you're comfortable with all those old frameworks but we need to keep our design fresh and cutting edge. Now, I've got this excellent system some kids just out of college put together, very next gen, very cutting edge. See, you just take a see-saw and the guy picks up a boulder and stands on one end of it...
And? What are you going to do about them? These are messes that the industrialists made. Are you even going to provide a counter-point of an unregulated mine that was shutdown in a clean and orderly manner? CAN you even provide a counter-point? Are you going to tell us what makes this time different? Tell us why, if we drop all the regulations now and start over just like back then, people will not do the same things they did back then?
All I'm saying is that we can't develop something until we have a need for it, and has anyone really said they needed a second floor?
That sounds like a lot of work. Why not just declare he's got kiddy porn and we can't show our proof because national security, trust us?
And it's legal for human drivers to run into you?!
How much do you think they'd get for that? T-Mobile gave that away for free!
Never fails to what?
Never fails to get the subject to tell you whatever it is you tell them to tell you to make it stop?
Never fails to get the subject to tell you bullshit that you can't verify in order to get you to stop? (Why don't you ask McCain about his Vietnam tour?)
You can also try searching for a "Multi-Console" KVM switch too. No, they're not cheap either.
Yeah! You should stop doing the work so everyone gets an F, including yourself! That'll show 'em!
Dammit, that sounds like a lot of work. How 'bout I just sit here on my fat ass then tell the court that I found out you were a fan of our local baseball team because of... well, I can't tell you because it's a state secret, but just trust me, and don't try to verify.
Why would I buy an overpriced burrito from my neighbor when Taco Bell sells the exact same burrito for 50 cents less because they continue to pay less for "beef" in bulk?
Like the ones driven out of business by Wal-Mart, only miniaturized?
How does that work? I buy a burgerbot and lease it to McDonalds instead of working there myself? Why would McDonalds deal with me when they can buy 500,000 burgerbots in bulk at a price far lower than I could ever negotiate for my single bot?
Or I buy a burgerbot and just compete with McDonalds, along with the other 499,999 people that thought this was a good idea?
The same thing we've always done: belittle and mock them for being unable to get a job. While we wait for that time to come, we'll do the same thing we've been doing: belittle and mock people for thinking that robots will ever replace people at their job.
When the game isn't fair, people quit playing.
No, no, the bigger hammer. I need one for... testing purposes.