So why is it that Indians learned about legal systems and railroad building from their colonial masters, while the Zimbabweans learned how to be thugs?
It isn't clear how liability insurance would work for driverless cars, but I can assure you the insurance companies are as losing as much sleep on this as Elon Musk is
No, all this means is that accidents largely shift from being individual driver liability to being product liability. Even assuming big expensive cases for failures, that's going to be a huge net savings on insurance costs.
Paywalled, but whatever pittance Coyote may have won in the lower courts after being rejected by the Ninth Circuit was Pyrrhic. When Sanyo Portable Hole K. K. of Akihabara, Tokyo, became Roadrunner's exclusive supplier of these highly effective countermeasures to Coyote's use of Acme's flawed devices, Coyote's medical bills from running into unexpected canyon walls made it impossible to continue work. He now resides in an assisted care home in Tusayan, AZ, and is permanently barred by the Parks Service from ever revisiting the adjacent Grand Canyon.
Back in that time, it seemed even less likely that private companies would start space programs because everyone knew that Wall Street only looked ahead to the next quarter and that long-term thinking was for governments only.
I was thinking more of painting the road lines into a rock wall, then painting a picture of a tunnel on said wall. (Then waiting for a roadrunner to come by)
After all, Coyote v. Acme was this country's longest running product liability suit. Though the plaintiff, a partially disabled male Canis latrans, meticulously documented his problems with Acme's mail order line of bird-trapping hardware in a long series of filmstrips and videos, his evidence was leaked to the public, exposing Coyote to generations of ridicule. Most recently the Ninth Circuit sent the case back to lower courts, ruling that Coyote had no standing to invoke the Americans With Disabilities Act, since the ADA applies only to humans.
So what is wrong with labeling them? We label vitamins. We label prescriptions. We label water bottles. Why is labeling GMOs so terrible?
We label for ingredients, not for processes. How big would a food label have to be if we had to say "Harvested with combines" and "Shipped in refrigerated trucks" on each of them?
I speak as a person to whom nutrition labels are very important, because my wife is on a complex renal diet. We have to squint at the fine print for substances nobody else cares about, like phosphorus and protein. The more clutter you add to our labels, the bigger a magnifier we have to use.
No, it's just a lame excuse to have yet another technology banned. And this ban on human germline GM has been a hobby horse of Jeremy Rifkin for years. NobOdy is going to spray Roundup on humans for any reason, but Rifkin and his friends in the Hollywood Party will find some excuse to have human genetic engineering banned.
The deeper problem with government missions is the omnipresence of politics. The astronauts whose literal skins are in play may be perfectly willing to assume the risks of advanced missions, but the political fallout associated with any loss of life means that NASA can't let them do it.
It was at the beginning of 1967, first as a limited test market rollout in the Bay Area. So many people thought it was a big improvement over the cell division we had practiced up t that time that by April the press was already proclaiming a "summer of love." By fall, it had spread nationwide, and my generation became legend.
So apparently today's young people are going back to cell division. Who could have known?
Yes, it was a hack, just like when a pro athlete sends out an inappropriate picture because their twitter was hacked.
In the case you're thinking of, today's news is that some porn producer saw the picture and signed the kid up for a contract. This, plus a starring basketball career. Who said there are no more opportunities for today's young people?
"re still aren't enough British plumbers to make up the shortfall, but we've benefitted from importing them from other countries so plumbing work is now only very expensive to get done and not totally extortionate."
That, and the long-standing European tradition that if you are newly trained as a plumber and there is already a plumber in your village, you have to wait until the first one retires.
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This has literally nothing to do with rights, or whiney SJW types. It's just two companies making decisions.
No, it's the SJW whiners within companies making decisions.
Because in Zimbabwe, your monthly broadband payment is a wheelbarrow load of those hundred-trillion-dollar bills.
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So why is it that Indians learned about legal systems and railroad building from their colonial masters, while the Zimbabweans learned how to be thugs?
It isn't clear how liability insurance would work for driverless cars, but I can assure you the insurance companies are as losing as much sleep on this as Elon Musk is
No, all this means is that accidents largely shift from being individual driver liability to being product liability. Even assuming big expensive cases for failures, that's going to be a huge net savings on insurance costs.
This feat was impressive, but it will do no good unless Autopilot takes the driver to a hospital that takes his insurance plan.
Paywalled, but whatever pittance Coyote may have won in the lower courts after being rejected by the Ninth Circuit was Pyrrhic. When Sanyo Portable Hole K. K. of Akihabara, Tokyo, became Roadrunner's exclusive supplier of these highly effective countermeasures to Coyote's use of Acme's flawed devices, Coyote's medical bills from running into unexpected canyon walls made it impossible to continue work. He now resides in an assisted care home in Tusayan, AZ, and is permanently barred by the Parks Service from ever revisiting the adjacent Grand Canyon.
The implementation you're describing requires a Stone Age society. The only candidate who can accomplish this in our lifetime is Jill Stein.
Back in that time, it seemed even less likely that private companies would start space programs because everyone knew that Wall Street only looked ahead to the next quarter and that long-term thinking was for governments only.
Wall Street yes, but not Silicon Valley.
Basically.
I was thinking more of painting the road lines into a rock wall, then painting a picture of a tunnel on said wall.
(Then waiting for a roadrunner to come by)
After all, Coyote v. Acme was this country's longest running product liability suit. Though the plaintiff, a partially disabled male Canis latrans, meticulously documented his problems with Acme's mail order line of bird-trapping hardware in a long series of filmstrips and videos, his evidence was leaked to the public, exposing Coyote to generations of ridicule. Most recently the Ninth Circuit sent the case back to lower courts, ruling that Coyote had no standing to invoke the Americans With Disabilities Act, since the ADA applies only to humans.
The head of the copyright office has resigned and has taken a new job on the board of directors for Comcast.
He may be a moron, but now he will be a rich moron.
So what is wrong with labeling them? We label vitamins. We label prescriptions. We label water bottles. Why is labeling GMOs so terrible?
We label for ingredients, not for processes. How big would a food label have to be if we had to say "Harvested with combines" and "Shipped in refrigerated trucks" on each of them?
I speak as a person to whom nutrition labels are very important, because my wife is on a complex renal diet. We have to squint at the fine print for substances nobody else cares about, like phosphorus and protein. The more clutter you add to our labels, the bigger a magnifier we have to use.
"The problem with GMO's is patents on F'n FOOD!"
This is a defect of our legal system, not our technology.
No, it's just a lame excuse to have yet another technology banned. And this ban on human germline GM has been a hobby horse of Jeremy Rifkin for years. NobOdy is going to spray Roundup on humans for any reason, but Rifkin and his friends in the Hollywood Party will find some excuse to have human genetic engineering banned.
The deeper problem with government missions is the omnipresence of politics. The astronauts whose literal skins are in play may be perfectly willing to assume the risks of advanced missions, but the political fallout associated with any loss of life means that NASA can't let them do it.
"Sure, I'm all for space exploration, when we can fucking afford to go off and play in space. "
Meanwhile, Silicon Valley can not only afford it but is willing to assume the risk that manned space programs involve.
", and the meantime I have lived with 6 wifes (serial monogamy, not muslin)..."
If you weren't paying so much alimony, you could have afforded silk.
" The bitches are ugly, most of them are fat, they have no reason and thanks to modern propaganda very conflicting goals. "
There are women outside of academia too, you know.
It was at the beginning of 1967, first as a limited test market rollout in the Bay Area. So many people thought it was a big improvement over the cell division we had practiced up t that time that by April the press was already proclaiming a "summer of love." By fall, it had spread nationwide, and my generation became legend.
So apparently today's young people are going back to cell division. Who could have known?
Yes, it was a hack, just like when a pro athlete sends out an inappropriate picture because their twitter was hacked.
In the case you're thinking of, today's news is that some porn producer saw the picture and signed the kid up for a contract. This, plus a starring basketball career. Who said there are no more opportunities for today's young people?
Let's all hope this was ransomware proceeds.
... the comment section on this article will be filed with trolls and political shills from the left and right.
Just this once, can't we have a large-scale scientific issue characterized by science and fixed by engineers?
"it's only companies like this that are going to shake up the current medical pricing model."
I suspect that this is the basis for much of the dudgeon directed against the idea of Silicon Valley "intruding" into the sacred medical field.
"I understand fully that is sounds creepy...but is it really that odd?"
To Gawker it is. This is like asking the Rev. Phelps of Westboro Baptist about quantum physics.
So as Peter Thiel is harvesting the blood of the young, who's in charge of playing the spooky organ music?
"re still aren't enough British plumbers to make up the shortfall, but we've benefitted from importing them from other countries so plumbing work is now only very expensive to get done and not totally extortionate."
That, and the long-standing European tradition that if you are newly trained as a plumber and there is already a plumber in your village, you have to wait until the first one retires.