Argumentum ad monsantium, that your opponent is a shill, can be used against any side in a debate, and therefore lacks substance. So can the closely related fallacy argumentum ad pomum, that your oppoment is an unpaid but mind-made-up fanboi.
For at least a generation to come, you'll still be able to buy the personal luxury you want, that "My Car" in which you truck around all the stuff you have been used to carrying. But as more and more of the people around you opt to ditch the payments and the insurance and parking hassles, the cost of being old school will steadily go up. It all depends on how big a premium you're willing to pay.
Obviously al-Qaeda is working for the Trump campaign. Those comments about what refugees should be admitted seemed so far out just last fall. Then followed Paris, Cologne, Brussels, and now this. Our military couldn't kill al-Qaeda, but now we can set our lawyers on them. Better call for heavenly mercy!
"Try 3-body Problem. It may be a slow start, though and I don't think it was a nominee. For that matter, I'm not sure it's a current-year book, but it was a good read."
The second or third volume of Cixin's trilogy probably is, though.
SDCs are NOT going to be the end of buses and other mass transit vehicles. Instead, we will come to see cars and larger personal transit vehicles as being one system, vehicles we switch between as we continually make our own calculations of cost vs convenience. Once it becomes easy to figure out that a bus is on your commute home and stops a couple of blocks from your house, you will use it for commuting on ordinary days. When you have errands on the way home or have to work outside of bus hours, you will pay a little more and summon a car.
The first cars to be replaced by SDCs will be your urban commuteboxes. For a while, people will cling to the "weekend car" for hauling big things and for road trips. But given time, the cost savings of giving up car ownership will put SDCs in play for road trips too. When your land yacht breaks down in the sesert a thousand miles from home, you have an expensive mess on your hands. Hours waiting for the AAA to show up, being towed to a strange city where you hope you will be able to get help, a blown vacation.
Now think about what happens when your SDC breaks down in the desert. You fire up your app to contact the company, they send out a replacement, and your family is having burgers at Denny's while the car owner family is still trying to figure out how they will pay the huge bills.
When I worked in a large Asian city where driving was not an option, I already had to get used to the change in shopping lifestyle. In this situation, the things you pick up on the way home are what you can carry. When you buy something large, you have it delivered. Even now, in rural northern Arizona, I would rather buy large bulky things on Amazon and have them whisked home by UPS.
Right now, the people who ride city transit systems are for the most part not the same people who drive. Drivers are in the habit of using their cars whenever they can, and vote for transit only when they think that buses and trains will take people off the road and out of their way.
But once autonomous car use becomes general, the whole culture of "my car" will be replaced by a rental culture in which people summon a car when needed for single rides. The attraction of ditching car payments, insurance payments and the whole parking mess will just be too irresistible for ordinary people, especially in crowded urban areas.
So once you're used to being chauffeured everywhere in fleet vehicles, why not check the "Will share ride" box on your car-summoning app to ride in a multi-passenger vehicle when you can? Depending on the money to be saved by riding this way, people will pick up the neighborhood walking habits that distinguishes transit riders.
You won't want self-driving cars to circle the block wasting juice. Each ride will be a separate rental from your chosen company's fleet. As you check out at the mall or the market, you summon a new ride. Released cars will rest in buffer lots near shopping areas until someone needs a new ride. These will differ from conventional parking lots in not having to be walking distance from shopping, and not being associated with specific shops. Instead, they will be at "summoning distance" from all shopping in a given area. Much less city land devoted to parking, because none of it has to be for "your" car. There will be no more inner-city crapola about "the rightmost ten spaces in this lot is reserved for customers of Bertha's Kitty Boutique."
The legal system perceives the ideal juror as being of fairly normal intelligence but easily led. What's scary is that both prosecution and defense have the same view.
Except the illegality of prostitution is the whole reason for the trafficking. If prostitution was legal and out-in-the-open, then there would be no need for trafficking.
Logically yes, but this is about politics, not logic.
"Security is much worse at Heathrow than any American airport. They are extremely anal about every little thing, and damn slow, too"
This is true. On our last departure from Heathrow (June 2014) we encountered four separate security rechecks inside Terminal 5 after the regular big one.
Who are the victims? It sounds like all parties consented to each transaction.
You're not quite current. There was a moment when liberals briefly supported the right of prostitutes to operate legally as a business, but now they call it "trafficking" so they can make it evil again.
I would say that is a failure of the lawyers during the process of voir dire.
If you want to get out of jury duty, standard procedure is to admit being an engineer at voir dire. The result in this example is a jury that is not competent to try the case.
Obviously, a generally applicable single-board computer that is cheap enough to be used as a teaching aid for science-tech elementary students. Not for people like you.
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Or -- keep things the way it is, as for those of us that do not use illegal drugs, this is good news.
Could this lead to a Sun City economy, with hiring of devs over age forty?
Argumentum ad monsantium, that your opponent is a shill, can be used against any side in a debate, and therefore lacks substance. So can the closely related fallacy argumentum ad pomum, that your oppoment is an unpaid but mind-made-up fanboi.
For at least a generation to come, you'll still be able to buy the personal luxury you want, that "My Car" in which you truck around all the stuff you have been used to carrying. But as more and more of the people around you opt to ditch the payments and the insurance and parking hassles, the cost of being old school will steadily go up. It all depends on how big a premium you're willing to pay.
Normally no, but this common Phoenix-area highway situation would make an ideal test of self-drive in high speed situations.
Obviously al-Qaeda is working for the Trump campaign. Those comments about what refugees should be admitted seemed so far out just last fall. Then followed Paris, Cologne, Brussels, and now this. Our military couldn't kill al-Qaeda, but now we can set our lawyers on them. Better call for heavenly mercy!
"Try 3-body Problem. It may be a slow start, though and I don't think it was a nominee. For that matter, I'm not sure it's a current-year book, but it was a good read."
The second or third volume of Cixin's trilogy probably is, though.
So it looks like the Sad Puppies aren't able to influence the Nebula awards.
SF is not supposed to be Beale's outlet. If the genre needs to take a political stand, it should be to defend science and its applications.
Stick to the space cows that app apps, buddy.
SDCs are NOT going to be the end of buses and other mass transit vehicles. Instead, we will come to see cars and larger personal transit vehicles as being one system, vehicles we switch between as we continually make our own calculations of cost vs convenience. Once it becomes easy to figure out that a bus is on your commute home and stops a couple of blocks from your house, you will use it for commuting on ordinary days. When you have errands on the way home or have to work outside of bus hours, you will pay a little more and summon a car.
The first cars to be replaced by SDCs will be your urban commuteboxes. For a while, people will cling to the "weekend car" for hauling big things and for road trips. But given time, the cost savings of giving up car ownership will put SDCs in play for road trips too. When your land yacht breaks down in the sesert a thousand miles from home, you have an expensive mess on your hands. Hours waiting for the AAA to show up, being towed to a strange city where you hope you will be able to get help, a blown vacation.
Now think about what happens when your SDC breaks down in the desert. You fire up your app to contact the company, they send out a replacement, and your family is having burgers at Denny's while the car owner family is still trying to figure out how they will pay the huge bills.
When I worked in a large Asian city where driving was not an option, I already had to get used to the change in shopping lifestyle. In this situation, the things you pick up on the way home are what you can carry. When you buy something large, you have it delivered. Even now, in rural northern Arizona, I would rather buy large bulky things on Amazon and have them whisked home by UPS.
Right now, the people who ride city transit systems are for the most part not the same people who drive. Drivers are in the habit of using their cars whenever they can, and vote for transit only when they think that buses and trains will take people off the road and out of their way.
But once autonomous car use becomes general, the whole culture of "my car" will be replaced by a rental culture in which people summon a car when needed for single rides. The attraction of ditching car payments, insurance payments and the whole parking mess will just be too irresistible for ordinary people, especially in crowded urban areas.
So once you're used to being chauffeured everywhere in fleet vehicles, why not check the "Will share ride" box on your car-summoning app to ride in a multi-passenger vehicle when you can? Depending on the money to be saved by riding this way, people will pick up the neighborhood walking habits that distinguishes transit riders.
You won't want self-driving cars to circle the block wasting juice. Each ride will be a separate rental from your chosen company's fleet. As you check out at the mall or the market, you summon a new ride. Released cars will rest in buffer lots near shopping areas until someone needs a new ride. These will differ from conventional parking lots in not having to be walking distance from shopping, and not being associated with specific shops. Instead, they will be at "summoning distance" from all shopping in a given area. Much less city land devoted to parking, because none of it has to be for "your" car. There will be no more inner-city crapola about "the rightmost ten spaces in this lot is reserved for customers of Bertha's Kitty Boutique."
That's enough for a business class upgrade!
The legal system perceives the ideal juror as being of fairly normal intelligence but easily led. What's scary is that both prosecution and defense have the same view.
Except the illegality of prostitution is the whole reason for the trafficking. If prostitution was legal and out-in-the-open, then there would be no need for trafficking.
Logically yes, but this is about politics, not logic.
"Security is much worse at Heathrow than any American airport. They are extremely anal about every little thing, and damn slow, too"
This is true. On our last departure from Heathrow (June 2014) we encountered four separate security rechecks inside Terminal 5 after the regular big one.
Who are the victims? It sounds like all parties consented to each transaction.
You're not quite current. There was a moment when liberals briefly supported the right of prostitutes to operate legally as a business, but now they call it "trafficking" so they can make it evil again.
"Can anyone provide any real evidence to disprove these facts?"
I can't disprove that your head is a giant cabbage either, but in this case that would be a pretty good guess.
I would say that is a failure of the lawyers during the process of voir dire.
If you want to get out of jury duty, standard procedure is to admit being an engineer at voir dire. The result in this example is a jury that is not competent to try the case.
This kid's parents seriously need to get a nanny.
" WTF is that even supposed to mean?"
Obviously, a generally applicable single-board computer that is cheap enough to be used as a teaching aid for science-tech elementary students. Not for people like you.
Their kind hates science.
That's why all the people protesting nuclear projects, genetic engineering, and mountaintop telescopes are wearing business suits.
I don't like the tenon of this thread.
Large corporations love Flash. The expensive dev tools are a large barrier to competition.
Said dev tools will undoubtedly be rental only, part of what Adobe calls its Creative Accounting suite.