Really check your frigging outrage. This is market working!
In this case the car did not belong to them, nor was it part of an existing agreement. The fact that they happened to still have to ability to disable the car does not give them the right to do so.
I notice that the very first bullet point of evidence submitted by prosecutors is "Statements made by Hutchins after he was arrested." As Popehat has said, when the police interview or arrest you, shut up. Don't explain, don't offer reasons or excuses, just shut the hell up and get a lawyer.
That is a great process if you have an investor that will invest in R&D. That is not how crowdfunding works.
That's his entire point. Crowdfunding is coming up with an idea, then saying give us money and we'll crank out 100,000 of these and everybody will be happy. That's not product development, that's wishful thinking.
If the shipped product turns out massively enjoyable - just like VCS you are rewarded with more than what you invested.
If that's the case you can just buy it normally after it reaches the marketplace. The headline says "customers" when it should say "backers". Not the same thing, even if it somehow feels like it.
Yes, and "one of" the last generations to die. Of course it will be ridiculously expensive at first. Its always been that way. After that, more and more classes get access. And then when the robots eventually take over it'll be up to them to decide what happens to the remaining humans.
This is a recipe for disaster. I'd rather be shot dead than tethered to a tracking device.
The tracking device is only for the testing, to have correspond information. The aim is to figure out where you are through ubiquitous cameras. Sure, the current generation will hate it, but humans get used to things and with enough repetition come to accept almost anything as normal. The next generation will not be bothered so much. And the one after that? "Well, it's always been this way."
I'd wager right now that there will be little point to owning a car. They will be waiting for you 24/7 at ridiculously low rates anywhere you go. Why spend that crazy amount of money just to have your own box to sit in? And you'll have to store it somewhere while you're not using it. Garages will be slowly converted into more useful rooms. And you certainly won't be permitted to operate it - that's lunacy. Ownership makes no sense.
Not Venezuela, but many other places. I had excellent OPLL surgery on my neck for about $14,000, including four nights in a private hospital room. In the US it would have been (I'm told) close to a quarter million.
You're old, but you're probably comfortable financially. Why skimp on a phone, something that you presumably use many times per day? Get whatever you think the best phone is. I'm fairly frugal overall, but not on things I use often. I don't have a cheap phone or a cheap mattress, but my car is more than ten years old because I don't need to drive more than once or twice per week.
Difficult to parse, yes, but what I believe he meant is that he got a lot of care in the US, while in a socialist country he would have been left to die. That has not been my experience, FWIW, but that's what he meant.
now they are like rats running out of a sinking ship.
It's not only the rats that run from a sinking ship. Wouldn't you? It's not like everyone else just sit and says "well the ship is sinking, but at least there are no rats."
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What's with the hyperbole? This isn't sports. "much better than" is more reasonable than "absolutely destroys", which makes little sense.
In this case the car did not belong to them, nor was it part of an existing agreement. The fact that they happened to still have to ability to disable the car does not give them the right to do so.
"...and why the elephant was carrying a rolled up newspaper I'll never know."
I notice that the very first bullet point of evidence submitted by prosecutors is "Statements made by Hutchins after he was arrested." As Popehat has said, when the police interview or arrest you, shut up. Don't explain, don't offer reasons or excuses, just shut the hell up and get a lawyer.
It's not reading your mind, and never will be, in same way that AI is never AI. The goalposts simply get moved.
So you're illiterate?
Don't worry about it. The only time the word peahen comes up is when somebody is correcting the improper use of peacock. Otherwise nobody says it.
What's that got to do with what I said? Start your own thread.
That's his entire point. Crowdfunding is coming up with an idea, then saying give us money and we'll crank out 100,000 of these and everybody will be happy. That's not product development, that's wishful thinking.
No it wasn't. It was merely people hoping to receive something. If they were actual buyers they would be entitled to a refund.
If that's the case you can just buy it normally after it reaches the marketplace. The headline says "customers" when it should say "backers". Not the same thing, even if it somehow feels like it.
Yes, and "one of" the last generations to die. Of course it will be ridiculously expensive at first. Its always been that way. After that, more and more classes get access. And then when the robots eventually take over it'll be up to them to decide what happens to the remaining humans.
The tracking device is only for the testing, to have correspond information. The aim is to figure out where you are through ubiquitous cameras. Sure, the current generation will hate it, but humans get used to things and with enough repetition come to accept almost anything as normal. The next generation will not be bothered so much. And the one after that? "Well, it's always been this way."
So you wrote it in shorthand?
What hype? It's merely stating the fact. It's still news, even if they should have done it last time (and they should have).
I'd wager right now that there will be little point to owning a car. They will be waiting for you 24/7 at ridiculously low rates anywhere you go. Why spend that crazy amount of money just to have your own box to sit in? And you'll have to store it somewhere while you're not using it. Garages will be slowly converted into more useful rooms. And you certainly won't be permitted to operate it - that's lunacy. Ownership makes no sense.
Who would have paid for it?
Not Venezuela, but many other places. I had excellent OPLL surgery on my neck for about $14,000, including four nights in a private hospital room. In the US it would have been (I'm told) close to a quarter million.
You're old, but you're probably comfortable financially. Why skimp on a phone, something that you presumably use many times per day? Get whatever you think the best phone is. I'm fairly frugal overall, but not on things I use often. I don't have a cheap phone or a cheap mattress, but my car is more than ten years old because I don't need to drive more than once or twice per week.
Difficult to parse, yes, but what I believe he meant is that he got a lot of care in the US, while in a socialist country he would have been left to die. That has not been my experience, FWIW, but that's what he meant.
You mean make one for negative three billion dollars? That'd be a good trick.
It's not only the rats that run from a sinking ship. Wouldn't you? It's not like everyone else just sit and says "well the ship is sinking, but at least there are no rats."
A childlike sense of wonder?
BAMTech is very good at streaming. If this fails it won't be because of that. Lots of other ways to go wrong, of course.
Sheesh, any time someone writes "begs the question" the peoples they go nuts, but write "very unique" and nobody bats an eye?