You have to hand it to Apple. They recognised early on that soon lots of stupid people will be buying technology devices. While I personally will never buy one of their products, I applaud their skill at separating fools from their money.
A crash at high speed can cause dozens of human deaths if the car becomes airborne and lands on a spectator stand.
Only if there are spectators in the stands. Really, who want's to watch a bunch of automated machines race each other? You may as well just load up Gran Turismo and watch the demo without playing it.
Many of us consider it borderline unethical to raise that population any further, until such time as we can deal with the number we have without destroying the joint.
If two people have two children then it is not increasing.
You missed the most important part of the puzzle, public approval, which IMO is a huge fail. There is no way this is ever going to be allowed in public airspace. The noise/visual pollution and saftey concerns is an unwinnable argument in this day and age.
And if by some miracle does get approved, as soon as some clown puts a 55lb bomb on one and delivers it to someone he hates, that'll be the end of them forever.
Where I live, we have mailmen (or mailwomen) walking door to door.
And if I had a dollar for everytime some new gimmick made the claim of "soon this will be as normal as.." I'd be rich.
The Segway claimed something similar, and I very rarely see those things anywhere.
The typical major metropolitan area in the United States is about 30 miles across. One depot in the middle of the city, or two at opposite ends, and the vast majority of customers are accessible with no truck at all. That's also why the new drone is a VTOL airplane, complete with wings and a rear propeller. They were chasing that range, and wings was the way to do it.
Nothing explains the most difficult part of the operation, public acceptance of something potentially noisy and dangerous in public airspace.
We had the phone company try to put up a cell tower here. The design was unintrusive and as good as you could expect for a concrete pole, but the people marched on the streets and successfully blocked its installation. If people won't accept a silent, non-moving pole, there is no way this will ever get across the line.
Because you want them to use public transportation, and they just bought a new PC and printer.
Can't they get them delivered? (Yes I realise delivery drivers will need a car/van, but we're not talking complete elimnation of vehicles here, just mass reduction of private use in the city)
Or even better, design good high density living within walking/cycling distance of Metro stations so that people don't need cars at all.
Having been raised in a place with crap public transport, then having the opportunity to live in Hong Kong for a couple of years and never once not needing a car, I feel this is the only model that really works in a large city.
Nobody could possible know how many had the opportunity and turned it down.
Er, can't you just ask them?
Seriously, next time you're out for drinks, at a BBQ, or around the water cooler at work, ask your friends who thinks an Internet Fridge is something they're thinking about buying.
I don't think we need any gimmicky activity, all I'd like is recognition once a year that for a lot of people Snowden is a hero.
I just looked it up and his birthday is June 21. I'll have to try and remember to do something about it next year.
In fact raising Snowden makes me even more worried because it demonstrates the people supposedly with the "intelligence" are as dumb as planks.
The CIA needs to be dismantled and replaced with something a bit better than this
As for speeding along on coke or similar during sex: it really isn't interesting. Take a clue from the old Stones song "Satisfaction" - having hours of erection isn't much fun when the knob is is numb.
All that stuff is what happens when you spend too much time in your bedroom reading headlines.
There is a big exciting world out there, don't let headlines drag you down.
I shudder to think how WWII would have ended if the alliance powers had each worried so much about what the other sides would do AFTER they defeated Hitler that they refused to ally with one another to begin with.
Well considering there was 45 years of Cold War because of it, and we're nearly 50 years of Middle East issues because of it, maybe they should've.
That only works if the host nation is willing to be your buddy and ally.
Or you force it on them. It worked quite well in the colonies, the trick being to occupy for a couple of generations and force educate western values on everyone.
Had we instilled an occupational government in Iraq for 50 years, and established free education and medical, equal rights, etc then we might have had a chance of leaving there by 2050 with the place in good shape. As it stands we'll be there for 50 years anyway pussy footing around trying not to be a bad guy, and it'll still be a war zone.
Car Sales are another dinosaur industry vulnerable to be disrupted, just like Taxis prior to Uber.
I'm surprised that some VC's aren't already plotting their demise as we speak.
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You have to hand it to Apple. They recognised early on that soon lots of stupid people will be buying technology devices. While I personally will never buy one of their products, I applaud their skill at separating fools from their money.
A crash at high speed can cause dozens of human deaths if the car becomes airborne and lands on a spectator stand.
Only if there are spectators in the stands. Really, who want's to watch a bunch of automated machines race each other? You may as well just load up Gran Turismo and watch the demo without playing it.
Many of us consider it borderline unethical to raise that population any further, until such time as we can deal with the number we have without destroying the joint.
If two people have two children then it is not increasing.
Hmmm...I could see some nefarious person or organization painting an Amazon logo on their drone,
Why would they need an Amazon logo? This technology already exists for people not interest in following rules. Nothing Amazon is doing changes this.
That sounds like a trifecta to me.
You missed the most important part of the puzzle, public approval, which IMO is a huge fail. There is no way this is ever going to be allowed in public airspace. The noise/visual pollution and saftey concerns is an unwinnable argument in this day and age.
And if by some miracle does get approved, as soon as some clown puts a 55lb bomb on one and delivers it to someone he hates, that'll be the end of them forever.
>> normal as seeing mail trucks on the road
Where I live, we have mailmen (or mailwomen) walking door to door.
And if I had a dollar for everytime some new gimmick made the claim of "soon this will be as normal as.." I'd be rich.
The Segway claimed something similar, and I very rarely see those things anywhere.
The typical major metropolitan area in the United States is about 30 miles across. One depot in the middle of the city, or two at opposite ends, and the vast majority of customers are accessible with no truck at all. That's also why the new drone is a VTOL airplane, complete with wings and a rear propeller. They were chasing that range, and wings was the way to do it.
Nothing explains the most difficult part of the operation, public acceptance of something potentially noisy and dangerous in public airspace.
We had the phone company try to put up a cell tower here. The design was unintrusive and as good as you could expect for a concrete pole, but the people marched on the streets and successfully blocked its installation. If people won't accept a silent, non-moving pole, there is no way this will ever get across the line.
Because you want them to use public transportation, and they just bought a new PC and printer.
Can't they get them delivered? (Yes I realise delivery drivers will need a car/van, but we're not talking complete elimnation of vehicles here, just mass reduction of private use in the city)
Or even better, design good high density living within walking/cycling distance of Metro stations so that people don't need cars at all.
Having been raised in a place with crap public transport, then having the opportunity to live in Hong Kong for a couple of years and never once not needing a car, I feel this is the only model that really works in a large city.
Nobody could possible know how many had the opportunity and turned it down.
Er, can't you just ask them? Seriously, next time you're out for drinks, at a BBQ, or around the water cooler at work, ask your friends who thinks an Internet Fridge is something they're thinking about buying.
I don't think we need any gimmicky activity, all I'd like is recognition once a year that for a lot of people Snowden is a hero.
I just looked it up and his birthday is June 21. I'll have to try and remember to do something about it next year.
Lots of people in the UK, myself included, quite simply don't carry cash around anymore.
Then how do you pay for your drugs and whores?
In fact raising Snowden makes me even more worried because it demonstrates the people supposedly with the "intelligence" are as dumb as planks.
The CIA needs to be dismantled and replaced with something a bit better than this
We need an Edward Snowden Day. How do you organise one of those things?
It's over 370k views already...
As for speeding along on coke or similar during sex: it really isn't interesting. Take a clue from the old Stones song "Satisfaction" - having hours of erection isn't much fun when the knob is is numb.
Don't believe everything you read....
All that stuff is what happens when you spend too much time in your bedroom reading headlines.
There is a big exciting world out there, don't let headlines drag you down.
I never understood why anyone likes little titties, you may as well look at small boys. C Cup and above is the key to my quality of life.
My choice of dinner date would be a table full of porn chicks and a bag of coke. Who wants to talk shop outside of work hours?
That's largely because they have a hugely profitable mining industry which effectively subsidises the entire country.
Isn't this the same for every country? Every rich country has some rich industries providing the money. This argument makes no sense...
It's much the same situation as several states in the middle east that have huge oil reserves.
Yet they don't have as high standards of living. I fail to see how this is relevant?
I can, so I have no idea what you are talking about.
Maybe less reading websites and more travel would do you some good.
I shudder to think how WWII would have ended if the alliance powers had each worried so much about what the other sides would do AFTER they defeated Hitler that they refused to ally with one another to begin with.
Well considering there was 45 years of Cold War because of it, and we're nearly 50 years of Middle East issues because of it, maybe they should've.
That only works if the host nation is willing to be your buddy and ally.
Or you force it on them. It worked quite well in the colonies, the trick being to occupy for a couple of generations and force educate western values on everyone.
Had we instilled an occupational government in Iraq for 50 years, and established free education and medical, equal rights, etc then we might have had a chance of leaving there by 2050 with the place in good shape. As it stands we'll be there for 50 years anyway pussy footing around trying not to be a bad guy, and it'll still be a war zone.
I keep my cars for about 5 or 6 years, so for me (and most people) this is not a problem.
Car Sales are another dinosaur industry vulnerable to be disrupted, just like Taxis prior to Uber.
I'm surprised that some VC's aren't already plotting their demise as we speak.