I thought the military mindset was to stay the course no matter how obviously flawed the strategy is. It's good to see flexibility is no longer a dirty word.
... it still involved hundreds of thousands of enslaved people. Many, many third and fourth generation Chinese-Americans can claim a slave ancestor.
They don't. And they don't dwell on it.
Maybe because Asians are smarter than Black people? (that's a question not a statement)
There has to be something to it right? Why are black people generally good at running, and Asians generally good at rote learning? Why are strong men and weight-lifters generally East European? It's nice to pretend racism doesn't exist, but nature makes it awfully hard to believe it.
Also note, I believe everyone should be given equal opportunity, but that is not the same as us all being equal.
Or they might decide that being a police office is too financially risky and quit, en masse. Then we'd have no cops.
I make mistakes at work, and my business sucks it up, how is this different?
Booze, Cigarettes, Clothes, Furniture... all the stuff the Mafia used to do before drugs got so valuable. A truck load of ciggys is well over $100k on the black market.
That is pretty much the entire science fiction genre, 19th and 20th century naval battles set in space. I always thought it would be a great reboot of popular sci-fi movies to remake them in a WW2 setting trying to maintain as much of the original script as possible. With Stars Wars, Luke would be a Polynesian kid on a Pacific Island that gets harassed by the Imperial Japs until he runs off and joins the Marines. Replace star destroyers with aircraft carriers, Tie fighters with Zeroes, The death star can be Hiroshima, The Emperor is the The Emperor, Vada is Yamamoto, and most of it could still works with a little tweaking here and there.
Yes it will. Because there's a lot of truckies out there with extremely poor road manners (ie trying to pass another truck on a two lane road and blocking traffic for many kilometres, tailgating slow drivers because they're impatient etc. Should robot trucks ever see the light of day, they'll be programmed to never tailgate, and they'll have no need to risk passing because a few extra minutes won't matter to the computer.
You brushed on an interest fact which I haven't seen in the robot vehicle discussions. Surely a ship is a lot easier to robotify than a truck? Why isn't anyone talking robot ships?
For security reasons, I can't see how trucks can secure their cargo without a human on-board (whether it be driver/safety observer, or security guard)
There is a reason that bank robberies and such don't happen they way they used to. With the interconnectedness of today's world, it is just too hard to manage an illicit supply chain.
Yeah that explains why there's no more drugs anymore yeah?
Bank robberies don't happen as much because bank security is a lot tighter, and available cash is a lot less. There are more cameras, alarms, armed guards, protective screens, ink packs etc and less money in unsecured drawers so the risk for reward is much, much lower. Banks also tend to be in populated areas with other humans, witnesses and security. A unsecured, unmanned cargo in the middle of a rural freeway on the other hand, is an easy target.
stop repeating this nonsense about technology not disrupting peoples lives. Yes, over the course of several decades the economy replaced those jobs. In the meantime millions were without work.
We have less unemployment now than the 30's yet far more technology. Correlation does not imply causation.
If I build a house and rent it out, surely I deserve the rent payment as long as the house is in a good enough state where people want to rent it?
Sure, but what if you build a house a rent it out, and while you still own the house, no-one is allowed to build a house that looks similar or has the same number of bedrooms?
The problems now and in the future will be different than what they were then, hopefully they won't be getting fondled at work for a chance at a promotion.
I cringe at comments like this, it perpetuates the stereotype. Maybe I grew up in a different place than you, but where I'm from women are treated equally. I've had plenty of women manager's, CEO's, mayors, MPs, attorney general, governor general, head of state and yes even the Queen is a woman. In fact not so long ago, every major government position in the country was held by a woman. So it's hard to claim woman are treated any differently from men, and by that I mean I've seen woman treated like shit, but men equally so. One of the main difference however is when a man misses out of a promotion, or gets bullied, he won't use his sex as an excuse, whereas I've heard plenty of women make that have. Everyone gets picked on, let's not play along with the stereotype that woman are somehow special cases purely because they have a vagina.
Because while it's fun to bag gamer nerds, the elephant in the room is that at the same time as we're evolving into game and porn addicts, girls are evolving into Kardashians and Real Housewives and rewiring their brains into being complete bitches. There's tipping point here where social interaction will simply stall and society will breakdown as a result.
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What deters murderers is not the penalty, but the likelihood of being caught.
Getting caught, and then being penalised. I can't imagine that catching crooks then letting them go without penalty would be much of a deterrent.
If you don't have to have two separate GPS units, you're not going to have them on the plane.
You don't need four engines on a plane, and they weigh slightly more than a simple GPS receiver...
Is this Slashdot or The Daily Mail?
Yes, and why do most Irish people have bright red hair, and most French people smell of garlic, and most Germans are humourless, and...
Oh, wait, they're not.
It's racists and bigots who group people together into stereotypes.
It's stupid people who struggle to see patterns where they can be proven to exist.
Yes, because that's how people learn. Anyone claiming to never making a mistake is not someone I would ever trust.
I agree, but there's a long way between being sacked for gross negligence, and being financially liable for everything you do.
I thought the military mindset was to stay the course no matter how obviously flawed the strategy is. It's good to see flexibility is no longer a dirty word.
... it still involved hundreds of thousands of enslaved people. Many, many third and fourth generation Chinese-Americans can claim a slave ancestor.
They don't. And they don't dwell on it.
Maybe because Asians are smarter than Black people? (that's a question not a statement)
There has to be something to it right? Why are black people generally good at running, and Asians generally good at rote learning? Why are strong men and weight-lifters generally East European? It's nice to pretend racism doesn't exist, but nature makes it awfully hard to believe it.
Also note, I believe everyone should be given equal opportunity, but that is not the same as us all being equal.
Or they might decide that being a police office is too financially risky and quit, en masse. Then we'd have no cops.
I make mistakes at work, and my business sucks it up, how is this different?
Do you have any idea how much money the unions spend to elect politicians who will never hold them accountable for things like this?
No, how much do they spend?
Booze, Cigarettes, Clothes, Furniture... all the stuff the Mafia used to do before drugs got so valuable. A truck load of ciggys is well over $100k on the black market.
Missing the most famous spaceship ever, The Death Star...
That is pretty much the entire science fiction genre, 19th and 20th century naval battles set in space. I always thought it would be a great reboot of popular sci-fi movies to remake them in a WW2 setting trying to maintain as much of the original script as possible. With Stars Wars, Luke would be a Polynesian kid on a Pacific Island that gets harassed by the Imperial Japs until he runs off and joins the Marines. Replace star destroyers with aircraft carriers, Tie fighters with Zeroes, The death star can be Hiroshima, The Emperor is the The Emperor, Vada is Yamamoto, and most of it could still works with a little tweaking here and there.
Yes it will. Because there's a lot of truckies out there with extremely poor road manners (ie trying to pass another truck on a two lane road and blocking traffic for many kilometres, tailgating slow drivers because they're impatient etc. Should robot trucks ever see the light of day, they'll be programmed to never tailgate, and they'll have no need to risk passing because a few extra minutes won't matter to the computer.
You brushed on an interest fact which I haven't seen in the robot vehicle discussions. Surely a ship is a lot easier to robotify than a truck? Why isn't anyone talking robot ships? For security reasons, I can't see how trucks can secure their cargo without a human on-board (whether it be driver/safety observer, or security guard)
There is a reason that bank robberies and such don't happen they way they used to. With the interconnectedness of today's world, it is just too hard to manage an illicit supply chain.
Yeah that explains why there's no more drugs anymore yeah?
Bank robberies don't happen as much because bank security is a lot tighter, and available cash is a lot less. There are more cameras, alarms, armed guards, protective screens, ink packs etc and less money in unsecured drawers so the risk for reward is much, much lower. Banks also tend to be in populated areas with other humans, witnesses and security. A unsecured, unmanned cargo in the middle of a rural freeway on the other hand, is an easy target.
stop repeating this nonsense about technology not disrupting peoples lives. Yes, over the course of several decades the economy replaced those jobs. In the meantime millions were without work.
We have less unemployment now than the 30's yet far more technology. Correlation does not imply causation.
If I build a house and rent it out, surely I deserve the rent payment as long as the house is in a good enough state where people want to rent it?
Sure, but what if you build a house a rent it out, and while you still own the house, no-one is allowed to build a house that looks similar or has the same number of bedrooms?
Slashdotter offers dating tips. Now I've heard it all.
You don't. If you stand up for yourself then it won't be a problem
The problems now and in the future will be different than what they were then, hopefully they won't be getting fondled at work for a chance at a promotion.
I cringe at comments like this, it perpetuates the stereotype. Maybe I grew up in a different place than you, but where I'm from women are treated equally. I've had plenty of women manager's, CEO's, mayors, MPs, attorney general, governor general, head of state and yes even the Queen is a woman. In fact not so long ago, every major government position in the country was held by a woman. So it's hard to claim woman are treated any differently from men, and by that I mean I've seen woman treated like shit, but men equally so. One of the main difference however is when a man misses out of a promotion, or gets bullied, he won't use his sex as an excuse, whereas I've heard plenty of women make that have. Everyone gets picked on, let's not play along with the stereotype that woman are somehow special cases purely because they have a vagina.
As a father of two young girls, I'm rather conflicted.
Anyone has to admit that for most of recorded human history, women have been suppressed (as they continue to be in many parts of the world).
So were/are lots of men. I know it's fashionable to blame men for everything these days, but most men were also oppressed.
Because while it's fun to bag gamer nerds, the elephant in the room is that at the same time as we're evolving into game and porn addicts, girls are evolving into Kardashians and Real Housewives and rewiring their brains into being complete bitches. There's tipping point here where social interaction will simply stall and society will breakdown as a result.
the FORMERLY FREE United States of America
The US was never anymore free than it is now. This is your nostalgia goggles fucking with you.
What do I need less, windows or a windowless robot car?