If you want to cite human rights, your personal right to travel doesn't trump my right to be reasonably safe from hurtling lumps of metal driven by untrained morons.
We should expect a properly working insurance market to sort this out, together with the road's owners. But the State has screwed that too (there are available mechanisms that protect both of the rights - they're just currently prevented by those in power, by force).
It's bad enough as it is - so bring on the self driving cars...
There's no shortage of money in the developed world.
Seriously? Until everybody lives in luxury and has surplus income, there's a shortage of money (or its equivalent in goods and services). In fact, the trend is quite the opposite of the way it should be going. Things like Kickstarter and Kiva are making some inroads towards organized funding by mass decision makers, but that's only slightly effective around the margins, where politicians (who are controlled by those with the most money) haven't prevented progress and competition. Giving those same politicians more money won't result in the opposite effect.
I had an experience with an ASUS mobo (P5Q) where the built-in NIC (Atheros, IIRC) was corrupting data. I got packet traces that showed clear patterns of bit rotation that were either happening in hardware or the driver.
Branching off of a bugzilla report, one of the driver programmers (from the manufacturer) and a couple other users with the same problem were comparing notes and doing specific tests when we got to the point of it not looking like a driver problem, and then the line went dead.
I can only assume that admitting to the problem would have precipitated a recall that was far too expensive to deal with.
I put in a $20 NIC and learned to never waste my valuable time helping a manufacturer figure out their problems. Report it (well), post a review where you bought it, and move on - spending 10 hours on a $120 mobo is foolish. Also, I don't buy ASUS gear anymore.
Driving is a privilege, that you have to earn, and comes with a thousand point list of rules and regulations.
That's the propaganda, anyway. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ensures the free right of travel, and that's supposed to be binding on all signatory nations. And they don't mean bushwhacking, they mean the common modes of travel. If the Feds have taken over the roads (many of them previously seized by the States) and forbidden non-vehicular traffic, then they ought to have to accept the consequences and implications of those actions. The 5th Amendment requires due process to take away rights.
If you can drive, for whatever reason, it seems to me that a self-driving car would be a godsend. Folks with visual impairment, seizure illnesses, physical challenges, etc. are suddenly able to go wherever they want.
Age. My kids are ripped that they don't exist yet. They want to get off the school bus, hop in a driverless car, and get to my office, swim lessons, etc., not just sit home waiting for an adult to ferry them.
Wait, you actually want the computer to override you while you're driving? I don't think it should work that way.
If you feel like texting or passing out drunk, it would be best to put the car in full-auto. I can see a 'monitor me' button, though, for when you're driving tired and want a backup. Yeah, I know, nobody ever drives tired.
As long as insurance is required by the government, there is no reason for the rates to drop, even if they never have to pay out a dime. They can charge whatever they want and legally you just have to pay it or go to jail if you get caught driving without.
The multiplier is approximately 2. We don't have mandatory auto insurance in NH, and the rates are half to less than those in neighboring states. My wife and I pay about $700 a year for us and our three vehicles. It's a fair price - they know who she is at the body shop.
Oh, and we also have a very low rate of uninsured drivers because the rates are more affordable (about 10%). Compare to a place like Mississippi with 1/3 of drivers uninsured even though it's compulsory.
You are no longer a cog in the driving system. Yay for (real) freedom!
I'm really looking forward to a car where the front seats can rotate into a rear-facing position, and a card table pops up from the floor.
Anybody who's done 13-hour road trips with the kids in the back of the car knows what I'm talking about (and will likely agree with your characterization).
Yeah, this. Where I am, you can not know 20% of the driving rules and still get a license. In the next state south of here, you can not know 40% of the driving rules and still get a license. I heard there was some talk of decreasing that to 35%.
I think 5% might be more reasonable, as a measure of mis-marked questions on a test.
Seriously. Is there any real need (beyond that for connected players to be able skim money off the top) for anyone to be able to sell and buy stock (or commodities) in a tiny fraction of a second, instead of say, once every fifteen minutes or even longer?
The market operates for the near-exclusive benefit of those HFT players. The SEC ensures that a competing market cannot replace it("them"), while the revolving door between Wall Street, Treasury, and The Fed, continues unabated.
Nuclear may be scientifically safe and sound, but the lumbering bureaucracy (public or private) required to actually build and operate a plant guarantee that this type of disaster will keep happening for as long as this technology is in use.
Yeah, this technology should have been completely replaced by now. We have two political problems here: first they won't permit the replacement technology to be used commercially, and second, they declared a State monopoly on the nuclear insurance market, ensuring the corporate owners would never have to worry about liability.
If the insurance were underwritten according to risk and the safer technology allowed, the last of the light water reactors would be coming down in the coming decade. Instead we're stuck with, essentially, 1950's technology and concomitant risks.
still really struggles make an observation in 20 minutes that Hubble can do in 5 minutes.
Presumably this is a function of area? Does that mean double-diameter ground-based AO telescope will be as good as Hubble? How do the costs compare? (I realize doubling the area isn't a trivial undertaking).
As I understood it, the next 'frontier' in space telescopes was going to be a constellation parked out at a LaGrange point, not just a bigger Hubble since AO has made that type of telescope not worth doing. Somebody please inform.
It would be hilarious if John Lennon II grew to become the head of the largest world banking corporation.
If he has any innate personality that was reflected in our John Lennon, and society was constantly telling him he had to be a great musician, he'd probably do the opposite anyway.
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If you want to cite human rights, your personal right to travel doesn't trump my right to be reasonably safe from hurtling lumps of metal driven by untrained morons.
We should expect a properly working insurance market to sort this out, together with the road's owners. But the State has screwed that too (there are available mechanisms that protect both of the rights - they're just currently prevented by those in power, by force).
It's bad enough as it is - so bring on the self driving cars...
Agreed.
There's no shortage of money in the developed world.
Seriously? Until everybody lives in luxury and has surplus income, there's a shortage of money (or its equivalent in goods and services). In fact, the trend is quite the opposite of the way it should be going. Things like Kickstarter and Kiva are making some inroads towards organized funding by mass decision makers, but that's only slightly effective around the margins, where politicians (who are controlled by those with the most money) haven't prevented progress and competition. Giving those same politicians more money won't result in the opposite effect.
Return home and prepared to be perpetually disappointed.
I think you meant to say "be prepared to become a home roaster out of desperation".
I see this FAR more often from university educated programmers than I do from self-taught hackers.
Be careful of Sturgeon's Law colliding with confirmation bias.
I had an experience with an ASUS mobo (P5Q) where the built-in NIC (Atheros, IIRC) was corrupting data. I got packet traces that showed clear patterns of bit rotation that were either happening in hardware or the driver.
Branching off of a bugzilla report, one of the driver programmers (from the manufacturer) and a couple other users with the same problem were comparing notes and doing specific tests when we got to the point of it not looking like a driver problem, and then the line went dead.
I can only assume that admitting to the problem would have precipitated a recall that was far too expensive to deal with.
I put in a $20 NIC and learned to never waste my valuable time helping a manufacturer figure out their problems. Report it (well), post a review where you bought it, and move on - spending 10 hours on a $120 mobo is foolish. Also, I don't buy ASUS gear anymore.
My previous MSI laptop did this. Try to hop over to a VT (ctrl-alt-f2) and back to X to get the input modules to reinitialize.
(stupid oversight. the last 15 or so years, cable and connector designers have been pretty idiotic. don't get me started on that rant..)
The Thinkpad power connector is just about the same width too, and right next to the Ethernet port. :P
That one is as much about ergonomics than connector size, though.
and pass the time some other way.
Congratulations, you've just figured out the root password to all those macho "but I want to be in control" guys who are against them. :)
Driving is a privilege, that you have to earn, and comes with a thousand point list of rules and regulations.
That's the propaganda, anyway. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ensures the free right of travel, and that's supposed to be binding on all signatory nations. And they don't mean bushwhacking, they mean the common modes of travel. If the Feds have taken over the roads (many of them previously seized by the States) and forbidden non-vehicular traffic, then they ought to have to accept the consequences and implications of those actions. The 5th Amendment requires due process to take away rights.
If you can drive, for whatever reason, it seems to me that a self-driving car would be a godsend. Folks with visual impairment, seizure illnesses, physical challenges, etc. are suddenly able to go wherever they want.
Age. My kids are ripped that they don't exist yet. They want to get off the school bus, hop in a driverless car, and get to my office, swim lessons, etc., not just sit home waiting for an adult to ferry them.
Wait, you actually want the computer to override you while you're driving? I don't think it should work that way.
If you feel like texting or passing out drunk, it would be best to put the car in full-auto. I can see a 'monitor me' button, though, for when you're driving tired and want a backup. Yeah, I know, nobody ever drives tired.
As long as insurance is required by the government, there is no reason for the rates to drop, even if they never have to pay out a dime. They can charge whatever they want and legally you just have to pay it or go to jail if you get caught driving without.
The multiplier is approximately 2. We don't have mandatory auto insurance in NH, and the rates are half to less than those in neighboring states. My wife and I pay about $700 a year for us and our three vehicles. It's a fair price - they know who she is at the body shop.
Oh, and we also have a very low rate of uninsured drivers because the rates are more affordable (about 10%). Compare to a place like Mississippi with 1/3 of drivers uninsured even though it's compulsory.
You are no longer a cog in the driving system. Yay for (real) freedom!
I'm really looking forward to a car where the front seats can rotate into a rear-facing position, and a card table pops up from the floor.
Anybody who's done 13-hour road trips with the kids in the back of the car knows what I'm talking about (and will likely agree with your characterization).
I'm willing to get a driverless car........once it's been tested. A lot. Not before.
were only our human drivers so well-tested.
very strict driving exams
Yeah, this. Where I am, you can not know 20% of the driving rules and still get a license. In the next state south of here, you can not know 40% of the driving rules and still get a license. I heard there was some talk of decreasing that to 35%.
I think 5% might be more reasonable, as a measure of mis-marked questions on a test.
Seriously. Is there any real need (beyond that for connected players to be able skim money off the top) for anyone to be able to sell and buy stock (or commodities) in a tiny fraction of a second, instead of say, once every fifteen minutes or even longer?
The market operates for the near-exclusive benefit of those HFT players. The SEC ensures that a competing market cannot replace it("them"), while the revolving door between Wall Street, Treasury, and The Fed, continues unabated.
Read the whole comment ... and let it sink in for a moment .. before you try to sound smart about something you didn't fully comprehend.
So, everything and everyone should be owned by corporations, resulting in a better world.
Everything should be owned by people. Corporations are just fascist arms of government. Don't confuse the issues.
Nuclear may be scientifically safe and sound, but the lumbering bureaucracy (public or private) required to actually build and operate a plant guarantee that this type of disaster will keep happening for as long as this technology is in use.
Yeah, this technology should have been completely replaced by now. We have two political problems here: first they won't permit the replacement technology to be used commercially, and second, they declared a State monopoly on the nuclear insurance market, ensuring the corporate owners would never have to worry about liability.
If the insurance were underwritten according to risk and the safer technology allowed, the last of the light water reactors would be coming down in the coming decade. Instead we're stuck with, essentially, 1950's technology and concomitant risks.
wow. Thanks for the link.
still really struggles make an observation in 20 minutes that Hubble can do in 5 minutes.
Presumably this is a function of area? Does that mean double-diameter ground-based AO telescope will be as good as Hubble? How do the costs compare? (I realize doubling the area isn't a trivial undertaking).
As I understood it, the next 'frontier' in space telescopes was going to be a constellation parked out at a LaGrange point, not just a bigger Hubble since AO has made that type of telescope not worth doing. Somebody please inform.
Hell, it's worth it, you can get free chemo therapy, heart surgery, etc
So, if I'm uninsured and facing major narrowing of the arteries, I can go smoke a joint in a police station and get free heart surgery?
and he/she's going to have problems getting a job with a Dishonorable Discharge. . .
with millions of supporters, this seems highly unlikely.
invent new technologies which avoid the disadvantage
That can't be done without the capital necessary to invest in the R&D. The more capital there is, the more R&D there can be.
It would be hilarious if John Lennon II grew to become the head of the largest world banking corporation.
If he has any innate personality that was reflected in our John Lennon, and society was constantly telling him he had to be a great musician, he'd probably do the opposite anyway.