My post would have more meaning had I used magazine instead, and that is clearly what I meant. But AC is wrong in his "Clips are for chips" Many rifles use clips, but many more use magazines (and some use clips to load magazines,) they do mean different things, but both hold bullets for rifles, and the number of bullets each is allowed to hold is limited in CA.
Matter of fact, their is a real nice "side-charging stripper clip" for AR-15's that get around CA's laws on removable magazines, that uses a clip to replace much of the functionality of a mag.
FYI, https://www.tesla.com/where-yo... Gives a estimate of costs from Tesla, they used to give a mpg slider but took that away, now they compare a 21 MPG car's cost to the Tesla (Compared to a performance car, that is fair.) But for something like a Prius, as long as the savings is less than the cost, a 41 MPG vehicle would be cheaper to fuel.
So for me $.15 for electric, for Gasoline up to $2.35 a gallon, 41 MPG is the same price.
They also say you can only use the SuperCharger for free up to 1000 miles. I don't think that is enforced strictly today though. At least for now, their maintenance cost is a little more. IE you pay from $500 to $900 a year for maintenance, and if you ever plan to sell your Tesla, you better buy the service plan. A Tesla with maintenance plans look to lose about $10k-15k a year over the first 3 years, while one without will take a $10k hit to the sell price. I do all my own maintenance, so far in 10 years $350 is the most I have spent in a year, average more like $150 (minus tires) a year. But spending over $300 on a gas car in the first 3 years would be excessive even at a dealer.
This was a single death with a gun, only the shooter dead, practically a suicide. Their are 60 suicides by gun a day in the us, around 30 homicides a day with guns.
How loud and for how long do you expect the "liberals" to drag out each of these 90 deaths a day?
Honestly in a case like this, that doesn't fit the mold and results in a single death, their is little to gain by attempting to address it, and publicizing it makes repeats more likely. When you have 90 deaths a day by guns in the US, and less than 15% of them are by woman, even lower rates by foreigners, much more is to be gained by society to not focus on this unusual situation.
If anything I am a little surprised no news media focused on how California's laws, making it so much more difficult to get semi-automatics rifles and big clips... may have reduced the impact of this crime, could even have something to do with California being 42nd out of the 50 states in gun homicide rate. And how they have much better reporting of the mentally ill... already makes mass death situations like that one in Florida and one in Nevada less likely. They could have used this one to point out these things again, but maybe all the media are not all a bunch of liberals looking for any reason to vilify those on the right.
Yes, but those farms are generally limited to growing seasons and crop variety. Most of the year, fresh fruits and vegetables for cities like Chicago are shipped from somewhere south, like AZ, CA, or other countries.
I think it could easily be true in Washington, Denver, and a couple other markets. Especially if it had a retail space as well, to sell premium products directly.
Although they lost me at weed-free; I was 100% thinking weed would be the money maker, since it is a product that legally pretty much has to be grown indoors to begin with.
> Because Self Driving Vehicles are already safer than the AVERAGE human.
I am not sure how true that is, if you compare to cars with safety features like Automatic Emergency Braking, Lane assist, and similar features. IE Tesla claims their cars are safer in that mode, but only compared to the average person, in the average dumb car. Then compare only paved roads in a new car to all roads and cars.
I doubt the Tesla system is smart enough to take the lead from several other automakers systems. The Uber screw up also points out that more enforced standards are needed for some.
What about incriminating info? Which can be anything, so wipe your phone every few seconds?
Or are you under the impression only guilt people are searched, and only guilty people have ever been arrested, or that only guilty people have ever been convicted?
Comparing enough peoples data, to enough data from a significant amount of crimes will find false positives. Even if the odds are 1 in million, that means 300 people in the US would match, and 1 in a million convicts.
Worst thing is, you likely have little defense on what they find on your phone. You cannot find out how many cases they compare your data to, or how accurate the data on the phone was... And if they do find something that is cause to suspect you, it may put you on do not fly lists without any chance of due process.
> The obvious suggestion as to why it didn't stop was that the control system simply couldn't react fast enough to the input from these sensor inputs, but I have a feeling it may be something else.
Their is no way (in my opinion) that this system got off the test track not being able to detect this type of object entering the roadway without detecting and stopping in time. I would bet money on a failure in the regression testing somewhere. Either they updated software, and their was a undetected incompatibility in this car from their test track, or a lack of requirements to do a test track regression test before release of changes.
My guess would be a new feature broke it. For example they may have put in a algorithm to drive around something entering the road, and the car was attempting that instead of a stop, while she entered to far into the lane. Or a classification problem, where it deteremend that she was a dust devil, or blowing snow, tumbleweed, or some other type of detection that didn't require avoidance. And that was implemented or tweaked without a full regression test.
It is possible (less likely) this was a regression test, and the driver didn't account for that. I encountered that often with operators on autonomous equipment, a tendency to trust new software was better than the old, even when told explicitly to not trust it.
> The camera not... the light was to bad for that.
"FLIR Stereo Vision cameras", that is not the same as the video that was shown, it works fine in shitty light, as it goes into the IR spectrum as well.
I have done hundreds of hours of obstacle testing with lidar, radar, stereo-graphic cameras. Guaranteed any of them would see this bike/woman in time to stop. 95% sure Uber software messed up, only thing I can think of is in obstacle classification, the bike broadside could have caused it to be classified as blowing dust, tumbleweeds, snow, or something.
> When did they start this? What do I look for in my car for this?
The article was wrong, clicked their source where they claim it is in every car is this info:
2016 -- Issue Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 2018 -- Issue regulation mandating V2V technology 2019 -- Begin phase-in period for new car production 2021 -- V2V technology included on 100% of new car production
> mining servers do not have to be connected to the Internet.
I mean they have to be connected to the internet, if they plan to make any money from them anyway. I suppose only one coordinating server needs to have a constant connection, the rest could be behind a firewall of some sort, syncing the block-chain and results over 3G or something back to the coordinating server. But I believe bitcoin has about the longest block-chain difficulty, with difficulty to solve at an average of one block worldwide every 10 minutes and first results reported with a distinct advantage, so you would be hurting your profits a lot, if it takes more than 30 seconds for round trip communication to the internet, so any sort of physical barrier from the internet would need to be very small.
FYI $50k won't get you a climb to the peak of Everest ($100k just for the permit.)
Your post is 100% about going to the peak of Everest, but many thousands of people who are not skilled climbers do sign up to climb Everest (max Everest climb for them is to reach base camp1) then they climb to some lower peaks.near Everest. Your correct if talking reaching the peak, that is a long training journey, then at least a month in the mountain. The other climbs to the first base camp, can be around 1 week.
Sure, But I doubt you understand the Bitcoin implementation of Blockchain, which likely why you are quoting things like the upper limit of the number of bitcoin, that was based on the original software, and the idea of that being fixed. It is not, the second that most miners and traders decide it is no longer in their best interest to have a upper limit, the upper limit is gone (not in the original theory, which no longer matters as it is not in use anymore.)
which the value is based on the difficulty to exchange. It doesn't cease to exist, but it becomes no longer self sustaining when other currency has to pay for the exchange and validation of each bit coin. At that point it will cease to be a currency. Bitcoin would then have to increase in price each time they are exchanged to be worth exchanging, without mining generating new coin. So they will then be all locked up in a couple bitcoin banks (happening already) and cease to be traded with the blockchain, as trading inside the bank will be cheaper, the block chain would cease to exist as a functional entity.
But the save is in, the exchanges are determined by the majority. So it will just be change the protocol to generate more coin.
> Bitcoin doesn't require that new bitcoins continually need to be produced in order for it to work.
I was wondering about you enthusiasm until this point. Now that it is obvious you do not actually know how bitcoin transactions take place, your other posts make much more sense.
> coal, oil, and nuclear companies certainly didn't in the previous administration.
B.S. They subsidized all of those industries with loan guarantees and billions in direct subsidies to pay for research (and building plants) for reducing environmental impacts such as clean coal. Loan guarantees on the Alaska pipeline, relaxing rules on coal companies (allowing them to self bond on reclamation costs, that will now have to be done through a superfund spending by the government when they are finally bankrupted.) The Obama administration allowed several coal companies to settle debts in bankruptcy, to keep the mines active, that went against federal law. They also used tons of resources on cleanup (such as deepwater horizon) much of which was never paid back.
> he has as much right as anyone to voice his opinion.
He also has to follow the laws of the country and his oath of office or face the consequences for his actions. If they are incompatible (as I think is obvious that they are) he needs to forfeit either his unconstitutional speech, or his office. He can speak out against kneeling, that is not a problem. When he used the power and communications of his office, to push those whom he hired and can fire to take action against individuals who broke no law, he went beyond the law.
> isn't an impeachable offense.
I agree, and you were the first to mention impeachment I certainly never said, or meant to imply that is a action to take. The 25th amendment would be the path, if it went that far. His party (if they cared about free speech, and his actions) should condemn these actions (like only McCain did.) And ask him to either step down or at least fully walk back his calls for government action to silence those whom violated no US law by their actions. If he doesn't do either, then the 25th amendment gives them the power to walk a unfit president out of office, which repeated violation of his oath of office IMO is cause.
Gotcha, so the oath of office is meaningless. The powers granted to the congress, where they passed laws putting the president in charge of picking the heads and leading these agencies is meaningless. I guess we can only agree to disagree.
this is after he called for the NFL to fire those protesting.
He took a pledge to uphold the constitution, if he cannot do his job as president without violating the constitution, by directing the government employees under his authority (as he hired and is able to fire the director of the IRS, FBI, FCC...) to take direct unconstitutional actions; he should step down.
So he has the right to free speach, but when that speach violates his oath of office, he should step down. The same is true when he called on the FCC to pull the broadcast licenses of Networks that are not supporting him enough, in his opinion.
I understood that the president speaks on behalf of the country, and is always the president, which is a office of the federal government, and thus covered by the constitution, where am I wrong? If constitution thus applies, he is not allowed to direct through his office, using his official communication channel to call to violate the constitutional rights of individual citizens. He has taken a oath to do the opposite, to make sure they do not.
Of course like so many of his tweets, this one was also wrong, that the NFL has no preferential status..
Why we don't teach civics to people like you is atrocious, clearly it is needed. The president swore to uphold the constitution, and to hold the rule of law above that of his own personal rights. The constitution is setup to give power to the people, to protect us from those with the power of the government. That is what McCain's post spells out so well.
Trump is the same as the likes of the leaders of Iraq, Congo, North Korea, Saudi Arabia when he uses his voice as president to attack individuals in order to suppress the political speech of regular citizens. That he also threatened to use his power of presidency really pushes it over the top, and put all of us in jeopardy to be a victim of lawsuits by the people he spoke out against. That so many conservatives now fail to understand the difference between a individuals right, and separate out that any government official that uses the power of their office we gave them, to then violate the constitution ( only to protect his own ego) should be removed from office.
> "freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences"
Correct, but the first amendment actually prevents the US government from restricting speech, without a overwhelming societal interest. Using a political office to directly restrict political speech is clearly a violation of that amendment. Especially when it is just to protect the presidents ego, because the president stepped into a solved concern, that was handled by the league, until the president made it more than 100* worse by stepping in. I see no problem if the team wants to fire a player, and if fans want to boycott the team. That you have the highest office of the government threatening through their designated official communication channel to take official action if harm doesn't happen to those who don't support his view.
Of course it isn't all the right, at least John McCain understands this president is doing permanent harm to the country: https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcC...
> The political right pushes for free speech and free expression for all.
I guess you don't count Trump as political right. His plan to tax and punish coaches who don't shut-up players who wouldn't stand for the anthem, and using his official communication channel of his office to call for firing of those who speak against him. The same guy who want to shutdown news media that has opposed him, because fake news is in no way based on truth, but that he doesn't think anything opposing him is not news, no mater how much truth it is based on. That the right isn't doing much to oppose any of this, shows how little the care for the constitution of the US.
I am not thinking the left is all good, but they are not anything to the extreme that the right is in the US at the moment.
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My post would have more meaning had I used magazine instead, and that is clearly what I meant. But AC is wrong in his "Clips are for chips" Many rifles use clips, but many more use magazines (and some use clips to load magazines,) they do mean different things, but both hold bullets for rifles, and the number of bullets each is allowed to hold is limited in CA.
Matter of fact, their is a real nice "side-charging stripper clip" for AR-15's that get around CA's laws on removable magazines, that uses a clip to replace much of the functionality of a mag.
FYI, https://www.tesla.com/where-yo... Gives a estimate of costs from Tesla, they used to give a mpg slider but took that away, now they compare a 21 MPG car's cost to the Tesla (Compared to a performance car, that is fair.) But for something like a Prius, as long as the savings is less than the cost, a 41 MPG vehicle would be cheaper to fuel.
So for me $.15 for electric, for Gasoline up to $2.35 a gallon, 41 MPG is the same price.
They also say you can only use the SuperCharger for free up to 1000 miles. I don't think that is enforced strictly today though.
At least for now, their maintenance cost is a little more. IE you pay from $500 to $900 a year for maintenance, and if you ever plan to sell your Tesla, you better buy the service plan. A Tesla with maintenance plans look to lose about $10k-15k a year over the first 3 years, while one without will take a $10k hit to the sell price. I do all my own maintenance, so far in 10 years $350 is the most I have spent in a year, average more like $150 (minus tires) a year. But spending over $300 on a gas car in the first 3 years would be excessive even at a dealer.
I believe he is referencing the Oklahoma City bombing Twice the number of deaths as the Las Vegas shooting, and he drove away safely after.
This was a single death with a gun, only the shooter dead, practically a suicide. Their are 60 suicides by gun a day in the us, around 30 homicides a day with guns.
How loud and for how long do you expect the "liberals" to drag out each of these 90 deaths a day?
Honestly in a case like this, that doesn't fit the mold and results in a single death, their is little to gain by attempting to address it, and publicizing it makes repeats more likely. When you have 90 deaths a day by guns in the US, and less than 15% of them are by woman, even lower rates by foreigners, much more is to be gained by society to not focus on this unusual situation.
If anything I am a little surprised no news media focused on how California's laws, making it so much more difficult to get semi-automatics rifles and big clips... may have reduced the impact of this crime, could even have something to do with California being 42nd out of the 50 states in gun homicide rate. And how they have much better reporting of the mentally ill... already makes mass death situations like that one in Florida and one in Nevada less likely. They could have used this one to point out these things again, but maybe all the media are not all a bunch of liberals looking for any reason to vilify those on the right.
> There are already farms adjacent to cities.
Yes, but those farms are generally limited to growing seasons and crop variety. Most of the year, fresh fruits and vegetables for cities like Chicago are shipped from somewhere south, like AZ, CA, or other countries.
I think it could easily be true in Washington, Denver, and a couple other markets. Especially if it had a retail space as well, to sell premium products directly.
Although they lost me at weed-free; I was 100% thinking weed would be the money maker, since it is a product that legally pretty much has to be grown indoors to begin with.
> Because Self Driving Vehicles are already safer than the AVERAGE human.
I am not sure how true that is, if you compare to cars with safety features like Automatic Emergency Braking, Lane assist, and similar features. IE Tesla claims their cars are safer in that mode, but only compared to the average person, in the average dumb car. Then compare only paved roads in a new car to all roads and cars.
I doubt the Tesla system is smart enough to take the lead from several other automakers systems. The Uber screw up also points out that more enforced standards are needed for some.
What about incriminating info? Which can be anything, so wipe your phone every few seconds?
Or are you under the impression only guilt people are searched, and only guilty people have ever been arrested, or that only guilty people have ever been convicted?
Comparing enough peoples data, to enough data from a significant amount of crimes will find false positives. Even if the odds are 1 in million, that means 300 people in the US would match, and 1 in a million convicts.
Worst thing is, you likely have little defense on what they find on your phone. You cannot find out how many cases they compare your data to, or how accurate the data on the phone was... And if they do find something that is cause to suspect you, it may put you on do not fly lists without any chance of due process.
> The obvious suggestion as to why it didn't stop was that the control system simply couldn't react fast enough to the input from these sensor inputs, but I have a feeling it may be something else.
Their is no way (in my opinion) that this system got off the test track not being able to detect this type of object entering the roadway without detecting and stopping in time. I would bet money on a failure in the regression testing somewhere. Either they updated software, and their was a undetected incompatibility in this car from their test track, or a lack of requirements to do a test track regression test before release of changes.
My guess would be a new feature broke it. For example they may have put in a algorithm to drive around something entering the road, and the car was attempting that instead of a stop, while she entered to far into the lane. Or a classification problem, where it deteremend that she was a dust devil, or blowing snow, tumbleweed, or some other type of detection that didn't require avoidance. And that was implemented or tweaked without a full regression test.
It is possible (less likely) this was a regression test, and the driver didn't account for that. I encountered that often with operators on autonomous equipment, a tendency to trust new software was better than the old, even when told explicitly to not trust it.
> The camera not ... the light was to bad for that.
"FLIR Stereo Vision cameras", that is not the same as the video that was shown, it works fine in shitty light, as it goes into the IR spectrum as well.
Clearly see lidar on the very top of the car, looks like radar in that windshield bar as well.
https://twitter.com/NTSB_Newsroom/status/976215176323194880/photo/1
I have done hundreds of hours of obstacle testing with lidar, radar, stereo-graphic cameras. Guaranteed any of them would see this bike/woman in time to stop. 95% sure Uber software messed up, only thing I can think of is in obstacle classification, the bike broadside could have caused it to be classified as blowing dust, tumbleweeds, snow, or something.
> When did they start this? What do I look for in my car for this?
The article was wrong, clicked their source where they claim it is in every car is this info:
Only currently in select 2017 Cadillac models.
> mining servers do not have to be connected to the Internet.
I mean they have to be connected to the internet, if they plan to make any money from them anyway. I suppose only one coordinating server needs to have a constant connection, the rest could be behind a firewall of some sort, syncing the block-chain and results over 3G or something back to the coordinating server. But I believe bitcoin has about the longest block-chain difficulty, with difficulty to solve at an average of one block worldwide every 10 minutes and first results reported with a distinct advantage, so you would be hurting your profits a lot, if it takes more than 30 seconds for round trip communication to the internet, so any sort of physical barrier from the internet would need to be very small.
If the hooker in the trunk of Musk's Tesla can escape the gravity of the earth, their is hope for you too do it someday as well!
FYI $50k won't get you a climb to the peak of Everest ($100k just for the permit.)
Your post is 100% about going to the peak of Everest, but many thousands of people who are not skilled climbers do sign up to climb Everest (max Everest climb for them is to reach base camp1) then they climb to some lower peaks.near Everest. Your correct if talking reaching the peak, that is a long training journey, then at least a month in the mountain. The other climbs to the first base camp, can be around 1 week.
> But why throw away a perfectly good car ?
Well, when you have a dead prostitute in the trunk, and a big rocket in need of a payload. What would you do?
Sure, But I doubt you understand the Bitcoin implementation of Blockchain, which likely why you are quoting things like the upper limit of the number of bitcoin, that was based on the original software, and the idea of that being fixed. It is not, the second that most miners and traders decide it is no longer in their best interest to have a upper limit, the upper limit is gone (not in the original theory, which no longer matters as it is not in use anymore.)
which the value is based on the difficulty to exchange. It doesn't cease to exist, but it becomes no longer self sustaining when other currency has to pay for the exchange and validation of each bit coin. At that point it will cease to be a currency. Bitcoin would then have to increase in price each time they are exchanged to be worth exchanging, without mining generating new coin. So they will then be all locked up in a couple bitcoin banks (happening already) and cease to be traded with the blockchain, as trading inside the bank will be cheaper, the block chain would cease to exist as a functional entity.
But the save is in, the exchanges are determined by the majority. So it will just be change the protocol to generate more coin.
> Bitcoin doesn't require that new bitcoins continually need to be produced in order for it to work.
I was wondering about you enthusiasm until this point. Now that it is obvious you do not actually know how bitcoin transactions take place, your other posts make much more sense.
> coal, oil, and nuclear companies certainly didn't in the previous administration.
B.S. They subsidized all of those industries with loan guarantees and billions in direct subsidies to pay for research (and building plants) for reducing environmental impacts such as clean coal. Loan guarantees on the Alaska pipeline, relaxing rules on coal companies (allowing them to self bond on reclamation costs, that will now have to be done through a superfund spending by the government when they are finally bankrupted.) The Obama administration allowed several coal companies to settle debts in bankruptcy, to keep the mines active, that went against federal law. They also used tons of resources on cleanup (such as deepwater horizon) much of which was never paid back.
Also for nuclear:U.S. offers Vogtle nuclear plant $3.7 billion in loan guarantees
> he has as much right as anyone to voice his opinion.
He also has to follow the laws of the country and his oath of office or face the consequences for his actions. If they are incompatible (as I think is obvious that they are) he needs to forfeit either his unconstitutional speech, or his office. He can speak out against kneeling, that is not a problem. When he used the power and communications of his office, to push those whom he hired and can fire to take action against individuals who broke no law, he went beyond the law.
> isn't an impeachable offense.
I agree, and you were the first to mention impeachment I certainly never said, or meant to imply that is a action to take. The 25th amendment would be the path, if it went that far. His party (if they cared about free speech, and his actions) should condemn these actions (like only McCain did.) And ask him to either step down or at least fully walk back his calls for government action to silence those whom violated no US law by their actions. If he doesn't do either, then the 25th amendment gives them the power to walk a unfit president out of office, which repeated violation of his oath of office IMO is cause.
Gotcha, so the oath of office is meaningless. The powers granted to the congress, where they passed laws putting the president in charge of picking the heads and leading these agencies is meaningless. I guess we can only agree to disagree.
take a minute and read his tweet:
https://twitter.com/realdonald...
this is after he called for the NFL to fire those protesting.
He took a pledge to uphold the constitution, if he cannot do his job as president without violating the constitution, by directing the government employees under his authority (as he hired and is able to fire the director of the IRS, FBI, FCC...) to take direct unconstitutional actions; he should step down.
So he has the right to free speach, but when that speach violates his oath of office, he should step down. The same is true when he called on the FCC to pull the broadcast licenses of Networks that are not supporting him enough, in his opinion.
I understood that the president speaks on behalf of the country, and is always the president, which is a office of the federal government, and thus covered by the constitution, where am I wrong? If constitution thus applies, he is not allowed to direct through his office, using his official communication channel to call to violate the constitutional rights of individual citizens. He has taken a oath to do the opposite, to make sure they do not.
Of course like so many of his tweets, this one was also wrong, that the NFL has no preferential status..
Why we don't teach civics to people like you is atrocious, clearly it is needed. The president swore to uphold the constitution, and to hold the rule of law above that of his own personal rights. The constitution is setup to give power to the people, to protect us from those with the power of the government. That is what McCain's post spells out so well.
Trump is the same as the likes of the leaders of Iraq, Congo, North Korea, Saudi Arabia when he uses his voice as president to attack individuals in order to suppress the political speech of regular citizens. That he also threatened to use his power of presidency really pushes it over the top, and put all of us in jeopardy to be a victim of lawsuits by the people he spoke out against. That so many conservatives now fail to understand the difference between a individuals right, and separate out that any government official that uses the power of their office we gave them, to then violate the constitution ( only to protect his own ego) should be removed from office.
> "freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences"
Correct, but the first amendment actually prevents the US government from restricting speech, without a overwhelming societal interest. Using a political office to directly restrict political speech is clearly a violation of that amendment. Especially when it is just to protect the presidents ego, because the president stepped into a solved concern, that was handled by the league, until the president made it more than 100* worse by stepping in. I see no problem if the team wants to fire a player, and if fans want to boycott the team. That you have the highest office of the government threatening through their designated official communication channel to take official action if harm doesn't happen to those who don't support his view.
Of course it isn't all the right, at least John McCain understands this president is doing permanent harm to the country: https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcC...
> The political right pushes for free speech and free expression for all.
I guess you don't count Trump as political right. His plan to tax and punish coaches who don't shut-up players who wouldn't stand for the anthem, and using his official communication channel of his office to call for firing of those who speak against him. The same guy who want to shutdown news media that has opposed him, because fake news is in no way based on truth, but that he doesn't think anything opposing him is not news, no mater how much truth it is based on. That the right isn't doing much to oppose any of this, shows how little the care for the constitution of the US.
I am not thinking the left is all good, but they are not anything to the extreme that the right is in the US at the moment.