Funny, but Cadillac has done a lot to shed their old-person face and put on a newer young face.
Actually some of their cars are actually pretty sporty now. Their CTS series and even the SRX are the same size as the average cars out there in their class, they actually look decent, and have decent horsepower.
I know a few 20-somethings that have Cadillacs and they love them. Heck I had one too, but wanted to upgrade to a small SUV so I had to sell it.
They're not the old-folk looking car anymore, they have some sporty lines for us young-ens.
They didn't make the Breaking Bad series, they're not the ones who decided to split up the season in two. What's next, suing Apple because the new pop music album is crap?
Exactly.
This isn't the first time they've done it. Doctor Who was split into half-seasons once or twice as well and they also had separate "Season Passes" through iTunes. There are other examples but I only know of the Doctor Who one from personal experience. Studios sometimes split up a season.
Meanwhile, do the math. It still comes out to under the normal $2.99 per-HD-episode that they usually charge. Unless that price is the SD version (I'm not near iTunes at the moment) it's not like they priced it at the amount for the whole 16 episodes and only gave them 8.
Which part of "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" was unclear.
"Against himself" is the key term here.
Why have you sent so much time and effort proving yourself an idiot by ignoring the actual text of the Amendment which you seek to explicate?
But... there's the problem.
Who's to say that in the summary's example... that the supposedly innocent Alice is actually innocent. Maybe she was an accomplice. Maybe she's afraid that something she says will get her in legal trouble because she unknowingly did something that was technically against the law. Maybe she's afraid that by saying "she sat there and did nothing" on the record she will be open to a civil case by the victim's family.
Perhaps the only way she would be found guilty of anything is if she opened her mouth and answered said question.
In which case by wanting to plead the fifth, she's protecting herself from possible criminal prosecution or civil liability.
I'm not saying the article's point isn't valid... I think the country should re-think its grid. If nothing else it would mean lots of jobs for a couple of years. Also... I DO know that in NJ they are re-doing portions of their grid... I see them replacing the high-capacity towers and re-routing things.
It's a regional thing... America isn't as "bad" as some people make it out to be. In my case, my block (and only my block) would lose power due to a company a couple blocks away overloading something. Until they got in trouble for it and made the correct repairs to their building, and it stopped. That was like 20 years ago.
Outside of 2 freak storms that took out MANY MANY of our above-ground power lines overnight... the most my area has experienced are minor local outage here-and-there affecting the odd block / street because of a tree falling down due to a heavy storm or something. It's not exactly a common occurrence.
One of my European friends is under the assumption that we're without power 25% of the time or something based on some reports that get spread around or because they assume some anecdotal evidence of a single town/county with their own issues is a fair representation of the entire country.
Sure, some places have power issues. I think there are sections of California or something where the demand out-strips the supply... but that's just over there. Also, considering Americans love our air-conditioning and many Europeans don't bother with that... it means a larger strain on the grid in the summer.
Agreed... I'm usually set quite well up for minor power outages. In my old house we used to lose power a lot because of company a block away kept blowing the lines. It was always for like ~15 minutes a week. So combined with being used to going camping I'd make sure I was prepared for a day or two of no power.
BUT... I hadn't really prepared for being without power for a week... which happened twice in two years due to storms.
On a personal level it was just mildly annoying since I had tons of warm clothes, some candles, batteries for flashlights, canned food, and my natural-gas still worked for hot showers and cooking. So it was just annoying.
But on a macro-level, it REALLY stunk because gas stations ran dry and stores also had no power. I hadn't prepared for THAT. So as the week went on and my gas tank started to run low I was getting concerned since I worked 20 miles away. But I eventually made a trek with my last quarter-tank to the neighboring state and filled up there.
Fortunately my grid somehow survived most of the 2003 outage... we lost power for maybe 30-60 minutes. Meanwhile, a 20 minute drive to the east or the north were without power for the day or whatever... which stunk because it was hot.
So we lucked out there; a nice little peninsula of electricity.
Unfortunately, in the last 2 years we had 2 major storms: Sandy and a freak snow storm. Both of those times took out my town's power for a week each.
That's not impressive at all. 300 000 miles for a car, IS impressive. But what people aren't saying, is that transportation has been automated for quite some time now.
In that comparison, you should add all the air miles logged by most commercial aircraft, because 95% of the time, computers were doing all the flying.
I'm curious how Uber is going to solve the vandalism problem.
True, planes are on auto for a majority of the time. Add up all of the auto-pilot time used this year alone and we're talking about millions of miles.
But... as complex as flight is... it's not as chaotic as road-driving. Cars cutting you off, pedestrians walking into traffic while staring at their phones, cyclists deciding to merge into traffic 20MpH under the speed limit without looking behind them, idiots running red lights, near-complete stops while going 60MpH. Presumably they've been testing for all of this stuff... sudden chaotic things that the AI has to compensate for within milliseconds or risk death.
Don't get me wrong... auto-pilots in planes have to compensate for a LOT: speed vs lift, 3D space, following the route, alarming if radar picks up something it shouldn't, keeping the mechanisms working just right, etc. But it's not that chaotic unless there's a bird-strike or mechanical failure that it has to compensate for. And usually by that point alarm bells are telling the pilot "Something's wrong, take the controls"
Lucky with the parallel parking... depending on your exam-giver, failing the parallel parking of the driver test meant failing the entire thing and having to come back next month. Some testers didn't care, others (like mine) said failing the parking-test was the equivalent of getting into an accident. Of course, taking my test in a a 1980's Buick made things harder than my friends in their parents' new Civics and such.
Since my test though, I've only had to parallel park like 3 times in 16 years... and 2 of those times there were 2 spots back-to-back so I didn't have to worry about getting in there.
I take it all back. Things have changed in NJ since then but it's still 6 hours of driving school... to get the permit.
Since then they've added probationary licenses at 17 years with a full license at 18 years. As opposed to "back in the day" when you went straight from permit at 16 to full license at 17 assuming you passed the test.
It might have been 18-20 hours for me too... honestly it was too far back to remember. I *thought* it was 3 chunks of 2hr a pop. But maybe it was 5 x 4hr or something.
Still, 75 is a bit high. Especially if you have to pay for the driving school... that's almost 2 full work-weeks of time so you're handing over a really large paycheck to someone.
Considering that the average person needs (depending greatly upon your state) about 3k miles under your belt before you get a license...I'd say that instills a lot more confidence.
Wow, must be a newer requirement, I don't recall that one from back in the day. Granted that was 16+ years ago for me in NJ.
To get my permit it was just a written exam (at 16).
To get my license (at 17) I needed a written exam + eye exam + driving test + proof of X hours of behind-the-wheel-training. The last bit was with a driving school.
I want to say the student-driving was between 4-6 hours but I can't be certain because it was so long ago; but definitely less than what would be needed for 3,000 miles which probably would have been around 75 hours splitting between road and highway.
Obviously I practiced a lot with my parents in the car when I had my permit, but that was only for a year and I doubt I got ~75 hours of behind-the-wheel time with them.
A small personal-type of drone, as opposed to large military drone, weighing only a couple of pounds of only injured a couple people. In other words, a remote control helicopter with a camera crashed.
Robot car driving at lethal speeds where the smallest mistake could kill someone... will eventually hit someone.
One is a s*xier story than the other. Trust me, when a robot car hits and hurts someone.... anchormen around the world are going to need to make sure their desks aren't made of glass otherwise the camera will show the world just how excited they are about delivering this "vital story"
The public's reaction will depend on a number of factors, but it ending with "bans" on robot cars is a high probability - Was the victim a child? A photogenic teen? A mother of 3? - How bad was the accident - Are "witnesses" flocking to the camera saying "oh my god the humanity"
1. Incorrect, so long as it kills less people it will be fine. 2. Toyota had a market problem not a software problem. They were simply old geezers confusing the pedals. 3. there is no reason why good security could not be used in driverless cars.
Actually, the OP is probably correct about #1. He's not talking about logic, he's talking about human reaction.
All it will take is 1 robot-car to hit a single person and the news will have a field day. They will whip up the population into a frenzy with "Murderous robots on your highway? News at 11" Seriously, they will hit this issue HARD because in their view it's just all kinds of s*xy... Robots, death, fear-of-the-unknown, making-the-news-team-seem-sympathetic, etc.
Meanwhile politicians will jump on the bandwagon and try to outlaw them in their state.
Agreed, 300,000 miles without an accident isn't that awesome.
I've probably come close to driving around 300k in about 16 years and I have yet to have an accident. I HAVE had a number of close calls, and I will admit every now and then one of those close calls would have been my fault had there been an accident (legally and realistically).
I wonder if there are multiple XPS 27" Touch, as looking at their site shows a 1440 screen instead of 1080.
My main concern with all-in-one's though is how easy they are to do maintenance and the minor part-swap. I'm not a fan of how closed the Apple one is: I don't like having to deal with "stickers" if I have to replace the HD or something. And I have no idea of the Dell is similarly annoying.
I don't need a huge case... but something that I can at least fit my bear-claw hands in when I have to swap a broken part out.
Some countries might not even both recording car-accidents-involving-coma, others would. Some might not even mention loss-of-limb. So comparing country A (which counts both of those) with country B (that counts neither) throws things off.
Others might just say "minor injury" or "major injury" but have greatly differing definitions of minor vs major.
Meanwhile, I'd imagine it's a LOT more common that everyone records and reports "death" So at least you're comparing apples to apples.
I've practically been living on fish for the last month. Salmon, Tuna, Sushi, etc. Figuring that it was better than some of the alternatives and assuming that the industry had this worked out already.
Now you've given me an excuse to get a geiger counter.
Now, whatever you do, don't make a valid argument for say... a PS4... or I'll have have to buy that too
Nevermind that you lost your legs. For example, the number of serious injuries that don't result in death would be extremely high for countries where everyone drives a scooter. Why do we only count death for these statistics?
I'm not saying I agree with their logic, but I would IMAGINE it's because then the results get a little fuzzy.
What constitutes as a serious injury vs a a non-serious injury? Where do you draw the line? Loss of limb? Paralysis? Coma / Vegetative state? Concussion? Cracked skull? Broken wrist? Chipped tooth? Stitches?
How non-serious do we count? If we say non-serious accidents = X, then we're missing all of the really really minor accidents
With death... at least there's a somewhat common accepted standard.
Honestly, in many cases the rankings / ranges are the opposite what I assumed. Considering the US is recognized as having a high number of car-drivers (perhaps too many) and low number of public-transportation-users (perhaps too few)... I assumed we'd be way up there just due to us constantly driving into eachother.
Not that we're particularly low, but we're a lot less than some countries I would assume would have less than us (per capita)
Yeh, I've been called "astroturfer" once or twice because I said that even though I prefer Google Maps, Bing Maps is (gasp) an alright tool.
I only mentioned the Live CD because frankly I wasn't committed to wiping away anything in case I didn't like it... and a Live distro lets me test the waters.
The number of Americans who have a clue about such things is vanishingly small, and they are vastly outnumbered by those who don't *want* Americans to know such things.
In this case though, we're talking about a private entity. The same constitutional rights don't exactly apply in a private setting.
Try standing up on a soap-box at work and spout hate speech or something; you'll be fired.
After being invited into someone's house, whip out a protesting sign and start marching around the living room shouting Free Tibet! Good luck trying to win a lawsuit against the homeowner or even the cops for making you leave.
That all being said, I see where the founding-fathers section is coming from: anonymity helped with the independence AND saved the lives of the people voicing their opinion. But for the most part, this is about a private entity tired of people acting like d*cks on their forums and stuff. Not so much "Republicans are stupid" as the stupid hate speech / your mamma / Baba Booey stuff that fills many-a-forum.
Seriously, I feel like my IQ points were dropping whenever I'd try to read the CNN threads attached to the bottom of the Trayvon/Zimmerman news stories. And those weren't even anonymous.
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Funny, but Cadillac has done a lot to shed their old-person face and put on a newer young face.
Actually some of their cars are actually pretty sporty now. Their CTS series and even the SRX are the same size as the average cars out there in their class, they actually look decent, and have decent horsepower.
I know a few 20-somethings that have Cadillacs and they love them. Heck I had one too, but wanted to upgrade to a small SUV so I had to sell it.
They're not the old-folk looking car anymore, they have some sporty lines for us young-ens.
They didn't make the Breaking Bad series, they're not the ones who decided to split up the season in two. What's next, suing Apple because the new pop music album is crap?
Exactly.
This isn't the first time they've done it. Doctor Who was split into half-seasons once or twice as well and they also had separate "Season Passes" through iTunes. There are other examples but I only know of the Doctor Who one from personal experience. Studios sometimes split up a season.
Meanwhile, do the math. It still comes out to under the normal $2.99 per-HD-episode that they usually charge. Unless that price is the SD version (I'm not near iTunes at the moment) it's not like they priced it at the amount for the whole 16 episodes and only gave them 8.
I'm not saying I'm for or against the overall concept...
I was just poking the hole in this specific AC's logic that perhaps "Alice" felt she was protecting herself by wanting to plead the fifth.
Which part of "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" was unclear.
"Against himself" is the key term here.
Why have you sent so much time and effort proving yourself an idiot by ignoring the actual text of the Amendment which you seek to explicate?
But... there's the problem.
Who's to say that in the summary's example... that the supposedly innocent Alice is actually innocent. Maybe she was an accomplice. Maybe she's afraid that something she says will get her in legal trouble because she unknowingly did something that was technically against the law. Maybe she's afraid that by saying "she sat there and did nothing" on the record she will be open to a civil case by the victim's family.
Perhaps the only way she would be found guilty of anything is if she opened her mouth and answered said question.
In which case by wanting to plead the fifth, she's protecting herself from possible criminal prosecution or civil liability.
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LOL, how did this get modded down. It's actually the funniest post yet.
I'm not saying the article's point isn't valid... I think the country should re-think its grid. If nothing else it would mean lots of jobs for a couple of years. Also... I DO know that in NJ they are re-doing portions of their grid... I see them replacing the high-capacity towers and re-routing things.
It's a regional thing... America isn't as "bad" as some people make it out to be. In my case, my block (and only my block) would lose power due to a company a couple blocks away overloading something. Until they got in trouble for it and made the correct repairs to their building, and it stopped. That was like 20 years ago.
Outside of 2 freak storms that took out MANY MANY of our above-ground power lines overnight... the most my area has experienced are minor local outage here-and-there affecting the odd block / street because of a tree falling down due to a heavy storm or something. It's not exactly a common occurrence.
One of my European friends is under the assumption that we're without power 25% of the time or something based on some reports that get spread around or because they assume some anecdotal evidence of a single town/county with their own issues is a fair representation of the entire country.
Sure, some places have power issues. I think there are sections of California or something where the demand out-strips the supply... but that's just over there. Also, considering Americans love our air-conditioning and many Europeans don't bother with that... it means a larger strain on the grid in the summer.
Agreed... I'm usually set quite well up for minor power outages. In my old house we used to lose power a lot because of company a block away kept blowing the lines. It was always for like ~15 minutes a week. So combined with being used to going camping I'd make sure I was prepared for a day or two of no power.
BUT... I hadn't really prepared for being without power for a week... which happened twice in two years due to storms.
On a personal level it was just mildly annoying since I had tons of warm clothes, some candles, batteries for flashlights, canned food, and my natural-gas still worked for hot showers and cooking. So it was just annoying.
But on a macro-level, it REALLY stunk because gas stations ran dry and stores also had no power. I hadn't prepared for THAT. So as the week went on and my gas tank started to run low I was getting concerned since I worked 20 miles away. But I eventually made a trek with my last quarter-tank to the neighboring state and filled up there.
Fortunately my grid somehow survived most of the 2003 outage... we lost power for maybe 30-60 minutes. Meanwhile, a 20 minute drive to the east or the north were without power for the day or whatever... which stunk because it was hot.
So we lucked out there; a nice little peninsula of electricity.
Unfortunately, in the last 2 years we had 2 major storms: Sandy and a freak snow storm. Both of those times took out my town's power for a week each.
No, it needs to involve cars. All analogies, especially those pertaining to something technical, must always be reduced to cars.
That's not impressive at all.
300 000 miles for a car, IS impressive. But what people aren't saying, is that transportation has been automated for quite some time now.
In that comparison, you should add all the air miles logged by most commercial aircraft, because 95% of the time, computers were doing all the flying.
I'm curious how Uber is going to solve the vandalism problem.
True, planes are on auto for a majority of the time. Add up all of the auto-pilot time used this year alone and we're talking about millions of miles.
But... as complex as flight is... it's not as chaotic as road-driving. Cars cutting you off, pedestrians walking into traffic while staring at their phones, cyclists deciding to merge into traffic 20MpH under the speed limit without looking behind them, idiots running red lights, near-complete stops while going 60MpH. Presumably they've been testing for all of this stuff... sudden chaotic things that the AI has to compensate for within milliseconds or risk death.
Don't get me wrong... auto-pilots in planes have to compensate for a LOT: speed vs lift, 3D space, following the route, alarming if radar picks up something it shouldn't, keeping the mechanisms working just right, etc. But it's not that chaotic unless there's a bird-strike or mechanical failure that it has to compensate for. And usually by that point alarm bells are telling the pilot "Something's wrong, take the controls"
Lucky with the parallel parking... depending on your exam-giver, failing the parallel parking of the driver test meant failing the entire thing and having to come back next month. Some testers didn't care, others (like mine) said failing the parking-test was the equivalent of getting into an accident. Of course, taking my test in a a 1980's Buick made things harder than my friends in their parents' new Civics and such.
Since my test though, I've only had to parallel park like 3 times in 16 years... and 2 of those times there were 2 spots back-to-back so I didn't have to worry about getting in there.
I take it all back. Things have changed in NJ since then but it's still 6 hours of driving school... to get the permit.
Since then they've added probationary licenses at 17 years with a full license at 18 years. As opposed to "back in the day" when you went straight from permit at 16 to full license at 17 assuming you passed the test.
It might have been 18-20 hours for me too... honestly it was too far back to remember. I *thought* it was 3 chunks of 2hr a pop. But maybe it was 5 x 4hr or something.
Still, 75 is a bit high. Especially if you have to pay for the driving school... that's almost 2 full work-weeks of time so you're handing over a really large paycheck to someone.
Considering that the average person needs (depending greatly upon your state) about 3k miles under your belt before you get a license...I'd say that instills a lot more confidence.
Wow, must be a newer requirement, I don't recall that one from back in the day. Granted that was 16+ years ago for me in NJ.
To get my permit it was just a written exam (at 16).
To get my license (at 17) I needed a written exam + eye exam + driving test + proof of X hours of behind-the-wheel-training. The last bit was with a driving school.
I want to say the student-driving was between 4-6 hours but I can't be certain because it was so long ago; but definitely less than what would be needed for 3,000 miles which probably would have been around 75 hours splitting between road and highway.
Obviously I practiced a lot with my parents in the car when I had my permit, but that was only for a year and I doubt I got ~75 hours of behind-the-wheel time with them.
A small personal-type of drone, as opposed to large military drone, weighing only a couple of pounds of only injured a couple people. In other words, a remote control helicopter with a camera crashed.
Robot car driving at lethal speeds where the smallest mistake could kill someone... will eventually hit someone.
One is a s*xier story than the other. Trust me, when a robot car hits and hurts someone.... anchormen around the world are going to need to make sure their desks aren't made of glass otherwise the camera will show the world just how excited they are about delivering this "vital story"
The public's reaction will depend on a number of factors, but it ending with "bans" on robot cars is a high probability
- Was the victim a child? A photogenic teen? A mother of 3?
- How bad was the accident
- Are "witnesses" flocking to the camera saying "oh my god the humanity"
1. Incorrect, so long as it kills less people it will be fine.
2. Toyota had a market problem not a software problem. They were simply old geezers confusing the pedals.
3. there is no reason why good security could not be used in driverless cars.
Actually, the OP is probably correct about #1. He's not talking about logic, he's talking about human reaction.
All it will take is 1 robot-car to hit a single person and the news will have a field day. They will whip up the population into a frenzy with "Murderous robots on your highway? News at 11" Seriously, they will hit this issue HARD because in their view it's just all kinds of s*xy... Robots, death, fear-of-the-unknown, making-the-news-team-seem-sympathetic, etc.
Meanwhile politicians will jump on the bandwagon and try to outlaw them in their state.
Agreed, 300,000 miles without an accident isn't that awesome.
I've probably come close to driving around 300k in about 16 years and I have yet to have an accident. I HAVE had a number of close calls, and I will admit every now and then one of those close calls would have been my fault had there been an accident (legally and realistically).
I wonder if there are multiple XPS 27" Touch, as looking at their site shows a 1440 screen instead of 1080.
My main concern with all-in-one's though is how easy they are to do maintenance and the minor part-swap. I'm not a fan of how closed the Apple one is: I don't like having to deal with "stickers" if I have to replace the HD or something. And I have no idea of the Dell is similarly annoying.
I don't need a huge case... but something that I can at least fit my bear-claw hands in when I have to swap a broken part out.
But deaths would be easy to count and lookup.
Some countries might not even both recording car-accidents-involving-coma, others would. Some might not even mention loss-of-limb. So comparing country A (which counts both of those) with country B (that counts neither) throws things off.
Others might just say "minor injury" or "major injury" but have greatly differing definitions of minor vs major.
Meanwhile, I'd imagine it's a LOT more common that everyone records and reports "death" So at least you're comparing apples to apples.
Did you miss my last sentence? I said we're not particularly low but we're less than some countries that I would assume we'd have more than
Middle East
Most of South America
Russia
Most of Eastern Europe (Poland and such)
Places where I'd imagine they have fewer cars per capita, or at least spend fewer hours per day in a car.
Darn, why did you have to remind me.
I've practically been living on fish for the last month. Salmon, Tuna, Sushi, etc. Figuring that it was better than some of the alternatives and assuming that the industry had this worked out already.
Now you've given me an excuse to get a geiger counter.
Now, whatever you do, don't make a valid argument for say... a PS4... or I'll have have to buy that too
Nevermind that you lost your legs. For example, the number of serious injuries that don't result in death would be extremely high for countries where everyone drives a scooter. Why do we only count death for these statistics?
I'm not saying I agree with their logic, but I would IMAGINE it's because then the results get a little fuzzy.
What constitutes as a serious injury vs a a non-serious injury? Where do you draw the line?
Loss of limb? Paralysis? Coma / Vegetative state? Concussion? Cracked skull? Broken wrist? Chipped tooth? Stitches?
How non-serious do we count?
If we say non-serious accidents = X, then we're missing all of the really really minor accidents
With death... at least there's a somewhat common accepted standard.
Honestly, in many cases the rankings / ranges are the opposite what I assumed. Considering the US is recognized as having a high number of car-drivers (perhaps too many) and low number of public-transportation-users (perhaps too few)... I assumed we'd be way up there just due to us constantly driving into eachother.
Not that we're particularly low, but we're a lot less than some countries I would assume would have less than us (per capita)
Thanks for the assist.
Yeh, I've been called "astroturfer" once or twice because I said that even though I prefer Google Maps, Bing Maps is (gasp) an alright tool.
I only mentioned the Live CD because frankly I wasn't committed to wiping away anything in case I didn't like it... and a Live distro lets me test the waters.
The number of Americans who have a clue about such things is vanishingly small, and they are vastly outnumbered by those who don't *want* Americans to know such things.
In this case though, we're talking about a private entity. The same constitutional rights don't exactly apply in a private setting.
Try standing up on a soap-box at work and spout hate speech or something; you'll be fired.
After being invited into someone's house, whip out a protesting sign and start marching around the living room shouting Free Tibet! Good luck trying to win a lawsuit against the homeowner or even the cops for making you leave.
That all being said, I see where the founding-fathers section is coming from: anonymity helped with the independence AND saved the lives of the people voicing their opinion. But for the most part, this is about a private entity tired of people acting like d*cks on their forums and stuff. Not so much "Republicans are stupid" as the stupid hate speech / your mamma / Baba Booey stuff that fills many-a-forum.
Seriously, I feel like my IQ points were dropping whenever I'd try to read the CNN threads attached to the bottom of the Trayvon/Zimmerman news stories. And those weren't even anonymous.