So people should just go around crashing into people who cut them off then?
Note that the Uber car did NOT crash into the car that cut them off. The car doing the "cutting off" ran into the Uber car (I'm assuming it hit the Uber car on its side, since TFA refers to the Uber car being knocked over on its side).
Now, it the human driver of the other vehicle decided that the Uber car had "cut him off" and crashed into the Uber car on purpose, that would fit your description nicely.
Alas, the Uber car had right of way, so it's really hard to get terribly upset at the EEEEVIL self-driving vehicle that got hit by a human who failed to stop/slow down when he was required to by law....
First off, it's not in our galaxy, so the 40Kyears from galactic center is irrelevant to how far in the past the event was.
Secondly, it's moving about 2200 km/s. So it has moved 40k ly from its original position at or near its galactic center over the last 5.4 megayears.
Plus, of course, the time the light has taken to get here. No, I'm not going to read TFA to find out how far away it is to determine more precisely when it happened because...
Ultimately, of course, relativity says that talking about when something happened in a galaxy far, far, away is completely meaningless anyways....
and require people to demonstrate a need for bigger engines
So, what in the Constitution allows the Federal government to do that?
And assuming you can contort that out of the Constitution, you're setting things up so as to give neat new privileges to the wealthy and connected...that'll go over well.
What if they prolong the long, decaying years as well?
I'd assume, in that case, that most people would stop taking the antiagathics at some point.
I mean, 120 years of prime adulthood with antiagathics? Great! Followed by either 30 years of old age sans antiagathics or 120 years of old age with them? Put the antiagathic bottle down, and go out relatively quickly.
the future of interplanetary travel is capitalist in nature... thoughts?
Damn, but that would be almost as bad as going to the New World hoping to find a cheaper route for the spice trade, wouldn't it?
Luckily for us that never happened, eh?
What/s that? Columbus was trying to find a way to the Far East when he conned Isabella out of her jewels to finance the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria??? Say it ain't so!
Seriously, who cares whether the first men on Mars are paid for by the government of private industry? As long as there ARE First Men on Mars, it's a win for humanity....
- Okay, it's caused by humans, but it's not a big deal
Followed by "if it's a big deal, why aren't we building more nuclear reactors? Replacing baseload coal with baseload natural gas is just delaying things slightly."
He can't remain President long enough to actually do the mission.
Hell, he won't be Pres long enough for hardware designs, much less actually bending metal.
Much less launching anything...
That's NASA's biggest problem these last few decades - no way to stick to anything beyond the term(s) of the current President, so nothing can really be done that takes longer than about five years....
Which is another way of saying "nothing can really be done."
Do note that "er" on the end. It's important. "Older" is NOT the same as "old". My youngest is older than my dog, for instance. And wealthier too. Of course, that's not saying much, since the dog has no money, and is only two...
Just like Cal Berkeley yanked all 10,000 educational videos over a lawsuit,
Cal Berkeley yanked those educational videos because they were sued under the ADA to provide close-captioning and such for the hearing impaired.
Which would have been extremely expensive (think of 10k lectures as ~50 years worth of primetime network TV), to say the least.
So they looked the situation over, figured out that they'd have to spend tens of millions of dollars to continue offering those free videos (with an ever-present risk of further lawsuits), or they could solve the problem by just removing the videos....
So, how much of your own money would you be willing to spend to provide a free service to all and sundry after you were sued for not providing enough free services?
Even if you do like kids, bringing them to the world we have today isn't exactly a gift to them...
Yeah, bringing kids into a world where they can expect to live to near 90, with almost no chance of dying in a war or plague or starving to death would really suck.
Plus there's the whole "we can communicate with almost anyone, anywhere, in Real Time" thing. Can't imagine wanting to subject kids to that (an example: when I was a kid, my Dad spent a year in Vietnam. We got letters, occasionally (he wasn't much for writing). Today, if your father is in the middle of a warzone half a world away, you can video-conference with him using any number of internet tools).
Much better to have had kids back in the Civil War, right? Or WW1 or 2? Or maybe back in the halcyon days of the Black Plague? Or hell, any random famine year during the last 5K years....
Hmm, they've got a contract to start putting up these satellites in five years (notably two years AFTER they say they'll have the ability to deliver stuff to the Moon).
Starting to put stuff into orbit in five years isn't in the timezone of SpaceX, which has been putting things up for several years....
Two women who were his employees. Note that when that sort of thing happened in industry, it was a slam-dunk for a sexual harassment suit. But people REALLY like Bill. Enough that they gave him a pass on something that would've gotten any CEO in the country in trouble....
People who insist on stupid passwords like, "OM#*&!N!lkjasdf_###7" are the problem. Such passwords are difficult to remember (or type!) and easy to crack.
Why is this password easy to crack? Seems to me it meets a requirement to include upper, lower, and a special character, which you assert are good things.
Except that many websites do not accept very long passwords, and most will require it to contain an upper case letter and/or a number, and may even bitch if you put the upper case at the beginning and the number at the end, at which point you put them somewhere else and you forget the password the moment you press "ok".
But my PasswordSafe remembers them for me, so who really cares if I forget them the moment I press OK?
Actually, since my PasswordSafe generates them in the first place, I don't have to even bother forgetting them;
Oh, and I use the "comments" field in PasswordSafe to remember "secret questions" and their answers. That way I can use random answers to the secret questions, so even someone who knows me won't have a clue what to put into the secret question field.....
I posit that it's unethical and treasonous to not disclose the vulnerabilities
You posit wrong. Treason is defined in the Constitution, and the legal barrier for treason is so high that only 13 people have ever been so convicted, and two of those were pardoned by the Pres later....
So why is it that the red states are the ones that consume the lion's share of the social services
Two words: Civil War.
Basically, the Old South (the poorest part of the USA) was colonized because you could grow cotton there in huge plantations. The Civil War, and subsequent technological changes, led to the ruin of what passed for an economy in the South, with basically nothing to replace it (note the exception of the Barony of Iron Mountain (SCA), aka Birmingham, which sat on a helluvalot of iron ore).
Realistically, if slavery had never been legal in the USA, it's rather likely that the region of the Old South would tend to look like Montana - mostly empty....
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Note that the Uber car did NOT crash into the car that cut them off. The car doing the "cutting off" ran into the Uber car (I'm assuming it hit the Uber car on its side, since TFA refers to the Uber car being knocked over on its side).
Now, it the human driver of the other vehicle decided that the Uber car had "cut him off" and crashed into the Uber car on purpose, that would fit your description nicely.
Alas, the Uber car had right of way, so it's really hard to get terribly upset at the EEEEVIL self-driving vehicle that got hit by a human who failed to stop/slow down when he was required to by law....
Umm, no.
First off, it's not in our galaxy, so the 40Kyears from galactic center is irrelevant to how far in the past the event was.
Secondly, it's moving about 2200 km/s. So it has moved 40k ly from its original position at or near its galactic center over the last 5.4 megayears.
Plus, of course, the time the light has taken to get here. No, I'm not going to read TFA to find out how far away it is to determine more precisely when it happened because...
Ultimately, of course, relativity says that talking about when something happened in a galaxy far, far, away is completely meaningless anyways....
So, what in the Constitution allows the Federal government to do that?
And assuming you can contort that out of the Constitution, you're setting things up so as to give neat new privileges to the wealthy and connected...that'll go over well.
I'd assume, in that case, that most people would stop taking the antiagathics at some point.
I mean, 120 years of prime adulthood with antiagathics? Great! Followed by either 30 years of old age sans antiagathics or 120 years of old age with them? Put the antiagathic bottle down, and go out relatively quickly.
Damn, but that would be almost as bad as going to the New World hoping to find a cheaper route for the spice trade, wouldn't it?
Luckily for us that never happened, eh?
What/s that? Columbus was trying to find a way to the Far East when he conned Isabella out of her jewels to finance the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria??? Say it ain't so!
Seriously, who cares whether the first men on Mars are paid for by the government of private industry? As long as there ARE First Men on Mars, it's a win for humanity....
Followed by "if it's a big deal, why aren't we building more nuclear reactors? Replacing baseload coal with baseload natural gas is just delaying things slightly."
well, we consider YOU human (usually). So anything that is a higher lifeform than you should also count.
That answer your question?
He can't remain President long enough to actually do the mission.
Hell, he won't be Pres long enough for hardware designs, much less actually bending metal.
Much less launching anything...
That's NASA's biggest problem these last few decades - no way to stick to anything beyond the term(s) of the current President, so nothing can really be done that takes longer than about five years....
Which is another way of saying "nothing can really be done."
Okay, what's your "fair share"? For any particular value of "your".
What makes you think the "loopholes" were unintended?
Only if Twitter is based in New York. New York State laws don't actually apply to companies in, say, Washington....
"-er"
Do note that "er" on the end. It's important. "Older" is NOT the same as "old". My youngest is older than my dog, for instance. And wealthier too. Of course, that's not saying much, since the dog has no money, and is only two...
Cal Berkeley yanked those educational videos because they were sued under the ADA to provide close-captioning and such for the hearing impaired.
Which would have been extremely expensive (think of 10k lectures as ~50 years worth of primetime network TV), to say the least.
So they looked the situation over, figured out that they'd have to spend tens of millions of dollars to continue offering those free videos (with an ever-present risk of further lawsuits), or they could solve the problem by just removing the videos....
So, how much of your own money would you be willing to spend to provide a free service to all and sundry after you were sued for not providing enough free services?
Who is lawn? Odd question, that.
Or did you mean "whose lawn"? Never mind....
Yeah, bringing kids into a world where they can expect to live to near 90, with almost no chance of dying in a war or plague or starving to death would really suck.
Plus there's the whole "we can communicate with almost anyone, anywhere, in Real Time" thing. Can't imagine wanting to subject kids to that (an example: when I was a kid, my Dad spent a year in Vietnam. We got letters, occasionally (he wasn't much for writing). Today, if your father is in the middle of a warzone half a world away, you can video-conference with him using any number of internet tools).
Much better to have had kids back in the Civil War, right? Or WW1 or 2? Or maybe back in the halcyon days of the Black Plague? Or hell, any random famine year during the last 5K years....
Better, look at what would happen if a Mexican soldier shot an American on American soil.
Hint: "Act of War" comes to mind, but "I'll sue, I'll sue!!" doesn't....
Hmm, they've got a contract to start putting up these satellites in five years (notably two years AFTER they say they'll have the ability to deliver stuff to the Moon).
Starting to put stuff into orbit in five years isn't in the timezone of SpaceX, which has been putting things up for several years....
Meet code? In Russia? Surely you jest....
So true. There is NOTHING a soldier can't break....
Two women who were his employees. Note that when that sort of thing happened in industry, it was a slam-dunk for a sexual harassment suit. But people REALLY like Bill. Enough that they gave him a pass on something that would've gotten any CEO in the country in trouble....
Why is this password easy to crack? Seems to me it meets a requirement to include upper, lower, and a special character, which you assert are good things.
But my PasswordSafe remembers them for me, so who really cares if I forget them the moment I press OK?
Actually, since my PasswordSafe generates them in the first place, I don't have to even bother forgetting them;
Oh, and I use the "comments" field in PasswordSafe to remember "secret questions" and their answers. That way I can use random answers to the secret questions, so even someone who knows me won't have a clue what to put into the secret question field.....
Note that exactly one (1) bomb in history has actually used U-235. They dropped it on Hiroshima.
Pu-239. Half-life 24K-years.
You posit wrong. Treason is defined in the Constitution, and the legal barrier for treason is so high that only 13 people have ever been so convicted, and two of those were pardoned by the Pres later....
More like "not many because not many people want to threaten to blow someone up if they don't hand over their wallet"....
Two words: Civil War.
Basically, the Old South (the poorest part of the USA) was colonized because you could grow cotton there in huge plantations. The Civil War, and subsequent technological changes, led to the ruin of what passed for an economy in the South, with basically nothing to replace it (note the exception of the Barony of Iron Mountain (SCA), aka Birmingham, which sat on a helluvalot of iron ore).
Realistically, if slavery had never been legal in the USA, it's rather likely that the region of the Old South would tend to look like Montana - mostly empty....