Maybe letting off the brakes a tad to lessen the impact, or (out of left field idea) deploy air bags on the bumpers?
Let's see. We're stopped at a traffic light, presumably with cross-traffic doing its thing. So we want to let off the brakes so we get pushed farther into the cross-traffic? Hmm, two car fender-bender turns into four+ car pileup....
Should we also do this with conventional hybrids? Since they also have the chance of "new untested substances to be produced within it"?
If not, why not?
And if so, are you aware that pretty much everything we eat is a hybrid? Some newer than others, of course. But none of those hybrids have undergone "proper clinical trials before release"....
If you're capable and able to have lots of consensual sex with lots of partners with out using coercion? GREAT!
And here I thought that sex between employer and employee was, by definition, non-consensual. Do try to remember that Monica was an employee, not an "equal partner"....
Defending freedom of speech means defending speech that you don't agree with. I'm sure you're familiar with the Voltaire quote, "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
Yah, and I think I'm familiar with that saying....
And this is probably why there are so many fat people in the US. Walking or cycling (+ not having tacos or bagels for breakfast... tacos? Really?) would probably be good for a lot of people.
Just curious - do you walk or cycle much in 35C/90%+ humidity where you live?
Because that's not what TFA says the agreement includes about sanctions. I think the figure they were using was 5-6 months, not "on day of implementation"....
Plus there's the whole "we can reimpose the sanctions immediately if the Iranians break the rules" suggests that the word "suspended" is a lot closer to reality than "lifted".
Umm, those cites talk about the government RAISING prices, not lowering them.
The Feds set the MINIMUM price above market level, then buy up and remove from the market enough product to keep the market price at or slightly above the MINIMUM.
Basically, they're encouraging farmers to produce more dairy products than the market needs just to sell to the Feds....
So, what does the agreement say about verification?
Is this another "national technical means" (read: spying) situation? Or does this have some other verification measure(s) that aren't mentioned in TFA?
And on an unrelated note - no, Iran did not "sign" the agreement. Anymore than the US did. They "initialed" it (read: the negotiators on all sides agreed to hand this back to their respective governments for ratification/whatever)....
I don't understand why guns always come up when non-Americans talk about America. I have lived here my entire 30 years, IN THE SOUTH, and have not seen a single gun in public except in the hands of a police officer. I own guns and most of my family do as well. But I've never seen them in public.
Ditto. I've lived in the South most of half a century. I own guns. I'm pretty sure everyone in my family does. Not utterly sure, though. Wouldn't terribly surprise me if one particular cousin doesn't.
BUT, I never see them in public except in police hands or down at the range. And since the range won't come to me, I have to CHOOSE to go there in order to be in the presence of those terrifying pieces of metal/wood/plastic.
And, oddly enough, a wife. The wife is also a programmer.
Oddly enough, with both parents programmers, my daughter expressed absolutely no interest in programming. No, I don't believe her teachers had more influence than her parents....
Though she's starting to express an interest in doing Minecraft mods, just because the mods she likes haven't been updated as promptly as she wishes they were....
Well, I see I'm going to have to let you in on a a dirty little secret of Star Wars.
Specifically, it wasn't made a long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away. It was made right here on Earth (Terra, Dirt, whichever name you prefer), and the actors were all natives of Earth/Terra/Dirt.
Yep, every one of them was human. Even the weird looking ones.
Unfortunately, that really limited the ability of the producers to pick inoffensive accents. They just didn't have anyone who spoke a non-terrestrial accent available for use, and all the terrestrial accents were already in use by SOMEBODY.
At least they didn't try to do NAZIs in space...
Oh, wait, never mind, they did that too, what with the stormtroopers and the feldgrau uniforms on some of the bad guys....
By the way, what is the difference in definition of 'politician' versus 'statesman' in this context?
A politician disagrees with you, and a Statesman agrees with you.
For any particular value of "you", of course.
Note that the real problem with any elected governing body is that they are measured by the legislation they pass or oppose. It's never occurred to most of them that most problems will resolve themselves without having to pass a law....
Who's going to cut your grass? Who is going to fix the sewer when things get backed up?
I'm assuming the answer to your first question is Husqvarna (who already makes a lawnmower robot).
Don't know that there is a sewer cleaning robot in production, but can't imagine it's terribly more difficult than a lawnmower robot or a vacuuming robot....
In a society as described (with essentially unlimited resources and energy) what will you do about the population explosion?
What population explosion would that be?
In the more advanced parts of the world (USA, Europe, China, Japan, Korea, etc) population growth is already negative absent immigration. Hell, even India is approaching negative population growth, though it's not there yet.
Current trends predict a peak population for the world sometime later this century, followed by a decline to lower population than we have now. Caveat: there's some disagreement whether the stable point will be lower than now, or slightly higher than now.
There's no reason to suspect that a post-scarcity economy will result in higher population than current trends - the factors that result in fewer children per family in advanced civilizations now should apply equally well when everyone is part of an advanced civilization. More likely problem will be a permanently shrinking population....
We hid our radar capabilities in the early days of the cold war
That might be a reasonable (for values of reasonable) idea, IF we hadn't started using radar in WW2 (along with the Germans, Brits, Japanese, USSR)....
In other words, radar wasn't much of a secret in the Cold War, since by the time it started, pretty much everyone had been using it for years.
"The employees like it, the customers like it" By that reasoning, it should be legal to sell narcotics on the street.
Yes, it should. But more likely, if it was legal, it would be sold in stores.
Drug stores, probably.
Note that back in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, some of what are now illicit drugs were, in fact, sold over the counter in drug stores.
the real problems of political instability, overpopulation, and poor infrastructure.
While I can't argue with your first and third points, overpopulation???
Those people crossing the Med are going from Africa (which has a lower population density than Europe) to Europe (which has a higher population density than Africa). Overpopulation has nothing to do with it....
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Let's see. We're stopped at a traffic light, presumably with cross-traffic doing its thing. So we want to let off the brakes so we get pushed farther into the cross-traffic? Hmm, two car fender-bender turns into four+ car pileup....
Yeah, that sounds like a good plan.
Quite so. More like extortion, really - "Give us your money or bad things will happen to you"....
Should we also do this with conventional hybrids? Since they also have the chance of "new untested substances to be produced within it"?
If not, why not?
And if so, are you aware that pretty much everything we eat is a hybrid? Some newer than others, of course. But none of those hybrids have undergone "proper clinical trials before release"....
And here I thought that sex between employer and employee was, by definition, non-consensual. Do try to remember that Monica was an employee, not an "equal partner"....
Yah, and I think I'm familiar with that saying....
Just curious - do you walk or cycle much in 35C/90%+ humidity where you live?
Sure you can.
Wonder if they bothered to get a Grand Jury to rubberstamp it....
Atlanta GA is not on the coast. It's not NEAR the coast. Hurricanes are not an issue near there.
Fort Worth TX is not on the coast. It's not NEAR the coast. Hurricanes are not an issue near there.
Interesting.
Because that's not what TFA says the agreement includes about sanctions. I think the figure they were using was 5-6 months, not "on day of implementation"....
Plus there's the whole "we can reimpose the sanctions immediately if the Iranians break the rules" suggests that the word "suspended" is a lot closer to reality than "lifted".
Either that, or you're not the guy who made the incorrect prediction 50 years back....
Umm, those cites talk about the government RAISING prices, not lowering them.
The Feds set the MINIMUM price above market level, then buy up and remove from the market enough product to keep the market price at or slightly above the MINIMUM.
Basically, they're encouraging farmers to produce more dairy products than the market needs just to sell to the Feds....
So, what does the agreement say about verification?
Is this another "national technical means" (read: spying) situation? Or does this have some other verification measure(s) that aren't mentioned in TFA?
And on an unrelated note - no, Iran did not "sign" the agreement. Anymore than the US did. They "initialed" it (read: the negotiators on all sides agreed to hand this back to their respective governments for ratification/whatever)....
Ditto. I've lived in the South most of half a century. I own guns. I'm pretty sure everyone in my family does. Not utterly sure, though. Wouldn't terribly surprise me if one particular cousin doesn't.
BUT, I never see them in public except in police hands or down at the range. And since the range won't come to me, I have to CHOOSE to go there in order to be in the presence of those terrifying pieces of metal/wood/plastic.
First Amendment. Second is RKBA, not Speech.
Hmm, do "amicable partners" actually get divorced? I'd always assumed it was the people who weren't happy with their partners who did that....
I have a daughter as well.
And, oddly enough, a wife. The wife is also a programmer.
Oddly enough, with both parents programmers, my daughter expressed absolutely no interest in programming. No, I don't believe her teachers had more influence than her parents....
Though she's starting to express an interest in doing Minecraft mods, just because the mods she likes haven't been updated as promptly as she wishes they were....
Well, I see I'm going to have to let you in on a a dirty little secret of Star Wars.
Specifically, it wasn't made a long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away. It was made right here on Earth (Terra, Dirt, whichever name you prefer), and the actors were all natives of Earth/Terra/Dirt.
Yep, every one of them was human. Even the weird looking ones.
Unfortunately, that really limited the ability of the producers to pick inoffensive accents. They just didn't have anyone who spoke a non-terrestrial accent available for use, and all the terrestrial accents were already in use by SOMEBODY.
At least they didn't try to do NAZIs in space...
Oh, wait, never mind, they did that too, what with the stormtroopers and the feldgrau uniforms on some of the bad guys....
A politician disagrees with you, and a Statesman agrees with you.
For any particular value of "you", of course.
Note that the real problem with any elected governing body is that they are measured by the legislation they pass or oppose. It's never occurred to most of them that most problems will resolve themselves without having to pass a law....
I'm assuming the answer to your first question is Husqvarna (who already makes a lawnmower robot).
Don't know that there is a sewer cleaning robot in production, but can't imagine it's terribly more difficult than a lawnmower robot or a vacuuming robot....
What population explosion would that be?
In the more advanced parts of the world (USA, Europe, China, Japan, Korea, etc) population growth is already negative absent immigration. Hell, even India is approaching negative population growth, though it's not there yet.
Current trends predict a peak population for the world sometime later this century, followed by a decline to lower population than we have now. Caveat: there's some disagreement whether the stable point will be lower than now, or slightly higher than now.
There's no reason to suspect that a post-scarcity economy will result in higher population than current trends - the factors that result in fewer children per family in advanced civilizations now should apply equally well when everyone is part of an advanced civilization. More likely problem will be a permanently shrinking population....
That might be a reasonable (for values of reasonable) idea, IF we hadn't started using radar in WW2 (along with the Germans, Brits, Japanese, USSR)....
In other words, radar wasn't much of a secret in the Cold War, since by the time it started, pretty much everyone had been using it for years.
Drug stores, probably.
Note that back in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, some of what are now illicit drugs were, in fact, sold over the counter in drug stores.
And this has what, exactly, to do with what I wrote?
Note that, absent immigration, US population is declining.
Note also that if current trends continue, we should see population declines in many States even if we include immigration.
Iowa, being essentially a big farm, is one of those States ripe for population decline sooner rather than later.
While I can't argue with your first and third points, overpopulation???
Those people crossing the Med are going from Africa (which has a lower population density than Europe) to Europe (which has a higher population density than Africa). Overpopulation has nothing to do with it....