I really don't care. I didn't want the kids in the first place, so...if they want to be nice to me and have me around, great. If they are going to be a pain in my ass, I write them out of the will. Their loss, not mine. I invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in each of them and did all the required labor, with my teeth gritted the whole time because their mother is a wretch. The rest is up to them.
And that stuff about 'deciding where you go to a retirement home' doesn't matter if you have your documentation properly written. Have a valid power of attorney already in place and living wills, etc, naming someone responsible and decent as your heir/caretaker. One of my daughters is a total asshole and the other one...same age as the kid in this article...the jury is still out on. Neither will have any power over me unless they demonstrate capability to exercise it properly.
They are allowed to do what they want with their own pictures. You sound like another ungrateful asshole. Also sounds like no one gave you the life lesson of poverty that you deserved.
Perhaps this is the chance for another country to add a module to the ISS...maybe the "Saudi Arabian Halal Abattoir module", capable of incinerating and storing the excess remains.
By your own admission, it'd be more humane to both the crew and the prisoner to just kill them and eat them. Something like 40 kilograms of meat at $20,000 per kg...win!
I'd be willing to grant your point, but it'll be an irrelevancy to a jury. They are deciding a liability case, not deciding if Tesla is a benefit to society.
My theory is that Musk didn't realize what was going to happen because it's his blind spot - the practicalities of selling hard consumer goods.
I think he may actually have an inkling of the fact that Tesla is doomed already and that's why the Mobileye announcement. Typically, if they thought they could weather this, they would join at the hip and offer a common defense and probably announce more cooperative deals. Someone got the hint amidst their discussions that Tesla realizes its impending doom and is going to throw its supplier under the bus, as it were. (ha) Mainly because they lack better choices because of poor strategy, as you note. So Mobileye is now blaming Tesla for its implementation, to absolve themselves of liability. You can see the battle lines forming.
You don't understand litigation either. Tesla sold the vehicle and will take the lion's share of the liability. Even if they manage to hold in a component vendor, it won't be for the bulk of the payouts.
Even if Tesla had an umbrella liability policy covering this type of thing, it's either cancelled already or under underwriter review and will be cancelled based upon these events.
Expecting Tesla to survive the avalanche of product liability suits that are coming is crazy. Musk appears oblivious to the problem. This is not a PR issue. There are numerous chinks in Tesla's armor that will be pried open and exploited by plaintiff lawyers. The company is toast. Mobileye is just trying to save itself and preserve relationships with other vendors.
As for that idiot Hotz...we can go visit him in some slum apartment in a few years. Bring a 12 pack and you can listen to him complain about how the system is rigged.
The FBI is notable for poor handling of classified information. It's a civilian organization with all the slipshod nature of an organization that doesn't understand "mission" in the military sense. The Army has many faults, but this is one thing it does reasonably well.
Yup. And I figure that computers have their own chance, if they can exist in sufficient quantities and diversity and remain connected. But it's not a real danger anytime soon.
My crap is riddled with bacteria which are self-replicating, in colonies of millions and billions of organisms. It's about as likely to get sentient as my computer is. Which is to say, not likely at all.
OK. The rules are there to satisfy the same morons who watch the sports and keep them on the government's reservation. It's a wank-fest for compulsive followers.
People who fail to see the exchange of currency as a transfer of value are hard to reason with. I suggest you imagine it as exchanging some bottled sweat for some KFC, rather than dollar bills or a credit card swipe.
Those who believe in a post-scarcity economy are destined to be disappointed. Everything costs effort and resources - raising chickens, growing potatoes, milling wheat to make biscuits and gravy. Much of this can be automated, but you still have to have land for chickens and growing crops. You'll need fuel to make everything work. You'll still need some human labor, a nonzero amount at the very least.
Then the question becomes: Why should you get KFC if you don't give any sweat?
This is why I see euthanasia as our future - the most benign one. It's either that or the usual Four Horsemen. If there are a lot of unnecessary people without gainful occupation, they'll get killed off somehow. It's human nature and can't be gainsaid.
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You have the power to write your own will, living will, and power of attorney. Independent of your wife. Use it.
I really don't care. I didn't want the kids in the first place, so...if they want to be nice to me and have me around, great. If they are going to be a pain in my ass, I write them out of the will. Their loss, not mine. I invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in each of them and did all the required labor, with my teeth gritted the whole time because their mother is a wretch. The rest is up to them.
And that stuff about 'deciding where you go to a retirement home' doesn't matter if you have your documentation properly written. Have a valid power of attorney already in place and living wills, etc, naming someone responsible and decent as your heir/caretaker. One of my daughters is a total asshole and the other one ...same age as the kid in this article...the jury is still out on. Neither will have any power over me unless they demonstrate capability to exercise it properly.
Real life is coming - for all of you. Boo!
They are allowed to do what they want with their own pictures. You sound like another ungrateful asshole. Also sounds like no one gave you the life lesson of poverty that you deserved.
When the money stops flowing, the kids get to experience real life (tm).
Then i'd disown her and refuse contact for the rest of my life until she crawled back with an apology. What an ungrateful asshole.
Perhaps this is the chance for another country to add a module to the ISS...maybe the "Saudi Arabian Halal Abattoir module", capable of incinerating and storing the excess remains.
I'm imagining the pictures beamed back to Earth of the ISS covered with blood and floating chunks of flesh being grabbed at in microgravity.
By your own admission, it'd be more humane to both the crew and the prisoner to just kill them and eat them. Something like 40 kilograms of meat at $20,000 per kg...win!
I'd be willing to grant your point, but it'll be an irrelevancy to a jury. They are deciding a liability case, not deciding if Tesla is a benefit to society.
They might not throw Tesla under the bus if the business was valuable enough. Apparently it isn't.
I don't think it is going to work that way.
My theory is that Musk didn't realize what was going to happen because it's his blind spot - the practicalities of selling hard consumer goods.
I think he may actually have an inkling of the fact that Tesla is doomed already and that's why the Mobileye announcement. Typically, if they thought they could weather this, they would join at the hip and offer a common defense and probably announce more cooperative deals. Someone got the hint amidst their discussions that Tesla realizes its impending doom and is going to throw its supplier under the bus, as it were. (ha) Mainly because they lack better choices because of poor strategy, as you note. So Mobileye is now blaming Tesla for its implementation, to absolve themselves of liability. You can see the battle lines forming.
You don't understand litigation either. Tesla sold the vehicle and will take the lion's share of the liability. Even if they manage to hold in a component vendor, it won't be for the bulk of the payouts.
Even if Tesla had an umbrella liability policy covering this type of thing, it's either cancelled already or under underwriter review and will be cancelled based upon these events.
Expecting Tesla to survive the avalanche of product liability suits that are coming is crazy. Musk appears oblivious to the problem. This is not a PR issue. There are numerous chinks in Tesla's armor that will be pried open and exploited by plaintiff lawyers. The company is toast. Mobileye is just trying to save itself and preserve relationships with other vendors.
As for that idiot Hotz...we can go visit him in some slum apartment in a few years. Bring a 12 pack and you can listen to him complain about how the system is rigged.
You _do_ realize that this crap, along with the keying of cars with his stickers and political sign vandalism is assuring his election, right?
Only the losing side resorts to such measures.
The FBI is notable for poor handling of classified information. It's a civilian organization with all the slipshod nature of an organization that doesn't understand "mission" in the military sense. The Army has many faults, but this is one thing it does reasonably well.
Yup. And I figure that computers have their own chance, if they can exist in sufficient quantities and diversity and remain connected. But it's not a real danger anytime soon.
They do, at least the Army does. They thought of this already.
My crap is riddled with bacteria which are self-replicating, in colonies of millions and billions of organisms. It's about as likely to get sentient as my computer is. Which is to say, not likely at all.
It's alive! But it's unlikely to evolve to a point where it can talk back to me. Very similar to my computer.
I also can't say that my feces won't become sentient. But it's probably not going to happen.
The logic is weak in this one.
OK. The rules are there to satisfy the same morons who watch the sports and keep them on the government's reservation. It's a wank-fest for compulsive followers.
So I went to test your site, sure I wasn't going to find the books I wanted, and I found exactly what I was looking for.
Damn. Now I regret my Audible subscription.
People who fail to see the exchange of currency as a transfer of value are hard to reason with. I suggest you imagine it as exchanging some bottled sweat for some KFC, rather than dollar bills or a credit card swipe.
Those who believe in a post-scarcity economy are destined to be disappointed. Everything costs effort and resources - raising chickens, growing potatoes, milling wheat to make biscuits and gravy. Much of this can be automated, but you still have to have land for chickens and growing crops. You'll need fuel to make everything work. You'll still need some human labor, a nonzero amount at the very least.
Then the question becomes: Why should you get KFC if you don't give any sweat?
This is why I see euthanasia as our future - the most benign one. It's either that or the usual Four Horsemen. If there are a lot of unnecessary people without gainful occupation, they'll get killed off somehow. It's human nature and can't be gainsaid.