One definition of "accidental" is "happening by chance". When you drive drunk, does a crash happen truly by chance?
Another definition is "unexpected". Is driving drunk not expected to lead to crashes?
Another definition is "arising from extrinsic causes". When you drive drunk and get into a crash, was the cause of the crash outside of your control?
So you see, it requires a remarkably narrow definition of the word "accidental" to make the claim that alcohol-related crashes are accidental. This is why the NYPD in my link above says that true accidents involve no criminality.
The 1st generation iPad was discontinued less than a year after it was released, then Apple stopped the OS updates only a year after that. Now it's stuck with iOS 5 while all later iPads run iOS 9 or 10.
throwing out or "adjusting" data to fit the predetermined conclusions
That's a very serious accusation. Do you have any evidence to support it? Climategate tried but failed to find any scientific misconduct, but if you know something the investigators didn't, please speak up.
Unless, of course, we spend lots of money to support the policies and programs of the people funding the research...all the climate change doom and gloom is political bullshit and not science.
If claims of "doom and gloom" are all it takes to convince you that something is false, then please be aware that you are an easily manipulated person. You should learn to become more skeptical.
But fortunately, today's new luxury rentals are tomorrow's low rent districts. And thanks to gentrification, the opposite is also true. It's the circle of life!
Basically any type of middle-man arrangement with no real added value is rent seeking.
Is arbitrage also rent-seeking?
In fact, this is worse than a middle man if you consider their long-term goal of charging off of the difference (either way) from the original asking price
In an auction, what is the "original asking price"?
Hire a few extra cops to patrol the sidewalks, start citing pedestrians for J walking and crossing outside a crosswalk, with an egregiously heavy fine.
Identity verification need not involve people putting "their entire life on public record for all eternity" if you allow pseudonyms but just one per person per forum. Then the identity verification is only to ensure that you aren't already registered in the same forum under a different name.
It's also helpful to be able to verify a person's credentials so that the claims of trolls and of experts aren't given equal weight in a discussion.
As for airplane, there's no electric equivalent to jet engine.
Most modern airliners use high-pass turbofans which produce considerably more fan thrust than jet thrust. The electric equivalent of this is the Electric Ducted Fan jet.
Yellow lights are timed so drivers going the speed limit have at least 1 second to decide whether to stop or proceed through the intersection before they must take action. If drivers get 1 second to decide, shouldn't pedestrians also be given 1 second to decide?
Did you know that your children are more likely to die violently in a rural area than in the city? And people in rural areas are also more likely to die from heart disease and cancer, among other diseases and injuries.
A suburb is a cross between an urban and a rural area, so it isn't clear at all that a suburb is a "much healthier environment" than a city.
Yellow means "Stop if safe to do so" in many places.
In most of the USA, yellow means "the light is about to change to red." But you're right, in a few places it means "stop if safe to do so" which is much more ambiguous, meaning it can be (mis-)interpreted by the wrong jurisdiction to mean things like "stop if you are black".
Here's a bit of trivia: in the USA, drivers have a red phase and a yellow phase, while pedestrians have two red phases (don't cross flashing and don't cross solid). And in Los Angeles, it's illegal to cross while elderly because you can't be in the intersection when it changes from flashing to solid, unlike cars which are allowed to be in the intersection when the light changes from red to yellow. It's madness.
Just launch the aircraft into the upper atmosphere from a railgun catapult built up the side of a mountain. Then it could use electricity generated by the propellers during descent to move the control surfaces.
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I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.
One definition of "accidental" is "happening by chance". When you drive drunk, does a crash happen truly by chance?
Another definition is "unexpected". Is driving drunk not expected to lead to crashes?
Another definition is "arising from extrinsic causes". When you drive drunk and get into a crash, was the cause of the crash outside of your control?
So you see, it requires a remarkably narrow definition of the word "accidental" to make the claim that alcohol-related crashes are accidental. This is why the NYPD in my link above says that true accidents involve no criminality.
The title is self-contradictory. When a crash is alcohol-related, it isn't accidental, it's criminally negligent.
Even the NYPD agrees that "accident" means "there's no criminality...that's why they call it an accident." But when alcohol is involved, there's criminality and therefore cannot logically be a true accident.
The 1st generation iPad was discontinued less than a year after it was released, then Apple stopped the OS updates only a year after that. Now it's stuck with iOS 5 while all later iPads run iOS 9 or 10.
That's a very serious accusation. Do you have any evidence to support it? Climategate tried but failed to find any scientific misconduct, but if you know something the investigators didn't, please speak up.
If claims of "doom and gloom" are all it takes to convince you that something is false, then please be aware that you are an easily manipulated person. You should learn to become more skeptical.
Not even if those businesses put up solar panels or buy their electricity from carbon-free sources?
Not even if that $300/tonne were used to eliminate the need for a minimum wage or otherwise reduce the cost of doing business?
Faced with a $300/tonne tax, wouldn't new businesses sprout up that help other businesses find ways to avoid that tax?
I think you underestimate the ability of people to innovate.
That's true, which is unfortunate because low rent areas are a property tax windfall for cities compared to single-use residential areas. The poor subsidize the wealthy.
But fortunately, today's new luxury rentals are tomorrow's low rent districts. And thanks to gentrification, the opposite is also true. It's the circle of life!
Is arbitrage also rent-seeking?
In an auction, what is the "original asking price"?
You shouldn't, because not all crosswalks are marked.
Those pedestrian deaths wouldn't occur if the cars weren't there. Because of that and because cases of drivers violating the pedestrian's right of way [are] more common than pedestrians violating that of drivers, maybe the cops should do a better job of citing drivers who blast through crosswalks.
Also, did you know that some crosswalks are unmarked? So what may look like a person jaywalking is actually someone crossing perfectly legally.
Identity verification need not involve people putting "their entire life on public record for all eternity" if you allow pseudonyms but just one per person per forum. Then the identity verification is only to ensure that you aren't already registered in the same forum under a different name.
It's also helpful to be able to verify a person's credentials so that the claims of trolls and of experts aren't given equal weight in a discussion.
Why do you think they call them red states?
Most modern airliners use high-pass turbofans which produce considerably more fan thrust than jet thrust. The electric equivalent of this is the Electric Ducted Fan jet.
Yellow lights are timed so drivers going the speed limit have at least 1 second to decide whether to stop or proceed through the intersection before they must take action. If drivers get 1 second to decide, shouldn't pedestrians also be given 1 second to decide?
Oops, I meant from yellow to red.
Did you know that your children are more likely to die violently in a rural area than in the city? And people in rural areas are also more likely to die from heart disease and cancer, among other diseases and injuries.
A suburb is a cross between an urban and a rural area, so it isn't clear at all that a suburb is a "much healthier environment" than a city.
That's why the red light cameras should also be tailgating cameras.
In most of the USA, yellow means "the light is about to change to red." But you're right, in a few places it means "stop if safe to do so" which is much more ambiguous, meaning it can be (mis-)interpreted by the wrong jurisdiction to mean things like "stop if you are black".
Here's a bit of trivia: in the USA, drivers have a red phase and a yellow phase, while pedestrians have two red phases (don't cross flashing and don't cross solid). And in Los Angeles, it's illegal to cross while elderly because you can't be in the intersection when it changes from flashing to solid, unlike cars which are allowed to be in the intersection when the light changes from red to yellow. It's madness.
Is it illegal in Chicago to be in the intersection when the light turns red? It's legal in California, as long as your path is clear.
Just launch the aircraft into the upper atmosphere from a railgun catapult built up the side of a mountain. Then it could use electricity generated by the propellers during descent to move the control surfaces.
NASA faked the moon landing, too!
Right?
Agreed on all points. +1 if I could.
So it's autonomous except when it isn't.
Wake me when we have a car that's full-time Level 5.
So that they don't have to do validation on the server side? Just do validation on the client side and be done with it?
Let me guess. You only try to hire people who are looking for a job. Am I right?