Ok, you get all the issues resolved. Then comes the physics and economics... so you get your Mr. Fusion to power all these flying cars from bits of trash thrown into the affordable reaction chamber, then you have to find a way to transform all that waste heat the things are going to give off in huge amounts times the number of cars. Remember, nothing is going to be 100% efficient and anything using propellers... Then you have the majority of horizontal movement energy wasted because after 60mph most of that is put into pushing against the wind...
All this so you can save some money and time on roads? It takes almost nothing by comparison to roll you around on the ground at slower speeds. We have troubles funding the cheap individual vehicles today... or at least people complain a whole lot about the costs and it's not so bad that we are driving at half speed to save on gas which costs less than bottled water.... but the energy costs for flying are just much greater.
Insurance... imagine the insurance... and all the GM recalls not performed...because the death toll doesn't cost them enough $ (and the likely continuation of tort reform means they can afford even more damage.)
Until you realize the error of your beliefs, you will just be another tool. Do some thinking and stop adhering to a simplistic religious world view (unsurprisingly one which is promoted by the power elite.)
A functional democracy will reflect the flaws of it's people; as Franklin said, all democracies fall into despotism. It is not an eternal system, it is bound to fail and have to be rebuilt because it runs on humans. Nothing you do can create a perfect system as long as it runs on humans. Sure, someday a computer could take over and then it would be "perfect" and everlasting but humans don't like being dictated to for that long... even if the outcome is as close to utopia as possible. Humans require struggle and will create one if need be (unless you can create a "Brave New World" of distraction and avoidance. Then only a small % will revolt and the computer can then breed those people out.)
It is true that power has migrated towards the top; but that is only a problem with corruption which in turn is the peoples' collective fault. You can't fix things by rebooting to more localized power because the flaws that led to this remain and will just continue. Power mad people will by their nature migrate power to themselves. In addition, it doesn't matter a whole lot if my state or federal government goes too far; it still impacts me the same (other than it being easier to relocate to another state than another country; moving isn't that easy.) I for one, was never a big fan of the change to have the public elect Senators. They should have remained appointed by state legislators; the argument was that it was less corrupt to have the public do it... well, if states were so easily corrupted... all the popular vote did was to delay the spread of corruption (and in some ways increase it by making the fed less responsive to the states.)
What I thought was the obvious conclusion to my statement is that we need a salary cap and severe limits on corporate power. Your local government if you didn't realize it yet, is at the mercy of every rich person or large corporation; your state government is easily overpowered by a national corp and not hard to corrupt by local state businesses. If you want local government, you need limit the size of the threats opposing them. Today, our "all powerful" federal government has been lost to multinational private entities; it wasn't even powerful enough to maintain integrity - and the public not competent enough to defend it... You must not know much about your local gov, same issues go on there and just because they are small targets doesn't mean they are anymore immune. When Walmart wants something your city will lose; until that time you can go ahead and feel that it works better. Naturally, being smaller, they are not targeted as much... give them more power... then they would be bigger targets AND weaker.
The 4th branch, the press, was publicly funded with 3% of the GDP and afforded a semi-non profit status up to the civil war. Some minor changes would be needed today but the founding path was the correct one.
No, removing power from the democracy is only empowering the same anti-democratic forces that always seek greater power. They will seek power by any means available to them; take away law and order and they'll become war lords. Anything that limits their means to power is going to have to be more powerful than they are; therefore, it'll become a target for acquisition or undermining. Minimal regulations still require a government powerful enough to enforce them and therefore an equally tempting target for the power mad. You CANT avoid the problem by weakening government; any functioning government will be powerful enough to be the primary target for corrupting forces.
The only solution is to separate powers and limit them to the extent they are stuck in a permanent battle that is evenly matched. This is the basic concept upon which the constitution of the US was created as well as most other constitutions. The flaws and failures come from not properly balancing and separating the powers at play. The obvious flaw in the US system is that it only has 3 branches it limits and it was outside factors that overpowered and functionally destroyed the democracy. Sure, it will be just fine as a republic all the way into oligarchy, plutocracy, fascism and/or dictatorship... but the democracy aspect; the most important part, is dying off.
200+ million Americans drive somewhere - DAILY. look it up. Flying? I bet it is around 200,000 per day.
That is 1000 times more people fly. Concept doesn't sound big enough.... In better words: 199,800,000 Americans drive more than fly every day.
Miles traveled is a bad metric for comparison; hours traveling would be better. but my point is that car accidents are minor because few result in death. Something like 5+ million accidents and only 40,000 are fatal. I wish more things were that safe... cancer... 50%...fatal cancer... 25% (men)
You say that as if it was easy. Try having a 3rd party online service handle the gas cost splitting and drawing the scrutiny of the FAA towards the online service. Something I'd not want to happen to me personally even if I'm not doing anything wrong. (especially if it's informal and we round numbers etc. some stickler could make that a pain.) Plus if the 3rd party online service includes fees for the service I'm sure some lawyer can make an issue out of it no longer being strictly fuel. (but if the pilot doesn't get paid extra it should be ok.) Some people break rules; if you have communications between people on such a service would the FAA want to monitor it to catch people breaking the rules? We know it happens somewhere sometimes but how much?? xmas gift... larger than usual... card... "thanks for the lift"...
Ultralites are for crazy people; why have an age limit or license? it'll help the gene-pool.
I like the idea of the service. I still think there are organizations that will oppose it even if it doesn't pose a realistic threat. Taxi's would be hurt but they'd not die from ride sharing apps either (they might finally get with it and serve you better instead of make you wait so a Taxi far away can get their share of customers instead of the one a block away.)
Well, I wasn't intending to talk about MORE flying. I'm not one who supports heavy flying and don't think there should ever be flying cars either. (By the time any such thing is realistic-- if it would ever be-- robots should be doing it all for us. Unless energy is free, land transport is a cheaper use of energy.)
The point is, flying is really dangerous stuff. This is why so much care and precaution is taken and I think the pilot's exam includes enough complexity to double as an IQ test as well. As you likely have noticed, we let any moron drive a car. If we were as strict with cars they would be much safer. Regulation makes flying as safe as it is - but IT IS extremely dangerous by nature. Hell, before requiring checklists the pros made errors and the accident levels dropped 30-40% lower after adding them! No, we'd not have that impact with car checklists; it seems silly to consider it... that is because cars are simple.
In the air, plenty of things can go wrong. If something does, a landing will be attempted if at all possible-- in which case that crash will be during landing.
They've been working on new traffic control since I was a teen. It never moves forward; I don't know why... We could have computers take it all over today with probably fewer problems but then we'd wipe out a lot of jobs...
Cars are forgiving, the sky is NOT. If as many people flew small planes as people drive it would not be as safe in terms of fatalities. It is true when you compare apples to oranges driving is more dangerous; but if you want to even get close to a fair comparison you would compare jets to buses and you'd compare fatalities and injuries separately... since car accidents are far less likely to result in fatalities.
The FAA has strong rules about flying others around and the FAA never changes the regulations, they only add, never remove. The exchange of money at all for any connected reason is going to cause trouble.
Besides, if you thought the taxi lobby was a problem for ride sharing; you'd never even dare to mess with the airline industrial complex (which is so heavily subsidized, it is more of a scam than a market.)
It is not racketeering when the government does it. By definition! Now if the racketeers corrupt the government to do their bidding it is still not racketeering, it's bribery corruption etc. by racketeers.
They use Edison Nickelâ"iron batteries. Easily a 50 year life but can work for a 100 years. Depends upon the load how long they run without power - but they are cheap as hell to maintain and you can't run them to death like lead acid; they take abuse and keep going.
How does one steal these cars? Is anybody even trying and succeeding at stealing them yet?
Ok, so you take the quite likely insured car... How do you get away? Drive like mad for... 300 miles then wait for many many hours to recharge? (NO, instant battery swap requires ID, quickcharger stations talk to the computer probably ID the car too, slow charging is the probably the only secure way and that takes TIME.) Naturally all this is after you rip out wherever their cell modem's antennae is.
They don't need much service, Tesla does it cheap if you do. The parts are custom to the car and not really usable outside Tesla, so what market is there for parting it out from a chop shop?
The cars are loaded with tracking and IDs that all need to be removed. securely. How would you sell a hot Tesla? Do they even have used Tesla being sold at dealerships? oh, yeah, the dealerships HATE Tesla and are working to ban them state by state. How do you sell it? Some ignorant pawn shop owner?
How about running the battery DEAD remotely and damage the car? Oh, Tesla gets informed and a tech stops bye and saves the car for you... which has been reported as happening already (not from a hacker but from it getting too close to dead.)
When you are LUCKY enough to have a great leader who remains honest despite the pressures of the office and successfully navigates the inevitable compromising positions, you should KEEP them as long as possible! Get them body guards to protect against "accidents" too!
IT IS RARE TO FIND HONEST LEADERS; you can't replace them. More games of musical chairs played by crooks does not produce better results. Therefore, I am against term limits. I'm still for assuming politicians are guilty until proven innocent but I would rather not implement that precept with a zero-tolerance policy like term limits. think about it. term limits are zero tolerance thoughtlessness. I'm fine with changing the legal process so they are guilty until proven innocent (since that precept is the basis for term limits, separation of powers, etc.) but a rigid zero thought rule without any process for thinking; nope. Think about it, if they must prove their innocents-- maybe they'll put a webcam on their head 24/7 to protect themselves... and if anybody needs to lose ALL privacy it's the politicians... It's not like the NSA isn't blackmailing them already (notice how nobody will ever really touch the NSA.)
Neutron bombs make other materials become radioactive and the bomb itself is supposed to have a dirty result in a much smaller area.
It's relatively clean compared to one of the worst things invented but it is not really clean. We will know for sure when all this positive hype gets somebody to use it and then the real world results will slowly come out (whether or not the gov knows in detail about it does not matter, they'll claim ignorance for anything bad that results and rationalize justifications.)
Many magic tricks work based upon how predictably easy it is to distract humans.
Passengers are also paying some attention and CAN more than compensate for the distraction they create. (NOTE: I used the word "can.")
It only takes an instant of looking at the wrong place to miss the magic trick. Same with driving except the result is not enjoyable.
Many of the stereo systems I've seen are a disaster, you could die just trying to change the station and when new they have too much of a learning curve - plus all those blinking lights designed to SELL it like a bait for a fish.
I've missed many accidents over the years and I had a mix of Cell phone, Brats, and airhead teenage boys almost get me. The phone being the only one where it's 100% the user's fault for putting others at risk. They should be punished for reckless endangerment because that is exactly what it is! brats need driving around and teen boys can't help themselves but a cell user could WAIT like everybody used to do not that long ago.
Split all the fairs evenly to all drivers - since fairs are decided by millage anyway it shouldn't be a big deal... unless they figure it out and realize fewer miles are being driven with a efficient system. If they don't charge for the distance to the pick up, then that factor would be a lower overhead cost and save them money.
Tips. Well, that is not actually randomly distributed so I could see complaints about not getting more time around certain areas at certain times. They won't ever agree to pool tips.
How about you just save up as a company and replace all the humans with robots in a decade.
You nailed it. Nice to have at least a coward who gets it!
Carter ALMOST had the extremely popular Medicare expanded to cover ALL children to college students. So only the middle would have to suffer. Can you imagine after a generation or two how many people would HATE what we had (or now have?)
Then you have the Gold Standard and Vietnam mess dumped into his lap - With OPEC having us by the balls thanks to Nixon's move to the Oil Standard. Which is what any expert knew would happen. Gold doesn't matter, but Oil does so you prop up the dollar by making everybody buy Oil with dollars and then you become the middle man for the new gold. The dollar standard propped up by the reality based oil standard. That is why the Saudis have so much power over the USA and why we must invade those who undermine the dollar. It would also be a great motive and need to foobar the EU with our banking crisis as they started to undermine the oil dollar; when you think about it...
Any sane parent will make sure all the children get a minimum amount before the others can try to have 2nds and 3rds. I'm not sure I'm for minimum wage if we simply provide every human being some sort of MRE, basic shelter, and basic healthcare (free sterilization.) Anything after that can be for those who are willing to work for it; but the workers must subsidize the minimum support system. Now if too many people have children then the burden will become too massive and the evenly distributed portions will shrink as well. Communist? No. It's merely a replacement for the minimum wage which REQUIRES enough jobs when the population rises and the job market shrinks.
You won't have trouble finding people to work in the support system and it'll get more automated making it cheaper and cheaper.
THE JETSONS. almost nobody needs to work. the jobs are largely excuses to employ people (and actually exist as a story device because it would be pretty dull if everybody just did whatever they wished in a futuristic utopia for children. Brave New World... more realistic but not for a children's cartoon.)
Minimum wage has nothing to do with computer/robot automation. The connection is so weak it is not worth discussing. It's a gimmick to provoke a discussion of which there will only be one paragraph of the two topics intersecting.
There are not enough jobs and not enough resources to even theoretically support the jobs required to cover everybody. Robots only intersect as far as the increasing shortage of jobs.
Minimum wage needs to be linked to inflation so this isn't a never ending waste of debate time. History has decided upon minimum wage. Not raising it is to ignore a settled matter.
Carter knows how the system works (or more like how it doesn't work) he isn't going to go too far out on a limb when he doesn't know the details of the situation. Plus despite his age and lower activity he knows he can't afford to cause himself too much trouble - he has said for decades that he had to avoid stepping on toes because of the repercussions.
In addition, his philosophy is you change things within a system; which means dealing with the broken process and trying to fix it along the way. He does not have an insurgent mindset where one goes around the system on the assumption that it is useless and unrepairable. So it is a rather big deal that he backs Snowden's circumvention as much as he does. His thinking would be along the lines of a whistle blower protection process so one wouldn't need to circumvent the system. You simply don't succeed in the Military and then become US President without at least a little authoritarian bias.
Carter was the last actual president on the USA. Afterwards they were all vetted so they will not mess with the establishment. It just goes to show, the president doesn't have much power; just like a puppet dictator, the only power is that which is sanctioned by those who are actually in control.
They are seriously not that big of a deal the technology is decades old but somehow now it is a craze because some media outlets covered it. While the expensive models are slightly improved over what could be done long ago it's not serious or useful tech outside of prototypes and toys. I would find a personal CNC machine more practical.
If somebody would sell a cheap one that printed WAX I might consider it (wax for sacrificial metal casting.) If they added a CNC pen for the plotter it might also make it useful; especially with the layered imperfections of many of them. The plastic parts that everything has which break and are hard to replace are stronger than what these printers can do (plus you have to get a model of the part) it is better to make the replacement part stronger-- in which case, metal casting is far more useful - glue the plastic part together just long enough to make a casting of it. Then put your old Al cans to good use.
All that being said, if I have the time and inclination someday I'll just make my own. I've thought about doing that over a decade already; it's not difficult to out perform these bought models for less money. One doesn't have to buy expensive stepper motors and sensors.... proper design using tension and dynamic feedback loops can give you incredible precision with poor quality construction.
I frankly feel insulted when these new readers and lousy reporters call themselves "journalists." Bloggers don't know better so I don't hold it against them. One should be required to have a degree to earn the title Journalist. Just as a garbage handler should not be allowed to degrade Engineers by calling themselves sanitation engineers.
There has to be a rather large group of the population where they had this happen to them a lot; probably starting with their parents and continuing on up. They end up thinking this is how it is done. I've had some play stupid simply because they had learned it was easier to filibuster the process instead of actually thinking it out for themselves. It wastes so much time while they try to wear you down so you give them the answer. It's like a child pulling some trick they learned; but it is an adult playing the same game (so they can be more clever, making it harder for them to learn the error of their ways.)
It is not just marketing departments deciding things. You and I are a small minority demographic which has had influence in this field and for a short while, reasonably well designed software FOR US. But now the golden age is over. Everybody is a user today and design experts are designing software for the MAJORITY which does not include US. Just as desktops will become expensive niche products because consumers will use consumer devices and real computers will be for a minority group with nowhere near the demand of yesteryear-- also about a few years ago when desktops and laptops were beginning to decline in sales.
YES for some software the majority of users are going to be intermediate or advanced but the "UX" designers are most likely being churned out only thinking about consumers and not other demographics they may be designing for (even if they do, just out of habit they will be for popular conventions the consumers like.)
Some of this is "get off my lawn" but the majority of it is legitimate complaints, IMHO.
Interesting but nobody can accelerate human thinking by that much. Maybe they'll find a way to overclock the brain by a little bit without damage but not like this.
Perception of time is a pure abstraction. All you really have is history and your memory of it. You can't actually have a 1000 year experience without a memory of that history and it would stretch your subconscious imagination to fill that massive gap of history without your conscious mind becoming aware of it.
This truly SICK researcher (mad scientist) should explore hypnosis because there you can simulate the results of such a drug already. BTW, it won't work. You can hack the abstraction so the person's time counter is wrong but it's only momentary as all the massive about of information supporting it is completely lacking. It's also not uncommon for people to have their mental clock be incorrect so it's not a big mental leap to believe your accounting is wrong (which is why we have watches, calendars etc.)
So for a moment, you can get the subject to feel that 1000 years has passed under suggested conditions but it won't last any longer than a hypnosis act's trickery.
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Ok, you get all the issues resolved. Then comes the physics and economics... so you get your Mr. Fusion to power all these flying cars from bits of trash thrown into the affordable reaction chamber, then you have to find a way to transform all that waste heat the things are going to give off in huge amounts times the number of cars. Remember, nothing is going to be 100% efficient and anything using propellers... Then you have the majority of horizontal movement energy wasted because after 60mph most of that is put into pushing against the wind...
All this so you can save some money and time on roads? It takes almost nothing by comparison to roll you around on the ground at slower speeds. We have troubles funding the cheap individual vehicles today... or at least people complain a whole lot about the costs and it's not so bad that we are driving at half speed to save on gas which costs less than bottled water.... but the energy costs for flying are just much greater.
Insurance... imagine the insurance... and all the GM recalls not performed...because the death toll doesn't cost them enough $ (and the likely continuation of tort reform means they can afford even more damage.)
Until you realize the error of your beliefs, you will just be another tool. Do some thinking and stop adhering to a simplistic religious world view (unsurprisingly one which is promoted by the power elite.)
A functional democracy will reflect the flaws of it's people; as Franklin said, all democracies fall into despotism. It is not an eternal system, it is bound to fail and have to be rebuilt because it runs on humans. Nothing you do can create a perfect system as long as it runs on humans. Sure, someday a computer could take over and then it would be "perfect" and everlasting but humans don't like being dictated to for that long... even if the outcome is as close to utopia as possible. Humans require struggle and will create one if need be (unless you can create a "Brave New World" of distraction and avoidance. Then only a small % will revolt and the computer can then breed those people out.)
It is true that power has migrated towards the top; but that is only a problem with corruption which in turn is the peoples' collective fault. You can't fix things by rebooting to more localized power because the flaws that led to this remain and will just continue. Power mad people will by their nature migrate power to themselves. In addition, it doesn't matter a whole lot if my state or federal government goes too far; it still impacts me the same (other than it being easier to relocate to another state than another country; moving isn't that easy.) I for one, was never a big fan of the change to have the public elect Senators. They should have remained appointed by state legislators; the argument was that it was less corrupt to have the public do it... well, if states were so easily corrupted... all the popular vote did was to delay the spread of corruption (and in some ways increase it by making the fed less responsive to the states.)
What I thought was the obvious conclusion to my statement is that we need a salary cap and severe limits on corporate power. Your local government if you didn't realize it yet, is at the mercy of every rich person or large corporation; your state government is easily overpowered by a national corp and not hard to corrupt by local state businesses. If you want local government, you need limit the size of the threats opposing them. Today, our "all powerful" federal government has been lost to multinational private entities; it wasn't even powerful enough to maintain integrity - and the public not competent enough to defend it... You must not know much about your local gov, same issues go on there and just because they are small targets doesn't mean they are anymore immune. When Walmart wants something your city will lose; until that time you can go ahead and feel that it works better. Naturally, being smaller, they are not targeted as much... give them more power... then they would be bigger targets AND weaker.
The 4th branch, the press, was publicly funded with 3% of the GDP and afforded a semi-non profit status up to the civil war. Some minor changes would be needed today but the founding path was the correct one.
No, removing power from the democracy is only empowering the same anti-democratic forces that always seek greater power. They will seek power by any means available to them; take away law and order and they'll become war lords. Anything that limits their means to power is going to have to be more powerful than they are; therefore, it'll become a target for acquisition or undermining. Minimal regulations still require a government powerful enough to enforce them and therefore an equally tempting target for the power mad. You CANT avoid the problem by weakening government; any functioning government will be powerful enough to be the primary target for corrupting forces.
The only solution is to separate powers and limit them to the extent they are stuck in a permanent battle that is evenly matched. This is the basic concept upon which the constitution of the US was created as well as most other constitutions. The flaws and failures come from not properly balancing and separating the powers at play. The obvious flaw in the US system is that it only has 3 branches it limits and it was outside factors that overpowered and functionally destroyed the democracy. Sure, it will be just fine as a republic all the way into oligarchy, plutocracy, fascism and/or dictatorship... but the democracy aspect; the most important part, is dying off.
Are you joking?
200+ million Americans drive somewhere - DAILY. look it up.
Flying? I bet it is around 200,000 per day.
That is 1000 times more people fly. Concept doesn't sound big enough.... In better words: 199,800,000 Americans drive more than fly every day.
Miles traveled is a bad metric for comparison; hours traveling would be better. but my point is that car accidents are minor because few result in death. Something like 5+ million accidents and only 40,000 are fatal. I wish more things were that safe... cancer... 50% ...fatal cancer... 25% (men)
You say that as if it was easy. Try having a 3rd party online service handle the gas cost splitting and drawing the scrutiny of the FAA towards the online service. Something I'd not want to happen to me personally even if I'm not doing anything wrong. (especially if it's informal and we round numbers etc. some stickler could make that a pain.) Plus if the 3rd party online service includes fees for the service I'm sure some lawyer can make an issue out of it no longer being strictly fuel. (but if the pilot doesn't get paid extra it should be ok.) Some people break rules; if you have communications between people on such a service would the FAA want to monitor it to catch people breaking the rules? We know it happens somewhere sometimes but how much?? xmas gift... larger than usual... card... "thanks for the lift"...
Ultralites are for crazy people; why have an age limit or license? it'll help the gene-pool.
I like the idea of the service. I still think there are organizations that will oppose it even if it doesn't pose a realistic threat.
Taxi's would be hurt but they'd not die from ride sharing apps either (they might finally get with it and serve you better instead of make you wait so a Taxi far away can get their share of customers instead of the one a block away.)
Well, I wasn't intending to talk about MORE flying. I'm not one who supports heavy flying and don't think there should ever be flying cars either. (By the time any such thing is realistic-- if it would ever be-- robots should be doing it all for us. Unless energy is free, land transport is a cheaper use of energy.)
The point is, flying is really dangerous stuff. This is why so much care and precaution is taken and I think the pilot's exam includes enough complexity to double as an IQ test as well. As you likely have noticed, we let any moron drive a car. If we were as strict with cars they would be much safer. Regulation makes flying as safe as it is - but IT IS extremely dangerous by nature. Hell, before requiring checklists the pros made errors and the accident levels dropped 30-40% lower after adding them! No, we'd not have that impact with car checklists; it seems silly to consider it... that is because cars are simple.
In the air, plenty of things can go wrong. If something does, a landing will be attempted if at all possible-- in which case that crash will be during landing.
They've been working on new traffic control since I was a teen. It never moves forward; I don't know why... We could have computers take it all over today with probably fewer problems but then we'd wipe out a lot of jobs...
Cars are forgiving, the sky is NOT. If as many people flew small planes as people drive it would not be as safe in terms of fatalities. It is true when you compare apples to oranges driving is more dangerous; but if you want to even get close to a fair comparison you would compare jets to buses and you'd compare fatalities and injuries separately... since car accidents are far less likely to result in fatalities.
The FAA has strong rules about flying others around and the FAA never changes the regulations, they only add, never remove. The exchange of money at all for any connected reason is going to cause trouble.
Besides, if you thought the taxi lobby was a problem for ride sharing; you'd never even dare to mess with the airline industrial complex (which is so heavily subsidized, it is more of a scam than a market.)
It is not racketeering when the government does it. By definition! Now if the racketeers corrupt the government to do their bidding it is still not racketeering, it's bribery corruption etc. by racketeers.
They use Edison Nickelâ"iron batteries. Easily a 50 year life but can work for a 100 years. Depends upon the load how long they run without power - but they are cheap as hell to maintain and you can't run them to death like lead acid; they take abuse and keep going.
How does one steal these cars? Is anybody even trying and succeeding at stealing them yet?
Ok, so you take the quite likely insured car... How do you get away? Drive like mad for... 300 miles then wait for many many hours to recharge? (NO, instant battery swap requires ID, quickcharger stations talk to the computer probably ID the car too, slow charging is the probably the only secure way and that takes TIME.) Naturally all this is after you rip out wherever their cell modem's antennae is.
They don't need much service, Tesla does it cheap if you do. The parts are custom to the car and not really usable outside Tesla, so what market is there for parting it out from a chop shop?
The cars are loaded with tracking and IDs that all need to be removed. securely. How would you sell a hot Tesla? Do they even have used Tesla being sold at dealerships? oh, yeah, the dealerships HATE Tesla and are working to ban them state by state. How do you sell it? Some ignorant pawn shop owner?
How about running the battery DEAD remotely and damage the car? Oh, Tesla gets informed and a tech stops bye and saves the car for you... which has been reported as happening already (not from a hacker but from it getting too close to dead.)
When you are LUCKY enough to have a great leader who remains honest despite the pressures of the office and successfully navigates the inevitable compromising positions, you should KEEP them as long as possible! Get them body guards to protect against "accidents" too!
IT IS RARE TO FIND HONEST LEADERS; you can't replace them. More games of musical chairs played by crooks does not produce better results. Therefore, I am against term limits. I'm still for assuming politicians are guilty until proven innocent but I would rather not implement that precept with a zero-tolerance policy like term limits. think about it. term limits are zero tolerance thoughtlessness. I'm fine with changing the legal process so they are guilty until proven innocent (since that precept is the basis for term limits, separation of powers, etc.) but a rigid zero thought rule without any process for thinking; nope. Think about it, if they must prove their innocents-- maybe they'll put a webcam on their head 24/7 to protect themselves... and if anybody needs to lose ALL privacy it's the politicians... It's not like the NSA isn't blackmailing them already (notice how nobody will ever really touch the NSA.)
Neutron bombs make other materials become radioactive and the bomb itself is supposed to have a dirty result in a much smaller area.
It's relatively clean compared to one of the worst things invented but it is not really clean. We will know for sure when all this positive hype gets somebody to use it and then the real world results will slowly come out (whether or not the gov knows in detail about it does not matter, they'll claim ignorance for anything bad that results and rationalize justifications.)
Many magic tricks work based upon how predictably easy it is to distract humans.
Passengers are also paying some attention and CAN more than compensate for the distraction they create. (NOTE: I used the word "can.")
It only takes an instant of looking at the wrong place to miss the magic trick. Same with driving except the result is not enjoyable.
Many of the stereo systems I've seen are a disaster, you could die just trying to change the station and when new they have too much of a learning curve - plus all those blinking lights designed to SELL it like a bait for a fish.
I've missed many accidents over the years and I had a mix of Cell phone, Brats, and airhead teenage boys almost get me. The phone being the only one where it's 100% the user's fault for putting others at risk. They should be punished for reckless endangerment because that is exactly what it is! brats need driving around and teen boys can't help themselves but a cell user could WAIT like everybody used to do not that long ago.
Split all the fairs evenly to all drivers - since fairs are decided by millage anyway it shouldn't be a big deal... unless they figure it out and realize fewer miles are being driven with a efficient system. If they don't charge for the distance to the pick up, then that factor would be a lower overhead cost and save them money.
Tips. Well, that is not actually randomly distributed so I could see complaints about not getting more time around certain areas at certain times. They won't ever agree to pool tips.
How about you just save up as a company and replace all the humans with robots in a decade.
You nailed it. Nice to have at least a coward who gets it!
Carter ALMOST had the extremely popular Medicare expanded to cover ALL children to college students. So only the middle would have to suffer. Can you imagine after a generation or two how many people would HATE what we had (or now have?)
Then you have the Gold Standard and Vietnam mess dumped into his lap - With OPEC having us by the balls thanks to Nixon's move to the Oil Standard. Which is what any expert knew would happen. Gold doesn't matter, but Oil does so you prop up the dollar by making everybody buy Oil with dollars and then you become the middle man for the new gold. The dollar standard propped up by the reality based oil standard. That is why the Saudis have so much power over the USA and why we must invade those who undermine the dollar. It would also be a great motive and need to foobar the EU with our banking crisis as they started to undermine the oil dollar; when you think about it...
Any sane parent will make sure all the children get a minimum amount before the others can try to have 2nds and 3rds. I'm not sure I'm for minimum wage if we simply provide every human being some sort of MRE, basic shelter, and basic healthcare (free sterilization.) Anything after that can be for those who are willing to work for it; but the workers must subsidize the minimum support system. Now if too many people have children then the burden will become too massive and the evenly distributed portions will shrink as well. Communist? No. It's merely a replacement for the minimum wage which REQUIRES enough jobs when the population rises and the job market shrinks.
You won't have trouble finding people to work in the support system and it'll get more automated making it cheaper and cheaper.
THE JETSONS. almost nobody needs to work. the jobs are largely excuses to employ people (and actually exist as a story device because it would be pretty dull if everybody just did whatever they wished in a futuristic utopia for children. Brave New World... more realistic but not for a children's cartoon.)
Minimum wage has nothing to do with computer/robot automation. The connection is so weak it is not worth discussing. It's a gimmick to provoke a discussion of which there will only be one paragraph of the two topics intersecting.
There are not enough jobs and not enough resources to even theoretically support the jobs required to cover everybody. Robots only intersect as far as the increasing shortage of jobs.
Minimum wage needs to be linked to inflation so this isn't a never ending waste of debate time. History has decided upon minimum wage. Not raising it is to ignore a settled matter.
Carter knows how the system works (or more like how it doesn't work) he isn't going to go too far out on a limb when he doesn't know the details of the situation. Plus despite his age and lower activity he knows he can't afford to cause himself too much trouble - he has said for decades that he had to avoid stepping on toes because of the repercussions.
In addition, his philosophy is you change things within a system; which means dealing with the broken process and trying to fix it along the way. He does not have an insurgent mindset where one goes around the system on the assumption that it is useless and unrepairable. So it is a rather big deal that he backs Snowden's circumvention as much as he does. His thinking would be along the lines of a whistle blower protection process so one wouldn't need to circumvent the system. You simply don't succeed in the Military and then become US President without at least a little authoritarian bias.
Carter was the last actual president on the USA. Afterwards they were all vetted so they will not mess with the establishment. It just goes to show, the president doesn't have much power; just like a puppet dictator, the only power is that which is sanctioned by those who are actually in control.
They are seriously not that big of a deal the technology is decades old but somehow now it is a craze because some media outlets covered it. While the expensive models are slightly improved over what could be done long ago it's not serious or useful tech outside of prototypes and toys. I would find a personal CNC machine more practical.
If somebody would sell a cheap one that printed WAX I might consider it (wax for sacrificial metal casting.) If they added a CNC pen for the plotter it might also make it useful; especially with the layered imperfections of many of them. The plastic parts that everything has which break and are hard to replace are stronger than what these printers can do (plus you have to get a model of the part) it is better to make the replacement part stronger-- in which case, metal casting is far more useful - glue the plastic part together just long enough to make a casting of it. Then put your old Al cans to good use.
All that being said, if I have the time and inclination someday I'll just make my own. I've thought about doing that over a decade already; it's not difficult to out perform these bought models for less money. One doesn't have to buy expensive stepper motors and sensors.... proper design using tension and dynamic feedback loops can give you incredible precision with poor quality construction.
Two wrongs means both sides are full of shit.
I frankly feel insulted when these new readers and lousy reporters call themselves "journalists." Bloggers don't know better so I don't hold it against them. One should be required to have a degree to earn the title Journalist. Just as a garbage handler should not be allowed to degrade Engineers by calling themselves sanitation engineers.
There has to be a rather large group of the population where they had this happen to them a lot; probably starting with their parents and continuing on up. They end up thinking this is how it is done. I've had some play stupid simply because they had learned it was easier to filibuster the process instead of actually thinking it out for themselves. It wastes so much time while they try to wear you down so you give them the answer. It's like a child pulling some trick they learned; but it is an adult playing the same game (so they can be more clever, making it harder for them to learn the error of their ways.)
It is not just marketing departments deciding things. You and I are a small minority demographic which has had influence in this field and for a short while, reasonably well designed software FOR US. But now the golden age is over. Everybody is a user today and design experts are designing software for the MAJORITY which does not include US. Just as desktops will become expensive niche products because consumers will use consumer devices and real computers will be for a minority group with nowhere near the demand of yesteryear-- also about a few years ago when desktops and laptops were beginning to decline in sales.
YES for some software the majority of users are going to be intermediate or advanced but the "UX" designers are most likely being churned out only thinking about consumers and not other demographics they may be designing for (even if they do, just out of habit they will be for popular conventions the consumers like.)
Some of this is "get off my lawn" but the majority of it is legitimate complaints, IMHO.
Yet another case of somebody trying to dumb things down for newbs when the majority are just fine.
Interesting but nobody can accelerate human thinking by that much. Maybe they'll find a way to overclock the brain by a little bit without damage but not like this.
Perception of time is a pure abstraction. All you really have is history and your memory of it. You can't actually have a 1000 year experience without a memory of that history and it would stretch your subconscious imagination to fill that massive gap of history without your conscious mind becoming aware of it.
This truly SICK researcher (mad scientist) should explore hypnosis because there you can simulate the results of such a drug already. BTW, it won't work. You can hack the abstraction so the person's time counter is wrong but it's only momentary as all the massive about of information supporting it is completely lacking. It's also not uncommon for people to have their mental clock be incorrect so it's not a big mental leap to believe your accounting is wrong (which is why we have watches, calendars etc.)
So for a moment, you can get the subject to feel that 1000 years has passed under suggested conditions but it won't last any longer than a hypnosis act's trickery.