Driverless cars that exist to report on every place I travel and when I travel there back to the company that sold me the car, their "family of partner companies", the ad agencies thosefirms "partner" with, the FBI, the NSA, and whoever else = NOT OK!
Driverless cars with "license agreements" that can be revoked at any future point when it's decided my car is no longer "supported", in effect giving a 3rd party veto power over whether I can use my car = NOT OK!
They'll get it wrong. You'll see.
Geez man..why not post with your name so I could give you some mod points? I don't generally give points to AC's.....but I'm spot on in agreement with your points here, you make some good ones!!
The CDC leaders are on the record with quotes like "Weâ(TM)re going to systematically build a case that owning firearms causes deaths.". These weren't studies, these were cherry-picked propaganda.
And even above that...why in the world would the CDC be the department to gather/analyze stats on gun deaths? What actual disease are they studying with respect to guns? Lead poisoning? Seriously, doesn't sound like that departments' purview to begin with....
But the reality is that incidents like this are almost an everyday occurrence. We're averaging about one terrorist incident per day this year (see a month-by-month [wikipedia.org] breakdown), including shootings, suicide bombings, and vehicular attacks. Several a month have comparable death tolls to this latest Istanbul attack. It just isn't a big enough event to warrant it being on slashdot; non-tech "stuff that matters" can't be stuff that happens every day. If the death toll was in the hundreds, then maybe.
Yep, I was just about to make a similar comment..that it is, sadly...getting to be almost to the point of background noise that it is happening so often.
I am surprised, however, that after this attack, there wasn't an immediate reaction by Obama and Hillary to ban guns in the US again....and maybe even bombs too.
Never have been, no intention of joining that or any other social media at this point.
i"m thinking of perhaps doing twitter or something for a business venture I'm thinking of, but ONLY if I can create a business only account and now have to have a personal account.
This article is yet ANOTHER reason NOT to be on Facebook.
As you say, your mileage may vary. In some jurisdictions, you're on the hook for court costs if you get to court, even if you're found in the clear. A $50 parking ticket in Chicago can also run you another $75-$100 in court costs - win-or-lose - if you decide to fight it.
Would it hurt to try to contact the traffic court DA there in Chicago, and see if they'd let you plea it down?
I think my charge was reduced from speeding to something like "inappropriate car repair" or something hokey like that, that had nothing to do with my car or what actually happened.
Fighting a traffic ticket is almost always not worth it even if you were falsely accused, which the end result is essentially a system that stops no government at any level from running amok in order to generate "revenue".
Actually, that's not entirely true....
For example, if you get a speeding ticket in New Orleans, it is ALWAYS advantageous to show up to set a court date, and not pay automatically even IF you are guilty as hell.
What you do is set your date, then show up at date, and before the trial, the traffic DA will bring all the folks back and offer you a "plea deal", in which the charge will be dropped down to a non-moving violation charge, which will keep it off your insurance driving record, and you just pay a fine.
They are only interested in the revenue, but it is nice to not get your insurance involved.
Check with your city as that I'm sure things vary widely, but I am of the understanding that this is more common than not....
I'm wondering who all these people were that they interviewed for this article???
Seriously?
I want my car saving MY LIFE first, plain and simple.
People pay extra money these days just for having cars that are more safe and likely to save their lives in an accident.
Would folks have to pay extra for a car programmed to this of THEIR life ahead of others'?
Would the Volvo's of the future be the ones that keep you alive at the cost of others?
Hell, might be the first time I'd ever consider buying a volvo.
I only have ONE life and it is the most important thing in the world to me. No one else on earth is more important to me than me.
I guess there are some self sacrifice folks out there, I cannot fathom that, but hey its a free country, but I don't think that way and I certainly don't want to be forced by a program to think that way.
Europeans are French and English and Italian and German FIRST and Europeans SECOND.
It seems they are rapidly becoming in large parts..."muslim" first, due to the huge influx of them into countries like France, and setting up their own areas and failing to integrate into the larger, traditional French culture.
If the packages are too big or there's no many of them, you usually get a card telling you that you can come get your package at the nearest post office. Canada Post also teams up with a lot of places to have a small Canada Post service counter inside so you're never really far from a drop/pick-up point.
Well, that does me NO good whatsoever.
I order things, particularly LARGE items to be delivered to my door, precisely because I do not have a car large enough to carry them. I have only owned 2 seat sports cars in my life, hence, I have things too large to carry delivered via online ordering.
What do people do that don't even have cars if they don't deliver to the door? I'm constantly reading about folks here on/. that somehow don't even own a car at all....how are they supposed to get to the post office for packages that were supposed to be delivered to their door in the first place?
Ugh...I'd not like a set up like this...no benefit and all hassle.
You see the bigger doors at the bottom? If you get a package, the key to the door is left in your mailbox so you can open the bigger door to get your package.
Well, what do they do if:
A. There are more than one or two small packages, that different folks get at once. Lots of people are shopping online these days and I'd not think it rare to have multiple neighbors getting packages at once.
B. Your packages aren't just tiny books and BluRays and the like....I order a lot of stuff online because in addition to not paying sales tax, I have a 2 seat sports car, and don't have the room to haul many large things. I get things in like an ironing board, or recently, a large cart for hauling things around the yard and garden. What do they do with that if it doesn't fit in the drawer of this cluster mailbox? I like it they way it is now..they either leave it on my door step, or maybe around back inside my gate in the backyard out of sight.
Not everyone lives in the hood and fears their neighbors are doing to steal their packages, you know.
With community mailboxes, packages are much more convenient. Today, if you have a package and you're not home they leave a message in your mail slot telling you to come to the post office to pick it up.
Actually, unless it is something from FedEx with signature required, they just leave it on my doorstep, or quite often, will come around back and leave it inside my gate.
I often work from home these days, so I'm actually here to get it when they come to my door.
Canada Post installs them on streetcorners in neighbourhoods in Canada to replace home mail delivery. You walk a block to get your mail instead of having it go through a mail slot in your front door.
That's interesting.
While more of a PITA than getting it delivered straight to your house.....what about packages, especially LARGE packages like from Amazon, etc?
Do they just leave those at the foot of those community/clustered mailboxes?
Seems they'd be much easier to steal there than when left on your doorstep (or often they'll leave them inside the fence in my backyard out of sight....
The 18th Amendment was a constitutional "hack" that applied the Bill of Rights to the states (and other sub-governments). The process is called incorporation. Its probably a good thing in terms of most of the Bill of Rights, but it completely broke the original concept of the 2nd Amendment to do that to it. It was never the idea that nobody would regulate guns at all. The word "regulation" is in the freaking amendment just to emphasize that point
But, I do believe that the intent was not JUST for the militia, at least in the modern sense of the word...but that individuals could own guns and that shouldn't be infringed upon....
So, what's really needed are laws that impose extra taxes or restrictions on people who own land but are using it primarily as rental properties
But, if you make that too onerous...then you will have fewer folks having rental properties and fewer people that cannot afford to buy and need to rent...where will they go? The rents will go up as that the landlord will pass that onto the tenants.....
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Geez man..why not post with your name so I could give you some mod points? I don't generally give points to AC's.....but I'm spot on in agreement with your points here, you make some good ones!!
And even above that...why in the world would the CDC be the department to gather/analyze stats on gun deaths? What actual disease are they studying with respect to guns? Lead poisoning? Seriously, doesn't sound like that departments' purview to begin with....
WFT is "online discrimination"?
How does someone know your color online and prevent you from viewing a site, etc?
Seriously? I would think "online" is the ultimate in color blind territories.....
Why they changed it, I can't say....
People just liked it better that WAAAAAYYYY....
Yep, I was just about to make a similar comment..that it is, sadly...getting to be almost to the point of background noise that it is happening so often.
I am surprised, however, that after this attack, there wasn't an immediate reaction by Obama and Hillary to ban guns in the US again....and maybe even bombs too.
{BAEG}
Hey, why not?
They have the right to be JUST as unhappy as normal married people....
A Royal with Cheese?
Never have been, no intention of joining that or any other social media at this point.
i"m thinking of perhaps doing twitter or something for a business venture I'm thinking of, but ONLY if I can create a business only account and now have to have a personal account.
This article is yet ANOTHER reason NOT to be on Facebook.
Well, welcome to NOLA!!
For the most part, if you stay away from the projects or Central City, you'll be pretty safe.
As long as you aren't in those areas trying to buy crack or something, you'll be perfectly safe for the most part.
Would it hurt to try to contact the traffic court DA there in Chicago, and see if they'd let you plea it down?
I think my charge was reduced from speeding to something like "inappropriate car repair" or something hokey like that, that had nothing to do with my car or what actually happened.
Actually, that's not entirely true....
For example, if you get a speeding ticket in New Orleans, it is ALWAYS advantageous to show up to set a court date, and not pay automatically even IF you are guilty as hell.
What you do is set your date, then show up at date, and before the trial, the traffic DA will bring all the folks back and offer you a "plea deal", in which the charge will be dropped down to a non-moving violation charge, which will keep it off your insurance driving record, and you just pay a fine.
They are only interested in the revenue, but it is nice to not get your insurance involved.
Check with your city as that I'm sure things vary widely, but I am of the understanding that this is more common than not....
Seriously?
I want my car saving MY LIFE first, plain and simple.
People pay extra money these days just for having cars that are more safe and likely to save their lives in an accident.
Would folks have to pay extra for a car programmed to this of THEIR life ahead of others'?
Would the Volvo's of the future be the ones that keep you alive at the cost of others?
Hell, might be the first time I'd ever consider buying a volvo.
I only have ONE life and it is the most important thing in the world to me. No one else on earth is more important to me than me.
I guess there are some self sacrifice folks out there, I cannot fathom that, but hey its a free country, but I don't think that way and I certainly don't want to be forced by a program to think that way.
It seems they are rapidly becoming in large parts..."muslim" first, due to the huge influx of them into countries like France, and setting up their own areas and failing to integrate into the larger, traditional French culture.
No..the terms have always been synonymous:
US = USA = United States of America = United States = America
None of this should be new to anyone.....
I really don't care either...I'm here to have my fun and when I'm dust...who cares?
We're here only a very short time, and I don't intend to hamper my existence for some future inhabitant that won't even know my name....
Fortunately, I live in a state that does no emissions tests....heck I moved from one that doesn't do inspections at all!!
It's nice not to live in CA.
Well, that does me NO good whatsoever.
I order things, particularly LARGE items to be delivered to my door, precisely because I do not have a car large enough to carry them. I have only owned 2 seat sports cars in my life, hence, I have things too large to carry delivered via online ordering.
What do people do that don't even have cars if they don't deliver to the door? I'm constantly reading about folks here on /. that somehow don't even own a car at all....how are they supposed to get to the post office for packages that were supposed to be delivered to their door in the first place?
Ugh...I'd not like a set up like this...no benefit and all hassle.
Well, what do they do if:
A. There are more than one or two small packages, that different folks get at once. Lots of people are shopping online these days and I'd not think it rare to have multiple neighbors getting packages at once.
B. Your packages aren't just tiny books and BluRays and the like....I order a lot of stuff online because in addition to not paying sales tax, I have a 2 seat sports car, and don't have the room to haul many large things. I get things in like an ironing board, or recently, a large cart for hauling things around the yard and garden. What do they do with that if it doesn't fit in the drawer of this cluster mailbox? I like it they way it is now..they either leave it on my door step, or maybe around back inside my gate in the backyard out of sight.
Not everyone lives in the hood and fears their neighbors are doing to steal their packages, you know.
Actually, unless it is something from FedEx with signature required, they just leave it on my doorstep, or quite often, will come around back and leave it inside my gate.
I often work from home these days, so I'm actually here to get it when they come to my door.
I like it that way...
That's interesting.
While more of a PITA than getting it delivered straight to your house.....what about packages, especially LARGE packages like from Amazon, etc?
Do they just leave those at the foot of those community/clustered mailboxes?
Seems they'd be much easier to steal there than when left on your doorstep (or often they'll leave them inside the fence in my backyard out of sight....
I have...I am currently a militia of one.
When I get with my armed friends...well, the numbers grow on the weekends when we go out for target practice....
But what I'm wondering from the synopsis:
What the fuck is a "community mailbox"???
Is this somehow not attached to my house or on a post in my yard???
Is this something I have to fucking drive or walk blocks to potentially in the rain, heat, etc?
Who came up with this brilliant idea? I'd never heard of it before...is it something that is happening in parts of the US?
I just don't want or trust it really....
Same with me, I like my jack....
And if they require you to use a fingerprint to open the phone, etc....then I"ll likely bail on the iPhone myself.
I don't use it now, and don't WANT my fingerprint to be what opens the phone. I'd rather use a nice, long passcode.
They might can force my finger to touch the phone, but they can't very readily force me to punch my code in for them....
But, I do believe that the intent was not JUST for the militia, at least in the modern sense of the word...but that individuals could own guns and that shouldn't be infringed upon....
But, if you make that too onerous...then you will have fewer folks having rental properties and fewer people that cannot afford to buy and need to rent...where will they go? The rents will go up as that the landlord will pass that onto the tenants.....