The only people that have any legitimate fear of getting shot are criminals.
Shy should criminals fear getting shot? If they are armed then that's one thing but lots of criminals are unarmed. There's usually no reason for police to ever point a gun at you if you're unarmed and not threatening.
Lots of things criminals do can cause them to get shot: Breaking into a house where the owner has a gun, shooting at cops, shooting at people who have guns, trying to run over cops, robbing a store at gunpoint, robbing someone on the street who has a gun or wrestles a gun away. Basically, we cannot ensure the safety of people who hold no respect for the lives of other people.
Interesting that people, even enthusiasts, might tolerate aircraft that won't fly in areas someone else designates and radio receivers that won't receive frequencies that someone else decides are off-limits but not guns that won't shoot inside of banks and courthouses (aside from the impracticality of that).
Which amendment was it that covered the right to fly drones wherever you feel like it again?
Self-awareness will NOT keep drones out of no fly zones. Because drones cannot possible know what is a no fly zone due to firefighter efforts, manhunt, ATC, sporting events, political events, and other things which happen regularly but which the drone cannot possibly obtain information about. The only way to keep drones out of a no fly zone is if a human decides not to fly due to seeing that something is going on which they should not be flying in, or another human "assists" the first human in keeping that drone out of the airspace.
>It's kind of odd that we have this huge shortage of STEM workers, while at the same time, we have tens of thousands of unemployed STEM workers
It's a huge shortage of competent STEM workers. I get a slew of resumes every week from unqualified STEM workers who should damned well stay unemployed.
How do you know they are incompetent? Did you interview them? Or are you just going by the fact that they didn't meet your job requirements which specify expert level competency in three dozen different skillsets, some of which are on software written and used only at your company, and others of which require 10 years of programming in 5 year old languages? You see, most STEM workers in the U.S., would answer truthfully, but headhunting agencies in India will gladly lie to you about having all of those requirements, including the impossible ones.
White people occasionally get shot by police, as well, thought it is about as rare as black people getting shot, and is in equal proportion to the percentage of crimes committed by race. However, when white people get shot, it doesn't make the news, and nobody riots or burns businesses, because, just like when blacks are shot, the person was usually a criminal, and we understand that being a criminal is a dangerous profession that may end in you getting hurt or killed.
Also as a result of not shooting everyone in the face, the police in NZ/AUS are generally not hated. It makes a pretty big difference. Where in the US the feeling is that they are out to get you. And my own experience is that they probably are [in the US].
The concern that police are out to get you in the U.S. is not due to police shooting everybody in the face. I personally have lived here 45 years and have never been shot in the face by a policeman. I am much more concerned about getting shot in the face by a criminal than by a policeman. The only people that have any legitimate fear of getting shot are criminals. Even so, the number of criminals that are killed by police in a given year compared to the number of total arrests is meaninglessly small. However, every time it happens, the media makes such a big deal about it that everybody starts hating the cops and apparently people as far away as Australia are led to believe that the chances of being killed by a cop are on the order of the same as the chances of winning the lottery. If you are not a criminal, your chances of being killed by a cop are much lower than your chances of winning the lottery.
4. All of the other planets are also teaming with life, but not life as we know it.
By some definitions of life, a planet is alive. Even considering reproduction as a criteria, at some point we may develop ability to colonize other planets, or some single celled bacteria will get blown into outerspace and fortunately may randomly have the ability to survive and will find someplace to colonize. Due to the dependence of life on Earth on DNA, we could eventually see DNA spread across the universe. However, other planets may have other means of replication that are common to it. Perhaps at the atomic level instead of the cellular level as we have. Who knows?
Just because it isn't 6 feet tall, breathes oxygen, and drinks water doesn't mean it isn't intelligent life.
I would think that targeted radio frequencies which have been sent hundreds of millions of times would be a better beacon. Especially since they target specific wavelengths, and are not unfocused and chaotic like a nuclear explosion would be. Unless the extra-terrestrial life was observing from the moon, it is unlikely they would be able to discern a nuclear explosion for what it was.
Even if they offload the job to another country, the inconvenience of it is not worth the price. A country I was talking to recently is paying a company in India the equivalent of $75k per year for a developer. In the U.S. depending where you are, you can get a developer for less than that. After you add in benefits, it certainly exceeds that amount, but there is the hidden cost of having to deal with someone halfway around the world, who works different hours, speaks a different language, has a different culture and work ethic, is difficult to ascertain or vet their skill set, cannot be easily held accountable for project milestones, or work completion, difficult to control or manage overtime or immediate response scenarios, etc, etc.
It's kind of odd that we have this huge shortage of STEM workers, while at the same time, we have tens of thousands of unemployed STEM workers and more getting laid off every day. If only there was some way of using unemployed STEM workers to cure the shortage of STEM workers. But I guess you can't cram a square peg into a square hole.
Besides, rear ending other cars is not a "social problem".
OK, well don't call it social. How about a human issue? The person in back was following too close for the circumstances. That is a human being issue, not a technological problem. Unless the brakes fail, which they do in like 1 in a million rear end accidents.
XMPP is not a proprietary protocol. Also, attaching images, sound-clips and short video-clips is a pretty common way of adding flavour to a conversation. E-mail is not an on-going live conversation, it's not comparable.
Adding images, sound-clips and short video-clips sounds like a pretty common way to annoy who you are talking to. I hate instant message programs. They are a productivity killer. I see other people dropping what they are doing and instantly switching over to see what the latest "Ding!" was about. You might as well send me an e-mail because I will get to it when I have a moment, not immediately. If you require my 100% focus, arrange a meeting.
You don't own your games. You own the packaging and a plastic disc, but nothing that's written on any of it.
Your ownership is an illusion. Get past it and you'll be happier.
Okay, that is fine with me me if all I own is the packaging and a plastic disc, as long as I can install it and it works on my computer and I don't have to be online and I can resell it if I feel like it. Maybe that is not ownership but it is a world and a half better than this download/only works online and while the company is in business crap.
We didn't even bring this particular ecosystem off kilter. This just happens from time to time. We should not be interfering. It is nature's way of cleaning house, just like the occasional hurricane stirs up nutrients in the ocean beds or the occasional forest fire burns down old growth and makes way for new life.
so the next time around, we won't be able to sue. The Republicans hate technology therefore they hate us. Never vote for one of their kind.
Will you go away with your republican bashing? You have to make every story into a political debate and it is always the republicans fault according to you.
The summary states that the teacher was in the middle of an experimen when he crashed the RC aircraft. Was there an actual experiment, or was the submitter just trying to pad the story into something bigger than it really was?
Apparently the Science teacher was doing a Social experiment.
I saw my first i3 recently, though, and I was stunned at just how ugly it is in person. Serious wow factor, as in, wow that is about the ugliest pile of shit I've ever seen. I think the technology is pretty nifty, but I wouldn't like to be caught dead in the same photograph as an i3.
If they made EVs look just like regular cars, then other people wouldn't be able to tell that you are making such a supreme sacrifice for the good of humanity and they wouldn't even realize how they should bow down and worship you as the savior of the environment.
Or for slightly less per month based on average monthly usage, you could buy, insure and fuel an I3 and when you got tired of it, you could sell it and get some money back.
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The only people that have any legitimate fear of getting shot are criminals.
Shy should criminals fear getting shot? If they are armed then that's one thing but lots of criminals are unarmed. There's usually no reason for police to ever point a gun at you if you're unarmed and not threatening.
Lots of things criminals do can cause them to get shot: Breaking into a house where the owner has a gun, shooting at cops, shooting at people who have guns, trying to run over cops, robbing a store at gunpoint, robbing someone on the street who has a gun or wrestles a gun away. Basically, we cannot ensure the safety of people who hold no respect for the lives of other people.
Interesting that people, even enthusiasts, might tolerate aircraft that won't fly in areas someone else designates and radio receivers that won't receive frequencies that someone else decides are off-limits but not guns that won't shoot inside of banks and courthouses (aside from the impracticality of that).
Which amendment was it that covered the right to fly drones wherever you feel like it again?
Self-awareness will NOT keep drones out of no fly zones. Because drones cannot possible know what is a no fly zone due to firefighter efforts, manhunt, ATC, sporting events, political events, and other things which happen regularly but which the drone cannot possibly obtain information about. The only way to keep drones out of a no fly zone is if a human decides not to fly due to seeing that something is going on which they should not be flying in, or another human "assists" the first human in keeping that drone out of the airspace.
>It's kind of odd that we have this huge shortage of STEM workers, while at the same time, we have tens of thousands of unemployed STEM workers
It's a huge shortage of competent STEM workers. I get a slew of resumes every week from unqualified STEM workers who should damned well stay unemployed.
How do you know they are incompetent? Did you interview them? Or are you just going by the fact that they didn't meet your job requirements which specify expert level competency in three dozen different skillsets, some of which are on software written and used only at your company, and others of which require 10 years of programming in 5 year old languages? You see, most STEM workers in the U.S., would answer truthfully, but headhunting agencies in India will gladly lie to you about having all of those requirements, including the impossible ones.
Clearly you are white.
White people occasionally get shot by police, as well, thought it is about as rare as black people getting shot, and is in equal proportion to the percentage of crimes committed by race. However, when white people get shot, it doesn't make the news, and nobody riots or burns businesses, because, just like when blacks are shot, the person was usually a criminal, and we understand that being a criminal is a dangerous profession that may end in you getting hurt or killed.
Since they were donated I'm sure that they will immediately sell them and give all the proceeds to the families of fallen officers.
Also as a result of not shooting everyone in the face, the police in NZ/AUS are generally not hated. It makes a pretty big difference. Where in the US the feeling is that they are out to get you. And my own experience is that they probably are [in the US].
The concern that police are out to get you in the U.S. is not due to police shooting everybody in the face. I personally have lived here 45 years and have never been shot in the face by a policeman. I am much more concerned about getting shot in the face by a criminal than by a policeman. The only people that have any legitimate fear of getting shot are criminals. Even so, the number of criminals that are killed by police in a given year compared to the number of total arrests is meaninglessly small. However, every time it happens, the media makes such a big deal about it that everybody starts hating the cops and apparently people as far away as Australia are led to believe that the chances of being killed by a cop are on the order of the same as the chances of winning the lottery. If you are not a criminal, your chances of being killed by a cop are much lower than your chances of winning the lottery.
4. All of the other planets are also teaming with life, but not life as we know it.
By some definitions of life, a planet is alive. Even considering reproduction as a criteria, at some point we may develop ability to colonize other planets, or some single celled bacteria will get blown into outerspace and fortunately may randomly have the ability to survive and will find someplace to colonize. Due to the dependence of life on Earth on DNA, we could eventually see DNA spread across the universe. However, other planets may have other means of replication that are common to it. Perhaps at the atomic level instead of the cellular level as we have. Who knows?
Just because it isn't 6 feet tall, breathes oxygen, and drinks water doesn't mean it isn't intelligent life.
I would think that targeted radio frequencies which have been sent hundreds of millions of times would be a better beacon. Especially since they target specific wavelengths, and are not unfocused and chaotic like a nuclear explosion would be. Unless the extra-terrestrial life was observing from the moon, it is unlikely they would be able to discern a nuclear explosion for what it was.
Even if they offload the job to another country, the inconvenience of it is not worth the price. A country I was talking to recently is paying a company in India the equivalent of $75k per year for a developer. In the U.S. depending where you are, you can get a developer for less than that. After you add in benefits, it certainly exceeds that amount, but there is the hidden cost of having to deal with someone halfway around the world, who works different hours, speaks a different language, has a different culture and work ethic, is difficult to ascertain or vet their skill set, cannot be easily held accountable for project milestones, or work completion, difficult to control or manage overtime or immediate response scenarios, etc, etc.
It's kind of odd that we have this huge shortage of STEM workers, while at the same time, we have tens of thousands of unemployed STEM workers and more getting laid off every day. If only there was some way of using unemployed STEM workers to cure the shortage of STEM workers. But I guess you can't cram a square peg into a square hole.
Besides, rear ending other cars is not a "social problem".
OK, well don't call it social. How about a human issue? The person in back was following too close for the circumstances. That is a human being issue, not a technological problem. Unless the brakes fail, which they do in like 1 in a million rear end accidents.
Technological solutions to social problems never work.
What budget? The budget that every different research organization defines based on their own criteria and agenda?
I want someone in government who was dragged kicking and screaming into the position. If you really want the position, I don't trust you.
XMPP is not a proprietary protocol. Also, attaching images, sound-clips and short video-clips is a pretty common way of adding flavour to a conversation. E-mail is not an on-going live conversation, it's not comparable.
Adding images, sound-clips and short video-clips sounds like a pretty common way to annoy who you are talking to. I hate instant message programs. They are a productivity killer. I see other people dropping what they are doing and instantly switching over to see what the latest "Ding!" was about. You might as well send me an e-mail because I will get to it when I have a moment, not immediately. If you require my 100% focus, arrange a meeting.
You don't own your games. You own the packaging and a plastic disc, but nothing that's written on any of it.
Your ownership is an illusion. Get past it and you'll be happier.
Okay, that is fine with me me if all I own is the packaging and a plastic disc, as long as I can install it and it works on my computer and I don't have to be online and I can resell it if I feel like it. Maybe that is not ownership but it is a world and a half better than this download/only works online and while the company is in business crap.
We didn't even bring this particular ecosystem off kilter. This just happens from time to time. We should not be interfering. It is nature's way of cleaning house, just like the occasional hurricane stirs up nutrients in the ocean beds or the occasional forest fire burns down old growth and makes way for new life.
Make the settlement $100k for each victim, and maybe $2 million for the lawyers.
so the next time around, we won't be able to sue. The Republicans hate technology therefore they hate us. Never vote for one of their kind.
Will you go away with your republican bashing? You have to make every story into a political debate and it is always the republicans fault according to you.
Yea. Damn people without thousands of spare dollars to spend on learing to fly stuff without artificial stability. They should learn to be rich.
Ah, so people who can't afford an expensive hobby should still get to do the hobby anyway, just irresponsibly?
The summary states that the teacher was in the middle of an experimen when he crashed the RC aircraft. Was there an actual experiment, or was the submitter just trying to pad the story into something bigger than it really was?
Apparently the Science teacher was doing a Social experiment.
I saw my first i3 recently, though, and I was stunned at just how ugly it is in person. Serious wow factor, as in, wow that is about the ugliest pile of shit I've ever seen. I think the technology is pretty nifty, but I wouldn't like to be caught dead in the same photograph as an i3.
If they made EVs look just like regular cars, then other people wouldn't be able to tell that you are making such a supreme sacrifice for the good of humanity and they wouldn't even realize how they should bow down and worship you as the savior of the environment.
Or for slightly less per month based on average monthly usage, you could buy, insure and fuel an I3 and when you got tired of it, you could sell it and get some money back.
i3? Yuck. Give me an i8 or go home. I just wish they had it with a turbodeisel engine.