And yet, even while on RAILS, how many train accidents are there?
Almost none. Air and train travel are by far the safest forms of transport. Several times safer than walking even.
Also Unions? BS. First of all if they were able to fully automate trains, then the Unions wouldn't have much leverage would they...
If you could fully automate all trains on all routes overnight, indeed they wouldn't. But that's impossible to do.
assigning risk and fault to autonomous driving could be complicated.
It's absolutely no different to now.If you can prove systematic fault in the car design or manufacturer, then you can sue. However in the general case accidents are simply sorted out between insurance companies, often without bothering to establish blame. There's no need to change that, as autonomous cars will only be approved for general usage when they are safer than human driven cars anyway.
Yes, and the result has been a lack of innovation in medicine in the UK
What utter nonsense. First of all pharma is developed for the world market, so the local market prices are irrelevant. Secondly, pharma is big business in the UK. Not as big as the US, but the US is a far bigger country.
I don't see that as a problem at all. The lousy UK health care system is one of the reasons I choose to live in the US rather than the UK.
If you have a good job, and your US company pays, lucky you. Not everyone is so lucky. I know a number of American's who've moved to the UK and they think the NHS is amazing. Treating all comers, regardless of ability to pay - that's fantastic.
You're asking the wrong question. The bulk of the problem isn't the drugs that got submitted and turned down, the bulk of the problem is the drugs that never were developed or submitted in the first place.
So you have no argument other than that which exists in your imagination.
It's easy to make anything better if you only have to imagine it for it to be true.
But if you want to focus on just the froth, there are obvious failures: the enormously high price of prescription drugs in the US and many drugs that are OTC elsewhere but not in the US.
The UK has roughly equivalent regulations for what's available on prescription and what's OTC. Yet the drugs here are far cheaper. The American problem is not regulation here, it's the fact you don't have a national healthcare system (whether public or private.)
I have always loved it when people in favor of 'more regulation' have to reach back to 19th century horrors.
The OP proposed the topic of the safety of foodstuffs. They've been regulated throughout the 20th oand 21st century, so you have got go back to the 19th century to see what the unregulated market looked like. I'm sorry that simple logic is lost on you.
The drug and medical device industries LOVE regulations. It protects them and blocks any new competitors from entering the marketplace. Also keeps the 'base' cost high so they can slap on their profitable percentage on top.
In the UK we pay a fraction of what you do for drugs, and yet w're just as much or even more regulated. Your problem with the high price of drugs is that you don't have a single payer system, you have lots of relatively small hospitals, doctors and insurance companies, who separately have no bargaining power, especially on drugs that are still patented. The the UK, the National Health Service can set country wide rules on what drugs are used and at what price they are bought. Such that it's very difficult for a drug manufacturer to falsely inflate prices. Another kid of regulation, and one that keeps costs down.
You just joined the club of demonstrating the opposite of which you hoped.
I don't know what it's like in your country, but here in the UK, taximeters are sealed at the manufacturers, and the council check them annually. So yes, it does indeed stop them.
The regulation works.
Not that I'm against Uber etc. I can't see any drivers rigging the app or GPS, and it's not in Uber's interest to risk it themselves.
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Sheesh. Is this really a question? How do you know when you buy a plum in the supermarket that it isn't poisoned?
Back in the 1800s, foods often did contain noxious ingredients, much the same way present day drug dealers cut their products. That's why developed countries started having government departments responsible for trading and food standards. The reason very you can shop for your plums without worry is because of regulations and departments that check them.
You just demonstrated the opposite of what you hoped.
Take away regulation and you're adding innumerable chores to the public, as they need to do their own safety checking of things they previously just knew were fit for purpose.
And that's the best case. In the more common case they public simply don't have the information or knowledge required to evaluate.
Plumbing has evolved only as much as the consumer wants it to. In the developing world you get a hole in the ground. In the western world moving from lead to copper to plastic is about all that was needed. In Japan you get robotic toilets. If there was no regulation at all, it wouldn't have progressed any more.
The car industry has lots of regulations, yet they make plenty of innovations. The wrench industry is pretty free of regulations, yet the last great innovation was the socket set.
America doesn't have much public transport because the car companies bought as much of it up as possible and scrapped it, and used every other lobbying power they had to ensure people had little alternative to private cars.
In Europe that was not possible as governments see it as one of their responsibilities to ensure adequate public transport is available.
Right - so how many of those suicides would have been prevented if a driver saw someone on the track and was able to stop the train successfully?
Trains with drivers don't tend to stop before they run over people, especially suicides. They can't. There's a lot of kenetic energy, and very modest traction on metal wheels/rails. So probably zero or there about.
The 15 minute behavior has been documented for over 3 years.
Which doesn't mean that you can expect any non-geek to know it. Heck I'm a geek, and I've owned iOS devices since 2008 and if I ever knew about a 15 minute window I've forgotten.
And the attitude that if a kid does something against it's parents wishes, it's a bad parent is just risible. ALL kids find the opportunities available to them to skirt the rules. Even when they're old enough to know what the rules are. And they can be pretty cunning.
Your judgements show a remarkable lack of knowledge of the real world. Not just of parenting but of what people know of technology.
And for what are you protecting the businesses here, in their efforts to fleece the public? They don't need your help.
The FTC are absolutely there to protect consumers from businesses that seek to exploit expected gaps in consumer knowledge. Even more so when the actor is a child.
There is no tribe called simply the "Apache". Though, the word Apache is used in the name of several of the tribes that make up the ethnic group. There are numerous tribes in the Apache ethnic group. One of largest of these tribes is the Navajo which doesn't use the word Apache in the tribal name.
Fragmentation is always a problem. If they'd had the sense to trademark it in the first place this would never have happened.
For legal documents, less than 100% accuracy with attendant cleanup efforts and opportunities to miss something, means a laborer has to do a lot of proofing.
How spoiled we are. When I started work, anything not handwritten was prepared by the typing pool. And had to be proofread every time. With a many times poorer accuracy than OCR.
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And yet, even while on RAILS, how many train accidents are there?
Almost none. Air and train travel are by far the safest forms of transport. Several times safer than walking even.
Also Unions? BS. First of all if they were able to fully automate trains, then the Unions wouldn't have much leverage would they...
If you could fully automate all trains on all routes overnight, indeed they wouldn't. But that's impossible to do.
assigning risk and fault to autonomous driving could be complicated.
It's absolutely no different to now.If you can prove systematic fault in the car design or manufacturer, then you can sue. However in the general case accidents are simply sorted out between insurance companies, often without bothering to establish blame. There's no need to change that, as autonomous cars will only be approved for general usage when they are safer than human driven cars anyway.
I can't help but wonder why Samsung would agree to this
Take a look at Samsung's recent financial results. Especially mobile. They're tanking. They probably want to save money.
There is nothing more expensive than an irrational customer.
There's nothing more lucrative than an irrational customer. Modern advertising is all about making them respond even more irrationally.
"Shuffling Zombie Juror" is an excellent step towards people taking Linux more seriously.
Hey, he was just making it east for the customer to stay with Comcast and not make the mistake of going to another provider.
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Yes, and the result has been a lack of innovation in medicine in the UK
What utter nonsense. First of all pharma is developed for the world market, so the local market prices are irrelevant. Secondly, pharma is big business in the UK. Not as big as the US, but the US is a far bigger country.
I don't see that as a problem at all. The lousy UK health care system is one of the reasons I choose to live in the US rather than the UK.
If you have a good job, and your US company pays, lucky you. Not everyone is so lucky. I know a number of American's who've moved to the UK and they think the NHS is amazing. Treating all comers, regardless of ability to pay - that's fantastic.
It's very clear that all three were drivers.
You're asking the wrong question. The bulk of the problem isn't the drugs that got submitted and turned down, the bulk of the problem is the drugs that never were developed or submitted in the first place.
So you have no argument other than that which exists in your imagination.
It's easy to make anything better if you only have to imagine it for it to be true.
But if you want to focus on just the froth, there are obvious failures: the enormously high price of prescription drugs in the US and many drugs that are OTC elsewhere but not in the US.
The UK has roughly equivalent regulations for what's available on prescription and what's OTC. Yet the drugs here are far cheaper. The American problem is not regulation here, it's the fact you don't have a national healthcare system (whether public or private.)
I have always loved it when people in favor of 'more regulation' have to reach back to 19th century horrors.
The OP proposed the topic of the safety of foodstuffs. They've been regulated throughout the 20th oand 21st century, so you have got go back to the 19th century to see what the unregulated market looked like. I'm sorry that simple logic is lost on you.
The drug and medical device industries LOVE regulations. It protects them and blocks any new competitors from entering the marketplace. Also keeps the 'base' cost high so they can slap on their profitable percentage on top.
In the UK we pay a fraction of what you do for drugs, and yet w're just as much or even more regulated. Your problem with the high price of drugs is that you don't have a single payer system, you have lots of relatively small hospitals, doctors and insurance companies, who separately have no bargaining power, especially on drugs that are still patented. The the UK, the National Health Service can set country wide rules on what drugs are used and at what price they are bought. Such that it's very difficult for a drug manufacturer to falsely inflate prices. Another kid of regulation, and one that keeps costs down.
You just joined the club of demonstrating the opposite of which you hoped.
We'll stop that comparison as soon as libertarians stop using soviet Russia as an example of communism. They are at the same level of truthiness.
Like that stops anyone.
I don't know what it's like in your country, but here in the UK, taximeters are sealed at the manufacturers, and the council check them annually. So yes, it does indeed stop them.
The regulation works.
Not that I'm against Uber etc. I can't see any drivers rigging the app or GPS, and it's not in Uber's interest to risk it themselves.
Sheesh. Is this really a question? How do you know when you buy a plum in the supermarket that it isn't poisoned?
Back in the 1800s, foods often did contain noxious ingredients, much the same way present day drug dealers cut their products. That's why developed countries started having government departments responsible for trading and food standards.
The reason very you can shop for your plums without worry is because of regulations and departments that check them.
You just demonstrated the opposite of what you hoped.
Can, yes. Want to, no.
Take away regulation and you're adding innumerable chores to the public, as they need to do their own safety checking of things they previously just knew were fit for purpose.
And that's the best case. In the more common case they public simply don't have the information or knowledge required to evaluate.
You're cherry picking.
Plumbing has evolved only as much as the consumer wants it to. In the developing world you get a hole in the ground. In the western world moving from lead to copper to plastic is about all that was needed. In Japan you get robotic toilets. If there was no regulation at all, it wouldn't have progressed any more.
The car industry has lots of regulations, yet they make plenty of innovations. The wrench industry is pretty free of regulations, yet the last great innovation was the socket set.
I imagine the elimination of blind spots is another thing that will be an even bigger advantage for busses than cars.
Public transport is passenger transport.
America doesn't have much public transport because the car companies bought as much of it up as possible and scrapped it, and used every other lobbying power they had to ensure people had little alternative to private cars.
In Europe that was not possible as governments see it as one of their responsibilities to ensure adequate public transport is available.
Right - so how many of those suicides would have been prevented if a driver saw someone on the track and was able to stop the train successfully?
Trains with drivers don't tend to stop before they run over people, especially suicides. They can't. There's a lot of kenetic energy, and very modest traction on metal wheels/rails. So probably zero or there about.
Turn in your computer. You shouldn't be posting on the internet if that's the best you can do.
The 15 minute behavior has been documented for over 3 years.
Which doesn't mean that you can expect any non-geek to know it. Heck I'm a geek, and I've owned iOS devices since 2008 and if I ever knew about a 15 minute window I've forgotten.
And the attitude that if a kid does something against it's parents wishes, it's a bad parent is just risible. ALL kids find the opportunities available to them to skirt the rules. Even when they're old enough to know what the rules are. And they can be pretty cunning.
Your judgements show a remarkable lack of knowledge of the real world. Not just of parenting but of what people know of technology.
And for what are you protecting the businesses here, in their efforts to fleece the public? They don't need your help.
The FTC are absolutely there to protect consumers from businesses that seek to exploit expected gaps in consumer knowledge. Even more so when the actor is a child.
So in practice Android has a single store just like Apple? Unless you're an idiot?
There is no tribe called simply the "Apache". Though, the word Apache is used in the name of several of the tribes that make up the ethnic group. There are numerous tribes in the Apache ethnic group. One of largest of these tribes is the Navajo which doesn't use the word Apache in the tribal name.
Fragmentation is always a problem. If they'd had the sense to trademark it in the first place this would never have happened.
The Nokia which the whole world came to know and love, is dead. The handset business.
Nokia is a hundred year old business. They had a great run with handsets, but it's just a chapter in their history.
Sure they can. Just an Google asset stripped Motorola Mobility and then sold the remnants to Lenovo.
Well that was Google's strategy with Motorola Mobility.
For legal documents, less than 100% accuracy with attendant cleanup efforts and opportunities to miss something, means a laborer has to do a lot of proofing.
How spoiled we are. When I started work, anything not handwritten was prepared by the typing pool. And had to be proofread every time. With a many times poorer accuracy than OCR.
OCR is truly amazing.
Now get off my lawn.