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  1. Re:Stop calling it "Autopilot" on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Others have a substantially similar thing. They call it cruise control. Subaru calls theirs "Eyesight" but Toyota calls theirs "cruise control with lane keeping assist". Honda called theirs "lane keeping assist" as well.

    In general, they are adding modifiers to cruise control, and Subaru was the only other one I saw in a quick search that used a completely new name.

  2. Re:#BlackLivesMatter on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The Democrats have EXPANDED the Patriot act

    The one signed by a Republican.

    Again, you are listing things both did. They are the same. You just like one better, thus convince yourself they are somehow better. That's a neurosis I can't help you with. But your irrational hate of Democrats doesn't change reality.

  3. What if the bias is there, but deeper. Men have been trained from birth to act like men. So a man that acts like a man will be more liked than a man that says things a woman would say. But a woman saying man-things isn't penalized. It might not be about what they say, but how they say it.

  4. There were political parties pushing for it, and organizations spending lots of money buying bus ads and such. I'm treating it like the organized group it was. Why are you pretending it wasn't. Oh, and you should start a new line when you sign your posts "twat".

  5. Re:#BlackLivesMatter on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The Republicans are the ones pushing for the government using eminent domain to take your land and sell it to a private company. The Republicans are against open discussion between a patient and their doctor. The Republicans are against workers collaborating, while supporting the same thing when owners collaborate. The group that seems to be against "individual freedoms" is the Republicans. Like I said, roughly equal, just whether you don't mind the rights your favorite targets.

  6. Re: Other motivations on Bitcoin 'Miners' Face Fight For Survival As New Supply Halves (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no value in "proving work". The work had no value, so proving it had no value as well.

  7. I've never seen a vote where those who won quit. The leaders of the Leave movement quit or recanted as soon as the vote was known. That seems to be exceptional enough to warrant a re-vote. The outcome of the vote changed within 24 hours of the outcome of the vote. And I've heard that leaving the EU is about a 5 year process, so a re-vote on your timeframe would be before they left anyway, so might as well hold it sooner, and save the time/trouble of wasted work, if the second vote is to stay.

    Though, personally I think that Scotland should re-vote their Leave (from the UK) and leave the UK and take the UK spot in the EU.

  8. Re:So far, I don't on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Switch Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    I don't consider scripting a "programming language". If one considers scripting a "language" then I change languages every few minutes, as REGEX would then be a language, and it's used inside many tools and applications I use on a regular basis. And it's essentially a scripting language for parsing.

  9. Re: I Know Where The 22,000 Went! on Hostess Saves Twinkies By Automating, Fires 94% Of Their Workforce (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you should move to a right to work state so you can get fucked over by more employers. More states are right to work than not.

  10. Re: I Know Where The 22,000 Went! on Hostess Saves Twinkies By Automating, Fires 94% Of Their Workforce (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    They are less harmful than the upper management in companies without them.

  11. Re:Dead body in US river on Pokemon Go Leads to Reckless Driving, Injuries, and A Corpse (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    [after] being told not to move - did he then move, or did he not?

    He was told to not move and told to present his license. Regardless of which he complied with, he would have been not complying with the order of an officer. There was a professor beaten at the US border coming back from Canada for doing that (ordered out of his car, and ordered into his car, and beaten for not complying with both mutually-exclusive orders at the same time.

    Apparently, being confused is a capital crime.

  12. Re: Dead body in US river on Pokemon Go Leads to Reckless Driving, Injuries, and A Corpse (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    And it would be difficult to argue that it is against the law but not a "crime". Merriam Webster defines "crime" as "an illegal act".

    They are explicitly not crimes. If they were, you'd have increased legal protections. They are "infractions" and all that goes with that.

    Dictionary definitions are unrelated to the legal definitions. If you want to chime in on a definition for a legal term, consult a legal dictionary, not an English dictionary. Many terms are used in Law and English that don't have the same definition for both.

  13. So your position is that people aren't allowed to change their vote if information changes?

  14. People's opinion can change over time, But a vote is a commitment.

    Then how much time must there be between votes on the same subject?

  15. The polls and comments seem to support that. The real motive behind Brexit for many voters (perhaps most of the Leavers) is racism. Too many new poor countries entering, and too many 'Fugees. Even though it was other countries letting them in, in the EU they can move around once fully "in". The UK has some serious issues with hatred of immigration.

  16. #5 (racism) is the only valid definition given. Or did you not know that the UK still used the GBP, not Euro?

  17. Do not try to suggest the idea of leaving the EU was sprung upon the people with little warning. It's just deceitful.

    No. It wasn't "sprung", it was just promoted with lies. The money sent to Brussels would be spent on healthcare. Except, the leader of the Leave (or one of the few that didn't resign from it) admitted that was a lie, but told by a different arm of the Leave group, so he didn't bother to correct it. The vote was about racism, anyway, never about the economics or autonomy of being in the EU.

  18. All the leaders of the Leave movement quit. Those that didn't quit, have claimed that the Leave movement lied, but they had no part of the lies. Many of the voters have indicated they would change their vote from Leave to Stay, By what measurement is the outcome "right"? The leaders of the Leave group quit and ran away. They intended to use a close loss to further their personal political careers. They didn't want a win, but a close loss. They underestimated the idiocy of their followers.

  19. And a lot of "leave" voters say they now feel lied to, and would change their vote if they could.

  20. It isn't about redoing until a specific result is reached, but that many who claim to have voted for it, now claim they wouldn't, now that the proponents have admitted they lied to push it through, and refuse to follow through with promises and commitments to see it through. If the vote was 60/40, that would be an overwhelming majority. 52/48 is not definitive, and many "leavers" indicated they voted that way expecting it to lose. They wanted to send an anti-immigration statement, not destroy the country.

  21. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs is an elected position. Well, indirectly, as the position is selected by the PM, but selected from the MPs that were elected. So nobody can serve in that position without being voted in as an MP, but nobody votes for the exact person in that position.

  22. When I run across any, I'll let you know.

  23. But hey, let's play along anyway. Philando Castile doesn't appear to have any mugshots in his pictures.

    He had no felony arrests. I noted that there are exceptions, when the dead doesn't have a checkered enough past. So you were proving my statement, not disproving it.

  24. How long was it between the last shot he took and the bomb used to execute him? The warzone was over.

  25. Re:#BlackLivesMatter on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You are referring to Right-Wing Progressives. This is wildly different from conservatism.

    No true "whatever I like to call myself", so you can feel superior and exclude all conversation that addresses your personal beliefs, so they can never be discussed or impugned. You win all arguments by never playing by anyone else's rules.