Opening a government meeting on auto safety, the Obama administration reported Wednesday that nearly 6,000 people were killed and a half-million injured last year in vehicle crashes connected to driver distraction, a striking indication of the dangers of using mobile devices behind the wheel.
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Transportation officials said in a research report that 5,870 people were killed and 515,000 were injured last year in crashes where at least one form of driver distraction was reported. Driver distraction was involved in 16 percent of all fatal crashes in 2008.
Where did this "striking indication" come from, when the statistics given by the article do not say how many of those crashes were related to being distracted by cell phones? It could just as easily be babies in the back seat, blow jobs, etc. The point is, we don't know.
Imagine the following made up story:
Opening a government meeting on home safety, the Obama administration reported Wednesday that nearly 6,000 people were killed and a half-million injured last year in accidents around the house, a striking indication of the dangers of keeping guns in the home.
You do realise that not so long ago that it was considered normal for soldiers to rape and pillage in conquered lands?
Still happens all over the place, even in the soldiers own lands (see Darfur, Guinea, Sri Lanka, etc.)
And the "civilized" morals change all the time. Not too long ago, it was OK to fire bomb and nuke cities. At some point, slavery was considered just peachy as well.
He obviously wrote in code, since his ideas were too powerful to reveal to the human race until it has the 1024 qubit processor necessary to decrypt it.
Does the U.S. have an official Illegal Alien Party? Stoner Party? Sex Offender Party? Highway Speeder Party? Seems to me that if we made political parties over every group of laws a large portion of the population does not like, copyright would be far down the list.
With the air craft carriers no one seems to have a NIMBY problem. You could move quite a bit of cargo with a few lbs of uranium.
So it'll require hiring some more staff (Like an actual engineer and maybe some armed guards). The US Navy has managed to not have any nuclear powered vessel captured by pirates.
Ok, so now we'll need to protect cargo ships same way that we do aircraft carriers. Hmm, do we have enough battleships for escort?
And who in their right mind would buy L4D with L4D2 coming out so soon?
And by the time L4D2 hits @$20, L4D3 is coming out. If you're looking for close to bargain-bin prices, you give up the expectation of playing games during their "prime". Which is perfectly fine for single-player games, but your online mileage may vary.
Everyone install the toolbar, go to the SideWiki information and installation pages, and comment them as "this feature sucks, everyone should use yahoo." Feel free to use profanity. Then we'll see what google thinks about this.
I think he meant that competently designed software would do its job without the user being involved, making user acceptance testing extraneous. So if you need a java program, the AI will get its requirements through telepathy, design and code the program, test it, and deploy it without you having to get off the couch.
Not to mention this is the EU we're talking about: a place with 23 different official languages. With this kind of diversity, there's probably nothing that can be classified as "abnormal".
It really depends on whether or not you feel your life, or that of your loved ones, is in danger from the burglar. Self defense may give you license to kill, protecting property does not.
That Supreme Court decision only dealt with a restraining order. If the police know of a robbery in progress, I'm pretty sure they are required to intervene (unless it conflicts with ongoing investigations or whatever.)
that's not exactly the same - that's paying for the measures that you had to take to catch him, and is slightly less screwed up.
As an above poster mentioned, it depends on the scale, and the government could've easily spent tens of millions on catching and extraditing this guy....
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Mind opening up your bathroom to public use as well? Sharing means caring, after all!
Opening a government meeting on auto safety, the Obama administration reported Wednesday that nearly 6,000 people were killed and a half-million injured last year in vehicle crashes connected to driver distraction, a striking indication of the dangers of using mobile devices behind the wheel.
Transportation officials said in a research report that 5,870 people were killed and 515,000 were injured last year in crashes where at least one form of driver distraction was reported. Driver distraction was involved in 16 percent of all fatal crashes in 2008.
Where did this "striking indication" come from, when the statistics given by the article do not say how many of those crashes were related to being distracted by cell phones? It could just as easily be babies in the back seat, blow jobs, etc. The point is, we don't know.
Imagine the following made up story:
Opening a government meeting on home safety, the Obama administration reported Wednesday that nearly 6,000 people were killed and a half-million injured last year in accidents around the house, a striking indication of the dangers of keeping guns in the home.
Even if the chances of success are low, they beat the pants off of the alternative!
The chances are probably about equal to there being an afterlife, so I guess you can pick your poison ;)
You do realise that not so long ago that it was considered normal for soldiers to rape and pillage in conquered lands?
Still happens all over the place, even in the soldiers own lands (see Darfur, Guinea, Sri Lanka, etc.)
And the "civilized" morals change all the time. Not too long ago, it was OK to fire bomb and nuke cities. At some point, slavery was considered just peachy as well.
Seriously, wouldn't it just be easier to only let in the blond, blue eyed folks?
He obviously wrote in code, since his ideas were too powerful to reveal to the human race until it has the 1024 qubit processor necessary to decrypt it.
Sex Offenders can't vote
So if you're caught urinating on the side of a tree, they revoke your right to vote?
See, that's something that should be taken to the local news at least. Then it may be picked up by mainstream, etc. Make the suckers hurt.
I, for one, look forward to watching the Peter Griffin Side Boob Hour.
Does the U.S. have an official Illegal Alien Party? Stoner Party? Sex Offender Party? Highway Speeder Party? Seems to me that if we made political parties over every group of laws a large portion of the population does not like, copyright would be far down the list.
With the air craft carriers no one seems to have a NIMBY problem. You could move quite a bit of cargo with a few lbs of uranium.
So it'll require hiring some more staff (Like an actual engineer and maybe some armed guards). The US Navy has managed to not have any nuclear powered vessel captured by pirates.
Ok, so now we'll need to protect cargo ships same way that we do aircraft carriers. Hmm, do we have enough battleships for escort?
Compare that $50/500hr expense to a $10 2hr movie, and you can see that almost any price could be "justified" for certain games.
Compare that to even a minute spent playing freeware games, and you'd never pay for entertainment of any sort again, right?
And who in their right mind would buy L4D with L4D2 coming out so soon?
And by the time L4D2 hits @$20, L4D3 is coming out. If you're looking for close to bargain-bin prices, you give up the expectation of playing games during their "prime". Which is perfectly fine for single-player games, but your online mileage may vary.
Don't you also have XBox Live Arcade for some cheaper games (don't have xbox so wouldn't know personally)?
Everyone install the toolbar, go to the SideWiki information and installation pages, and comment them as "this feature sucks, everyone should use yahoo." Feel free to use profanity. Then we'll see what google thinks about this.
Seriously. There better be a way for webadmins to disable this "added functionality" to their site through robots.txt or something similar....
I think he meant that competently designed software would do its job without the user being involved, making user acceptance testing extraneous. So if you need a java program, the AI will get its requirements through telepathy, design and code the program, test it, and deploy it without you having to get off the couch.
I think I've seen this before.
Wow, a post that contains insightful and flamebait statements in equal amounts. Not sure how that should be modded....
So can I take that to mean that you count people as food?
Not to mention this is the EU we're talking about: a place with 23 different official languages. With this kind of diversity, there's probably nothing that can be classified as "abnormal".
Nothing ... or everything?
They'll be, like, all shiny medals and epaulets and swagger sticks
Can we shorten the latter to "swasticks".
It really depends on whether or not you feel your life, or that of your loved ones, is in danger from the burglar. Self defense may give you license to kill, protecting property does not.
That Supreme Court decision only dealt with a restraining order. If the police know of a robbery in progress, I'm pretty sure they are required to intervene (unless it conflicts with ongoing investigations or whatever.)
that's not exactly the same - that's paying for the measures that you had to take to catch him, and is slightly less screwed up.
As an above poster mentioned, it depends on the scale, and the government could've easily spent tens of millions on catching and extraditing this guy....