Lighten up. It is harmless and funny. The worst that will happen is your device will tell you what a Whopper is. I would go buy a Whopper today if I wasn't a veggie.
The question of interest I have is what these unmanned trucks will do if someone attempts to rob them
An obvious solution is to lock the doors.
Anyway, I don't see how robbing a SDT is any different from robbing a human driven truck while it is parked and the driver has gone to pee/eat/sleep or whatever. It is not a new or different problem.
Yes. Practicing BDSM is a personal choice made by consenting adults. If other people do it, it is none of your business. Donating to prop 8 was an attempt to deny legal rights to other people. The makes it the business of other people. The two are not comparable.
If you leave me alone, I will leave you alone. If you target me, I will target you.
It would be a boring world if people could not enjoy some socially-unaccepted hobbies in private without fearing for their employment.
I suppose it depends on which society you live in. I live in the SF Bay Area, and nobody cares if you are BDSM, your gender, or whatever. We are totally tolerant... as long as you don't smoke. We don't even want those disgusting fume emitting tobacco burners within 100 meters of our building. Gross. They should stay in Oakland.
Of course not. Several religions, including Mormonism, have an affirmative belief in extraterrestrial life. They would see any discovery as a confirmation of their faith, rather than a refutation.
Among the people I know, the more religious people are the most likely to believe in alien abductions, etc. The discovery of some microbes on one of Saturn's moons is not going to cause them to question their beliefs.
You literally can't prove or disprove God
You can't prove that God doesn't exist, because you can't prove a negative. But you could "prove" (in the sense of overwhelming evidence) that God DOES exist. For instance, if we found some functional DNA in the human genome that spelled out "Copyright Jehovah, 4004 BC, All Rights Reserved", that would be enough to convince me.
I doubt if your company starts early because that is "best" for worker productivity. It is more likely because of tradition, and to sync with the rest of society. My experience is that the most productive workers are those that come in around noon and work into the evening. The early birds spend the morning drinking coffee and chatting. Then they leave at 5pm when the real work is getting done by the night owls.
If the trailer is full of batteries you don't have room for that cargo.
It doesn't have to be "full" of batteries. If you devote 5% of the space to batteries, you can have a 1000 mile range.
If it takes one hour to recharge after 6 hours of driving, that is a total of four hours/day of downtime. With a human driver, the max legal limit is 11 hours per day of driving, followed by at least 10 hours of downtime. So the SDT has less total downtime, faster deliveries, and no driver to pay.
It can't drive up to a loading dock to load/unload.
Why not? Tesla cars can self-park, so why would trucks be any different?
If anything, it should be easier with trucks. If a company is going to invest in self-driving trucks, they will also be willing to add some standardized markings to their loading docks to make it easier to park them.
I watched someone go down for life with a felony for stealing a bathmat.
Bullshit.
Feel free to prove me wrong by citing the perp's name or a case number.
It's easier than people think to get screwed by three strikes.
Yes it is, and if you want to convince people that reform is needed you should stick to telling the truth, which is more than sufficient, rather than destroying your credibility by making up lies.
Already lost the money battle as the USSR which caused them to dissolve.
Indeed. Russia's economy is smaller than Italy's. It is about the same size as the economy of Texas. Compared to China, Russia's economy is smaller than the economy of just the greater Shanghai conurbation.
Russia is not going to win a spending contest with America.
Success is fine. Corporate espionage/subversive behavior is not.
Uber has always been evil. Years ago they were caught hailing and cancelling Lyft rides and other dirty tricks. The only argument was whether they were more or less evil than government enforced taxi cartels. My opinion is that evilness is worse when the government does it. With a company, you at least have a choice, and they don't have guns, prisons or nuclear weapons.
When jammed, a drone will compete its last mission.
In other words, it works fine against small, overpowered nations against whom there are already a myriad of options.
Nearly any plausible scenario has the US going up against small, overpowered nations.
The only non-allies with sophisticated capabilities are Russia and China, which both have nukes. Conflict with either of them will mean exchanging ICBMs, not fiddling around with drones.
I like telling sports guys, the ones who can rattle off who got the most hits in the 1912 World Series without blinking an eye, what complete nerds they are. Same with car dudes.
Nope. Girls find these guys attractive, so they don't qualify.
A solid backhand will stop the kids from ever bothering you again.
Perhaps you should find more constructive forms of discipline. I keep several math workbooks in my home office, and every time my kids come in to ask me a question I make them do a few pages.
I am currently using this book which is the 3rd in the series. My kids still occasionally bother me, but at least they get good grades in math.
Americans are encouraged to spend like there's no tomorrow and many of them do just that.
More than almost any other country, America taxes income far more than consumption, encouraging people to be less productive and spend more. In the years before the 2007 financial crisis, the federal government set out to "help" poor people, not by helping them earn more, not by helping them save more, but by helping them to borrow more.
Nerdism is not just about tech. There are also economics nerds. There are only two qualifications for being a nerd: 1. An obsessive interest in a narrow topic. 2. No GF
The problem is when arbitration is mandatory, and there is no possibility to start a lawsuit.
Why is that a problem? Private arbitration is cheaper, faster, and more accessible to people who can't afford a lawyer. By making it mandatory, the cost of drawn out frivolous lawsuits, where most of the settlement goes to the attorneys, isn't pushed onto other customers.
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Lighten up. It is harmless and funny. The worst that will happen is your device will tell you what a Whopper is. I would go buy a Whopper today if I wasn't a veggie.
The question of interest I have is what these unmanned trucks will do if someone attempts to rob them
An obvious solution is to lock the doors.
Anyway, I don't see how robbing a SDT is any different from robbing a human driven truck while it is parked and the driver has gone to pee/eat/sleep or whatever. It is not a new or different problem.
Yes.
Practicing BDSM is a personal choice made by consenting adults. If other people do it, it is none of your business.
Donating to prop 8 was an attempt to deny legal rights to other people. The makes it the business of other people.
The two are not comparable.
If you leave me alone, I will leave you alone.
If you target me, I will target you.
It would be a boring world if people could not enjoy some socially-unaccepted hobbies in private without fearing for their employment.
I suppose it depends on which society you live in. I live in the SF Bay Area, and nobody cares if you are BDSM, your gender, or whatever. We are totally tolerant ... as long as you don't smoke. We don't even want those disgusting fume emitting tobacco burners within 100 meters of our building. Gross. They should stay in Oakland.
Making loans to people of color is more risky.
It depends on the color. Asian Americans have lower default rates than whites.
The trailer makes quite a difference when backing up. Hang out at your local boat-launch to see examples of amateurs giving it a shot.
That is because they don't know the algorithm.
We already have software that can backup trailers more reliably than humans.
There are stops where trucks have to back up blind
An obvious solution is to add extra cameras.
it's simpler to get to Mars than it is to build a universal self driving truck.
Why does it have to be "universal"?
Finding alien life wouldn't even disprove God.
Of course not. Several religions, including Mormonism, have an affirmative belief in extraterrestrial life. They would see any discovery as a confirmation of their faith, rather than a refutation.
Among the people I know, the more religious people are the most likely to believe in alien abductions, etc. The discovery of some microbes on one of Saturn's moons is not going to cause them to question their beliefs.
You literally can't prove or disprove God
You can't prove that God doesn't exist, because you can't prove a negative. But you could "prove" (in the sense of overwhelming evidence) that God DOES exist. For instance, if we found some functional DNA in the human genome that spelled out "Copyright Jehovah, 4004 BC, All Rights Reserved", that would be enough to convince me.
Oh, I get it. Enceladus is nearby now. OK.
Yes it is. It is only 1.2B km away. The closest star is 30,000 times further.
I doubt if your company starts early because that is "best" for worker productivity. It is more likely because of tradition, and to sync with the rest of society. My experience is that the most productive workers are those that come in around noon and work into the evening. The early birds spend the morning drinking coffee and chatting. Then they leave at 5pm when the real work is getting done by the night owls.
If the trailer is full of batteries you don't have room for that cargo.
It doesn't have to be "full" of batteries. If you devote 5% of the space to batteries, you can have a 1000 mile range.
If it takes one hour to recharge after 6 hours of driving, that is a total of four hours/day of downtime. With a human driver, the max legal limit is 11 hours per day of driving, followed by at least 10 hours of downtime. So the SDT has less total downtime, faster deliveries, and no driver to pay.
It can't drive up to a loading dock to load/unload.
Why not? Tesla cars can self-park, so why would trucks be any different?
If anything, it should be easier with trucks. If a company is going to invest in self-driving trucks, they will also be willing to add some standardized markings to their loading docks to make it easier to park them.
From what I recall of college, no one went to sleep before 2am anyway. (that was when the bars closed)
We weren't all liberal arts majors.
I doubt it. Because I would bet if they changed classes to 11AM then students would just stay up for 3 hours later.
Wrong. RTFA. It is not just conjecture, but is based on actual data of students that were scheduled for later classes.
I watched someone go down for life with a felony for stealing a bathmat.
Bullshit.
Feel free to prove me wrong by citing the perp's name or a case number.
It's easier than people think to get screwed by three strikes.
Yes it is, and if you want to convince people that reform is needed you should stick to telling the truth, which is more than sufficient, rather than destroying your credibility by making up lies.
Already lost the money battle as the USSR which caused them to dissolve.
Indeed.
Russia's economy is smaller than Italy's.
It is about the same size as the economy of Texas.
Compared to China, Russia's economy is smaller than the economy of just the greater Shanghai conurbation.
Russia is not going to win a spending contest with America.
Can you cite one of these laws that makes behavior illegal without specifying what that behavior is?
Success is fine. Corporate espionage/subversive behavior is not.
Uber has always been evil. Years ago they were caught hailing and cancelling Lyft rides and other dirty tricks. The only argument was whether they were more or less evil than government enforced taxi cartels. My opinion is that evilness is worse when the government does it. With a company, you at least have a choice, and they don't have guns, prisons or nuclear weapons.
Disclaimer: I use Lyft.
Hydro is only clean if you consider wrecking ecosystems and altering rivers to be clean.
You can only destroy an ecosystem once, and after that it is a sunk cost.
That works great until there is a jammer.
When jammed, a drone will compete its last mission.
In other words, it works fine against small, overpowered nations against whom there are already a myriad of options.
Nearly any plausible scenario has the US going up against small, overpowered nations.
The only non-allies with sophisticated capabilities are Russia and China, which both have nukes. Conflict with either of them will mean exchanging ICBMs, not fiddling around with drones.
I like telling sports guys, the ones who can rattle off who got the most hits in the 1912 World Series without blinking an eye, what complete nerds they are. Same with car dudes.
Nope. Girls find these guys attractive, so they don't qualify.
A solid backhand will stop the kids from ever bothering you again.
Perhaps you should find more constructive forms of discipline. I keep several math workbooks in my home office, and every time my kids come in to ask me a question I make them do a few pages.
I am currently using this book which is the 3rd in the series. My kids still occasionally bother me, but at least they get good grades in math.
Americans are encouraged to spend like there's no tomorrow and many of them do just that.
More than almost any other country, America taxes income far more than consumption, encouraging people to be less productive and spend more. In the years before the 2007 financial crisis, the federal government set out to "help" poor people, not by helping them earn more, not by helping them save more, but by helping them to borrow more.
Nerdism is not just about tech.
There are also economics nerds.
There are only two qualifications for being a nerd:
1. An obsessive interest in a narrow topic.
2. No GF
The problem is when arbitration is mandatory, and there is no possibility to start a lawsuit.
Why is that a problem? Private arbitration is cheaper, faster, and more accessible to people who can't afford a lawyer. By making it mandatory, the cost of drawn out frivolous lawsuits, where most of the settlement goes to the attorneys, isn't pushed onto other customers.
2 more felonies - now total 3 felonies; 3 strikes rule kicks in and they're gone for life for being down an out and a bad desperate choice.
Bullshit. California has the toughest 3-strikes law in the country, and even there two of the three felonies must be serious or violent crimes.
Kelly Turner went to prison for life for writing a bad check, but the other two convictions were for armed robbery, not "missing an appointment".
America's prison system has many serious problems. The reality is bad enough without you making up nonsense.