I have a Tesla. Tesla makes it very, very clear what the capabilities and limitations are. Anyone Tesla owner that thinks Autopilot is a "hands off" system is irredeemably stupid, and no amount of explaining or renaming is going to help them. The people that have died in Autopilot crashes were not ignorant, they were stupid and reckless. Since the human gene pool was obviously improved by their deaths, I really don't see the problem here.
I was a Marine, and participated in some of those invasions, and I have read the manuals. Everything in these books is also on the web, and much of what is in them is not very useful to a terrorist because the books often assume that you have access to military supplies like blasting caps and C4. There are far better online resources for terrorists. Terrorists focus on killing people. Military booby traps are more focused on area denial, slowing enemy movement, and causing non-ambulatory casualties that drain resources: some shrapnel in a leg takes out both the wounded man, and the guys who have to carry him.
Show a standard sugar packet to someone drinking a soda, and ask them how many packets would it take to equal the sugar in their soda. They will usually guess one or two. It is actually about twelve.
NATO has been at Russia's doorstep since the end of the Cold War
Nope. The Cold War ended in 1991. The Baltic states did not join NATO until 2004. Even Poland, which borders the Kaliningrad Enclave, did not join until 1999.
I didn't vote for Trump, but his Russia policy is one of the GOOD things about him. There is no reason for America and Russia to be enemies. The people of Crimea and Donbas speak Russian and overwhelmingly support unification with Russia. In Syria, Russia is supporting the guy in favor of religious tolerance and opposed to political Islam. The current adversarial relationship is mostly America's fault. We expanded NATO to Russia's doorstep, and are now rotating troops through the Baltic countries. How would America like it if Russian troops were in New Brunswick?
America's annual military spending is $600B. That is high for a country with no actual enemies, so we have to create enemies to justify the spending. Trump, of course, wants to spend even more on weapons, but he will likely justify it by making China the scary boogeyman instead of Russia.
And in Murica we call it a "basement" you damn foreigner!
It is a regionalism. In the American Northeast, it is common to use "cellar". My mom is from upstate NY, and she says "cellar". I now live in California, and no one here calls it that.
Yes, about 600k soldiers died, but the majority of those were from disease rather than battlefield deaths, which was normal before antibiotics.
The secession question was settled in April of 1865, on the battlefield at Appomattox, when the Army of Northern Virginia failed to break out of the siege of Petersburg. Joe Johnson surrendered the Army of Tennessee a week later. And that was the end of that.
It's easy to "out sell" when your product costs triple what it should.
No, that is not AT ALL easy to do. Companies can't just arbitrarily raise prices and expect customers to just accept it. When a company raises prices, revenues usually go down. Apple is only able to charge a premium because they have worked for decades to build up a mystique around their brand.
they need to argue with them to bring the MINIMUM WAGE up to $3 / hr.
This is a dumb idea on many levels. First, America has no business micromanaging the Mexican economy. Second, it will force tens of millions of Mexican workers into the informal economy, where they will pay no taxes, have no pensions, no healthcare, no safety checks, etc. The informal economy is already a big problem in Mexico, and making it worse will lower labor standards, not improve them.
Trump is going to get little support from Congress in his effort to "fix" NAFTA. Most Republicans are pro-business and pro-trade. Most Democrats do not want to be seen as supporting Trumps anti-Hispanic agenda. That leaves him few allies.
He promised. If he doesn't, he is a liar and a charlatan.
This is microcosm of the disconnect in American politics. Trump's detractors take him literally, but not seriously. Trump's supporters take him seriously, but not literally.
His supporters don't actually expect him to build a wall, or slap tariffs on Chinese imports. That is not why they voted for him. But they do expect him to address immigration and outsourcing as serious issues. THAT is why they voted for him.
Disclaimer: I didn't vote for Trump, but I understand why other people did.
which is why the REAL Issue is that Mexico has a pay of $3.00 PER DAY.
Average manufacturing wages in Mexico are more than $2 per hour or about $17 / day. That is low compared to America, but the cost-of-living is low in Mexico, so money goes further. The maquiladora close to the US border usually pay even more.
What is needed to adjust NAFTA to make it fair and better for all...
What is really needed is for people to spend a few seconds checking their facts before posting nonsense.
Politics is like that, except it's missing that second guy.
The second guy isn't there because he didn't get elected. There are plenty of honest politicians, they just never make it past the school boards and city councils.
On the other hand, firms should not be sued when they have made all reasonable efforts to make their products as safe as possible
The problem is that "as safe as possible" also means "unaffordable". Should all cars have side impact airbags, and auto-braking collision detection? What about external airbags to protect pedestrians? That will lead to low income people being unable to buy a new car, and so continuing to drive older cars that are even more dangerous, both to themselves and to others.
The US Dept of Transportation puts a value on a human life at $9.4M when considering safety improvements to highways. It seems reasonable to allow car manufacturers to use a similar value when considering tradeoffs between safety and cost.
No, the polling in PA can prove to be wrong without any other state being affected by whatever issue there is in PA.
Possible, but extremely unlikely. The big question is black turnout in Philadelphia. It that is lower than expected, the same factors will likely depress black turnout in places like Miami, Richmond, Raleigh, etc.
Right now, it is 68F and sunny in Philadelphia. That should help Hillary. In fact, the weather is nice across most of the East Coast and Midwest, and Democrats do better when turnout is higher. She should have a good day.
The issue is that "winter" doesn't mean the same thing to everyone.
Indeed. I lived in China for a few years, and there winter starts on Dec 1st and ends on Mar 1st. That makes more sense, since it syncs up with both the calendar and the weather. The first 21 days of Dec are shorter and usually colder than the first 21 days of March.
....we are calling computer programs "Deep Learning" and "AI" now?
Not all programs. But if you give a program an objective, and it figures out on its own how to get there, then that is machine learning, which is a branch of AI. If it uses a neural net with more than one hidden layer, then it is "deep learning". That is what the term means.
Apparently I am an expert in "Deep Learning".
If you don't even understand the terminology, then you are not an "expert".
If Hillary loses Pennsylvania, then the polls are WRONG. Brexit level wrong. So many other states will likely break the "wrong" way too. She will be in trouble.
Hillary doesn't need Florida to win, either.
She doesn't need it, but Trump does. So if she takes it, she will likely win.
Hillary doesn't even need North Carolina to win
If she takes NC, then her vote is even better than her support in polls, and she will likely cruise to a strong victory.
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A day dedicated to singles like you and me, apparently.
Correct. And the best day to take care of number one is 11/11.
I have a Tesla. Tesla makes it very, very clear what the capabilities and limitations are. Anyone Tesla owner that thinks Autopilot is a "hands off" system is irredeemably stupid, and no amount of explaining or renaming is going to help them. The people that have died in Autopilot crashes were not ignorant, they were stupid and reckless. Since the human gene pool was obviously improved by their deaths, I really don't see the problem here.
I was a Marine, and participated in some of those invasions, and I have read the manuals. Everything in these books is also on the web, and much of what is in them is not very useful to a terrorist because the books often assume that you have access to military supplies like blasting caps and C4. There are far better online resources for terrorists. Terrorists focus on killing people. Military booby traps are more focused on area denial, slowing enemy movement, and causing non-ambulatory casualties that drain resources: some shrapnel in a leg takes out both the wounded man, and the guys who have to carry him.
Show a standard sugar packet to someone drinking a soda, and ask them how many packets would it take to equal the sugar in their soda. They will usually guess one or two. It is actually about twelve.
In the Crimean election there was a 30% turnout, and of that, the choice to annex was 50/50.
Total hogwash. The turnout was 81% and the vote was over 96% in favor.
NATO has been at Russia's doorstep since the end of the Cold War
Nope. The Cold War ended in 1991. The Baltic states did not join NATO until 2004. Even Poland, which borders the Kaliningrad Enclave, did not join until 1999.
Enlargement of NATO.
So selling out to Russia is bad
I didn't vote for Trump, but his Russia policy is one of the GOOD things about him. There is no reason for America and Russia to be enemies. The people of Crimea and Donbas speak Russian and overwhelmingly support unification with Russia. In Syria, Russia is supporting the guy in favor of religious tolerance and opposed to political Islam. The current adversarial relationship is mostly America's fault. We expanded NATO to Russia's doorstep, and are now rotating troops through the Baltic countries. How would America like it if Russian troops were in New Brunswick?
America's annual military spending is $600B. That is high for a country with no actual enemies, so we have to create enemies to justify the spending. Trump, of course, wants to spend even more on weapons, but he will likely justify it by making China the scary boogeyman instead of Russia.
And in Murica we call it a "basement" you damn foreigner!
It is a regionalism. In the American Northeast, it is common to use "cellar". My mom is from upstate NY, and she says "cellar". I now live in California, and no one here calls it that.
I believe the count was closer to 600,000.
Yes, about 600k soldiers died, but the majority of those were from disease rather than battlefield deaths, which was normal before antibiotics.
The secession question was settled in April of 1865, on the battlefield at Appomattox, when the Army of Northern Virginia failed to break out of the siege of Petersburg. Joe Johnson surrendered the Army of Tennessee a week later. And that was the end of that.
It's easy to "out sell" when your product costs triple what it should.
No, that is not AT ALL easy to do. Companies can't just arbitrarily raise prices and expect customers to just accept it. When a company raises prices, revenues usually go down. Apple is only able to charge a premium because they have worked for decades to build up a mystique around their brand.
they need to argue with them to bring the MINIMUM WAGE up to $3 / hr.
This is a dumb idea on many levels. First, America has no business micromanaging the Mexican economy. Second, it will force tens of millions of Mexican workers into the informal economy, where they will pay no taxes, have no pensions, no healthcare, no safety checks, etc. The informal economy is already a big problem in Mexico, and making it worse will lower labor standards, not improve them.
Trump is going to get little support from Congress in his effort to "fix" NAFTA. Most Republicans are pro-business and pro-trade. Most Democrats do not want to be seen as supporting Trumps anti-Hispanic agenda. That leaves him few allies.
That's the very definition of "feels before reals".
Sure. But is it better to have a president that is a bald-faced liar, or one that tells more subtle lies that people believe?
"Neither" isn't an option.
He promised. If he doesn't, he is a liar and a charlatan.
This is microcosm of the disconnect in American politics.
Trump's detractors take him literally, but not seriously.
Trump's supporters take him seriously, but not literally.
His supporters don't actually expect him to build a wall, or slap tariffs on Chinese imports.
That is not why they voted for him.
But they do expect him to address immigration and outsourcing as serious issues.
THAT is why they voted for him.
Disclaimer: I didn't vote for Trump, but I understand why other people did.
which is why the REAL Issue is that Mexico has a pay of $3.00 PER DAY.
Average manufacturing wages in Mexico are more than $2 per hour or about $17 / day. That is low compared to America, but the cost-of-living is low in Mexico, so money goes further. The maquiladora close to the US border usually pay even more.
What is needed to adjust NAFTA to make it fair and better for all ...
What is really needed is for people to spend a few seconds checking their facts before posting nonsense.
What do you use to pay for food and shelter then?
You obviously have no background in small business accounting.
He sleeps in his home office (which has a spare bed) and he eats at business meetings with his partner/spouse, and his contractors/children.
These tech companies overwhelmingly supported Hillary, not Trump. She's the darling of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
Indeed. Here is an exhaustive list of everyone in Silicon Valley who supported Donald Trump:
1. Peter Thiel
Ah yes, the encyclopedia that ANYONE -- including vandals, trolls, morons, and folks with agendas -- can edit. Seriously??
I trust an encyclopedia that anyone can edit more than I trust an encyclopedia that no one can edit.
Snopes ... I've found crap on there in the past (not political stuff that's debatable, I'm talking scientific errors).
Can you provide an example?
Politics is like that, except it's missing that second guy.
The second guy isn't there because he didn't get elected. There are plenty of honest politicians, they just never make it past the school boards and city councils.
On the other hand, firms should not be sued when they have made all reasonable efforts to make their products as safe as possible
The problem is that "as safe as possible" also means "unaffordable". Should all cars have side impact airbags, and auto-braking collision detection? What about external airbags to protect pedestrians? That will lead to low income people being unable to buy a new car, and so continuing to drive older cars that are even more dangerous, both to themselves and to others.
The US Dept of Transportation puts a value on a human life at $9.4M when considering safety improvements to highways. It seems reasonable to allow car manufacturers to use a similar value when considering tradeoffs between safety and cost.
go someplace with less traffic and less asshole drivers.
... like a private closed track. Human driven cars should not be on public roads, and the sooner we can phase them out, the better.
No, the polling in PA can prove to be wrong without any other state being affected by whatever issue there is in PA.
Possible, but extremely unlikely. The big question is black turnout in Philadelphia. It that is lower than expected, the same factors will likely depress black turnout in places like Miami, Richmond, Raleigh, etc.
Right now, it is 68F and sunny in Philadelphia. That should help Hillary. In fact, the weather is nice across most of the East Coast and Midwest, and Democrats do better when turnout is higher. She should have a good day.
The issue is that "winter" doesn't mean the same thing to everyone.
Indeed. I lived in China for a few years, and there winter starts on Dec 1st and ends on Mar 1st. That makes more sense, since it syncs up with both the calendar and the weather. The first 21 days of Dec are shorter and usually colder than the first 21 days of March.
By "Brexit level wrong." I take it you mean correct?
No, the Brexit polls were wrong by a big margin. They predicted Brexit losing by over 5%. It won.
....we are calling computer programs "Deep Learning" and "AI" now?
Not all programs. But if you give a program an objective, and it figures out on its own how to get there, then that is machine learning, which is a branch of AI. If it uses a neural net with more than one hidden layer, then it is "deep learning". That is what the term means.
Apparently I am an expert in "Deep Learning".
If you don't even understand the terminology, then you are not an "expert".
Polls say Hillary can win even without PA.
If Hillary loses Pennsylvania, then the polls are WRONG. Brexit level wrong. So many other states will likely break the "wrong" way too. She will be in trouble.
Hillary doesn't need Florida to win, either.
She doesn't need it, but Trump does. So if she takes it, she will likely win.
Hillary doesn't even need North Carolina to win
If she takes NC, then her vote is even better than her support in polls, and she will likely cruise to a strong victory.