The law is fucked up. If you pull your gun on someone who was coming at you with something other than a gun and they back down. Then they can call the cops and get you a ticket for pulling a gun. So basically, you have to shoot the guy upon drawing to be on the right side. Everyone in the US has a 50/50 chance of getting a retarded cop that can only follow he said she said so you got to be the only one with a story.
But at least no one died, which is a good result. And surely if someone was coming at you with a knife or whatever they'd be prosecuted for something too?
Also, as a non-American, it seems logical to me to discourage people from drawing their gun every time someone looks funny at them.
Pocket, for idiots who don't know about bookmarks or the clipboard
That's no good, I use the clipboard to store my daily backups. Fortunately, I've never had to restore from it, but it's good to practise safe security habits just in case.
You claim the cost estimate is wrong, but unfortunately you don't have any analysis supporting your comment. I suggest you read the book when you get a chance. It talks a lot about the cost, and other interesting issues.
I could write a book claiming I could manufacture a fully functional electric car for $49.99 retail. You wouldn't need to read it to know that it was nonsense.
But if you have employees who have difficulty learning Foss, you can figure out who to fire in the future. If they are so slow to learn and inflexible, they WILL be a problem in the future. It's a great screening tool.
This is one of those posts that you desperately hope is a joke, but deep down you know the poster actually means it, and thinks they're being clever.
Yes, but people still use the "he must be clever/good because he's rich" argument about Trump. As you say, it proves nothing. Someone who is rich has money, there is nothing more to it than that.
...Scientists theorized that metallic hydrogen... could have a transformative effect on modern electronics and revolutionize medicine, energy and transportation, as well as herald in a new age of consumer gadgets.
To do all that, they're probably going to need a lot more metallic hydrogen than was lost in the accident. So I'd suggest the scientists concentrate upon making more metallic hydrogen.
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Luckily, once they've solved the trivial problem of how to keep metallic hydrogen viable at room temperature/pressure they'll be able to use the almost unlimited supplies of metallic hydrogen available to help build more metallic hydrogen manufacturing equipment. Out of metallic hydrogen.
.
iow, don't cry over sublimated hydrogen.
maybe it was just the work of London freemasonry, wanting to cause carnage to please their Osiris-Lucifer idol with blood sacrifice?
Thank God I read to the end of your post and its chillingly rational explanation of the Balkans Conflict. Until now I thought it had something to do with the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the explosion of long-standing ethnic and religious conflicts hitherto suppressed under the rule of Tito.
Did you buy a car with the expectation that it'll autonomously drive itself on ice-covered, twisty mountain passes safely, while you watch a movie and drink whiskey? I didn't.
Nor has anyone else yet. The point is that if I buy something which says it is a self driving car, then yes I would expect it to be able to do just that.
Whatever spin car manufacturers try to put on it, saying "it can cope adequately with driving on an empty straight road in sunshine" is NOT the same as it being self driving.
I absolutely want the government interfering with a manufacturer that wants to risk my life so someone can text on their phone. There's even a precedent for it - you do own a drivers license?
For people like the OP drivers' licenses are simply government interference in the free market. You should be free to drive whatever you want, and the courts will decide liability when you kill someone because you're blind. Or something.
By buying an SDC, people no longer have to deal with the hassle and cost of individual insurance policies.
Of course they will, do you think people won't want at least theft insurance? Never mind insurance to cover any third party injuries caused by manual use of the car?
Agreed, if they just use taxi services like Uber they won't need insurance any more than someone taking a cab ride now does.
People buy the cars knowing what they are getting, so the majority of the insurance should be on the consumer. However, there should be a split between Manufacturer and Consumer in the case of a defect.
No, if it's a manufacturing defect, the liability should be purely on the manufacturer.
Automakers are going to have to carry the liability insurance to cover automobiles while self-driving, at least initially.
Translation: Large incumbent automakers probably sponsored this law, if they didn't actually write it, because an insurance requirement will impose a steep barrier to entry to any newcomers.
Yes, because obviously there would be a whole cottage industry of small start ups mass manufacturing self-driving automobiles, just like there is now for manual ones. Oh, wait...
if you want your daughter to be economically sound, enlist her in the army. I hear Trump is staffing up. Not only will she get a big fat enlistment check that she can use to pay off most of your mortgage
Er, that sounds rather more like forced prostitution than anything else.
Libertarianism is an important and necessary philosophical counterpoint to overwhelming collective power. However, governments are classically defined as local monopolies on the use of force, so "non-coercive government" is actually an oxymoron.
I'd still rather be "coerced" by a legitimate government controlled system of police, laws, courts, elected parliaments etc than rely on having a bigger stick than my neighbour.
Or "That girl is interested in you" might mean "that girl want to have her really bizarre fetish realized and it includes you and a thomas the tank engine costume".
Yeah, and depending on the time of evening it might be tricky rustling up the costume at short notice.
It's a combination of geo-targetting, data-mining, simply calendar comparison algorithms, trivial pattern matching and showing someone a picture alongside a binary choice.
To many people on slashdot, a thermostat counts as AI.
In the end I did not worry if "they seemed intelligent, relatively honest" etc and I just contacted those which were (1) shorter than me (I'm a guy); (2) 0-8 years younger then me; (3) reasonably near to me ( I was in a big city anyway); and (4) not ugly in their photo if there was one. That way I met some girls from utterly different backgrounds from mine (including, believe it or not, an ex- Playboy Club Bunny Girl, but she was not as hot as that might sound) and found that whether we clicked or not was orthogonal to commonalities on paper. I never expected nor wanted an intellectual sparring partner.
Executive summary: you just wanted to fuck anything female and not actually grotesque. Basically the same as picking someone up in a bar, but somehow that is uncool nowadays.
Me and my ex were pretty much polar opposites. I'm not aware of many people who had as little in common with me as she did, except we both loved to fuck. 15 years well spent.
We met via IRC.
That's one of the least convincing anecdotes I've ever read on slashdot.
every one of those apps starts with the disclaimer "Consult your doctor before beginning any exercise or dietary regimen"
Fuck disclaimers. Stand behind your product or don't release it; I don't believe in disclaiming responsibility for harm when someone uses the product as intended.
If the product tells you to consult a doctor first, then not consulting a doctor is not using the product as intended.
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The law is fucked up. If you pull your gun on someone who was coming at you with something other than a gun and they back down. Then they can call the cops and get you a ticket for pulling a gun. So basically, you have to shoot the guy upon drawing to be on the right side. Everyone in the US has a 50/50 chance of getting a retarded cop that can only follow he said she said so you got to be the only one with a story.
But at least no one died, which is a good result. And surely if someone was coming at you with a knife or whatever they'd be prosecuted for something too?
Also, as a non-American, it seems logical to me to discourage people from drawing their gun every time someone looks funny at them.
Pocket, for idiots who don't know about bookmarks or the clipboard
That's no good, I use the clipboard to store my daily backups. Fortunately, I've never had to restore from it, but it's good to practise safe security habits just in case.
Genetically engineer sheep to grow carbon nanotubes instead of wool.
/ No, I am not being serious.
It sounds a hell of a lot more plausible than the people here saying you could build a space elevator with what's in NASA's petty cash tin.
Oh wait, the materials to get this done at any price, up to and including the GDP of the entire fucking planet, don't exist. I forgot.
That's just another engineering problem.
You claim the cost estimate is wrong, but unfortunately you don't have any analysis supporting your comment. I suggest you read the book when you get a chance. It talks a lot about the cost, and other interesting issues.
I could write a book claiming I could manufacture a fully functional electric car for $49.99 retail. You wouldn't need to read it to know that it was nonsense.
But if you have employees who have difficulty learning Foss, you can figure out who to fire in the future. If they are so slow to learn and inflexible, they WILL be a problem in the future. It's a great screening tool.
This is one of those posts that you desperately hope is a joke, but deep down you know the poster actually means it, and thinks they're being clever.
Yes, but people still use the "he must be clever/good because he's rich" argument about Trump. As you say, it proves nothing. Someone who is rich has money, there is nothing more to it than that.
what do you mean qualified. any 5th grade science student can tell you global warming is a hoax
I'm rather more interested in the opinion of actual adult scientists.
To do all that, they're probably going to need a lot more metallic hydrogen than was lost in the accident. So I'd suggest the scientists concentrate upon making more metallic hydrogen.
. Luckily, once they've solved the trivial problem of how to keep metallic hydrogen viable at room temperature/pressure they'll be able to use the almost unlimited supplies of metallic hydrogen available to help build more metallic hydrogen manufacturing equipment. Out of metallic hydrogen. . iow, don't cry over sublimated hydrogen.
English spelling has never been my strong suite, but doesn't the word "metal" have a mandatory "l" at the end?
Yes, but this was a piece of rare meta. Completely different word. Try to concentrate.
maybe it was just the work of London freemasonry, wanting to cause carnage to please their Osiris-Lucifer idol with blood sacrifice?
Thank God I read to the end of your post and its chillingly rational explanation of the Balkans Conflict. Until now I thought it had something to do with the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the explosion of long-standing ethnic and religious conflicts hitherto suppressed under the rule of Tito.
Did you buy a car with the expectation that it'll autonomously drive itself on ice-covered, twisty mountain passes safely, while you watch a movie and drink whiskey? I didn't.
Nor has anyone else yet. The point is that if I buy something which says it is a self driving car, then yes I would expect it to be able to do just that.
Whatever spin car manufacturers try to put on it, saying "it can cope adequately with driving on an empty straight road in sunshine" is NOT the same as it being self driving.
I absolutely want the government interfering with a manufacturer that wants to risk my life so someone can text on their phone. There's even a precedent for it - you do own a drivers license?
For people like the OP drivers' licenses are simply government interference in the free market. You should be free to drive whatever you want, and the courts will decide liability when you kill someone because you're blind. Or something.
By buying an SDC, people no longer have to deal with the hassle and cost of individual insurance policies.
Of course they will, do you think people won't want at least theft insurance? Never mind insurance to cover any third party injuries caused by manual use of the car?
Agreed, if they just use taxi services like Uber they won't need insurance any more than someone taking a cab ride now does.
People buy the cars knowing what they are getting, so the majority of the insurance should be on the consumer. However, there should be a split between Manufacturer and Consumer in the case of a defect.
No, if it's a manufacturing defect, the liability should be purely on the manufacturer.
Automakers are going to have to carry the liability insurance to cover automobiles while self-driving, at least initially.
Translation: Large incumbent automakers probably sponsored this law, if they didn't actually write it, because an insurance requirement will impose a steep barrier to entry to any newcomers.
Yes, because obviously there would be a whole cottage industry of small start ups mass manufacturing self-driving automobiles, just like there is now for manual ones. Oh, wait...
if you want your daughter to be economically sound, enlist her in the army. I hear Trump is staffing up. Not only will she get a big fat enlistment check that she can use to pay off most of your mortgage
Er, that sounds rather more like forced prostitution than anything else.
Libertarianism is an important and necessary philosophical counterpoint to overwhelming collective power. However, governments are classically defined as local monopolies on the use of force, so "non-coercive government" is actually an oxymoron.
I'd still rather be "coerced" by a legitimate government controlled system of police, laws, courts, elected parliaments etc than rely on having a bigger stick than my neighbour.
Or "That girl is interested in you" might mean "that girl want to have her really bizarre fetish realized and it includes you and a thomas the tank engine costume".
Yeah, and depending on the time of evening it might be tricky rustling up the costume at short notice.
It's a combination of geo-targetting, data-mining, simply calendar comparison algorithms, trivial pattern matching and showing someone a picture alongside a binary choice.
To many people on slashdot, a thermostat counts as AI.
In the end I did not worry if "they seemed intelligent, relatively honest" etc and I just contacted those which were (1) shorter than me (I'm a guy); (2) 0-8 years younger then me; (3) reasonably near to me ( I was in a big city anyway); and (4) not ugly in their photo if there was one. That way I met some girls from utterly different backgrounds from mine (including, believe it or not, an ex- Playboy Club Bunny Girl, but she was not as hot as that might sound) and found that whether we clicked or not was orthogonal to commonalities on paper. I never expected nor wanted an intellectual sparring partner.
Executive summary: you just wanted to fuck anything female and not actually grotesque. Basically the same as picking someone up in a bar, but somehow that is uncool nowadays.
Me and my ex were pretty much polar opposites. I'm not aware of many people who had as little in common with me as she did, except we both loved to fuck. 15 years well spent.
We met via IRC.
That's one of the least convincing anecdotes I've ever read on slashdot.
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the median was zero
I would, as it would mean that there were people "spending" negative amounts somehow.
How do developers of applications on F-Droid fund the food in their families' stomachs or the roof over their families' heads?
I expect most of them have lucrative part time gigs as musicians.
Fuck disclaimers. Stand behind your product or don't release it; I don't believe in disclaiming responsibility for harm when someone uses the product as intended.
If the product tells you to consult a doctor first, then not consulting a doctor is not using the product as intended.