I like Volvo's attitude about this self-driving topic, but I had a class in college that pointed out the "stat" that Volvos were safer was mostly BS or unproven due to other factors. What factors? Well, at the time something like over 90% of Volvo drivers in the US were boring middle-aged people that didn't like to drive fast. The drivers were safer, they are supposedly also "more safety conscious" and so buy Volvos that tout being safer... and you see what potentially happens in this self-fulfilling prophecy.
I know it's hard for young people to understand, but the majority of the population are boring middle-aged (or older) people. The average driver is not a nineteen year old in a Ferrari.
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Here in the UK at least any actual road works would be set up with temporary traffic lights, and any emergency like a traffic accident would soon have emergency vehicles with flashing lights and bollards. Only in exceptional situations would you be down to a random guy standing in the road waving at cars.
Not until we all agree on 1) How Trump is going to use this invention and 2) How, if discovered earlier, it could have changed the outcome of this election.
And 3) how Elon Musk's version is going to be cheaper, better and ready for the shops by next Xmas.
I don't want my back seat to be a procreational platform for 2 people neither of which I know. It would be different if I were related or friends w/ either of them
So watching strangers fuck is wrong, but it's OK if it's your sister?
My friend who fancies himself a power investor claims that Amazon makes a ton of money from cloud services. They keep plowing this windfall into their retail infrastructure despite it being a money losing venture. Their strategy is allegedly to make it so damn big that eventually it will be profitable.
The bigger you are, the slimmer your margins can be, and therefore the lower your prices, and therefore people choose you instead of competitors and so you keep growing.
It's not rocket science, but as long as you can keep funding the business while it's not actually making much profit, it will work in the long run, and you will have a nice monopoly.
I'm actually more interested in what the BBC will do with Top Gear now that Chris Evans is out of the picture. They might try to turn it into something new and
good instead of trying to replicate what the show was like in 2007.
It doesn't bode well that Matt LeBlanc is still involved. Chris Evans may be a twat, but at least he's an animated twat. Matt LeBlanc is just sleep-inducing.
Could "neo-Nazism" do the same -- disavow the worst of its original ideology, the anti-Semitism, the explicit racism and white supremacy yet retain the nationalist elements and message that promotes a vision of promotion of specific national interests and cultural values, back democracy as a source of legitimacy and an economic philosophy that is constrained by its nationalism and then be seen as a legitimate political ideology?
An alliance is only needed when 2 powers are compatible. Like there was no way that the allies could have ousted Stalin and installed a puppet regime. In the case of Saudi Arabia, the US - particularly after 9/11 - could have occupied that country and seized their oil. That would have resolved any strategic interests. If Muslims started bitching about Infidels being in the land of the 2 holy cities, the next step could have just been to seize those 2 cities and suspend the haj until they come to their senses.
Team America World Police was supposed to be a satire, not an instruction manual.
Do you have any idea how much surveillance teams cost?
Furthermore, jailing someone can be very cheap in countries that do not have the US's hangups about slavery. In the bad old days, Bulgaria made its prisoners work, paid them a full salary, then charged them for room, board and guard salaries. The plant in which my father worked had a production hall staffed 90% with low security prisoners. Some were being released with sizable savings... others ended up in higher security prisons - the last of these being "heavy punitive labour" which usually killed inmates within an year or two - raising pigs in a swamp, mining uranium in 18th century conditions, etc...
The US prison system: not as bad as Stalinist Bulgaria.
It sounds like his own family wanted some sort of intervention.
As usual, involving law enforcement is the wrong call. If you call the cops on a family member for any reason other than an immediate threat to another person, you're doing them a disservice — in pretty much any country. A person having any other sort of crisis would be better served talking to a professional.
You seem to be assuming that this was some sort of incipient mental breakdown. If they were in fact worried that he was choosing to become a terrorist of his own free mind, then the security services in one form or another are precisely the people to get involved.
The McCarthy witch hunts were largely predicated on the notion that to be a member of a particular movement automatically made you a traitor, or at least
suspect of treasonous acts.
Here in the UK (and elsewhere in Europe) there are proscribed terrorist organisations, mere membership of which is illegal. The principle is that if you are in the IRA or ETA, you are supporting terrorism, even if you just joined for the cool hat and membership badge.
The US has a list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, but I take it that passive membership of one is not in itself a crime in America?
You stupid sack of shit, if the demand for child porn is destroyed, there will be no incentive for child
porn to be made, and thus no children will be victimized by being used to make child porn.
Yeah, that's why prohibition was such a success! Outlawing alcohol destroyed the demand; nobody ran speakeasies, or hauled carloads full of moonshine around...
People drinking alcohol or taking drugs are primarily hurting themselves. That is not the same thing as consuming child sex abuse material, which is based on harm to other people.
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I like Volvo's attitude about this self-driving topic, but I had a class in college that pointed out the "stat" that Volvos were safer was mostly BS or unproven due to other factors. What factors? Well, at the time something like over 90% of Volvo drivers in the US were boring middle-aged people that didn't like to drive fast. The drivers were safer, they are supposedly also "more safety conscious" and so buy Volvos that tout being safer... and you see what potentially happens in this self-fulfilling prophecy.
I know it's hard for young people to understand, but the majority of the population are boring middle-aged (or older) people. The average driver is not a nineteen year old in a Ferrari. .
Here in the UK at least any actual road works would be set up with temporary traffic lights, and any emergency like a traffic accident would soon have emergency vehicles with flashing lights and bollards. Only in exceptional situations would you be down to a random guy standing in the road waving at cars.
Can we keep this crap off slashdot?
Not until we all agree on 1) How Trump is going to use this invention and 2) How, if discovered earlier, it could have changed the outcome of this election.
And 3) how Elon Musk's version is going to be cheaper, better and ready for the shops by next Xmas.
I don't want my back seat to be a procreational platform for 2 people neither of which I know. It would be different if I were related or friends w/ either of them
So watching strangers fuck is wrong, but it's OK if it's your sister?
My friend who fancies himself a power investor claims that Amazon makes a ton of money from cloud services. They keep plowing this windfall into their retail infrastructure despite it being a money losing venture. Their strategy is allegedly to make it so damn big that eventually it will be profitable.
The bigger you are, the slimmer your margins can be, and therefore the lower your prices, and therefore people choose you instead of competitors and so you keep growing.
It's not rocket science, but as long as you can keep funding the business while it's not actually making much profit, it will work in the long run, and you will have a nice monopoly.
50% of take home goes to rent
Sounds like the good old Invisible Hand isn't working too well there.
I'm actually more interested in what the BBC will do with Top Gear now that Chris Evans is out of the picture. They might try to turn it into something new and good instead of trying to replicate what the show was like in 2007.
It doesn't bode well that Matt LeBlanc is still involved. Chris Evans may be a twat, but at least he's an animated twat. Matt LeBlanc is just sleep-inducing.
Hence, the pirating.
Shame. If we all did it, they'd stop making stuff, btw.
No, in The World According to Slashdot, Clarkson et al should tour with live shows and sell t-shirts, and the show itself would be a free download.
They've promised to have it available in over 200 countries soon
Which is pretty impressive as there are only 196 countries in the world at the moment.
I am not really fond of DRM, and I like to be able to do whatever I want with content I pay for.
What precisely are you going to do with a light entertainment TV show other than watch it?
Use the script as the libretto for your next opera?
I've always thought Burger King had better food than Mcdonalds.
My cat eats better food than Mcdonalds.
I'm not even certain that the KKK has actually killed anyone since 9/11
Oh well that's all right then, they're practically Christ-like.
Could "neo-Nazism" do the same -- disavow the worst of its original ideology, the anti-Semitism, the explicit racism and white supremacy yet retain the nationalist elements and message that promotes a vision of promotion of specific national interests and cultural values, back democracy as a source of legitimacy and an economic philosophy that is constrained by its nationalism and then be seen as a legitimate political ideology?
No.
I could send faxes from my Newton.
But receiving them must have been tricky.
An alliance is only needed when 2 powers are compatible. Like there was no way that the allies could have ousted Stalin and installed a puppet regime. In the case of Saudi Arabia, the US - particularly after 9/11 - could have occupied that country and seized their oil. That would have resolved any strategic interests. If Muslims started bitching about Infidels being in the land of the 2 holy cities, the next step could have just been to seize those 2 cities and suspend the haj until they come to their senses.
Team America World Police was supposed to be a satire, not an instruction manual.
Okay, feel free to explain why Saudi Arabia is more of an ally than Iran. Or vice versa. Doesn't matter to me, but since you insist...
Saudi Arabia buys a shit load of military equipment from the West. Iran doesn't.
If he wasn't radicalized before, when he gets out of prison, he surely will be. Mission accomplished, idiots.
Many novice burglars get caught through their own incompetence and sent to prison, where they learn from the pros how to burgle properly.
Therefore, we should never jail someone for burglary.
I still get harassed because obviously I "must be a terrorist" because I don't use windows.
I tried to carry a Mac laptop through Customs once and they gave me an hour long anal probe.
Next trip I took two!
*rimshot*
Do you have any idea how much surveillance teams cost?
Furthermore, jailing someone can be very cheap in countries that do not have the US's hangups about slavery. In the bad old days, Bulgaria made its prisoners work, paid them a full salary, then charged them for room, board and guard salaries. The plant in which my father worked had a production hall staffed 90% with low security prisoners. Some were being released with sizable savings... others ended up in higher security prisons - the last of these being "heavy punitive labour" which usually killed inmates within an year or two - raising pigs in a swamp, mining uranium in 18th century conditions, etc...
The US prison system: not as bad as Stalinist Bulgaria.
Awesome.
It sounds like his own family wanted some sort of intervention.
As usual, involving law enforcement is the wrong call. If you call the cops on a family member for any reason other than an immediate threat to another person, you're doing them a disservice — in pretty much any country. A person having any other sort of crisis would be better served talking to a professional.
You seem to be assuming that this was some sort of incipient mental breakdown. If they were in fact worried that he was choosing to become a terrorist of his own free mind, then the security services in one form or another are precisely the people to get involved.
The McCarthy witch hunts were largely predicated on the notion that to be a member of a particular movement automatically made you a traitor, or at least suspect of treasonous acts.
Here in the UK (and elsewhere in Europe) there are proscribed terrorist organisations, mere membership of which is illegal. The principle is that if you are in the IRA or ETA, you are supporting terrorism, even if you just joined for the cool hat and membership badge.
The US has a list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, but I take it that passive membership of one is not in itself a crime in America?
if he was not a terrorist before, he certainly WILL BE, once they let him out.
In that case we should never put anyone in prison.
All it does is make them better criminals.
The only solution is capital punishment for any crime whatsoever.
You stupid sack of shit, if the demand for child porn is destroyed, there will be no incentive for child porn to be made, and thus no children will be victimized by being used to make child porn.
Yeah, that's why prohibition was such a success! Outlawing alcohol destroyed the demand; nobody ran speakeasies, or hauled carloads full of moonshine around...
People drinking alcohol or taking drugs are primarily hurting themselves. That is not the same thing as consuming child sex abuse material, which is based on harm to other people.
A hundred years from now is less predictable than now is from 1900
Indeed, few people in 1900 would have thought they'd live to see the horrors of Two World Wars.
Things have improved since 1945 in many ways, but there is no guarantee that many people will see the other side of WW3.
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
- Donald Trump
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/265895292191248385
That's been taken out of context.
The context is that Trump doesn't have any idea of what's going to come out of his mouth before he opens it.