You and your descendants will wind up living in zoos or wildlife preserves, while the rest of us journey to new cognitive frontiers, self-actualizing in an existence that you can barely imagine.
Someone's been drinking the Ray Kurzweil Kool Aid.
How can you possibly determine that someone willfully failed to avoid the accident?
When one side says "Google said its car's safety driver thought the bus would yield." When a driver sees a potential accident coming the proper response is not to bet the other guy will yield, even if you have the right of way. Sometimes you have to accommodate the other guys illegal move.
Call me a wuss, but I work on the assumption that it's always safer to give the benefit of the doubt to the much larger vehicle.
Yes, that might mean either waiting for your kids to go to college to take them to Disney, doing it before they go to school, or just taking a few days out of school to go do it.
I see little point in going to Disney if you're under 5 or over 18. And, yes, getting a decent education is more important than wasting money at an entertainment factory.
That's cute. You think prices are going up or down by 20%. In reality, the current level is the cheap level, and prices will be going up for the peak times.
Here is a list of five things:
Access to clean water
Access to food
Access to shelter
Freedom from persecution
The right to visit a shitty entertainment park cheaply.
The difference between being president of college or another is nowhere near the difference between being the CEO of a huge multinational and the CEO of a two person start up.
Also, I doubt there are any college presidents earning ten or twenty million a year even at somewhere like Harvard.
One possible reason I can see for some powerful being creating the universe is if he wanted to create intelligent beings without specifically designing them himself. He would then pick out the ones who were irrationally loyal to their creator and use them as servants, and then discard the rest. I see this as highly improbable, but possible.
Just because it ends in s doesn't mean it's a plural or that it's countable. Would it make sense to say "I had three sands then someone gave me another so I had four sands"?
Also, rules are often relaxed in poetry. Poetic license isn't some kind of permit.
I once wrote a limerick in ten seconds: I had my poetic licence pulled for speeding.
Words change their meaning over time, and English borrowings from Latin do not have to stick to the strict original meaning in any case.
I was reading recently about the possible fate of David Cameron after the EU referendum and whether he would be defenestrated if it went against him. The writer did not mean that Cameron would be literally thrown out of a window to his death.
If he had been a regular cab driver, he might have done the same, and an official taxi would have been even better camouflage. If he had been a stock trader, he might have continued to do trades. If he was selling crap on Ebay, he might have continued doing that too. How is his driving for Uber at all relevant?
At the very least it's a counter-example to all the Uber-shill stories about how they always get raped/murdered/ripped off when using conventional taxi services.
Facebook - Mostly full of people reposting stupid pictures and "heartbreak" stories/pics of photoshopped mangled babies with captions like "Ignore if you want to burn in hell, like if you want to be saved by Jesus, Share if you're God"
Maybe you need to choose your "friends" more carefully.
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Blimey, APK is a Scouser.
I'm positive that an interface directly into your brain could never be abused, hacked, or compromised.
I'm more worried about the casual way they talked about injecting something the size of a paperclip into a vein.
You and your descendants will wind up living in zoos or wildlife preserves, while the rest of us journey to new cognitive frontiers, self-actualizing in an existence that you can barely imagine.
Someone's been drinking the Ray Kurzweil Kool Aid.
Create a virtual anime girlfriend sex game with various skins/models of popular anime characters over the last 20 years and sell it with that?
We only want this for anime porn right?
Not everyone reading slashdot is a paedophile.
Regardless, this tech is still in the pre-alpha phase.
Then, with the greatest respect, it shouldn't be on public roads.
How can you possibly determine that someone willfully failed to avoid the accident?
When one side says "Google said its car's safety driver thought the bus would yield." When a driver sees a potential accident coming the proper response is not to bet the other guy will yield, even if you have the right of way. Sometimes you have to accommodate the other guys illegal move.
Call me a wuss, but I work on the assumption that it's always safer to give the benefit of the doubt to the much larger vehicle.
So lane changing in front of a semi on the freeway and then slamming on your brakes: still not a good idea.
Yes, but that's out of self preservation, not because of the law.
Yes, that might mean either waiting for your kids to go to college to take them to Disney, doing it before they go to school, or just taking a few days out of school to go do it.
I see little point in going to Disney if you're under 5 or over 18. And, yes, getting a decent education is more important than wasting money at an entertainment factory.
That's cute. You think prices are going up or down by 20%. In reality, the current level is the cheap level, and prices will be going up for the peak times.
Here is a list of five things:
Access to clean water
Access to food
Access to shelter
Freedom from persecution
The right to visit a shitty entertainment park cheaply.
One of these is not like the other.
The difference between being president of college or another is nowhere near the difference between being the CEO of a huge multinational and the CEO of a two person start up.
Also, I doubt there are any college presidents earning ten or twenty million a year even at somewhere like Harvard.
Their car analogy was stupid
Clearly they were tailoring their writing style for the slashdot audience. We're suckers for stupid car analogies.
There is nothing funny about man boobs.
Potentially disturbing if encountered out of context though...
One possible reason I can see for some powerful being creating the universe is if he wanted to create intelligent beings without specifically designing them himself. He would then pick out the ones who were irrationally loyal to their creator and use them as servants, and then discard the rest. I see this as highly improbable, but possible.
Why would an omnipotent being need servants?
Honestly, I'm baffled why international decisions aren't made by playing a few rounds of Risk or something.
Because it would lose the superpowers their advantage.
Similarly, you are quite entitled to have your mate Dave prepare your tax return or pull your teeth out. It's fine until something goes wrong.
Just because it ends in s doesn't mean it's a plural or that it's countable. Would it make sense to say "I had three sands then someone gave me another so I had four sands"?
Also, rules are often relaxed in poetry. Poetic license isn't some kind of permit.
I once wrote a limerick in ten seconds: I had my poetic licence pulled for speeding.
Actually, "less lawyers" is grammatically fine. Ask a linguist (in this case, the co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language).
All that blog amounts to saying is that, in informal usage, people don't necessarily speak grammatically. Which is pretty bleedin' obvious.
It doesn't mean there isn't a useful distinction between mass nouns and count nouns.
I don't need caffeine to function, I need it to pay my mortgage... without it, I'd get fired from my job!
If you need drugs to help you function at work there's something wrong either with you or your work.
"Anonymous" comes from Ancient Greek, via Latin, and its original meaning was "without genitalia".
Decimate == reduce by 10%
Words change their meaning over time, and English borrowings from Latin do not have to stick to the strict original meaning in any case.
I was reading recently about the possible fate of David Cameron after the EU referendum and whether he would be defenestrated if it went against him. The writer did not mean that Cameron would be literally thrown out of a window to his death.
Agreed, this story needed at least one of: 3D printed guns, Elon Musk or bitcoins to tick the required number of slashdot boxes.
If he had been a regular cab driver, he might have done the same, and an official taxi would have been even better camouflage. If he had been a stock trader, he might have continued to do trades. If he was selling crap on Ebay, he might have continued doing that too. How is his driving for Uber at all relevant?
At the very least it's a counter-example to all the Uber-shill stories about how they always get raped/murdered/ripped off when using conventional taxi services.
Facebook - Mostly full of people reposting stupid pictures and "heartbreak" stories/pics of photoshopped mangled babies with captions like "Ignore if you want to burn in hell, like if you want to be saved by Jesus, Share if you're God"
Maybe you need to choose your "friends" more carefully.
I thought it was "I'm sure I can get funding for this".
Can't prove it by the athletes I've met. Antidotal evidence suggests that the effect may be limited.
Ah, but think how much more stupid they might have been without the athletics.