Officials say V2V has the potential to mitigate 80 percent of non-impaired crashes
Has anyone actually tested that assertion using some sort of prototype of this technology?
It's been thoroughly modeled using the same type of computer modeling that proves CAGW is an imminent threat that requires immediate action that cripples Western economies through exorbitantly-high energy costs.
What, are you some sort of V2V-Denier whackjob? The Science is Settled!
How can that be good? Visibility and openness is a true disinfectant.
Unless you LOVE government above all analysis.
The Federal Bureaucracy is a system, Neo. That system has become the enemy of individual freedom and liberty. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, Church Of AGW believers, and partisan Liberal/Progressive hacks. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
Snowden was a contractor... he worked for Booz Allen Hamilton.....contractors get paid 3 to 4 times their government counterparts.. So trust me these NSA guys who are leaving do get paid a paltry salary.
And as a contractor myself who does work with the NSA, one of the reasons for people leaving that is not being talked about. Is the incredibly over burdensome requirements, procedures, oversight, and plain hoops one has to jump through to do their job.
I refuse to do any jobs that on or around Fort Meade, as you are made to feel like a prisoner with every move or decision you make is logged, tracked, audited, scrutinized, and debated. Life is a living hell under these rules... That is why their leaving.
Thanks Snowden....
Thanks *Snowden*!?!?
What the hell are you smoking, dude?
Or were you fine with the NSA violating the shit out of people's rights, you're simply upset that since Snowden revealed their criminal acts, the NSA is trying to prevent others working for the NSA from whistle-blowing and revealing further lawlessness, and those measures to prevent their lawbreaking from being revealed inconveniences you?
If you actually do work for the NSA, YOU and people who think like you in the agency are the ones responsible for Snowden and the impending castration of the NSA's powers and capabilities to spy on US citizens wholesale.
People who think as you do should never be or have been allowed to be anywhere near any sort of government power. You and your ilk are the embodiment of the tyranny the Founders predicted and warned us would arise. You deserve a fair trial and a prompt and clean hanging if found guilty. Nothing more.
Never said anything like that. But renewable energy is not a conservative thing. And being that you rail on every chance about the progressives, so I took a wild-ass guess that you toe the company line.
I'm absolutely *for* renewable energy.
*BUT* I'm for renewable energy that can compete equally against other forms without being propped-up by governments. I believe giving renewables special tax breaks, grant programs, etc etc actually *hurts* and/or slows the advancement of renewable energy technology.
If renewable energy gets special breaks then there's not as much competitive pressure on renewable sources/technology to improve as fast or as much. Let them succeed or fail on their own merits. Let Darwinistic pressures of selection and competition cull-out the less-viable methods/sources and strengthen the best, thereby allowing resources devoted to developing renewables to be focused on the best & most-viable. Governments have a horrid track record in choosing winners and losers and should have little involvement in the development of renewables if we want the best overall results.
As far as my general political/ideological views go, I don't really fit into any of the standard categories. If I had to describe it in a couple words, I suppose "pragmatic 'small-L' libertarian and realistic constructionist" would come close. I want the maximum individual freedom pragmatically & practically possible in the real world dealing with real people, and I want government power, scope, and cost curtailed to something at least in shouting-distance of the limits set forth in the Constitution with real accountability to citizens.
Once all of the coal miners are back to work, and hte US has all the clean coal power that progressives have denied us, why would we care one little bit about a faulty pseudo technology like wind power?
We stand on the cusp of a new great age, and China and our homegrown commies can eat their turbines, because they can't compete with our coal.
What, you think I'm a Trump-ette? LOL!
I only hope he at least does minimal damage, and maybe even does a few good things that neither party has been willing to do.
At this point, that's about the best I can hope for.
It's probably because they will profit somehow with this AND get to pretend they're good guys.
What's happening is that this wind farm is a test-bed for Chinese wind turbine makers, who will then proceed to export under-cost wind turbines until they've driven most foreign manufacturers out of business just like they've done to rare-Earth mines and solar-cell makers outside of China.
The Chinese simply made Apple pay for it; "that's a nice business you have there, it would be terrible if you suddenly were unable to have your stuff built here".
Apple is helping to finance the destruction of Western alternative energy equipment manufacturing by China.
The NYPD is assuming twitter will fix the problem.
No, they know damned well twitter won't solve or help anything. It's just something very visible, cheap, and easy to implement to point to and say "hey look, we're trying!" while they go about business as usual. It's pure CYA, nothing more. And as a consequence, more innocent people will die and more police officers will be assassinated and more kids will grow up with one parent having been needlessly killed.
* Completely unrelated problem, nobody actually knows all the laws.
That's a major problem with the US legal system. There are so many laws on the books that even when they spent millions of dollars and many months trying to catalogue and count Federal laws, they couldn't count them all.
That's very dangerous for a supposedly free and open society. It allows police to arrest anyone as it's almost certain that some law can be found to have been broken. Often police outright ignore the laws, like the right of people to audio-record/photograph/video-record police. Most departments have informed their officers that being video or audio recorded and/or photographed is not against the law but they still arrest people, harass/bully them, and even assault them and destroy recording equipment on a regular basis and receive little or no meaningful consequences for their crimes.
The other fairly recent phenomenon that drives distrust and hatred of police is this priority of "going home tonight" above anything else. It leads officers to shoot first and ask questions later because "officer safety" is priority #1.
The job of police is to protect and serve. They cannot do either if they put their safety above anything else including innocent lives. It turns any encounter with police into a potentially deadly (for the citizen) situation. It changes police into a paramilitary occupation and pacification force, especially when they kit-out like they're going door-to-door clearing buildings in downtown Mosul, complete with armored vehicles and grenades. Talking to former military, I've been told that combat soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have stricter Rules Of Engagement than US police officers.
Psychologically it tends to mold the officers' view of civilians into "the enemy".
If the government really wants to improve police/citizen relations, these and other serious problems must be effectively addressed.
Dude, you are just a guitarist who is full of shit himself.
Playing guitar is a hobby. I have degrees in several fields and experience in many more. Everything from designing missile and torpedo navigation/targeting systems to working on avionics and telemetry systems in the Enterprise space shuttle that were later incorporated into the working space shuttles.
As far as GWB, he's a Progressive and I despise much of what he did. You are correct he was a crony-capitalist just like every POTUS we've had for decades.
The rest of your post is nonsense and/or irrelevant, as the accusations against the US and what I was refuting were that we were invading Iraq to steal their oil. Which was and is utter bullshit.
Either way, the government sure goes out of its way to make sure people don't get high.
But at the end of the day, we all have our poisons. A college student has their weed, a business exec has their coke, a trailer park resident has their meth, and a hippie has their LSD. I of course, am a gamer, so my poison is sugary sodas. I got off of it for a while and thought my addiction was gone, but then I started using again recently, and strangely the DEA doesn't mind in my case.
Maybe not the DEA (for now) but the city of New York does. 20 Oz limit, citizen! And don't think you're going to find a salt-shaker at your table in a NYC restaurant, either.
Why shouldn't males and females be in the same pool? All people should be in one pool for maximum efficiency. The only way insurance works is for healthy to subsidize non-healthy. That includes pregnant and non-pregnant.
Hey! You've got a point there!
Who needs individual plans to fit individual needs and widely-varying individual financial resources? One size fits all, right?
In the interests of state efficiency, we should also have everyone live in identical housing units, wear identical clothing, parse news sources down to one official source, eat identical meals, and have cars only made in one model and color!
Yes, it's going to be awesome when you tell over half the country that they have no say in government at the national level. That will turn out well.
That's exactly what got Trump elected. President-elections-have-consequences-I've-got-a-pen-and-a-phone and his followers are responsible for Trump, along with the Republicans who are liberal-Progressives that fold the moment anything that requires a spine and/or principles comes up.
Between those two groups Americans felt they had no say, so they elected somebody they hope will burn the whole thing down.
Googled it for you. Halliburton alone made $39.5 billion off the Iraq war. Does truth matter to you?
How much have Russian companies who supply Russian military with goods and services profited from Russia's military aggressions? How much did British companies make from the Falklands conflict?
If a company gets $1 when the taxpayers lose $1000, it's still pure profit.
By that standard, every war by every nation that went to war would qualify. What makes the US the exception to be dumped on? What about Russia's invasions of Ukraine and Crimea?
Anyway: you get a much quicker return on your money by invading a country like Iraq than you do investing in longer term clean energy.
Yeah, I'm pissed off! Where's all the riches and oil we were supposed to get from Iraq after we invaded? The US got snookered on that deal. We went and invaded Iraq and everything, and all we got was a deficit increase!
Or...maybe you're full of shit and spouting lies like a typical Leftist useful-idiot that is only capable of repeating the propaganda fed to you because you're too stupid or lazy to search out the truth yourself, or just so filled with hate and so caught up in your political/ideological pissing contest that truth doesn't matter, as long as you can *hurt* those you are told you're supposed to hate.
Ah yes, I forgot that criticizing someone's views means that you think they shouldn't be able to express them.
Random idiot makes a strawman out of people he disagrees with, news at 11.
Quite frankly, I could not give two shits about their views because their "views" are based on racism, hatred, and lies like 'hands up don't shoot'. Views, opinions, etc are like assholes...everyone has them and most stink.
What I *do* care about are the criminal acts they commit like inciting and committing acts of violence and murder. Dead cops and random white people assaulted do not a strawman make.
If you are unable to differentiate between the two you need to seek psychological help, as you are a danger to yourself and others.
Pre-Obamacare, there were many plans that had a low annual cap.
That's because those rotten insurance companies didn't mandate their plans for males include pregnancy and breast exam coverage!
The sexist bastages!
Now, every male covered under Obamacare can rest easy knowing they're covered in case they get knocked-up. If it costs more that's OK because after all, all wealth is the property of the government and we're lucky they generously allow us to keep some of it for our own selfish needs like shelter, food, etc.
typical libertarian slashdot nerd hates free speech, news at 11
I'm all for free speech.
I am not for inciting violence, anarchy, and murder. Especially not based on race. There are laws against it for very good reasons. Would you want to see the KKK out there calling for people to murder blacks like BLM does regarding police/whites?
And why shouldn't it? What's so wrong with being friends with civil rights activists?
What "civil rights activists"?
BLM is a pro-criminal racist hate-group advocating killing police. They are no better than the KKK.
The DoJ under Trump should prosecute Twitter and Dorsey as criminal accessories to violence/murder/assault committed against police and whites by BLM activists.
Really? What did he do that was "far beyond and above in de-legitimizing his own Presidency" when compared to the birther movement?
Whatever it was, it was bad enough to get Trump elected, so take your pick...Iranian nuke deal, hostage deals, attempting to end-run the will of Congress and the people in trying to get things like TPP rammed through, the disaster that's Obamacare...the list is too long for one post.
But just keep doubling-down on the outright hate for at least 1/2 the country. It worked so well this election, right? Then we can look forward to Republicans in control for the next few decades and every (D)-sponsored plan/Act/law passed in the last 50 years repealed or made impotent.
You do realize that this is how it works in most west world countries that actually have functioning health care systems? Would you say that the Nordic countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, with completely free health care, are fascist countries??
The US had the most advanced medicine in the world for many decades. World leaders from across the world came to the US for serious health problems. That is not so true since the US has gradually and increasingly tried to mimic other nations' healthcare systems.
As to the Nordic nations you mention, the medical systems are mixes of socialist and fascist in structure and have never led globally in medical advances like the US.
Forgive me if I'd prefer the US stick to the principles it was founded upon and which are responsible for making the US a global superpower within 2 centuries of it's founding and the home of the most advanced medicine in the world. Why should the US mimic demonstrably-inferior systems?
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It's been thoroughly modeled using the same type of computer modeling that proves CAGW is an imminent threat that requires immediate action that cripples Western economies through exorbitantly-high energy costs.
What, are you some sort of V2V-Denier whackjob? The Science is Settled!
Strat
How can that be good? Visibility and openness is a true disinfectant.
Unless you LOVE government above all analysis.
The Federal Bureaucracy is a system, Neo. That system has become the enemy of individual freedom and liberty. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, Church Of AGW believers, and partisan Liberal/Progressive hacks. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
Strat
The only way Trump is going to get coal miners back to work is to use taxpayer money to give every American a sack of coal for Christmas.
Seems like Stein and Cankles already got their coal for Christmas from Trump!
Wisconsin recount: Trump picked up an additional 162 votes!
The Wisconsin recount found "no widespread voter counting errors or hacking.â
Be careful what you ask for, you just may get it!
Strat
Snowden was a contractor... he worked for Booz Allen Hamilton.....contractors get paid 3 to 4 times their government counterparts.. So trust me these NSA guys who are leaving do get paid a paltry salary.
And as a contractor myself who does work with the NSA, one of the reasons for people leaving that is not being talked about. Is the incredibly over burdensome requirements, procedures, oversight, and plain hoops one has to jump through to do their job.
I refuse to do any jobs that on or around Fort Meade, as you are made to feel like a prisoner with every move or decision you make is logged, tracked, audited, scrutinized, and debated. Life is a living hell under these rules... That is why their leaving.
Thanks Snowden....
Thanks *Snowden*!?!?
What the hell are you smoking, dude?
Or were you fine with the NSA violating the shit out of people's rights, you're simply upset that since Snowden revealed their criminal acts, the NSA is trying to prevent others working for the NSA from whistle-blowing and revealing further lawlessness, and those measures to prevent their lawbreaking from being revealed inconveniences you?
If you actually do work for the NSA, YOU and people who think like you in the agency are the ones responsible for Snowden and the impending castration of the NSA's powers and capabilities to spy on US citizens wholesale.
People who think as you do should never be or have been allowed to be anywhere near any sort of government power. You and your ilk are the embodiment of the tyranny the Founders predicted and warned us would arise. You deserve a fair trial and a prompt and clean hanging if found guilty. Nothing more.
Strat
Never said anything like that. But renewable energy is not a conservative thing. And being that you rail on every chance about the progressives, so I took a wild-ass guess that you toe the company line.
I'm absolutely *for* renewable energy.
*BUT* I'm for renewable energy that can compete equally against other forms without being propped-up by governments. I believe giving renewables special tax breaks, grant programs, etc etc actually *hurts* and/or slows the advancement of renewable energy technology.
If renewable energy gets special breaks then there's not as much competitive pressure on renewable sources/technology to improve as fast or as much. Let them succeed or fail on their own merits. Let Darwinistic pressures of selection and competition cull-out the less-viable methods/sources and strengthen the best, thereby allowing resources devoted to developing renewables to be focused on the best & most-viable. Governments have a horrid track record in choosing winners and losers and should have little involvement in the development of renewables if we want the best overall results.
As far as my general political/ideological views go, I don't really fit into any of the standard categories. If I had to describe it in a couple words, I suppose "pragmatic 'small-L' libertarian and realistic constructionist" would come close. I want the maximum individual freedom pragmatically & practically possible in the real world dealing with real people, and I want government power, scope, and cost curtailed to something at least in shouting-distance of the limits set forth in the Constitution with real accountability to citizens.
Strat
Once all of the coal miners are back to work, and hte US has all the clean coal power that progressives have denied us, why would we care one little bit about a faulty pseudo technology like wind power?
We stand on the cusp of a new great age, and China and our homegrown commies can eat their turbines, because they can't compete with our coal.
What, you think I'm a Trump-ette? LOL!
I only hope he at least does minimal damage, and maybe even does a few good things that neither party has been willing to do.
At this point, that's about the best I can hope for.
Strat
...unless you consider a frag-them-all videogame mentality as acceptable.
Well, it's not like some cops have had things like "You're Fucked!" etched into the receiver of their weapon...Oh, wait...
Strat
It's probably because they will profit somehow with this AND get to pretend they're good guys.
What's happening is that this wind farm is a test-bed for Chinese wind turbine makers, who will then proceed to export under-cost wind turbines until they've driven most foreign manufacturers out of business just like they've done to rare-Earth mines and solar-cell makers outside of China.
The Chinese simply made Apple pay for it; "that's a nice business you have there, it would be terrible if you suddenly were unable to have your stuff built here".
Apple is helping to finance the destruction of Western alternative energy equipment manufacturing by China.
Strat
The NYPD is assuming twitter will fix the problem.
No, they know damned well twitter won't solve or help anything. It's just something very visible, cheap, and easy to implement to point to and say "hey look, we're trying!" while they go about business as usual. It's pure CYA, nothing more. And as a consequence, more innocent people will die and more police officers will be assassinated and more kids will grow up with one parent having been needlessly killed.
Strat
* Completely unrelated problem, nobody actually knows all the laws.
That's a major problem with the US legal system. There are so many laws on the books that even when they spent millions of dollars and many months trying to catalogue and count Federal laws, they couldn't count them all.
That's very dangerous for a supposedly free and open society. It allows police to arrest anyone as it's almost certain that some law can be found to have been broken. Often police outright ignore the laws, like the right of people to audio-record/photograph/video-record police. Most departments have informed their officers that being video or audio recorded and/or photographed is not against the law but they still arrest people, harass/bully them, and even assault them and destroy recording equipment on a regular basis and receive little or no meaningful consequences for their crimes.
The other fairly recent phenomenon that drives distrust and hatred of police is this priority of "going home tonight" above anything else. It leads officers to shoot first and ask questions later because "officer safety" is priority #1.
The job of police is to protect and serve. They cannot do either if they put their safety above anything else including innocent lives. It turns any encounter with police into a potentially deadly (for the citizen) situation. It changes police into a paramilitary occupation and pacification force, especially when they kit-out like they're going door-to-door clearing buildings in downtown Mosul, complete with armored vehicles and grenades. Talking to former military, I've been told that combat soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have stricter Rules Of Engagement than US police officers.
Psychologically it tends to mold the officers' view of civilians into "the enemy".
If the government really wants to improve police/citizen relations, these and other serious problems must be effectively addressed.
Strat
Dude, you are just a guitarist who is full of shit himself.
Playing guitar is a hobby. I have degrees in several fields and experience in many more. Everything from designing missile and torpedo navigation/targeting systems to working on avionics and telemetry systems in the Enterprise space shuttle that were later incorporated into the working space shuttles.
As far as GWB, he's a Progressive and I despise much of what he did. You are correct he was a crony-capitalist just like every POTUS we've had for decades.
The rest of your post is nonsense and/or irrelevant, as the accusations against the US and what I was refuting were that we were invading Iraq to steal their oil. Which was and is utter bullshit.
Strat
Either way, the government sure goes out of its way to make sure people don't get high.
But at the end of the day, we all have our poisons. A college student has their weed, a business exec has their coke, a trailer park resident has their meth, and a hippie has their LSD. I of course, am a gamer, so my poison is sugary sodas. I got off of it for a while and thought my addiction was gone, but then I started using again recently, and strangely the DEA doesn't mind in my case.
Maybe not the DEA (for now) but the city of New York does. 20 Oz limit, citizen! And don't think you're going to find a salt-shaker at your table in a NYC restaurant, either.
Strat
LOL!
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like...Texas pork BBQ!"
Too funny!
Strat
Why shouldn't males and females be in the same pool? All people should be in one pool for maximum efficiency. The only way insurance works is for healthy to subsidize non-healthy. That includes pregnant and non-pregnant.
Hey! You've got a point there!
Who needs individual plans to fit individual needs and widely-varying individual financial resources? One size fits all, right?
In the interests of state efficiency, we should also have everyone live in identical housing units, wear identical clothing, parse news sources down to one official source, eat identical meals, and have cars only made in one model and color!
Brilliant!
0_o
Strat
Yes, it's going to be awesome when you tell over half the country that they have no say in government at the national level. That will turn out well.
That's exactly what got Trump elected. President-elections-have-consequences-I've-got-a-pen-and-a-phone and his followers are responsible for Trump, along with the Republicans who are liberal-Progressives that fold the moment anything that requires a spine and/or principles comes up.
Between those two groups Americans felt they had no say, so they elected somebody they hope will burn the whole thing down.
Nice going, assholes!
Strat
Googled it for you. Halliburton alone made $39.5 billion off the Iraq war. Does truth matter to you?
How much have Russian companies who supply Russian military with goods and services profited from Russia's military aggressions? How much did British companies make from the Falklands conflict?
Why is the US the only one ever called out?
*THAT* is my point and what nobody will address.
Strat
If a company gets $1 when the taxpayers lose $1000, it's still pure profit.
By that standard, every war by every nation that went to war would qualify. What makes the US the exception to be dumped on? What about Russia's invasions of Ukraine and Crimea?
Such fickle and flexible 'standards'!
Strat
Anyway: you get a much quicker return on your money by invading a country like Iraq than you do investing in longer term clean energy.
Yeah, I'm pissed off! Where's all the riches and oil we were supposed to get from Iraq after we invaded? The US got snookered on that deal. We went and invaded Iraq and everything, and all we got was a deficit increase!
Or...maybe you're full of shit and spouting lies like a typical Leftist useful-idiot that is only capable of repeating the propaganda fed to you because you're too stupid or lazy to search out the truth yourself, or just so filled with hate and so caught up in your political/ideological pissing contest that truth doesn't matter, as long as you can *hurt* those you are told you're supposed to hate.
Strat
Ah yes, I forgot that criticizing someone's views means that you think they shouldn't be able to express them.
Random idiot makes a strawman out of people he disagrees with, news at 11.
Quite frankly, I could not give two shits about their views because their "views" are based on racism, hatred, and lies like 'hands up don't shoot'. Views, opinions, etc are like assholes...everyone has them and most stink.
What I *do* care about are the criminal acts they commit like inciting and committing acts of violence and murder. Dead cops and random white people assaulted do not a strawman make.
If you are unable to differentiate between the two you need to seek psychological help, as you are a danger to yourself and others.
Strat
Pre-Obamacare, there were many plans that had a low annual cap.
That's because those rotten insurance companies didn't mandate their plans for males include pregnancy and breast exam coverage!
The sexist bastages!
Now, every male covered under Obamacare can rest easy knowing they're covered in case they get knocked-up. If it costs more that's OK because after all, all wealth is the property of the government and we're lucky they generously allow us to keep some of it for our own selfish needs like shelter, food, etc.
Strat
typical libertarian slashdot nerd hates free speech, news at 11
I'm all for free speech.
I am not for inciting violence, anarchy, and murder. Especially not based on race. There are laws against it for very good reasons. Would you want to see the KKK out there calling for people to murder blacks like BLM does regarding police/whites?
Hypocrite, much?
Strat
And why shouldn't it? What's so wrong with being friends with civil rights activists?
What "civil rights activists"?
BLM is a pro-criminal racist hate-group advocating killing police. They are no better than the KKK.
The DoJ under Trump should prosecute Twitter and Dorsey as criminal accessories to violence/murder/assault committed against police and whites by BLM activists.
Strat
Really? What did he do that was "far beyond and above in de-legitimizing his own Presidency" when compared to the birther movement?
Whatever it was, it was bad enough to get Trump elected, so take your pick...Iranian nuke deal, hostage deals, attempting to end-run the will of Congress and the people in trying to get things like TPP rammed through, the disaster that's Obamacare...the list is too long for one post.
But just keep doubling-down on the outright hate for at least 1/2 the country. It worked so well this election, right? Then we can look forward to Republicans in control for the next few decades and every (D)-sponsored plan/Act/law passed in the last 50 years repealed or made impotent.
Strat
It's sad that people like you continue to de-legitimize his presidency.
I wholeheartedly agree!
Obama has gone far beyond and above in de-legitimizing his own Presidency, he doesn't need help!
Strat
You do realize that this is how it works in most west world countries that actually have functioning health care systems? Would you say that the Nordic countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, with completely free health care, are fascist countries??
The US had the most advanced medicine in the world for many decades. World leaders from across the world came to the US for serious health problems. That is not so true since the US has gradually and increasingly tried to mimic other nations' healthcare systems.
As to the Nordic nations you mention, the medical systems are mixes of socialist and fascist in structure and have never led globally in medical advances like the US.
Forgive me if I'd prefer the US stick to the principles it was founded upon and which are responsible for making the US a global superpower within 2 centuries of it's founding and the home of the most advanced medicine in the world. Why should the US mimic demonstrably-inferior systems?
Strat