Some tests were bad so all tests are bad so GM is safe, I'm sorry but that argument is not logical and doesn't work.
There is also the fallacy that something not yet found doesn't exist because it hasn't yet been found, when the truth is that it can take decades to spot the bad effects of food items.
The truth is we won't know what many of the side-affects of GM will be for decades and by then it could be too late and those side affects could be carcinogenic or cardiovascular or rare diseases.
The makers of GM are not interested in peoples well-being, they are interested in making profits, the fact that GM co's have sued farmers when those farmers crops have been contaminated with GM crops says it all.
Iran have seen the light - from the sun and realised it's much cheaper to use solar panels and renewables than to waste huge amounts of money on more expensive systems like nuclear power.
Presumably that means the test models lack redundancy and the ability to "vote out" malfunctioning gear, those are things that are relatively trivial to fix since it's purely a technical issue and not about the car's understanding of the surroundings. In fact over the test period they show about a 7x improvement on that to once >5000 miles. It's the other 20% that are interesting, after simulations:
That's a rather massive presumption and could be completely wrong for instance the failure could be on behalf of the computer AI in determining what objects are - that is no easy thing to fix. It seems that you presumed an easy fix because you wanted it to be easy to fix.
The simple fact is that the drivers had to prevent vehicle collisions from occurring 13+ times whilst on a small set of very heavy mapped roads. To be fair though this is new tech and over time the proficiency can be improved over time and I do hope that it will be improved enough to be able to do away with the probably unfeasible level of mapping before Google loses faith and scraps the idea.
Indeed, Google is conning itself, they've said their goal is autonomous cars by 2020 but they still haven't actually said how they hope to achieve this, primarily - with or without constant extensive mapping?
And now they've released the fact that the only reason the cars didn't crash is perhaps because humans took control of the cars whenever they made mistakes.
As a side note, while it is true that renewables and storage costs do continue to drop, they won't drop fast enough to make a difference in the outcome of climate change.
Solar is expected to fall as low as 1c per kWh, at that price we can overbuild several times over and just chuck excess energy or make cheap hydrogen for use later. Wind is already as low as 3.65c per Kwh in places. Solar panels are dropping in price about 40% per annum, that's is extremely fast and invalidates your claim that the price won't drop fast enough - it is dropping fast enough right now. Also the race is on across the world to create better cheaper batteries, the best solutions use harmless abundant cheap recyclable chemicals.
There's also the 'we can use the Uranium from seawater' fantasy - also extremely expensive and requires huge amounts of plastic to capture the Uranium.
Expense is the biggest problem with nuclear power in a nutshell, nuclear will only get more expensive whilst renewables and storage costs continue to plummet.
Will they please stop using awful rubbish like the 'sharpness' setting, a setting that does nothing other than make your picture look awful on a digital TV.
I was looking at a 4k TV in the window of the local TV shop a couple of weeks back, the picture was dreadful, educated guess is that they'd turned sharpness up to full and f'ed up a brightness setting causing the picture to look like horribly over-exposed photo. Manufacturers are plain weird when it comes to what they think looks good.
Driving tests don't test for alcohol or risk, being just about able to get behind the wheel and just about manage to get from a-b is not good enough, many US driving tests are nothing like as strict as the UK driving test. The woman should have been sobriety tested - reaction time, actual physical skill tests etc . Many alcoholics appear to function normally, should they too be allowed to drive?
ROFL, I can just imagine the news now - showing a grainy film of a dozen guys running round shouting allahu akbar and hitting some solar panels with hammers, inflicting some irrelevant damage on the corner of a solar farm of a million solar panels.
The EU parliament responds to public outcry because MEPs have to get voted in, but it's not the MEPs strongly pushing TTIP etc, it's the commission, they aren't elected or democratic or accountable.
I honestly don't see what good the EU is doing these days, but I can certainly seem the massive harm it's about to do.
The commission want to harmonise standards with TTIP, the problem is they want to degrade the standards that protect our health and the environment, something they've clearly shown they have no concern about.
He's obviously not the creator of bitcoin, he's not very rich, he's renting his home and he's got tax problems which means he is likely in financial difficulty.
Exactly this, the cars will only be able to slow down as quickly as the car in the car-train with the slowest brakes, if the slowest car can't slow down fast enough to avoid the accident then it hits all of the cars in front of it*.
If the accident involves a car forcefully being stopped at quicker than the braking speed of the cars in the car train then a lot of autonomous cars (30+ or even 90+ for more lanes) will end up in a pile-up*.... Instead of 1 to 2 cars if they are leaving a 2-second gap.
"Even with subsidies(***) the only way they are usually profitable is when they're not generating and powercos are paying the operators to _not_ connect to the grids. The other problem with the things is that broken blades have been known to go more than a mile, so there's a large exclusion zone necessary around them."
More utter bollocks, can't be bothered with it. Wind is cheap.
the environmental costs are at least as high as those of coal plants.(**)
Absolute rubbish of the highest order. The Chinese aren't the only country creating solar PV, the Canadians actually have one of the biggest companies and the US and Japan are big producers too. There is no comparison between coal and solar for environmental damage, some panels use rare earth minerals but they aren't 100% necessary.
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What you're saying is he talks shit... in his defense?
Some tests were bad so all tests are bad so GM is safe, I'm sorry but that argument is not logical and doesn't work.
There is also the fallacy that something not yet found doesn't exist because it hasn't yet been found, when the truth is that it can take decades to spot the bad effects of food items.
The truth is we won't know what many of the side-affects of GM will be for decades and by then it could be too late and those side affects could be carcinogenic or cardiovascular or rare diseases.
The makers of GM are not interested in peoples well-being, they are interested in making profits, the fact that GM co's have sued farmers when those farmers crops have been contaminated with GM crops says it all.
Iran have seen the light - from the sun and realised it's much cheaper to use solar panels and renewables than to waste huge amounts of money on more expensive systems like nuclear power.
That's a rather massive presumption and could be completely wrong for instance the failure could be on behalf of the computer AI in determining what objects are - that is no easy thing to fix. It seems that you presumed an easy fix because you wanted it to be easy to fix.
The simple fact is that the drivers had to prevent vehicle collisions from occurring 13+ times whilst on a small set of very heavy mapped roads. To be fair though this is new tech and over time the proficiency can be improved over time and I do hope that it will be improved enough to be able to do away with the probably unfeasible level of mapping before Google loses faith and scraps the idea.
Indeed, Google is conning itself, they've said their goal is autonomous cars by 2020 but they still haven't actually said how they hope to achieve this, primarily - with or without constant extensive mapping?
And now they've released the fact that the only reason the cars didn't crash is perhaps because humans took control of the cars whenever they made mistakes.
Solar is expected to fall as low as 1c per kWh, at that price we can overbuild several times over and just chuck excess energy or make cheap hydrogen for use later. Wind is already as low as 3.65c per Kwh in places. Solar panels are dropping in price about 40% per annum, that's is extremely fast and invalidates your claim that the price won't drop fast enough - it is dropping fast enough right now. Also the race is on across the world to create better cheaper batteries, the best solutions use harmless abundant cheap recyclable chemicals.
There's also the 'we can use the Uranium from seawater' fantasy - also extremely expensive and requires huge amounts of plastic to capture the Uranium.
Expense is the biggest problem with nuclear power in a nutshell, nuclear will only get more expensive whilst renewables and storage costs continue to plummet.
Will they please stop using awful rubbish like the 'sharpness' setting, a setting that does nothing other than make your picture look awful on a digital TV.
I was looking at a 4k TV in the window of the local TV shop a couple of weeks back, the picture was dreadful, educated guess is that they'd turned sharpness up to full and f'ed up a brightness setting causing the picture to look like horribly over-exposed photo. Manufacturers are plain weird when it comes to what they think looks good.
Driving tests don't test for alcohol or risk, being just about able to get behind the wheel and just about manage to get from a-b is not good enough, many US driving tests are nothing like as strict as the UK driving test. The woman should have been sobriety tested - reaction time, actual physical skill tests etc . Many alcoholics appear to function normally, should they too be allowed to drive?
Let's hope so.
ROFL, I can just imagine the news now - showing a grainy film of a dozen guys running round shouting allahu akbar and hitting some solar panels with hammers, inflicting some irrelevant damage on the corner of a solar farm of a million solar panels.
The EU parliament responds to public outcry because MEPs have to get voted in, but it's not the MEPs strongly pushing TTIP etc, it's the commission, they aren't elected or democratic or accountable.
I honestly don't see what good the EU is doing these days, but I can certainly seem the massive harm it's about to do.
The commission want to harmonise standards with TTIP, the problem is they want to degrade the standards that protect our health and the environment, something they've clearly shown they have no concern about.
Like those done by the EU president Jean-Claude Juncker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And people still want to stay in the EU who is also currently ignoring 3,000,000+ petition signatures and pushing TTIP, FML.
The device... the walking skyrocket you mean? Are you telling me there's some kind of safety button for when these skyrockets get distracted?
Yeah, me too and be careful, if they're distracted they could put you in hospital.
How strong?
How much does it cost?
Can it be scaled up enough to build cars, bridges and buildings out of it?
uTorrent is a server, running an old version of a server is a fast way to get pawned by a worm without any interaction required.
You got off lightly, Food poisoning caused me to be ill/puking for 4+ weeks with potential long term effects.
He's obviously not the creator of bitcoin, he's not very rich, he's renting his home and he's got tax problems which means he is likely in financial difficulty.
"at night or on Sunday when the buses don't run."
In London you can get around on night-buses and the service is only slightly reduced on a Sunday.
The more people use the public transport, the more it will be worthwhile to run it to more places more frequently, more of the time.
Exactly this, the cars will only be able to slow down as quickly as the car in the car-train with the slowest brakes, if the slowest car can't slow down fast enough to avoid the accident then it hits all of the cars in front of it*.
If the accident involves a car forcefully being stopped at quicker than the braking speed of the cars in the car train then a lot of autonomous cars (30+ or even 90+ for more lanes) will end up in a pile-up*.... Instead of 1 to 2 cars if they are leaving a 2-second gap.
*if the vehicles are leaving a 1m gap
"Unboxing videos" - that's some weird fetish there.
Nope, My i7-3770K came with a 'intel' heat-sink + fan in the retail box, I think it's more likely a retail / non retail thing.
"Even with subsidies(***) the only way they are usually profitable is when they're not generating and powercos are paying the operators to _not_ connect to the grids. The other problem with the things is that broken blades have been known to go more than a mile, so there's a large exclusion zone necessary around them."
More utter bollocks, can't be bothered with it. Wind is cheap.
Absolute rubbish of the highest order. The Chinese aren't the only country creating solar PV, the Canadians actually have one of the biggest companies and the US and Japan are big producers too. There is no comparison between coal and solar for environmental damage, some panels use rare earth minerals but they aren't 100% necessary.