It's $1,7100,000 due to exchange rate. And it doesn't cost more, I think it's less on average due to better standard of driving here. Yes insurance on average costs about 20% more this is partly due to the pound being strong, dollar weak. Also of note is that there is a fraud epidemic happening at the moment, the price of insurance here has doubled over the last 7 years.
So higher liability does not equal higher insurance because those higher amounts are extremely rarely if ever claimed.
The tipping point is where robots + AI can do work equal to that of an average human being. Once that point is reached, why would a corporation choose a human when the robot can do the work?
Luckily AI is coming along slowly, but how long is it before many jobs are replaced by systems like this 'The AI Boss That Deploys Hong Kong's Subway Engineers' combined with robots, or more specifically jobs being modelled by clever people like Chun in the article.
Chefs, construction workers, cab drivers, factory workers, delivery drivers, miners, cleaners, fast food workers, farm labourers, retail workers, accountants etc are roles we could see fall one by one to better AI and robots.
When most food, construction, gadgets and services can be supplied by robots, what work is left for the majority of the population?
In the UK all drivers must have insurance by law which is minimum 1 million public liability. Is this not true in the US? And if insurance is mandatory then insurers should have rules re hiring out their car, if they don't then it's their own fault if they have to pay out, that's how insurance works.
On the contrary, I have very good scientific reasons for being against GMO and it seems to me that the belief that GM is good is based upon blind faith.
The reason for this blind faith is that some science is used to create GM and the belief that progress must be best and GM is progress and that progress is needed to feed the poor.
The people with this blind faith do not seem to have a large knowledge of all the surrounding issues such as:
Knowledge of crop rotation as a natural productive alternative that is better to soil and better to long term productivity levels. Extortion that has been done by GM corp's where GM has been planted and when the seed has traveled into neighbouring farms, the GM corp has then sued other farmers for having patented seed in there crop.
Knowing that in the past GM crops where created in the past that turned out to be detrimental to peoples health. Selective breeding would be far far less likely to create crops that poison people slowly or are a carcinogenic risk.
Knowing that the method of combining genes is (or was) a completely haphazard method whereby the gene from the plant to be altered is taken, the snippets of gene wanted were then randomly mashed in to that old gene. Unwanted abnormalities of unknown consequences were not tested for, they merely tested the resulting plant for the desired trait. This is a method that I strongly object to.
The realisation that GM is typically of one genetic variety, this creates a danger of a whole genetic species being wiped out in one go once it becomes vulnerable to a new strain of virus or bacterial infection.
The fact that farmers have worked out that the combination of non-organic fertiliser, GM seed and GM companies fertiliser etc can actually be more expensive than farming without those things.
The knowledge that the GM + GM pesticide combinations only appear to have short lifetimes (the pests develop resistance then eat the crop) and the GM companies only care about their profits and not about any damage they do to the ecosystem with their pesticides.
I think the biggest danger is in the lack of genetic diversity, with the risk that whole GM species could be wiped out without that natural genetic diversity, that's not fear-mongering, that's something that often happens. Natural genetic variation can be the key to quickly finding the resistant plants. GM seeds don't have anywhere near the same level of natural genetic variation - they are cloned from a single source.
- Left leaning person who takes scientific theories seriously.
How often do you hear cars honking there horns because some idiot car driver is doing something wrong. In a few places that they made the mistake of introducing licenses for cyclists they revoked those rules because they outright didn't work.
London Bicycle Hire scheme has about 10k bikes and millions of hires, not once was the big readable number taken and reported to the police. With a time+date, the number can say who the rider was.
Pedestrians and cyclists just get in the way, get rid of sidewalks and cycle lanes, ban pedestrians and bikes so that drivers can move freely with ease (sarc).
According to that link regarding causes of accidents: Motorist left turn at same time as cyclist left turn is only at 4.5% but in London this is the cause of half of cyclist deaths because the cyclist gets trapped underneath the left turning vehicle (typically HGVs with poor mirror systems). Point being, cars moving slowly and pulling out are not likely to injure cyclists as badly as a motor vehicle moving at 30-50mph and hitting the cyclist from behind or causing them to fall off in to fast moving traffic.
I still think the product is bad, if every cyclist had one, cars would think they could pass too close and get the cyclist to pull to the side, potentially endangering themselves in the process.
I've experienced similar. Simply having a very bright bike light on the front stops the b******ds who will pull out or front of you simply because you're a cyclist and don't count). And of course it massively increases the chances of you being seen in the dark.
This means those that cannot afford the systems end up "stuck" on the grid
AFAIK In the UK there are services that will install solar, bill you for the energy you use and they make their money from that and the excess electricity.
Solar will cost less than coal in about two years time, the price drops have been massive, installing should get cheaper too with the larger scale of installations due to the cheaper panels.
If there is consequently an oversupply of coal then one would expect the price of coal to fall, etc.
Solar is already price competitive in some places and is set to get cheaper. In Italy Ikea are set to save on costs with solar without any subsidy. As solar prices drop, this will become possible in many more places, warehouse roofs are ideal for solar.
"Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating system"
Do you have sources to back up what you say and are they biased? It all sounds legit but it conflicts with this (which I realise is going to be heavily biased) http://justice4assange.com/Sex...
Have Sweden issued a European Arrest Warrants for other people for crimes at this level and type or are they just targeting Julian Assange? I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to be tried in court, just that the Swedish justice system going the extra mile is politically motivated.
I have looked for statistics on EAWs but can not find any with crime type detail.
No, I think the car companies are right, the tech for fully autonomous has no been proven and is far from ready.
It's all well and good having multiple HD feeds, lasers etc but if the recognition system can't tell the difference between a car and a big fish then it is not ready.
3D recognition might be good enough to play games on Xbox but it's not good enough to maneuver cars, trucks etc.
Go watch the videos and you'll see how clunky the recognition systems are.(note the difference between the pre-programmed maps and what is being recognised) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The mileage that google says the cars have done - it has said that these miles were on quiet extensively digitized areas and it now needs to test the cars on more difficult busy roads. IE it has barely started.
Not disagreeing with the other facts you stated, but the girls did not press charges, nor did the swedish gov't - the got an extradition warrant so that they could question him. The fact that the refuse to do this via webcam, phone, letter etc and that they are doing this even though the women don't want to press charges shows that the extradition is political.
This is why I will never move to the USA, the majority don't understand that if you don't stick up for yourself then you get trampled on. USA is in a fight to the bottom with regards to workers rights, wages etc, it's no wonder the average American is no better off now than 30 years ago.
Overtime is common in the UK, getting paid for that overtime (at 150% hourly rate) is the norm.
Exempt employees do not have to be paid overtime. If the job atmosphere pushes you into it, you will work it or be replaced by someone who will.
If your employer is an arsehole sure, but in Europe they'd better be prepared to pay the employee a years extra wages for unfair dismissal + big lawyers fees if they decide to fight the case.
If I was being paid 3+ times the minimum wage were I live then I wouldn't be bothered about doing unpaid OT, as long as it wasn't a regular occurrence.
But I have never had a company ask or expect me to work unpaid OT, I have done plenty of OT though, most at double time - Sundays and it was quiet / easy work.
If the jobs are so essential and there are no unemployed people that can do the job then there shouldn't be a problem paying the staff the overtime.
If the company can't afford to pay the staff then the company has no place existing, some other company would be glad to step in and take the work I'm sure.
This argument is complete, there is no reason why staff should not be compensated for the hours they work.
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It's $1,7100,000 due to exchange rate. And it doesn't cost more, I think it's less on average due to better standard of driving here. Yes insurance on average costs about 20% more this is partly due to the pound being strong, dollar weak. Also of note is that there is a fraud epidemic happening at the moment, the price of insurance here has doubled over the last 7 years.
So higher liability does not equal higher insurance because those higher amounts are extremely rarely if ever claimed.
The tipping point is where robots + AI can do work equal to that of an average human being. Once that point is reached, why would a corporation choose a human when the robot can do the work?
Luckily AI is coming along slowly, but how long is it before many jobs are replaced by systems like this 'The AI Boss That Deploys Hong Kong's Subway Engineers' combined with robots, or more specifically jobs being modelled by clever people like Chun in the article.
Chefs, construction workers, cab drivers, factory workers, delivery drivers, miners, cleaners, fast food workers, farm labourers, retail workers, accountants etc are roles we could see fall one by one to better AI and robots.
When most food, construction, gadgets and services can be supplied by robots, what work is left for the majority of the population?
That's rather low, UK car drivers insurance covers £1m minimum which is currently about $1,7,100,000.
In the UK all drivers must have insurance by law which is minimum 1 million public liability. Is this not true in the US? And if insurance is mandatory then insurers should have rules re hiring out their car, if they don't then it's their own fault if they have to pay out, that's how insurance works.
What is the claim that goes against the science in relation to GMO exactly? (note I answered the parents post already.)
I am aware of the majority of European people's resistance to GM food for example, but this is not the same as a singular 'claim'.
On the contrary, I have very good scientific reasons for being against GMO and it seems to me that the belief that GM is good is based upon blind faith.
The reason for this blind faith is that some science is used to create GM and the belief that progress must be best and GM is progress and that progress is needed to feed the poor.
The people with this blind faith do not seem to have a large knowledge of all the surrounding issues such as:
Knowledge of crop rotation as a natural productive alternative that is better to soil and better to long term productivity levels.
Extortion that has been done by GM corp's where GM has been planted and when the seed has traveled into neighbouring farms, the GM corp has then sued other farmers for having patented seed in there crop.
Knowing that in the past GM crops where created in the past that turned out to be detrimental to peoples health. Selective breeding would be far far less likely to create crops that poison people slowly or are a carcinogenic risk.
Knowing that the method of combining genes is (or was) a completely haphazard method whereby the gene from the plant to be altered is taken, the snippets of gene wanted were then randomly mashed in to that old gene. Unwanted abnormalities of unknown consequences were not tested for, they merely tested the resulting plant for the desired trait. This is a method that I strongly object to.
The realisation that GM is typically of one genetic variety, this creates a danger of a whole genetic species being wiped out in one go once it becomes vulnerable to a new strain of virus or bacterial infection.
The fact that farmers have worked out that the combination of non-organic fertiliser, GM seed and GM companies fertiliser etc can actually be more expensive than farming without those things.
The knowledge that the GM + GM pesticide combinations only appear to have short lifetimes (the pests develop resistance then eat the crop) and the GM companies only care about their profits and not about any damage they do to the ecosystem with their pesticides.
I think the biggest danger is in the lack of genetic diversity, with the risk that whole GM species could be wiped out without that natural genetic diversity, that's not fear-mongering, that's something that often happens. Natural genetic variation can be the key to quickly finding the resistant plants. GM seeds don't have anywhere near the same level of natural genetic variation - they are cloned from a single source.
- Left leaning person who takes scientific theories seriously.
So, what is your belief that GM is good based on?
I wonder how closely these numbers corresponded to people being introvert / extroverts, I'd expect a big correlation.
How often do you hear cars honking there horns because some idiot car driver is doing something wrong. In a few places that they made the mistake of introducing licenses for cyclists they revoked those rules because they outright didn't work.
London Bicycle Hire scheme has about 10k bikes and millions of hires, not once was the big readable number taken and reported to the police. With a time+date, the number can say who the rider was.
Pedestrians and cyclists just get in the way, get rid of sidewalks and cycle lanes, ban pedestrians and bikes so that drivers can move freely with ease (sarc).
According to that link regarding causes of accidents: Motorist left turn at same time as cyclist left turn is only at 4.5% but in London this is the cause of half of cyclist deaths because the cyclist gets trapped underneath the left turning vehicle (typically HGVs with poor mirror systems). Point being, cars moving slowly and pulling out are not likely to injure cyclists as badly as a motor vehicle moving at 30-50mph and hitting the cyclist from behind or causing them to fall off in to fast moving traffic.
I still think the product is bad, if every cyclist had one, cars would think they could pass too close and get the cyclist to pull to the side, potentially endangering themselves in the process.
I've experienced similar. Simply having a very bright bike light on the front stops the b******ds who will pull out or front of you simply because you're a cyclist and don't count). And of course it massively increases the chances of you being seen in the dark.
AFAIK In the UK there are services that will install solar, bill you for the energy you use and they make their money from that and the excess electricity.
US too: http://cleantechnica.com/2014/...
Solar will cost less than coal in about two years time, the price drops have been massive, installing should get cheaper too with the larger scale of installations due to the cheaper panels.
If there is consequently an oversupply of coal then one would expect the price of coal to fall, etc.
Solar is already price competitive in some places and is set to get cheaper. In Italy Ikea are set to save on costs with solar without any subsidy. As solar prices drop, this will become possible in many more places, warehouse roofs are ideal for solar.
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/...
All that's needed is investment into large scale storage. There are a lot of ways this can be done, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
"Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating system"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
You don't have to use Adobe to view or edit PDFs.
Where did you hear this? The testers had to take control of the car on many occasions.
You seem to have missed the last line of my post.
Do you have sources to back up what you say and are they biased? It all sounds legit but it conflicts with this (which I realise is going to be heavily biased) http://justice4assange.com/Sex...
Have Sweden issued a European Arrest Warrants for other people for crimes at this level and type or are they just targeting Julian Assange? I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to be tried in court, just that the Swedish justice system going the extra mile is politically motivated.
I have looked for statistics on EAWs but can not find any with crime type detail.
No, I think the car companies are right, the tech for fully autonomous has no been proven and is far from ready.
It's all well and good having multiple HD feeds, lasers etc but if the recognition system can't tell the difference between a car and a big fish then it is not ready.
3D recognition might be good enough to play games on Xbox but it's not good enough to maneuver cars, trucks etc.
Go watch the videos and you'll see how clunky the recognition systems are.(note the difference between the pre-programmed maps and what is being recognised)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The mileage that google says the cars have done - it has said that these miles were on quiet extensively digitized areas and it now needs to test the cars on more difficult busy roads. IE it has barely started.
Not disagreeing with the other facts you stated, but the girls did not press charges, nor did the swedish gov't - the got an extradition warrant so that they could question him. The fact that the refuse to do this via webcam, phone, letter etc and that they are doing this even though the women don't want to press charges shows that the extradition is political.
This is why I will never move to the USA, the majority don't understand that if you don't stick up for yourself then you get trampled on. USA is in a fight to the bottom with regards to workers rights, wages etc, it's no wonder the average American is no better off now than 30 years ago.
Overtime is common in the UK, getting paid for that overtime (at 150% hourly rate) is the norm.
Is it going to stop working? I still use a version of paint shop pro from 1998!! (I'm not a graphics pro obviously) It still works fine on windows 7!
If your employer is an arsehole sure, but in Europe they'd better be prepared to pay the employee a years extra wages for unfair dismissal + big lawyers fees if they decide to fight the case.
If I was being paid 3+ times the minimum wage were I live then I wouldn't be bothered about doing unpaid OT, as long as it wasn't a regular occurrence.
But I have never had a company ask or expect me to work unpaid OT, I have done plenty of OT though, most at double time - Sundays and it was quiet / easy work.
... But like religious people, they were killed for their beliefs.
I didn't say that communism is a religion, I said they were killed for being part of a social group.
If the jobs are so essential and there are no unemployed people that can do the job then there shouldn't be a problem paying the staff the overtime.
If the company can't afford to pay the staff then the company has no place existing, some other company would be glad to step in and take the work I'm sure.
This argument is complete, there is no reason why staff should not be compensated for the hours they work.