Just a bit of background. There was a trial by project Wing last year (mentioned in TFA). That trial copped enormous backlash from local residents, mostly around the noise.
Despite the public outcry, they are proceeding with the next step towards commercialisation.
How did they manage this? And why Canberra?
Canberra (Australia's capital city) sits in a Territory (ACT), not a State. The jurisdiction distinction between Federal laws and Territory laws are less clear compared to between Federal laws and State laws. For example, the ACT has in the past has legalised marijuana, euthanasia, and pill testing, and each one has been struck down by Federal government. This would not have happened if the ACT was a state.
Project Wing have wedged themselves into this gray area. With the Territory government and the federal Aviation Authority (CASA) each pointing the finger at each other, arguing about who's jurisdiction it falls into. The local government doesn't really want it to proceed, but doesn't feel like it has the power to stop it.
The material presented by Bezos and Co is reasonably compelling evidence that AMI are in the blackmailing game. Is it a stretch to ponder whether they were also blackmailing the brother to be a patsie?
The stickers were nearly invisible to drivers, but machine-learning algorithms used by by the Autopilot detected them as a line that indicated the lane was shifting to the left. As a result, Autopilot steered in that direction.
Hah! Jokes on you, Tencent researchers! I live in Australia.
So you're proposing they remove regulation, and allow the private monopoly supplying an essential service to pass on the costs of their shittily run business practices onto consumers? This removes any incentive whatsoever for the private company to do *anything* do fix the situation. Good plan.
Dude, it's your trash. If you don't want to handle it, don't produce it.
How long do you think small countries can keep pouring crap into landfill? Here's a hint: as population grows, available land for landfill shrinks and the volume of trash increases. Just how long do you expect your ideology to hold out?
In Australia we recently went through a Royal Commission into the Banking sector (despite it being opposed to the sitting, conservative, government. The bastards).
The level of shittiness that it uncovered across the board was gobsmacking, even for those who were expecting the worst! Not a single bank came out clean.
Pity the US couldn't do the same. Shitty banks are the same the world over.
So any significant change in climate will result in pretty large die offs as the populations adjust, either shift or genetically acclimate. For people reliant on those, well they will suffer and suffer a lot, until the fish populations rebound probably over a decade or century or so.
All the pictures I got had a "blotch" at the top. Probably not an official "watermark", but seems reasonably unique enough for them to argue the picture is theirs.
"People" voted for laws in China too, and they have the power to repeal those laws too. Just join the Communist party,
I am glad I don't have to register for a party to vote on laws or run for office. Maybe you don't see the difference but I do.
But you do need to register to vote to elect in the politicians that you want to enact the laws you want changed. And it seems to me that you need to be affiliated with a party.
From the linked site:
"Your political party affiliation is the party that you choose to associate with. You may be asked your party affiliation when you register to vote."
...
"Your party affiliation is usually only important in primary elections. Many states have “closed” primaries. This means that you can only vote for your party’s candidates in its primary election. "
To an outsider to both China and USA, I don't see the difference.
Also don't get it for restaurants. So... legitimate customers line up (you know, the one's that are going to pay you money for food) at the back of the line. Either the line is moving, or it isn't.
If it's not moving, then you've lost all your legit customers for the night
If the line is moving, then the rent-a-crowd have to shuffle into the restaurant, then walk back out again to the back of the line. Legit customers would find this odd enough to question what's going on, and quietly sidle away from the restaurant
You can clearly see that China is playing the long game here. And it's a really obvious play, too.
* Scale up production (economy of scale) so that nobody else in the world can compete with your tech at consumer prices: Check
* Ramp up R&D to own all the IP around the tech: Check
* Become energy independent by leveraging that economy of scale domestically (of course, using all those sweet import dollars to fund it): Check
* Fast-track converting all transportation over to said tech: In progress
* Lorde over the world while evilly stroking your white cat.
This is all everything that the US (and other western countries) are *not* doing. This is exactly where the US should have positioned itself 10 years ago, setting itself up to be in the box seat for the next 50 years, but they just can't see (as a collective) beyond the next quarter.
Not young, not American. I live in Australia, the land of the "Australia tax", so we have a defacto import tariff. And no, we hate it.
I'd almost agree with you, but this isn't a tax on the place of origin. All manufacturers are on a level playing field here. If the world's car manufacturers can't compete with China's domestic manufacturers on high-tech cars, then that's a pretty damning indictment of the free market economy to produce great products.
Actually, as a consumer I'm pretty excited about this. This should deliver the kick up the ass that the world's manufacturers need to produce cars that the world actually wants.
I think that China is holding all the aces here, right? Doesn't hurt China if the world's car manufacturers pull out (less competition in the market for their domestic manufacturers).
Seems to me like something the US should have done a long time ago.
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Just a bit of background. There was a trial by project Wing last year (mentioned in TFA). That trial copped enormous backlash from local residents, mostly around the noise.
Despite the public outcry, they are proceeding with the next step towards commercialisation.
How did they manage this? And why Canberra?
Canberra (Australia's capital city) sits in a Territory (ACT), not a State. The jurisdiction distinction between Federal laws and Territory laws are less clear compared to between Federal laws and State laws. For example, the ACT has in the past has legalised marijuana, euthanasia, and pill testing, and each one has been struck down by Federal government. This would not have happened if the ACT was a state.
Project Wing have wedged themselves into this gray area. With the Territory government and the federal Aviation Authority (CASA) each pointing the finger at each other, arguing about who's jurisdiction it falls into. The local government doesn't really want it to proceed, but doesn't feel like it has the power to stop it.
And no it's not going to hover over you and drop the pizza.
I beg to differ
The material presented by Bezos and Co is reasonably compelling evidence that AMI are in the blackmailing game. Is it a stretch to ponder whether they were also blackmailing the brother to be a patsie?
The stickers were nearly invisible to drivers, but machine-learning algorithms used by by the Autopilot detected them as a line that indicated the lane was shifting to the left. As a result, Autopilot steered in that direction.
Hah! Jokes on you, Tencent researchers! I live in Australia.
This was covered in the dystopian future in Black Mirror S01E02. Forced to watch ads from your box.
Ugh. Do not want.
So you're proposing they remove regulation, and allow the private monopoly supplying an essential service to pass on the costs of their shittily run business practices onto consumers? This removes any incentive whatsoever for the private company to do *anything* do fix the situation. Good plan.
Dude, it's your trash. If you don't want to handle it, don't produce it.
How long do you think small countries can keep pouring crap into landfill? Here's a hint: as population grows, available land for landfill shrinks and the volume of trash increases. Just how long do you expect your ideology to hold out?
In Australia we recently went through a Royal Commission into the Banking sector (despite it being opposed to the sitting, conservative, government. The bastards).
The level of shittiness that it uncovered across the board was gobsmacking, even for those who were expecting the worst! Not a single bank came out clean.
Pity the US couldn't do the same. Shitty banks are the same the world over.
Guessing it's because they hold many Defence and NSA contracts. Too big to fail.
So any significant change in climate will result in pretty large die offs as the populations adjust, either shift or genetically acclimate. For people reliant on those, well they will suffer and suffer a lot, until the fish populations rebound probably over a decade or century or so.
As a solid example of this: the recent Darling river fish die-off events.
Or, alternatively, the world could be losing fish to eat because we're eating them.
All the pictures I got had a "blotch" at the top. Probably not an official "watermark", but seems reasonably unique enough for them to argue the picture is theirs.
Ahh, scratch that. Got some without the blotch.
Thanks for sharing your story.
"People" voted for laws in China too, and they have the power to repeal those laws too. Just join the Communist party,
I am glad I don't have to register for a party to vote on laws or run for office. Maybe you don't see the difference but I do.
But you do need to register to vote to elect in the politicians that you want to enact the laws you want changed. And it seems to me that you need to be affiliated with a party.
From the linked site:
"Your political party affiliation is the party that you choose to associate with. You may be asked your party affiliation when you register to vote."
...
"Your party affiliation is usually only important in primary elections. Many states have “closed” primaries. This means that you can only vote for your party’s candidates in its primary election. "
To an outsider to both China and USA, I don't see the difference.
Just like Microsoft was broken up, right?
This comes to mind
I'm not fond of house cats, but they do keep down the population of mice and other small rodents.
But not rats :(
One of these days the US, along with their equally progressive brethren (Liberia and Myanmar) might see the metric light.
Ahh, who am I kidding...
I listened to a tech talk from a blind buy the other week
It was such an eye-opener
I see what you did there...
No 20 year party?
Also don't get it for restaurants. So... legitimate customers line up (you know, the one's that are going to pay you money for food) at the back of the line. Either the line is moving, or it isn't.
If it's not moving, then you've lost all your legit customers for the night
If the line is moving, then the rent-a-crowd have to shuffle into the restaurant, then walk back out again to the back of the line. Legit customers would find this odd enough to question what's going on, and quietly sidle away from the restaurant
You can clearly see that China is playing the long game here. And it's a really obvious play, too.
* Scale up production (economy of scale) so that nobody else in the world can compete with your tech at consumer prices: Check
* Ramp up R&D to own all the IP around the tech: Check
* Become energy independent by leveraging that economy of scale domestically (of course, using all those sweet import dollars to fund it): Check
* Fast-track converting all transportation over to said tech: In progress
* Lorde over the world while evilly stroking your white cat.
This is all everything that the US (and other western countries) are *not* doing. This is exactly where the US should have positioned itself 10 years ago, setting itself up to be in the box seat for the next 50 years, but they just can't see (as a collective) beyond the next quarter.
Not young, not American. I live in Australia, the land of the "Australia tax", so we have a defacto import tariff. And no, we hate it.
I'd almost agree with you, but this isn't a tax on the place of origin. All manufacturers are on a level playing field here. If the world's car manufacturers can't compete with China's domestic manufacturers on high-tech cars, then that's a pretty damning indictment of the free market economy to produce great products.
Actually, as a consumer I'm pretty excited about this. This should deliver the kick up the ass that the world's manufacturers need to produce cars that the world actually wants.
I think that China is holding all the aces here, right? Doesn't hurt China if the world's car manufacturers pull out (less competition in the market for their domestic manufacturers).
Seems to me like something the US should have done a long time ago.
Important to note that Sweden, Netherlands, and Australia
Also important to note: in all of those countries English is a very strong second language
I know it's hard to differentiate Australia from Austria, but please at least try.