Pure, literally unbridled democracy is just a form of tyranny
ALL power is tyranny. Anarchy is tyranny (anarchy gives the guy with the biggest stick the freedom to beat me senseless). Democracy is tyranny (the mob wants their blood). Dictatorship is tyranny (the loony dictator wants his blood). Blah is tyranny (the purple blob that ate everything wants his blood).
There is NO system of social organization that does not imply some occurrence of tyranny. The question is which one involves the LEAST amount of tyranny?
The later westerns of the 1970s, especially the spaghetti westerns, yes. The earlier John Wayne westerns, however, predated Kurosawa (and probably influenced HIM).
That being said, most of Kurosawa's films were better than Wayne's westerns or Leone's remakes.
The fastest package is 25Gb/s at $75 per month ($35 for the first year, then it goes up), and has a 125 GB cap. Overage costs $1/GB unless you pay ahead of time for "insurance" at $5/40GB (and similarly 10/80GB and 15/120 GB bucks). Upload is 7 Mb/s.
Their 12Mb/s package is 12 Gb/s at $54 per month ($44/month for the first year), with a 50 GB cap. Overage is $1.50/GB up to $80 each month. Upload is 1Mb/s but if you pay $5 you can get 7 Mb/s. Same download "insurance" as all the other plans including the fastest package already mentioned.
I read those prices and speeds and I think to myself, "Shit, I need to move to Canada. What are they even complaining about?"
if dOverhead=0, then dProfit > 0 if and only if dPremiums > dAveragePayout
Since dAveragePayout is assumed to be negative (lower accident rates, plus liability already being a well established legal field), the dPremiums need only be less negative, which you can gaurantee it will be (what with the insurance companies being what they are). In reality, dOverhead 0 as well (fewer claims to process means fewer paper pushers to pay) so that EVEN IF dPremium = dAveragePayout the insurance companies can still make more profit.
As your other repliers have already stated: vehicle owners carry the insurance (and the liability) in every single transportation market (planes, trains, automobiles, and boats).
The risks scientists can expose people to and be able to sleep at night still have to be quite limited
I'm pretty sure that the combined efforts of the Nazis and the Tuskegee doctors have proven that to be false. There are plenty of other examples, I just can't think of them off the top of my head.
I've had what was essentially venison ceviche before (raw, but somewhat cooked in lemon juice). Not bad really. I don't think full raw would have been bad either, so long as it was fresh enough.
If you knew anything about the progress in driverless cars, you'd know they do BETTER in conditions like that than they do on American roads. The problem for driverless cars is the lack of referent data--those wide open spaces and straight angles make driving HARDER for the car. Driving on packed roads with obstructions and frequent variation (or offroad in the desert on a predetermined track like in the DARPA challenge) is actually easier for the AI's in their current state of development. Sensor data is more consistent, and is much more likely to mean what the AI thinks it means.
I fail to see how anyone will give them a license to mass produce this thing.
That's because you're not very smart (+1 Ad hominem). We already have a well established market mechanism to handle this problem (+1 Anarcho-capitalist dogma). Insurance actuaries, unlike plebs, don't give a fuck about the emotional attachment to maintaining your own control over the vehicle--because accident rates WILL be lower with driverless cars, regardless of bugs, they will see $$$$ in covering it.
It's not as if automotive liability is a unanswered legal question. Every state has their liability rules, and requires drivers to carry insurance to meet that liability. Why would this change just because the vehicle operator is no longer driving? Car owners will remain required to carry insurance, the insurance companies cover the liability (quite happily since accident rates will be so much lower that by not lowering premiums quite proportionally they will make $$$$).
Sounds like the article was written by a tool with no understanding of how enterprise IT works, and no grasp of what bringing alien, unknown systems into contact with critical infrastructure can lead to.
At a certain point you'd reach neutral bouyancy and stop sinking (ignoring the part about you vaporizing from the temperature). This is still not the same as there being a surface (and in point of fact is COMPLETELY unrelated to what is usually referred to by the term "surface of the sun"). There is no meaningful line of demarcation between "below the surface" and "above the surface," and the term surface NECESSARILY implies a demarcation. The use of the term "surface" in the case of stars (and gas giants) is purely terrestrial metaphor, and it's fine as far as that goes--but only that far. Take the metaphor further (as my parent did in taking it literally), and you wind up reaching physically absurd conclusions (as you also have).
As for tomatoes, all I care about is that they're fucking delicious.
You'd be better off trying to claim that black holes have a surface. They don't, but at least they do have a clear demarcation between above and below their "surface." Stars do not.
FWIW, real astrophysicists define the surface of the sun as the radius which equals an optical depth of 2/3. This is a useful demarcation (though not a terribly clear one, since the optical depth is wavelength dependent) for observational purposes, but not for kinematic ones (such as when talking about comets flying into, and out of, the sun).
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The wolves starve?
Pure, literally unbridled democracy is just a form of tyranny
ALL power is tyranny. Anarchy is tyranny (anarchy gives the guy with the biggest stick the freedom to beat me senseless). Democracy is tyranny (the mob wants their blood). Dictatorship is tyranny (the loony dictator wants his blood). Blah is tyranny (the purple blob that ate everything wants his blood).
There is NO system of social organization that does not imply some occurrence of tyranny. The question is which one involves the LEAST amount of tyranny?
Depends on whether you're a federal court judge.
Vector. Velocity is a vector. Speed is a scalar. Come on, they even alliterate.
Because the Glangton Gang was more interesting, and they're already working on a Blood Meridian film?
Score 1 for Imperial Racism! It's those dirty uncultured brown people ruining our High Imperial Culture!
The later westerns of the 1970s, especially the spaghetti westerns, yes. The earlier John Wayne westerns, however, predated Kurosawa (and probably influenced HIM).
That being said, most of Kurosawa's films were better than Wayne's westerns or Leone's remakes.
And the lines at the drivethru... that's a daily holocaust!
You're preaching to the choir mate.
That joke is older than electricity (Shakespeare makes it in Merry Wives of Windsor).
I'm gonna need a bigger can...
It makes me sad that your current state of mind is such that you can't ever imagine living in a house with family & kids.
Sure I can. I just can't imagine using a television as a babysitter.
Of course, it should be added that I don't own a television, and never intend to. Again, there isn't that much worth watching.
I can't imagine watching two hours of TV per day. I just can't. There isn't 14 hours per week of stuff worth watching.
The fastest package is 25Gb/s at $75 per month ($35 for the first year, then it goes up), and has a 125 GB cap. Overage costs $1/GB unless you pay ahead of time for "insurance" at $5/40GB (and similarly 10/80GB and 15/120 GB bucks). Upload is 7 Mb/s.
Their 12Mb/s package is 12 Gb/s at $54 per month ($44/month for the first year), with a 50 GB cap. Overage is $1.50/GB up to $80 each month. Upload is 1Mb/s but if you pay $5 you can get 7 Mb/s. Same download "insurance" as all the other plans including the fastest package already mentioned.
I read those prices and speeds and I think to myself, "Shit, I need to move to Canada. What are they even complaining about?"
It's simple calculus:
Profit = Premiums - AveragePayout - Overhead
dProfit = dPremiums - dAveragePayout - dOverhead
if dOverhead=0, then dProfit > 0 if and only if dPremiums > dAveragePayout
Since dAveragePayout is assumed to be negative (lower accident rates, plus liability already being a well established legal field), the dPremiums need only be less negative, which you can gaurantee it will be (what with the insurance companies being what they are). In reality, dOverhead 0 as well (fewer claims to process means fewer paper pushers to pay) so that EVEN IF dPremium = dAveragePayout the insurance companies can still make more profit.
Isn't logic fun?
As your other repliers have already stated: vehicle owners carry the insurance (and the liability) in every single transportation market (planes, trains, automobiles, and boats).
It's the way the law already is.
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Luckily I brought my trusty can of Pedant-RAID. DIE VERMIN! DIE!
The risks scientists can expose people to and be able to sleep at night still have to be quite limited
I'm pretty sure that the combined efforts of the Nazis and the Tuskegee doctors have proven that to be false. There are plenty of other examples, I just can't think of them off the top of my head.
I'd imagine that companies making small condoms would have just as much to gain.
I've had what was essentially venison ceviche before (raw, but somewhat cooked in lemon juice). Not bad really. I don't think full raw would have been bad either, so long as it was fresh enough.
You wouldn't happen to have a newsletter, would you?
If you knew anything about the progress in driverless cars, you'd know they do BETTER in conditions like that than they do on American roads. The problem for driverless cars is the lack of referent data--those wide open spaces and straight angles make driving HARDER for the car. Driving on packed roads with obstructions and frequent variation (or offroad in the desert on a predetermined track like in the DARPA challenge) is actually easier for the AI's in their current state of development. Sensor data is more consistent, and is much more likely to mean what the AI thinks it means.
I fail to see how anyone will give them a license to mass produce this thing.
That's because you're not very smart (+1 Ad hominem). We already have a well established market mechanism to handle this problem (+1 Anarcho-capitalist dogma). Insurance actuaries, unlike plebs, don't give a fuck about the emotional attachment to maintaining your own control over the vehicle--because accident rates WILL be lower with driverless cars, regardless of bugs, they will see $$$$ in covering it.
It's not as if automotive liability is a unanswered legal question. Every state has their liability rules, and requires drivers to carry insurance to meet that liability. Why would this change just because the vehicle operator is no longer driving? Car owners will remain required to carry insurance, the insurance companies cover the liability (quite happily since accident rates will be so much lower that by not lowering premiums quite proportionally they will make $$$$).
And the applications? A distro is a lot more than just the OS.
Sounds like the article was written by a tool with no understanding of how enterprise IT works, and no grasp of what bringing alien, unknown systems into contact with critical infrastructure can lead to.
No you couldn't.
At a certain point you'd reach neutral bouyancy and stop sinking (ignoring the part about you vaporizing from the temperature). This is still not the same as there being a surface (and in point of fact is COMPLETELY unrelated to what is usually referred to by the term "surface of the sun"). There is no meaningful line of demarcation between "below the surface" and "above the surface," and the term surface NECESSARILY implies a demarcation. The use of the term "surface" in the case of stars (and gas giants) is purely terrestrial metaphor, and it's fine as far as that goes--but only that far. Take the metaphor further (as my parent did in taking it literally), and you wind up reaching physically absurd conclusions (as you also have).
As for tomatoes, all I care about is that they're fucking delicious.
You'd be better off trying to claim that black holes have a surface. They don't, but at least they do have a clear demarcation between above and below their "surface." Stars do not.
FWIW, real astrophysicists define the surface of the sun as the radius which equals an optical depth of 2/3. This is a useful demarcation (though not a terribly clear one, since the optical depth is wavelength dependent) for observational purposes, but not for kinematic ones (such as when talking about comets flying into, and out of, the sun).