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  1. Re:Leave sex workers alone on US House Passes Bill To Penalize Websites For Sex Trafficking (trust.org) · · Score: 1

    Mate, that was a low blow

    I'm sure it wasn't her first.

  2. Leave sex workers alone on US House Passes Bill To Penalize Websites For Sex Trafficking (trust.org) · · Score: 2, Funny

    I for one think it's great that sex workers have a strong advocate and role model as First Lady.

  3. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Just don't go crying to someone when it burns down and you didn't bother to have insurance.

    Liability insurance does not protect you from fires.

    Homeowners' policies usually bundle everything together, but you can also purchase insurance for your home a la carte.

  4. Re:Why is this partisan? on Net Neutrality Repeal Will Get a Senate Vote In the Spring, Democrats Say (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    explain why your party favors their position and why the other party favors the other position

    Illustrate your answer with supporting evidence and show your work. Neatness, spelling and grammar will be counted toward your score.

  5. Then I'm going to expect tits. And I'm not going to want to pay for them.

    Tits are in the blue lootboxes, but they only drop about 1 in 100. I know a guy - a friend, if you will - who spent $90 before he got a blue lootbox with tits in them, and then they were just little ones with hair on the nipples.

  6. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Right now, most companies (e.g. Waymo, Uber) are focusing on the service model -- precisely to internalize the process of maintenance (especially while the technology is beta) -- so they would logically be the ones to pay for insurance.

    But those are cars for hire. Do you think there will no longer be private ownership of autonomous vehicles? I suppose it could happen, but I don't see it.

    Maybe it'll be like a game console or iPhone, that you don't actually own, you are just granted a license.

  7. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you add a person to your plan, they are associated with one ore more vehicles.

    When our daughter was still on our insurance, she was covered for anything she drove.

  8. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No driver's license required; insurance is definitely required in the same way that you must carry liability insurance on your house.

    There is no law or requirement that homeowners have liability insurance. If you have a mortgage, your lender may require it, but if you own a home outright, you don't have to carry liability insurance.

  9. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    just like you shouldn't be liable for an automated car you can't control.

    Fair enough. So what happens when two self-driving cars collide? Who pays for the damages? Who is liable if someone is hurt or killed?

    And the big question: Do you think car manufacturers are going to in any way assume that risk? Will all auto accidents become matters of product liability?

  10. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you weren't controlling it when it ran over someone and it didn't tell you to control it, why the hell would you be liable?

    You're liable if someone slips on ice on your property even though you don't control the weather.

    The bigger question is this: Do you think car manufacturers are going to assume all that liability? And how much would that built-in insurance raise the price of the vehicle?

  11. Re: Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's like asking if a passenger on a bus needs a drivers license. Obviously not.

    The passenger on a bus doesn't own the bus.

  12. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    . You should be insuring against incidental physical damage caused by another and that's it.

    And if the automated car you own should run over someone? Should you be insulated from any liability?

    Do you believe the manufacturers of self-driving cars are going to assume all of the liability for their products? Has that ever happened in the history of manufacturing?

  13. Re:Banks already have to report this on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, anyone arguing AML rules on /. doesn't likely have enough money to launder for anyone to care

    For me, laundering money means throwing my pants in the wash with a $5 bill in the pocket.

  14. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Vehicles are required to have insurance, not people.

    Vehicles are not liable for anything so no. It's the people who are insured, not the vehicle. You could say that the insurance "follows" the vehicle (in some cases) and in some policies the insurance follows the drive.

    If my vehicle is the one required to have insurance and not me, then let my goddamn car pay for its own policy.

  15. Re:Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What? Owners of regular manually driver cars aren't required to have driver's licenses. (You only need a license to drive a car, not to own one.)

    OK, let me rephrase. Should the person who switches on the self-driving car and enters the destination and then gets into the car for the trip be required to have a driver's license, or should I just put you down as a "no"?

  16. Serious questions on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Should the owner of a self-driving car be required to have a driver's license? And if the owner is not required to have a driver's license, and he's not driving the vehicle, should he be required to have insurance? Shouldn't the manufacturer be the one insured against any liability if there is an accident?

  17. In other words, the afterlife?

    Mmm...no.

  18. Re:Banks already have to report this on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a contradiction, if there were indictments then by definition they DIDN'T get around it, they got caught.

    The guy in the recent high-profile indictments I'm referring to got caught because he got desperate and got sloppy. He owed a lot of money to some dangerous people and tried to get out from under. Unfortunately for him, under is right where they wanted him to be.

  19. Re: Banks already have to report this on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Feel free to move to the artic

    I can't decide if you were misspelling "attic" or "arctic". Either one works for me.

  20. Re:Banks already have to report this on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me introduce you to the concept of "structuring", which financial institutions in most western countries are required to raise a "Suspicious Activity Report"

    There are ways around that. Money laundering, as we are learning from recent high-profile indictments, can be done in a number of ways that circumvents this and avoid taxes. The bitcoin could be used as collateral for a loan, which is then used to purchase some expensive property or artwork or even commodities, for which there doesn't necessarily have to be a record of those items actually changing hands. The property is then "sold" for much less and the transaction is recorded as a loss, thereby washing money that was used to fund the loan AND avoiding taxes on the Bitcoin.

    However well-funded the investigative agencies into financial crimes and tax evasion may be, they are never as well-funded as the crooks who are endeavoring to commit those crimes. Just ask the President.

  21. Re:California pricing itself out on The American Midwest Is Quickly Becoming a Blue-Collar Version of Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    But you have heard of Rolla, I wonder if that's because of it having an excellent engineering school?

    I know it because early in my career I lived and worked there. It is a shithole, filled with god-botherers and moralistic church ladies who fuck each others' husbands. They put on a permanent protest in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic (which is across the road from a Catholic Church and next to a Panera Bread) but then put scarves over their faces when they sneak their knocked-up high-school age daughters into the clinic the next day. The first thing they want to know when they meet you is which church you attend and how long you've been a Republican, and you best be careful with your answer if you expect to be accepted as a human being. In the summer, there's unceasing heat, tornadoes and vermin. In the winter, there are high winds and a thin sheet of ice over everything.

    There is a very nice Waffle House and a Steak'n'Shake though, so it's not the worst place in the US. And if you're willing to drive about 30 miles, you can find one of the best luthiers in the country in the foothills to the Ozarks. He made a custom tenor guitar for me and it's one of my prized possessions. I also adopted a blue-tick beagle from a breeder there in Rolla that was with me for the better part of 14 years. There are some things good about Rolla, Missouri, but none of them are worth living there.

    Oh, and that "excellent engineering school" you mentioned? It's actually a "mines & manufacturing" school and I taught there. It's a decent school for Missouri, but it doesn't rank with anything really good.

  22. AKA this is what is called a fishing expedition.

    Quite a successful fishing expedition, I'd say. Already five convictions and 22-plus indictments. Rick Gates was just convicted of crimes committed while he was in the White House, a little over three weeks ago. Even the President himself now has his lawyers trying to negotiate a way that he can avoid speaking directly to Mueller. Unfortunately, there's no way for Trump to avoid speaking to a grand jury.

  23. Re:California pricing itself out on The American Midwest Is Quickly Becoming a Blue-Collar Version of Silicon Valley (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    When tens of thousands of acres burst into flames annually

    Son, California covers 104,765,165 acres. That's one hundred and four million, seven hundred and sixty-five thousand, one hundred and sixty five acres.

  24. There is a reason they have been expelled over three hundred times.

    Don't confuse the Jewish people with the corrupt government and intelligence apparatus of Israel. There is a reason Netanyahu has been referred for criminal prosecution.

  25. What a surprise. Israel is leading the way for fascists who don't believe you deserve privacy, and is now monetizing violations of privacy.

    Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.