Just how much coffee do you have to drink before this becomes a significant threat? Because I'm guessing it's going to be right up there with the nonsense about sodium benzoate in sodas some years back, where you would have to drink 300 cokes in a day to exceed the FDA's guidelines on sodium benzoate.

At which point, you'd have far worse problems than the sodium benzoate in the sodas.

I mean, okay, if _one_ cup of coffee a day significantly increased your chances of certain cancers, I think we'd have noticed that by now. So, I'm betting for acrylamide to be a major factor in you getting cancer from drinking coffee, you'd have to drink at least a few dozen cups a day.

So they have a paper trail showing that it was supposed to be a self-driving car?

Some of these self-driving cars still have a steering wheel and other controls so the passenger in the driver's seat can take control if necessary. Let's say one of those cars gets in an accident. Do you expect the officer on the scene to immediately recognize it's a self-driving car?

The real American spirit? Ignore facts, and blunder ahead, hoping you don't kill yourself or others?

Come on, the guy's a nut. Quit giving morons like him attention.

The problem is, if everyone automatically got the blue tick, then you'd have, for sake of example, hundreds of accounts all claiming to be Tom Hiddleston and "verified" as such.

Or Donald Trump. And if you think the actual Donald Trump on Twitter doesn't cause enough problems, imagine hundreds of them, again, all verified, and posting all kinds of shit. One is enough, thank you.

I'm trying to think of a burger joint around here that only does 100 burgers a day, and I'm drawing a blank.

I mean, sure, some place that has a large menu that also serves burgers (like IHOP or Cracker Barrel) might only do 100 burgers a day, but your typical Burger King or McDonald's or Wendy's?

Way more than 100 per day per location.

I'd tell 'em to look at code I wrote five years ago, and then say "Never ever write code this sloppily."

Actually, having worked at a Fedinko's for over 10 years, paper jams happen for all kinds of reasons, not the least of which is people using cheap-ass paper or paper that was stored in humid conditions.

And don't even get me started on the folks that brought in paper that they bought at some specialty shop that is clearly not intended for going through a Xerox DocuTech 6115, but hey, they bought the shiny foil paper and damnit, they're going to use it.

My hands down "favorite" had to be the guy who brought in paper that obviously cannot go through a copier because it had a contoured Cupid on it. Literally, this paper had... a bas relief on it? I don't know what else to call it. But it's clear to anyone who has ever printed anything that this paper will not go through any copier that relies on the paper being, you know, paper flat.

Only I had to try anyway, because "the customer is always right". Shockingly it jammed.

My GPS is about three years old, and I haven't downloaded any new map packs for it yet, but it still has issues with some of the one-way streets here. And these are streets that have been one-way streets for decades.

But nope, "turn right here", where I very clearly can't, unless I feel like turning into oncoming traffic.

Eh, if it's making deliveries to hospital personnel, it's more likely to be cigarettes and booze.

Some of the expansions directly build on the previous expansions, though. Like, events at the end of the Mists of Pandaria expansion directly led to the start of the Warlords of Draenor expansion which led to the Legion expansion.

So, you couldn't have a server that was just "Classic and Legion". It would have to (at a minimum) be "Classic/Mists/Warlords/Legion". That is, if you wanted Legion.

Anyone they could.

Let's be honest here, the last Presidential election was divisive. Regardless of who won, bipartisanship is, if not at an all time low, pretty close to it's all time low.

Russia wants the U.S. to be divided politically. It makes things easier for them. They could almost certainly not care who won the Presidency as long as neither party gets along with the other. And if Clinton had won, she'd have had a Republican controlled House and Senate to deal with, so she wouldn't have had any sort of cakewalk.

About the only thing that the Russians couldn't count on was that Trump would be so blindingly incompetent. I mean, you have to figure they know he'd suck at the job, and again, that plays well for them. But this bad?

Okay, you have physical access to the machine, and you use that to take all the money out. And then the next person who tries to use the ATM notices that there's no cash in the ATM and calls the bank. (Or the ATM does that by itself.)

Or you install the software that allows you to take cash out as often as you want until the bank realizes what's happening and cycles that particular ATM out or unplugs it/puts an "Out of Order" sign on it.

The first method, you get cash once, and it's probably far more obvious who did it because they'll know when the ATM was emptied of cash. The second method, you wait a few days or weeks to start looting, and it's much less obvious when the hack occurred.

Actually, I don't have an iPhone. I refuse to buy one... but I digress.

No, progress is not inevitable. But we're not at the end of it yet either. There are self-driving cars now. Are they great? Not really. And we're probably never going to have autonomous Formula-1 racing. But progress is being made in the field.

Sure, if there was only one company looking at self-driving cars, then it would be much less likely to happen in the short or long term. But there's more than one company looking at it. And competition in the field drives (if you'll pardon the pun) progress.

50 years ago, we hadn't landed on the moon yet.
30 years ago, the first smartphone hadn't been invented yet.
Hell, 10 years ago, home use 3D printing wasn't really a thing

Are there a lot of technological hurdles to overcome before we have good self-driving cars? Ones that even your grandma feels safe using? Sure.

But to say, flat out, that we're never going to reach it is asinine.

My biggest problem with GIMP (or at least the GIMP of four years ago) is that it feels just enough like Photoshop to get you feeling that it shouldn't be a problem to use. However, there's enough differences where, coming off of a decade of using Photoshop at work, you end up muttering "Ok, what is the damn shortcut for that function?"