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Comment Re:Statistics (Score 2) 184

I'm fairly surprised that people who are so anti "distractions" via cell phones (even when stopped) claim it's such a huge distraction, that they overlook climate control and stereos as the number one fiddled with while driving "distraction".

Comment Re:The simple solution is make them document it (Score 1) 322

There is a technical solution for this.
Have the system report back a heartbeat with status.
It's done today to report back when an antenna is disconnected. GPS receivers can do this. It's probably due to the change in impedance. In a system that has multiple antennas, checking the change and reporting it back o a certain location is fairly quick and simple.

Any car out in the field that fails a heartbeat should mandate that it come back in for servicing immediately.

Manual random checks or filing out paperwork is just plain outdated.

Comment Re:Surely you jest ... (Score 1) 870

Or you know
people will get their hands on robot and 3d printing, transform scrap yards into nice looking buildings and create industry themselves and have all their needs met while being opposed to corporate control.
It'll be a race at that point, who can defend themselves. I'm hoping a community collective can meet their own needs and offer resistance.

Comment Re: Redefine hunting. (Score 1) 397

His first sentence states that
"Bow hunting is for unethical assholes."
That is applying his own morals and ethics determining that a group of hunters are unethical and assholes. He doesn't say this is an opinion, he/she states this as fact.

Since he set this statement in place. I stated that he was imposing his own beliefs and making a judgement on a whole swath of people because of what they do. Important to note: Not why they do it.

Recurve and composite bows are a natural evolution of a traditional. I don't really get what you're trying to say.

Comment Re:Sadistic (Score 1) 397

Because it's practice.
Because even sport killers usually sell the carcases to someone who can skin it/make food out of it.
Drones won't shoot, they're used to scout.
What exactly is a low powered file?

What exactly is wrong about practicing survival skills? I think you're assuming that people do this for pleasure, but maybe it's just practice. There are a lot of scenarios that having some time practicing survival skills can be a matter of life and death. But you went ahead and assumed that it's just for fun. Good for you.

Comment Re: Redefine hunting. (Score 0) 397

Bow hunting is for people who want to practice archery in a practical way.
Boo fucking hoo it hurts the animals. It gives out basic survival skills that even in this day and age are important to know.
For whatever reason if humanity gets knocked back into the stone age who is going to survive? The hunter who knows how to craft their own bows/arrows and use them or the one who only ethically kills with a gun?
Stop imposing your own set of morals and ethics on everyone else. There's reasons why people practice this form of hunting for a hundred thousand years. The human race would of gone extinct if they sat around thinking of a way to survive while also making sure it was painless.

Comment Re:Ivory tower much? (Score 0) 195

so if i was to believe that reason, that would mean their entire staff was comprised of graphic artists who all focused on creating overly complicated textures.
The reality of it is that there are separate teams working on separate things. If they were directed to make the game very details, it's the fault of the managers. However the game failed for many many other reasons. The biggest one being:
It was not fun.

Comment Re:Yeah, too bad there's no real reason to do so.. (Score 1) 292

On the moon all the materials you can find on earth will be available. Water, minerals, lots of sunlight, microgravity.
By burying the habitats you can defend from micro meteor impacts and most radiation.
You can manufacture space ships for interplanetary travel once you have manufacturing capacity and then launch them using a space elevator into orbit for extremely low cost. The poles of the moon can serve as a much better research/space telescope area than anywhere in orbit.
There's a million and one reasons to put a base on the moon for manufacturing capability.
Orbit needs lots of shielding, has no raw materials, is 100% dependent on the earth for resources. It makes 0 sense for manufacturing. For a staging area it makes sense, but the moon can do that and so much more.

Comment of course (Score 1) 178

They're not going to collect it
They won't be sending out signals to the police
They won't be sending out data to your insurance companies
They won't be collecting data for accident coverage
They won't be storing the data and combining it in other databases (ohh you just went to the gym? You just came back from your mistress's place and were tired?)
They won't be selling it to your health insurance provider (xx was driving tired for extended periods of time, must have some disease, drop coverage immediately)
Sorry, there's too many reasons why not to get it and very little reason to get it.

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