And it's 100% her fault. No one can "make" someone commit suicide.

" a solar flare"

Right. These things are usually put down as "act of god". They happen today too. If you're clutching to the notion of a freak accident to throw out a concept, well I've got stuff to sell you. I hope you're one of these survivalists who is betting it all on the world ending. Real soon now.

Good choice of examples. Guess which percentage of plane crashes is caused by pilot error, error by the mechanic, other human error or intentional sabotage? I've just accounted for almost all plane crashes. The actual "mechanical failure" or "weather" causes are quite, quite small. Add that to the fact that cars aren't usually 30,000 feet in the air and subject to being destroyed by plummeting to earth, and I'd think the actual losses of people due to a failed system in a car to be quite small. Yeah maybe the guy whose car broke down in the middle of the desert or a blizzard. But he was going to die anyway in a regular car if that happened. Today's cars fail too.

No because you see, the other autonomous vehicles will stop in time.

As for the manually driven cars plowing into them - well they do that today anyway, don't they?

If this worries you then you must be one of those people that constantly drive around with less than a quarter tank and consider $5 to be a big expense when you put gas in the car. Your nearest filling station is of course your own garage.

You don't get it. So please spare us your fake indignation. Far from claiming pedestrian life and insurance don't mean anything he's saying that that scenario (where a car would have no valid move but to kill someone) would not exist as the car would not allow itself to be put in such a situation in the first place.

OK, and how will that help them intercept the shipment and install their spyware on the product?

And the NSA gets to pwn you for free.

And there's back doors in it for the Chinese.

I'm wondering if the Kubrick estate approved the use of the front end of "Discovery" for this book cover...

I dunno I still find it much more convenient than 1) Hoping my local video game store will stock the game(s) I want 2) Driving there, with the expense, parking and traffic hassles, etc 3) Shelling out 25%-50% extra to the retailer for the hard task of him having the item in his store for a day or two, etc. I like being able to buy/download games online. Especially considering the fact that I live in the 3rd world where supply is very, very limited and buying a physical copy from Amazon subjects me to 50% or more in customs duties on top. Steam, Origin, etc are a godsend to people like me.

White House not subject to election laws. Do away with that pesky "voting" once and for all. Hey this executive order thing is pretty good isn't it?

Isn't this sort of thing the reason government wanted all those supercomputers? To model this exact kind of thing? Or are all the supercomputers too busy sifting through everyone's phone calls and internet posts?

That's not what non proliferation is at all. That treaty prohibits the signees from acquiring through trade, etc, nuclear components, weapons, etc. It says NOTHING about a company building its own nuclear tech from the ground up.

"American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration."

Bzzt. Just goes to show you know nothing about nothing. Now please STFU the smart people are talking.