"Are owner's responsible for every aspect of maintence now? "

Yes, and they have been for almost the entire history of the automobile.

" If I have a flat on a bald tire and someone gets hit, am I responsible now"
Yes.

"If I take it to a mechanic and they sigh off on it, are they responsible?"
If it is reasonable for you to believe them? then they will be a fault.

"
What if my driverless car runs over a nail? "
The the car will detect it's losing pressure, and pull over.

" Who's fault is it then?"
Then it's just an accident and no one is at fault. Unless the nail was left with calamitous intent

It's the same deal if the brakes failed.

IF it's due to improper maintenance? then it's your fault.
Manufacture defect? Manufacturers fault.

This is no different then if a hand brake fails and a car careened down and his some one.

Did you tell him you were surprised Australians need so much hand holding to get around? :)

" after which the crew reacted incorrectly and ultimately led the aircraft to an aerodynamic stall from which they did not recover.["

It was the crew.

The rage comes from fear they will mist the ride. Once there, no need to rage. Baring unusual circumstance.

People will get used to it in a hurry. Too mach gain.

There has never been much of a market to begin with.

Given that you can today get quite decent indie games for your computer for 5-10 bucks, flashgames-gone-iPad can't sell for more than pennies. There was a bit of money in timewaster games, games you can pick up and put down at the spur of the moment as you have to kill a little time, waiting in line, waiting for the bus or waiting for your girlfriend to stop talking.

The problem is that these games are rather easy to make and that only the first handful of people who had the idea to do so actually had a market to speak of. After the flood of copycat games drowned everyone, nobody really could make more than a handful of bucks out of the 99 cent game fad.

The next step now are free-2-play, pay-2-stay games. Games that are "free" but require you to spend money (and often quite ridiculous amounts thereof) to keep playing. Considering that I now even start to see TV ads for them, I dare say that they, too, are no longer something an indie game maker can try his hand at, considering that very obviously the game mafia has cornered that market already.

So, essentially, I'd say indie games on phones are over. Get over to Steam, there seems to be a market for indie games left.

The statement you quote could very well be correct. Pretty much everyone will be dead at 65MPH, so at 85 you can't get deader.,

It's like the falling cat question.
How com cats the fall 13 floors seem to live as much as cats that fall out of the 6th floor? Because almost no one takes a dead cat to the vet.

It's just reheating the American Dream: Anyone could win. Just not everyone.

So ... yes, it's a lottery. But then again, so is the Dream.

America is not actually litigation happy. Stop using the news and pundits as is they are accurate.

The insurance is not that big of a deal.

The same person whose at fault when there is a issue with current cars.

If it was improperly maintained? the owner.

Manufacturer defect? The manufacturer.

Was it a random unforeseeable event? No one.

Really people, this has been solved.

"(which would be an extremely odd, and frankly, a not very believable aspect of cosmology"
says someone, every time something new is found.

"Pass me that last piece of pie, would you?"

No. Lose some weight.

OTOH, Quark's garbage route will be shorter.

I saw your bad SCI-F, and raised you :)