...and more efficient driving to save gas/pollution, easing congestion, less accidents causing rush hour slow downs, eventually making traffic lights a thing of the past, freeing up passengers to pursue activities besides driving. Even if fatalities were equal between human and AI drivers, these are all still wins for the new system.

Google's technicians/support are famous for being incredibly hard to get a hold of. We are not their customers, the advertisers are.... I also recently had issues with resolving things with Google's Project Fi, but due to this reputation I at least expected them ahead of time. In my case I needed a replacement phone shipped. It took 4 days just to resolve their problem that I had ordered from store.google.com instead of fi.google.com (essentially totally different entities). When I asked the tech, due to all the delays, to call down to the warehouse to ship the device via priority, he told me he had "no way of calling them, don't even have a number". I asked for a supervisor, but he told me they would say the same thing. That company's left hand has no idea what its right hand is doing.

Not long ago I was looking to get a vogmask (pollution filter mask) before a trip. The trip was less than 2 days away, and so even overnight shipping wasn't an option since I would be leaving before a package would arrive where I live. I spent an hour looking for it locally (Denver, not a small town), but just couldn't. I kinda freaked out thinking about all the other things that are now out of reach of being able to drive to a store and pick up. At least I now know where I'll be heading to loot when the zombie outbreak begins: my local Amazon fulfillment center!

Of course squeezing 75% more meatbags and their associated luggage on the plane adds a significant amount of added weight which equals more fuel spent which equals less savings passed back to the now uncomfortable customers.

Sorry, but that is the Nook tablet from 2 years ago. The one we are talking about came out a little more than a month ago.

Got one of these for my mom (they kick ass compared to Amazon's Fire), but now potentially regretting it. Been keeping an eye out for rooting this bad boy and installing CM, but google searches for "root BNTV450" or "cyanogenmod BNTV450", come up with nothing.

Normally you shouldn't have to dive your 'drone' because you shouldn't be operating it in the same airspace as aircraft operate anyway. However, I've seen with my own eyes, and youtube is filled with operators violating the tenets set forth by the FAA. As a matter of fact, just a week ago I witnessed one in my neighborhood being operated: within 4 miles of an airport (as a matter of fact it was headed toward the active approach vector), over a populated area, looked to be about 500' up, and went so far that there was no way the operator could have been in visual sight of it unless they themselves were in a vehicle. I disagree with you and would label this operator as an idiot. This one vehicle violated at least 5 of these guidelines. It's only a matter of time until there is an incident, and the operator will not be the one who gets killed or injured. As a matter of fact, I have read several stories where the aircraft had to change course or stop operations because of the proximity of one of these.

From this BBC article:

I think maybe, just maybe, a pilot can tell the difference between a bird and a very different looking man made object. Even if this was actually a bird strike or no strike at all, you can't say that there exists NO danger to aircraft striking a drone. As pointed out above, a drone's battery is much more dense than anything on a bird, and as we know, bird strikes themselves are a real danger to aircraft especially if ingested into the engine(s).

I want to know how you think that the patdown is somehow less of a violation your body and rights as the machine (I'm not trying to be aggressive here, I'm genuinely curious). I fly about every other month and I've never done the machine, but I'm not under the impression that the patdown isn't a violation of my rights (or less so, indeed I'd argue it's even more 'intimate' than the scanner), it's just that I need to fly and have to do one of them to pass through security. I suppose I started opt-ing out as partly protest, partly against someone looking at my essentially nude body, and partly not sure of the technology. Now that years have passed and the push-back from the public has been extremely minimal, those of us in this camp are going to just have to accept that the vast majority of folks don't have a problem with these searches. That doesn't mean they aren't wrong, it's just that we don't have the numbers to affect change.

I'm sorry, but there are extremely few people that see these body scanners as bad (actually most people are probably in alignment with the TSA's stance which is that they are efficient [notice I didn't say effective]). If they don't allow folks to opt-out, only those who have been opting-out all along (I'm one of them, and I've never seen another person voluntarily opting-out) are going to be put in the decision of giving in and going through the machine or canceling their trip (probably after being interrogated by the TSA). Virtually no one else is going to protest. By the way, there are many in this thread who are forgetting that the pat down is just as much a violation of your rights as the scanner.

Don't even get me started on how I can't flash vanilla Android onto the Samsung Galaxy S4 that I own because they locked down the bootloader. Moved onto a Nexus device and will never give my money to Samsung as long as they continue with that shit.

(My subject was originally titled "This is awesome", not "koick", but got wiped somehow when submitting.)

It acknowledges and legitimizes humanity and worth of those in prison. I wonder if the inmates have an advantage in that they may be a decade or more older than their college competitors, and thus have more experiences and maturity over them...

Isn't there land based ice melting into the oceans from other places, like say, Antarctica?

There's nothing to suggest that the people who found it are "bottle collectors" and know of this technique. From TFA: "was on holiday when she spotted the unusual bottle floating".