Yeah but U.S. states are not really independent from each other and can't leave. It is basically like federal germany on a larger level but it's the role of the EU that often creates irritation.
The EU was basically founded as an economic partnership of independent states. However, it pretty much has become like a superstate now with own parliaments, courts and borders. Nevertheless, politicians and press still treat it like foreign policy when in reality it acts like a federal government that pretty much dictates what national states have to do. Sure, you can leave but this will leave you financially ruined as you can see with GB. And it often collides with the democratic structures of many of those states. For example, if an EU court says one thing and a national supreme court says another the EU court can punish the state but the parliament can do nothing about it because the courts are independent and if you don't have constitutional changing majorities you are deadlocked. Also, the EU is in practice too diverse for a federal state. There are still strong divergences between such topics as personality rights, religious rights, free speech, democratic and judicial integrity especially between the northern and eastern states. And there are over three dozen countries now many of which were neither democratically nor economically fit to join and were mostly taken in to keep them away from the russians. Many decisions have to be unanimously. And it adds another layer of parties that reflects the diversity of the member states so even if you vote left/conservative/libertarian you don't really have a clue what you vote for.
Sure it's nice for cheap cellphone plans and ecological initiatives but democratically it's a chaotic mess.

It indicates that he trusted her enough to let her keep her possessions and was right in so far as she didn't contact authorities on her own. Which could mean the abduction wasn't as unconsensual as the term might suggest.

My point is that either you make fast charging with low range so I can recharge like refill with an ICE during the journey or you make long range with possible long charging so I can make the whole journey without interruption and then charge at home and the goal. The latter option seems preferrable to me at the moment because it allows for interruption free travels and doesn't require chargers in the middle of nowhere.

Which could balance out the lack fast charging as well as the lack of refueling opportunities outside the large cities.

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all evening!

designed specifically to find out what your AI is doing.

You don't win genuine knowledge of it that you don't have to review first.

anthology series. How about the Heavy Metal magazine?

what amoral cunts your kids, and by extension yourself, are.

Jup. I know a house that is a little shorter than the two adjacent houses and has a flat roof so the neighbours throw their garbage on the roof. One time the police had to come because they were throwing an unauthorized party. Not good for placing solar cells unattended.

Neighbors got heat pump. Still have to use electricity based heating whenever it comes close to 0ÂC.

Others have solar which brings 22 kw on good days but that's just barely enough to drive one heater.

Other than that, putting solar on the roof of an apartment house is a major risk if it is located in the worst part of the town and peope vandalize the roof regularly.

to build something phallic with that bridge.

This includes also more generic forms of machine learning.

- Surveillance. Imagine a bunch of bots with human and beyond level recognition abilities scraping every page, forum, chat etc. in the web being able to recognize, analogies, metaphors and sarcasm. You will be unable to communicate only to other humans.

- Competence means power. If Googles one day decides to use the mass data pile they sit on for unambiguous evil the employees can just walk out leaving Google powerless. This won't work if all employees are AIs.

- The largest problem I see is how AI will affect the overall value system of humanity. Part of the reason why people have regard for humanity is because humans are the most evolved lifeform on the planet and can to things animals and machines can. So far, machines only exceed in certain areas that don't require actual intelligence. But what if you have a machine now that is better in absolutely everything humans can do? Creaticity, leadership, scientific thinking and even invoking sympathy? That can read your emotions perfectly using markers you didn't even know existed and react perfectly to manipulate you? Plus of course the superior mechanical power. Such a being would essential be an ancient god and we know how humans behave in the assumed presence of god. But even if humanity can survive the realization that they are completely useless now one has to ask what is supposed to preserve the empathy among humans. Most people care about other humans because they do something for them, parents, family, neighbours, people who perform services for us etc. . But for people we have no relation to this care sinks very fast. Imagine a person being raised by robots completely, how should such a person learn to feel empathy for other people when hey owe them nothing? Sociopathy will rise to unknown levels.

I expect a highly chaotic power struggle among the people who control the robots at some point with the one person who emerges on top getting rid of all other humans because they don't need them anymore neither through emotional dependency nor through competence.

was successfully disproven. Maximum efficiency!

The particular problem with trans is that they don't distinguish between what they feel to be, philosophically believe to be and actually are because they all combine it under the "identity" moniker. This allows them to characterize every attack on their beliefs as an attack on their existence and thus a hate crime.