Or the light has changed from green to yellow and you're in the zone of can I stop or not and you realize shit there is a cop (or red light cameras).
Or you're driving in downtown chicago.

Hmm... albertsons and safeway seemed to bring them out at the same time...so...

Or the lightjustturnedyellowcanistoporgunitandnotgetmypicturetaken moments? What about those?
I just wonder when USAA will "feature" this...

Well, if he can then afford only to go to a nursing home using medicare, he has to sell it anyways.
can't protect that asset (this is consideted fraudulent) ... I guess in that context I'm noy seeing the problem.

Kind of like low income/net worth person bitching about gas prices and insurance while acting as if he has some god-granted right, i tell ya, to keep driving that cadillac Escilade that uncle joe left him...

well, it can run Crysis at about 42 fps...

While the actual software may not deteriorate over time (in and of itself), it can and does go stale. We all wax nostalgic over our favorite games of yore. How many would you really like to play now on the hardware you have? Want to play CGA graphics games like Bard's Tale on your 240 fps Crysis machine? No, as that would be visually painful. It may not even be possible to play these old games on new hardware or operating systems.

I'm glad no one has tried to emulate the Atari 2600 in MAME (but maybe they have...)

I think back and maybe it would be fun to occasionally play Civ 2. But not really. Now if the game's UI elements were updated, but the actual game play and mechanics were the same, including the spearmen killing tanks, that would be OK. What would be cool is if for newer versions of games like this if they could somehow shoehorn the old game play (and, in the case of Civ 2, the wonders movies...) into the new game as a scenario or...downloadable content.

The odd effect of that, though, is...the censors win by default.

Sure, the defendant was trying to get out of paying for the original work. Just like my company might not want to pay Corbis or whatnot their fees to use their stock photos, so it hires a photographer to take similar pictures (even though it probably cost far less to use the stock pictures). Now, according to this judge, Corbis (or any other stock photography shop) could go through their picture archives and sue my company for copyright "infringement"? That sucks.

But would be OK if all the stock image companies started suing each other over whose stock images were "more original".

...and then the point of being a lawyer becomes arguing that the law doesn't actually apply to your defendant, or does apply to the entity you're suing despite what its attorney is arguing.

(reposting from AC)

Not the same AC, but...

You are bigoted against creationists?

Yes, and damn proud of that.

Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus?

Now wait just a second, you seem to be confusing "being a creationist" with "following a religion". While it is true that creationists are generally following a religion, it is an extreme stretch to say that all Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and practitioners of all other religions that you and I did not name, are creationists. I have no problems with the huge numbers of people who follow a religion but are not creationists. What I have a problem with are the few who are creationists, who don't give a damn what they do to the planet because "God will magically fix everything", who think critical thinking skills are crap and encourage their offspring to not have any, who make policy decisions based on there being an invisible sky daddy. Those are the people that the term "creationist" refers to, and those are the people that I am bigoted against.

Congress can override a presidential veto.

respond to a police car and it's flashing lights the same way a human would

I hope you meant, "speed up and try to evade the cop car", perhaps by also having a database of the handling characteristics of the average cop Crown Vic or Challenger and how to take advantage of those platforms' weaknesses.

And an automated system to shine a very bright light at the inevitable helicopter or drone that would be tasked to then follow me.

Of course, there's the Motorola. How's my car going to disable their Motorolas?

There will be other drivers who mess with these cars whilst they're operating on the road, and that will be interesting. Half-swerve into the lane in front of or next to the car, especially if it's also next to a large vehicle. Tail-gate it.

Is there going to be massive data-logging on these cars from all the sensors (including last 30 secs or so of video recorded, from all of the sensors)?

Then there will be a new set of lawyers to defend these drivers, too.

"Honest, a rabbit jumped out into the road and I was trying to avoid it."

And then there will be new highly oppressive laws to "protect" the occupants (oh, the children!) in the automated vehicles, more or less ensuring that the only way to drive is to have an automated car, like it or not.

And you gotta figure that the trucking and bus companies will have their exceptions to the laws as well, especially with all of the international (Canada, Mexico) drivers who will argue that any "safety" laws will be against NAFTA, and they can't possibly afford to install the equipment on their trucks or upgrade them. The truckers will also argue vehemently that it is not technically feasible to automate their trucks due to all the nuances that professional human drivers have so they can cut out in front of cars so they can pass their cohorts, going downhill even, at +0.01 MPH speed differential, cause, you know, they can't wait just 20 more seconds for that car to go past that has no other vehicles behind it for at least one mile, break suddenly on black ice, etc. Another group of truckers (owner-operators) will argue that at least for them it is just another way to make them work for The Man (Schneider Trucking, for example).

"My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about.
He says it used to be a farm,
Before the Motor Law. ..." -Rush/Neal Peart

But Dodd is just the puppet. You really need to go after the CxO's of the media companies that are "represented" by the MPAA et al.

But...then we'd just have a bunch of Sony Corp.'s.

Comcast is already well down this road, having bought NBC Universal recently. This is not a good thing.