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The Almighty Buck

Journal Journal: So, If The Supremes Say Money is Speech? 3

You'd have to consider that the Constitution guarantees the right to free speech and wonder about transitive principles - where's the free money?

And if the US Government can confiscate money as taxes, aren't they suppressing free speech rights?

Comment Re:Human beings are not born with smartphone attac (Score 2) 184

Google's self-driving cars have gone 300,000 miles without an accident. That's somewhere in the neighborhood of 30–42 average-teen-driver-years worth of driving. Statistically, about 1 in five teenagers reports having an accident in any given year. So we would expect that the same number of miles driven by teenagers would have resulted in, on average, 6–8 accidents—more if we're talking about teenagers in their first year of driving.

In other words, Google's self-driving cars are already at least an order of magnitude safer than teen drivers. That's probably a statistically significant difference.

Comment Re:Needs to read Revelation (Score 1) 8

Revelation speaks of a metaphysical Jerusalem, not a material physical one. The latter interpretation only arose in the last couple hundred years, with the printing of Bibles as a commonplace, and people reading - for the first time in history - visionary journey of the soul as a literal accounting of place and event.

Sad. It is the debasement of spiritual things, to say they acquire reality when identified as basically material in foundation.

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