Comment Re:Why would premiums drop? (Score 1) 231
That's now how statistics work. And being insurance companies, they know statistics.
One of the few times that reasoning DOES work is with earthquakes, but for entirely different reasons.
That's now how statistics work. And being insurance companies, they know statistics.
One of the few times that reasoning DOES work is with earthquakes, but for entirely different reasons.
I'm sure that sometime over the next century or so, China could dump another few feet of soil on them. If they can afford to build them, they can surely afford to maintain them.
Mandated insurance makes no sense. It's not sufficient to cover anything but the most trivial accident. Compared to the costs and risks involved it's a completely token gesture.
There's nothing wrong with spending a bit more money to get a quality cable, so long as what you're looking for is better physical quality that meets the expected spec, and not "magical fairy dust" quality.
There's an easy definition to Homo Sapiens: a child of a Homo Sapiens. This works for all possible people throughout human history.
Except that it doesn't. It's a classic case of begging the question.
How do we know you are human by that definition?
We would have to know that your parents were human.
But how do we know that?
We would have to know that your grandparents were human.
But how do we know that?
Before long, we look at a common ancestor to you and the chimp. Which either makes the chimp human, or you not.
No, you can not get around this by saying in modern recorded history either, because how do you determine that the first person in modern recorded history was human? There must then be another criterion.
> lonely otaku dream of having a doting android-girl may be just around the corner.
Who would want an android-girl, considering that OS has big security problems and can be easily hacked or infected on-line? Everybody will want an iOS-girl, who gives them an Apple. (An apple a day keeps mankind away from the gates of Eden.)
I think iOS-girl would be a bit high-maintenance and expensive. She'd want the latest updates and newest hardware accessories, and likes to do things her own way.
On the other hand, I suspect Android-girl might have some serious abandonment issues, although at least she's fairly open about most things.
Windows 10-girl is actually pretty cute, and a lot nicer than she used to be, but only if you can put up with her family.
I've had similar arguments with telco people. If the DIGITAL part of the system is not dropping (or delaying) packets then there is no problem with the DIGITAL part of the system.
Swapping cables that are not causing dropped/delayed packets for other cables that won't drop/delay packets is useless.
And testing the digital portion is very easy.
If you think you hear a difference, it is probably your imagination or the analog portion on either end.
Even an Ebola vaccine that was only effective for a short period of time would be wonderful. Ebola isn't a subtle disease, and outbreaks tend to start in fairly isolated villages, perhaps because the reservoir is an animal. When someone in a village starts bleeding out of every orifice, administer the vaccine to everyone in the village. That stops the outbreak in it's tracks.
It was on mine and many others. I don't even use facebook, but I have the app. Yours is not the only phone in the world.
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
