climate boogey man? Afraid of it? Nope.
Just accept the fact that it is a real issue rather than be too afraid/stupid of dealing with issues.

LOL.
Again, another far right winger that refuses to accept science. Not only does science show that man-made CO2 is far more than 100x nature, but ppl ARE falling over due to the pollution. As to CO2 killing them, it continues to get thinned out so that it does not kill them directly. However, elevated CO2 causes faster heart beat and breathing, which will make ppl living in CHina (or close to any coal plants), breath in many more pollutants.

You know, I am convinced that it is extremists on both sides, like you on the right, and others on the left, that are killing America, if not the world. Neither of you accept science. How many on the left refuse to accept that nuke plants are safe? None. How many accept that the numbers prove that AE can not be done in time to stop CO2 (therefor we NEED nukes)? None.
There there are fools like you that refuse to accept the science about AGW. Hell, the fact that you think that nature spits out more CO2 than does mankind makes you even more foolish than the far left. It is PURE FACT that we are putting out more Co2 than does nature. I mean this is directly measured.

Client-side end-to-end encryption using perfect forward secrecy is the only thing we can "trust" now, sadly. Key escrow? Who gives a crap? Our government has destroyed all reasonable expectation of trust or privacy, and it's not like private corporations can't be compelled to cooperate. The problem is, it's not really feasible to vet source code for the vast majority of people, even for open source projects, since it's a highly specialized skill set. And how do we ensure that an update doesn't come along specifically to open up an exploit or a back door? Essentially, we're now in a position of trying to decide which projects we can trust with our privacy.

I used to snicker at people who thought like this, maybe throwing in a "tinfoil hat" joke here and there. Damn... it's not quite at the level of CIA implanted brain bugs, or thought-controlling water additives, but the government is getting damn creepy with it's mass surveillance.

Oops, guess this content isn't for me then. I uninstalled Flash years ago.

Instead, I'll just share my thoughts on beer.

I think they meant to say either Win95 or Win9x.

Incidentally, Windows 7 shows live taskbar previews of all windows equally well, not just specific windows. I presume this is because the default theme (Aero) is hardware accelerated. Perhaps it's only limited to specific windows if you disable hardware acceleration.

There are enough people living in the southern part of the US for there to be enough of a market for autonomous vehicles, and that's especially true because I'd bet retired people will be a very large market. They're not going to wait until these cars can safely drive in Alaska before people in California, Arizona, and Florida start buying them.

Besides, the first generation of autonomous cars will look and behave like *any other car* when driven manually. In poor weather (anything beyond light snow or moderate precipitation), the autonomous systems will likely refuse to engage. That doesn't mean an autonomous car won't be useful the rest of the time.

I wonder why people are so convinced that rain and snow will be some insurmountable issue? There are plenty of scanning methods that can penetrate rain or snow fairly easily. A computer doesn't have to rely exclusively on vision, unlike humans.

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.

So, you have not been reading real research and just get your news from faux and kook brothers?

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.

Premiums will necessarily drop? What planet do you live on where prices go DOWN? With the great exception of the computer industry, prices are almost always sticky to the upside. Seriously insurance companies would not be so foolish as to price themselves out of the market.

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.

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? ... and so on

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.

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.