I'm religious. It's usually the people who worship at the feet of Bill Nye but have never passed high school physics that really shrilly insist that Galileo was right.

>I operate my own company and have previously only had access to insurance through my wife's employer

As do I (in both cases).

However, I was able to get small business insurance relatively cheaply ($200ish a month) prior to marrying my wife and getting on her plan.

Bog standard Kaiser HMO insurance, not one of those scammy plans that you're talking about.

Exactly. The second I hear a game is freer to play, I immediately assume all of these things about it, and it's up to the game designer to try to convince me to "buy" it anyway. The only one in recent memory that has done that for me is Path to Exile. The entire game is free to play, and all of the purchases are for cosmetic stuff, with, arguably, only additional stash space being something that might give you an advantage in the game.

I'm not sure why this is modded funny, it's absolutely correct. Both geocentrism and heliocentrism are equally right, or equally wrong, depending on your perspective.

>By this logic, if the company hires black CEO and customer leave because of that, CEO should step down? Is this how it works?

Only if you don't like the black man's political agenda. That's how it works in modern America.

>So it only took about a year of screaming from the users and slashdotters before Microsquishy paid attention and brought back the MENU instead of that god damned useless start screen.

It came out in October 2012, but people have been screaming about it since the pre-release in 2011.

So about the same amount of time it took Blizzard to fix the clusterfuck called Diablo 3, and with the same amounts of fucks given by the general population.

> Without the headset meeting all of these criteria VR sucks. The reason it isn't out yet is because the technology isn't there yet, and they are working on getting it there.

As someone who worked for a military supplier of VR equipment in the mid 90s, I can say you're missing one key component - a consumer friendly price point.

We (Kaiser VR) had headsets that sold for $100k that we'd sell to the military for use in aircraft and flight simulators, and they were really good. 180 degree field of view, 60 fps refresh rate, input lag that was low enough to not cause people to get violently sick, etc. Part of that was due to good motion prediction algorithms (I passed on some tips to Abrash when he started working on VR), but a lot just had to due with being able to throw a lot of money at a solution.

Being able to get all those specs into something cheap enough for a consumer to buy would be a miracle, but who knows? With $2B in the bank, they might just be able to do it.

>It will never happen, but if a law was passed that when the video is unavailable, the citizen's report is presumed to be true and complete, I'll bet those cameras would suddenly get a lot more reliable.

Indeed. This is the missing key ingredient.

I once got pulled over for speeding while driving doing the speed limit. I saw the cop coming down the road toward me, and had slowed down by the time he'd u-turned and pulled up behind me to tail me. I'd been speeding before, but this wasn't what he claimed in court - he said I was doing 78 (written statement) 87 (oral statement) while tailing me on the I-5.

I'd requested the camera footage of the event, but it mysteriously wasn't available to me.

So it was just the cop's word against mine, and the court will side with a cop every time, even though there was a serious discrepancy between his written and oral statement, and his video footage wasn't provided to me.

If the law stated that the presumption would go the other way (favoring the citizen over the cop) when video evidence disappears, it would eliminate the easiest source of police abuse of these tools.

>... Can we keep it there forever? Stop changing it back and forth please.

Seriously. The first day after DST ends is depressing when it gets dark so early. The first day of DST is like a joy by comparison.

We only hate it because of the -1 hours of sleep we get.

>If that were so, why would it take the Supreme Court to rule on this?

This was a weird case where a guy denied them the search, but they came back later and a different person consented to the search.

As long as the police had a reasonable belief that the person could grant a search (a roommate, family member, etc. all count for this), then the consent is valid.

To put it another way, if the search hadn't originally been denied, then there would have been nothing novel about this case.

>It does matter, because it used to be that if police asked, and got denied, they had to go get a warrant. Now, they can play the mommy/daddy game.

Actually, it has always been the case that any person in a house could consent to a search.

Yeah, I was listening to C-SPAN a couple days ago, and the military was talking about the possibility of freeing up a lot of its reserved spectrum for emergency use that rarely gets used as long as the commercial applications using it could be shunted aside in the case of an actual emergency.

It was a pretty interesting talk, which dealt with the interaction of land, air, and space networks, and their different needs and adaptive capabilities.

Yeah, the brakes were rock hard. After I turned off the car to get it under control, it took quite a while to drift to a stop, even with both feet on the brake pedal.

I didn't get a ticket for it, and luckily I didn't hit anyone.

It was still a terrifying experience, though, as there were pedestrians everywhere.

It felt like the floor mat had ridden up on the accelerator, so I was trying to reach down to pull it off while it was accelerating out of control.

When that didn't work, I turned it off.

I used to drive an '84 Caprice Classic. When the accelerator cable got stuck, there was enough vacuum for exactly zero brakes.

Even riding the brake with both feet pushed firmly down, it still accelerated out of control around the campus loop.