It doesn't matter what they agree with, I know two women who have been raped by licensed taxi drivers, taxi licenses don't prevent crime, stop repeating that idiocy.

No, no it isn't. Put a date and a number of miles on the sticker.

The amazingly shitty experiences I've had in amazingly shitty taxis disagree

No, my car will only do 178. And for that, I need different wheels+tires, and the missing plastic belly pan.

Of course they will. Headlights are meant to spread light to the sides. Any decent ones will do that. Even the Hella H4 sealed beam replacements have lenses that do that. Just make sure you get the right ones for which side you drive on...

It would have been quite hilarious had they instead hired former slashdot employee Pudge. I would have happily taken bets on how long that appointment would have lasted...

Truly sad that the American public let this happen with a trillion dollars of their hard earned money, and don't complain to their representatives and demand that the money be better spent. People talking about fixing this flying turd need to think a bit more about how few dogfights the US engages in these days. This should never have gotten to this point, but as long as Americans don't complain when their money is squandered like this, then it is just going to keep happening. Too bad our roads, bridges and schools are falling apart because there is no money for infrastructure. A trillion dollars sure would have been a big help toward giving us Medicare for all. But instead we got a flying turd that no one wants or needs.

You now need to write a drone AI that you trust with lethal weaponry or a remote control system that's unjammable.

It is hard to reach your level of disconnection, for sure. You're not quite on the same level of conspiracy nuttery as some other people here, but your statements do require a certain amount of "X leads to Y leads to NWO".

So you're arguing against regulatory stability?

I'm not claiming they shouldn't leave the medallion system, but I don't think they should simply wipe out the medallions as an asset.

That doesn't indicate that Lieberman was gunning for Iraq ahead of time. He was just looking for self-preservation, and knew that being the first to jump up and declare support would be good for that. You seem to be perhaps a little hazy in your memory of what unfolded in that time period, but some of us recall how the GOP used 9/11 as a way to initiate a witch hunt against anyone who didn't support every last foolish quest they asked for.

Lierberman is far from perfect, but what you cited does not support your argument as well as you wish it to, either.

...but if you do so maliciously and mendaciously...

That has nothing to do with the case IF what is said is true...

Mendaciously means falsely, e.g., "lying, untruthful, dishonest, deceitful, false, dissembling, insincere, disingenuous, hypocritical, fraudulent, double-dealing, two-faced, Janus-faced, two-timing, duplicitous, perjured;"

He already had lack of truth as a condition, therefore it has everything to do with the case.

Google, of course. Any DNS sizable enough to trust is likely to be a tool of the state, but at least Google is competent.

that's why these cars have three or four seating positions, right? One for me, one more for me, and if there's any left then maybe I'll let someone else have one... but I'm going to also need a backup of my primary settings in case someone craps on them

The MFD in the middle of my 1997 Audi A8 (from which all other MFDs today are descended, it seems... esp. in VAG-land) is no more distracting than the MFD which was in the middle of my 1980 280ZX, but it's actually useful because it does more than just show me system status during the POST. It then provides the trip computer. If I had infotainment then it would show me tracks. If I used FM it would show me radio stations. But since I don't do either it only shows me driving-related information; MPG and the like.

I only find the center MFD design to be stupid for sports cars. The tacho belongs there, damn it! But they could still have a MFD off to the side opposite the speedo.

That's because you're not a driver. You're a passenger behind the wheel. If you were a driver, you'd like dials. Maybe not so much for the speedo; you don't need to see how fast you're going faster than you can read a number. But in a driver's car, the front-and-center-mounted tachometer needle is absolutely critical. You can't function without it.

With that said, I like the idea of self-driving cars, and of being able to be a passenger myself. But as long as I'm driving, I like to really drive. Also, note that I have literally never owned a vehicle with a center-mounted tach. I did get a gauge cluster with that for my 240SX, but I never got the cabling to install it and then I sold the car. Still have the cluster, want to use it with my PC for racing sims. Sooner or later I'll figure out how to drive it, I have too many projects already. I've ticked off some minor ones recently, though, so there's hope.

The color bar tachs take up too much space. If you make them big enough to have any resolution worth mentioning, they are massive. That is stupid. One good-sized dial tach and a medium-sized digital speed off to the left of it is my ideal layout, obviously with oil pressure, water temperature, and a real live voltage gauge next to it, plus boost when applicable. That tells me everything I need to know, and right now.

No, no it would not. Nintendo games don't model the road. If you tried it, you would be very sad very quickly.

Facts are useless if you don't comprehend their relevance. While you drive down the road, it's normal for your night vision to be impaired anyway due to reflections, oncoming traffic, stationary light sources...

The world is neither simple nor pure. If you wanted simplicity and purity, you should have become a theoretical mathematician. Applied arts feature complexities.