I thought the same thing about the bike laid down in front of him. Definitely too close!

I can't say that I'm 100% perfect on the speeding bit (I usually go with he flow of the fast lane on the highway ~80mph).

That said, I also treat every car like they're trying to kill me. I think of the dumbest thing they could possibly do and what I would do to avoid that situation. That has saved me more than once. ABS brakes also helps for incredibly quick and safe panic stops.

I'd also argue that's why so many people fear riding motorcycles.

If you remove the non-helmet/minimal safety gear and drunk rider accidents the rates are significantly lower than presented.

That said, when I have a kid I'll take a hiatus(mostly) until they're out of diapers.

That is no Haiku
I will be polite because
I am not a troll

wow, your chromosomes are XY? Damn you must be ugly.

Personally I have an X and a Y. I can't imagine the poor sod with XY XY

I'm holding out for a drug that'll keep my brain pliable and open to new ideas well into my grey years.

Another hope is one that gives me photographic memory and an IQ boost of 30 points for 2-6 hours.

These are future times after all.
I can dream :-\

Yet how is a CEO making 2000x more than the lowest payed employee (who is forced to be on welfare due to the miniscule wages) not 'massive intergenerational theft'?

considering they're jokes...

Or the car refuses to leave the driveway because it detects an unaccompanied minor. Or it drives straight to the police. Or it phones the police when it becomes stranded.

I'm pretty sure that they're accounting for human stupidity. You pretty much have to these days.
'Car cannot drive, trunk is open'
'Car cannot drive, human sticking out of window'
'Car cannot drive, ...'

Interesting. I admit that it's a stretch. Unfortunately, I can't really see any other way towards better government given the premise that all humans are corruptible (which is true).

The best hand-wavy rebuttal I can think of is to incorporate some buzzwords like 'machine learning' and 'crowd-sourcing' type stuff.

Say your political campaign is successful. Do you have a plan in place to stop one of the "two" parties from co-opting your message and claiming to be a part of the same movement? I'm thinking Tea Party -> GOP and 'Occupy' -> Democrats. Both only 'sorta' worked (TheTea Party was much more successfully assimilated IMO), yet ultimately were co-opted.

No, no...you misunderstand me. I'm not saying there should be less government control, just that it's done algorithmically.

Think automated DMV processing, automated welfare distribution, automated parolee management, IRS collections/auditing, and so forth.

Of course, the inevitable argument against this is that too much trust is placed into the programmers hands. This is why it would all have to not just be open source, but clearly laid out and audited by many many programmers and non-programmers alike. Further, the algorithms should have built in mechanisms for refinement and improvement.

"I can't think of any social/political system which is NOT vulnerable in such a way."

What about getting people out of government as much as possible? An open source algorithm for many of the mechanistic functions government purports to provide.

I take it you're also all for re-criminalizing alcohol, right?

We gotta get back to those wonderful crime-free days of prohibition after all.

...fuck hospital administration?