On the other hand, we find that various mooks make spurious brutality claims, the vast majority of which are complete bullshit.

People develop, or lose, motivation all the time. You're born with the motivation to do things like look at faces, imitate people around you and eat. More complex motivations are born out of experience and necessity. Lots of people are motivated to do things if there's a sufficient reward involved.

Your statement is based on theories that aren't exactly widely accepted yet and/or very liberal use of the term "space".

The measurements NASA made of their EM drive, if they're correct, are just the kind of space warps you'd need to go faster than light. The NASA test was firing a laser through the device and measuring how fast the light travelled. The answer was, in some cases, faster than c.

Nobody knows enough about either one to determine what it's doing yet. The inventor of the Cannae drive hypothesized that it was exploiting some relativistic effect of the microwave reflection. One of the predictions he made, that certain slots were necessary for the effect, turned out not to be true. The inventor of the EM drive believes the Cannae drive is just an inefficient EM drive.

The device NASA built, which started out as a kind of Cannae drive but now does indeed seem to be an inefficient EM drive, is hypothesized, by the NASA group, to be accelerating virtual particles. The same device is reported to show some signs of possibly warping space, again by the NASA group.

These hidden costs that cannot be challenged is the end result of a "free market" system. Sooner or later, when it's dog eat dog, you get a very big, very mean dog who just gives no fucks.

Boy, having socialized health care has really taught Israel, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Denmark, etc etc etc a lesson. That's why they're all full of "Bolsheviks" now. Hell, you go to Singapore, and it's nothing but Bolsheviks all the way down.

You stupid SOB.

Not to mentioned, that New York is an aged Metropolis. The ones in Europe, were ravaged by Two World Wars so they were rebuilt with more modern technology. The ones in other parts of the world are much newer.

Not all truck drivers are unionized.

So what will happen would be the non-unionized organizations will be using these to cut costs, if they are more affordable than a unioned shop, the unionized shop will go out of business.

In the past good middle class jobs consisted of skills that just aquired attention, and following a process. This type of stuff computers and robotics excel at. Leaving jobs for humans to focus more around creative skills, or just the fact that our bodies are rather multi-purpose.

We really fail to quantify the value of creativity (So creative jobs rarely get the status it deserves), and manual labor there is always such a large supply of people that it keeps the prices down.

No, I wasn't. I am more concerned about the quality of Science Reporting.

Well there is more than that.
Complaints towards an organization are often based on a Generalization. Yes they are good cops, however there may be enough Bad Cops to make a generalization that Cops are bad, and should be avoided.

Sure if you are a good cop, this seems like an insult. But it is a generalization.

They pretty much requires a commercial policy.

http://www.kslegislature.org/l...

"Insurers writing automobile insurance in the state are allowed to exclude any and all coverage under the driver’s or vehicle owner’s insurance policy for any loss or injury occurring while the driver is logged on to a TNC’s digital network or providing a prearranged ride."

So basically, it's requiring that Uber carry the insurance on their drivers, rather than the drivers self-insuring, and gives insurance companies an "out" if they want to exclude insurance while the driver has the app running (i.e. is "on call") and while the driver is actually driving.

What insurance company is going to pass up being paid double for what would otherwise be a single policy?

You're knowingly ingesting carcinogenic chemicals with every cup of coffee.

Not me. I don't live near a fracking site.

I'm fairly certain that the biggest security threat is unverified and unmoderated software packages in the various web stores, and the ability to side-load applications. Most of the malware probably comes through the app installer, rather than a security exploit.

Although there have been issues with untrusted parties signing domain certs -- the latest was China's CNNIC root certificate removal -- and there are the heartbleed and other SSL exploits -- those are mostly untrusted public hotspot access or governmental eavesdropping attacks.

Malware is a much bigger problem.

Note that Apple is starting to have this same problem in China: there are unauthorized app stores which pirate apps (at best) or pirate them, and bundle them with malware, and then use an enterprise enrollment to let you install from their "enterprise app store", which is actually a pirate/malware site. But it's not nearly as widespread or fragmented as the Android marketplaces, and it's pretty easy to avoid -- unless you are going there because the app you want is not legally being sold by the app vendor in China. In which case: you take your chances.