In that case your comment would be accurately defined as a 'straw man' as it did not relate to the incident in question. The counter comment brought it back in line to what actually occurred and 'OH no what about the Wookies" means nothing. It is a civil matter and as such should have only been treated in the civil courts. The actual action only fully demonstrates the current corruption of democracies and the justice system by psychopathic corporate executives.

Where are simulator completely and utterly fails should be obvious to everyone, it does not test environmental analysis at all. The environment is not detected, analysed and correlated, it is simply fed into the program and so only half the system is tested, not the whole system.

The system should be tested on the road under normal conditions, from rush hour to night driving with a driver ready to take over and at lest two randomly chosen independent observer. Things that need to be tested, missing or worn line markings, road works, debris on road including plastic bags in the wind, car doors opening into traffic stream, vehicles straddling lanes, emergency vehicle response with regards to other vehicles failing to react appropriately et al.

I'm sorry that such hell holes persist in 21st century USA, but that has nothing to do with my comment. We have fiber criss-crossing the entire state, including the remotest northern towns. Yes, the money may have originated primarily from the cities, but it's being spent statewide. And we have impoverished areas, But public money can only pull fibers just so far. We can't drag one up every driveway in the state.

If you want to fix your state, start by voting to raise taxes by an order of magnitude across rich and poor alike. If you're always led by selfish people who won't ever raise taxes, nothing will continue to happen.

It's obviously, The Big O.

We all (UK, US) fund the Syrian "rebels" aka ISIS with our tax dollars. The same terrorist organization responsible for the beheading - receiving money and training directly and indirectly through us and from our close allies. If mainstream media have "suppressed" this little detail (well, not mentioned very much), then suppressing the video so that not many see that either won't be too hard.

It's almost like large organizations have voting rights.

What do you mean "almost"?

They have more voting rights than you, me, or anyone.

And you know what? We've got "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" who will fight you tooth-and-nail to defend that, in spite of their own interests.

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Talk about straw men, a market "free" of regulation is a Wild West Free-For-All in which the biggest conglomerate eventually wins by leveraging control and being able to charge according to how much he controls it and what he has to charge to recover his investment. It makes no difference if a corporation seeking access to a market with limited resources, that must be regulated so that the competitors don't stomp on one another's bandwidth, goes to a duopoly-run Congress and seeks favors to cover up-front risk and then passes his costs to consumers. The result is exactly the same, a cartel, which isn't broken until there is creative destruction. Business people will hold on to even an outmoded infrastructure for as long as they can to recover the capital investment and garner profits. They have to be forced by competition to reinvest in newer technology. Places starting out have the luxury of not having to pay off the sunk cost of managing an existing infrastructure. It doesn't matter if companies seek help from the government to defray their costs or if they arrive at their costs through market maturity, the effect is the same and the players end up behaving in the same way. The political rhetoric hides the universal tendency of human behavior to resist change especially if it devalues an investment, It doesn't matter if the price was set by government or by investors. The result is the same. Someone has to pay.

Interesting idea, but the data doesn't support it.

While Massachusetts has 858 people per square mile, the population density of Minnesota, 68.1, is almost identical to Mississippi, with 63.7 people per square mile.

U.S. Census data also shows a significantly higher percentage of residents with internet connectivity in both Minnesota and Massachusetts, and significantly lower percentage in Mississippi. (Sorry, the source, http://www.census.gov/prod/201..., doesn't list the exact percentages, but I'm sure they'd be available if they were relevant.)

If density were that much of a factor, I would expect the states with similar density to have similar connectivity rates. The data doesn't bear that out.

Comparing the average ACT scores of the three states, Massachusetts comes in at 24.1, Minnesota at 22.8, and Mississippi at 18.7. Minnesota is closer to Massachusetts than Mississippi.

It's also worth noting that Minnesota's more recent governors have made statewide high speed internet a priority to help grow the economy.

I agree. Even if what TFA says is true (it is not) then the US companies would be competing with companies around the world for those people. And their own governments.

Not to mention the ones who start their own companies and work for themselves.

Which would mean that those awesome programmers would have all the bargaining power. They wouldn't be accepting H-1B wages.

Statistically, there cannot be enough of "the best" to feed the stated demand for "the best".

But it makes sense if you substitute "cheaper" for "the best".

And that is reflected in the quality of the code being produced.

They better not stir them up

At least someone is thinking of the children!

People really fail to grasp the true nature of evolution. Evolution really doesn't add to the top, it clips from the bottom. So cancer is not an evolutionary problem as long as evolutionary participants can reproduce and bring their off spring to their reproductive stage. As cancer is mainly an affliction of the older post reproduction and upbringing population it has very little evolutionary impact, those that are more likely to suffer are not going to fail evolution and hence retain and equal reproduction opportunity. Similar to the many genetic afflictions that now survive and reproduce like poor eye sight, mental incompetence, psychopathy and even worse. Of course now we are striving to achieve genetic repair and hence cancer or psychopathy et al become a problem that can be solved.

It does of course. When a vampire can't get enough blood because there are fewer victims, he'll draw more blood from each individual victim to compensate.

And of course, the blood of those who no one ever gets to suck from becomes a prized delicacy.

So apart from skipping bail, resisting arrest, and everything else, the charges in Sweden mean little at this point. And the UK, whether you think they are in collusion or not, have the right to enforce their law on their soil (and, no, the embassy is NOT Ecuadorian soil, don't make that "old wives' tale" mistake).

What UK laws is he accused of violating on UK soil? You've got plenty of authoritarian mental gymnastics already, might as well keep going.

There are two women involved here: AA and SW (and no, their names haven't been scrubbed, but it's a sick testament to our society than rather than letting justice run its course, everyone wants to lead a personal witch hunt against the accusers, and I certainly won't help enable it)

Nah, you're too busy being a paid witch-hunter of the accused. Who should have their names withheld by the press in the event that they are innocent...just ask the Duke Lacross guys.