Comment Re:Ultracompetent robots (Score 1) 112
Yeah, once you get the trick of it.
He will get the trick of it.
Right after fusion power is perfected, and an honest congress is elected.
Yeah, once you get the trick of it.
He will get the trick of it.
Right after fusion power is perfected, and an honest congress is elected.
If you could travel at the speed of light, then you could reach anywhere in the universe in 0 relative (to you) time?
The answer is yes.
For photons (the only thing that can travel at the speed of light) the passage of time is non-existent.
When can we kick open the doors to Yucca Mountain and start building the new reactor fleet?
As soon as you manage to convince a group of investors that picking up the tab for one of the poorest risk-to-profit industries in the world is a good idea.
The people who tend not to vote are young, they're lower income, they're skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups
Pay everybody who votes $5 on their way out of the polls.
Wealthy people who already vote won't care, but those that currently don't will be delighted to get $5 for such little effort.
Also coffee and cookies for all who show up. Works for the Red Cross.
The only way I can see self driving cars really working is to have special roads to carry them.
Yes, special roads known as "freeways".
Which is OK, since most of the miles that people drive everyday are on freeways. Also, most traffic jams and a lot of serious accidents happen there.
Semantics. Many people, perhaps most, would consider "restrictions" on "rapid-fire weapons" a ban. A ban only on specific types, to be sure, but a ban nevertheless. In fact many have described it as a "confiscation".
Right.
Same with the "confiscation" of bazookas, RPG's and Claymore mines.
In fact, the framers of the constitution clearly intended to protect the private ownership of nuclear weapons.
A major reason (at least in America) is that most lorry drivers..
We don't have lorry drivers in America.
We have truck drivers.
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall
