I agree, I have noticed that friends who don't ride tend to have a less keenly honed sense of awareness in traffic than those who do, even when they are driving cars.

If the automated vehicle has fast enough reaction times, it doesn't really matter; when the swerve starts it can react. Unlike a human driver, the automated car always has its "eyes" on all of its surroundings, and can react almost instantly. Once the drifting/swerving car breaches the safe distance, action is taken to avoid a collision. Will there be some situations where it will be physically impossible to avoid being hit? Conceivably, but most collisions aren't in that class.

Electronic Library (like Overdrive) uses DRM to ensure that only one copy of a purchased book is available for use at any given time, making it analogous to the physical library.

These sites seem like they were more like a library which would photocopy you a book anytime you wanted, not making you wait for the original purchased book to be returned first.

I won't buy files with DRM, but I'm actually ok with using my library's Overdrive system since it's pretty much the digital equivalent of the usual library service.

I think what the parent post meant is that all vaccines have some percent of people who don't have the desired antibody response, so you want to keep the unvaccinated numbers as low as possible in order to protect them. There are also the populations of very young/very old/immune compromised who can't be vaccinated. It's these groups most at risk from the willful vaccine refusers.

That's not exactly what throttling is though, is it? You still have data access, but at a lower speed than otherwise. I don't use AT&T, but Virgin is doing this too & I don't really have a problem with it. Admittedly I have the $25 unlimited data & 300 minutes plan grandfathered, and Virgin at least only throttles over 2.5Gb, but I feel like I'm getting my money's worth out of the plan. If I ever hit 2.5Gb, I'll still be able to check email & stuff, just maybe not stream Pandora. I can live with that.
I might be more upset if I were paying AT&T prices...

Despite all the anti-immigrant rhetoric flying around right now, I think the US still is pretty open to foreigners. There are 40 million foreign-born residents in the US right now, and most are assimilating well. I say come on over, you might like it!

As a guy, I've never had a problem with a pat down, but I've only had your garden variety. Apparently the pat down you get after refusing the scanner is much more intrusive, and if you're a woman involves lifting the breasts etc. So I can see that it would feel like much more of an intrusion. Add that to the fact that neither the scan nor the pat down are doing much for security and I think that rather than legislating for a "passenger advocate" we should be scaling back on the whole setup.

Yeah, I doubt I'd buy one, but I do have a soft spot for QNX - I kept an Ergo Audrey going for years! Of course, the Audrey had an email client....

Where did you get yours? Best I can see is over $200 for the 16GB. For that you could pick up a lightly used Touchpad, and get a bigger screen.

That looks cool, but it appears to only be sold in China.