Some believe Jesus was an Essene, and they were into studying books, so if he existed and he was an essene then it's conceivable that he learned to read in the decades of his life where nothing was written about him.

I see that at least one of the people getting modpoints from this site is a proud defender of slavery. Keep it classy, B!zX.

They should check out the open bugs for Firefox or KDE sometime. Some of them are years old.

False. North America is a continent and what the GP was talking about was first the "American Colonies" of Great Britain and then it was the "United States of America". In neither case is one talking about the land which would become known as Canada and The United States of America. The nation is relevant because it was the laws of the nations involved which permitted the particular arrangement of slavery which we are discussing.

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Why? Old men have had a whole lifetime to learn not to be a prick.

Rail, ofc. Delete the bulk of the long range, high speed highway lanes and replace them with it. Most of the up front cost is the right of way, using the centers of highways makes it cheap. The nation was headed that way until the streetcar conspiracy.

That's partly the algorithm too, though. The speed sensitive cruise control systems should not permit you to choose a following distance which is so excessively close.

But then, that exposes a flaw of the whole system: IME, there is not enough road for all the cars which must use it at commute time to maintain a safe following distance. If they did, then they would be spaced out in such a way that there would not be enough room for them to actually be on the highway, and traffic would simply back up in the places which feed into it. As well, it would never be safe to enter the highway, because there would never be a clear space long enough to enter with safe following distance (and leaving it for the driver behind.) Vast numbers of onramps would have to be altered to address this deficiency. I suspect that mandatory and thus ubiquitous AEB is going to expose this flaw rapidly, with chaos at every onramp.

You have never checked out "Hunt Down the Freeman", aka "Hunt down the Refund"?

By now, the reviews are mostly trolling, but trust me, it IS the worst game currently available on Steam.

The best modern ABS systems are smart enough to lock up the brakes just enough to build up a pile of stuff in front of the wheel to aid in braking, then release just enough to let you steer.

In my 1993 Impreza the ABS would not slow the car down AT ALL in icy conditions. I had someone try to turn right while going way too quickly (with no warning, they didn't signal or anything) in front of me in a Toyota pickup going up Cobb in the snow on CA 175. Instead of departing the road for the shoulder like they were trying to, their vehicle turned 90 degrees left (blocking both lanes) and then slid to a stop. The pickup driver in the oncoming lane managed to stop. I barely even pressed the brakes and my ABS activated fully, and the vehicle did not perceptibly slow. It DID allow me to steer gracefully onto the shoulder AND back onto the road, at which point I released the brake and (no one having actually hit anything) continued on my way. This was a wonderful outcome, but it was based on my having had someplace to go. If the shoulder had been blocked or nonexistent, I would have had to have chosen between T-boning the driver's side of the Yota, or driving into the ditch.

Active stability control they are mandating will have this feature will therefore also have that. In fact the NHTSA is also looking at mandating it for heavy trucks, and in the bargain also mandating stability control. I don't know if our bus actually has stability control or not, but it definitely does have ABS, and the generation of Bendix ABS used in it in 1999 was capable of doing ESC.

Nobody is supposed to be driving on public roads such that such an event would cause an accident anyway. Even my car with no ABS and no ESC and a stick (it's an '08 Versa) is arguably excessively dangerous to do that sort of thing with because it has throttle by wire. With my 1989 240SX, which was an OBD-I vehicle, outside of malfunction the vehicle only did what you were asking it to do with the sole exceptions being the idle air bypass and the EGR, neither of which is capable of causing a significantly handling-affecting event. Then at least I was only having to worry about equipment failure or human error.

It's probably due mostly to our higher speed limits and faster vehicles. Yes, your top end vehicles are just as fast as ours, they are the same vehicles, but our average engine displacement is much higher so the torque figures are larger and it's much easier to get into trouble. And speed doesn't so much cause accidents, that's more reckless driving, but it does increase fatalities.

We have great collision testing requirements here, generally the most stringent on the planet in fact, but add enough energy and no strategically shaped piece of sheet metal will save you.

"Woke" means "aware". Yes, specifically of imbalances built into the system which perpetrate injustice, but those things are real. You want your AI to know about things which are actually happening, so yes, you are hoping your AI will be woke. If it isn't, then it's ignorant, and it can only give you bad information.

You might be in favor of those imbalances, so you don't want to hear about them. In that case, why do you need an AI? Lies are easy, truth is hard.

Yes, it's US centric. It's the US that poke Russia and China about it, guess why they poke them and not the others.

Don't kill the messenger, I just tell you why the US isn't bothered with any of the other nuclear powers.

Ponzi schemes work best if you make sure they look like someone "important" invests in them, too.

What I "bitch" about is the wording. It's worded like you could, if you want to, for your own convenience, connect your Steam account with a PSN account. It nowhere informs you that this is the only option and that you have to open up your Steam account to their shabby security practices that pretty much amount to handing over your private information along with your credit card info to whatever ID thief that wants it.