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Comment Damn it! (Score 1) 35

The cheese sandwich was the best part of Frye. I've literally had that same sandwich many times, and while it looks sad and basic, if you are in a position where someone is giving that to you where you didn't specifically order it, let me tell you its special and it hits like nothing else on this earth.

Comment Re:can you get an dui in one / who (under the law) (Score 1) 18

can you get an dui in one / who (under the law) is deemed in control?

This hasn't been tested yet legally.

However, if operator guidance is needed (autodrive levels 1, 2, and 3, driver must remain engaged), then you are operating the vehicle and can be charged.

For levels 4 and 5, if you're behind the wheel and could turn off the autodrive features, legal opinion is that you can still be charged (you're effectively in control).

If you're not in the driver's seat and the car is level 4 and 5 (and autodriving), then there's a strong legal argument that you're not operating the vehicle and can't be charged.

(And note that if you're autodriving, there should be no reason for the cop to pull you over in the first place.)

IANAL, this is just something I researched awhile ago.

Comment Re:No sea wall, no mortgage (Score 1) 50

Responsible governmental spending would be better directed at buying out the houses in flood prone areas and building more in safer locations. Thats what works well in the midwest with flood prone rivers, that had dump developers build next to. This is on a whole different scale though... At least Miami is more just, the areas near the ocean are the expensive ones, and those higher up and farther away were historically poorer areas.

Comment Re:Life on mars (Score 1) 43

Just why though? What does mars have that earth doesn't?

I think to give an American centric pioneer perspective, Most people who say they want to go tot he moon are thinking like late 18th century Denver/Kansas city. Small towns, rustic living, most basic necessities available. They aren't thinking early 18th, where the native people of the land were rather upset at having their land stolen and were fighting back, and no train access to the more civilized east. You want something from New York/ Boston, you get your wagon together and walk.

Comment Predicting training fatalities. (Score 1) 43

It gives me no joy, but given the budget cuts and the stupidity at the top of the chain people will die in really dumb preventable ways. Not complex challenger style ones either, This is going to be painful and sad for all interested in the peaceful development of space travel.

Comment Thought problem (Score 2) 59

Like there is any debate is horrific.

Let's do a thought problem.

For any issue where you're sure you're right, note the number of people who have a different opinion.

Suppose the number of people with a different opinion is excessively large, say more than 5% of the population. They have access to the same information that you do, but have come to a different position.

Given that situation, what does that say about your position, and whether debate itself is horrific?

Comment Nothing is what it is (Score 1) 26

If you like nothing, there is nothing wrong with that. All that I can say in favor of nothing is that it adds nothing to its products, but on the other hand, it doesn't add anything to the products. So if the product nothing is marketing was good before they don't touch it, then great. But if the product was crap before, it will be released as crap. They're mostly a transparent branding company that just adds nothing branding and does the regulatory bits to get it importable.

Submission + - Rock Used as Doorstop For Decades Found to Be Worth Over $1 Million (sciencealert.com)

alternative_right writes: A woman discovered the 3.5-kilogram (7.7-pound) stone in a stream bed in southeast Romania, brought it home, and used it as a doorstop.

Her find turned out to be one of the biggest intact chunks of amber in the world, according to a report by El Pais. Its value? Somewhere in the region of €1 million – around US$1.1 million.

Submission + - Uranus has a hidden moon (sciencedaily.com) 1

alternative_right writes: The object, only about six miles wide, escaped Voyager 2’s detection during its 1986 flyby, hiding between the orbits of Ophelia and Bianca.

Comment Re: seafloor carbon-fiber cannoli (Score 2) 124

Thats a really ass backwards way of putting it. They regulations were so bad, they instead broke regulations so they didn't have to follow the other regulations. thats gobbledy gook for they did the cheapest thing possible knowing it was shit and not safe because they were self regulated.

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