You're spot on, buddy! I was born and raised here in this sunny mugshot factory. As long as your vehicle has approximately the right number of lights and the rubber side remains down, you're cool - tag is optional if you put a piece of paper in your back window with the magic incantation "LOST TAG." They will give you grief over tint, though. Never really understood that. If you pass through Jacksonville on your way back and you have some time, stop in for barbecue, bullets, and beers. It's on me.

The chamber on my carry gun is always empty. I figure if I can't take one extra second to rack the weapon and ready it for use, I have much bigger problems. The rest of the time, I don't have to worry about shooting my cock off or someone snatching a loaded gun.

I solve this problem on double action revolvers by leaving one chamber empty. First trigger pull is a dry fire.

"hereâ(TM)s a mathematical formula for getting embedded cameras to recognize faces without calling up a distant database." Scorpion Stare.

Rock-paper-scissors-shotgun.

The damn link: http://marshallbrain.com/manna...

Sadly, this future seems way more likely. Have you read Manna?

Good point. I have relatives who live about 4 hours away and I'd make the trip every weekend to go drink craft beers and get rekt... If only I didn't have to deal with central Florida traffic.

It's not the top 1% I'm worried about, it's the angry and idle bottom 50%.

I'm not talking about the wretched taxi drivers when I say transportation... I'm talking about truck drivers and the like. Totally agree with you about on-shoring jobs, but in my field, manufacturing, that's never going to happen for any sort of mass production. Too expensive. Once the automation cat is out of the bag on transportation, you'd have to be insane to pay a human when the driver is baked into the vehicle's upfront cost.

I spend a fair bit of time reading about economics, but I think the automation that's coming will bring disruption that's different than the kind faced by the buggy whip makers. Most of the industrial advances improved individual productivity and made new classes of jobs - your buggy whip maker could go to work on an auto parts line, for example - but I fear we're hitting a point where we're poised to create a new underclass of people whose labor is redundant. People we just don't need and have no particular desire to support. From my spare time reading about economic fallacies, I seem to recall these situations being what revolutions are made of.

...they could put a ton of people out of work in the transportation industry, enrich a few corporations, and further wreck the economy through knock-on effects as the unemployed push wages down by widening the already huge pool of desperate labor. No wonder they keep predicting we won't own these autonomous cars... Most people won't be able to afford to.

Disclaimer, lest anyone think I'm hatin' on the pi: I'm talking IoT in general. I just ordered my Pi 3 and I can't wait. What makes the couple Pi 2s I have already kick so much ass is that they're capable of running OpenVPN, so you can make an Internet of Thing without going full retard on the c&c side.

I am imagining! No firmware update signing, open ports out the wazoo, HELLO packets streaming out on every interface at boot to request config, and highly specific strings in the network traffic for the local LEO to look for. Might as well call the cops on yourself.