"Not something to be analyzed later by engineers."
Every time an airplane disaster has happened, people didn't say "ban all the airplanes". Instead, we put a lot of effort into post-disaster engineering analysis to ensure that the same disaster won't happen again.
That's the biggest reason why flying is the safest method of travel you can engage in.
"In the world I like to live in this kind of mistake is career ending."
In the world I like to live in, people would look at the larger picture rather than a single incident.
If autonomous cars cut the car-related death rate even by 10%, then it wouldn't matter when the cars made the occasional mistake -- on the whole, we would still be better off.
Re: What will it take for his campaign to implode?
Trump's fans view all of his copious faults as strengths. If there were photos of him blowing a boy scout, that would just make them love him all the more.
"The average [DIY enthusiast] in America would think this is pretty fucking crazy."
I must not be average, because this doesn't sound crazy at all. I know a few people who do this sort of thing, and while I haven't modded my phone (yet!), I certainly could.
Going carless will never be something that makes sense for everybody, so I expect that lots of people will always own their own form of high speed transportation.
But it makes a lot of sense for a substantial number of people. Personally, I find owning a car is not only expensive, but enough of a pain in the ass that I will gladly ditch it as soon as an alternative that meets my needs comes around.
It doesn't even have to be that much cheaper -- but it's hard to see how it wouldn't be, given that the more costly expenses (insurance, maintenance, etc.) would be shared across many people.
I don't live in an area that has anything like Uber, so I have zero experience with such things. My comments are half speculation, and half just the fact that I don't like owning a car.
The US is manufacturing more now than at any time in US history. What's changed is what we manufacture -- in the past, it was mostly consumer goods. Now, it's mostly big-ticket things like supercomputers, very large machinery, etc. We still outproduce every other nation. The next largest producer is China. According to 2010 figures, China produced about $1.5 trillion worth, and we produced about $2.1 trillion worth.
That said, the number of manufacturing jobs has fallen from about 19.5 million in 1980 to around 11.5 million in 2010.
Just for fun, I once counted the number of computers my mother owned. She thought she had one. Once I did an inventory of all the consumer devices she owned that contained a computer, I was able to inform her that she owned at least two dozen.
There is a certain truth to this, although it's often overstated in common conversations. It is not true, for instance, that you have to sue in order for it to count as defending your mark in this way.
For instance, if you and another company with a similar mark have come to an arrangement with each other, that counts as "defense".
However, it's pretty hard to see how this is an example of a case where a defense is needed. Unless I'm missing something (always possible), the alleged trademark infringement is nonexistent. Or, at the very most, extremely difficult to see.
I think so. In my mind, it's not about what Techdirt prefers over what other sites prefer. It's about the overall reduction of one of the things that makes the internet itself valuable -- enabling the exchange of ideas and opinions between ordinary people.
What the anti-comment news sites are doing has an important impact on society at large, and especially the intersection of society, technology, and business. That puts it squarely into Techdirt's stated area of interest.
I'm not from Miami, so I may be missing some local meanings to all of this, but never in a million years would I think that "Miami Brewing Co." and "M.I.A. Beer Company" were in any way associated. They are miles apart.
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No need to use computers for this. The method is tried and true, and as old as government: you keep increasing the amount of tyranny until your subjects start to squeal louder than you can take, then back off half a notch.
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Not to mention lots of smaller companies and individuals. I share large blocks of data with collaborators through torrents two or three times a week. I have never used torrents to violate copyright (or any other) law.
I'm not following this logic. No matter how terrible our President may be, that in no way makes other leaders less terrible, or makes it so that we shouldn't call them out for being terrible.
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Every time an airplane disaster has happened, people didn't say "ban all the airplanes". Instead, we put a lot of effort into post-disaster engineering analysis to ensure that the same disaster won't happen again.
That's the biggest reason why flying is the safest method of travel you can engage in.
"In the world I like to live in this kind of mistake is career ending."
In the world I like to live in, people would look at the larger picture rather than a single incident.
If autonomous cars cut the car-related death rate even by 10%, then it wouldn't matter when the cars made the occasional mistake -- on the whole, we would still be better off.
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I must not be average
I must not be average, because this doesn't sound crazy at all. I know a few people who do this sort of thing, and while I haven't modded my phone (yet!), I certainly could.
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As to government protection, I would be surprised if Techdirt's position were different toward tech companies than anyone else.
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But it makes a lot of sense for a substantial number of people. Personally, I find owning a car is not only expensive, but enough of a pain in the ass that I will gladly ditch it as soon as an alternative that meets my needs comes around.
It doesn't even have to be that much cheaper -- but it's hard to see how it wouldn't be, given that the more costly expenses (insurance, maintenance, etc.) would be shared across many people.
I don't live in an area that has anything like Uber, so I have zero experience with such things. My comments are half speculation, and half just the fact that I don't like owning a car.
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The US is manufacturing more now than at any time in US history. What's changed is what we manufacture -- in the past, it was mostly consumer goods. Now, it's mostly big-ticket things like supercomputers, very large machinery, etc. We still outproduce every other nation. The next largest producer is China. According to 2010 figures, China produced about $1.5 trillion worth, and we produced about $2.1 trillion worth.
That said, the number of manufacturing jobs has fallen from about 19.5 million in 1980 to around 11.5 million in 2010.
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For instance, if you and another company with a similar mark have come to an arrangement with each other, that counts as "defense".
However, it's pretty hard to see how this is an example of a case where a defense is needed. Unless I'm missing something (always possible), the alleged trademark infringement is nonexistent. Or, at the very most, extremely difficult to see.
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I can't wait
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What the anti-comment news sites are doing has an important impact on society at large, and especially the intersection of society, technology, and business. That puts it squarely into Techdirt's stated area of interest.
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Only if we're failing to call out the US as well.
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Not from Miami
That's just bizarre.
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