Yes, this is what I keep finding baffling about people talking about Uber or Lyft going to self-driving cars: right now, one the biggest advantages these companies have over traditional cab and car services is pushing all the vehicle ownership/maintenance/service costs to their independent contractor drivers. I’m…

After Donald Trump won the nomination of a major political party, every perversion is justified.

But even in many state courts you’re not going to have a jury trial if the case is ending in a default judgment. In all the states I’m familiar with, the judge will vacate the trial and just hold a hearing on damages or even just request that the plaintiff submit an affidavit and documentation.

Except you’d think that given the high profile nature of the case that Gordon would be able to find counsel to represent him pro bono for the sake of the publicity.

That plus rear-facing car seats. A fairly high percentage of these cases seem to involve those, which makes me think that part of the problem is that the drivers often can’t actually see the child when casually glancing back.

You really need to get a grip — Trump is not going to win.

Dude! People without autopilot die because they look at their phones!

I have no first-hand experience with these systems, but what you’ve described is precisely why I’m incredulous about claims that automated cars will become common on surface streets— by the time a human can realize that a car autopilot is not going to solve a problem, it almost certainly is also too late for the human…

Elon is my copilot.

I just adore how countries with this problem never, not once, even consider making childbearing more attractive for either men or women. They just double down on the shame/patriotism/YOUR CLOCK’S RUNNING OUT! without lifting a finger to do anything about family leave, etc.

It seems to me there is a ‘grey zone’ in which you are too wealthy to qualify for total support, but not wealthy enough to be able to go-it-alone. I suspect 80% of us exist in the Grey Zone and all the wanton procreation is happening in the bottom and top 10%’s respectively. Which means that populations are becoming…

How dare you bring actual facts into this discussion! Next you’ll be pointing out that the US has a birthrate above virtually all European countries despite not offering anywhere near the degree of government benefits to mothers and families that those countries do.

So lets not say he’s not a progressive.

It’s taught in law school that the FTC rules relating to unordered merchandise are intended to protect consumers from schemes in which they are mailed a product without their knowledge or consent and then the shipper tries to sue them for the grossly inflated cost of the merchandise. (The scheme often involved sending…

Except was Niue called “Niue” at the time? It was part of New Zealand at the time of Earhart’s flight and I’m not sure the name “Niue” was in common use among English speakers at that point.

That would deprive the municipality of valuable ticket revenue though!

Why is John Travolta wearing make-up to make himself look like a young Tommy Lee Jones?

Came here looking for the Italian ski-lift air-collision tragedy reference; left satisfied.

That assumes the people who worked on this could, in fact, have been having sex instead. Because, let me tell you, at least when I was working on sex mods for games, actual sex wasn’t an option for me.

Hot (albeit correct in an attenuated way) take, dude!