How the bloody hell did you come by that irrational conclusion? This thought experiment assumes a worst case scenario, it doesn’t matter what extenuating circumstances lead to it. If you need to plug in a reason the crash is happening, be it a mechanical failure, a software glitch, sabotage by nefarious agents of an…

As a caveat to all this, I’m an art major (who didn’t finish college) turned prospective fiction author. I’m admittedly out of my depth talking about math or computer science. That being said, I’m not expecting cars to be able to predict complex physics problems with anywhere near 100% accuracy. However, it shouldn’t…

No, it really isn’t. I was an art major in college, never even took a philosophy class, yet even I know that this is one of the most basic morality thought experiments in philosophic circles. This has nothing to do with laws or legality, and everything to do with humanity. Cynicism is a wonderful tool to have in life,…

There might not be a “right” answer, but that doesn’t mean we should at the very least devote some energy to figuring out the least wrong answer.

1500 Subaru puns

The long development times, and the apparent awkwardness prior to the Veyron’s release make sense; nobody had done anything quite like it (“it” being a luxo-barge that could hit 250 mph) before. It’s totally within the realm of expectations for things to go not-quite-right when you’re in uncharted territory.

I’m 26 and I’m baffled that there’s people almost 30 years old that denigrate the way others chose to make their living simply because it doesn’t conform to their narrow tastes.

Making people scared of harboring or supplying Jihadists can work, but convincing those same people that fighting Jihadists isn’t only in their best interests, but morally right, increases the number of guns you can bring to the fight.

I’m not so sure even nukes would solve this, barring turning all of the Middle East, Indonesia, large chunks of Africa, a good deal of India,and parts of Eastern Europe into radioactive wastelands for the next several hundred years. Jihadists believe, really truly believe, that dying while fighting unbelievers is an…

Push for moderate reform within Islam by giving soapboxes to Muslims who preach sanity and a modern understanding of ethics. Stop coddling conservative Muslims who don’t necessarily support terrorism, but still approve of stripping rights away from women and homosexuals, or who believe apostasy is a death sentence.…

I could only think two thoughts during the video:

You could almost hear the mental checklist of “Shit that Will Get Me Fired” being run down.

Considering it’s being made by Chinese backers, the price hike makes sense. From what I understand, Chinese buyers don’t care about performance numbers or features on their cars nearly as much as how much they can brag about spending big money on them.

I think half the reason a pillory was included in one of the Fallout 4 DLCs was an implicit admission by Bethesda that the kinky sex mods are on the horizon. I’m sure some animators out there are glad half their work has been done for them at the very least.

First of all, I should point out that my post was more of a generalized observation, and not so much a directed attack at you. I apologize if I put you on the defensive.

This appalling bit of logic here is what strikes me as the problem with “SJWs”, as some people derogatively label them. The idea that just because something makes you uncomfortable, it needs to be banned from any form of representation is anathema to freedom of expression and creation.

On the other hand, advertisers need to realize that if they want clicks, they just might have to live with the content that brings the clicks in.

OK, so I grew up in Flint Michigan, not quite in the ghetto but close enough to hear the gunshots (I mean that quite literally). If someone told me they got robbed at a gas station on the North side of Flint, I’d believe them.

Because anybody that has ever been to Brazil will tell you that it’s a beautiful country filled with wonderful people, but if you step into the wrong neighborhood, the best bad situation you can hope for is just getting robbed.

The FBI is involved as PR damage control nothing more or less.