The computer saw the bus just fine. The problem was that it wasn’t programmed to take into account that bus drivers are more aggressive than most people driving down a city street.

Folks with implantable insulin pumps and pacemakers are wondering what the fuss about cyborgs is about.

Jesus, sorry I mixed up her elementary school years with her teenage years. From your response you’d think I’d murdered your dog or something.

When Ford Pintos started fireballing and Explorers rolled over and Takata air bags started shotgunning people, the answer wasn’t “We’re never going to make a new car ever again; we’re just going to keep driving the ones we’ve made and let them age out.”

Where’d you think those rare English copies came from? Battle Royale had an official (as in, theatrical and discs) release in Europe and did passably well. And Collins grew up in Europe and has relatives there, meaning that it wouldn’t be unreasonable for her to travel there from time to time. I don’t think she ripped…

That’s a ridiculously generous insurance policy.

as if it were some us cultural icon in the states when 95 percent of Americans at that time had probably never even heard of it

Regardless of whether it was influenced by/a rip-off of the Battle Royale book/manga/film, you’re not even close. The Hunger Games was published in September 2008. The first Battle Royale movie was released in December 2001, and the book came out a year before that. Hell, Battle Royale II premiered in May 2003 at…

Given that age is legally calculated from your birthdate, you remain 27 years old (happy birthday by the way).

The Germans didn’t try and fail with conductive ink; they tried their method three years ago on the iPhone 5S. Incidentally, the same trick works with the iPhone 6. We don’t know if this printed method works with Touch ID because nobody’s tried it.

Same thing with Android.

Aedes aegypti is the mosquito in question. The thing is, mosquitos in general prefer larger bodies of water. But Aedes gets along just fine with just a little bit: a stagnant puddle here, a hollow in a tree there. As the local biome shifts to become more arid, Aedes aegypti is able to outcompete other species of…

Funny you should mention the “state’s ridiculous bureaucracy” staying out of the way when the last 2-3 years of complete bupkis was because of anti-HSR activists.

Hyperloop is low throughput, not CAHSR.

Sorry, can’t hear you over Amazon Prime’s 20% discount on pre-orders.

People actually use the menu?

I’ve got at least 50 tabs open at all times (a bunch of pinned stuff, productivity stuff, remote, papers I can’t save to disk, etc). I’d rather just leave it all open. I have a 256 GB SSD and a 4 TB HDD for bulk stuff; why not use it?

The problem is that the airlines like the idea of having the planes go out full. Single-aisles are popular because the passenger-mile cost is cheap. Sure, if you can max out a 777 on every flight, then it might be cheaper depending on the engine option you chose. Maybe go with an A330 if you want to go Euro.

He’s been dead to me ever since he refused to recognize his daughter from an extramarital affair and doubly-dead since he started shilling for the CCP. “I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.”