Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Tom Semmens,
The fact that Clinton has not trounced Trump suggests that the dynastic period we're in is not really that good for American politics.
However, maybe Clinton will be a good president even if she's not really that great a campaigner. I expect we will see.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to goforit,
I haven't heard anything yet. What happened?
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Could still win – there’ll be a lot of voters who won’t admit to a pollster they support him.
It’s an outside shot now, though. His only real shot is something extremely damaging coming out about Clinton. But which one is going to be more widely believed: Wikileaks or a stream of women coming forward with allegations of misconduct about him, to bolster his own words to that effect?
The interesting race is pretty much the Senate, now. But Republicans turning on each other isn’t helping that either.
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to nzlemming,
October surprise!
No!
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to nzlemming,
Can one even work out Trump's position on anything? It sounded in the last debate like he was making up military policy on the fly. Couldn't we have, like, a secret war against the Russians in Libya, or something? Shouldn't Clinton, as Secretary of State, have already done that!!
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to Singh Singh,
Or, then again, maybe that won't happen. At the moment it's still science fiction, like putting people on Mars. Which is why the government puts big question marks after those dates. Also, the dotted line "regulatory change required" puts a huge uncertainty on even being able to do trials. It has to actually go through a willing parliament.
The big danger with the phase that lets the vehicle take complete control is that exactly what happened in the self-driving fatality on record happens. The driver isn't watching and the automated system drives him straight under a truck on the motorway, because of a bug.
In the end, the really big question in all of this is just "why"? What does it really save, for all of that engineering effort? Aren't there many, many better solutions to transport issues than trying to reinvent the human brain and executive decision making function, changing our entire legal framework, and risking a whole lot of automated death? What is so horribly inefficient about having a human driver?
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Democratses are wicked, tricksy and false!
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Rich Lock,
Trump’s comments are several thousand kilometers over ‘the line’.
Well, for anyone running for public office, anyway. I've certainly heard worse. But really, the line that Trump isn't as bad as ISIS is a bit of a low bar for probably the most important single office that can be held by a human today.
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Everyone knows it's the party of the rich, but in the past they've tried to avoid having actual clowns holding the top job. OK they dropped the ball with Dubya, but he did at least play the game of being president, acting presidentially to the limit of his abilities. But Trump doesn't even try. He's making a sideshow out of probably the most important job in the world. Where with Bush they were just embarrassed about it, this time I think Americans realize it's gone beyond a joke.
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Playboy cover 1990
I remember reading that one for the article about Trump. It was really deep.