airdvr

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  1. airdvr

    covid-19

    Hehe...I don't think you understand just how bad this could get. The next 10 days will be telling. Somehow you seem to think that one man's handling of events could have had a huge difference in outcomes. It probably won't. My honor doesn't need saving. While you armchair quarterback this thing the rest of us are stuck in the middle. I know you want to believe Joe is a better choice, or at least you me to believe it. At this point I have serious reservations about his mental state. I can't imagine the hue and cry from the left if Trump couldn't recite parts of the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, or was confused about in wheat state he was campaigning. It's too early...
  2. https://jalopnik.com/the-failure-of-this-self-driving-truck-company-tells-yo-1842417033 Along the way, he also became a disbeliever, mainly because of the problem with edge cases, or solving for obstacles and other things on the road a self-driving car will encounter that it doesn’t usually do. That could be a deer, for example, or challenging weather conditions, but each case is different, and it turns out that it gets exponentially harder and more expensive for machines to learn them the rarer they get. Which Seltz-Axmacher ultimately concludes is a big problem for the industry, since to get a machine to be at least as good as a human will take billions and billions of more dollars of investment and likely years of testing. And now that the VC firms are getting wise to this fact, it makes it even less likely that the companies like Starsky will even be given the chance. I think we might be seeing a huge delay in autonomous vehicle development.
  3. airdvr

    covid-19

    Too early to say...
  4. airdvr

    covid-19

    Then you should hope that Biden chooses his running mate wisely.
  5. airdvr

    covid-19

    Haha...you oldsters. I was 14 when he waved goodbye and Mr. Nixon changed my world view in the space of a couple of years. I had my ultra conservative father telling me about his accomplishments. He had a few...China being the main one. But between Watergate and Vietnam I went from a being a kid oblivious to the goings on of politics to a jaded teenager. I get that you want to hate Trump but let's wait until this thing is over. It's still just beginning and no one knows the outcome yet.
  6. airdvr

    covid-19

    Oh man...you couldn't resist could you?
  7. airdvr

    covid-19

    Please give her our thanks. People in the field are on the front lines and can't back off.
  8. Title VII: Miscellaneous[edit] Title VII gives the President the authority to determine any rule or regulation that may be necessary to carry out the powers that he is given in the Act. This can be either through a federal agency, or any other means the President sees fit.
  9. I agree but placing the blame at our feet is just too convenient. The blame lies with their government. Where is China? Where is Russia?
  10. Actually I think the CIA put the Shah in power, but I might be mistaken.
  11. Do you think it will become necessary? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Disaster_Relief_and_Emergency_Assistance_Act
  12. You're talking ME here. None of that matters. If you think we're making it tough for them just imagine a US with nothing but electric cars. That's going to put the hurt on all of them.
  13. FIFY ETA...while giving aid sounds great it usually ends up in the wrong hands and fortifies the areas we don't want fortified.
  14. I agree with you Wendy...Fuck Hassan Rouhani
  15. I get your gaff. I thought maybe Bobby was speaking solely to you.
  16. This was our ride. Star Flyer. We could have met and had a rum drink together. That would have been interesting.
  17. No no. ACA sucked from the beginning.
  18. Hehe...true. Its the kids bringing the Chinese Flu to the old folks there.
  19. Sweet...we were in the BVIs last February. But not as long as you'll be. What are you on?
  20. By the same reasoning Obama knew that if he didn't say "If you like..." the ACA would have had zero chance of passing. I wouldn't call it mass panic however the lines at the grocers were extremely long, some shelves were empty, and I wasn't going to stand in that kind of line for a bottle of taco sauce and some seasoning. For the record I thought it would be much the same as H1N1. Up until a couple of days ago I hadn't paid any attention to what is being said in the MSM.
  21. airdvr

    covid-19

    I see him trying to not laugh at the deep state jab.
  22. I had to look that up. https://blog.arduino.cc/2020/03/20/work-remotely-with-arduino-create-get-a-free-upgrade-now/ Dammit John...you are one smart mf'er.
  23. I am for real. As skydivers we have a different view on the possibility of death (at least I think we do. If you are a current jumper and you don't you should). What would you have him say? "This is really serious. People are going to die". Hell, I didn't believe it was this serious until you assholes in here convinced me (I keed).