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Gonna throw in the obligatory

Prayers sent.

re: Whew, That Was A Close One!!

Posted by em745 on 6/7/14 at 1:20 pm to
That damn global warming.
Oh crap! I lived in Moncton for 4 years back in the 90's! (A truly awesome boomtown, BTW.)

Three RCMP dead, two injured. All schools, colleges and many businesses closed. All local bus routes canceled, all government offices closed. Nobody knows where this lunatic is hiding. The entire city is essentially scared still.

Sad to see something like this happen (a real rarity in Atlantic Canada).
MOAR:














(All of these courtesy of Skorge from forums.superiorpics)
The stuff cured my AIDS!

:nana:

Seriously though...

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Totally cured my Gerd after a few days

Same (a mild case of esophagitis).

Drank a half-glass of water with 1 tbsp ACV whenever the pain flared up. Took about a week for symptoms to go away. Saved me from going on Prevacid (which my doctor suggested I do).

It doesn't taste too bad when diluted, and it does aid in digestion.
(Geez, how did I miss this?!)

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Her face & tits are so fine that it's pretty damn hard to make it to the rest of her, honestly.

I don't find it that hard, TBH...

Killer grin (the best in showbiz, IMO), killer shape (overall) and big ol' manga-girl eyes. She's also one of the very few women who can manage to convincingly pull off "cute," "gorgeous" and "sexy."

Oh, and she's double-jointed to boot:





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I've seen better looking chicks in Rayville.

Such an astute assessment, coming from someone who finds Kate Upton hot. :rolleyes:

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Anyways, just to add to the worthiness of this bump:










Just start a rumor that you're heavy into anal fisting.

Problem solved.
I usually like these unusual types of analog watches, but that is indeed an ugly one. Corum has a similar type "Golden Bridge" lineup that looks a whole lot better:

LINK

Too bad it costs about 77x more than the ugly one.
It would help if you posted a pic of the bird in question, as well as the nesting spot.

In the meantime... Prayers sent.
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25 mph is absolutely practical for in city driving and as a taxi service

:lol:

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Also, the Lexus and Toyota's that are 700,000+ miles accident free go well over that speed

Again, all under very controlled circumstances.

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yes. Hell, they already do this.

Really now? They can accurately interpret a policeman's hand signals and other gesticulations (which can get quick and ambiguous depending on the situation)? Are they able to "see" who the signals are meant for?

Will these sensors be able to see/interpret a traffic wand at night, amongst a background of headlights, flashing emergency lights, and street lights? What if it's a regular joe (w/o a wand) doing the traffic control until the cops arrive?

We're not talking about the simple act of a cyclist signaling a left or right turn here.

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How many airline disasters have been linked to malfunctioning software or "sensors?"

I bet that failure rate of the software is lower than humans.

Let's combine software failure with sensor, electronic and mechanical failures and see how they compare then.

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The big issue has actually been how reliable the software has been.

The flip-side argument to all this is that I can come up with a ~dozen cases where an airline disaster was averted because of the improvised actions of a brilliant flight crew.

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Pilots aren't as skilled outside of the autopilot.

:lol:

I have a really hard time accepting the notion of an autopilot being able to successfully pull off a "Sullenberger" all by itself.

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A self-driving car will never get tired, distracted

They're also incapable of adapting to unforeseen (i.e. not programmed) situations, and on-the-fly problem solving.

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or drunk

Much tougher DUI laws would go a longer way in eliminating DUI related fatalities.

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and it can see farther than its human counterparts, see at night, and see in 360 degrees.

I see they left bad weather out of the equation... again.

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but keep comparing it to windows.

Are Micro$oft products the only ones that are buggy?

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They have radar sensors, roof sensors, camera sensors, etc.

All of which are susceptible to software glitches, hardware malfunctions, blockages from snow, ice, mud... not to mention regular ol' road damage from flying rocks.

re: Google Unveils Self-Driving Cars

Posted by em745 on 5/28/14 at 5:50 pm to
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you know planes are controlled mostly by computer?

Yep, "MOSTLY."

I've been watching "Air Crash Investigation" long enough to know that 99% of the time, the first thing pilots do when some unforeseen problem comes up is disconnect the autopilot and take manual control of the plane.

Even the ultra-modern, ultra-computerized A380 has flesh-and-blood pilots at the helm.

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A million incident-free miles makes a pretty strong case that they are better than most drivers.

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You mean, like, on the road with thousands of other cars? That "controlled" environment?

And yet...

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But there is no way they are ready to turn these things loose in bad weather yet.

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25 mph

^^^ Not exactly real-world conditions.

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Thankfully, the cars don't run on Windows 98.

Right... Because Me, XP, Vista, 7, 8... have all been so bug free.

Even military software controls (hard to get more "stringent" than mil-spec!) aren't immune to bugs. There have been many incidents where bugs in a modern fighter's FLCS has led to the loss of the plane.

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You talk about desktop software as if it is written to the same guidelines as software that is responsible for the safety of human beings. Planes fly themselves every day, you know.

Even an established avionics powerhouse like Garmin issues regular software updates and bug fixes for its EFIS and GPS/NAV/COMM units.

How many airline disasters have been linked to malfunctioning software or "sensors?"

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You and I differ greatly in how much credit we give human drivers.

And you and I differ greatly in how much credit we give computers (or automation in general).
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use radar and data collection to react to it.

Will Google collect real-time data on individual workers and/or police directing traffic? Will the radar's back-end (software) be "smart" enough to accurately read hand signals 100% of the time?

What if it encounters a ball popping out between two parked cars... Will it be able to deduce that there might be a child nearby running after it?... Or will it just "stop and wait" every friggin time it encounters something that doesn't figure into its logic routines?

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The car would probably make the correct decision to not drive at all

Yeah, that's a realistic approach.

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but I think they can probably make that trip already. Just very slowly.

And what is "very slowly" relative to 25 mph? Walking speed?

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Is it not impressive that they already drive better than 99% of the people on the road?

But that's not anywhere near the case.

These things only perform "well" within sterile/controlled parameters and testing environments... and as long as those myriad "sensors" remain functioning and unobstructed (which is why I brought up the winter storm scenario).

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In what world is reducing or eliminating traffic accidents and fatalities, while also improving both time and fuel efficiency a "horrible" idea?

Another thing, people seem to forget that ALL automated systems are ultimately programmed by humans. Aside from sensor failures/damage (or obstructions due to snow, rain, mud...), there are bound to be software bugs and crashes. I mean, how many Windoze crashes have there been over the years? I've yet to encounter a piece of software, no matter how well written and stable, that doesn't have some kind of bug that makes it do something it shouldn't do, or do it in an incorrect manner. All that is inconsequential on a PC (from a safety's standpoint), but in a driverless car?? I'm not sure I'd want to imagine a scenario where one of these cars bugs out while driving though a school zone.

Like another said, I'm not a luddite. I'm not anti-progress and I'm all for driver aids that help in emergency situations. It's driver replacements that I have a huge problem with. No matter how "smart" computers get, they can never be programmed for adaptive reasoning and creative problem solving, things that an averagely smart human can manage without much fuss.
You know what? When(IF) Google manages to make one of these contraptions successfully drive itself--ALL BY ITSELF--from Newark to Queens during a snow storm at night, THEN I'll be impressed.
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let me know when we get pics of the Royal pussy



(You're welcome.)
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Comparing female circumcision to male circumcision to prove your point regarding genital mutilation is illogical.

Both involve cutting away healthy tissue from the genitals.

(I'm not the one who needs to raise the voltage on his "bulb.")
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If you were being asked to choose between an OT 6 with a clean looking/smelling vag versus an OT 8 with a jungle and the stench... which one would you take?

Well, that clitoral hood and those hanging, wrinkly meat curtains do their fair share of trapping in dried-up menses, urine, smegma (yes, women produce smegma too) and grool... All of which contribute to "the stench."

Cutting away those useless hanging flaps at birth would go a long way in producing a "clean looking/smelling vag," no?
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Apparently it causes a mental defect in people later in life.

Yeah, you're one to talk about "100% irrelevant" arguments, aren't you.
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Who do you think is more likely to get a UTI. A circumcised person or an uncircumcised person?

Who do you think is more likely to get a UTI, an intact male or a FEMALE?

Who do you think is more likely to suffer from meatal stenosis, an intact male or a circ'd male?
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About as frequent as vaccines gone wrong, right Jenny McCarthy?

Vaccines aren't mutilation.

Vaccines are proven to work at fighting diseases (unlike circ).

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What about a cleft pallette? Fixing that it usually cosmetic, as it's not life threatening. Mutilation to correct?

A cleft palate is a birth defect.

A foreskin is not a birth defect.
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she is 30. i'm 48.

:bow:

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she's already on board with the decision to not mutilate if its a boy.

:bow: :bow:
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only if they tried to call it "mutilation"

One last time: Do you think FEMALE circ = "genital mutilation?"