Post a news story, entertain me!

Maybe a lil' P&C, but:

Utah smoothie shop charges liberal customers more than conservatives.

George Burnett wrote:

We have a fiscal problem in this country. We've got to deal with it or we don't have a country, so to kind of help make that point, just a little bit, I charge (liberals) just a little bit more.

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Oh yeah, the name of the place is "The I Love Drilling Juice & Smoothie Bar."

Don't be surprised if this nutbar is the 2016 Republican Presidential Candidate.

deftly wrote:

Man outsources his own job to China

Drat, beat me to it!

Edit for news story:

Man dying to take a dump gets hit by train

Does the owner's head explode when liberals go there anyways because they're the 1% job creators spending their money on bringing valuable smoothie jobs back to the US?

So he lies about meeting her at all and then wants everyone to believe he's the most gullible idiot on the planet.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

So he lies about meeting her at all and then wants everyone to believe he's the most gullible idiot on the planet.

He's still a stupid kid. Guy thinks he can avoid a small circus by throwing in a lie or two, and it turns into an even bigger, gigantic circus. Among everything else I'm even seeing his sexuality questioned. I chalk it up to a life lesson. Maybe even several of them.

LouZiffer wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

So he lies about meeting her at all and then wants everyone to believe he's the most gullible idiot on the planet.

He's still a stupid kid. Guy thinks he can avoid a small circus by throwing in a lie or two, and it turns into an even bigger, gigantic circus. Among everything else I'm even seeing his sexuality questioned. I chalk it up to a life lesson. Maybe even several of them.

Lot's of discussion on it over here

Thanks.

F*ck those Tesco burgers, there's some horse inside!

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sometimesdee wrote:
LarryC wrote:

The parts that puzzle me:

Where was she going with this vehicle? Did she imagine that it was going to be hard to track her down?
How was she going to fence it? Is there a train underground market that I'm not aware of?

She probably just wanted to take it for a spin and then return it, like valets supposedly do with fancy cars...

Well actually...

"Everything indicates that this has been a pure accident where several unfortunate circumstances made it so that the woman set the train in motion when she was cleaning," a statement from public prosecutor Par Andersson said Friday.
Katy wrote:
sometimesdee wrote:
LarryC wrote:

The parts that puzzle me:

Where was she going with this vehicle? Did she imagine that it was going to be hard to track her down?
How was she going to fence it? Is there a train underground market that I'm not aware of?

She probably just wanted to take it for a spin and then return it, like valets supposedly do with fancy cars...

Well actually...

"Everything indicates that this has been a pure accident where several unfortunate circumstances made it so that the woman set the train in motion when she was cleaning," a statement from public prosecutor Par Andersson said Friday.

Boo, I can't read the article without having an account!

Ouch. I used to have nightmares about accidentally setting my parents' car in motion and not knowing how to stop it. I'm not sure I'm glad to find out that my fears, while mostly unfounded, have some grounding in reality.

And, now, we are officially living in the future. No jet cars (was always probably a bad idea), but can I interest you in a car with auto-pilot?

Self driving cars now legal in California

We are officially living in Total Recall. Johnny Cab!

Someday we'll be able to use the car to go to work, then send the car home so the family can use it during the day.

On the other side of things, I wonder how this will impact the possibility of car bombings, though.

LouZiffer wrote:

Someday we'll be able to use the car to go to work, then send the car home so the family can use it during the day.

On the other side of things, I wonder how this will impact the possibility of car bombings, though. :(

Probably not too much. The level of effort it would take to get a self driving car to ram something is probably higher than jury rigging your own Mythbusters-style remote controlled car. Targets that don't require bring rammed (like a tunnel) can already be safely bombed by hauling a trailer full of explosives into a tunnel and unhitching it halfway out.

Yonder wrote:
LouZiffer wrote:

Someday we'll be able to use the car to go to work, then send the car home so the family can use it during the day.

On the other side of things, I wonder how this will impact the possibility of car bombings, though. :(

Probably not too much. The level of effort it would take to get a self driving car to ram something is probably higher than jury rigging your own Mythbusters-style remote controlled car. Targets that don't require bring rammed (like a tunnel) can already be safely bombed by hauling a trailer full of explosives into a tunnel and unhitching it halfway out.

I've never seen the Mythbusters tell a car to drive somewhere 200 to 300 miles away, or remotely give it GPS coordinates from anywhere at all. Wasn't even considering ramming, just the self guiding part.

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LouZiffer wrote:
Yonder wrote:
LouZiffer wrote:

Someday we'll be able to use the car to go to work, then send the car home so the family can use it during the day.

On the other side of things, I wonder how this will impact the possibility of car bombings, though. :(

Probably not too much. The level of effort it would take to get a self driving car to ram something is probably higher than jury rigging your own Mythbusters-style remote controlled car. Targets that don't require bring rammed (like a tunnel) can already be safely bombed by hauling a trailer full of explosives into a tunnel and unhitching it halfway out.

I've never seen the Mythbusters tell a car to drive somewhere 200 to 300 miles away, or remotely give it GPS coordinates from anywhere at all. Wasn't even considering ramming, just the self guiding part.

Unless the car is delivering the largest nuclear bomb ever made you don't need to send it from 200 miles away. Guiding it 4-5 blocks would be fine.

Yonder wrote:
LouZiffer wrote:
Yonder wrote:
LouZiffer wrote:

Someday we'll be able to use the car to go to work, then send the car home so the family can use it during the day.

On the other side of things, I wonder how this will impact the possibility of car bombings, though. :(

Probably not too much. The level of effort it would take to get a self driving car to ram something is probably higher than jury rigging your own Mythbusters-style remote controlled car. Targets that don't require bring rammed (like a tunnel) can already be safely bombed by hauling a trailer full of explosives into a tunnel and unhitching it halfway out.

I've never seen the Mythbusters tell a car to drive somewhere 200 to 300 miles away, or remotely give it GPS coordinates from anywhere at all. Wasn't even considering ramming, just the self guiding part.

Unless the car is delivering the largest nuclear bomb ever made you don't need to send it from 200 miles away. Guiding it 4-5 blocks would be fine.

If you don't mind being caught, sure. I'm talking about turning vehicles into fire and forget cruise missiles, and making it easier to get away with that without the use of a driver at all. It's not a pressing concern or anything. Just a thought as to how this technology could be misused, as useful as it is. Building your own is much more of a task and involves a greater risk of being caught than buying a pre-packaged item once these things are pervasive.

EDIT: Think of it this way: When the vehicle has a 300 mile range traveling at the speed limit, the perp has a very long time to get somewhere before anything happens if they start it off in person. If the vehicle can take address info from remote, the perp can be damn near anywhere when they start it on its journey. This can go further. (If the vehicle can stop/start itself and do the journey in multiple legs. If the vehicle is a cargo vehicle. Etc, etc.)

We're talking about the ability to send a vehicle to any destination without any human intervention. Heck, just for giggles, I'll break into your car and send it to the local marine base to block the gate. Let's see how funny they think that is.

By the way, I see these as interesting, solvable problems - not things to fear.

sometimesdee wrote:

Boo, I can't read the article without having an account!

Bah, it was free yesterday.

Try this one.

Why Programmers Work At Night

Apparently my mind never left Hawaii when I left the Navy.

Good news, everybody! Boobs!

Wait...what? That's news? Who doesn't build a giant snow penis at some point in their youth or perhaps full-grown adulthood?