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I assume they would be required to use bike lanes in most American cities. I am concerned about the liability involved. A local journalist here in Austin was hit by a drunk guy on a scooter badly enough to dent her driver-side door and render the door inoperative. Then he claimed she hit him. His auto insurance, if he has any doesn't cover his usage of electric scooters.

So she was facing a liability for fixing the car, perhaps some sort of insurance fraud on his part, AND her insurance was going to list an incidence of her "striking a pedestrian." Fortunately she found out there was some CCTV footage that exonerated her, but all of that just so some drunk a--hole can zoom around on a scooter and the scooter companies make money?

Three weeks? Are you employing non programmers to program?

It could be over radio, analog or digital. Or perhaps some other em frequency. Or hyper-sonic transmission. Perhaps x-ray frequencies despite the poor irradiated cleaning lady. It doesn't have to be a script-kiddie solution.

>ribbonfarm "essays" are right there in the title

Or perhaps an indexing that does.

how is a distant relative going to find anyone's cellphone number? That makes absolute no sense, since cellphone numbers aren't posted in a public directory that distant relatives might honestly peruse.

I imagine the Yellow River has suffered numerous catastrophic floods in its history, and some must certainly 'line up' with various other historical and ahistorical events.

They're a menace to society given the un-insured nature of their services. A local journalist had some scooter doofus run into her vehicle badly enough to damage the ability to open the driver's side door, then he turned around and claimed she hit him. So she was facing having a record of striking a pedestrian on her driver's and insurance records and was only saved by footage from a surveillance camera. What a joy!

It would have required another Trump administration scandal for that. Just look at the attempts to kidnap and serve Gulen up on a plate to Erdogan. The US is a big country with a lot of people that aren't ok with kidnapping.

Khashoggi came from a powerful and influential family in the KSA, plus he was a journalist for the Washington Post.

That's true of many of these arab regimes as well. Hence MBS' consolidation of power recently, for example. A monarchy is meaningless if you can blow off the power of the monarch. I am deeply sympathetic to the plight of their peoples.

Many people in Silicon Valley are interested in making sure the kings of those countries are investing a good portion of their money back into their tech ventures.

What a weird and artificial statistic to bring up. I don't believe it has any actual meaning given that the individuals have met their legal obligations for income taxes.

A couple of reports in the past few years and then you extrapolate that backwards given that it's statistically unlikely to be a recent development and you've got a pretty remarkable situation of communal nurseries over millions of years.

When they bought that company it became their system. You can't just hand wave away PCI compliance hehe.

I just use an ad-blocker and don't see any ads on youtube

Why would I want to support such a creep though? Booty bumping bath salts with his sixteen year old girlfriend while he plots the murder of his neighbor, then runs away when he realizes his life of crime is a poor choice of his time given the consequences?

You can make a ton of money with COBOL, even in 2018.

Deutschebank has a sordid and questionable history with Donald Trump among others, so the sentiment is shared outside your bubble as well.

I doubt that, I guess. I checked into the program in Detroit and you had to live in the property for a year. Now maybe people got around that somehow but that's not how the program was structured.

Then it follows that even more young people than that have been comfortable their whole lives.

DC would be especially hard for NASA.

That's the answer I was expecting. It seems strange to me to use the end of the High Medieval era and extrapolate that back across the whole.

When did England invade France in the Medieval era?

In many feudal societies, metal was a controlled substance especially among the peasant/serf populations. If you look at the architecture of most residences from the medieval era: thatch, wattle-and-daub and not a lot of hinges or nailed together things.

That's cypherpunks.

The US Federal Government doesn't accept BTC.

monies paid, one presumes

This exactly, the American Civil War was precipitated by Southern aggression via Dred Scott.

This is an interesting subject. The 4th of July is not celebrated in Utah as it is in other states: instead that same energy and celebration goes into Utah's "Pioneer Days." This divergence from the rest of the nation provides some insight into the history of Utah and the people who settled it, and their relationship to the greater United States. Personally, I don't think it reflects positively but that's just my opinion on another interesting divergence in national tradition.