JKane

Again, Happy Birthday Tom!!

The main story is basically the Optometrist dictator of Syria... too soon.

Sounds interesting/weird: Also, everybody else see Anthony Bourdain's show in Brazil a week or two ago?

Bit redundant...

I've been trying intermittent fasting, it's surprisingly easy to skip food for a day, especially after a day of overindulgence.

The Google car is a weird exception and more of a golf cart, but the general idea is that it is your responsibility to supervise the car and be prepared to take over if necessary. Wired just had a great article about how the car could tell you when it was uncertain about something, maybe an odd shadow or bump that could be a pet or something... The simple fact is there will be almost no collisions (front end anyway, the cars will still get hit...) and what there are will be people who took over or were self-driving and then tried to blame the automation. But (for liability reasons for the manufacturers) everything will have been recorded in detail. But the fact that within the next couple years automation will clearly be better (from a safety and efficiency standpoint) will be ignored by many and the clothes rending panic at every incident involving any car with any automation will grow to a roar despite the numbers of actual incidents and severity of injury being *far* in favor of the automation. "Tesla Fires" X10. Because people fear change and existing businesses exploit that.

I'm amazed it's based in freemasonry BS and not the mysterious death of a liberal pope, John Paul I, and his replacement with an opposite, arch-conservative status-quo pope...

Tom, I'm also very sorry to hear of your health issues and wish you the very best! I still hope to see you around sometime, in the forum or in WeHo/etc! I remain envious of all you've done and hope to experience even a fraction someday!

Confusing dominant for dominate / vice-versa - not as smart as they think they are and wants you to do all the work.

Feel down, that is--in person he's a tiny scrawny little guy.

Also bad for ferry boats! On the original topic, there's also some amazing videos of successful crab landings, I think some aircraft (big transport maybe?) the main gear even rotates quite a bit so it touches down like that, if I recall it straightened before the front wheel touched...