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I'm guessing it'll still be cops sitting on the side of the road with laser radar that includes an encrypted sign/countersign system to allow self-driving cars to verify they are on auto and be ignored.

So whatever you are using now to block laser radar might still work if it can fool the device into thinking your car doesn't exist. Otherwise it'll also need to fake an encrypted verification signal in real time.
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I'm guessing it'll still be cops sitting on the side of the road with laser radar that includes an encrypted sign/countersign system
I'll take the odds on hacking that for the remainder of my life. The complexity can't outstrip the what the cops carry around for hardware, and government is chronically technologically incompetent. And they'll need either a wireless connection or immense list of keys on hand to make the system work, anything else seems easily breakable or too limited. If they rely on wireless, I can destroy the signal or hijack it.
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Old woman who shouldn't be driving hits two kids and kills one.
Police said the female driver, 81-year-old Patricia Livingston, was seen driving erratically before hitting the teens.
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Motherfuckers who sell on eBay must legally be required to have proof of certification that they've somewhere taken a class that teaches them how to pack fragile things properly. I ordered 3 glass beer mugs. The best one is in a state such that I'm afraid to fill it with liquid lest the handle shear off during hoisting. The next best one had that exactly happen to it in transit, handle plus several small jagged bits. The last one looks like it was in this box:
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So here's a wrinkle to the coming age of self-driving cars: the largest source of viable organ donations come from car accident victims. Once self-driving cars cut down on the rate of fatal accidents we're going to have an organ shortage.
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Yeah but the massive success of Obamacare means people will be healthier and will need fewer organ transplants.
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I need to vent to re-calibrate my morning.

Au Bon Pain near where I'm working in PHL. Good bakery fare chain that's all over. Normally a safe option.

First time I went there, not many customers, asked them about a menu item and if they could heat me up a cinnamon bun for me. They did, but wow, total dicks about everything.

Figured they were having a bad day. Brushed it off. Next time I go get a similar disdainy kind of attitude - but damn the coffee was out and I wanted the breakfast blend.

Went to a few more spots instead for breakfast, but today gave them one more chance. Selected a few items, got my coffee, go to the only open register of 4. Plenty of people behind the counter, so I pull out my card and wait. A few minutes goes by. A guy walks up with a similar amount of stuff. Knows the crew working. Suddenly they care about customers. Manager swipes her card, opens one the closed registers, takes the guys order, and do their transaction. I'm looking at this confused, and then starting to get pissed.

Just left my shit on the counter and walked out. WTF?

It's not worth the aggravation. The 7-11 down the street has inferior food, but the cashier is nice, doesn't ruin my morning by starting me off all hot. Winner everytime.
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Welcome to Philly?
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TheCatt wrote: Welcome to Philly?
FUCK THE NE. I'd rather the Southern way to be nice to me to my face and "bless my heart" behind my back.

One way doesn't lead to a shitty morning until I get back into the flow of things.

e: or the CA way of still getting what I want while somehow feeling like the employee is cooler than me the entire time
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Troy wrote:
TheCatt wrote: Welcome to Philly?
FUCK THE NE. I'd rather the Southern way to be nice to me to my face and "bless my heart" behind my back.
Nah, they love you in the south until you start talking about moving here. I had a coworker from Michigan and her family came to visit. I told her dad he wasn't a "damned yankee" because he was going home in a couple of days.
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I live in Cary, NC. Also called the Containment Area for Relocated Yankees. So damned many damned Yankees.
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Y'all yankees complaining about all the other new yankees around you is so adorable.
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TheCatt wrote: I live in Cary, NC. Also called the Containment Area for Relocated Yankees. So damned many damned Yankees.
My parents came from FL to Cary few years before I was born. Were still considered Yankees at first. Central Florida and Jacksonville are still pretty white-cracker-south though. Eventually everyone got on the same page.

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East California is still yankee lands.

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TPRJones wrote: East California is still yankee lands.
Not sure you get to call that. Aren't you in Texas Mexico?

e: hahaha - lol in roomful of people at that map.
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I enjoyed that map. Mine would look similar, yet different. Definitely different titles.
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my map would just have a star saying "Gordo is currently here," and the rest of the map says "FUCK YOU."
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Speaking of irrational bitching, the Dean Martin version of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer really pisses me off.

Who the fuck does Dean think he is calling him "Rudy"? Then later he says "red beaked".

I have no idea why, but this has always irked me.
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Leisher wrote: Speaking of irrational bitching, the Dean Martin version of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer really pisses me off.

Who the fuck does Dean think he is calling him "Rudy"? Then later he says "red beaked".

I have no idea why, but this has always irked me.
He was probably pretty fukcing drunk at the time.
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Just heard it again. He also says, "won't you pull mein sleigh tonight". No wonder Catt loves him... (This is a timely joke that won't make sense in two months when we forget what I'm referring to.
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