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Thankfully, none of the companies I have ever worked for have celebrated columbus…

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Thankfully, none of the companies I have ever worked for have celebrated columbus day and its time for the federal government to repeal it

Fat Chance of that happening though

Reshared post from +Tim O’Reilly

Whoa. Read this! You will never feel the same way about Columbus again.  

I love the notion of Bartolome Day instead. Great work from The Oatmeal.

Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) – The Oatmeal
A note from the author: All of the information in this essay came from A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, and Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Loewen, both of which uses primary sources such eyewitness accounts, journal entries, and letters from Christopher Columbus …


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Yesterday +TOYOTA announced that they would be introducing several new safety systems…

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Yesterday +TOYOTA announced that they would be introducing several new safety systems in the next couple of years

Among these is a pre-collision system that automatically applies brakes and a pedestrian detection system that brakes and even steers around the person autonomously.
http://releases.jalopnik.com/toyota-develops-new-pedestrian-safety-technology-1443860813

I actually got to drive much of this technology during a visit to Toyota's proving ground in Japan in 2010. At that time however, the pedestrian detection system only applied the brakes but didn't steer the car. 

Autoblog gets seat and simulation time with Toyota’s newest safety technology [w/video]

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