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In an interview with Stuart Varney, Judge Andrew Napolitano (BA Princeton University, JD University of Notre Dame) explains that the term "classified" isn't even used as a marking:

Judge Napolitano: [Hillary Clinton] forgets who her audience is. Her audience is 100 FBI agents and the Justice Department investigating her, and they know she is lying when she answers the question of Bret Baier in which she says for the umpteenth time "I neither sent nor received anything marked classified."

Nothing is marked "classified".

The markings are "confidential", "secret", or "top secret".

So while the statement is technically correct --" I never sent nor received anything marked classified" -- it is highly misleading. It is materially misleading.

---from "Judge Andrew Napolitano in HD on Hillary", posted by Desert Sky, 2016-03-08, at https://youtu.be/acT0h5A9bDQ?t=1m1s

In an interview with Stuart Varney, Judge Andrew Napolitano (BA Princeton University, JD University of Notre Dame) explains that the term "classified" isn't even used as a marking:

Judge Napolitano: [Hillary Clinton] forgets who her audience is. Her audience is 100 FBI agents and the Justice Department investigating her, and they know she is lying when she answers the question of Bret Baier in which she says for the umpteenth time "I neither sent nor received anything marked classified."

Nothing is marked "classified".

The markings are "confidential", "secret", or "top secret".

So while the statement is technically correct --" I never sent nor received anything marked classified" -- it is highly misleading. It is materially misleading.

---from "Judge Andrew Napolitano in HD on Hillary", posted by Desert Sky, 2016-03-08, at https://youtu.be/acT0h5A9bDQ?t=1m1s

It looks like The Guardian just got a first-hand lesson on the flaws of "diversity". When allow racism and sexism to dictate your hiring policy, you'll inevitably get people who wouldn't have been hired on their merit alone.

I wonder how much of the "abuse" was of the "you suck" variety. Maybe The Guardian needs to ask the UN to censor their critics as well.

The car recall formula

(Sorry I only find this one with the infographics visuals. I didn't manage to find the original movie scene. I guess it's too long for Google/DMCA "fair use" criteria).

- What car company are you working for ?
- Major one

There is a genuine concern here. Check out this video by BjÃrn Nyland, an early buyer of the Model S. He has had pretty much the whole drive train replaced more than once, and numerous other issues. His story is not uncommon for buyers of early models.

Newer models seem to be a lot more reliable. The question is if Tesla will have similar problems with early revisions or if they will be reliable from day one. The Model X actually suggests the latter, as opposed to what TFA implies, as it's not been anything like as problematic as the early Model S.

A company acts responsibility without using Fight Club's recall formula? Before dozens of people end up dead, like the Ford Exploder, Firestone edition, or GM who thought lives were too expensive to spend another fifty cents per ignition? Get a life, dooshbag.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the glares you claim to receive are completely unrelated to you being male.

Well if you're a minority, go walk out in Toronto with one of your white friends in one of the trendy hipster areas where the "social justice" brigades like to hang out. You'd almost think that they could hear some silent REEEEEEEEEEEEing going on. Because there's two different raced people walking around, and patriarchy...always patriarchy.

The cool projection part turns out to make for a pretty awful keyboard. There's no possibility of tactile feedback, nor of seeing what's under one's fingers and it needs a flat surface if the keys are going to look right.

Front projection is cool, no doubt, but utterly impractical. This is why making laser keyboards has been possible for such a long time but they've never been brought to market; rear projection can also be cool. What the patent describes isn't projection, but it might still give us a keyboard with a layout we can change easily and fairly arbitrarily. That would be something that would rival a laser keyboard for coolness but win out by virtual of being actually useful.

You mean like the Flyboard? But, that guy was at least going over water, with a life jacket, and a helmet.

Anyone else have this song going inside their head now?

At some point, about 8 mins got trimmed from the start of the video so you need to back up to about 27:15 for the beginning of the magical moment

https://youtu.be/7pUAydjne5M?t...

This is a good time to drop them a letter AND an email AND a phone call AND a fax while at it. Go on, do what's expected of you but too few of you actually do.

I don't give them money, so they don't care.

https://youtu.be/Ylomy1Aw9Hk

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Congressional Fundraising (HBO)

Well worth 21 min of your time.

The 2012 GOP platform clearly endorses alternative, renewable energy.

And by "endorse", I assume you mean, "doing everything they can to kill renewable energy".

http://usuncut.com/news/solarc...

http://www.scholarsstrategynet...

https://newrepublic.com/articl...

http://mic.com/articles/130336...

Plus, both of the leading GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, are climate deniers.

https://youtu.be/J_xVWfGjk0o

https://youtu.be/KyulquUwi1Q

The 2012 GOP platform clearly endorses alternative, renewable energy.

And by "endorse", I assume you mean, "doing everything they can to kill renewable energy".

http://usuncut.com/news/solarc...

http://www.scholarsstrategynet...

https://newrepublic.com/articl...

http://mic.com/articles/130336...

Plus, both of the leading GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, are climate deniers.

https://youtu.be/J_xVWfGjk0o

https://youtu.be/KyulquUwi1Q

As to sea levels, we have good records going back in a few places on earth. I have looked at Dutch sea level rise charts that go back as far as they've kept records which is farther than anyone else has done with accuracy. They show a consistent sea level rise between the beginning of their record keeping and now. We can also see similar charts in New England. Manhattan for example was something that Hanson claimed would be half underwater by now. Well... it isn't. And the historic charts on Manhattan's sea levels show over time change in the Delta.

As to majorities of papers... Science is not a democracy. It doesn't work by voting. Your argument is ad populum and is a dead give away that you rely on sophistic thinking. I don't say that to suggest you are a liar. Rather, I think you have been educated in how to think by sophists and simply don't know what you're doing wrong.

You're attempting to argue science with politics. Don't do that.

As to the term "denier" you do know that term was coined to conflate questioning climate change theory with Holocaust Denial, right? Its basically argumentum ad Hitlarium... or Godwin's law. I'd prefer if you used the term skeptic or anything that wasn't transparently crafted to insult the opposition. I could just refer to the pro-we're-all-going-die faction as sophistic alarmists in their raw designation. Would that be agreeable to you?

As to people being inclined to do things that are novel and shocking... you mean like the heading figures of your position making novel and shocking claims that turn out to be false? Yes. That was my point. New York is not half under water. Is it? Shall I list all the predictions of the climate lobby that turned out not to happen?

We've been going back and forth on this issue for a long time now. And that means I can pull claims your faction has made from the beginning of this discussion. The things they said would happen should have happened by now in their own words. Basically none of their predictions have come true. And yet you expect to lose no face despite being unable to predict, model, or describe anything with actual accuracy? That isn't how science works.

As to you doubling down on the Himalayan glaciers... Allow me to take what remains of your undeserved credibility in a stroke then.
http://www.theguardian.com/env...

They've already conceded the point. They have already admitted to making a mistake and being "wrong".

As to you not going over points... I think this clip sums up my opinion of that:
https://youtu.be/z2mXrndt1ZI?t...

You made a false claim on sea levels.
You used ad populum
You used godwin's law - I'll give you a pass on that one because its so commonly done that you probably don't realize you did it.
You used a double standard with the shocking and novel comment.
You failed to grasp that this has been going on long enough that we can just look at predictions that were made at the start and see if they happened. They haven't.
And then you doubled down on the Himalayan thing.

And then you presume to high hat me and say but 'I'm not going to lower myself to going through the details with a filthy peasant like you'... Okay then. Don't. What do you have to offer to the discussion that would be of value in the first place? By the above display, I'm going to assume little to nothing.

Just look at this video from Veritatium : https://youtu.be/s7MTM4BKZ_E

The proof of global warming is in statistics : plenty of data, some maths, and we know with little doubt that global warming is happening even when the weather is cold. That's how science works but it is seen as intangible and boring.
We all prefer conclusive experiments. So for popular science, they usually do some experiment that may not be serious science but show a point, mythbusters style. And sometimes they do it wrong, but this is simply bad communication, the numbers behind it don't lie (with p<0.05).

They may have trouble keeping up. They hope to be able to satisfy 500,000 orders a year by 2020. They will need to fast track that considerably, but even at that rate Bloomberg says that EVs will displace over 2,000,000 barrels of oil a day by 2023. That would be enough to cause a crash in the oil market: https://youtu.be/NOPHHgJgJ2s

WE GET IT. But... Now what?

Maybe we're already doing it. Tesla only has capacity to build about 500,000 cars a year. They got about 200,000 pre-orders in two days on their new car. Consider that when watching this video on S curves: https://youtu.be/NOPHHgJgJ2s

How is this any different? Is the FBI not allowed to fly planes now?

It emphasizes the government's power and our weakness (so all the /. statists should have no problem with it). It plays into all the classic paranoia about an overreaching government, hiding dark secrets. The general feeling that the X-files played to. As the song goes:

Unmarked helicopters - hovering
The Lord is coming soon
Unmarked helicopters - hovering
They said it was a weather balloon
I know the truth
I know the whole shebang
I know the names of men they had to hang

He has made numerous denigrating remarks over entire groups of people. That is racism, exclusion and neo-nazi hatred -

A group of people is not a race. He has made denigrating remarks about illegal aliens (Trespassers who are breaking the law), and violent people who practice Islam. Islam/Muslim is not a race. Illegal aliens from Mexico are not a race, as Mexican isn't a race.

He proposed a ban on Muslim immigration. Religious tests for imigration was one of the very first policies the NAZIs promoted as well. Right there is your first one.

He proposed a /temporary/ ban on Muslim immigration.

So Obama is a Nazi then? After all, he banned Muslim immigration in 2011 for six months.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

Hitler never did that either. Not once. He called for EMIGRATION. The final solution was kept secret from pretty much the entire civilian population even while it was happening. What he actually said was "prevent imigration", "forced emigration" and other "acceptable" ways to achieve cultural and racial purity. Just like Trump.

He isn't proposing kicking out current citizens, he is proposing kicking out people who are not citizens and are breaking the law by trespassing here illegally, like many other countries do. This isn't unique to trump at all.

Tell me, how many vague similarities does it require before you are considered literally Hitler? We both breath air. I'm sure I've worn the same color clothing once before. I am also against animal cruelty and am anti-smoking, just like Hitler.

Aawww you are so naive. Besides which - he is trying to be a politician. His job is NOT enforcement of the law, it's to propose BETTER laws.

Actually, that is wrong. He is trying to be president.

The president has the authority to send troops into combat, and is the only one who can decide whether to use nuclear weapons.

He also enforces laws, treaties, and court rulings; develops federal policies; prepares the national budget; and appoints federal officials. He also approves or vetoes acts of Congress and grants pardons.

His job is not to "propose better laws".

Excuse me ? Where have the opposition been violent ? If anything there's been way too much appeasement. Hell even protesters at his rallys have by and large been victims of violence, not perpetrators.

Well, off the top of my head there were the protests in Arizona that blocked a highway, where protesters kicked and jumped on a car trying to get by them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There is the woman who punched a man in the face (But all you hear is that she got maced by evil trump supporters):

https://youtu.be/TA1S0KQD2W8?t...

And, as long as we are considering speech violent, scary, triggering actions, there are the several protestors who dressed up as the KKK, hoods and all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Though I guess I can't really count that one, as a black trump supporter attacked them. But since they were parading around as symbols of hate, it was okay, right? Just like the students getting triggered by chalk, right?

Actually - the entire basis on which that claim is made has shown that you KNOW nothing about Hitler. You don't see that they are identical - simply because you are looking for the post-war Hitler caricature that you heard about in school - and know nothing of the actual man, how he actually got elected, what his speeches actually SAID and how he went about achieving his nefarious ends.

If they are identical, wake me up when Trump loses

DNA absolutely specifies sex for the vast majority (around 99.9% last I looked) of the people out there. XY is male, XX is female.

Let's assume you're right. I guess that also means you're right to tell about 7 million people in the world fuck off, go shit in the woods.

To protect young girls and women from perverts, rapists, etc etc who would certainly use the opportunity to legally enter the opposite sex's restrooms?

Yes, they can make other arrangements.

Yes, NC is sooo unjust to LGBTXYZ. Not like those loving and open-minded Muslims like the Palestinians, Saudis, Iranians, etc etc who love to test-fly LGBTXYZ types from rooftops and have rock parties in their honor.

Try going to a Muslim-run bakery in the US and getting them to make a LGBTXYZ-themed cake. They won't.. But nobody says squat about *them* discriminating.

Here is video of Muslim-run bakeries refusing to make a gay-themed wedding cake.

https://youtu.be/RgWIhYAtan4

The law in practice depends on who you are. There is no longer equal protection under the law in the US.

Marginally more ethical than this study: https://youtu.be/cQ7J7UjsRqg

Color and sound were considered toys for a long time. You only needed them to play games. Real work was done on Green/Amber Screens.

And Apple solved that by releasing the inferior much more expensive Macintosh. PC guys rejoice:
https://youtu.be/7h4tepFbMso?t...

Also more color on the Apple II and CGA effectively lowered resolution.
https://youtu.be/_rsycfDliZU?t...
https://youtu.be/niKblgZupOc?t...

Color and sound were considered toys for a long time. You only needed them to play games. Real work was done on Green/Amber Screens.

And Apple solved that by releasing the inferior much more expensive Macintosh. PC guys rejoice:
https://youtu.be/7h4tepFbMso?t...

Also more color on the Apple II and CGA effectively lowered resolution.
https://youtu.be/_rsycfDliZU?t...
https://youtu.be/niKblgZupOc?t...

Color and sound were considered toys for a long time. You only needed them to play games. Real work was done on Green/Amber Screens.

And Apple solved that by releasing the inferior much more expensive Macintosh. PC guys rejoice:
https://youtu.be/7h4tepFbMso?t...

Also more color on the Apple II and CGA effectively lowered resolution.
https://youtu.be/_rsycfDliZU?t...
https://youtu.be/niKblgZupOc?t...

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Sure, whatever you say.

University of Chicago is a little different. They admitted a student in 2003 who was 12 years old, who went on to get his PhD at 18 and his MD at 21.

https://youtu.be/SsOs-26lhEQ

Every year, there are still a handful of incoming freshmen who are under 18. Back in my day, there were usually more. I was one. My last research assistant before I retired was 19 when she worked for me and 16 when she was admitted.

While eating at a friend's place once, another friend commented on the fresh salsa and asked if she'd be able to do that in a food processor. I told her in no uncertain terms the quality of the salsa was entirely due to the knife skills of the person who prepared it, and a machine would not reproduce anything close. Because it really was down to a sharp knife wielded by someone who really knew how to use it, and a food processor would have produces mush.

Yes, but that is because you can't see past the food processor...

How about a robot that simply uses the same knife you do? The real solution to automating a kitchen is not to install more food processors, but to install a human sized robot with arms and fingers that can simply do what you do.

It isn't there yet, but it is getting close, fast...

Mix Baxter with Atlas and you're 50% done.

Baxter
https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?t...

Atlas: Next Gen Unteathered
https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY

While eating at a friend's place once, another friend commented on the fresh salsa and asked if she'd be able to do that in a food processor. I told her in no uncertain terms the quality of the salsa was entirely due to the knife skills of the person who prepared it, and a machine would not reproduce anything close. Because it really was down to a sharp knife wielded by someone who really knew how to use it, and a food processor would have produces mush.

Yes, but that is because you can't see past the food processor...

How about a robot that simply uses the same knife you do? The real solution to automating a kitchen is not to install more food processors, but to install a human sized robot with arms and fingers that can simply do what you do.

It isn't there yet, but it is getting close, fast...

Mix Baxter with Atlas and you're 50% done.

Baxter
https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?t...

Atlas: Next Gen Unteathered
https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY

doctors

I'll see your doctors and raise you Watson...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

To quote CGP Grey:

https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?t...

"Understanding every drug and every drugs interaction with every other drug is beyond human knowability".

Solyndra

More like this. And, yeah, it is true — if Politifact would not flat-out deny it, you can be certain, it is true.

But the point was not to blame a particular industry — only to remind, that any case of government bureaucrats either spending taxpayers' money or being in a position to allow or disallow something is fertile ground for corruption. Which, of course, leads to the immediate conclusion, that the fewer there are of such situations, the better.

here is a more useful "live" counter

false

No.

Um... what?

Jesus wept, but you are one dense motherfucker.

https://youtu.be/M_yObnZi9GI

"Universal surveillance is a direct, targeted and determined attack on free society. "

It's because the elites fear the awakening of the masses globally.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Important:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

"does our current group of "leaders" not get?"

You're incredibly ignorant about what is going on in the world sadly.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397

Important:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

So, if you are picking Not Clinton, you are better throwing your vote at a third party, if they get enough votes, they get more money for the next election, which could bring about real change.

Ideally yes, it would work that way.

But it doesn't. Thanks to our first past the post election system, voting for a third party is actually voting AGAINST your first choice.

https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

Allow me to share a very good video showing the problems of such a system, thanks CGP Gray. :)

As long as we have our current election system, there will never be anything but two choices, and the two existing parties like it that way.

being secure as a selling point?

As much as that drone they're now selling in their stores which touts itself as a vehicle that "avoid obstacles automatically."

Every tech nowadays needs an asterisk on very claim. Heck, some of the biggest complaints about smart phones is they can't make a decent phone call--come on! it's a phone!

And reminds me of the saying: "an all weather tire is excellent at nothing".

As for knowing who is calling, take the time to assign a custom ringtone to important (and unimportant) callers.

This is the ringtone I use for my first wife:

https://youtu.be/35rHHEiNaIM

Yeah, we had a bunch of them at a place where I worked some years ago. I had the Test Engineering dept believing I had done something naughty to my scope :-P https://youtu.be/Rd1fUHTtII8?t...

The first one I ever encountered was the one hidden in the Atari 2600 Adventure game

But only node.js can be a total rockstar language man

Imagine that: another California Democrat looking to restrict your freedom in order to make themselves feel better, with no useful law enforcement outcomes realized, or even possible.

The background check analogy is spot on: a useless check, easily bypassed, that does more to harm the law abiding than it does criminals. There's predictive power in that analogy too: bad people caught attempting to buy burner phones wont be prosecuted, just as known felons attempting to buy guns from federally licensed gun dealers aren't prosecuted now. In 2010, out of 48,321 felons and fugitives who attempted to illegally purchase firearms, the Department of Justice prosecuted only 44 of them. https://youtu.be/06wJ50p6rMs

The proof is in the pudding. Democrat President Obama's Justice Department gladly allows 99.91% of the prohibited felons who attempt to buy a gun from a federally licensed dealer simply walk free. Firearms background checks, and similarly background checks for burner phones, aren't about crime prevention or law enforcement; they're about restricting your rights to property and privacy, and in the burner phone case specifically it's about a kind of sick cryptophobia where a law-abiding person is hated by their government for their desire to not be constantly spied on by that same government.

Yea, but in our First Past The Post election system, a vote for a third party is a vote against your own party...

It sounds great in theory, but it doesn't work.

Allow me to share CGP Grey's wonderful video on the subject:

https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

Then a solution to the problem (or at least part of one):

https://youtu.be/3Y3jE3B8HsE

As it stands now, there are two people who can be President, Clinton and Trump. Trump is the less sucky choice, so there you go. There are no other options. (the R and D work hard to keep it that way)

Yea, but in our First Past The Post election system, a vote for a third party is a vote against your own party...

It sounds great in theory, but it doesn't work.

Allow me to share CGP Grey's wonderful video on the subject:

https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

Then a solution to the problem (or at least part of one):

https://youtu.be/3Y3jE3B8HsE

As it stands now, there are two people who can be President, Clinton and Trump. Trump is the less sucky choice, so there you go. There are no other options. (the R and D work hard to keep it that way)

It wasn't a Google Maps error, it was a "failure to identify the address error" by the crew. When you're doing something as destructive as tearing down a house, take a look at the street sign and make sure it matches the address on the work order. Don't blindly follow your GPS.

Obligatory GPS scene from "The Office":

https://youtu.be/n5lbShWEGQ0

I'm looking forward to giant walls and all Muslims wearing yellow crescents with stars so they can be easily identified "for our safety". And those free hoodies they're going to give out. Too bad they're only available in white. Oh, and those lovely pine scented crosses you can burn in your neighborhood to freshen the air. Those'll be nice too.

I think this is what GGP means when he says the other side is scaremongering. I'm not a fan of Trump, (I think mercantilism is a stupid idea) but when I see whiny bleeding hearts like yourself, I think the ultimate insult to you would be to just vote for him. No, it won't be the end of the world if he wins, but it would go a long ways towards ending safe spaces for pussies.

https://youtu.be/eCfU44cnbCc?t...

White guilt and marxism have mixed in our cultures to tranquilize us.

We're told by our own culture that if we react in the manner we would have reacted in the past... that we are monsters. That it will stain our souls. That will become nazis... genocidal maniacs.... racists.

The danger is not that these people will destroy us... they aren't killing us fast enough. The danger is rather that there is tension building up between what we want to do and what we're told to do. This tension is a cable that is being strained. It is buckling. If you listen you can hear the cable groan and fray.

It is going to break.

And when it does... the change will be dramatic... like an arrow flying from a bow. Here one moment... there another. Snap.

The danger is that the very resistence to our reaction is self fulfilling the prophecy. Had we been allowed to do what we were inclined to do in the first place. Cut down on the immigration. Ensure there was more integration. Ease the problem. There would be no extreme reaction. But it is increasingly probable that the longer that is put off the more extreme the actual reaction is going to be in the end.

Sudden and extreme. People are being pushed to a point where they don't care anymore. Where any consideration and complaint simply loses meaning. There is a madness building. And if you stop and listen you can sense it.

Don't worry about the West... We're not the ones that are going to need to protection or pity. We're going to go from Dr Jekyll... to Mr Hyde. There is a duality in the West. The Japanese learned of it when they bombed Pearl Harbor. We can turn on a dime.

All that has to be done is to purge the irrational guilt... scour our flesh clean with fire... and then the Marxism has to be burned out. You can see that happening already. The Unions are turning on the Marxists throughout the West. It is in part why they want to bring in as many immigrants as possible. To replace the population with a fresh crop of dupes. Its failing in the US and it is failing in England and it is failed in Eastern Europe and it would never even be considered in the far east. The Marxists are on borrowed time everywhere but south america... and there they only survive out of some false sense of shared guilt which holds them down.

The change is coming...
https://youtu.be/YNieysjSZW4?t...

They really should have known better... this was all avoidable.

Evidence for that? Because cities that have that already implemented 15/hr wages have not seen a rush to automate.

I don't mean to be rude, but please, put on the critical thinking hat.

When one or two cities raise the min wage, there isn't enough of a reason to invest the billions of dollars required to replace half the workers in McDonalds with robots.

When it happens NATIONALLY, then there is now reason to do it.

It is far easier to just raise prices a bit in those areas where the wages went up, than to spend billions to replace a few thousand people. Make min wage $15/hr nationally, and that changes. This is why it hasn't happened in Australia, where min wage is already over $15/hr, because with only 22 million people, the market isn't big enough. But it is starting down that road.

http://fortune.com/2016/03/23/...

Dominos in Australia is testing robot delivery today with the goal of rolling it out nationally in 2-3 years. It is getting too expensive to hire people to do this.

Would you rather have a large segment of adults (more adults make min. wage than 18-20 year olds by far) earning 7 dollars an hour, supplemented by food stamps and other government handouts, or would you rather have the 'bottom' wage be liveable, and people able to support themselves without government assistance?

You left out option 3: Would you rather have large segment of adults out of work completely and needing all $15/hr in the form of government assistance?

You don't think that can happen, but it can.

I'm kinda sick of my tax dollars subsidizing Walmart's workforce.

Would you prefer they lay off half the workforce and replace them with robots?

https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY

Seriously, it isn't THAT far off... Atlas now works without a tether and on rough ground... Another few years and that robot may well stock shelves in a Walmart better than humans do.

And the real nail in the coffin, so to speak, is that goods and services do become that much more expensive even when doubling wages. Last time I saw the numbers run, a Big Mac would cost 50 cents more. That is way worth it to me if 90% of people could live without government handouts.

I don't disagree, you're right, it won't double prices to do it...

But consider that if Atlas up there can make your Big Mac and the price went DOWN 50 cents rather than UP 50 cents, you might like that even more.

BTW, why do you want people making burgers anyway? It is a stupid job, let robots do it.

If I could teleport to the year 2150, I'd be shocked if we didn't have a basic income at that point with robots making everything anyway. I just don't think it will be pretty getting there, the current people in power will fight tooth and nail along the way.