Oh, brother. Let me guess... you'd be happy if we went back to bartering so that no Eeeeevil Money was involved. Because you can't wrap your head around the fact that a society that uses money (instead of trade goods) is wildly more efficient for everybody and is a central part of the prosperity that has even very poor people in the US living better than 99.9% of the people centuries ago.
But even so, I'm sure you'd tell the person who's invested the time to breed, raise, feed and protect a really nice egg laying chicken that they're being greedy if they value that chicken more than the crappy chicken some other guy his trying to use to barter for the same farm implement. Greed works. It's what causes people to breed better chickens. You want everybody to have crappy chickens because you feel entitled to a chicken and value your laziness more than egg quality. You personally embody a big part of what's wrong with contemporary society. That you can't even grasp that money is a wildly more efficient stand-in for trade goods and bartered services suggests that you don't have the intellectual development to do things possibly dangerous to other people, like voting. Please don't do that - you're not ready.
If Greed actually worked, then Rome would be thriving today. Rome fell in part due to the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the taxation necessary to support the poor, not unlike what we're going to be facing with humans being umemployable, and demanding the rich fund UBI through taxation. It truly is amazing that Human Ignorance can manage to survive and thrive for thousands of years. Every new generation wonders why the older generation mocks them and their lack of wisdom and experience, right up until they take their place and gain the wisdom and experience to understand.
So you are saying that AI will let us work 10% less and retain the same pay and productivity?
No, I'm saying automation and AI will displace 10% of human employment quicker than anyone can predict, and Greed won't give a fuck about your pay or your ability to survive. Greed never has.
Your post is generally fact free, and entirely emotional. You might want to wait until that time of the month is over and post again later.
Humans have a rather massive track record at underestimating the future. 20 years ago we were still using modems to dial-up to the internet. Today, we connect at Gigabit speeds via FTTP, which NO ONE would have predicted two decades ago. You can't even begin to understand the impact that automation and AI can bring, but we certainly DO understand how Greed works, and how relentless it is. THAT track record has been proven and validated for decades.
If you have other facts to back up your claim that automation and AI is "no big deal", then by all means, prove me wrong. I dare you.
AI right now is nothing more than a new type of index search. Where instead of building a tree first the system customizes the tree before searching. It is very limited and often fails in illogical ways as it correlates data that doesn't correlate often.
Show me true AI that is self learning.
STOP being ignorantly stuck in the idea that "AI" needs to be perfect in order to disrupt or replace humans. Put simply, it doens't.
Automation will work to create enough of an impact and displace human employment. There is no such thing as a "perfect" human, so it will only take "good enough" AI to displace a human from their job. Sorry, but this is the reality of the situation. We can ramble on and on about how AI isn't equal to the human brain and won't be for a long time (which may be true), but to put it bluntly, 90% of those employed today are using a fraction of their mental capacity, so human employment WILL be disrupted, and sooner than you think.
Sure, disruptive technologies will cost jobs. It always does. The machine loom meant a lot of weavers were out of work. Electric saws and drills meant that carpentry became a niche market. Automobiles made horse breeding rare. It happens.
As before, we will adjust, and the average person will have a better life, even if many will lose their jobs and have worse lives during the transition period. We'll establish a new status quo.
Just embrace it, because it is unstoppable. Throwing clogs in the wheels won't prevent it from happening. Instead ask how you can make money in the new improved world, taking advantage of the new technologies. Some will need to write or service the AIs, and some will need to handle the increased inputs and outputs, whether it's designing distribution systems and logistics, or providing secondary services.
Embrace it? Sorry, but your ignorance isn't helping matters. For hundreds of years, the answer to progress and technology destroying jobs was "Go get an education." Now, automation and AI is targeting educated jobs, so it's stupid and ignorant to simply dismiss this problem under the guise of "Why is this news?", as if the answer of yesteryear still applies. Put simply, IT DOES NOT APPLY, which is the main damn point being driven here. This has nothing to do with trying to figure out how to make money in the new world when there will eventually be only be 1% of the human population who can do that. We STILL have to deal with the issue of 99% of humans being unemployable.
Now, you can choose to dismiss my claims and wait for Greed to prove you wrong, or you can realize that Greed is one of the main factors driving human employment into extinction. Either way, your casual dismissive opinion about this, is wrong. Many will lose their jobs, which means many will lose their ability to fund their ability to thrive and survive. And before you start beating on the UBI drum as some kind of savior, understand that we can't even get the rich to pay their fair share of taxes today, so UBI will become nothing more than Welfare 2.0 for the unemployable masses. Imagine an "economy" when 99% of the planet is living in poverty.
It's ironic that Greed is too drunk on greed to understand they are creating their own demise, but Greed has never given a shit about the long-term impact. Greed today only cares about the next fiscal quarter. Eventually, Eat the Rich will come into play, so this will all ultimately reset itself (Rome eventually fell too), but not after MASSIVE pain is endured by the world.
What matters most in this context is the framing. Jobs are a bullshit necessary evil, and technology will eliminate a number of jobs. We have to be working towards changes that allow us to move away from needing jobs without our society collapsing.
You are only slightly correct. Money is the necessary evil, and Greed won't be displaced or disrupted anytime soon, since Greed is part of the fucking reason automation and AI is working to replace human employment.
To fix this, one must solve for the Disease of Greed. Good fucking luck with that shit. Greed would rather create it's own demise than be cured. This has been proven for thousands of years.
Until you get capitalism to stop recognizing Bullshit Click-Bait Artist as a valid job skill for any "news" agency, this little game of yours is nothing more than job training for a lucrative future career. Teaching kids to maintain credibility by lying, with a POTUS bonus round to try and incite a war against another country? What's next, Pipe Bombs in the Kitchen with Barney the Dinosaur? The sick irony of teaching violence as we have a nation marching against it right now.
And no, you aren't going to "teach" the masses with this crap. They are blissfully ignorant, and rather enjoy it. You are going to create a new generation of con artists though. Congratulations. I'm sure that'll end well.
Don't get me wrong, children working in mines is horrible. However, they are working there because the alternatives are worse. Closing down these mines or sacking the children will not make their situation better, it will make it massively worse.
Of course, that is too complex a situation for the media and for many people. Hence they demand that child labor be stopped and are thereby contributing to the evil.
"Pit and tunnel collapses killed dozens of workers in 2015..."
Employing children is not the main issue. Employing children in dangerous fucking jobs is the issue that gets everyone fired up.
Is every alternative truly worse?
Are there no jobs that could be created within this booming cobalt mining industry to create safer working conditions and prevent starvation?
Actors have been shooting blanks at each other for a century very safely. A single freak accident doesnt imply any measurable amount of hazard for an actor.
How ironic that the whole very safe statistic was likely exactly the reason they chose to use real guns on the set of The Crow.
I agree, it's obviously rare, but when it goes wrong, someone's life can end. When someone's life is on the line, it tends to dictate at least some risk analysis. If CGI shooting does not detract from a movie, then perhaps it does hold value.
Statistics? Oh you mean that thing where humans often take facts and feed them into a process that turns it into their favorite flavor of bullshit?
Yeah, we understand how statistics "work",
No, you don't.
Quite often in business, statistics is nothing more than the act of combining data points with marketing. And I've seen far too many bullshit peddlers slice and dice data with statistics in order to extract and present the exact end result they want, while filtering out any counterpoint, no matter how legitimate. Statistical results are like a prism in sunlight; you can get a lot of different colors just by holding it differently.
And I find it hard to believe you haven't seen this, given the amount of bullshit peddlers in the world.
"...where you see Nakia shooting two guys...Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask?"
Perhaps this is why you CGI shooting...
"Brandon Lee (son of Bruce Lee) died on March 31st, 1993 at the age of 28 after an accidental shooting on set of The Crow...In the fatal scene, which called for the revolver to be fired at Lee from a distance of 3.6–4.5 meters (12–15 feet), the dummy cartridges were exchanged with blank rounds, which feature a live powder charge and primer, but no bullet, thus allowing the gun to be fired without the risk of an actual projectile. But since the bullet from the dummy round was already trapped in the barrel, this caused the.44 Magnum bullet to be fired out of the barrel with virtually the same force as if the gun had been loaded with a live round, and it struck Lee in the abdomen, mortally wounding him."
...I am quite concerned that you and all other responders seem never to look at instruments in the car like the speedometer, since those would mean focusing as close as any other screen...
I myself like to pay attention to how fast I am going.
You are irrationally focused on something that can be easily controlled automatically. Cruise control has been around for a very long time, and enhanced cruise control solutions of today only scrape the surface as to how much that "problem" can go away. tomorrow.
I guess everyone else is just driving staring blankly in the distance. That would explain a lot of the erratic behavior I see in other cars when driving...
Let's just stop with the bullshit. Everyone is staring at their cell phone. That explains the problem and the erratic behavior.
Just because you haven't met someone who does big-dollar work on their laptop doesn't mean they don't exist. The vast majority of people who do low dollar work on their laptop wouldn't bother to sue, therefore trying to extend your personal experience to this sample domain does not work. Please understand the way statistics work.
Statistics? Oh you mean that thing where humans often take facts and feed them into a process that turns it into their favorite flavor of bullshit?
Yeah, we understand how statistics "work", and extrapolation should only be used when obtaining specific facts are difficult or cost-prohibitive. It's certainly not hard to factually prove if one man's claim is worth $600 million, so "statistics" are irrelevant.
To the parents point, I'd go so far as to challenge any claim that a $600 million dollar laptop exists. If it did, it probably wouldn't be running Windows.
This awful example of litigious american society is showing a sincere lack of respect for the company of microsoft on the part of the plaintiff. If he cares so little for them so as to sue them, why not just pirate the software?
Ah, so steal to save time? Gee, there's sound logic for you. I'll remember that when I'm shoplifting. I mean, why waste time at a register. You slowpokes better get out of my way on the freeway too. Speed limits are for time wasters, I'll be doing 130MPH in the time-saving lane.
Why is everyone so keen on wasting everyone else's time?
If everyone was actually keen on saving time, the time-warping mind-suck known as social media, wouldn't exist.
There are huge profits to be made from diversity...In IBM's case it looks a lot like they are trying to cover up offshoring and the use of skilled worker visas (H1B in the US). Not really anything to do with diversity, except perhaps that she knows about using this trick to make the numbers look better while also cutting costs and quality.
Uh, it kind of has everything to do with a lack of diversity, and "cutting costs" is another way of creating "huge profits".
I know being a company you want all the business you can get, but sometimes it may actually be for the common good that you don't try to squeeze every penny out of everything you can squeeze.
They're a US public company, so the "common good" is irrelevant.
Greed is all that matters. Forget morals or ethics, we're lucky if a mega-corp operates legally these days.
Your comment was off topic from the discussion, and not accurate with regard to employment law. You should probably become more familiar with terms like at-will employment before you post so you don't remain ignorant.
Off-topic? Here, let me clarify any ignorance:
"At-will employment is a term used in U.S. labor law for contractual relationships in which an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any reason, and without warning."
In other words (and to quote the parent), they can get rid of anyone they feel like.
In many ways, this Code of Conduct revision is essentially irrelevant because of current employment laws, and the over-the-top theme exists mainly to satisfy the pitchfork-wielding SJW crowd who is hell-bent on creating that zero-tolerance PC-enriched robotic utopia every human is sooooo looking forward to working in. Ah, nothing like demanding perfection from humans. Good thing that false accusations are magically gone too now that we've all but eliminated due process...
you can spend five minutes stopped at a light; it's not "distracted driving" to check your email when there's no velocity and no where to go.
Speaking of no velocity, this scenario quickly turns into a bunch of people not paying attention after the light turns green because they're in denial about what "distracted" means.
This is also why some states had to pass laws that prohibit the use of distraction devices even while stopped at a light.
... but if I did, I would quit. This is over the top. It feels more like a blanket list of vague infractions to have on hand so that they can rid of anyone they feel like.
Getting rid of anyone they feel like is essentially what at-will employment summarizes, which already exists in some form or another across the entire US.
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Money is the necessary evil
Oh, brother. Let me guess ... you'd be happy if we went back to bartering so that no Eeeeevil Money was involved. Because you can't wrap your head around the fact that a society that uses money (instead of trade goods) is wildly more efficient for everybody and is a central part of the prosperity that has even very poor people in the US living better than 99.9% of the people centuries ago.
But even so, I'm sure you'd tell the person who's invested the time to breed, raise, feed and protect a really nice egg laying chicken that they're being greedy if they value that chicken more than the crappy chicken some other guy his trying to use to barter for the same farm implement. Greed works. It's what causes people to breed better chickens. You want everybody to have crappy chickens because you feel entitled to a chicken and value your laziness more than egg quality. You personally embody a big part of what's wrong with contemporary society. That you can't even grasp that money is a wildly more efficient stand-in for trade goods and bartered services suggests that you don't have the intellectual development to do things possibly dangerous to other people, like voting. Please don't do that - you're not ready.
If Greed actually worked, then Rome would be thriving today. Rome fell in part due to the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the taxation necessary to support the poor, not unlike what we're going to be facing with humans being umemployable, and demanding the rich fund UBI through taxation. It truly is amazing that Human Ignorance can manage to survive and thrive for thousands of years. Every new generation wonders why the older generation mocks them and their lack of wisdom and experience, right up until they take their place and gain the wisdom and experience to understand.
So you are saying that AI will let us work 10% less and retain the same pay and productivity?
No, I'm saying automation and AI will displace 10% of human employment quicker than anyone can predict, and Greed won't give a fuck about your pay or your ability to survive. Greed never has.
Your post is generally fact free, and entirely emotional. You might want to wait until that time of the month is over and post again later.
Humans have a rather massive track record at underestimating the future. 20 years ago we were still using modems to dial-up to the internet. Today, we connect at Gigabit speeds via FTTP, which NO ONE would have predicted two decades ago. You can't even begin to understand the impact that automation and AI can bring, but we certainly DO understand how Greed works, and how relentless it is. THAT track record has been proven and validated for decades.
If you have other facts to back up your claim that automation and AI is "no big deal", then by all means, prove me wrong. I dare you.
AI right now is nothing more than a new type of index search. Where instead of building a tree first the system customizes the tree before searching. It is very limited and often fails in illogical ways as it correlates data that doesn't correlate often.
Show me true AI that is self learning.
STOP being ignorantly stuck in the idea that "AI" needs to be perfect in order to disrupt or replace humans. Put simply, it doens't.
Automation will work to create enough of an impact and displace human employment. There is no such thing as a "perfect" human, so it will only take "good enough" AI to displace a human from their job. Sorry, but this is the reality of the situation. We can ramble on and on about how AI isn't equal to the human brain and won't be for a long time (which may be true), but to put it bluntly, 90% of those employed today are using a fraction of their mental capacity, so human employment WILL be disrupted, and sooner than you think.
Did power tools and heavy machinery destroy construction worker's jobs? Nope. Machines are tools designed to make our life easier.
And you're an idiot if you think this shift in technology is ANYTHING like what we've had in the past.
There's a difference in making jobs easier and making humans unemployable. Wake the hell up and understand that.
Sure, disruptive technologies will cost jobs. It always does. The machine loom meant a lot of weavers were out of work. Electric saws and drills meant that carpentry became a niche market. Automobiles made horse breeding rare. It happens. As before, we will adjust, and the average person will have a better life, even if many will lose their jobs and have worse lives during the transition period. We'll establish a new status quo.
Just embrace it, because it is unstoppable. Throwing clogs in the wheels won't prevent it from happening. Instead ask how you can make money in the new improved world, taking advantage of the new technologies. Some will need to write or service the AIs, and some will need to handle the increased inputs and outputs, whether it's designing distribution systems and logistics, or providing secondary services.
Embrace it? Sorry, but your ignorance isn't helping matters. For hundreds of years, the answer to progress and technology destroying jobs was "Go get an education." Now, automation and AI is targeting educated jobs, so it's stupid and ignorant to simply dismiss this problem under the guise of "Why is this news?", as if the answer of yesteryear still applies. Put simply, IT DOES NOT APPLY, which is the main damn point being driven here. This has nothing to do with trying to figure out how to make money in the new world when there will eventually be only be 1% of the human population who can do that. We STILL have to deal with the issue of 99% of humans being unemployable.
Now, you can choose to dismiss my claims and wait for Greed to prove you wrong, or you can realize that Greed is one of the main factors driving human employment into extinction. Either way, your casual dismissive opinion about this, is wrong. Many will lose their jobs, which means many will lose their ability to fund their ability to thrive and survive. And before you start beating on the UBI drum as some kind of savior, understand that we can't even get the rich to pay their fair share of taxes today, so UBI will become nothing more than Welfare 2.0 for the unemployable masses. Imagine an "economy" when 99% of the planet is living in poverty.
It's ironic that Greed is too drunk on greed to understand they are creating their own demise, but Greed has never given a shit about the long-term impact. Greed today only cares about the next fiscal quarter. Eventually, Eat the Rich will come into play, so this will all ultimately reset itself (Rome eventually fell too), but not after MASSIVE pain is endured by the world.
What matters most in this context is the framing. Jobs are a bullshit necessary evil, and technology will eliminate a number of jobs. We have to be working towards changes that allow us to move away from needing jobs without our society collapsing.
You are only slightly correct. Money is the necessary evil, and Greed won't be displaced or disrupted anytime soon, since Greed is part of the fucking reason automation and AI is working to replace human employment.
To fix this, one must solve for the Disease of Greed. Good fucking luck with that shit. Greed would rather create it's own demise than be cured. This has been proven for thousands of years.
Just like the article points out. You can't make it as a professional go player anymore.
You don't even have to make it past TFS to realize that mocking this situation is an ignorant mistake.
It won't even take displacing 10% of human jobs to create a massive impact on society.
That's why you get AppleCare though.
Then it's a $1400 phone that you have to physically destroy within 4 years or you wasted $400.
Uh, there's a damn good chance that support for that "ancient" phone will be destroyed within 4 years, so you'll be replacing it anyway...
Until you get capitalism to stop recognizing Bullshit Click-Bait Artist as a valid job skill for any "news" agency, this little game of yours is nothing more than job training for a lucrative future career. Teaching kids to maintain credibility by lying, with a POTUS bonus round to try and incite a war against another country? What's next, Pipe Bombs in the Kitchen with Barney the Dinosaur? The sick irony of teaching violence as we have a nation marching against it right now.
And no, you aren't going to "teach" the masses with this crap. They are blissfully ignorant, and rather enjoy it. You are going to create a new generation of con artists though. Congratulations. I'm sure that'll end well.
Don't get me wrong, children working in mines is horrible. However, they are working there because the alternatives are worse. Closing down these mines or sacking the children will not make their situation better, it will make it massively worse.
Of course, that is too complex a situation for the media and for many people. Hence they demand that child labor be stopped and are thereby contributing to the evil.
"Pit and tunnel collapses killed dozens of workers in 2015..."
Employing children is not the main issue. Employing children in dangerous fucking jobs is the issue that gets everyone fired up.
Is every alternative truly worse?
Are there no jobs that could be created within this booming cobalt mining industry to create safer working conditions and prevent starvation?
Actors have been shooting blanks at each other for a century very safely. A single freak accident doesnt imply any measurable amount of hazard for an actor.
How ironic that the whole very safe statistic was likely exactly the reason they chose to use real guns on the set of The Crow.
I agree, it's obviously rare, but when it goes wrong, someone's life can end. When someone's life is on the line, it tends to dictate at least some risk analysis. If CGI shooting does not detract from a movie, then perhaps it does hold value.
Statistics? Oh you mean that thing where humans often take facts and feed them into a process that turns it into their favorite flavor of bullshit?
Yeah, we understand how statistics "work",
No, you don't.
Quite often in business, statistics is nothing more than the act of combining data points with marketing. And I've seen far too many bullshit peddlers slice and dice data with statistics in order to extract and present the exact end result they want, while filtering out any counterpoint, no matter how legitimate. Statistical results are like a prism in sunlight; you can get a lot of different colors just by holding it differently.
And I find it hard to believe you haven't seen this, given the amount of bullshit peddlers in the world.
"...where you see Nakia shooting two guys...Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask?"
Perhaps this is why you CGI shooting...
"Brandon Lee (son of Bruce Lee) died on March 31st, 1993 at the age of 28 after an accidental shooting on set of The Crow...In the fatal scene, which called for the revolver to be fired at Lee from a distance of 3.6–4.5 meters (12–15 feet), the dummy cartridges were exchanged with blank rounds, which feature a live powder charge and primer, but no bullet, thus allowing the gun to be fired without the risk of an actual projectile. But since the bullet from the dummy round was already trapped in the barrel, this caused the .44 Magnum bullet to be fired out of the barrel with virtually the same force as if the gun had been loaded with a live round, and it struck Lee in the abdomen, mortally wounding him."
...that the first catastrophic failure will happen somewhere else
Since when has a catastrophic failure stood in the way of capitalistic greed?
...I am quite concerned that you and all other responders seem never to look at instruments in the car like the speedometer, since those would mean focusing as close as any other screen...
I myself like to pay attention to how fast I am going.
You are irrationally focused on something that can be easily controlled automatically. Cruise control has been around for a very long time, and enhanced cruise control solutions of today only scrape the surface as to how much that "problem" can go away. tomorrow.
I guess everyone else is just driving staring blankly in the distance. That would explain a lot of the erratic behavior I see in other cars when driving...
Let's just stop with the bullshit. Everyone is staring at their cell phone. That explains the problem and the erratic behavior.
Just because you haven't met someone who does big-dollar work on their laptop doesn't mean they don't exist. The vast majority of people who do low dollar work on their laptop wouldn't bother to sue, therefore trying to extend your personal experience to this sample domain does not work. Please understand the way statistics work.
Statistics? Oh you mean that thing where humans often take facts and feed them into a process that turns it into their favorite flavor of bullshit?
Yeah, we understand how statistics "work", and extrapolation should only be used when obtaining specific facts are difficult or cost-prohibitive. It's certainly not hard to factually prove if one man's claim is worth $600 million, so "statistics" are irrelevant.
To the parents point, I'd go so far as to challenge any claim that a $600 million dollar laptop exists. If it did, it probably wouldn't be running Windows.
This awful example of litigious american society is showing a sincere lack of respect for the company of microsoft on the part of the plaintiff. If he cares so little for them so as to sue them, why not just pirate the software?
Ah, so steal to save time? Gee, there's sound logic for you. I'll remember that when I'm shoplifting. I mean, why waste time at a register. You slowpokes better get out of my way on the freeway too. Speed limits are for time wasters, I'll be doing 130MPH in the time-saving lane.
Why is everyone so keen on wasting everyone else's time?
If everyone was actually keen on saving time, the time-warping mind-suck known as social media, wouldn't exist.
There are huge profits to be made from diversity...In IBM's case it looks a lot like they are trying to cover up offshoring and the use of skilled worker visas (H1B in the US). Not really anything to do with diversity, except perhaps that she knows about using this trick to make the numbers look better while also cutting costs and quality.
Uh, it kind of has everything to do with a lack of diversity, and "cutting costs" is another way of creating "huge profits".
I know being a company you want all the business you can get, but sometimes it may actually be for the common good that you don't try to squeeze every penny out of everything you can squeeze.
They're a US public company, so the "common good" is irrelevant.
Greed is all that matters. Forget morals or ethics, we're lucky if a mega-corp operates legally these days.
Your comment was off topic from the discussion, and not accurate with regard to employment law. You should probably become more familiar with terms like at-will employment before you post so you don't remain ignorant.
Off-topic? Here, let me clarify any ignorance:
"At-will employment is a term used in U.S. labor law for contractual relationships in which an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any reason, and without warning."
In other words (and to quote the parent), they can get rid of anyone they feel like.
In many ways, this Code of Conduct revision is essentially irrelevant because of current employment laws, and the over-the-top theme exists mainly to satisfy the pitchfork-wielding SJW crowd who is hell-bent on creating that zero-tolerance PC-enriched robotic utopia every human is sooooo looking forward to working in. Ah, nothing like demanding perfection from humans. Good thing that false accusations are magically gone too now that we've all but eliminated due process...
you can spend five minutes stopped at a light; it's not "distracted driving" to check your email when there's no velocity and no where to go.
Speaking of no velocity, this scenario quickly turns into a bunch of people not paying attention after the light turns green because they're in denial about what "distracted" means.
This is also why some states had to pass laws that prohibit the use of distraction devices even while stopped at a light.
... but if I did, I would quit. This is over the top. It feels more like a blanket list of vague infractions to have on hand so that they can rid of anyone they feel like.
Getting rid of anyone they feel like is essentially what at-will employment summarizes, which already exists in some form or another across the entire US.
You don't own anything on your devices. You just rent it from the tech companies. Welcome to 2018.
Yup. And here's a little preview of where this is headed:
You don't own anything. You just rent it. Welcome to 2038.
"But wait, I use that."
"Hey, you can't do that!"
"What the hell?! Why?!?"
Ah, can't you just feel the Free Love? Ain't zero-cost apps awesome?
BRB, gonna go log into Netflix now...see if they removed my favorite movies and shows again...gotta keep this buzz going.