States that require someone be 21 years of age to consent to engaging in risky smoking behavior will also ban those under 21 from enlisting in the military, right?
Young people do lots of risky things. Let's be consistent.
Our wold is full of risk regardless of age, so look at the chances of harm before assuming.
One of the most deadly activities you likely do every day is step into a car. With a generation addicted to their smartphones (behind the wheel), this risk increases even more. What do we raise the driving age to?
Smoking kills over 400,000 Americans every year, far more than any wartime activity. FUCK raising the age, tobacco should be illegal. One would think we would want to actually take steps to prevent our #1 preventable killer.
By comparison, your chances of entering the Military and going off to be harmed in war are far less than these much more common activities. You probably stand a greater risk of dying prematurely from High Fructose Corn Syrup in the food supply.
Will it also be illegal to send those under 21 off to die in wars?
It's been over 40 years since the US Military imposed a forced draft on any citizen, so drop the drama. Those entering the military today are doing so voluntarily, and hopefully scored high enough on the ASVAB test to understand what that activity could entail. I'd say it's pretty damn clear when job training includes a shooting range and hand-to-hand combat.
Bail on me once, shame on me. Bail on me twice, I won't acknowledge your existence anymore. Its simple fucking respect, if you make an arrangement, follow through. We're people, not stupid social media endpoints.
How ironic you bring up social media, a place where humans are nothing more than a product.
People used to value a real friendship. Now it's all about clicks, likes, and amassing as many "friends" as possible while pointlessly showcasing rampant narcissism, which for some fucking reason has become a valued commodity in society today. Attention Whore is a recognized profession that will probably be further validated by a Doctorate program soon.
Social media has distorted the very definition of friend so much we now need to invent a new fucking word to better define what a true relationship between two humans really is. Then we need to change human behavior to highlight the value of simple fucking respect.
No, clearly we're Living In the Golden Age of Slashdot, represented by showers. Clearly someone's taken a piss all over the concept of Stuff that Matters.
I'd comment further, but I'm gonna bail instead...
Ahh, victim-blaming. I'd expect as much from a guy who's way down deep on Elon's cock.
And no, this isn't because I'm some kind of Musk fanboi riding his e-cock. Understanding the sales guy would recommend nothing but the solution they're selling, is common fucking sense.
And here I was debating on needing to add that to my original statement. Should have counted on bullshit responses like yours.
Skype has (had?) a major advantage that you don't get even if you spend millions on a "professional system": It's available everywhere and it's dead simple to use for everyone. Install, register, login, talk. Done. With the web client, you can even forget the install part. Also, since it's so omnipresent, in most cases you just need to exchange Skype screen names and add a contact into your already installed client.
Every "professional" video conferencing system I ever had the misfortune to use is awfully complicated and it might require your contact to install yet another piece of software that is decidedly more complex then Skype and might cost money to license. Sorry, but no thanks, until is is as easy as Skype and doesn't cost my contact a penny.
Facebook is available everywhere and is dead simple to use. That doesn't make it a "professional" solution by any means. It just makes it easier for anyone from the IT pro to the consumer-grade idiot to install and use.
I've worked with a lot of VTC systems in multiple network configurations for over 20 years. Standard protocols were established long ago, and they could all talk to each other quite easily because of that standardization. You want to talk simple? Before Skype there was Microsoft NetMeeting. It was so simple you only needed an IP address to talk to another client. No server necessary. No bullshit "feature" upgrades or streaming ads to justify "cloud" costs or line corporate pockets with additional revenue streams. And that simple client could also talk to those standards-based professional enterprise systems as well.
TL: DR - The free-app-for-dummies consumer we now live in has received exactly what it demanded. Tough shit if you don't like it; the monopoly providing the service doesn't care what consumers think or want anymore.
Nielson rates are for calculating ad costs and determining if a show should be cancelled or not. Generations before millennials never directly cared about Nielson ratings either, they aren't meant for the consumers.
Regarding show popularity and viewership, usage statistics should be able to be pulled from any cable box, and would likely be more accurate. Online streaming can really dial in the accuracy, since a lot of content is consumed on personal devices that also identify the specific end-user (age, gender, etc.). Since we're here discussing how something as simple as a spelling error can manipulate the shit out of ratings, perhaps manipulation is a key feature of Nielson that prevents us from trying to find a more accurate alternative.
As far as calculating ad costs, no one wants to see or hear ads anymore. Consumers can't hit the fast-foward button fast enough in the time-shifted world we now live in. I struggle to even see how revenue is generated from ads to justify the obscene costs.
Does Musk do anything that doesn't involve his hands in the taxpayer pockets?
What you don't see Musk telling us is how much it will cost if delivered on time. I can guarantee you it will be exorbitant. And then where is the cost benefit analysis vs other solutions? Musk won't talk about that stuff.
To summarize, a vendor (a.k.a. Tesla/Musk) is selling a solution for a blackout problem in South Australia.
Now tell me, WHY do you think we should ask the sales guy for the "cost benefit analysis vs. other solutions"? Do you honestly think if we burdened Musk with that he's gonna identify a solution other than the one he is selling, even if it was cheaper or better? Give me a break.
The burden of cost/benefit analysis is on the Australian government and no one else. Tough shit if they don't want to expend the time and effort to find a cheaper or better solution.
With the advent of streaming Nielson ratings are going to mean next to nothing anyway. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon will already know what shows/episodes/movies are popular just by hit counts.
I'd say it already means next to nothing. Ask the average Millennial how Nielson ratings affect their entertainment selections. I doubt they even know what a Nielson rating is, which highlights how irrelevant it has become. The only ones not accepting that fact are the ones still profiting from it.
They're still using punch cards for data processing.
And people still give this antiquated shit value for some unknown reason.
Boggles my mind about as much as understanding how commercials still create revenue and justify airtime costs, as the time-shifted audience can't smash that fast-forward button fast enough.
I constantly see new businesses spend thousands on marketing themselves, and won't spend twenty fucking dollars to buy their own domain in order to avoid presenting a cheap Facebook@Gmail image.
You want a professional business-grade solution for video chat? Then get off your damn wallet and invest in a system specifically designed for such a purpose instead of jumping on the social media teat to suckle with all the other cheap-asses.
I'd rather they be used for that first, then Apple can fix them later.
I'd rather guns only be used for self defense, and not be used to murder humans. Sometimes you can't have it both ways. Sorry.
Then again, why am I apologizing? You want the freedom to do whatever you want with your smartphone? There's a simple solution for that. Don't buy a fucking iPhone.
What about a girl completing high school who just wants to marry and have some kids? Being a homemaker doesnt seem to be one of the prescribed choices!
I also don't see "lottery winner" as one of the prescribed choices, and for the same reason; your chances of success are slim to none.
Gone are the days of surviving on only one income. Not only are both parents working these days, but they likely have more than one job each.
The "gig" economy was born from necessity, not because it was deemed the hipster cool thing to do by millennials.
And yes, it is sad that homemaker has almost become a financial impossibility, given the true value of spending quality time raising children.
The flip side is that we have business world that uses degree requirements as a blunt screen. You can be just as competent as everyone else, but without a slip of paper from ACME University you won't get past the initial screen by HR. You need to either be exceptional, or be in a super desperate field to manage to get around that barrier.
So unless the whole business world changes to one where they look at candidate skill instead of candidate credentials it won't matter if you get a Harvard quality education off of Youtube, Uni-Flix, or Net-Degree.
Entry level tracks simply have dried up for many fields. My current design group is all over 40, and wants 15 years experience when we do hire. We have a couple college interns, but there are no 10 year experience positions for them to ever move into. The manufacturing support based entry level track I used to get into design is long gone, sent overseas 15 years ago. The way things are there are far too few ways in the US to get that first 5 years experience out of school in my field. It is no wonder that an ever increasing number of candidates are visa holders, green card holders, and so on.
An ever-increasing cost of education paired with ridiculous employment filters serve to do nothing more than usher in the era of UBI that much faster. Automation is working to destroy the entry-level employment opportunities that represent the lower rungs on the proverbial ladder of success, making it essentially impossible to climb.
Greed will ultimately be the demise of the traditional education and employment system.
They might, but someone at Apple might also be thinking "no, they're actually full of shit and haven't found critical issues yet"...
Let's remember this is a reward program, not a ransomware scheme. Payment is rather dependent on disclosure and validation to vendor, so it's pretty easy to dismiss the full-of-shit concerns.
And yes, Apple can easily afford to pay many times more than what they're offering. To your point, ignorance will likely ensure vendors find out the hard way what a proper reward should be.
You want to know what the Economics of Knowledge looks like today? It's a twenty-something college graduate who can't find a job, holds decades worth of debt, and is still living at home with Mommy and Daddy.
The "Knowledge Economy" is nothing more than a greedy capitalistic bitch of an education system who works hard to convince you that a fucking mortgage worth of college debt is still worth it. Let's hope whatever engine replaces that method of teaching will at least be financially sound, and not result in crippling debt for the consumer.
Which part of Canada is similar in climate to Silicon Valley and/or California?
Guess that depends on what you define as comfortable.
Barely living above poverty on a six-figure income, dreaming of the day you could actually afford to buy a house or save for retirement is a rather unique climate that is somehow justified with little more than Califuckinawesome weather...
We can't even create a world that offers financial stability to the younger generation, and you want to demand personal responsibility for maintaining a good diet, an active lifestyle, and practicing safe sex 100% of the time?
I'm not demanding nor am I suggestion everyone lives and dies by my beliefs. I am suggesting it would be beneficial to the people partaking in said activities.
People have known that for decades now, just like they've known that smoking cigarettes is deadly. As a result over 400,000 Americans die every year from tobacco use (our #1 preventable killer), and heart disease holds the #2 position. Needless to say, the vast majority doesn't give a shit.
Automation is going to destroy many of those jobs that young people rely on for employment, and remove their ability to climb the proverbial ladder and seek out educated positions.
Automation has been destroying jobs since the industrial revolution its just that the machines have become better. Very much like how some jobs become obsolete there will be need for other things. Something tells me that robotics engineers will become the new "mechanic" and so on.
Previously, when automation destroyed jobs, the answer was to go get an education. When good-enough AI is coupled with automation that is ever-advancing, the end result is a destruction of more human jobs than are created, along with removing the jobs that comprise the bottom rungs on the proverbial ladder of success. The first few jobs I had growing up that enabled me to fund my education and ultimately create success are being decimated by automation now. When the 18-year old has no job opportunities, is the answer simply perpetual education? Paid for by whom exactly? When AI starts destroying educated jobs, will there even be a point in educating a human?
This version of automation will not be like the past, because the impact is far greater. When they automated a car assembly line years ago, it impacted a finite amount of jobs, and in the big picture is created a very small impact on employment opportunities. Replacing every human cashier in every store with a smartphone app has an exponentially larger impact. And that assumes that brick and mortar stores will even survive as online marketplaces take over every product we consume, with drones delivering it right to our doorstep. Automation won't target some cab drivers. It will target every cab driver in every city. And so on, and so on.
Just become some things are changing does not mean everything else is static. If you look at data from decades ago we are supposed to be suffering a worldwide food shortage.
Oh, we "solved" for that problem alright; by creating an abundance of what we like to call "food" that ultimately generates hundreds of billions in additional revenue by creating an infectious disease we call obesity.
You see the factored rate of human growth did not match the current agricultural production...
Oh, humans are growing alright, in all the wrong ways. Obesity rates continue to climb, as does every type of related disease and illness that feeds the Greed that created the Medical Industrial Complex. We don't cure a damn thing anymore; we design and create perpetual treatments that create perpetual revenue streams. This, along with keeping the most deadly of our products legal helps maintain population growth by guaranteeing death, often prematurely.
Future generations always pay, one way or another.
Nothing will stop automation and AI from destroying the concept of human employment and education. Greed will guarantee this. The future will be comprised of the 0.001% that hold the worlds wealth and power, and the rest of the unemployable masses will be enslaved under the Welfare 2.0 plan. The future will pay alright. It just may not be an improvement as previous generations have enjoyed.
"...unleashed devastating attacks against DSL routers of Telekom customers. 900,000 devices were taken down."
Linux. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's a absolute joke to lump in devices that most people who who actually use Linux would define as one fucking step above the Internet of Shitty Things from a security perspective.
If men and women take better care of themselves at least in the first 30-40 years of their lives then they might have all that time for study and work to create that stable financial base without having to factor in serious fertility issues later.
We can't even create a world that offers financial stability to the younger generation, and you want to demand personal responsibility for maintaining a good diet, an active lifestyle, and practicing safe sex 100% of the time? Understanding human behavior, I'd say there's exactly a fat fucking chance of that happening.
Also, as an aside, we need to have loads more young people so they can work and pay off the wasteful ways of the previous few generations. Just a thought.
Automation is going to destroy many of those jobs that young people rely on for employment, and remove their ability to climb the proverbial ladder and seek out educated positions. Imperfect AI that's merely good enough will destroy the concept of human employment altogether. Welfare 2.0 will encompass the globe in ways we cannot even fathom yet. In short, future generations won't be paying off jack shit. They will be consumers, just like the other 99.9% of the human race. Earth doesn't want or need more added to make the parasitic infection worse.
Seattle & Sea-Tac were some of the first cities to implement the $15 min. wage which is why they are being watched closely.
That doesn't answer how baristas make it in the bay area on less than six figures, or why we chose to implement this on a small enough scale to easily fund collusion and corruption to manipulate any analysis. We seem to forget how may billionaires out there can easily buy and sell statistics to favor their particular flavor of Greed.
Do Starbucks baristas make $150K/year in San Francisco? Is minimum wage like $70/hour in California? Just curious how we've magically solved the minimum wage problem elsewhere, especially as we hear of all those poor developers practically living in poverty making six figures in the bay area.
Guess I didn't realize we moved all of the minimum wage jobs in America to Seattle.
Slashdot Mirror
a min 20k investment for 50k+ added (equity, im guessing ) in your home...
I know the salesperson will try and claim otherwise, but energy-efficient upgrades bump equity about as much as putting in a pool.
States that require someone be 21 years of age to consent to engaging in risky smoking behavior will also ban those under 21 from enlisting in the military, right?
Young people do lots of risky things. Let's be consistent.
Our wold is full of risk regardless of age, so look at the chances of harm before assuming.
One of the most deadly activities you likely do every day is step into a car. With a generation addicted to their smartphones (behind the wheel), this risk increases even more. What do we raise the driving age to?
Smoking kills over 400,000 Americans every year, far more than any wartime activity. FUCK raising the age, tobacco should be illegal. One would think we would want to actually take steps to prevent our #1 preventable killer.
By comparison, your chances of entering the Military and going off to be harmed in war are far less than these much more common activities. You probably stand a greater risk of dying prematurely from High Fructose Corn Syrup in the food supply.
Yeah, the reasonable law would be to raise the smoking age 1 year every year, no new smokers.
No, the reasonable law would be to make the product that kills over 400,000 Americans every year illegal.
Unfortunately, Common F. Sense never seems to prevail over Corruption N. Greed.
Will it also be illegal to send those under 21 off to die in wars?
It's been over 40 years since the US Military imposed a forced draft on any citizen, so drop the drama. Those entering the military today are doing so voluntarily, and hopefully scored high enough on the ASVAB test to understand what that activity could entail. I'd say it's pretty damn clear when job training includes a shooting range and hand-to-hand combat.
Bail on me once, shame on me. Bail on me twice, I won't acknowledge your existence anymore. Its simple fucking respect, if you make an arrangement, follow through. We're people, not stupid social media endpoints.
How ironic you bring up social media, a place where humans are nothing more than a product.
People used to value a real friendship. Now it's all about clicks, likes, and amassing as many "friends" as possible while pointlessly showcasing rampant narcissism, which for some fucking reason has become a valued commodity in society today. Attention Whore is a recognized profession that will probably be further validated by a Doctorate program soon.
Social media has distorted the very definition of friend so much we now need to invent a new fucking word to better define what a true relationship between two humans really is. Then we need to change human behavior to highlight the value of simple fucking respect.
"Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing?"
No, clearly we're Living In the Golden Age of Slashdot, represented by showers. Clearly someone's taken a piss all over the concept of Stuff that Matters.
I'd comment further, but I'm gonna bail instead...
Ahh, victim-blaming. I'd expect as much from a guy who's way down deep on Elon's cock.
And no, this isn't because I'm some kind of Musk fanboi riding his e-cock. Understanding the sales guy would recommend nothing but the solution they're selling, is common fucking sense.
And here I was debating on needing to add that to my original statement. Should have counted on bullshit responses like yours.
Skype has (had?) a major advantage that you don't get even if you spend millions on a "professional system": It's available everywhere and it's dead simple to use for everyone. Install, register, login, talk. Done. With the web client, you can even forget the install part. Also, since it's so omnipresent, in most cases you just need to exchange Skype screen names and add a contact into your already installed client.
Every "professional" video conferencing system I ever had the misfortune to use is awfully complicated and it might require your contact to install yet another piece of software that is decidedly more complex then Skype and might cost money to license. Sorry, but no thanks, until is is as easy as Skype and doesn't cost my contact a penny.
Facebook is available everywhere and is dead simple to use. That doesn't make it a "professional" solution by any means. It just makes it easier for anyone from the IT pro to the consumer-grade idiot to install and use.
I've worked with a lot of VTC systems in multiple network configurations for over 20 years. Standard protocols were established long ago, and they could all talk to each other quite easily because of that standardization. You want to talk simple? Before Skype there was Microsoft NetMeeting. It was so simple you only needed an IP address to talk to another client. No server necessary. No bullshit "feature" upgrades or streaming ads to justify "cloud" costs or line corporate pockets with additional revenue streams. And that simple client could also talk to those standards-based professional enterprise systems as well.
TL: DR - The free-app-for-dummies consumer we now live in has received exactly what it demanded. Tough shit if you don't like it; the monopoly providing the service doesn't care what consumers think or want anymore.
Nielson rates are for calculating ad costs and determining if a show should be cancelled or not. Generations before millennials never directly cared about Nielson ratings either, they aren't meant for the consumers.
Regarding show popularity and viewership, usage statistics should be able to be pulled from any cable box, and would likely be more accurate. Online streaming can really dial in the accuracy, since a lot of content is consumed on personal devices that also identify the specific end-user (age, gender, etc.). Since we're here discussing how something as simple as a spelling error can manipulate the shit out of ratings, perhaps manipulation is a key feature of Nielson that prevents us from trying to find a more accurate alternative.
As far as calculating ad costs, no one wants to see or hear ads anymore. Consumers can't hit the fast-foward button fast enough in the time-shifted world we now live in. I struggle to even see how revenue is generated from ads to justify the obscene costs.
Does Musk do anything that doesn't involve his hands in the taxpayer pockets?
What you don't see Musk telling us is how much it will cost if delivered on time. I can guarantee you it will be exorbitant. And then where is the cost benefit analysis vs other solutions? Musk won't talk about that stuff.
To summarize, a vendor (a.k.a. Tesla/Musk) is selling a solution for a blackout problem in South Australia.
Now tell me, WHY do you think we should ask the sales guy for the "cost benefit analysis vs. other solutions"? Do you honestly think if we burdened Musk with that he's gonna identify a solution other than the one he is selling, even if it was cheaper or better? Give me a break.
The burden of cost/benefit analysis is on the Australian government and no one else. Tough shit if they don't want to expend the time and effort to find a cheaper or better solution.
With the advent of streaming Nielson ratings are going to mean next to nothing anyway. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon will already know what shows/episodes/movies are popular just by hit counts.
I'd say it already means next to nothing. Ask the average Millennial how Nielson ratings affect their entertainment selections. I doubt they even know what a Nielson rating is, which highlights how irrelevant it has become. The only ones not accepting that fact are the ones still profiting from it.
They're still using punch cards for data processing.
And people still give this antiquated shit value for some unknown reason.
Boggles my mind about as much as understanding how commercials still create revenue and justify airtime costs, as the time-shifted audience can't smash that fast-forward button fast enough.
I constantly see new businesses spend thousands on marketing themselves, and won't spend twenty fucking dollars to buy their own domain in order to avoid presenting a cheap Facebook@Gmail image.
You want a professional business-grade solution for video chat? Then get off your damn wallet and invest in a system specifically designed for such a purpose instead of jumping on the social media teat to suckle with all the other cheap-asses.
TL; DR - You get what you pay for.
I'd rather they be used for that first, then Apple can fix them later.
I'd rather guns only be used for self defense, and not be used to murder humans. Sometimes you can't have it both ways. Sorry.
Then again, why am I apologizing? You want the freedom to do whatever you want with your smartphone? There's a simple solution for that. Don't buy a fucking iPhone.
What about a girl completing high school who just wants to marry and have some kids? Being a homemaker doesnt seem to be one of the prescribed choices!
I also don't see "lottery winner" as one of the prescribed choices, and for the same reason; your chances of success are slim to none.
Gone are the days of surviving on only one income. Not only are both parents working these days, but they likely have more than one job each.
The "gig" economy was born from necessity, not because it was deemed the hipster cool thing to do by millennials.
And yes, it is sad that homemaker has almost become a financial impossibility, given the true value of spending quality time raising children.
The flip side is that we have business world that uses degree requirements as a blunt screen. You can be just as competent as everyone else, but without a slip of paper from ACME University you won't get past the initial screen by HR. You need to either be exceptional, or be in a super desperate field to manage to get around that barrier.
So unless the whole business world changes to one where they look at candidate skill instead of candidate credentials it won't matter if you get a Harvard quality education off of Youtube, Uni-Flix, or Net-Degree.
Entry level tracks simply have dried up for many fields. My current design group is all over 40, and wants 15 years experience when we do hire. We have a couple college interns, but there are no 10 year experience positions for them to ever move into. The manufacturing support based entry level track I used to get into design is long gone, sent overseas 15 years ago. The way things are there are far too few ways in the US to get that first 5 years experience out of school in my field. It is no wonder that an ever increasing number of candidates are visa holders, green card holders, and so on.
An ever-increasing cost of education paired with ridiculous employment filters serve to do nothing more than usher in the era of UBI that much faster. Automation is working to destroy the entry-level employment opportunities that represent the lower rungs on the proverbial ladder of success, making it essentially impossible to climb.
Greed will ultimately be the demise of the traditional education and employment system.
They might, but someone at Apple might also be thinking "no, they're actually full of shit and haven't found critical issues yet"...
Let's remember this is a reward program, not a ransomware scheme. Payment is rather dependent on disclosure and validation to vendor, so it's pretty easy to dismiss the full-of-shit concerns.
And yes, Apple can easily afford to pay many times more than what they're offering. To your point, ignorance will likely ensure vendors find out the hard way what a proper reward should be.
You want to know what the Economics of Knowledge looks like today? It's a twenty-something college graduate who can't find a job, holds decades worth of debt, and is still living at home with Mommy and Daddy.
The "Knowledge Economy" is nothing more than a greedy capitalistic bitch of an education system who works hard to convince you that a fucking mortgage worth of college debt is still worth it. Let's hope whatever engine replaces that method of teaching will at least be financially sound, and not result in crippling debt for the consumer.
Which part of Canada is similar in climate to Silicon Valley and/or California?
Guess that depends on what you define as comfortable.
Barely living above poverty on a six-figure income, dreaming of the day you could actually afford to buy a house or save for retirement is a rather unique climate that is somehow justified with little more than Califuckinawesome weather...
We can't even create a world that offers financial stability to the younger generation, and you want to demand personal responsibility for maintaining a good diet, an active lifestyle, and practicing safe sex 100% of the time?
I'm not demanding nor am I suggestion everyone lives and dies by my beliefs. I am suggesting it would be beneficial to the people partaking in said activities.
People have known that for decades now, just like they've known that smoking cigarettes is deadly. As a result over 400,000 Americans die every year from tobacco use (our #1 preventable killer), and heart disease holds the #2 position. Needless to say, the vast majority doesn't give a shit.
Automation is going to destroy many of those jobs that young people rely on for employment, and remove their ability to climb the proverbial ladder and seek out educated positions.
Automation has been destroying jobs since the industrial revolution its just that the machines have become better. Very much like how some jobs become obsolete there will be need for other things. Something tells me that robotics engineers will become the new "mechanic" and so on.
Previously, when automation destroyed jobs, the answer was to go get an education. When good-enough AI is coupled with automation that is ever-advancing, the end result is a destruction of more human jobs than are created, along with removing the jobs that comprise the bottom rungs on the proverbial ladder of success. The first few jobs I had growing up that enabled me to fund my education and ultimately create success are being decimated by automation now. When the 18-year old has no job opportunities, is the answer simply perpetual education? Paid for by whom exactly? When AI starts destroying educated jobs, will there even be a point in educating a human?
This version of automation will not be like the past, because the impact is far greater. When they automated a car assembly line years ago, it impacted a finite amount of jobs, and in the big picture is created a very small impact on employment opportunities. Replacing every human cashier in every store with a smartphone app has an exponentially larger impact. And that assumes that brick and mortar stores will even survive as online marketplaces take over every product we consume, with drones delivering it right to our doorstep. Automation won't target some cab drivers. It will target every cab driver in every city. And so on, and so on.
Just become some things are changing does not mean everything else is static. If you look at data from decades ago we are supposed to be suffering a worldwide food shortage.
Oh, we "solved" for that problem alright; by creating an abundance of what we like to call "food" that ultimately generates hundreds of billions in additional revenue by creating an infectious disease we call obesity.
You see the factored rate of human growth did not match the current agricultural production...
Oh, humans are growing alright, in all the wrong ways. Obesity rates continue to climb, as does every type of related disease and illness that feeds the Greed that created the Medical Industrial Complex. We don't cure a damn thing anymore; we design and create perpetual treatments that create perpetual revenue streams. This, along with keeping the most deadly of our products legal helps maintain population growth by guaranteeing death, often prematurely.
Future generations always pay, one way or another.
Nothing will stop automation and AI from destroying the concept of human employment and education. Greed will guarantee this. The future will be comprised of the 0.001% that hold the worlds wealth and power, and the rest of the unemployable masses will be enslaved under the Welfare 2.0 plan. The future will pay alright. It just may not be an improvement as previous generations have enjoyed.
"...unleashed devastating attacks against DSL routers of Telekom customers. 900,000 devices were taken down."
Linux. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's a absolute joke to lump in devices that most people who who actually use Linux would define as one fucking step above the Internet of Shitty Things from a security perspective.
The rich have to be able to afford www.theartofshaving.com
Oh wait, that's the baristas that need that.
sorry
Ironically enough, shaving with an old-fashioned double edged or straight razor is exponentially cheaper than any other modern method of shaving.
If men and women take better care of themselves at least in the first 30-40 years of their lives then they might have all that time for study and work to create that stable financial base without having to factor in serious fertility issues later.
We can't even create a world that offers financial stability to the younger generation, and you want to demand personal responsibility for maintaining a good diet, an active lifestyle, and practicing safe sex 100% of the time? Understanding human behavior, I'd say there's exactly a fat fucking chance of that happening.
Also, as an aside, we need to have loads more young people so they can work and pay off the wasteful ways of the previous few generations. Just a thought.
Automation is going to destroy many of those jobs that young people rely on for employment, and remove their ability to climb the proverbial ladder and seek out educated positions. Imperfect AI that's merely good enough will destroy the concept of human employment altogether. Welfare 2.0 will encompass the globe in ways we cannot even fathom yet. In short, future generations won't be paying off jack shit. They will be consumers, just like the other 99.9% of the human race. Earth doesn't want or need more added to make the parasitic infection worse.
Seattle & Sea-Tac were some of the first cities to implement the $15 min. wage which is why they are being watched closely.
That doesn't answer how baristas make it in the bay area on less than six figures, or why we chose to implement this on a small enough scale to easily fund collusion and corruption to manipulate any analysis. We seem to forget how may billionaires out there can easily buy and sell statistics to favor their particular flavor of Greed.
Do Starbucks baristas make $150K/year in San Francisco? Is minimum wage like $70/hour in California? Just curious how we've magically solved the minimum wage problem elsewhere, especially as we hear of all those poor developers practically living in poverty making six figures in the bay area.
Guess I didn't realize we moved all of the minimum wage jobs in America to Seattle.